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

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1 SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT ' S MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF 1981 As this message goes to press, our country is settling down after the return of the hostages from Iran and after President Reagan’s initial days in office. The contradictions about what to do in the hostage situation and what to do about inflation exemplify the complexity that so many of us find confounding in the 1980 ' s. As you graduate, are you, too, to be confounded, to be immobilized by the lack of sure, time-tested answers? I hope not. While you may look with sophisticated disdain at the work ethic of the old Horatio Alger stories (now collector ' s items!), most of you do indeed realize that, while there are no guarantees in life, hard work and a positive attitude do correlate highly with success . . . success in the sense of challenge, self-fulfillment, material rewards, and deserved leisure. I suspect that many of you have noted the attitude displayed by the recent Vietnamese people, who as outsiders and as refugees from severe hardships, appreciate our country and the openness of its society so much more than those of us who take it for granted. Letters and diary accounts written by some Vietnamese students and reprinted in the Landmark have brought this appreciation home to me. So, while ‘‘nobody promised you a rose garden, your hard work will make it ever so much more likely. Our best wishes go with you ... for the success and happiness that follow from doing something worthwhile. Edward P. Yaglou PETER FARRELLY, Assoc. Superintendent FORREST GILMORE, Dir. of Special Ed. PETER LARRATT, Bus. Mgr. Controller 18