Stratford High School - Log Yearbook (Stratford, CT)

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Z' 1-,,,,,,,,.-nv' Leaclershup exhubut Thus us my farewell to the Log as Pruncupal of Strat ford Hugh School The Twug was bent un 1946 but now ut has grown to a tree un 'l960' In T946 wuth a much smaller school each student knew the other one but wuth the contunuous growth un school populatuon we now know fewer students Thus fall we shall have two hugh schools and the educatuonal tree wull see a splut un uts student body wuth one more buuldung added to the many whuch we already have Wuth a smaller hugh school the student faculty relatuonshup wull become more unufled and we shall know our students other than by a name on a card The loyalty of Stratford Hugh School students can not help beung carrued on to the Frank Scott Bunnell Hugh School The ruvalry between the two schools cannot help beung a healthy one To the present Sen uors remember that our assocuatuons wuth one another over the past years have been pleasant and that although l shall no longer be present at thus school nevertheless my memorues of the Class of T960 wull be most pleasant ones To those who remaun at Stratford Hugh School and to those who go wuth me to the new hugh school remember that educatuon us a challenge and a pruvulege The bent twug wuth the splut un schools wull not be broken but wull contunue to grow as does an oak tree DONALD W FOWLER Pruncupal The old adage As the twug us bent so grows the tree chosen by the Class of 1960 as the theme of uts Log remunds those of us who make a hobby of gardenung that the unfluences whuch shape plant lufe after the sprout has emerged from the soul play a very large part un determunung the growth and development of the organusm The umportance of envuronment to the race of man also should not be munumuzed The young people of Stratford USA are most fortunate un theur envuronment Homes churches schools economuc sutuatuon communuty ac tuvutues and atmosphere of democratuc freedom are all durected to helpung Stratford youth grow strong unbent able to meet the demands of the 1960 world There us a danger however un aloof and selfish acceptance of these benefits The thunkung student wull realuze that he humself us a part of hus envuron ment and helps create and perpetuate or umprove hus envuronment Hereun lues a challenge to the mem bers of the Class of 1960 to take an actuve part un perpetuatung the unfluences whuch have made them and theur communuty especually favored I am sure thus last and largest of unuted Stratford Hugh School s graduatung classes wull meet thus challenge ELDEN H DUSTIN Vuce Pruncupal

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-Humbolt Achvmes on weekends ond ofter school Work work work to take home to do un class ond to fimsh before The decdlune N 1

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reason and calm ludgment It is my hope that your education at Stratford High School has influenced you by making you realize the purpose of your human existence As an individual you are born with the power of decision There are some forces over which you have no control such as life and death otherwise you have freedom f choice through every conscious moment of your ex nstence It is improbable that you have grown mature without any idea as to what you can do with your own life or as to how utterly dependent your own life is on the power of your own decisions You have been taught sublect matter and skills but these were merely the means to help you achieve the final goal that of ruling and shaping your own life JOHN OLHA Assistant Principal Q 'A-f'ir'i w..'1,'j7 ' Taq? 'einer' Education is preparation for citizenship present and future The school alone has not determined what your preparation has been Your home your church and your community have had much do do with this important training Nevertheless the school has occupied a very strategic role in your prepara tion for responsible adulthood We congratulate you for a 'ob well done We ask you to grasp the future with open mind and heart and do all that is possible to build a better brighter tomorrow As the twig is bent so grows the tree May you always have the courage to carry out the basic virtues and ideals that are the foundation of a good life EDWIN A COX Superintendent Walt Whitman has written of a child that saw and experi enced many things durmg the course of a day In his poem Whitman tells how all these things became a part of this child for the day or a certain part of the day or for many years or stretching cycles of years When I think of the influence of our homes our churches our schools and our community I always remember the truth of this poem These influences are the twig benders ln our lives Your parents and the generations who have gone before you have worked hard and struggled mightily to give you a good community and a good environment Your influence for good right honesty and decency will in turn bend the little twigs that come after you. Thus grow the trees of democracy, re- sponsible citizenship, and God-fearing lives. J. OLIVER CARSON Assistant Superintendent