Case High School - Chief Yearbook (Swansea, MA)

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‘Dedccatcovt To you, Mr. McCarthy, who have faithfully shown willingness to help Case High School and the student body in every possible way, we, the Class of 1962, dedicate our yearbook. You have guided our football team on to victory and have inspired enthusiasm in its players. Your shining example of “Winning without boasting and losing without excuse” has taught all of us the meaning of this phrase. In addition, you have demonstrated to all the students by your own example a desire for learning and fair play. We, the students in the Class of 1962, say “Thank you.” 6

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OSBORNE 8-6326 To the Class of 1962: Like the American Colonies in 1775, you as seniors are about to leave the fostering care of Joseph Case High School and go forward on your own. In honoring the colonial era of our country, your yearbook brings to mind such mental giants of that day as Thomas Jefferson, who graduated at nineteen from the college of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Today you may visit Colonial Williamsburg, so reconstructed in exact detail of eighteenth century life that you may easily visualize Jefferson talking with Patrick Henry and George Washington in the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern. Fossibly these Virginians were planning information to be sent b} mail or messenger to Committees of Correspondence in the various colonies. These Committees served as a channel of communication for ideas leading to unity among the colonies, and later to independence from England. Events might have happened sooner in the 1770 ' s if information had reached all the colonies at one time by telephone, radio, television or tape recorder. There might have been quicker under¬ standing of events if citizens had the benefit of universal education. Today you have computers, missiles, atomic science and more space to explore. With their limited scientific facilities, however, the patriots of the colonial era held to the rock foundation of certain human values such as freedom and self government, for which they risked their lives and fortunes. Time does not change these values. In the face of the Communist threat, you can cherish the words of Jefferson: I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. To each ' of you I extend best wishes in your next endeavor. You will take your place with thousands of graduates, young citizens who will use modern science to preserve the human values held high in colonial days, before we were the United States of America. Sincerely yours, ft 8