Weldon E Howitt High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Farmingdale, NY)

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MR WM VAN ARNAM Prmclpal MRS RUNGE Secretary ll? ' I am told that the theme of your yearbook IS Gomg My Way At first It seemed to be a rather dufficult thought to wrlte about untvl I reallzed that followmg graduatlon each of you has the opportunity of choace It IS as though for thirteen years you have been following a modern super hnghway of Educatnon with few uf any sude roads Then suddenly you meet the end of the hlghway and a large number of exlts and alternate roads come upon you All these opportumtnes of cholce represent your future Iufe To some the chouce of hnghway wall lead to college or mg to others the teachmg professlon or nursing or law school or meducme or the dental professlon or any one of dozens of schools of higher learmng There wall be some whose chosen highway wall lead to buslness opportunutues at once and yes I dare say to a few the greatest :nstltu tnon of all marrnage Whatever your chouce It ns my suncere hope that over the hughway of your chouce you can take wnth you abun dont knowledge gamed rn our portuon of your thlrteen years to help you and guude you to success and happuness at the end of the lourney To all of you I smcerely wnsh your chouce In Goung My Way as the correct one and that you are blessed wuth a lnfetume of Peace and Con tentment Wllluam Van Arnam Prmcupal 9 . ,, . I 11 ' - - , - . . . I . I . Q 8 , , I .I . . . -I f K umverslty traunmg, to others technical or engineering tram- . I . . I . I , , I I . . - , . , I . Q I . . . . ,, . ,, . I I

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It has been my good fortune to know many members of thus graduatung class In an Intlmate manner Today be cause of the numerous complex problems that must be solved In a rapldly expandlng school system thls prIvIlege of close assoclatlon wIth students IS one that IS seldom accorded a SuperIntendent of Schools To one who has truly dedlcated humself to the welfare of chIIdren thIs IS a deep loss No matter how Important the solutlon of other problems may be there IS never the deep satusfynng com pensatuon that comes from workIng closely wlth young men and women of hlgh school age We have trned to gnve you a well rounded program of studles and OCTIVITIES whlch would meet your partlcular Interest and abIlIty I hope that In thIs respect you feel that your hugh school years have been a perIod of growth terns of your llfe have been well set durlng these years lt IS now up to each of you to make Independent declslons In attaInIng the goals that you wnsh to reach In lIfe I feel certann that sometIme In the future l shall be able to polnt to many of you wIth prnde and say That IS one of my boys or gnrls Good luck and best wishes to all of you' Fred B Paynter SuperIntendent of Schools 8 MR FRED B PAYNTER Supermtendent 3' ir MRS DONNELLEY Secretary . . ' Q: development and maturity. The basic concepts and pat- . . ,, . ' il X I 51

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GUIDANCE Lx WILLIAM KINZLER VIRGINIA TALMAGE The Sensor Class of 'I955 wall never forget Mrs Vxrgunua Talmage and Mr Wlllnam Kunzler Weldon E Howltts Guudance Directors Throughout the past four years they have helped make our lourney a profitable one They have gnven us much and un arranging our schedules an helping us to make wuse decnsnons and an provldmg us wlth unformatnon that wnll be of much value In our chosen fields We are Indeed grateful to these two mclnvuduals for theur nnvaluable asslstance whnch wnll help us to attaun our goals In Infe I0