Martha's Vineyard Regional High School - Vineyarder Yearbook (Martha's Vineyard, MA)

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE It’s spring again and your all-exciting, long-awaited graduation beckons you. Soon your ears will ring with three traditional, but heart-felt, felicities: congratulations, good luck, and Godspeed. The first of these, congratulations, I extend to you on the happy occasion of your graduation. May whatever you have put into your secondary school education serve you well. The second of these, good luck, is the hiatus between the first and the last—may it always be with you in goodly measure; and it always will be so long as you remember that the harder you work the more of it you will seem to have. The last, Godspeed, for the future tha t you have studied and planned for begins today. Congratulations, good luck, and Godspeed. ARTCLIFF DINER ATSCO OIL COMPANY Sponsored By J. CAMPBELL CO., INC. DUKE ' S COUNTY GARAGE Vineyard Haven 9

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SUPERINTENDENT’S MESSAGE In his epic poem the Aeneid, the Latin poet Virgil has immortalized the voyage of Aeneas and his Trojan countrymen who left the land of their fathers and set forth in search of a site where they might begin anew the illustrious heritage which we know as Roman Civilization. The hardships, the triumphs, the despair and the hopes of that courageous band are all brilliantly portrayed in this masterpiece of world literature. Throughout your school days, having embarked upon your Sea of Learning,” you, as Aeneas, have undergone seemingly endless periods of mental and physical exertions and discipline; at times the new land, the attainment of your goals, might have appeared hopelessly obscured in the mountainous seas of academic requirements, frustrating setbacks and burdens so necessary in any worthwhile crusade. Now that your promised day of graduation has come and the fates have fulfilled their destined hours, I congratulate you. May the pathways which you follow lead to success and happiness. 8

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GUIDANCE COUNSELOR’S MESSAGE With new knowledge and techniques which have become available only in the last decades, man is now beginning to tap undersea riches. Though his relationship to the sea is still that of primitive hunter rather than cultivator, he is on his way at last to exploiting it for food, water, minerals and control of his climate.” This quote, taken from Life magazine’s nature library, might very easily refer to each member of the class of 1964. With the new knowledge and techniques which have become available to you in the past few years, you may now begin to tap the undersea riches of your potential. However, instead of being accomplished in the art of life you are but the primitive hunter” somewhat awkwardly seeking the depths of your own personality. The limitless scope of your individual powers is indeed frightening but very challenging. You have taken the first step in this sounding of your own depths. It is my sincere hope that you are now able to seek out and conquer the challenges and responsibilities you are about to face in the uncharted waters of adult life.