Jamaica Plain High School - Clarion Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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My Congratulations John B . Casey Headmaster to the members of the Class of 1956 on the completion of their high school career. You are fortunate to be entering the business world at a time when great opportunities for employment exist. I hope that the virtues of industry and integrity, which we have tried to develop in you, will remain with you throughout your life . Your courses of study were designed to teach you to work and to learn the value of overcoming difficult assignments. The friends you have made in this school, both teachers and pupils, should serve to teach you the value of getting along with people . This school world in which you have been living should prepare you for the world of industry, higher education, and home building which you are about to enter . This year, we are dedicating the Yearbook to three members of the faculty who have retired: the Misses Frances R, Campion, Rosanna M. Dowd, and Hazel W. Ruggles. They were all wonderful teachers who gave their time and talents to the youth of this city for a great many years. To each of them we extend our hope for a long, happy, and well- deserved period of rest. You, the Class of 1956, could do no better than to model your lives after these fine teachers. 5

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We Dedicate Rosanna M. Dowd Hazel W. Ruggles our 1956 Yearbook to Miss Campion, Miss Dowd, and Miss Ruggles who, to our regret, have retired from Jamaica Plain High School this year . We have missed the careful teaching of Miss Campion whose splendid scholarship and rich background brought life into our work. We will miss, too, her able direction of Class Day activities. We have missed the boundless energy, artistic appreciation, and thorough schol- arship of Miss Dowd which made her classes interesting to us . The time she spent on individual pupils and pupils, in general, testified always to her kindly interest in the betterment of our school . We have missed the buoyant graciousness of Miss Ruggles . Hers was a dual per- sonality. This was reflected In her love of the classics, her desire to inculcate this love in her pupils, and her genial interest in their everyday experiences. The National Honor Society, sponsored by her in our school, is a tribute to her appreciation of schol- arship . We congratulate these teachers at the conclusion of successful years of teaching and wish for them many years of joy and happiness. G.C. 4

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Front Row, L. to R.: Miss Buckley, Miss Chesley, Miss Dricoll, Miss Demp- sey. Miss Barrett, Miss Blessington. Second Row: Mr. Dugan, Mr. McGuckian, Mr. Donaghy, Mr. Dooley, Mr. Buck, Mr. Best. Front Row, L. to R.: Miss Sullivan, Miss Ruggles, Miss Tombaugh, Miss Mc- Clare, Miss Thyne, Miss O ' Connell. Second Row: Miss O ' Malley, Miss Mc- Guire, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Murphy, Mr. O ' Leary, Mr. Wendler, Mr. Mealey, Miss MuUin. 6