Fitch High School - Tantara Yearbook (Groton, CT)

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JJrincipaI s Jffessacje TO THE CLASS OF 1965 You are rapidly approaching another mile-stone in your educational as well as your physiological life. For some this mile-stone—graduation-—will be the end of your formal education. What next? Work. Marriage. At home. For others it will signify the start of another round of study and preparation for things to come. Whichever way you turn you will be required to make many, many more decisions for yourself than in the past. Have the courage of your convictions. Use to the utmost your past training and experiences. You must become self-reliant and self-controlled. I am confident you will do yourselves proud. I believe that our school will be proud of you. 10 G. M. Tyler

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Oecficat on We the class of 1965 proudly dedicate this the eighth edition of the Tantara to Mr. Louis Caouette, a man whose high standards have guided us to maturity. Mr. Caouette, in his capacity of vice-principal, has shown us that hard work and perseverance are the only road to success. It is he who said, No matter what criteria you may use to measure success in life, one factor remains constant, and that is—that it never comes easily.” 9

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THOUGHTS FOR A YEARBOOK Man has accomplished much and little in the 50,000 years that he has been an intelligent being. As evidence of the much, behold our man-made satellites, the works of Michelangelo, the vaccines for polio. As evidence of the little, behold that half the world's product is spent in preparation for war; behold that half the world's population lives in fear and distrust and hate of the other half. In fine, as riots and rumbles attest, mankind has progressed little in the area of human relations. Why have we failed? Is it because we have not been shown the way? I think not. Throughout the centuries, men of great insight have shown the way to better human relationships. Moses did in the Ten Commandments. Isaiah did it when he entreated; Learn to do well, seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.” And Micah did in those beautiful words; What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with the God?” Why do we persist in moving against or away from other people instead of toward or with them? We have failed because we have not been well taught. Parents, leaders in our social, economic, political life, the teachers in our school and the preachers in our pulpits, all have failed in any universal sense to teach the insights of human relationships. More specifically, they have failed to make ethical values psychological values. Ethical values are what men should want; psychological values are what men do want. If ethical values are to become psychological values, it will be ac- complished because man is able to delay behavior by thought” because, by deliberating, he can know before he acts. In other words, man must think his way out of poor human relationships. My message to you is to ask you to delay behavior by thought. If you will do this, and teach others to do this, the Class of '65 will make a truly great contribution to progress. William M. Farris II