Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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This is Enfield High School. It is the building in which we have spent five hours a day. five days week, thirty-eight weeks a year for the past four years. With Enfield we associate many of our dearest friends and classmates. We think of such enjoyable extra-curricular activities as the exciting sporting events and the extravagant proms. In truth, Enfield High School is the Mecca of our little world, a pul- sating center of activity which cannot be forgotten for many years to come. This is the Enfield Echo, our classbook. In it are recorded all the significant phases of our school life, our scholastic achievements, our extra-curricular activi- ties and the many incidents included within the scope of our social lives. In the future when we pause in our haste for a moment of retrospection, we shall linger just a bit longer over our four years at Enfield. Through the contents of this book, our Echo, we shall be able to relive and enjoy those moments when Dreams were true while they lasted and did we not all live in dreams?” 5

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John Kcvei rid orbiting of lust as the atomic neration we have Today’s Knowledge Builds Tornor The year 1958 has wrought msfny changes in our mode satellites heralds the tKtfisition from the Atomic Age to the Spa bomb was significant of our change from the Electrical Age. Ii seen dramatic technical achievements such as television, radar, jet airpbihes, and guided missiles. Today, man needs increased technical knowledge and proficiency to adapt himself to the more complicated way of living. However, in order for man to appreciate more fully his technical advancements, he needs more than ever before to build up his knowl- edge of morality and recognition of human values. The field of medicine has also seen great advancements such as Dr. Salk's discovery of the vaccine to prevent infantile paralysis. Today, man needs so much more knowledge to survive the constantly changing con- ditions. The schools are being adapted to meet this problem by providing the necessary facilities for education. Yet, it is impossible to learn all the facts in the short time we have in school. Further education comes from daily contact with problems, the surpassing of obstacles, and the application of both facts and practical knowledge. The education one obtains depends entirely on himself. What one learns today will prove valuable to one in the world of tomorrow. We are not unaware of the sacrifices of our parents, friends, and teachers who have made possible our educational opportunities. Now our class is departing after four memory-filled years. Each of us will go his separate way into his chosen-field or occupa- tion. All of us will play a definite part in further development of the future world. Tomorrow will be what we make it. 4

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STANLEY A. BIGOS Secretary PELLEGRINO REVERUZZI • V HAROLD G. DAIGNEAU FRANK MORRISON, JR. Chairman KARL D. LEE Superintendent of Schools Enfield Board of Education and Administrators These gentlemen are the planners, the policy makers and administrators of our educational system. Drawn from the fields of business, industry, agriculture, management, and labor, they furnish the knowledge and experience necessary to help plot our course through the educational phase of our lives. Besides the usual courses of English, mathematics, history, and commercial subjects, we have had made avail- able to us, in recent years, many additional subjects to help us round out our practical education. Shop courses, driver education, speech, and Business English are among the sub- jects most recently added to our curriculum. In addition, our executives, Mr. Lee and Mr. Homicki, together with the principals are working out a program of intensification of study in such fields as mathematics and sciences, as well as in the field of business. These are the men to whom we are indebted for the wise investment of a million dollars a year in public education in the Town of Enfield. JOSEPH HOMICKI Assistant Superintendent V I HOWARD M. BROMAGE KENNETH W. GOODSELL 1 WILLIAM A. SCUDIERI CHARLES GASKELL 6 FRANCIS PILCH