Topsfield High School - Shenewemedy Yearbook (Topsfield, MA)

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DEDICATIO We the graduatmg class of nmeteen hundred and f1fty e1ght hereby Soule as a token of our thanks for your valued guxdance durmg our past two years Your cons1derat1on understandmg and fnendshxp w1ll long be re membered by each one of us m our future years We are smcerely grateful for all you have done Z dedicate our final achievement, Shenewemedy, to you, Mr. Andrew J.

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Shenewemedy l958 'NIPSFIELII lllllll SCIIINIL TUPSFIELII, MASSAUIIUSETTS

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.m To the Class of 1958 In a recent speech before a management group of 1ndustr1al1sts, the Pres1dent of the Republxc Steel Corporatxon empha s1zed some po1nts that seemmgly had nothxng to do w1th the productmon of steel He argued that the greatest asset th1s nat1on has 1S not m the amount of natural wealth that 1S ava1lable but that our greatest resource IS our people the men and women whose labo h s bu1lt Amerlca he boys and g1rls who hold the future of Amerxca 1n the1r hands Frankly we who have been assoc1ated w1th educat1on have suspected th1s fact for some txme It would be 1mposs1ble to serve as a teacher for many years gu1d1ng youth at any level of the1r growth helplng to prepare them as well rounded 1nd1v1duals for the l1fe to follow and to assurne the many respons1b1l1t1es of c1t1zensh1p wxthout recogn1z1ng the1r 1mportance to the natmon per haps to 1ts very enustence of txme Even so w1th1n our own era each set of graduates from our schools has gone forth xnto a world fraught w1th problems whether they were the result of a depresslon, a war or an un certaln peace and they have somehow measured up to the obstacles encountered The members of our present graduatmg class whether entermg schools of hrgher learmng or term1nat1ng the1r formal educat1on at th1s stage of the1r development certalnly face as many problems as any prevxous class but th1s 15 to be compensated by the number of opportun1t1es that are also avaxlable It remams to be seen whether th1s and other graduatmg classes throughout the land prohted by the trammg recexved from the schools and other 1nst1tut1ons of the commun1ty and whether they are ready for the d1ff1cult1es to be faced and the opportun1t1es to be grasped In a sense, all graduates are on trzal as l1v1ng ev1dence of our behefs and our way of hfe Th1s makes them very lmportant mdeed to all of us because rt means that more than ever be fore, our form of government, our system of educat1on our very ph1losophy of l1v1ng are on tr1al as well It can only be sa1d that workxng closely w1th youth of Amerlca even w1th so small a segment as Just those xn Topsf1eld tends to encourage bellef 1n them and for what they stand Maur1ce F Smlth Superlntendent of Schools 3 . I . Q -- r a . . 9 t . . . . i The youth of every generation has been critized by its elders probably since the beginning