Minnechaug Regional High School - Falcon Yearbook (Wilbraham, MA)

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, y iayj Riiife (L 1 rOP EE E EW rRr ---- gg-7-rP Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Seldom Do You Fully Appreciate Another ' s Abilities Until You Compete With Him. Junior College Admissions Orientation, February 4-6 Half Day of School Folk Festival 7:30 Run by the Minne- chaug Choralyres 9 10 Exchange Con- cert With Commerce 7:30 at Minnechaug 11 Exchange Con- cert With Commerce 7:30 in Springfield 12 13 14 Valentine ' s Day. Quill and Scroll Cookies Distributed 15 116 17 18 19 20 21 22 Good, Planning, Carefully Exe- cuted, Is Often Mistaken By Others As Pure Luck Winter Vaca- tion Starts When Your Work Speaks For Itself, Don ' t Interrupt Regardless of What Happens, Somebody Al- ways Knew It Would. 23 24 Entire Year- book Goes In To Printer ! 25 26 27 28 7

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Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1 New Year ' s Day Bay State Gas Company Goes on Strike 2 3 4 5 6 School Begins Again 7 8 Richard Tuck- er, Metropoli- tan Opera Star, Dies, Scene From TEN LIT- TLE INDIANS is on ' At Home With Kitty ' . 9 10 Series of Deadly Tor- nadoes Leave 11 Dead and 200 Hurt in Mississippi 11 12 Arctic Blizzard Whips Through the Midwest and Kills at Least 10 13 Ford Delivers Message To the Nation On Television 14 15 Ford Delivers His State of the Union Ad- dress to Congress 16 17 District Re- hearsal and Concert at Cathedral. Model Con- gress Meets atAIC. 18 19 20 Mid- Year Exams Held All This Week 21 22 23 TEN LITTLE INDIANS Per- formed in the Auditorium 24 TEN LITTLE INDIANS Per- formed in the Auditorium Marks Close 25 26 27 28 You Are Suc- cessful When People .Tell You You ' re A Lot Smarter Than You Are 29 30 31 Report Cards Go Home

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MR. THOMPSON RETIRES Mr. Charles Thompson, head of Minnechaug ' s Guidance Department from 1958 to 1972 and a guidance counselor since 1972, retired in January. During his seventeen years of service, the school ' s population increased five-fold; and Mr. Thompson ' s valuable contributions in many areas helped to meet the challenge of rapid growth. He developed the Guidance Department. Furthermore, he was instrumental in compiling the guidance library, creating contacts for college visitations, and establishing such innovative programs as Work Study and EIIP. In the school ' s early years, he planned the original curriculum and recruited teachers. Later Mr. Thompson chaired the evaluation committee which gained Minnechaug its initial accreditation in 1961. He also opened channels through which many students have obtained financial aid by organizing the Minnechaug Scholarship Committee. Rounding out his activities, Mr. Thompson for seven years (1962-1969) coached the track team which sustained a still unbroken record of sixty wins and two losses. We recognize with gratitude his long, effective and dedicated service and wish Mr. Thompson a satis- fying retirement.