Burlington High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Burlington, MA)

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Our Superintendent To the Seniors: To the class of 1959, | offer my heartiest congratulations. You have impressed me as a class with a wonderful cooperative spirit, eager to make a success of any undertaking. If you, as individuals, carry this determination into your future fields of endeavor’, your life, | feel sure, will be a successful and happy one. In return for your many favors to me, feel free to call upon me for any assistance | may be able to render. JEROME J. LYNCH, Superintendent of Schools Our Principal Class of 1959: Many years ago, Theodore Roosevelt, who was then President of the United States, wrote these words, “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.’ Although Mr. Roosevelt was speaking from a strictly athletic viewpoint, his words can be taken by people in almost any activity of living. Many people are not the ‘‘doer of deeds”’ of any sort, yet they spend their time making criticisms of the few that bring forth the ideas and those who actually get things done. We of the faculty sincerely hope that this class of 1959 will make an all out effort to become the doers and not the critics of the future. We hope that the training which you have gained under our tutelage has equipped you well for this purpose. We hope finally, in the words of Roosevelt, that you ‘know the triumph of high achievement.”’ JAMES M. HORTON, Principal

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Foreword... As we turn the pages of this, our Arrowhead for 1959, we reminisce with each page through a record of our years at B. H. S. — memories of curricular and extra-curricular activities —- the -work done, the knowledge gained, and the many friendships made. Now — ready to follow our choseri careers, we leave “our school’’ and step ahead toward the beckoning future.

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Dedication Mrs. Priscilla J. Granfield, Homeroom Teacher —College Division. For four wonderful years she has guided us through many ordeals and good times at Burlington High. She has been a friend and an inspiration to all and her classes have certainly brightened up the ‘Old Lab’’ con- siderably. Mr. Thomas A. Mohan, Homeroom Teacher —Business and General Courses. His earnest guidance through the years has helped us to prepare our futures with deter- mination. He will always be remembered for his uncanny ability to provoke class discus- sions in which everyone participated. As we leave Burlington High School, thank- ful for the knowledge and wisdom you have given to us, we simply but sincerely dedicate this book, the record of our accomplishments, to you. We, the Senior Class of Burlington High School, wish to dedicate the 1959 Arrowhead to our homeroom teachers.