Silver Lake Regional High School - Torch Yearbook (Kingston, MA)

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FRONT ROW: Richard K. Baltzer, George W. Cushman, secretary-treasurer; Richard C. Sturtevant, chairman; John H. Durgin Jr., Henry E. Bryant. BACK ROW: John R. Farmer, Richard C. Hammond, Mitchell Toabe, James R. Kilroy. I SCHOOL BOARD

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ADMINISTRATION In keeping with your yearbook theme our Regional High School represents in its organ— a democratic form of operation. When four towns can vote to cooperate in providing a broader education for their youth, then we have a basic acceptance of the principle of working together for the common good. The phrase, Novus ordo seclorum — the new order of the ages— a quotation from Virgil, penned nearly 2,000 years ago, found engraved on our one-dollar bill, expresses well the age- less value of Democracy. May I remind you of the great value of learning the lessons of recorded history. Even as long as 2,000 years ago the dream of cooperation and coordination in full democratic ac- tion was beginning to emerge— There is nothing new under the sun! Education is understanding, studying the past, dis- ciplining the mind, placing the right values on moral truths, and acting in dignity of mind and spirit. It will give you faith in your religion, your government, and in your schools as well as yourself. I hope that Silver Lake has been able to make these truths evident and that the future will only strengthen these convic- tions. 1 r Every class has a challenge presented to them as a gradua- tion gift from the world into which they are to be received. May I suggest that the Class of 1958 accept this challenge without the panic to which their elders are so prone to suc- cumb. Such quick panic would seem to be founded in a lack of confidence in the rightness of America ' s institution; as well as a lack of faith in the rightness of a high moral society. If our young adults dedicate themselves to the strengthening of these two beliefs America and the world will be a better place because they lived here. TO THE CLASS OF 1958 We Came as Strangers, but are no More, is a most sig- nificant class motto for within its bounds lies the history and fu- ture of life. Your achievement in fusing such varied social, eco- nomic, and educational backgrounds, as was evident three years ago, into a stronger and unified class group was noteworthy. You are now facing another beginning— a beginning which is not confined to a personal, local, or even national situation. It is world-wide in scope. You face a world which has diminished in size in immediate accessibility. In this world you will be strangers. Your very existence-indeed the existence of the world itself- depends upon how soon you can say . . . but are no more. You are the ones who must achieve world understanding and friend- ship. Your responsibility is great. Serve well! M

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