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

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Superintendent ’ s Office Message to the Class of 1983, DR. EDWARD YAGLOU, Superintendent You are graduating at the lowest point in the economy in recent years. You and other young people have very swiftly come to taking education and job preparation much more seriously, given these economic facts of life. Surprising? . . . Hard times have always brought dreamers down to earth or, as some would say, brought “Maturity” or “the School of Hard Knocks.” Ten years ago, an article on youth dissent was titled “You’ve Got to Have Grown Up in Scarsdale to Know How Bad Things Really Are.” Hard times are not good times, but they do bring out the better qualities in each of us. All of us may now be ready to listen better to some counsel from Wilbur J. Bender, former Dean of Admissions at Harvard, who more than ten years ago stated “. . . the young are impatient, the poor are impatient, the mood of violence exists, and we are in a race between the ability of a lumbering, perplexed, imperfect society to move fast enough — and catastrophe. Perhaps what we need most, therefore, beyond commitment and action, is stamina, the ability to stick it out through turbulent times with patience, courage, tolerance and reasonable faith in the basic decency and good will of most Americans, black and white, and in our ability to build a better society by rational, peaceful means.” Best wishes to all. Superintendent of Schools PETER FARRELLY Assistant Superintendent PETER LARRATT Business Manager FORREST GILMORE Director of Special Ed.