Durfee High School - Durfee Record Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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A Message.......... From Our Superintendent It must seem strange to you that you have reached the end of your public- schooling. For twelve years most of you have been growing up within a pattern of life seemingly fixed and secure. At the moment you are enjoying, quite properly, the sense of achievement which comes from reaching a goal long sought. During those twelve years you have developed from very young children into young men and women feeling the first responsibilities of adulthood. Now you must really face up to those responsibilities. In doing so you will find life to be an ever varying and exciting mixture of success and failure. Fortified with the optimism of youth and the education you have obtained, you have every right to be hopeful and confident. In that hope and in that confidence lies your best chance for personal success and in it, too, rests the future of the community in which most of you will remain. There will be those who, out of their own failures and timidities, will try to draw you away from the good life through easy cynicism and whining pessimism. But keep your ideals high, never content with the second rate; be always ambitious for the best spiritually and materially. For you are members of a democratic society; the one form of government with God-given ideals of the worth of individuals. Now while all of us in the com- munity offer you the congratulations you so richly deserve, be resolved to shorten the distance between the true realization of those ideals and the shortcomings of which the rest of us are guilty. Sincerely, WILLIAM S. LYNCH