Wayland High School - Reflector Yearbook (Wayland, MA)

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PRINCIPAIJS MESSAGE Dear Members of the Graduating Class of 1968: Although we have worked together for only two of the four years you have been students at Wayland High School, nevertheless, it has been a great ioy to share with your parents, teachers and friends in your growth and development. Graduation represents another milestone among the many you will experi- ence in your total life span. It is a time for looking backward and for looking forward. If you will spend but a few moments in comparing or contrasting the kind of persons you were, and the kind of world in which you lived when you en- tered Wayland High School with your present selves and the world of to- day, perhaps you might feel as Charles Dickens did when he wrote: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. But in your age might it not seem as if he were contemplating affluent America, with its deepest pockets of poverty, educated America, dropping out one million of its youth each year, America searching for meaning, but deserting society through drugs, America progressing towards ecumenism, amidst racial iniustice, America seeking peace, as it expands its nuclear arsenal. This is the life style in which you are coming of age. It is an exciting age filled with unlimited opportunities and awesome responsibilities. As we have walked the path of education together, l have come to feel that you will accept the challenges of your times and improve the conditions in which you live, that you will reexamine the assumptions of the past and formulate new assumptions to advance society, that you will close the gap between what Americans believe and what they practice. Sincerely yours, Julian Demeo, Jr. Principal

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SCHGOL C0 MITTEE Mr. Fordham, Mrs. Faigen Nice Chairmanl, Mr. Whidden CChairmanJ, Mr. Wilson Mrs. Ivan M. Faigen, Vice Chairman Carnegie Institute of Technology B.S. Brandeis University M.A. Housewife Former Secondary School Teacher Mr. Laurence S. Fordham University of Illinois B.S. Harvard Law School L.L.B. Corporation Lawyer Mr. Samuel B. Whidden, Chairman Harvard University B.A., M.B.A. Data Processing Executive Mr. John B. Wilson Dartmouth College BA. Company President