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

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TO THE CLASS OF 1970: First, may I offer congratulations as you complete this milestone along the road of life. High school graduation for some is the end of formal education; for others the beginning of higher academic pursuits. To all it is a step along the new road,an exciting and difficult one, a road not so clearly marked as the highway of learning throughout your Durfee years. Perhaps never before in history has the way to ultimate goals been so filled with possible pitfalls. Some current thoughts on graduation bring to the front such charges as, “generation-gap , “student-unrest , lack of responsibility , lessons unlearned , and complete abandonment of the verities . Collectively these accusations against youth would not, I am sure, stand the test of absolute analysis. Individually, however, single claims could easily be attached to selected graduates. At no time during the development of man has every person been a paragon of virtue. It seems reasonable to ask why this generation of graduates should be charged with a greater degree of indifference to culture, custom and good? You, all of you, have been subjected to an educational process that has produced some greatness, some mediocrity, and some failures. If we can learn anything from this it is the fact that the individual is most important. No longer will you work as a group, a class, an educational unit, from this day forward you will be doing your thing. We, your teachers and elders, are certain that the machines of the technological age will not enslave you. Your strength will be found in the high ideals of B.M.C. Durfee High School, ideals based in high standards of conduct and learning. From the entire educational community, congratulations and a wish that God’s good ways will always be your good ways. 4 Sincerely yours, ROGERT J. NAGLE Superintendent of Schools

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TABLE OF CONTENTS SUPERINTENDENT'S MESSAGE ............4 PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE ................ 5 FACULTY LIST .................... 6 DEDICATION ........................ 7 WHO'S WHO, TOP TEN ..................8 PHOTO ESSAY ................ 9-25 SENIORS ..................... 26-78 CANDIDS .... ACTIVITIES ... SPORTS ... ................. 79-86 ....-..............87-126 ..................127-141 SENIOR DIRECTORY ......... ..142-151 ADVERTISEMENTS ................. 152-158 PATRONS ................. -.......-.159 EDITOR'S PAGE........................160 3

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TO THE CLASS OF 1970: Please accept my congratulations on your graduation and my best wishes in all your future endeavors. Today we are living in a world of polarization, particularly of generations and races. There are many questions and a search for the answers to these questions. Students are requesting more freedom and desire more participation in policy making, but I wonder if the students are ready to participate to the extent they think they are. I would like to quote an excerpt from a poem written by a high school senior that seems apropos: And now we find ourselves no longer the children we once were. But not yet the men we shall be . . . For somewhere along the way we have lost yesterday And are not quite sure where to find tomorrow. I think these lines might very well apply to all of you and are indicative of a need for reflection on your part. Someday you will be men, and the world will be yours. What will you do with it? THOMAS W. HAMMOND 5