Milford High School - Spartan Yearbook (Milford, NH)

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HONCR ADDRESS Clara Matchell The class of l956 graduataon lt seems lake only yesterday that we were flrst graders lattle garls wath pagtaals and starched dresses lattle boy dasplayang combed haar and gramy hands Tonaght we sat here wearang smart blue gowns and mortar boards lookang sober and occasaonally smalang nervously Twelve years have elapsed sance our flrst school day long ago As a class we have many happy memoraes Remember the class traps Arsenac and Old Lace our Junaor Prom? We have had an enormous amount of fun together Tonaght we cross from the realm of carefree chaldhood anto a phase of lafe called young adulthood We have matured Durang our gradual development we have acquared andavadual personalataes lakes and daslakes Our character has been molded The traanang we have receaved from our parents and teachers has gaven us a foundataon We have acquared habats and skalls that brought us success an hugh school We wall adhere to these habats good and bad for the remaander of our laves We are leavang Malford schools permanently The years that once passed so slowly now pass swaftly Some of us wall further our educataon Others wall marry Some wall work an factoraes and offlces and others maght loan the armed forces Our futures wall be the products of our own antegraty and ambatron What does the future hold for us? The outlook as not braght On a nataonal level the future doesnt look peaceful Petty arguments an government have taken attentaon from maaor and more sera ous assues Our anternataonal dealangs are surrounded wath an aurora of straaned tense feelang We are an an era called peaceful coexastence Is at peaceful when you consader the armaments race? Scaentasts and enganeers the world over are desagnang bugger and more powerful machanes to destroy lafe When and where wall thas race end? What wall the outcome be? We as sensors can be overly optamastac about our futures That as the raght of young dreamers But as conscaentaous young people we should soon recognaze that clouds of nataonal and anternataonal problems wall darectly anfluence our hopes and dreams We must make seraous decasaons We must thank as wase adults although we cannot yet have the pravaleges of adults We must learn to lave an harmony for through harmony comes peace Abraham Lancoln once saad He has the raght to cratacaze who has the heart to help The catazens of the Unated States must co operate wath the government They must be part of at af at as to remaan a true democracy How many of our catazens vote? How many pack up a newspaper once a day to read reports of current anternataonal events? How many know about the government and ats work or even the nataon of whach they are a part? A true catazen takes the tame and has the anterest to become anformed about nataonal and local problems and dasputes He voaces has opanaons eather orally or through a ballot A catazen as not only concerned wath the events takang place an has home town but also wath the events happenang through out the world Everyone pays taxes No one seems to lake them How as tax money spent? ls the polace force an town adequately equapped? Does the Caval Defense Unat have enough volunteers who can mobalaze quackly an the event of any enemy attack? Are your chaldren receavang an adequate educataon an school? These are questaons every actave crtazen should be able to answer We the Class of l956 are future catazens In three short years we shall be of legal votang age Then we shall be able to partacapate actavely an our government Our democracy has been hewn from a rumble of polatacal adeas not only by great men but also by the men who supported and ad vased them T W Haggenson stated the adea nacely when he saad Great men are rarely asolated mountaan peaks they are the summats of ranges' ln closang I would lake to leave wath you three adeas Have faath faath an our democracy an your assocaates an yourself Above all have faath an God Have hope hope that mankand can find a way to settle thear dasputes wathout destroyang our cavalazataon Lave charaty charaty towards your fraends and enemaes Charaty toward rrch and poor black and whate free catazen and enslaved peasant . . . . 5 , : . r - - .. . ,V r ' r 1 - I 1 . , , . . . , , . I I ' ' r , . , . . . ,, . .. . ,, .. r r - r - . . . . . ,, . . . , , . , Z T r r . , . r r

