Case High School - Chief Yearbook (Swansea, MA)

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English Enter the English department. Enter four years of discovering thoughts that have worked wonders in the world, gems of wisdom and treasures of truth, immortalized by English masters from Stevenson to Shakespeare to Joyce. Enter the land where in paradox and metaphor Love, Life, and Death are mounted beautiful. Beauty and truth of literature are seeded here, in the minds of the aging children. But it is only later, when Life reaches out from between the book covers to clobber them, that the children will harvest the festering, blossoming seeds and grow up. Until then the words are only words, like words, like words. CHRISTOPHER BORDEN English, Reading Improvement Freshman Class Adviser EDITH ALLEN English BEVERLY HATHAWAY English LINDA HUTCHINGS English AUSTIN O ' TOOLE English, Head English De¬ partment, Y earbook and Cardinal Staff Adviser 12

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m Miss Helen A. Reagan Principal Since 1946 Miss Helen A. Reagan has graced the office of principal with a wisdom and a dignity which endear her to us as a great and good lady. Leader of the first Girl Scout troop in the town, principal at Gardner School, English teacher for many years, director of the dramatic club for a decade, and now principal of Case High, Miss Reagan has dedicated most of her life, spent always in Swansea,” to young children, to students. Her advice has spurred us, her congratulations have cheered us, her smile has warmed our very hearts. And in her heart we hold a special niche of fondness, for we are, unlike her collections of china and Dickens’ works, a part of her life—the collection of young people who will become, by her example, as she joys to see us, responsible adults, citizens, and leaders. Vice Principal Mr. Silva is that excited voice over the loudspeaker that begins, Let me have your attention, Please. There is an away game tomorrow. Now, the easiest way to get to ... He is the fan at all the basketball, football, and baseball games, the guy who plays softball with boys on the field trip, the host each year to a bunch of student Christmas carolers, the vice-principal whom the freshmen call mister and the upperclassmen call uncle. You cannot know him until you have been through four years of school, endured his dark looks, and swelled with his praise. No, you must have been a freshman walking quietly, obediently past that stern gray figure in the corridor, a sophomore elated to wring a tickle of a smile from him, a junior accustomed to joking with him, and finally a senior strolling (arm-in-arm) down the hall with that once-strict disciplinarian. The fondness he holds for us, the new generation of his own alma mater, is as genuine as his hope that we keep Swansea a vigorous, pleasant town in which to live and to learn the values of life.” Mr. Edward Silva II

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MARILYN GRIFFITHS LOU AILEEN FIX English, Drama English Homemaking Not for school but for life they learn. Planning menus and preparing meals, mending and sewing, taking care of their own lives by good health habits and the lives of others by their knowledge of home nursing, and developing a personality pleasing to everyone near them—the girls learning these skills in the homemaking classes are the women around whom the happiness of their families will center for many generations. Faculty RITA SULLIVAN English, Librarian NANCY CONLIN Foods AVIS PHILLIPS Homemaking 13