Templeton High School - Class Book Yearbook (Baldwinville, MA)

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WELCOME ADDRESS Mr. Stinson, members ofthe faculty, parents and friends of the graduating class: Speaking on behalf of the class of l 948, it is my honor and pleas- ure to Welcome you, this evening, to our class day exercises. We hope that you will Hnd the program enjoyable, and, perhaps informative. Your interest and support is deeply appreciated and We thank you for coming. Whatever you may hear about the members of the graduating class is a reflection of our observations in the past four years. What is said may be true, partially true, or not true at all, so please do not be offended or embarrassed. We hope that this evening Will leave pleasant memories to all concerned. RODNEY E. BOURN President of the Class of I 948 20

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MARTHA WELSH Baldwinville General Martha is a girl who doesn't like to wait for anyone or anything. She is a quiet girl Who likes to spend a lot of time reading. Gee Whiz! We wish you success in your ambition to go to California. May the sun shine brightly for you wherever you go. Minstrel Show 4, Halloween Dance 4, Glee Club. IRENE GERTRUDE WOODBURY Woodbury Baldwinville Commercial Woodbury can always be found in the center of a group telling her famous jokes. With her sunny disposition she should be in great demand as a nurse. May your patients be many! Checking 3, 4, Refreshments 2, 3, 4, Decorating 3, 4, Glee Club, Year Book, Minstrel Show 4. STANLEY RICHARD ZALEWSKI Stan,' Baldwinville General Stan' is one of the best natured fellows in the class. He is a lover of sports and when not participating is usually watching some game. He can frequently be found in charge of things at the Central Lunch. Baseball l, 2, 3, 4, Basketball 2, 3, 4, Minstrel Show 4, Treasurer of Class l, Halloween Dance 4, Year Book. 19

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IVY ORATION Mr. Stinson, members of the faculty, fond parents, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we are gathered here to participate in an evening of fun and enjoyment. Intermingled with this festivity, however, is a note of seriousness. We, as Seniors at Templeton High School, have but finished our affiliation with this school. We will shortly take our places as members of a democratic society. Each one of us must contribute our small share to make this society truly democratic. Let us pause a moment and examine that word democracy and its application to society. As we look back through our histories we are continually reminded that democ- racy is an integral part of American society. It is something that has been passed on to us from our forefathers. It is a symbol of the United States. It is a heritage that is beyond monetary value. Men have died to preserve it. Men have suffered privation and disaster to perpetuate it. Today we are trying to give it to the rest of the world by extending aid to devastated and despondent countries. We talk about our rights, our great democ- racy, but how many of us can actually define democracy, and more important, how many of us really live democracy? To be a powerful force, to be the shining symbol of freedom and hope to the entire world, democracy must be alive. We must live democracy. Not one or two, not a handful of people, not a minority, but everyone of us - you and I, our next door neighbors, all Americans, all peoples from the smallest hamlet in the world to the largest metropolis, from the smallest country in the world to the largest nation. Then, and only then, will democracy be alive and will all peoples be free. Freedom and democracy are inseparable. One cannot be had without the other. Any nation that at- tempts to separate these two is struggling in the darkness. As we listen to our news-broadcasts, as we glance at the headlines in the news- papers, as we read our many magazines, how many of us are cognizant of the fact that after 1900 years, our society, which we believe is so highly civilized, which we brag about as being so progressive, is still searching for peace and happiness. Even here in our own country some of us are still trying to get freedom for everyone, regardless of race, creed or color. Think of it, ladies and gentlemen, we, who are the symbols of free- dom to the rest of the world, do not practice our own democratic beliefs. Look at the President's Civil Rights Program and the furor it has caused throughout certain sections of the nation. Forty-eight years after the battle between the states, when this whole question was supposed to have been settled, we are still fighting, verbally at least, as to whether certain people are human beings, endowed with the same rights as every other human being, or whether they are to be considered as animals, subject to the rule of their masters. Think of it! Such a situation in our own democratic society. Together with this situation we as a nation are faced with the question of com- pulsory military training and another draft. In less than three years after the second world holocaust we are preparing for a similar, but larger and more deadly war. This preparation has become a necessity because a large, powerful, gigantic, ismistic nation has decided to expand and enslave certain peoples in order to force its atheistic, mate- rialistic, lavish philosophy on other nations of the world. Yet we, as society, call our- selves the highly civilized twentieth century. In the plans of this materialistic nation, 21