Hartford High School - Hartford Key Yearbook (White River Junction, VT)

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(Pnei. L c5 ent Addn.zb.ik As president of our class, I feel it is a great honor to have been given the leadership and the opportunity to aid in the bringing forth of the many accomplishments of our group. As we, the graduating class of 1950 leave Hartford High School we look forward, our spirits high, feeling that we are ready for this new life. Up to now we have had a crutch to lean on but now we must stand alone. Some of us will go on to further education; others will get jobs and go to work. Under either circumstances we will have to stand on our own two feet and walk in a straight, unwavering line. Our class walks out into a world that is full of awe, full of distress and full of scientific wonders that are all too capable of destroying our whole civilization. Our problem is to go out and conquer these powerful weapons and make sensible use of them. We do not fear this problem, however, because we are young and strong. I believe that if a person has the desire and the will power to stick with a thing he will come out a victor. WILLIAM BEATTIE, President We, the Student Council members of 1949-1950, have taken special pride in our accomplishments this year. We want to express our appreciation to the student body for their cooperation in making these achievements possible. Any program that a Student Council fosters needs the full support of the students to make it successful. We have endeavored in all of our undertakings this year to create a more wholesome school atmosphere and to breed a greater participation by more students in school affairs. As a basis for this goal we created the Leadership Institute for training in parliamentary procedure to give basic training to officers of school organizations or students seeking offices. This was a followup to the Point System that was inaugurated last year to distribute offices among more students. The Leadership Institute, perhaps our outstanding achievement of the year, should be a permanent fixture for future years. Some other highlights of the year have been Talent Show, pep rallies, exchange assemblies, a Faculty-Student Council get-together, and the Monitor System to control and improve the traffic regulations. A school song contest and bulletin board competition added zest to the program, Besides these, the re-writing of the Council Constitution was accomplished. We hope that in the coming year the Student Council will have the same success and cooperation we have known this year. As president, I have experienced the greatest honor of my high school days, and to my successor, I wish the happiness that I have known. BEATRICE GATES, Student Body President

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 Su.jpen.int endUrit To the members of the Class of 1950: This year graduation is doubly a commencement. In the life of each of you, it is an end and a beginning -- whether you go to work or to an advanced school, of that long lifetime of self-reliant, useful, and helpful citizenship for which you, with the guidance and assistance of your teachers, have been training yourself. You have every right to look upon your graduation day as one of the turning points of your life. For the world too, 1950 is a period of commencement -- the end of the first half of the twentieth century of our era, and the beginning of the second half. During the five decades which have just been completed, the many fine accomplishments of our race have been overshadowed by a long record of warfare, tyranny, suffering and hate; the free institutions which protect our liberty have become imperiled, and our traditional respect for the sacredness of each individual person has become endangered. What the next five decades will produce lies, to a great extent, in the hands of men and women like you. By using your knowledge and abilities in active and intelligent participation in public problems and enterprises, you can do your part to help make the record of the next fifty years one of constant advance and improvement toward that peaceful, happy and unselfish society for which all thinking people yearn. May you, in all you do, give freely your best; and in return, may the best of all good things come back to you in abundance. Sincerely, ALDEN J. CARR Superintendent of Schools To the members of the Class of 1950: It is always a pleasure and a privilege to address the members of the graduating class. Whatever could be secured in the way of better equipment or better teaching that would make education for you more vital and valuable has been provided you by the citizens of your community. You are taking with you the benefits of these advantages plus the benefits of your own individual efforts. What will you do with what you have ? Some of you will seek higher education, others will seek to render service and earn money. Whatever your goal may be, you must remember that your determination to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘‘You cannot fail if you resolutely determine that you will not, because success does not depend so much on your surroundings as on your self-reliance. The noblest contribution which man can make for the benefit of posterity is a good character. We who are left behind at Hartford High School hope that your future will hold pleasant and successful experiences. Sincerely, JOHN A. FREITAS, Principal

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School days, school days, Dear old golden rule days... Here it Is. We’re the graduating class of 1950, and we’re glad, but we’re also sorry for we will long remember the little, everyday happenings that go to make up school -- the awful pencil sharpener in Room 5, the bump in the floor in Room 6, the good feeling that goes with an “A”, the school and sports trips, the discussions in class which brought out the rightness of some things and the injustices of others and that filled us with a wonderful desire to go out and set the world right. Yes, we’ll remember our school years. Here in this book are some of them. Here are all the people that played a part in it. Let’s look at them. Seniors first, of course. Seal