Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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Miss Margaret G. Hines B.M. Glee Club Director Musical training is a more patent instrument than any other . . Pluto FACULTY The faculty at Holbrook High School are special- ists in their various fields. Their basic concern is for the individual student and the student’s ability to grasp the subject material. Our teachers are dedicated in stimulating the student to act, to think for himself, and to learn, through experience, appropriate habit patterns. In addition to their skills in working with students, the teachers are team members, adroitly assisting the other members of their profession to identify problems and to suggest solutions. They assist the school admin- istration in planning appropriate instructional programs and in evaluating the effectiveness of the programs. Mr. Francis J. Buckley B.M.; M. Ed. Band Director “There is no truer truth obtainable by man that comes of music.” Browning

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Mr. H. C. Gilgan IN MEMORIAM The passing of our beloved Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Hugh Carroll Gilgan, brings a loss not only to Mrs. Gilgan, his devoted family, and friends, but to the community as a whole. His was a great figure in the life of the Town. However, his chief interest was in the future citizens of this great country. Hugh Carroll Gilgan was a man of great wisdom; his advice and counsel was invari- ably correct and far sighted. He was every ready to help those who needed help, and to inspire those who needed inspiration. How well he served the children, teachers, and people of Holbrook during the thirteen years of his superintendency with his great talent and wis- dom. Mr. Gilgan loved Holbrook and took great pride in the conduct of its schools. His greatest pleasures came to him when he learned of the ed- ucational achievements of his students. He was as thrilled by the first faltering utterances of the first grade child as he was by the brilliant accomplish- ments of the graduates of Holbrook High School who went on to scholarships in colleges and uni- versities throughout this great nation. Even though he was a quiet and modest man, he was a valiant and determined advocate of the causes which he considered right. He believed that an education was the greatest gift of a free people, and as he believed so did he work and live. If I were asked what were his greatest attri- butes, I would answer that he possessed three great qualities of heart and soul: first, his quiet, enthusiastic love for all people; second, his deep humility; and third, his desire to lead a life com- pletely pleasing to God. The work that he was given to do has been completed, and let all of us bear testimony to the truth, that it is a better world because he has lived in it. (A Tribute To Hugh Carroll Gilgan, Supt. of Holbrook Public Schools. July 1, 1948- August 23, 1961.) 7

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Miss Elna M. Knutson A.B.; A.M. Mathematics Math Club; Chairman — Math Department Sophomore Class Advisor “Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty . . Russell Mr. Ralph M. Younie B.S. Industrial Arts “Tools were made, and born were hands.” Blake Mr. Norman T. Swain B.S. Algebra, Geometry Math Club Senior Class Advisor “Round numbers are always false.” Johnson Miss Kathryn Megley Librarian School News Reporter “No book is . . . serviceable, until it has been read, and reread, and loved, and loved again . . Ruskin Miss Rita I. Johnsen B.S.; M.A. English Dramatics “Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.” Cervantes ¥ m Miss Priscilla A. Durant B.S. Commercial Subjects “She that was ever fair and never proud, had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.” Shakespeare