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

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Dear Members of the Class of 1984, It is always a pleasure to be even a small part of a senior class year¬ book. Within the pages of your yearbook are seeds of memories that will take root and become even more important to you as the years go by. High school is a pivotal time for most of us — a time of close friendships, of having to make more decisions about our future than we ever have before, of growing to understand our parents more clearly than we ever have before while learning simultaneously to grow as in¬ dividuals; of good times and bad times that often go hand in hand with our adolescent years. It is a time of great happiness and, almost in¬ evitably, great sadness. For in growing as a class we are learning to grow as individuals and at the end of the high school years there is a break with our past that is unequaled during the remaining years of our lives. So cherish your memories and use this book to turn back the pages to what I hope has been, overall, an enjoyable four years at Wachusett. Use what you have learned to make your dreams a reality and don’t ever forget the debt you owe to others — your parents, friends, and teachers. Return their kindnesses to others as you travel life’s path and the rewards will be great. My best to each of you in whatever you hope to become. Keep in touch, Harold M. Lane, Jr. Principal HAROLD LANE, Principal JANE MOULTON Assistant Principal BERNARD TREMBLAY Assistant Principal 21

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Message to the Class of 1984: I would wish three things for you in the years ahead. First, as you leave Wachusett — for further schooling or not — you will (like it or not) continue your education. Your education takes place any time you leave yourself open to new insight, curiosity, new friends, new places and experiences, interesting conversation, sermons and lectures and debates, the chance to talk at length to an older person who not only recounts history but reflects upon the experience of living. My second wish for you would be that you are able to achieve the satisfaction and security of a lasting relationship, and that if you decide to have children, that you are able to provide them with the family’s love and security which many of our kids are missing today. Such a lasting relationship is made, not by self-centeredness, not even by 50- 50 sharing, but by each party’s giving freely, probably each feeling that they are giving more than they receive. I wish for you the lasting satisfactions which slowly come from having been self-less, from giving. And lastly, less in your personal interest than in the society’s I should wish that you be a contributing citizen, again giving what to you will appear to be more than you receive. Good communities don’t exist simply because people wanting good things come there to consume. The people must contribute, or the good slips away. Continue your education whether you go to school or not; make careful, serious, lasting personal commitments; and be a contributor to your community. “1984” is here, but you still make the difference. Edward P. Yaglou DR. EDWARD YAGLOU, Superintendent WILLIAM JORDAN Director of Special Ed. PETER FARRELLY Assistant Superintendent 20 Ihillnll

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ROBERT MORRIS BARBARA ROWELL PAUL AUDETTE, Director HOWARD GROOM GARY MITCHELL tb 4 DAVID KRANER 22