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PRESlDENT'S ADDRESS Robert Moulton As we come to the end of our school years In Milford, we are at the place where It IS traditional to look around us to look backward at what we have done and for ward to what we are gomg to do We can remember with gratitude and affection what has gone before, the fun the hard work, and the many experiences we have had In school Without being sentimental but with smcerrty we can say to our teachers and parents, We thank you for what you have done for us, and hope we wrll be worthy of your efforts Graduates are usually optimistic world beaters They can cure all the rlls of the world from their vast store of knowledge I am not gomg to stand here and tell you how we the Class of 1956 are gomg out to change the world But I would luke to give you my vrews on a sublect being discussed by many people a problem that has often bothered me The problem rs Should we be allowed to vote at the age of eighteen'-' There are many laws rn our state that are not enforced Why arent they en forced? Because they were made In and pertain to the seventeen and eighteen hundreds Now they are meaningless and outdated The age for voters was estab lished about the same time as several other old fashioned laws You could go to the Cabinet Press tomorrow morning find an old Cabinet rn its file and read that a man was fined for speeding on Elm Street He was gomg twenty mules an hour' At one time the speed llmlt was less than twenty mrles an hour because of poor roads and I suppose a certain amount of fear and lack of knowledge about the horseless carriage Now however, with the benefit of time and science men have perfected an engine that will operate faster a car that rs safer on today s safer highways Man understands the automobile and rt ns with thus knowledge that speed lrmnts have mcreased Speed llmrt laws have kept up with the times' Why not the votmg age law? lt was enacted when people had little knowledge of national affairs or even their own state affairs They had little or no schooling Today nearly of a hundred years ago we discuss Issues with our parents and are encouraged to give our oprmons We understand We have the knowledge they drdn tl The last presidential electron brought out a greater percentage of voters than any previous contest but the total dad not exceed more than two thirds of our elrgrble voters You can vote and wont we want to vote and cant' There rs an age old argument If we re old enough to fight we re old enough to vote No matter how many times rt rs used rt ns strll very true How many boys between the ages of eighteen and twenty one have given their llves rn battles9 Why? To defend us and preserve democracy Now there s a word democracy at means equality ls this equalnty9 A boy gave hrs lrfe for democracy but was not treated equally An eighteen year old must fight and pay taxes the same as a man of thirty eight but rs denied the votmg prrvrlege the older man has Georgia lawmakers lowered the votmg age to enghteen rn i944 This rs a fine example that might well be followed by the other forty seven states To me this seems like a step rn the right direction Those of you who do agree with me may thunk What can I do about rt? You are the voters You make the laws rn thus state Remember we are ready to make the great sacrifice and gust as ready for the great pnvllege In closing whsle rt probably rs too late to do anything for us rt rs possrble to take some action for future years Anyway It rs a malor problem of the time and Ive had my chance to speak I - 1 I . ' I I .. I I ' ' I . I - . ' I I , I . . I . . I I everyone finishes high school and many go on to college. Unlike the young people I . . 1 ' l . I . , . ' I - I U , . . . , . , . . . . I . . . ' I

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CLASS WILL We the class of 1956 Mulford Hugh School Town of Mulford County of Hullsborough State of New Hampshure Unuted States of Ameruca beung un a sound state of mund do make publush and declare thus our last wull and testament dusposung of our possessuons sentumental or otherwuse After the payment of our lust debts and expenses we guve devuse and bequeath as follows Peter Archubald wulls hus deer skun uacket to Bobby Brustol That s probably as close as he ll ever get to one Beverly Archubald wulls her pleasung personaluty to the teachers at M H S Ronald Avenu wulls hus mcunagung abuluty to Phul Haskell Mary Ann Babcock leaves her blonde haur to Kathy Hultz Collette Best wulls her sungung vouce to Demarus so she can contunue to sung duets Edward Bonner and Sheula Cassudy leave together Avus Boutelle wulls her dramatuc abuluty to Muss Byrne to be used wuth next year s players Ruth Brockner leaves her southern charm to who ever has to get people to work forthe class James Brown leaves hus charm wuth the Freshman gurls to the Freshman boys Jean Burgeson wulls her uob at Hot Lunch to anyone who wants to eat early Mary Lou Calvettu leaves her Algebra ll book to Mr Canfueld Sandra Came wulls the management ofthe gurls basketball team to Januce Erukson Connue Comollu wulls her abuluty to get along wuth an Avenu to anyone Heather Courage wulls her musuc abuluty to someone unterested un goung to the All State Musuc Festuval Roger Crooker leaves hus car to anyone crazy enough to take ut Vuvuan Curtus leaves her A s to be duvuded among needy Junuors Mary Durant wulls her meducal ductuonary to Georgue MacNeul Judy Eaton wulls her Bunsen burner to Reuna Paananen John Ferguson leaves the No Parkung sugn on the wall Robert Fusher leaves hus dumples to Mr Looney Judy Forbes leaves her undoor traffuc post to a Junuor wuth patuence Edward French wulls hus punk blush to Muss Stephens George Gauthuer wulls hus nuckname Skup to anyone who us tured of walkung Edward George wulls hus membershup un the Super Chargers to anyone wuth an old car Carl Germuno wulls hus uob at the Furst Natuonal to Barry Hammond Theresa Gulmore wulls her neat ways to Tommy Monson Ruchard Haskell wulls hus slude rule to Mr Mutkus Esther Hammond wulls her love for Fords to Bull Batchelder Nancy Henderson wulls her place un 4 H to Bully Nulsen Derwyn Holder leaves hus uob as lab assustant to Raymond Regan Carolune Holland wulls her brauds to Wallue Jean Salvaul Winona Holland wulls her stubborness to Alyce Nuchols I I . I I I I I I , . I I I I I interested in Carmella. I - . - . H - gg . . .