New Paltz High School - Huguenot Yearbook (New Paltz, NY)

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Robert J. McCarthy A MESSAGE FROM OUR SUPERINTENDENT To the Class of 1977 May you as individuals and as members of a world community continually strive for the ideal, the sacred, the good. Seek to quicken the sense of public duty. Respect the rights of others. Obey just laws and change the unjust by lawful means. If you do these things, you will change the world, making it better and more beautiful than when you entered it. In my first year as your Superintendent, in my visits to your classes, at your sporting events and concerts, and as I have seen you in New Paltz, I have come to feel and believe that you possess the ingredients for greatness. Robert J. McCarthy BUSINESS MANAGER Frank Hamilton 18

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Barbara Greenwald A MESSAGE FROM OUR ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL to the Class of '77 Graduation from high school was, as I remember it, a bittersweet and rather intense experience. During the months just before and after commencement, time seemed divided into two huge compartments, the future and the past, and these were connected by a tiny, hyphen-like present. Occasionally a sense that the future was actually about to happen provided sheer exhilaration; sometimes, as the safety and familiarity of home and school seemed to recede into the past, it brought sadness and a feeling of loss. In between, there were more moderate moments for remembering, for dreaming, for reflecting, for planning, for painful departures or exciting arrivals. Observation leads me to believe that you as members of the Class of 1977 are sharing much the same experience. It is now your turn to complete this experience, as have graduates before you, by testing your own capacities and seeking your own truths. We at New Paltz High School have tried to assist you in enhancing those capacities and in illuminating those truths. It is therefore with special warmth and pride that we wish you a stimulating and satisfying journey into your future. It's got me!!!

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The Board of Education: President, Mary Jane Ordway; Vice President, Bartlett Wagner. Board Members: Siegfried Ban Jr., Terrance Copeland, Paul Donahue, Peter Fairweather, Raymond Morris Jr., Addie Reynolds, William Rhoads. BOARD OF EDUCATION PRESIDENT Mary Jane Ordway A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF ED. To the Class of 1977 The members of the Board of Education have followed with great interest your progress through our school system. You are the end-product of a great deal of educational effon on your part and on the part of the teachers and administrators of the New Paltz Central School District. We hope that during your years with us that you have gained the tools, attitudes and values which you will need to lead a productive and rewarding life in the world of 1977 and the years which follow. Our hope is that those of you who go directly into the world of work and who pursued vocational training either at our high school or with BOCES will find that you have been well trained for your new jobs. We are sure that those of you who will face the challenge of a college education will look back from your college campuses in the fall with appreciation to those members of our faculty who cajoled and led you to solid academic achievement on which to build your college careers. The Best Wishes of the Board of Education go with you in the years ahead. Mary Jane Ordway, President New Paltz Board of Education 19