Wachusett Regional High School - Wachusett Yearbook (Holden, MA)

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SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE PETER FARRELLY, Assoc. Superintendent FORREST GILMORE, Dir. of Special Ed. SUPERINTENDENT ' S MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF 1980 What a contrast you have experienced during your last two years at Wachusett! Your junior year was Wachusett’s twenty- fifth, and the celebrations of that year brought a warm feeling to the entire Wachusett family. We all enjoyed the heightened sense of community and the pleasant tone which resulted. And now, in contrast, your senior year has been far more somber, the warm feelings and pleasant tone fading as you found yourselves the pawns in a labor dispute. It hurt many Of us, after trying to teach you skills for determining and control¬ ling your own lives, having to advise you that this was a prob¬ lem which, while you were the victims, you could do little to affect or resolve. You have demonstrated mature forbearance (or in some cases, I suppose, apathy) in dealing with this problem. Later in the year, our nation’s president has dealt with far more serious, but still similar problems. We hope that you have learned the difficult lesson that the relationships human-to-human and peoples-to-peoples in the world are extremely complex, frequently frustrating, and defying simple solution We are confident that you will find yourselves, many times in the future, ‘‘between a rock and a hard place,” where there is no easy solution. We appreciate and praise you, and respect your mixed feelings as you proceed. Peace . .. inner peace ... be with you. Edward P. Yaglou, Superintendent of Schools EPY ibm 1 18 80 DR. EDWARD YAGLOU, Superintendent MR. PETER LARRATT, Bus. Mgr. Controller 18