Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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I But my typewriter doesn't make mistakes! Mrs. Irene Karkos Miss Linda Lawrence Business Requires Intensive Training Today the business community is expanding faster and faster as in- creasingly newer methods of business administration, technology, and sales- manship are being employed. These sophisticated techniques require well- educated and skilled personnel to use them to the greatest advantage, so that business, a vital element in our industrial society, may fulfill its economic potential. To meet this need, we turn to our schools. Inspiring interest and providing a solid education in the fundamental concepts and constantly improved methods, schools must continue to satisfy the requirements of the business world our generation will be directing. Then, as international trade becomes freer and freer, there may be no limit to the business opportunities today's graduates will enjoy in the future. Mrs. Lucille Sullivan Mrs. Rodriquenz busily corrects her bookkeeping assignments. See I have these hotdogs and ... 25

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English Inspires Humanistic Spirit A human being is more than just an intricate arrangement of flesh, blood, and nerves that moves and talks, lives and dies; more than just a mammal with a life history of good times and bad, a past and a future; more than just one tiny speck on a heavy planet of over three billion people. A human being is an entity possessing emotion, curiosity, intel- ligence, integrity, and a sense of ethics — an entity who thinks. As young adults, it is in school that we have the greatest opportunity to develop these qualities to the fullest potential. Besides teaching us the essentials of grammar so that we may better communicate with our fel- lowmen, our English instructors expose us to the best literature from mankind's history. In a sense, their basic function is to make us more complete human beings by encouraging us to appreciate the ethical les- sons in literary masterpieces, in addition to making us aware of the why and the how of life in our society and how we may react to future crises. The aim is not to produce great philosophers or intellectuals but to show us how to comprehend ourselves as individuals and to un- derstand our hearts and minds and develop them to their highest point for greatness, for nobility — for humanity. A Miss Lillian M. Taylor Department Head