Drury High School - Class Book Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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um tie Zdclofz-c2r Longfellow compared lite to the sands in an hourglass. Our lives up to the present have formed only a small portion of the sand in the bottom of the glass. Neverthe- less, these last four years may Well be the happiest mom- ents to slip through our hourglass and most worthy ot remembrance. Therefore, when turning the pages ot this book, we will be reversing the sands in the glass, allowing these wonderful years at Drury to come back to us in memory. Robert Ruberti.

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3 1' If if ,-If-Q' Pip, K Q 55' f' . 'rr f .92 r , . W., Q 3, ' ofS and Seated, left to right: Mr, James Casey, Mayor Julius Calvi, Mr. Wallace Venable, Mr. Edward Nassif. Standing, left to right: Dr. William Horn, Mr. Bernard Lenhoff, Mr. Eugene Talarico, Mr. Robert Taylor, Superintendent of Schools. SUPERINTENDENTS MESSAGE President Eisenhower's quoted definition of freedom in his State of the Union message in 1957, Freedom is the opportunity for self-discipline, should stimulate some speculation on the part of seniors about to leave cloistered home and school associations to enter higher academic or business life. Which is most important: freedom, opportunity, or self-discipline? If we were to follow the dialectic of Plato in his search for truth we might say that each is dependent on the other, but the ideal or ultimate for each person should be freedom. Does this definition distinguish between the kinds of freedom? The ruly and the unruly. Does it show that opportunity to enioy freedom is inherent in our Demo- cratic way of life? But most important to us is the way of freedom, through op- portunity, dependent on self-discipline. Without self-discipline there could be no freedom and thus no opportunity to make the important choice. Are you to be one of those individuals who determines the direction of his self-discipline in the light of his home, church and school training or is the direc- tion to be determined by what is expedient at the time? There are people of each kind. I am sure if each of you would ask what is the right' path for you to follow, you need have little worry about the consequences. We are thankful that we live in a country where the opportunity is present to exert self-discipline. Thus we can say we are truly free. ROBERT N. TAYLOR