Wellesley High School - Wellesleyan Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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Our Community , Wellesley, Has Had an Impact on Us Through Our High School Years Wellesley Free Library The Wellesley Inn Friendly ' s We are aware that since Wellesley is a fairly affluent community with many professional people as residents, adults in Wellesley are concerned about having a strongly academic high school that prepares us (80% in last year’s class) for college. But, we feel that the community at some point must recognize that not all of us are college-bound, therefore, we should have a high school strong in all areas (e.g., vocational training, career preparation, etc.). During our short stay at the high school, we have seen these types of programs develop and become a more ingrained part of the high school curriculum; for example, Work-Study, Independent Study, Distributive Education, Alternate Semester, and Y.E.S. After graduation from high school, when we enter a wider world of experience, we will come to realize that Wellesley is a mini-world, a reflection of the suburban middle class experi¬ ence in America. Left: Village Church 17

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BLOOD PEOPL E LAND Time Out for Black Thoughts We gave you Jackie Robinson, Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe, Willie Mays, Roy Campanella, Jimmy Brc wn and Satchel Page. We gave you Louis, Johnson, Hayes, Jesse Owens, Sugar Ray. But black is mud and thunderstorms And evil deeds and boogeymen, While white is angel food and clouds And purity and heaven. We invented the cotton planter, Fire escapes, the shoe-last machine. The synchronour multiplex railway telegraph, The automatic lubricator. Electromagnetic brake apparatus, Golf tees, potato chips and lawn mowers. But black is mud and thunderstorms And evil deeds and boogeymen, While white is angel food and clouds And purity and heaven. Dr. Charles Drew, whose research Led to blood banks, saving lives, Bled to death when a white hospital refused him. Dr. Martin Luther King preached Non-violence, received the Nobel Peace Prize And was shot to death by a white man . But black is mud and thunderstorms And evil deeds and boogeymen, While white is angel food and clouds And purity and heaven. But black is also new-plowed earth, And licorice and chocolate pudding. Black is also ebony — Seal skin and velvet dresses. Black is mystery and caviar, Ripe olives and eagle feathers. Black is softness, gentle midnight, Summer evenings bathed in starlight. While white, when blind to all the rest, Is Klan, decay and death.