Thomaston High School - Owl Yearbook (Thomaston, CT)

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SUPERINTENDENT'S MESSAGE I am glad that you were members of the senior class, the first class to graduate from the new Thomaston High School. As seniors in a new high school, you set a high standard of behavior, leadership, and cooperation for the undergraduates. Perhaps your greatest challenges in the years ahead are to: A. Keep alive or initiate and maintain the spark of curiosity; B. Rekindle the spark when it flickers out; C. Hunger for life and experience. Please accept my best wishes to fulfill your own potentialities and live a meaningful and satisfying life in the context of those potentialities. I hope that you will have the kind of experiences and learning opportunities that will bring out the best in you. Whatever course your future takes, it is my sincere hope that you will look back on your years in Thomaston as having prepared you to meet and handle the challenges that life in a troubled world will present. Best wishes and congratulations to the Class of 1980. Sincerely yours. Dr. Marvin H. Yaffe Superintendent of Schools 8 PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE We need more and more PATRIOTISM, HONESTY and LOYALTY if the United Slates of America is to continue as a leading Nation in the world today. You. the Class of 1980 are joining thousands of other Seniors from all parts of our country who will face this challenge. E. A. Storrs states. “Love of country is one of the loftiest virtues; and so treason against it has been considered among the most damning sins.” Montaigne states, “All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and a good nature.” Loyalty is defined as, “faithful — true to a lawful government or — a loyal person. Those of you wno did not see the last of the 1980 Olympic hockey games when the United States won the gold medal missed — first, excellent Team Play and a never-give-up-atti-tude to win by each player. Secondly, you missed the continuous and spontaneous applause during the game, as the game ended, and again as the players were individually introduced. Thirdly, you missed the appearance of many American Flags being waved and held on high. Fourthly, you missed the remarks by the U.S.A. players. No, they did not make speeches. They spoke of the TEAM — always giving credit to the team and their COACH. All Americans must have taken great pride in these victories. All the players and their coach are to be highly commended. They fully deserved to be flown to the White House and congratulated by the President of the United States. I do congratulate you, the Senior Class and the first class to be graduated from our new Thomaston High School. Do continue your loyalty and respect for THS and the U.S.A. To each of you I wish the best of good fortune and many happy and achieving years. Herbert W. DeVeber Principal llllllllll

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' She Is Just Away'1 You cannot say, you must not say That she is dead. She is just away! With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand She has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since she lingers there; So think of her faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here, Think of her still as the same, and say She is not dead. She’s just away.

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Mrs. Kazlauskas. Science Mrs. Belding. Spanish Mr. . Business Mr. McClay. Science Miss Panzarella. Business Mr. Reynolds, Indust. Arts. Mr. Hipsky. Phys. Ed. Mrs. Keparutis, Math Mr. Bouffard, English Miss Morrison. Art Mr. Pingpank, Math Mr. Robinson. History Mr. Collins. Music Mr. Holbrook. English Mr. Hnath. Math Mrs. Pisconski. Spec. Ed. Mrs. Schipul. History Miss Cote, Spec. Ed. Mr. Kalat. Indust. Arts Miss Lowden. Phys. Ed. Mrs. O’Connor, Business Mrs. Pratt, History Mr. Schipul. English