Nashua High School - Tusitala Yearbook (Nashau, NH)

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TRIBAL FAVCJRITES Most Popular Best Looking Most Brilliant Best Athlete Class Clown Best Dressed Most Ambitious Best Personality Class Flirt Most Artistic Wittiest Class Optimist Class Pessimist Most Talkative Class Blusher Most Versatile Class Heartbreaker Best Dancer Woman, Man Hater Shyest Romeo, Juliet He-Man, Oomph Girl Most Likely to Succeed Did Most For N.H.S. Donald Ethier Tony Mandravelis Karl Foster Paul Bellavance William Lemire Ralph Lucier Karl Foster Donald Ethier William Gagnon Robert Dustin William Lemire Jackson Laco-mbe Richard Marois William Gagnon Robert Dustin Tom Flahive Paul Bellavance Tony Mandravelis John Anastasiou Barry Cerier Tom Flahive Albert Beaulieau Tony Mandravelis Karl Foster Donald Ethier Marla Hildreth Martha Williams Janet Sliney Sylvia Spencer Sylvia Spencer Marla Hildreth Joyce Peterson Theresa Lozeau Carol Downing Patricia Vandalosk Priscilla Guilmain Sylvia Spencer Joanna Henderson Barbara George Joanna Henderson Janice Ackroyd Marla Hildreth Marla Hildreth Jean Couturier Dorothy Fleury Marie McLaughlin Cynthia Levesque Carol Downing Janet Sliney Martha Williams Marla Hildreth PAGE SEVENTY-slx TUSITALA

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SPRINGS ADIEU LK The moving finger writes, The train moves on. It is the season When tender flowers unfold their tender buds, And newborn things come forth To taste the first sweet savor of the spring, Feeling the breeze and first warmth of the sun. Yet, with this newness all around me I feel older, Though I am not, For I shall graduate. The train chugs on And as I look out- Of this window of passing thoughts I see us as a group of new students, Learning, readjusting, absorbing, Filling these hallowed halls With an air of freshness That comes with youth and spring. The freshness lingers, The halls echo the name of youth. The train chugs on and this scene shifts. I see glimpses of my classmates, Happy, nonchalant, young, Walking hand in hand down the paths of life Unaware of the passing spring, While the slow metamorphosis We call Life slowly takes its toll Of us, these adolescents. The train moves slowly on. Chug, chug, chug, into a station. I gaze out of this window of my mind At a rainbow of gowns, diplomas, Students bidding las-t fond adieus, While classmates croon out That sweet melody of spring. The train moves on. Spring is past- Only the memory of it remains, And soon, that too, will pass with time. Such is Life. SHEILA ANDREWS GRADUATION Issue PAGE SEVENTY-SEVEN

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VAl,EDlCTORY is EDUCATION WORTH THE PRICE? Books, magazines, and newspapers today constantly instill in their readers the idea that there is something fearsome in the multitude of war babies grown to school age. We have had the advantage of skilled and sufficient teachers, costly supplies. and comfortable housing facilities. The question that is facing some of you as parents and all of us as citizens is Whether or not the children that will be flooding our schools in the very near future will enjoy equal privileges. The problems created by over-crowded housing and the teacher shortage are facing both city and rural schools. Educational opportunities are not equal as they should be, because rural districts cannot supply funds sufficient to build needed schools or to pay competent, qualified teachers. Even city districts are losing in the fight to obtain intelli- gent, well-trained teachers because industry is offering these people opportunities for excellent, highly-paid jobs without long years of college training. Solutions to these problems will not come easily, but solutions must be found if America is to maintain good standards in its public schools. We Americans can afford improvements in our educa- tional system. Statistics show that the amounts spent on education are deplorable when compared with the amounts spent on tobacco, cosmetics, liquor, and the cost of crime. Good education is a continuous problem, but when we weigh its benefits as opposed to its costs, we find that edu- cation is more than worth the price. SYLVIA HENDRICKSON ORATION NEVER LOSE A HOLY CURIOSITYU KARL FOSTER GRADUATION ISSUE These words by the late Dr. Albert Einstein were recently addressed to a college freshman who had taken a fatalistic attitude toward life. Einstein went on to say that the important thing is not to stop questioning. These statements hold the key to our future and the future of the world. Science, or organized knowledge, has advanced a long way from the time when man first began to collect and systematize his work. Science has provided us with a good present and the chance for a future beyond even our wildest dreams. Presupposing a peaceful world, it is predicted that even within twenty-five years our life and our world will be so far advanced as to be unrecognizable. Yet we cannot expect to find life a bed of roses and al- though our future has been made possible by our predeces- sors, we shall have to work hard for it. ln addition to teach- ing us what we know, science also shows us what we do not know. We must Hnever lose a holy curiosity. There are as many grave problems facing us as citizens of the world as there are problems in the advancement of organized knowl- edge in our particular chosen fields. We must ever be alive to this fact and work for a united world, striving always for the betterment of mankind. Only by constant questioning and experimenting, both in the realm of pure science and in other human affairs, can we hope to make our future what it should and ought to be. PAGE SEVENTY-FIVE