New Bedford High School - Crimson Log Yearbook (New Bedford, MA)

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Assistant Principal MELVER C. FELTON ee Dean of Students ANNA M. Brapy Assistant Principal 7, CLIFTON M. SouTHWORTH

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A MESSAGE We are living in an age of transition. Did you ever hear anyone express that before? That all things are in flux and that the world of yesterday is passing into the world of tomorrow is evident all around us. The distinguishing feature of this age is that changes which once required many generations may be made today in a very short time. In your own brief lives two eras have come into being. We are now in the fourteenth year of the Atomic Age and in the year One of the Age of Outer Space. Where do we go from here? While an age of speedy change is a time of great peril, there is also chal- lenging opportunity. The danger is the loss of standards, the slipping away of criteria of judgment because of the confusion brought about by these rapid changes. It is easy to drift with the tide in peaceful waters, but how can we survive, like a good ship, in rough waters and yet make the port to which we want to go? The answer is not difficult. In spite of sputniks the points of the compass have not changed, and the polestar is still shining. Above all the changes in life around us shine the stars in the heavens. ‘To be kind and just, to be clean and generous, to be loyal to man and to God, to live not for self but for humanity — these ideals were good in the days of the Prophets and will be good till the end of ‘Time. The swift changes then that threaten us also summon us. The world is waiting. Go forth with the courage and faith of Americans of the Past and you need have no fear of the Future. JOHN F. GRACIA, Princip al

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FAY H. NEWLAND Julia E. Barry Esther Blaisdell Department Head Olive P. Chase Samuel Coelho Louise B. Finnell eet Remtecteetiy fertesstes : ptiogeiesetaeartiiys: cebetes Helen L. O’Brien M. Evelyn Rutter Albin C. Szala Amos G. Taylor, Jr. Austin L. Whittey