Case High School - Chief Yearbook (Swansea, MA)

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Town pf Swansea, Massachusetts Department pf Public Schools RICHARD B. GREENMAN. SUPERINTENDENT OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT Joseph case high school OSBORNE 8-8326 To the Class of 1959: Would you prefer to travel around the world In eighty days or eighty hours? In 1872 young readers of Jules Verne ' s Around the World in Eighty Days would have given much to make that fascinating trip with Phileas Fogg. Narrow escapes, last minute solutions to impossible problems, and a race with time to win a wager made the tale popular. The same readers today would settle for no less than a jet-stream voyage around the globe, with fewer hardships and no adventures except the achievement of speed. They would see little, meet no one, and arrive safely. The speed of travel today enables you to go farther in limited time and see more places in the world. You can revisit areas you like and have a greater number of trips in your life¬ time with a greater variety of experiences than was possible eighty years ago. This is good, for you learn more about your world and are prompted to study so that you can better under¬ stand what you see. Your trip through life can be speedy, with great effort to get somewhere and little attention given to the fascinating years through which you are passing. On the other hand, you can enjoy each year without the plodding progress of a wagon train or the tedious voyage of a clipper ship. You can set a fast pace to reach each point in your life, but once there you can take time to enjoy its benefits and opportunities before taking off with the roar of jets for your next adventure. No doubt you will want to live at times as if you were circling the globe in eighty hours. Such speed will enable you to spend time at the eighty—day rate in places and activities you enjoy. Science places you in a modern world, but there is always time to pause and live a little in those areas which give the most satisfaction, if you will but find them. For you all I wish safe journeys and time to live at each destination. Sincerely yours, 8

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CPrii nncipa A s m essaye Town of Swansea, Massachusetts Department of Public Schools JOSEPH CASE HIGH SCHOOL OSBORNE 8-8326 HELEN A. REAGAN, PRINCIPAL Members of the Class of 19E 9 Dear Boys and Girls: Another June has rolled around, a June that holds particular significance for you, for this June marks for you both an end and a beginning. Your days of childhood are now behind you and you stand on the threshold of that great tomorrow that is yours to do with as you will. Thank God that you are young. Rejoice that you are Americans; that to you all barriers of birth, wealth, and social position are non-existent. The fundamental training you have received in high school is but a first step to enable you to take advantage of the intellectual resources in which our land abounds. There is nothing to prevent your attaining a worth and a dignity that will allow you to grow into your potentialities and achieve whatever you have the potentiality to achieve. Remember that all success is relative and that your contribu¬ tion, if honestly and intelligently given, is necessary for the perfection of the universal pattern. Live your life with forward face and joyous heart. Render to each succeeding stage of your life the full measure of your strength and devotion. Never give up the dreams of your youth, and, finally, may you come at last to know the great Common human heart of us all. May God bestow His richest gift on all of you. 9