Holten High School - Onion Yearbook (Danvers, MA)

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GREETINGS The excellent work that your editors and you as a class have achieved in producing this year’s edition of The Onion deserves much praise. From personal contact with so many of you, I recognize this as the type of carefully prepared work I have learned to expect from the Class of ’57. So many of you have rewarded and enriched my teaching experience by exhibiting an eagerness to learn and a healthy, mature questioning attitude toward our literary investigations together that I shall follow all of your careers with a very sincere and personal interest. My earnest desire is that from the investigations and discussions we have shared you will carry with you throughout your lives a remembrance of the wise advice so many men of letters have extended to you. I hope that you will be able to see the humorous side of minor incon- veniences and make an adventure of them as G.K. Chesterton advised. I hope that you will develop that sense of justice and proportion Frost meant when he wrote— “So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.” When you later encounter those inevitable adversities life confronts us with to test our worth, I hope you will remember and have courage to justify Thoreau’s faith in “the unquestion- able ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.” Above all else, I hope you will hold fast in the active part of your memories, perhaps as a personal motto, Emerson’s conviction, “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” At Graduation everyone will congratulate you and wish you many years of happiness. I will too. Moreover, I wish for you rich, full, adult lives complete with their more serious moments which I know you will meet with quiet steadfastness and courage.

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DEDICATION C orne (iit S 3. In our four years of high school it has been our good fortune to have an understanding and sympathetic man as our principal. His untiring efforts have made these enjoyable years valuable in the building of our character and sense of responsibility. His personal student contact and guidance has helped untold scores to acquire the utmost from their education. Words cannot express the sincerity of our appreciation and the extent of our pride for you, Mr. Dunn, and in dedicating this yearbook to you we say, “Thank you.”

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 4 1 % f Cornelius F. Dunn Principal John F. Ambrose Ancient History, World H story Elsa R. Brown General and Physical Science, Geometry Gladys Damon Typewriting, Civics, Ancient History Beatrice Edmondson Commercial Doris J. Hughes Economics and Law, Problems of Democracy, Junior Business Training Ernest W. April English Roger W. Barry English Samuel Greenwald Chemistry, Biology Richard A. Jordan Spanish Ellen Fryer Laboratory Director William H. Greer English