Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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Ie always wanted to joust with windmills peak beautiful phrases, and ave a beautiful lady from who knows what Jrms of threatening dangers. 1 middle life he became a boy, .r a ranting fool depending on who was sked. 'ou see, he had discovered the point in we circle, and had wondered at it, not nowing whether it was right or wrong, -nly that he burned from both forms of re, the fire of love and the fire of etribution. Rondular: Part III Iircle: The consuming image, ie self-destroyer, the self-creator. 'raversed in darkness and blindness it lnly leads to and from itself . . . Vell, I can tell it to you straight: one of 1ese days I am going to straighten it lull. am going to break the circle, get things oing in a line again maybe. Then she .fill see, or I will see, or others or lerhaps nobody. 1 really matters, this business of lines nd circles, the soul recoils from ncertainty and seeks to know what is rhat, that straight is straight and round s round and love is. . . well, who nows, anyway. Letter stick with the windmills and the lusions, the dream and the fire, and let we line take care of itself, along with rowing old, growing up, and dying. F. Calvert Bacon May 25, 1977 Rev. Forrest White 1929-1979 The Reverend Forest White had an extraordinary interest in the quality of life in Stoneham with particular in- terest in its youth. He served as president of the Stoneham Council of Churches, he was a member of the Stoneham School Committee for six years, and served for two years as its chairman. Mr. White was chosen to be del- egate to the White House Conference on Youth at the invitation of President Eisenhower. His tireless enthusiastic support and appreciation of student activities stands as a model for those who aspire to positions of leadership in re- lation to the youth of Stoneham. No significant student achievement went unnoticed, his was a suppor- tive and encouraging pres- ence. In a time of contracting horizons and shrinking vis- ions the expansiveness of his spirit stands as a measure of what we should expect of ourselves and offer to others.

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it ra, ,Q an - F. Calvert Bacon I 945-1978 Cal Bacon, a man of great intelligence and personality, was not only a fantastic teacher, but a friend to all students. He was a critic and owner of thousands of books which he gladly loaned to students. As a sportsman, he jogged five miles daily and played golf. As a teacher, he not only provided knowledge in Latin and En- glish, but also his own personal views and attitudes to help make a day interesting. 20 'MWWH '98, Rondular Sometimes I get the feeling that I am looking ahead to what I have been Rather than to what I am going to be, And, God help me, I am frightened. Life isn't supposed to be a circle, it's a line going from birth to death, a simple, logical convergence of fate and fact until we fall into the abyss. Lately, though, the problem is growing deeper, the answers not so ready, the choices not so refined. The unknown has entered, the great not-to-be explained that throws the I whole into chaos. The line is bending into a circle, l and what was felt then has returned ant I am tormented by the strain. How can I look for a line when I keep seeing a circle, and how can I hope tc be something, when I keep becoming what I was. Rondular: Part II Even circles have points on them, places where ever thing before is also somehow after. What matter what the point signifies. Life, death, a love gained or lost, a friend discovered, a heart broken or mended . . . The problem comes, though, when th- discovery ofthe circle is abrupt, unexpcted. This can't happen to me, he whisper unconvincingly to himself. I was theri once. I have knowledge, now, and maturity and I am going down the line in a straight and orderly fashion, such is th folly of reason. Did you ever hear the one about the olc meddling dreamer who couldn't have what he wanted most?

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