Wellesley High School - Wellesleyan Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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EDITORS ' MESSAGE Every senior class likes to think that it has had the greatest influence in improving the high school. Our class is no exception. A desire to improve the high school was a direct re¬ sult of our growing up in an era of social turmoil and change. As individuals, we could no longer accept the existing social, political, and economic structures without questioning them. This serious exploration of social structures had a profound influence on the educational sys¬ tem, affecting both teachers and students. An exciting change took place this year when students and the new administrators began to work together on such new programs as free studies, seminars, senior independent studies, and curriculum committees. Many of the activities that our class of 1970 introduced into the main¬ stream of the high school were initiated by former classes. Just as we have benefited from the preceding classes, so students who will graduate following us will reap the benefits of our programs. Each class has to develop a feeling of unity within itself. The social cliques which existed in previous years were somewhat broken down. Consequently, there developed a greater ef¬ fort at working together, and the class experienced a great amount of financial success as a result. There is much left to be done by the classes in the next decade. Only a quarter of our class was active in some areas of the school. Hopefully, a larger number of students will become involved in school activities and administration in the future. Nevertheless, our class recog¬ nized the need for reform within the high school and began to act. We saw that for a high school to become a part of the seventies, teaching methods and student attitudes would have to change with the times. FRED URY MISSY SALEM 7

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PRINCIPA L ’S MESS A GE To the Class of 1970: You are the first class to graduate from Wellesley Senior High School as it enters its second century. Your parents, your teachers, and your friends all join in the hope that the years you have spent in Wellesley Senior High School have contributed much to a better understanding of yourselves and the society of which you are an important part. May this understanding con¬ tinue to grow no matter what path you pursue toward reaching your goal. Never before have so many of your generation shown a greater awareness of the short¬ comings in our society. Some have tried to right these shortcomings by destructive means and such tactics are to be deplored, for no good can come by tearing down, but only from building up. As you face your future firmly resolve to be on the side of the builders and not the de¬ stroyers! Benjamin Franklin once said: The noblest question in the world is what good may I do in it. Heed these words and, if you do, the world will be a better place because you are in it. Goodbye and Good Luck! Left to Right: Harold Hines, Samuel Graves, Nick Muto 6

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