Wellesley High School - Wellesleyan Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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GUIDE 1 You are just starting a sightseeing tour through Wellesley High School in a car which we have borrowed from Mr. Coburn, to whom our book is dedicated. The Editors thought that this mode of transportation would be doubly appropriate, because it is associated with the dedication and is also related to the world of power-driven wheels in which we have grown up. Since we have remodeled our car so that it is slightly unconventional, we caution you to PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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APPRECIATION w T Te, the Class of 1950, dedicate our Wellesleyan to Mr. Harold Coburn in recognition of the value of his thirty-four years in the Wellesley schools. Although relatively few of us have had the opportunity of working with him in the Engineering Department, we realize that he has done much for Wellesley High. Mr. Coburn has developed a shop where headwork as well as handwork is taught, where self-reliance and initiative are awakened, and where responsi¬ bility is in actual practice. It is not easy to influence an entire school while coming in contact with only a small part of the student body. Yet Mr. Coburn has succeeded and has given us a realization of a most important concept of democracy. In his own quiet and sincere way he has brought to the entire school a sense of the value of each individual.