Topsfield High School - Shenewemedy Yearbook (Topsfield, MA)

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if APPRECIATION To you, Mr. Retalis, we, the Senior Class of Topsfield High School, take this opportunity to dedicate our yearbook, SHENEWEMEDY. You have been insuumental in helping and in guiding us along our paths toward the future. Your understanding and cooperation have been sincerely appreciated by every member of the Senior Class. We feel we have lost not only a fine teacher and class advisor, but also a wonderful friend. It is with gratitude that we dedicate this, our final achievement, to you from the Class of 1957. 2

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The curriculum of any school is commonly thought to consist of the various subject areas ranging from mathematics and science to literature and the lan- guages. The true curriculum of a school, however, is far more embracing. Such a curriculum really consists of everything that has to do with school life. In a school with this understanding of the term curriculum, the attitudes and appreciations that are developed in the participating students are regarded by the instruc- tors as being as important as the actual subject matter learned, and this is true whether it be in the classroom on the athletic field or in the Home Economics de- partment. This broader concept of a curriculum actually of- fers to the student better preparation for life to follow PRINClPAL'S MESSAGE As you graduate from high school you will be faced with new horizons. Since the very beginning of life upon the earth, man has been on the lookout for new horizons. They do not just happen to people: rather, they must be sought after. The fundamental desires for success, recognition, happiness or fortune, or a combination of these have stimulated men to seek the unknown to find what lies beyond the range of his vis- ion and experience. These activities have made pos- SUPERINTENDENT'S MESSAGE since it is directly concerned with the life of the stu- dent, his needs and desires, at present. The graduating student need merely to analyze in his own mind the kind of activities that have been of- fered to him in his school life and the emphasis that has been given by his instructors on his development as a well-rounded individual to appreciate the concept of curriculum that is existent in the Topsfield Schools. Further analysis should reveal to him that, as a student, what he has obtained from his curriculum has been only in direct proportion to what he, himself, has contributed. This will be no less true in the curricu- lum of life to follow. Maurice F. Smith sible exploration, research, adventure and progress. In order to push on to new horizons people must have imagination, vision and courage. There is a very definite correlation between the progress of a nation and the vision of its people and leaders. If our coun- try is to remain great, it must depend upon the desire and will of each succeeding generation to further ex- pand its horizons. Rodney C. Dresser Sponsored by BIXBY and NORTHRUP REALTY Topsfield, Mass.