Wellesley High School - Wellesleyan Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE To the Class of 1968, Looking back over a score of years as Principal of Wellesley Senior High School, I can honestly say that no year has been so challenging as this, your senior year. As a class you have been aware of the day-to-day prob¬ lems that have made this a most lively school year. Your own class, together with your schoolmates in the two lower classes, has inspired more complete dialogues among stu¬ dents, teachers, and parents than ever before. It is to be hoped that with this exchange of views a better under¬ standing has been arrived at among all concerned. No healthy society needs to fear differences of opinion among its members. Such differences of opinions in our school life and learning how to deal with them will better prepare each of you to cope with all the differences of opinions you will meet in the years to come. The world you are entering, whether it be on a college campus, in the world of work, or in the armed forces of your country, is faced with more serious problems than ever before. May it be true that your high school years have given you a better understanding of how best to attack all these problems with a firm determination to give of your best in seeking a solution. Good luck and God bless you all. Samuel M. Graves

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IN ME MORI AM Robert Timothy Gladwin Had he lived, this would have been the graduation year for Robert Timothy Glad¬ win. His goal was the medical profession, and high school was only the introduction to further scientific studies in college. Of course, Timmy never attained his goal, but in the hope that others could, the Robert Timothy Gladwin Scholarship Fund was set up to help biology students of distinction. By means of this fund, Timmy ' s dream of being a doctor lives on. Timmy ' s memory lives on, as well, in the minds of his fellow students and friends. He is described as a person who loved to live and who never let a moment pass without getting something from it. Timmy was a good baseball player and an avid and very accomplished golfer. He also enjoyed competing in all water sports. He had a quick wit, an able mind, and wasn ' t afraid to use either. Would that we all exhibited more of the traits that Timmy showed. To us, it seems tragic that the life was snuffed out of one in whom the will to live was so strong. Let us remember. 5

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EDITOR’S MESSAGE Bill Guild, Editor-in-Chief For the Class of 1968 a meaningful and necessary section of life has been completed, although the ideas and skills which will become a vital part of our adult lives have only just begun to develop. So the high school years become a transitional period, a little more realistic and freer than the junior high school years, yet only a taste of things to come. Of course, the senior year has a special meaning to us as a class, and no single conception of it can fit each individual graduating member. There are events and situations we will think about as a class, the traditional events such as college applica¬ tions and senior activities, but there are also events which will remain personally our own. It happens every year, and each year is unpredictably different from the pre¬ ceding one. Each class ' s identity seems to come out spontaneously, only after en¬ countering a variety of specific situations. At one point there was a warning cry of student apathy which was met head on by the Student Council. They helped in increas¬ ing attendance at rallies and athletic events. Certainly the successful student-faculty dis¬ cussion groups and open meetings helped the students and faculty to see each other more clearly, creating a much closer har¬ mony between the two. The relatively new humanities class and the completely new diversification of the History Department are examples of a more specialized curric¬ ulum at Wellesley High School where each student can choose, to a large degree, a course suitable to his desires and future needs. Perhaps it is the realization that gradua¬ tion is only a step away which makes the senior year different from the preceding two. For the first time in our lives there is no class above us in this school, and we tend to take our responsibilities more seriously. For instance, when a lack of spirit is noticed, certainly the whole school is affected, but it is to the seniors that people look for a remedy for the situation. This year ' s class certainly has handled its re¬ sponsibility well, not only by encountering many situations but also by utilizing the diverse accomplishments of every member of the class. The Wellesleyan staff has attempted to record the intangibles, the spirit behind this year ' s class, as well as the events; the sports and activities, but most of all, the people who made this year what it was. 7