Massasoit Community College - Yearbook (Brockton, MA)

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M assasoi I The namesake of this college, Massasoit, was born within the present boundries of Massachusetts in 1580. His tribe, the Wampanoags, were located throughout the regions of Bristol, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. The Wampanoags, who had at one time numbered several thousand, had almost been destroyed by an epidemic just before the arrival of the Mayflower.', In March of 1621, an Indian appeared in Plymouth, and surprised the Pilgrims by speaking to them in English. He was Samoset, and had come to arrange a meeting between the Governor of Plymouth, William Bradford, and the Chief of the Wampanoags, Massasoit. A week later a treaty of peace was signed by the two men, a treaty which held without violation for fifty-four years. In 1623, Massasoit became ill and was visited by Edward Winslow who effected a cure. In return, Massasoit revealed that a neighboring tribe was to make an attack on the white men. All through his reign as chief, Massasoit made a practice of living in harmony with the colonists. A writer of the period said of him: He was a chief renowned more in peace than war, and was, as long as he lived, a friend to the English, even as they committed repeated usurpations upon his land and libertiesf, Little is known about the chief from 1649, when he sold the site of Duxbury to the English, until his death in 1662. 16

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Dedication Massasoit is a young school, this creates many exciting opportunities. One of these opportunities is that the students give birth to what will become the traditions of Massasoit. Each year the yearbook should be dedicated to the professor who has done the most to help the students of the college. The 1969 yearbook staff proudly dedicates Legend '69 to Professor John D. MCPegke, Massasoit's director of student activities. 1 N I-Anal I hu ll iw and as, . xiq jfiifwa . eerie' 4 lgikxif' fig 4' Q if-3 'in if bt ,, A gs 18