Hale High School - Pompositticut Yearbook (Stow, MA)

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-86 91 RUTH STILE lf sincerity were made of gold, What a treasure she would hold. Secretary 3 4 Basketball 3 4 Semor Dlay 4 Valedlctonan 4 Speaklng Fmals 3 Yearbook Editor ln Chlef 4 Glee Club 1 Z 3 4 Prom Committee 3 Softball 3 Fm orlte Saymg use l ll never get thus done Fax or1te Pastxme Keepxng busy 'Xmb1t1on Medical Secretary Ever since the fu-st day of school one could rely upon Ruth whether t was to help with school actwutues or gwe needed mformatxon to a fellow class mate who dxdnt understand an assignment We are all proud to have Ruth as Valedictoraan of our class The college of her choice will be fortunate undeed to haxe such a student enrolled this fall FR ANK VODOKLYS A lxttle nonsense now and then I8 cherished by the best men Yearbook Staff 4 Prom Commxttee 3 Salutatorxan 4 Offxce Assxstant 4 Semor Play Z 3 4 Favorxte Saying So? Fax onte oastlme Sports Ambttxon Chen-nst Frank ms one of Hale Hxgh s outstanding members Hls abxhty as a scholar and hxs prowess as an athlete are combmed to help make a future successful cxtxzen May Lady Luck follow htm in hxs chosen profession or calling Baseball 1 Z 3 4 Basketball 3 4 Vlce Presxdent 1 4 Treasurer 3 'WF FRANCIS X1 WARREN JR ln thee are found the fxres of thought Glee Club I Z 3 4 History 4 Class Treasurer I Z Magazine Campaign 4 Yearbook Staff 4 Prom Commuttee 3 Semor Play 4 Fas ante Saymg Oh' My gosh' Fax crate Uastume Dlayxng the piano Ambmon Daury farmer Sklppy a retxcent shy lad ns always ready wxth the answers to those Current Es ents quizzes Besides he as an accomplxshed plants! Many members of the class feel grateful to theur classmate for hls past wnlhngness to com ey them to and from rehearsals or any other school affair Good luck as a daury farmer Skt-spy 10 s . . l . I 1 I V , ' . . uf. .- , ., I 1 ' , - . . . . ll - 1 - ' of U . . 1 p - ' . ' 1 , , . -I U . . . . SW? :', v.f, I , . , I.. . :J-f W-'LQ .R , I ,..., . , . u . u X 5 . I n ' , ,' I ' ' A U , . .. .- . . , v. Y r ' l ' . . V . .

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Changzng Democracy We Amermans today face a challengmg opportumty perhaps the greatest ever offered to a single natlon for hmstory has brought us to a tmme of dec1s1on At issue IS the survxval of the 1nst1tut1ons of freedom S1nce 1950 IS the half way m1lestone of the Twentieth Century 1t 15 an approprlate tlme from whmh to 100k back and see how far we have come and where we stand Slnce 1900 we have wxtnessed changes more stupendous than human soclety has ever undergone ln a s1m1lar span Few probably ant1c1pated the enormous forward strldes wh1ch our country has made and xts unparalleled growth and prosperlty Revolutwns have occured not only ln lndustry and technology but ln science 1n medlclne and even ln our concepts of thmkmg Durlng th1s per1od of years our populatmon has doubled our labor force has more than doubled and our nat1onal mcome has chmbed tremendously Mass productlon and mass consumptlon have y1elded a hlgher output greater employment and a steadily 1ncreas1ng lncome Yet of all the progress that has been made It ms d1ff1cult to single out the pr1nc1pal lmes of development whxch stand out as essentlal contrlbutlons of the fxrst half of the Twentleth Century There are too many One could wr1te a brief hmstory of these years s1mply by l1st1ng such now common words as motmon p1ctures radar televxsxon automob11e, and atommc energy All th1s was due perhaps to the fact that all has been achleved ln a free soc1ety wh1ch to date has permmtted a greater measure of personal liberty than most people on earth enjoy The energy and 1n1t1at1ve wh1ch we were allowed to develop freely and the great opportumtmes open to all IS much of the secret of our success However along w1th these Improvements mn matermal cond1t1ons for everyone these last forty nme years have also wmtnessed the world s two most dreadful and destructwe wars the greatest depress1on smce the estabhshment of the money economy and what perhaps may stand as the world s greatest revolutxonary upheavals These events have w1thout doubt not only affected the period ln wh1ch they occurred but the future as well ln 1900 our nat1on was thoroughly cap1tal1st1c Amer1ca was proud of such xndustrmahsts as john D Rockefeller Andrew Carneg1e and of lnventors llke Thomas Edlson and George Westmghouse There was no l1m1t to what men of brams lmagmatlon and enterpr1se could do But thmngs have changed not suddenly but very gradually smce 1900 Perlls now confront the nat1on wh1ch challenge Amerlcan Democracy There has been a great extension of state power over the mdxvxdual There has been the r1se of labor as a great economic and polxtlcal power the growth of Government ln busmess and red1str1but1on of wealth through 1nher1tance and mcome taxes ln short wh11e we stxll l1ve m a capxtallst soc1ety nts functlon has been greatly altered VK e have moved consxstently towards more and more centrahzatlon of socmal orgamzatwn more encroachment by the State b1gger Government h1gher taxes and generally a trend towards meetmg more o the mcnvmdual s problems on a soclallstxc or communal rather than the mdwldual plane Thus we see that these forty me years of the Twent1eth Century have been not only years of unparalleled growtl and progress but of truly 1nc1s1ve changes m our social and economlc structure In spx e of thxs we enjoy a better standard of lwmg than any other country and despmte tl encroachments of the State we are st11l a free people 12 I - ' . mm 1 . . - I I ' I . . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' - 1 1 1 1 1 . . 1 1 , . . , . 1 1 . . 1 - . 1 1 . . 1 1 . . 1 1 1 1 1 , . 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 - 1 . . . . . . . Y , 1 1 K 1 ' 1 1 1 . , . -. . I - - - 1 1 1 ' 1 - 1 . A - 1 ' f .