Cole Trade High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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I949 - HILLTOPPER - 1949 TO THE CLASS OF 1949, COLE TRADE HIGH SCHOOL As another school year draws to a close you are reaching a significant milestone in your lives. You have acquired the right to cross the threshold of the classroom into the present world of industry to take your respective places: you have prepared yourselves to meet the challenge of that present day world: you have made yourselves ready for useful employment in your community. The training you have received through the unseliish eifort of your every instructor was designed to make you an efficient member of your community, to cause you to contribute a larger share to the com- mon good. That training has given you the necessary confidence and will to play a bigger and better part in your family, as well as in your community life. The man who knows what to do, how to do it, and why it should be done that way, is a competent and contented workman. Your training has also comprised learning how to form good habits and understanding the value of good habits with relation to your job. You have recognized the necessity for developing the proper atti- tudes and the proper habits that will make you dependable individuals in society, that will lead you to desired success. The present-day world is a complex world and an exacting oneg continue to perfect yourselves in your chosen fields of endeavor so that you will always keep ready to adapt yourselves as your working conditions keep changing. But as the complexity of our modern civilization increases, do entertain the contacts you have made in school: it is a way of entertaining human relations, and in so doing you will have gone far toward making your life a happy life. Godspeed . . . WILLIAM L. BOURGEOIS, Superintendent of Schools. --4-

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1949 - HILLTOPPER - 1949 OUR DIRECTOR CLARK HIBBARD MORRELL TO THE GRADUATES OF 1949 The Class of 1949 has contributed much to the growth and influence of this school. The material products have been most outstanding in craftsmanship. The leadership of its members in the student council and athletic associations has effected excellent con- trol of these bodies. And of great help to the faculty and me has been the exceptionally fine influence of the veterans in stimulating and guiding the general behavior of the student body. I extend my thanks for your ever-ready co-operation with me in furthering the wel- fare of your school. You have made lasting contributions with a spirit which, consist- ently exercised in the future, w-ill prove fruitful to you. Society needs the service you are well trained to render, in order to maintain its cultural and economic stability. I take pride in having contributed to the preparation of a group of young men so certain of a happy future. Sincerely yours, CLARK H. MORRELL, Director - 3 -

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1949 - HILLTOPP ER - I949 HILLTOPPER STAFF 4, Stalec Standrowicz, Marchessault f 'IEE m:'F. : --N-.'L1. : C+ Ei'-E fr Girouard, Miller, Boucher, Rutan, Snyder, Arsenault, Scott Mr. Delaney, Yates, Aueoin, Lipski, Lemire, Alger, Mr. Hall RONALD AUCOIN Assistant Editor JOHN LIPSKI Editohin-Chief -5-. RAYMOND LEMIRE Assistant Editor