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

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pjmnijpjii's iH5i ijf]fj TO THE CLASS OF 1952: As you enter upon the traditional ceremonies marking' your graduation from Ii. M. C. Durfee High School, I can detect in you that same eagerness to meet the challenge of the future that has characterized graduates of a less turbulent time. It is precisely this elastic quality of youth that is reassuring to a generation that looks with something less than pride upon the state of world affairs today. You are of the atomic age: even now, television and jet propulsion are almost commonplace to you. You have come to expect great things of science, of medicine; and you are convinced that there are yet greater worlds for you to conquer. You must also realize, I an sure, that there is a dire need in the world today for men and women of strong character, of personal integrity. Greatness of achieve- ment in a material way loses its significance for the nation or for the individual unless it is accompanied by greatness of spirit. The community, the state, and the nation look to the graduates of 1952 for citizenship and leadership marked by true Godliness and devotion to duty. It is my sincere hope that your training at Durfee has helped prepare you to serve with distinction and honor in the career of your individual choice; and I am indeed happy to congratulate you upon the successful completion of your senior high school course.

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su immuusirrs ihsmbs TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS OF THE B. M. C. DURFEE HIGH SCHOOL: ft seems a good deal less than a year ago that we were accorded the privilege of congratulating your immediate predecessors. You will find as you grow older, that time has really the. fleeting quality the poet attributes to it. This preciousness of time is something you must bear in nund if you are going to achieve the high deeds to which every young person should aspire. There is a great deal of sentiment about high school graduation. It is right and proper that there should be, even though sometimes in the cynicism of youth, we fend to be suspicious of the arch-sentimentality which adults give it. It is truly, under- neath all the rhetoric, a significant period in one’s life where he turns either eagerly or reluctantly from the preoccupations of childhood to the concerns of adulthood. Some things of youth you must maintain all through your life if you are going to be happy and effective. Optimism is one of these things; self-confidence, another; curi- osity. a third. These qualities, together with the deeper training of high school, are the things on which you must build. We know that you will keep them and that, despite the disheartening characteristics of the modern world and of adult behavior as you sometimes sec it, you will preserve the idealism without which everything is bitter as ashes. My very best wishes to you all and my heartiest congratulations for what you have achieved. In expressing these sincere good wishes, I know T am speaking not only for myself, but for all the people in Fall River to whom you owe the opportunity for the education which you have had, and who ask of you, not gratitude, but only conduct and accomplishments of which they can be proud. Sincerely yours, Superintendent of Schools.

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CHARLES V. CARROLL, Principal HERBERT W. PICKUP, Vice-Principal AMBROSE F. KEELEY, Vice-Principal THOMAS P. CULLEN, Assistant Director of Vocational Guidance YOLANDE B. LALIBERTE, Associate Dean of Girls ALICE C. HARRINGTON, Assistant Dean of Girls Louis A. Allard Myron T. Ashley Eugenie W, Bent Paul G. Buckley M, Dolores Burns Emily B. Campbell, Joseph O. Carroll Mildred V. Carroll William A. Carroll William M. Cleare, James F. Conlin, Mary F. Corcoran Angeline B. Crispo John T. Crowley Joseph B. D’Adamo Margaret G. Dailey Armand A, Dallaire Edna U. Delehanty Margaret G. Doran Ruth N. Dow Edward B. Downs Romeo J. Dufour Grace M. Dunn Ralph J. Fletcher Carrie T. Foulkes Virginia W. Frost Elinor F. Gilbert Frederic J. Gottwald Mary C. T. Grandfield Majorie Gray Thomas W. Hammond Frederick J. Harrington John J. Harrington Margaret M. Harty Joseph R. Hathaway George C. Hoar Katherine L. Hogan Mildred A. Hogan Mary E. Judge Margaret F. Keefe Helena A. Kelley Daniel Kelly John E Kiley Alice G. Langford Joseph J. Lawlor Herve B. Lemaire Elizabeth L. Leonard Katherine F. Lomax Margaret F. Lowney Harry P. Lynch Margarett E. MacDonald Earl V. Malmborg Helena H. Withrow Grace L. Martin Anna G. McCarty Rose E. McHale George A, Mite hie Stephen Nawrocki Ruth W. Newkirk Caesar Nobrega William A, Nugent Anne L. O’Neil Margaret H. Powers Antonio A Serpa Marie V. Shalloo Henry J. Shea Eva M. Shediack Charles D. Smith Dominick R. Sperduti Anna L, Sullivan Dorothy C. Sullivan Helena V. Sullivan Mary E. Sweeney Marion L. Torphy Louis J. Urban Barbara Wellington Margaret J. Whalon A Wilson Whitman Amasa F, Williston Lauretta L. Butler, Clerk Florencee M. Burns, Clerk Anne T, Coughlin, Clerk Kathryn A. Lenehan, Clerk