Saugus High School - Tontoquonian Yearbook (Saugus, MA)

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Administration ASHTON F. DAVIS— Principal

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SAUGUS HIGH SCHOOL SAUGUS. MASSACHUSETTS 01906 ASHTON F. DAVIS, Principal LEON C YOUNG. VICE PRINCIPAL JOHN B LEAHY. VICE PRINCIPAL Telephone 233-4000 To the Members of the Class of 1967: It is a pleasure for me to extend congratulations to you on this occasion of your graduation from high school. Quite understandably you are jubilant. You are mindful that graduation brings about an ending. It is the conclusion of twelve years of public school- ing. Most, if not all, of you are happy to be leaving behind the years of prescribed studying, of regulations, of restrictions, and of dependency. You will recall, however, that graduation is appropriately called commencement, or a time of beginning. What you are ending is insig- nificant compared to what you are commencing. You are beginning adulthood, which requires greater obligations and responsibilities, and today a continuing education in an increasingly complex society. Many of you realize this need for continued study. More than half of you have made arrangements to begin your post-secondary education, and about a fourth of your number have been admitted to college to begin study for a degree. One educator has made this estimate: The knowledge of man has doubled about eight times in the present century, which means a person must learn eight times as fast and eight times as well -- or be eight times as ignorant. It is imperative that those of you who are not continuing your formal education plan, when possible, to take special courses and to form the habit of selective, intelligent reading. Your future study must not be limited to preparation for personal gain, or even to an attempted understanding of the technical and scientific advances taking place. Great social problems, national and world wide, requiring an informed and enlightened people, must be solved by your generation. It has been wisely observed that any future worth contemplating will not be achieved solely by computers, or automation, or manned flights into space; it must be painstakingly gained through the mastery of ways to bring about a genuine brotherhood of man. My best wishes to each of you as you join the alumni of Saugus High School. Most sincerely, tfttf H

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To Mr. Young . . . Mr. Young retired on December 9, bringing to a close more than forty years of service in the Saugus school system. Vice-principal of S.H.S. for thirty -three years, he will be missed by faculty and students alike.