Diman Vocational High School - Artisan Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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1 ,-WY: .. ings :rf :Q vw 15 11 11 f, i -A ,, .. my W JOSEPH P. GILLIGAN CHARLES E. MATTE Director Asst. Director MISS ALICE M. LYNCH Secretary I0

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William S. Lynch Superintendent of Schools TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS OF DIMAN: It is always a great pleasure to congratulate young people on their achieve- ment. That pleasure is compounded when their success means graduation from one of our Fall River schools. There is a little sadness mixed in it also, for it means that you are leaving the school where for the last four years you have lived in close relationships with your faculty. In a sense, you will leave a little bit of yourself with us and will take with you a little of us who have borne the heavy but happy responsibility of your education. Your success or failure in life, therefore, becomes a very import- ant matter to all of us, your teachers, your school administrators, and the members of the School Committee. We are confident, however, that regardless of what problems life brings to you, you will be able to face them ably and honorably, for you have acquired during the last four years training in craft, principles of citizenship, and a sense of responsibilities for the individual. With these and your fear of God, you should develop into useful and good men able to meet the endless questions which vex our modern lifeg able too, to discriminate between the vulgar and the excellent so that your lives will be full and rich. Our heartiest congratulations and our very best wish at this time and always. Sincerely yours, WILLIAM S. LYNCH 9 Superintendent of Schools

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Maw! As we bid fond farewell to the members of the Class of 1953, we wish each and every graduate success, prosperity, and God-speed. You as a group, have distinguished yourselves as students by your ambition, activity, and loyalty to the ideals and heritage of Diman. May you carry with you the earnest desire of all those responsible for your education to withstand the grim and weary ways of life by bearing a bright and mature attitude toward work. Inasmuch as work is accepted as a necessary part of life, you should realize that it is the means by which you wrest from the world those possessions which make themselves both attractive and desirable to you. Posi- tion, wealth, knowledge -- whatever it may be - are derived and learned solely through work, for labor is a habit equally appli- cable to mental and manual accomplishment. You must be aware, then, that the vocational student who will succeed has his mind set on achieving accuracy in a work that involves inescapable de- termination to be an outstanding worker. We also hope that you will bear with you, your firm desire to attain achievementg for ambition is the force behind your toil. Ambition gives to life itspurpose since it is gauged by inner satsfac- tion rather than by the judgment of the casual onlooker. Never fail to remember that good positions are those which suit you -- those in which you can be useful and happy. As you depart, therefore, from the Portals of Diman and enter into a great and exciting future, may you be motivated by a.sincere desire to accomplish whatever goal you seek, with God forever guiding and inspiring your lives. ll