North Reading High School - Golden Years Yearbook (North Reading, MA)

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Our • £ — Mis Message Mr. J. Turner Hood, Jr. Superintendent From the Desk of Gregory C. Coffin I am happy to congratulate the members of the Class of 1960 upon their graduation from the North Reading High School. It is also a privilege to have this opportunity of offering a parting word of counsel. Graduation from high school is solemnized by the tradition of commencement exercises, and the word commencement means be- ginning — beginning another phase of life in which education is omnipresent. During your tenure in high school you have been exposed to many courses, activities, and other elements of the high school program. Your teachers have strived to improve your skills, knowledge, ap- preciations, and attitudes. They have tried to help you establish a standard of yourself — a standard of excellence. It is learning to establish this standard of excellence which I consider to be the most important lesson of all. If you have learned this, you have profited greatly, for it is upon this standard, and how you measure up to it, that you will be judged for the rest of your lives. The person who is best able to evaluate his own work and to recognize its merits and its defic- iencies is the person who succeeds in life. The person who is satisfied with something less than his best effort, or substitutes mediocre perform- ance for it, will find neither true happiness nor success. Hence, my parting counsel to you is that you develop a standard of excellence for all of your endeavors. It was a wise man who said, If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. Mr. Gregory C. Coffir Principal The poet has said, Life is real; life is earn- est, and this was never more true than in the present world situation. Life in North Reading High School should pr epare you for life which follows graduation, whether it be in advanced schooling, as a breadwinner, or as a homemak- er. Whatever you do, give it the best that is within you. H. W. Longfellow wrote — It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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Our Cast year The Lighter Side of Our School Life! C°° So Long, Smoll Fry! Busybees Preparing Golden Years CONTENTS Seniors 11 Sports 59 Activities 69 Undergrads 81 Advertisers 93 We Do Study!! Big Wheels of 1 960 Making Plans Chief Hornets

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Q. D Administration Colleagues and Our New Dean of Girls Mrs. Mildred Barmby Co- Workers Our Jovial Guidance Director Mr. David Lynch Our Senior Adviser Mrs. Mary Dooley Mr. Coffin dictates Mrs. Jeans transcribes Mrs. Dorothy Bennett i Mrs. Rosalie Famolare Our New Dean of Boys Mr. Arthur Barresi 5