Chicopee High School - Memini Yearbook (Chicopee, MA)

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To the Class of 1 964: You have the distinction of being the first class to graduate from the Chicopee Comprehensive High School. With this distinction, you have a challenge and a responsibility: A challenge to practice in all of your future activities the sound work habits, logical thinking, craftsmanship, and the spiritual, moral sense you have developed; a responsibility to set a pattern of be- havior as an example for future graduates to insure that they, too, « will become sincere, worthy, and loyal citizens in this great country. Traditions are those elements of the past which society has seen fit to maintain and to carry forward. You, the graduates of the Class of 1964, have participated in establishing some of the traditions which will grow with Chicopee Comprehensive High School. We are certain that you can take pride in the customs and practices which you as individuals had a part in establishing. We hope that those who come after you will maintain and improve upon them. Our prayers go with you for happy and useful years to come. 2

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i ' i ' MEMINI VOLUME Chicopee Comprehensive Editor-In-Chief William Pudlo High School Assistant Editor Chicopee, Mass Lucia Whitaker

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To the Class of 1964: It is with great pleasure and pride that I offer to each and every member of this, the first class to graduate from Comprehensive High School, my sincere congratulations on a job well done. Being the first class to graduate from this school, you have set many tra- ditions that will be with us for a long time. I am certain that you will follow through in the same manner in all that you do in the future. I wish each and every one of you the best of health and happiness and an abundance of success in everything you do. Stanley J. Ziemba To the Class of 1964: As the first class to graduate from Chicopee Comprehensive High School, you are and always will be different from any other class. My message to you, as you leave us, is to dare to be dif- ferent for the remainder of your lives. The illnesses, problems and frustrations of any society can usually be attributed to a group of people who had completely conformed to all pressures. All sorts of pressures will be brought to bear upon you: social, economic and political. Rewards will be dangled be- fore you, usually of a material nature. Appeals will be made to your pride and vanity. Various formulae for happiness will be thrust upon you. True happiness has many pre-requisites: a willingness to work hard: to speak and live the truth; to respect the rights of others and the courage to stand up and be counted on any issue. As you go through life constructing a philosophy by which you will live, dare be different. William Coscore 3