Ludlow High School - Lion Yearbook (Ludlow, MA)

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FOREWORD In a year when so many people are urging increased educa- tion for leadership in international military might, we—the editors of this yearbook—have taken as our theme Peace— not a submissive, passive, or grovelling peace, nor a dishonor- able peace—but a peace achieved through dignified education. We believe firmly that this record of our activities as citizens of a school community is a miniature version of what education can achieve on a world-wide scale. Having learned to respect and to exemplify in our little school world the basic principles of democracy and of the fundamental precepts of the dignity and worth of the individual, we submit this 1959 Ludlow Lion as a tangible record of this basic tenet of educa- tion in a democracy: Peace is possible when everyone honors, respects, wants, and especially, works for it!

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ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL COMMITTEE Left to right: Herbert L. McChesney, Edward J. King, Edward F. Burgess. A MESSAGE To the Class of 1959: Yours is the first class to have received a high school education entirely under a half-session school day. That circumstances have necessitated this curtailed day, this committee—and previous ones—has recognized and de- plored. However, we feel certain that the more serious members of your group—and that includes the great majority of you—have not had a curtailed education; your records show that you have attained the goals set for you by your teachers. Now, it is up to each one of you to see that he sustains this degree of effort in his post-secondary- school ventures—be he in business, in one of the military services, in a vocational training school, or in college. It is easy to succeed when success is assured; it is commendable to succeed when success is fraught with ob- stacles. The fact that you have managed to meet scholastic requirements under difficult conditions and that you have continued a full-time extracurricular program under those same difficulties will stand you i n good stead. You take with you asa class our congratulations for the dignified and orderly achievement of many goals— scholastic and extracurricular. May you as individuals persevere with the same tenacity in the pursuit of your various hopes and aspirations! Edward J. King, Chairman ; Herbert L. McChesney Edward F. Burgess June 10, 1959 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Left: Gordon O. Merkel