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

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We feel that a yearbook is more than a roster of Seniors. It is an attempt to recap the year ' s events and to relate them to a central theme. Attending high school is Hke Hving in a world within a world. Within the confines of the inner world lie many aspects of the world outside. The inner world has its political leaders, its government administrators; faculty and administration. The inner world has its Congress, its Parliament; the student council. The Inner world has its civic organizations, its fraternal societies; many different and worthwhile clubs. The inner world has its Olympics, its moments in sports; athletic competitions with sur- rounding towns. The inner world has its population, its citizens; the student body. This is tne world, the life, depicted by the TORCH ' 66. ART EDITORS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF if PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS LITERARY THFrOf?CHEDir 7l?J ADVISORS

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OlOlCAllOH Dedication For her deep understanding of youth and the problems it brings, for her encouragement of creativity and origi- nahty, for her cheerful, warm personality and positive attitude, the Senior Class, in gratitude and admiration, dedicates the 1966 edition of the Torch to Mrs. Elinor Churchill. Mrs. Churchill, a native New Englander and upstanding Yankee, has lived all her life in Massachusetts. Her ambition, always to work with young people, turned in adolescence, to teaching. In 1933, upon graduation from Boston University Mrs. Churchill taught in several sec- ondary schools before coming to Silver Lake in 1955, the school ' s first year of operation. Mrs. Churchill ' s success as a teacher is based on a genuine interest in young people, coupled with an antipathy for the hackneyed and the stale. She firmly believes that every student possesses some talent which it is her obligation, as a teacher, to develop; indeed students are never graded on their errors, but on the amount of perfect work produced. Mrs. Churchill ' s patience never falters. The harshest words she has ever been known to utter are Let ' s have a Hush. Her cheerful soft spokenness brings results where severity would surely fail. In her years at Silver Lake, Mrs. Churchill has served as advisor to nearly every club and class. Currently, her driver training courses, the most popular in the school, cannot accept all applicants, so great is the demand for her instruction. As Dean of Girls, Mrs. Churchill advises students kindly and sympathetically on their personal problems. In future years, all Seniors, even those of us who knew her only by her smile and greeting, looking back on half-forgotten memories of high school years, will think fondly of Mrs. Churchill as an outstanding teacher and individual.