Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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and hence to Falmouth’s high school, which has been greatly enriched by those students who come from service families. Each has brought with him some ' piece to put into the broad, patchwork cultural heritage which the Class of 1963 holds. Now, when these students leave with the rest of their graduating companions, perhaps they will carry away a part of LHS which may be as Cape-Cod bred-and-born as that which they put into the school and the class ivas Phoenix or Oshkosh-born. With plans in the air for the arrival of a foreign exchange student by means of the Falmouth branch of the American Field Service, there is no real way of telling how far abroad the vistas of Lawrence High will go, as succeeding classes will stand in the same position as the Class of ’63. Still, there are those who are native to Falmouth who have brought just as much to Town and school as have any number of world travelers who have passed the way of a L.H.S. curriculum for a year or more. Certain things affecting Falmouth personally , are close to home, such as the new Intermediate School for grades six through eight on Jones Rd., and the new Falmouth Hospital, standing near completion on Ter Heun Drive, visible from the windows of our school. Members of Mrs. Hill’s third grade class were (bottom row) Teddy Tripp, Brad Ellis, Frank Spencer, Donny West, Walter Van Kleef, Jimmy Small, (second row) Lee Burwell, Cathy Jennings, Marilyn Reynolds, Anne Dyer, Marjorie Williamson, Unidentified, Mary Beth Studley, Mauralee Williams, Carol Gray, (third row) Mrs. Hill, Nancy W’yrick, Maureen Ingram, Linda Tobey, Lorraine Weeks, Doris Rose, Richard Dupee, Susan Pasley, Dick W ' illiams, Jon Durrell, Pat Rogers, (fourth row) Paul Oleniek, Wayne Ferreira, Alan Carrager, Unidenti- fied, Claire Schlepark, Joyce Sylvia, Tex Fenimore, Thomas Curnberand, Mike Finnell, John Studley. Members of Mrs. Thayer’s third grade class were (bottom row) Carl Irons, Mike Generous, David Malkus, Lorin Appel, David Berry, Wayne Allen, (second row) Mary Ballentine, Joan Motte, Becky Paulic, Elaine Ferreira, Gail McKilligan, Pam Leach, Leslie MacDougall, Joan Morrison, Derna Grenga, Bitsy Fowler, (third row) William Landers, Betsy McGilvray, Jean Wagstaff, Thelma Nelson, Pam Lawrence, Lesley Boucher, Sharon Lum- bcrt, Billy Hewins, Robert Carey, (fourth row) Mrs. Thayer, Phyllis Lopes, Marilyn Grew, Ingrid Frank, Eileen Lumbert, Joseph Ingram, John Hicks, Harold Mulkern, Robert Leighton, Eddie Ferris, Peter Jacoby.

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With the world of crayons, Alice and Jerry, and recess left behind, The Class of 1963 entered the 7th grade, already truly cosmopolitan. The Woods Hole School donated its share of students, many of ivhom were from families connected ivith the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Biological Laboratory , Eel Pond at Woods Hole At Diane Smith’s 10th birthday were Nancy Soares, Nancy Burrough, Pam Leach, Diane, Carol Motte, Joan Motte, and Marilyn Nutter. and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Within these three concerns, work is forging ahead in the field of natural science. Just this year the Albatross IV and the Atlantis II were launched, and a neic Oceanographic laboratory was constructed. Many members of the class attended summer school, Woods Hole style, by spending six weeks during July and August enrolled in a science school course at the Woods Hole School — from “ Seashore Life” in muddy sneakers to “ Astronomy ” ivith its uniques nocturnal field trips. However, this international flavor permeating the class has not ceased with the converging of all the members of the Class of ’63. Otis Air Force Base, formerly Camp Edwards, has brought the savor of many a southern accent, and many a western license plate to Falmouth, Atlantis II Nobska Light — Woods Hole ■■Pi : ■ ’ New MBL lab— Woods Hole

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For Falmouth students, these two new additions to the Town, may have a very vital effect. No doubt many who may enter the world in one, may grow up in the other, ready then to enter Lawrence High School and reach for a diploma as the members of some future graduating class, perhaps to return some day as teachers, doctors, or nurses. It may be that the old must move out to make way for the new in life just as a class leaves and another takes it place. Yet there remains in this town the same spirit ivhich moved the Falmouth of some 300 years ago. In LHS, there has been much in the way of new courses, such as CBA Chemistry , PSSC physics, and Modern Math. The library has ordered books which have aligned Falmouth a little more closely with the world. With new discoveries made each day, the graduates of ’63 can look up and away to a world which is xvaiting, just as the world awaited for those early settlers who turned from the land to the skies. People of many different backgrounds have revised and enhanced the spirit of our school and will continue to do so in the years to come, no matter how many students pass through the doors. The Police Station The Fire Station Falmouth National Bank The Congregational Church There has not only been book-learning here. The Class of 1963 has gained experience ivhich cannot be measured in grades or scores. The practical knowledge of living together is the very essence of the Town of Falmouth. As was shown so vividly in the Basketball Tournament games, Falmouth and LHS are inseparable, and in this way our school and town are all the richer — looking forward to a future with both scholarship and sportsmanship in school and town reaching upward and outward. 9