Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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GG o Victor Without Laborw Every day friends ask what we intend to do upon the completion of our high school careers. They tell us repeatedly that we are now going out into the world. This statement is not quite true. Each of us will enter a separate world in which we will be forced to make independent decisions. Some of us will enter the business world: others will enroll in college. Many will enter the armed services-and may God be with them. A few even may become great artists, musicians, or authors. Until now, when any problem has arisen, someone has been at our sides to aid us. As children we had our difiiculties solved for us by our parents: through- out our years in school, our teachers have assisted us in countless ways. We offer our grateful appreciation to both. ln the future, we must rely upon ourselves. Friends will present suggestions. but the decisions will rest upon us as individuals. Although we shall have diifer- ent problems, varying with the new world status which confronts us, we should all have one thing in our minds to guide us. We shall discover that our class motto. which today is probably only a group of words, or, at most, a symbol to us, has become a beacon away from which our eyes must never turn. As ia pattern for success, let us ever remember that there can be N0 Victory Without Labor. lXlARlLYN R. STARKMAN, '44 C0-Editor-in-Cbief Page Nine

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Greetings to the Class of 1944 We have compiled the l944 ORACLE that we may look back in future years and see ourselves as we were: that we may recall our teachers, our classes and activities, and our friends: that we may now view the fruits of our four years of studyg that we may appreciate and remember throughout our lives the tenet which we have learned at Wakefield lligh School: No Victory Without Labor. MARILYN R. STARKMAN, '-l-l and .IAMES E. Fox, '44, Acknowledgments During the preparation of THE ORACLE for the Class of I944, the editorial staff received indispensable aid and advice from several persons to whom we wish to acknowledge our appreciation. Our thanks go to Miss Bernice L. Caswell, head ol the linglisli department, lor her inspiring supervision of the literary workg to Miss Alice M. Ryan, of the commercial department, for her efhcient direction of typewriting: to Mr. Paul Mortimer of the ltem Press for his willing advice on technical matters: to our candid cameraman. Laurence M. Stickneyg to Barbara Rowell, talented art director: and to the members of the business staff for their utmost co-operation. We wish also to thank Purdy, the class photographer, and The Weavers ol' New Kensington, Pennsylvania, who supplied the insert contain- ing the service flag and honor roll. lh'lARlLYN R. ST,-XRKMAN AND JAMES E. Fox, Editors-in-Chief Page Eight

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Wakefield 1644 - 1044 lt so happens that 1044, the year of our graduation from Wakefield lligh School, also marks the 300th anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Read- ing and the beginning of the town of Wakefield. This area had been first settled five years prior to 1644 as a part of Lynn Village, but soon became an independent section. After its incorporation, Reading divided into three parishes, one of these- South Reading-in turn becoming separate from the other two in 1812. lt was in 1868, fifty-six years later, that South Reading changed its name to Wakefield. Since its inception three centuries ago as a pioneer settlement, Wakefield has kept pace with the growth of the nation and become a thriving modern community. True, it is not a large community: but it is in such towns as Wakefield, insignificant in area and population but great in the calibre of its citizenship, that the vast strength of our country lies. The members of the Wakefield lligh School graduating class of 1944 have a sacred trust in perpetuating this centuries-old tradition of good citizenship, whether it entails fighting on a foreign soil or performing our normal duties at home: for. by serving the community in which we live to the best of our ability, we preserve a prosperous and united America. jAMEs E. Fox, '44 C0-Editor-in-Chief Page Ten