Middleborough High School - Timaron Yearbook (Middleborough, MA)

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A Challenge to 1951 NCE more your principal watches pupils leave for work, further school- ing, enlistment, or home making. You are people whom he has tried to counsel that you might become the successful and respected persons you can become. He has tried to help you to realize your hopes and ambitions. Need one wonder why he has a paternal interest in you especially since he worked in the same way with many of your parents? It is natural for imagination to lead your principal into the probable futures of his foster children. It is true that there is little to promise you by way of ease, plenty, and peace of mind, but never did the world yearn more for a generation of honest, civic-minded, young people. Never were gradu- ates so challenged with the need of a real enthusiasm for American demo- cracy — men who will be above price, free from hate and selfish greed. Life offers you the challenge of all time, perhaps with blood, sweat, and tears, but also a challenge with the rewards of satisfaction that come to those who serve well their fellow men. May the graduates in ' 51 be ready for their challenge!

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EDITORIALS A Peaceful World Is peace too much to hope for in the world? Is peace precious enough to work for? Man has always wanted peace and has proved it by setting up such organizations for mutual con- cord as Ihe Hague conferences and the League of Nations, each of which was followed by a war more terrible than the previous. We now have the United Nations — The greatest threat to world peace today is the ominous buildup of Russia and her communist satellites, who even now are fight- ing a cold war. We are beginning to win this contest by penetrating the iron curtain with the truth about democracy. Therefore, if we are to make our kind of government the incentive which will cause a change in political thinking among certain peoples, we must pull together at home and make democracy really work. Is war inevitable? General Douglas Mac- Arthur, former supreme commander of the armed forces of the United Nations and the United States in the Far East, said: I do not feel that war is inevitable. I believe that the great masses of the world are inevitably against war. I believe that is so among the Russian masses just as it is among our people. It is up to you — the graduating class of 1951. It is uD to each and every one of you to make democracy work and thus through understanding prevent war. Our goal — a peaceful world! Laurence Osborne Editor-in-Chief imaron PROGRESS is the shadow of time, but time can pass without progress. The necessary elements for progress are time plus man ' s ingenuity. In your mind, picture time as a bird in flight and progress as its shadow reflected upon the ground. To complete the metaphor you must consider the sun as the most import- ant factor, for without light no shadow can be cast. Man ' s intelligence is thus comparable to the sun in reality. The progress we make in school is the shadow of time spent. Higher education today a necessity, is the goal for which we strive in our four years. Our success in achieving this, will determine our success in later years. Only in the development of intelligence can man cause time to pass with progress. Having in mind that educational development takes time, therefore, we should try to use our time in school sensibly so that we may help create a better world for the future. Earl Banta Associate Editor

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4 Administration Principal, Mr. Lindsay March Asst. Principal, Mr. Ernest Thomas Dean of Girls, Mrs. Helen Pardey Guidance Dir., Mr. Samuel Deich Lani iguages Standing ( . to r. ) Librarian, Miss Margaret Ryder Miss Rachel Alden Miss Dorothy Wetherell Seated Miss Mary Brier Mr. Alban Richey Miss Virginia Lewis Science and Mathematics Standing Mr. Joseph Kunces Mr. Harold Card Miss Evelyn Whitty Seated Miss Anna Erickson Mr. Edward Whitmore