Cheshire High School - Key Yearbook (Cheshire, CT)

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In Appreciation Few people have the opportunity to truly serve his fellow man and fewer still have done as good a job in his life work as Dr. john H. Thorp. When he came to Cheshire twenty-two years ago there was one elementary school serving the entire town. Since that time he has seen the school population rise to over four thousand, built four elementary schools, a junior high school and the senior high school. He has developed a strong curriculum and has stead-fastly worked toward quality education for the town. Therefore, it is with pride that we, the Class of 1967, as representatives of all the students both past and future who have benefited and will benefit from this man's life work, express our gratitude and wish him good luck and good health in his retirement years. Dr. Stephen August 5 Mr. Richard Haussman

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by thx Q8 ff' .. , ' -niuuldivlf Robert Mischler Principal's To the Class of 1967: The springtime of your life is over-life's summer with it's challenges and responsibilities are ahead, and most of you are indeed wondering if you will be able to stand up to this complex confusing life of the twentieth century. This apprehension is understandable but in reality it has been felt by every generation before you, in every society in the world. The Nordic seamen of the 14th century, the Greek youth of the times of Spartan and Athenian supremacy, the recruits of Caesar's legions, the Berber tribesmen, the Incas of Central America and many more stood on the threshold of life's re- sponsibilities and wondered if they would make it , if they were prepared for the demands of their times. The answer to this rests with several factors: how strong the individual is, how carefully the preceding generation has prepared the succeeding one, how in- 6 Message dividuals or their society has profited by a knowledge of the ingredients of both success and failure, how the individual understands his position in the society. The Legions of Caesar were successful because they eminently reflected the social order of their times, the advanced society of the Incas disintegrated when a new culture was thrust upon them and their own had not developed the ability to understand people with different drives and a different philosophy. So you stand as citizens of the most powerful na- tion on the earth with a grave responsibility: to know and understand not only yourself but your society and to conduct your life in light of that knowledge. If you are to succeed, this understanding is of vital necessity, to fail to search for that knowledge is to miss the very meaning and purpose of life. God bless and be with you all. lt