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

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Indeed one of the most enjoyable assign- ments of a high school principal is the oppor- tunity to salute members of a graduating class, and so I hasten to join with your parents, rela- tives, teachers and friends in adding my sin cerest congratulations. Whether you are entering the world of con tinuing education or the world of work, it would seem to you, I am surer that it is one replete with indecisiveness, turmoil, and so-called new morality. Nonetheless, it remains a world which has expectations of leadership from you and so I urge you to take up this grave responsibility with utmost care. Never be satisfied with things as they are; rather be determined to improve them. Seek not to find a niche in this world re- maining complacent while everything around you seems to be crumbling. Seek instead to de- monstrate your dissatisfaction with the pre- sent. Work with a seriousness of purpose to mend the fissures, bring peace and justice to all humanity, insist upon the highest morality, and never waiver in your search for knowledge and truth. Join your thousands of outstanding pre decessors in making us proud to have been touched, if but briefly, by you. With each of you goes a part of us, and so I say to you, ad multos annos. James F. Nicoletti Principal Margaret F. Keefe Edward F. Kelly George D. Kelly Edward B. Keyes Olga Klimka Stanley Kuplec Francis J. LaCava Yolande B. Laliberte Joyce Landry Umberto J. Latessa Margot A. Lavoie Dorothy G. LeComte Fernande Letendre Joseph Lifrak Frederick M. Linquist Brenda J. Lloyd Margaret Lown Joyce Luongo Aileen M. Mack Gerard A. Mack Earl V. Malmborg Rene J. Marois, Jr. Jerome D. Marques Paul Martel William McMahon John Medeiros, Jr. A. Lincoln Mekelburg James F. Melvin Charles Mendes, Jr. William J. Molloy Eileen L. Murphy M. Rita Nagle Caesar Nobrega Rita B, Nobrega William A. Nugent Daniel C. O’Connell Lorena L. Pacheco Leonard A. Paiva Reginald M. Pelagio Marcel A. Perry Normand L. Phenix John F. Pietruszka Marlyse Pikul Robert W. Pineault Donald J. Powell Sandra E. Powell Margaret L. Pruitt Phyllis C. Pytel Joseph M. Quinn William Dos Reis Robert A. Richard James F. Roche, Jr. Elton H. Sanford Peter A. Sarantakis Daniel J. Sheahan Manuel Sousa Dominick R. Sperduti John H. Springer Frederick Storch Anna L. Sullivan Elizabeth T. Sullivan John F. Sullivan Mary E. Sweeney Alfred Tavares James Tavares, Jr. Raymond Thompson Dorothy H. Urban Robert Vincelette Thomas P. Walsh Bertrand Warren James F. Wilcox Susan Wildes Donald G. Wood Sandra D. Wood Long Term Subs Charles V. Carroll Marsha Connolly, Robert Dempsey Peter Landoch Octave Leite Louis Piere Dirce Reis Michael Sypek Per Diem Subs Angela Charette Gail Dybowski Francis Riley Office Staff Anne T. Coughlin Senior Clerk-Stenographer Pauline Frates Senior Clerk-Stenographer Anna C. Harrington Senior Clerk-Stenographer Ruth A. Soulier Senior Clerk-Stenographer Barbara J. Hall Clerk-Stenographer Olga Hordovitch Clerk-Stenographer Cecile Cote John St. Laurent Custodians James Considine, Senior Custodian George Kanuse Raymond F. Melia Sidney Allison, Senior Custodian Westell Dootson James P. O'Hearn Joseph Sirois Walter Wal James W. Wholey 5

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 To the members of the graduating class of B.M.C. Durfee High School, 1974: The major and paramount objective of a Public School System is to produce a good citi- zen—one who is defined as a person who works effectively as an individual or with a group to solve problems that face him and the group now. It is this kind of good citizen who helps to create and adjust to the process of orderly change, a condition inherent in our system that was designed by our forefathers. You now approach graduation from Durfee High School and I offer my sincere congratu- lations and best wishes for your success in attaining the objective of citizenship for which you have been chosen. Your training at Durfee has demonstrated to you that true success will be measured in your becoming active members of your com- munity and in how great will be your contri- bution to the improvement of your society. You, as an educated Durfee graduate, can help shape the future of our country and I know that you will assume this responsibility with dignity. Robert J. Nagle Superintendent of Schools FACULTY James F. Nicotetti, Principal Leonard G. Alves, Vice Principal Joseph B. D’Adamo, Vice-Principal Edward P. Morgan, Vice-Principal James S. Panos, Vice-Principal James F. Nicoletti Joseph B. D'Adamo James S. Panos Edward P. Morgan Leonard G. Alves Helen G. Amiot Henry J. Attar Daniel H. Berthiaume Clinton A. Borden Alan Borges Theodore J. Boudria Bertrand A. Bouffard Catherine A. Boylan William A, Bradbury Robert Brough Paul A. Brouillard Thomas H. Cahill Beverly J. Cambra Joan T. Carfagno Pauline Carreira Nancy A. Carroll James Clarke William K. Coady Susan Cole John J. Contorti John J. Conlon John G. Connell Eleanor H. Cote Hannah L. Crawford Barbara Daley Armand A. Dallaire Sharon A. Day Gerard A, Delisle Hazel C. Donnelly James E, Donnelly Margaret G, Doran Ruth A, Downs Robert R. Dube Roger H. Dubois Grace M. Dunn Gail Dunse Robert Ferreira Jean L. Fidyk Vincent M. Fitzgerald Donat F. Fortin John P. Fox Arthur D. Frank Phyllis M. Frank Charles A. Frascatore Patricia Golden Lenora G. Goltz Chester J. Gosciminski Mary C- T. Grandfield Harriet C. Hanzel Donald C. Harding Katherine L. Hogan Louise D. Johnson Frank J. Jordan, Jr. Robert Jung Evelyn M. Katersky 4

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Aimlessly, the child wandered through the park. Where were the sunshine and the blue skies that made him so happy? 6