Sheffield High School - Sentinel Pines Yearbook (Sheffield, MA)

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Graduation Exercises Processional (Audience Standing) Invocation - Rev. Ralph Rawse Ave Maria - Gounod - Glee Club Honor Speech Laura Malnati Gold and Silver - Lehar - Orchestra Honor Speech - - Alice Straleau Address - Your Part in Making a Peaceful World Thomas H. D. Mahoney Professor of History Mass. Institute of Technology May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You Senior Class Presentation of P.T.A. Scholarship President of P.T.A. Presentation of Scholastic Awards C. A. Friis, Principal Presentation of Diplomas John Somes Superintendent of Schools Our Father - A. Malotte -- -- Glee Club Benediction Rev. Ralph Rawse Postlude (Audience remain seated)

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j£Uo tfTt T DORA MARIE WARREN •Give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you. Band 1-2-3-4; Cheerleader 2-3-4; Orchestra 1-2-3-4; Basketball 2; Glee Club 1-2-3-4; Class Officer 2; Newspaper 1-2-3-4; Senior Play 4; Yearbook 4. DturfC SARA JOYCE WOODBECK Sally Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Basketball 1-2-3-4; Senior Play 3-4; Glee Club 1-2-3-4; Majorette 3-4; Softball 1; Newspaper 3-4; Cheerleader 1-2-3-4; Prom Comrn. 3-4; Student Council 2-3-4; Yearbook 3-4. FRANCIS JOSEPH ZUCCO Zuc All good things come in small packages. • Basketball 1-2-3-4; Band 1-2; Baseball 2-3-4; Orchestra 1; Senior Play 4.

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The Best Prophet of the Future is the Past Tonight, our thoughts are focused on the future. This is our commencement. We are about to graduate from the shelter of school, where we have spent twelve years, to go out into the world that our education has prepared us to face. In spite of this prep- aration, many of us are unsure of what we are going to do and wonder what mark we will make for ourselves. However, our thoughts should not be on the future alone for we ought to look back and consider the past. This past has contributed to our characters and personal- ities. What we are, we have been made by the influence of parents, teachers and many other factors in our environment. What we have been is an indication of what we are to be. If we were conscientious and thorough as students, we will be likely to carry these traits into adult life. Not only personal pasts prophesy personal futures, but the past in general, can give us the secret of what the future may hold. History can make us aware of the re- curring cycle of war and peace. It is impossible not to note the similarity in different periods of history. The opinion is often stated that our own nation is now in the age which corresponds to that of Augustus, when the Roman Empire was at its height of world leadership. The study of history may find the answers to many questions. These answers may keep us from the inward crumbling and decay which hastened the fall of Rome. Many of today ' s political institutions and social customs had their roots as far back as ancient Greece and the study of history is necessary for a basic understanding and an appreciation of these things. As our class motto, we have chosen one quite appropriate to this line of thought linking the past and the future. It is Today we follow, tomorrow we lead. Graduation makes the today of which we speak become the past. In this past, we followed the courses planned for us by others. We were taught principles and facts for the express purpose of leading society when our turn should come. We studied history to gain the key to tomorrow. We were taught to gain knowledge of the past so we would know how to handle the future. Now, tomorrow is approaching and we have our task before us. We must use the knowledge we have gathered during our twelve years in school to plan our own course and set an example for others. We are tomorrow ' s citizens and it is up to us to be the leaders that are needed, not only in government, but in all spheres of everyday living. In closing, I would like to stress again the importance of considering the past, its relation to the future and necessity of remembering, when we are me leaders, what we have learned from the days when we were followers. Alice Straleau