Pembroke High School - Mattakeesett Yearbook (Pembroke, MA)

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Gmclueztion 1950 AWARDS GIVEN GRADUATION NIGHT, JUNE 8, 1950 P.T. A. Sflaoln1'5l9ip Mary Stroud Shirley Holt Tenclnerx' Club Selyolnrfbip Marylyn Brennan Alumni Svlyolnriliip Diane Davis Home mul Comznnnity Aufnrel -e Penfbro ke Grunge joan Clarke james Migre Renzlerx' Digest One- Year Sulzfvriptiofz Mary Stroud Soni ofthe Ainerifezn Revolution, U. S. Hixtory Awnrfl Vernon Eldridge, '51 Gurney Goocl Sportmzmzrbip Award Barbara Erikson E. Y. Perry Funzl Aware! Anne Merrigold Marylyn Brennan Barbara Erikson National Honor Soriety Pins Mary Stroud Diane Davis Mildred Pierce Shirley Holt joan Clarke Barbara Erikson Rboelei' Lninoer Company Awnrfl Clayton Merrick, '52 Richard Griffiths Raymond Travers, '53 - Dnnfortly Foundation Awnrel - I Dare Yon Stanley Winchester Emily Poft Aware! Mary Arushan Poetry Aunrzl Book of Complete Poeznf' W Robert Froit Paul Brennan With The Spirit That Is New England as the theme of graduation, we, the Class of impressive graduation exercise lastjune. From the moment Mix conducted us into the auditorium to the moment we , an innumerable mixture of thoughts were in the minds of finished our high school years there were twinges of sadness in our hearts at leaving Pembroke, but the future, with all the promises that it holds beckoned us on for Our Aim, Success, Our Hope, to Win. 1950, received our diplomas in an Marshals Sally Reed and Charles marched out to the Recessional all of us. Now that we had finally JOAN CLARKE, '50

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Industrial Arts During the past year our school shop has been in the process of reorganization. The ultimate aimlis to establish three programs complete in themselves yet interlocked so the student can take advantage of all. First on the list comes the woodworking course. The purpose of this is to develop through the use olj hand tools and simple machinery the necessary co-ordination of eye and hand and the ability to visionize a project in com- pletion and carry the work through to the desired iesult. The proper use and care of our tools has received considerable attention and we hope that pro ress is being made to the point where this becomes a ha it andlnot a chore to be avoided. ' The question of material in the present high price era is a very serious one and results in the vetoing of some projects. Necessity limits us to fairly small articles re- quiring a minimum of stock and a maximum of labor. We have tried to avoid assigned work as much as pcssible on the theory that the job selected by the student himself will be more interesting than one he is given without any choice. 1 The second phase of our shop is machine work, This year it has been limited mostly to repairing ahd re- conditioning our machinery and tools. Considerable has been done. New machinery has been set up and r adied for use. Our two engine lathes and Shaper hav been overhauled and are now in use. There should be ehough repair work in the school and in the building of jigs, fixtures, parts, etc. in connection with the shop to keep this department running indefinitely. This course relquires much more accuracy and involves the use of precision measuring instruments and lay-out processes. The object is to give the student ordinary machine shop methods and processes that will prove of value ifhe follows any m chan- ical line of either trade or study after his graduatio from Pembroke High. j The third program is an automotive coursie and we are sorry to say that up to the present very litt e pro- ress has been made along these lines. This course hould e of practical value and tie in with the previous m chine work course very well. The establishment of t e two previous programs has consumed about all of our school year, but it is to be hoped that with the foundaton of those laid that another year will see more time for th third and last step in the completed layout. '

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A Graduate Speaks When to the sessions of I summon up remenzlnr How many times has someone aske peat every instance of your life? Let's take a moments of anxiety, but over-shadowing, if n your goal, throughout the years, and the quiet It was worth it, don't you agree? Even in my few years of experienc mistakes, but have enjoyed every bit of thos the trite expression High school is the best completely agree. So I speak as a graduate pr The aim of all schools, as proposed educational corner stone of youth. If so, Pem direction. Let us lay aside things and their forc the teachings ofmen and their ways. A casual r neighboring town. It went something like th school in which so many varied personalities c such good relationships. You're just one big, in a nut-shell. Pembroke teaches tolerance ah learn in order to have a well-balanced outlooki It teaches also good sportsmanship how important in our world, warshaken becau character is a more desirable trait than sheer p cessful in this quest. Aside from guiding our characters, endeavors to instill in the pupils. But all this Yes, if I had my life to live over, I friends and teachers, because there I found th manship, scholarship, and plain down-to-earth graduate of 1950 speaks to you, the graduates School with pleasant memories and a feeling 0? When in the sessions of sw. You summon up a rememb sweet silent thought ance oftbings past . . Shakespeare you: If you had it all to do over, would you re- inventory of living - the bitterness, hardships, t obliterating all this, a constant striving toward eace of mind resulting from complete happiness. - eighteen, to be exact - I've made numerous years. When turning back the pages of time our years you'll ever spend comes to mind. I oud of Pembroke High School. by leading scholars and professors, is to lay the roke has taken a long, arduous step in the right s - for they really are secondary - and consider mark was made to me by a prominent citizen in a is: Never before have I seen or visited a high Jme in contact with each other, and yet maintain happy family. There you have Pembroke High d consideration, essentials an individual must on life. and fair play - simple-sounding phrases, but oh! se some people failed to learn that strength of hysical power. Pembroke has indeed been suc- ow to study is a vital necessity which Pembroke ut down in black and white is so inadequate. go to the same high school with the same true formula to enjoy life. Add tolerance, sports- un and it equals a happy, wholesome life. So a f 1951. You will look back on Pembroke High accomplishment . . . ee! silent thought ranee oftbings past . . MARY STROUD, '50 i57l