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

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SUPERINTENDENTS MESSAGE TO THE CRADUATINC CLASS OF FOXBORO HIGH SCHOOL- CLASS OF 1954: As you approach the mile post of graduation from high school, you might pause to think about education in its broad sense. You will, no doubt, recognize that every experience you have had and every person you have met has con- tributed to your education. The formal part, the twelve grades in school, is our way of providing a common background of knowledge and a basis for vocational competence. Even this twelve years of schooling can be broken down to two parts. The first is that which deals with books and related activities. The other has to do with you, an individual, as part of a large group. You have learned how to conform when conformity is necessary. You have learned when, and especially how, to be different when your own character and personality require it. You have learned how to be a cooperating member of an athletic team or a musical organization or a play cast. You have learned how to be a member of an audience, to show respect for the efforts of those who are taking part in some presentation, whether it be a game, a play, or an assembly program. For many of you, your schooling, will end in June. For all of you. education will continue throughout your lives, What you make of your lives will depend, then, upon how' well you use all of these educating experiences. CHARLES C. TAYLOR, Superintendent of Schools Page Three

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DEDICATION Although the Class of 1954 has never known Mrs. Brawn oflicially as an advisor, it would be impossible for us to go through four years of school in F oxboro High without becoming aware of her devotion to the student body as a whole and to any person she has taught. For many years she has benefited the Whole school with her untiring efforts on the magazine drive. As for us as individuals, whether We have needed her in our school problems or in planning for the future, we have found her outstandingly and unfailingly willing to help. So to Mrs. Brawn we now dedicate this 18th edition of the Red Fox. Page Two

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PRINCIPAUS MESSAGE ' I might express my message to the Class of 1954 in one word-faith. I say faith because an optimistic faith is the requisite most to be desired for a happy and successful life, and yet today, strangely enough, is possessed by few. You need faith in yourself, faith in your fellow man, and faith in the future of America if you are to be genuinely happy. You are today standing on the brink of an era, which, in my judgment, has never been paralleled before in history. Your generation stands at the cross- roads of either unbelievable progress and prosperity or of failure and destruction. You people will be instrumental in choosing which of the two you will travel and therefore must be ready for this decision. You are equipped for this task with the finest education that any generation in history has obtained. Before you lies the most unlimited field of opportunity that has been available to any graduate to explore. And you face no technical or economic problems which have not been met and conquered by many of the classes before you. The going after graduation will not be easy, of course, but it will never be nearly as tough as you expect it to be. True, you will be dejected, disheartened, and disllusioned by events in your later life but do not let these inevitable aillictions of all mankind disrupt- or destroy the indomitable faith you now possess. Men of past generations have allowed these passing disturbances to so dominate them that they lost belief in the really big things of life and became trapped in the quicksands of doubt. Do not allow this to happen to you. As the poet said it, perhaps much better than I, If you really believe, the impossible can happenf' HUBERT W. WARD, Principal of the High School Page Four