Plymouth High School - Pilgrim Yearbook (Plymouth, MA)

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V il w If V. PILGRIM STAFF Editor-in-chief-Marilyn Griffith Junior Literary Editor-Joyce Contente Sophomore Literary Editor-Karen Engstrom Business Manager-Ann Hilton Stai-Nancy St. George, Asst. Manager, Adele Vandini, Sally Holmes, Constance Jennings, Joan Cavicchi, Claudette DiStaula, Barbara Cheney Art Editor-Richard Blaisdell StaE-Priscilla Tillson, Sally Eldredge, Joyce Brenner, Natalie Dennett . Photography Editor-Sylvia Melahoures Staif-Benjamin Cohen, Dorothy Chase, Richard Carlin School News Editor-Patricia Parkhurst Asst.-Arlene Motta Senior Features-Marion Cadman Staff-Patricia Goodwin, Nancy Pellegrini, Lila Melisse, Sheldon Kaplow, Marion Muthig, Elaine Cavicchi, Jean Douglas, Roberta Anderson Senior Statistics-Laurien Enos 1 Stai-Joyce Gallerani, Steven Tavares, Patricia Darsch, Barbara Brenner, Elaine Correa, Sally Mandell, Rollene Zaniboni, Theodore Jesse y Boys' Sports Editor-Brooks Johnson Girls' Sports Editors-Nancy Prindle, Marguerite Holmes Asst.-Elizabeth Priestley French Editor-Janice Williams Latin Editor-Laura Hutchinson Science .- Math Editors-Ernest Souza, Arthur Atkins Typists-Barbara Mori, Natalie Santos, Rollene Santos, Constance Crowell, Shirley Cordeiro

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The Threshold Of The Atom The class of 1952 is the eighth class to graduate into the atomic age. Just eight years ago next August, the bomb that shattered a Japanese city, as we all know, gave man a greater power to destroy man, and with it, a tremendous impact of choice-to kill or let live. However, we are one of the first classes actually graduating into a world using atomic pow- er toward peace. In fact, within this year, the first atomic furnace was constructed in Harwell, England-a furnace which will not need refueling until late in the Twentieth Century. Here is a definite stepping stone on the path toward constructive use of this potent atomic energy-. Prompt- ed by the installation of this miracle at Harwell, plans are being com- pleted to run ships and even planes by atomic power, and to further facili- tate production throughout the world by this energy. It is because we feel that this atomic energy will play a vital part in our futures that we use it for the PILGRIM theme. A threshold is an entrance. An entrance is no more than the site be- tween the place you came from and the place you want to go. It is the opportunity involved that makes the threshold an inspirational spot. As a person standing at the doorway, to a church might well approach the altar to pray, as a worker entering a factory might well approach his machine to work, and as the student entering the schoolroom might well approach his desk to think, so should the youth standing at the doorway to an atomic age pray and work and think-all toward a purpose. What is our purpose? For most of us, fame and wealth are not so important as security and happiness. Among the 150 of us there will be scientists and technicians who will endeavor in new paths of the atomic field. There will be teachers and ministers who will develop logic and human understanding. There will be skilled workers who will facilitate their work by atomic power, and there will be workers of all types who will benefit from the storehouse of atomic knowledge. In this modern age, it is not now a problem to seek an interesting occupation but a prob- lem to choose from the vast opportunities offered. Opportunity has never yet been bounded by fences or ocean or atmosphere. The atomic age, however, holds more than a scientific meaning. It in- cludes consideration of human relations. For God-for Friend-for Coun- try is a challenge that requires us to give of our very best to three agencies and that one that discourages us from crowding out one in favor of the others. For one living in such a complex age, thought must there- fore become three-dimensioned. Difficult to become a worth-while citizen in a highly scientific age? Yes, but easier now to steer on the highway than to creep out of a blind alley later. You, Miss P.H.S. and You, Mr. P.H.S, and all your friends, with the aid of Mr. A. Tom hold the raw materials to make the world more interesting and useful and inspirational. Only one ingredient is missing and that is YOU. MARILYN GRIFFITH, Editor-in-Chief IN APPRECIATION On behalf of the PILGRIM Staff, the Editor-in-chief would like to thank Mr. Roland Holmes, the PILGRIM advisor, for his faithful guid- ance, Mrs. Margaret Brown, the art advisor, for her co-operation and time, Richard Blaisdell and his art staff who have worked overtime in the PIL- GRIM art work, and Sylvia Melahoures, who has always been prepared and willing to take any number of candids.

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