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

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Administration HAROLD LANE, Principal Dear Members of the Class of 1983, It remains one of my greatest privileges to be asked to write a note in the yearbook of each graduating class. There are few books that are able to freeze forever a portion of our lives like the high school yearbook. While it mirrors a particular time — the high school years — it becomes timeless as we periodically look back and seek to recapture the days of our youth. I hope that your Yearbook will do this faithfully for you and that it will retain some of the flavor of these years as you look back from the perspective of your own advancing years. For many of you high school has been an exciting and challenging experience. You have used the opportunities provided you well to advance to the next stage in your life. For some it may have been a series of missed opportunities and unachieved potential. For all of you I hope that the lessons learned — for life teaches us through disappointments as well as successes if we let it — become beacons for what is to follow. I wish for each of you happiness, joy and contentment in whatever you choose to pursue and, perhaps most of all, a measure of love for your fellow man that truly will promote peace on earth and better understanding between all peoples. As you leave Wachusett and scatter to wherever you will over the next years, 1 hope you will retain a sense of this school and your teachers and friends who were part of your life during these years. We will always stand ready to assist you in any way we can. God Bless and Keep in Touch. Yours very truly, Harold M. Lane, Jr. Principal JANE MOULTON Assistant Principal BERNARD TREMBLAY Assistant Principal

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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.

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Guidance HOWARD GROOM GARY MITCHELL PAUL AUDETTE, Director DAVID KRANER ROBERT MORRIS BARBARA ROWELL