Middleborough High School - Timaron Yearbook (Middleborough, MA)

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Four THE CENTENNIAL-1950 EDITORIALS 'A' if? if allay 'ML goffowg j0l'Yl0l'l'0l,U 2 olLaJ,, OUR class has an opportunity to go as far as our country has. Our country started under the leadership of England and remained there until it had a revolution. For several years after this it had a very uncertain standing, and then it started upward on a long hard road. It had its troubles, its wars, and its successes, but now it has become the leading nation of the world. Our class has the same opportunity. We have been under the leadership of our school, but now we are going to have our own revolu- tion. We are going to be in that uncertain position. We are going to start that long up- ward climb, but if we plan to go to the top, we will need help during our troubles. We will have to follow our country's pattern. IN GOD WE TRUST became its favorite motto, even on minted coins. If we adopt the same slogan, we will achieve, as it did, leadership in our world of tomorrow. Frank Whitney, Associate Editor -fx if aff we .yllllJl'0JtA 21710 FOR the hundredth time, rows of Middleboro boys and girls have marched solemnly to the platform, for the hundredth time, they have eagerly received their diplomas, and for the hundredth time, a group of students stand on the uncertain threshold to the future. Styles have changed and the jitterbug has replaced the Charleston, but the future-the future hasn't changed. It still lies before us promising a mul- titude of things both good and bad, and as always, it lies uncertain. True, we, the class of 1950, have more opportunities than the class of 1850, but we will have to struggle for our goals just as they did then. Gallup polls prove that more of us will be going to schools of higher learning than ever before, but this only follows hand in hand with the raised standard of living. It isn't any easier to get a job now than it was then, but our possibilities are un- limited. Our schoolwork is neither harder nor easier than it was a hundred years ago, but we do have a wider variety of subjects to choose from. This is the centennial of graduating classes from an organized school system in the town of Middleboro, yet it is nothing but a point on the road of life which no one will remember except those who are graduating. Sophie Sowyrda, Editor-in-Chief

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MbMORIAL HiGH SCHOOL Thre ilakmad alll: clday WWGFCL 'Tis diploma time again. As your principal signs the many diplomas, he has time to think what a diploma means generally and what it may mean to each of the members of the class. The diploma must mean something to employers because, for many kinds of work, the diploma is required. It is no wonder employers prefer high school graduates when one realizes these persons have completed more than two thousand separate assignments for various teachers. They have attended school hundreds of days, an achievement which is much like holding a steady job for four years. Such accomplishment is evidence of some degree of dependability and is proof that one has learned to work with many people. The opportunities of raking responsibility for, and becoming a leader in, school activities is also important to employers. There are many advantages of guidance in education, vocational, and personal problems which the non-graduate does not enjoy. Whztt the diploma means to each individual, that person himself knows best. lt may mean that he won the diploma as easily as possible, The certi- hcate may mean that he did his best and that he took advantage of his opportunities to be somebody. School records measure the quality of each one's work. Graduation to all marks the commencement of something greater-- higher education or the beginning of one's life work. In any case, the diploma is a challenge to each graduate to live up to what is expected of the person who has had the advantages of a high-school education.

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C' 4-DU'- Clam Flower: White Rose Clan Colon: Blue and White Clan Motto: Today we followg tomorrow we lead. Cfzm ofpm, MAR.lORIE SMITH V...o.o, ..,o A , ,. . , , , Trefmfrer RONALD FALCONEIRI . ., ., Vice Prexidenf FAITH STETSON A ,. . , Secremry BRUCE MATHESON ,. . . Prexidenz