Wellesley High School - Wellesleyan Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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MR. EDWIN H. MINER Your town and state have invested in the education of your class approximately S320.000.00. For the training of your class and others, your town, state, and country have also invested over $2,000,000.00 in your school buildings. To graduate 160 students, the cost of the thirteen years of schooling, exclu¬ sive of buildings, is approximately Si ,300.00 per student. Investors are always interested in their investments. In this case, they do not look for a dollar and cent return immediately, nor do they expect a quick appreciation. They are investing in the future of our town, our state, and our nation. Theirs is a program of citizen building. Foreign nations ridicule our democratic form of education. They call it wasteful and inefficient to try to educate every boy and girl. Have the money, hopes, and confidence invested in you members of the Class of 1939 been wasted, or will you be better citizens because of your training? — Edwin H. Minur , S iper iilemleitt of Schools 4

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MR. RALPH W. PROCTOR The school year 1938-39 has been characterized by enthusiastic student reaction to the splendid facilities provided in the third building to be occupied in the history of Wellesley High School. Prom the opening day to the date of this writing, this appreciation has had tangible reflections i n the fine attitude, careful use, and in scholarship development. More suitable and congenial facilities have enabled your faculty to plan more interesting and challenging activities which you have accepted with understanding. Thus considerable progress has been made toward our hope to provide the type of educational opportunities which will meet your real needs and interests. All those members of the Building Committee, school officials, faculty, and others who have spent so many hours in planning and supervising the construction of this exceptional school plant have been stimulated by its coming to life as a functioning institution, not primarily of brick and con¬ crete material, but as a force in the development of life. This organization year” has been busy for us all and has passed rapidly. May it be succeeded by many more of constantly increasing individual effectiveness in the various endeavors toward which you move. — Ralph W. Proctor, Principal 5