Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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a 3 To each Senior of 1954 Graduation is a time of gladness, a time to glory a bit in your personal achievement. It is a happy moment of past but fond reflec- tion and hopeful future anticipation. Please realize that we will always be truly interested in you as a graduate of our schools. We will be inspired by your greatness and the mark that you make for yourself in the world; for in a measure your success means our success, and by the same token your failure reflects our own. Try to remember the lessons you have learned that will make your life worth living. Do not forget that, in the present crises of civilization, your country and your community will look to you, more than ever before, for leadership in fostering and re-emphasizing the ideals which have made our nation the greatest on the earth. yjic (L, sru.

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J ®f)e Crimson am) raj f J THE YEARBOOK STAFF Nineteen Hundred Fifty Four MARY E. WELLS HIGH SCHOOL Southbridge, Massachusetts ; j }

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n j To the Class of 1954 Some years ago a song writer wrote words to this effect: Wishing will make it so ! Americans from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Cana- dian borders were singing these words and accepting the philosophy contained within them. It was only natural for people to do so. What easier way is there to escape from the world of realities than indulging in wishing? The past decade has certainly refuted these words and their resultant philosophy. Today, if never before, wishing must be translated into doing. It is the doer of the world who leads the way to progress. True, someone has to make the dreams of future progress, but another and another someone has to turn these dreams into actualities. For every dreamer in the world today we need thousands, no tens of thousands, of doers! It is fine to think wishfully: I wish I had a million dollars ; or I wish I were a selectman of my community. Ask the millionaire or the selectman if he attained his objective through dreaming or through constructive action and determination. You, as well as I, know what his answer will be. The same situation faces each and every one of you. Some of you may say, I wish I could afford to go to college ; others of you may say, I wish I could travel over the world. Either of these wishes and all of your other secret ambitions can come true if you, who do the wishing, have the opportunity (which you can create) and the deep determination to make the dreams come true. Once it was written : Faith can move mountains. I hope that each of you of the Class of 1954 will have faith in yourselves and turn that faith into constructive action for the benefit of a greater America. Do that, and the education that you have absorbed for twelve years will have been of immeasurable value. Remember throughout your future lives that wishing may be pleasant, but doing produces satisfying results. I extend my sincere wishes for a happy, prosperous and honorable future to every graduate of the Class of 1954. h u co ? {