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

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WILLIAM S. LYNCH Superintendent of Schools TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS OF THE DIMAN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL: Permit me to extend my heartiest congratulations on this, the occasion of your graduation from Diman. Let me add, also, my very best wishes for your success in life and the true realization of your best hopes. In a way, you are an enviable group of young people. The world today places a high premium on the services of youth like yourselves, skilled of craft and trained of mind. The whole of our modern civilization, at least in. its physical aspects, can not survive without your hand and your mind. It is an exciting world you confront, constantly surging forward with new materials, new ideas, new inventions, new chal- lenges to your ingenuity. There seems no limit to what you will be given a chance to do. Let me add one little thought, however, that you should keep in your heart, as your mind plays with new ways of handling physical forces and as your hand devises new methods for their practical application. As the world changes in its technical aspects, it needs the steadying and determining values of educated, thoughtful and decent men and women. Not only have you learned your crafts and scientific theories, you have also been introduced to the world of literature and history. In these and related subjects, you have found, we hope, something of the nature of man and his aspirations. Remember always that this is a field in which you can never know enough. Remember that with good habits of craft, you must also have good habits of work, citizenship and individual living. Follow through with your literary reading as well as with your scientific reading. With respect for learning, with practical skills and high moral resolve, we know that you will achieve the things in life and the way of life we want for you. Our very best hopes and wishes. Sincerely yours, WILLIAM S. LYNCH Superintendent of Schools

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M. NORCROSS STRATTON Director Division of Vocational Education Massachusetts Department of Education It is a personalitriumph when one can give to the world eco- nomic usefulness together with gracious participation in worthy family, social and community living. This is the goal towards which your teachers have sought to direct you in all of the training offered at the Diman Vocational High School. May this personal triumph be a fact in the life of each member of the class of 1954 and others who will follow in years to come. 8

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MR. IOSEPI-I P. GILLIGAN MR. CHARLES E. MATTE Director Asst. Director my MISS ALICE M. LYNCH Secretary I I 0