Saugus High School - Tontoquonian Yearbook (Saugus, MA)

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Dr. William Kelly Superintendent of Schools SAUGUS PUBLIC SCHOOLS SAUOUS. MASSACHUSETTS OISOS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1972: As you approach your commencement and prepare to venture Into life ' s mainstream, would you pause to anticipate your goals and evaluate your past. In previous generations students were prepared to live In a society similar to that of their elders. But, today we realize that we do not know and cannot envisage the range of demands that the future will Impose upon man. All that we can predict with certainty Is that the central Issue will be a struggle to assert truly human values and to achieve their aacendancy in a mass technological society. It will be s struggle to place man In a healthy relationship with his natural environment, to place him In command of the wondrous technology he Is creating, and to give him the breadth and depth of understanding to transcend the diverse cultures of the world. We must ask, then, not what kind of an education did we provide, but what kind of a human being did we graduate. We would want him to be a person with a strong sense of himself and his own humanneas, with awareness of his thoughts and feelings, with the capacity to expreaa love and Joy and to recognise tragedy and feel grief. We would want him to cherish the vision of the man he Is capable of be- coming and to cherish the development of the same potentiality In others. To achieve these characteristics In our graduates, our educational process must do more than simply impart fscts and figures. We must nur- ture In every student qualities such as the cspaclty to change, the abil- ity to accept frustration for future gains, the ability to find more sat- isfaction In giving than In receiving, the ability to relate to people In a consistent manner, the ability to direct one ' s hostile energy into con- structive outlets, and the capacity to love, which is the only neutral izer of hate. It is my sincere hope that you, the members of the Saugua High School Class of 1972, will reflect theee quslities in your paasags through life end will remember your high school dsys as a rewarding and euccessful ex- perience. Sincerely, DR. WILLIAM E. KELLY SUPERINTENDENT OP SCHOOLS William P. Doyle Assistant Superintendent