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

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GUIDANCE COUNSELOR The Island with its beauty and its bleakness, its serenity and its confusion, its anger in a cold winter’s wind and its gentleness on a mild October afternoon reveals a little of each graduate’s character. How the valleys and peaks have been exposed in the personality of each through your four years at the Regional High School. You have shown how diverse yet how unique each graduate is. You will all go your various ways yet you will all go with a common experience. We don’t have to fool ourselves into supposing that everyone of you is a genius. Our ideal should be that everyone has the chance to do his best, not only in school but all through life. Few of us know what our best is, and we will not find it by read¬ ing what someone has written on our diplomas or our yearbooks, because the reality is what we ourselves have written on our own minds. The right to an education and a good life is not a passive right. It is the right of each individual in spite of his uniqueness and diversity to discipline and to broaden his mind until he is adaptable enough to carry whatever burden may come. The burdens are now yours. May you carry them with pride and understanding. JOHN J. AHERN 8

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; i !if!i§ : ■ | ]1 I PRINCIPAL Charles A. Davis MARTHA’S VINEYARD REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT CfRCt Of BSIMOMA OAK BLUFFS, MASSACHUSETTS To the Class of 1965: Since time immemorial poets have, with some degree of success, extolled the panoramic beauty that is Martha ' s Vineyard. The impact of what they saw with their eyes and felt with their heart was, as it still is, inexplicable. Such is the magnitude of true beauty— engendered and ornamented by nature and enhanced by time. Such, also, is our island, and whether we are native to her domain or have adopted her as our exalted matron, we are her proud patriots. Although she boasts not of great symphonies, her music enlight¬ ens us; though she speaks not of great artistry, her art unites us; and though she speaks not of great museums, her artifacts enoble us. And lest you think her glitter be less than gold, remember--she con¬ tinues to breed and develop a rugged, sturdy individual that is man and American. Such is your heritage. Congretulations on this happy occasion. May the Vineyard Iale, the green romantic, ever exhort you goaLward. Sincerely, Charles A. Davis, Principal Sponsored by MR. AND MRS. ALBION A. ALLEY, JR. West Tisbury

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SCHOOL COMMITTEE Mrs. Louis Larsen, Chilmark; Mrs. Donald Mills, Edgartown; Dr. Russell S. Hoxsie, Tisbury; Mr. William Honey, Secretary-Treasurer, Tisbuty; Dr. David Rappaport, Chairman, Oak Bluffs; Mr. Herbert Mercier, Vice-Chairman, Ed¬ gartown; Mrs. Ernest Swartz, Tisbury; Mr. Joseph Elvin, West Tisbury; Mr. Jules Ben David, Oak Bluffs. Absent when picture was taken was Mrs. Jose Giles, Gay Head. Once again we have come to the time of the year when our thoughts must be directed towards the future. As you leave the familiar scenes in Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, Vineyard Haven, and up-Island and go forth among the world at large, we hope that we have helped you make your next step much easier. For those of you who are going to remain on the Vineyard, we hope that these familiar sights will have more and more meaning to you, because from these areas, your education was made possible. For those of you going away to study, we hope that you will carry in your heart a small piece of the Vineyard, so that an occasional sight of the familiar scene of Gay Head or Menemsha, or even the busier aspect of the down-island towns, will make one nostalgic of a happy youth. Your faculty and school committee wish you, the Class of 1965, the best of everything in your future endeavors. Sponsored by R. 4. PACKER CO., INC. Vineyard Haven 9