Foxboro High School - Red Fox Yearbook (Foxboro, MA)

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The Class of I947 With grateful pride and sincerity Dedicate this edition of The Red Fox To COACH JOHN P. CERTUSE For his high ideals of true sportsmanship, His untiring efforts, and deep loyalty. Modest about victory, patient in defeat, Courteous always, as becomes a born gentleman, He offers an inspiring example in noble and Worthy living. tw

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l G Tnessage to tlze Qracfuates HE writings of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus contain the followingiline, Difficulties are things that reveal the real man. This philosophy is probably a little too realistic for high school students, and yet, it is around these few words that 1 wish to center my message to the Seniors. If you look backward over your school career, you will find that each year brought added responsibilities. Home, church, and school have all worked toward the development of a self-reliant individual, ready to face life with courage and character. Whether you go on to college or enter your life work at once, you will immediately be faced with many more responsibilities. You will be expected to make many decisions by yourself, govern your own conduct, and assume responsibility for your own mistakes. You will find many things in life to annoy, retard, and disappoint you, and your happiness will depend upon your ability to overcome these obstacles and, more important, upon the manner in which you overcome them. As you face life's problems, you will very frequently discover two possible methods of solution. You may yield to your emotions, lose your temper, and attempt to use force or to evade the issue. '1'o do so will bring nothing but unhappiness, and the result will be an embittered, frustrated personality. lf, on the other hand, you face your difliculties calmly and reasonably, weigh carefully your own abilities, and analyze your problems conscientiously, you will find real joy and satisfaction in overcoming the obstacles which sooner or later confront us all. lt is easy to be the kind of person you wish to be as long as all goes smoothly, but it is the difficulties and the manner in which you overcome them that will reveal the kind of person you really are. The Foxboro schools have had a share in building your character and we hope that what you have learned will stand you in good stead in the years that lie befo1'e you. Heunisiei' E. HoY'r, SllpL'l'f7llt'IILl6'7lf of Schools. Faye Six Q