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

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GREETINGS — I appreciate the privilege of conveying my best wishes to the Members of the Class of 1955. May the world that awaits you satisfy your expectations. May the training you have received in the schools of Southbridge serve you well in the years that lie ahead. You are facing a world of increasing opportunity. The great changes that have been achieved by mankind during the past half-century present more varied and more specialized vocational possibilities than have confronted any other group of young people in the world ' s history. There is a place and a need for every talent. There is happiness and material success to be attained by each one of you who faithfully accepts his responsibility. c E : ROBERT L. FOX Superintendent of Schools

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TO THE CLASS OF 1955 My message to the Class of 1955 is a brief adap- tation of a few words of Richard Hovey. My version reads thus: I do not know beneath what sky Nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it ' can ' be high, I only know it ' can ' be great. A future awaits each of you — a future rhat will, perhaps, be far different from any past you have known or any present you are living. It is an un- known quality, a projection into the state of manhood and womanhood; it will be the assumption of the roles of citizens of America and citizens of the world, it will be the future you choose to make it. And what will you make of this unknown road into tomorrow? Will you rise to the pressure of modern living? Will you remember that education never ends? Will you remember that the pure in heart, soul and body walk in the paths of wisdom, tolerance and justice? Will you remember to take your place in society and give to your children ad- vantages even greater than you have received? Will you? I do not know, but I hope that each of you will pause to ask yourselves these questions when con- fusion as to purpose arises. Education, in the democratic spirit, fosters an in- quiring mind, but it is not enough to inquire. Answers must be wisely sought and carried through to ade- quate fulfillment. I, and the faculty of Mary E. Wells High School, by the very fact that we have graduated you as re- sponsible school citizens have every reason to believe the exact words of Richard Hovey. We trust you will be true to your American destiny, religious and school training, and make the future a better future than we of our generation made for you. When the Class of 1955 meets for its twenty-fifth reunion, I trust that the actual words of Hovey ' s quote will have come true. I do not know beneath what sky Nor on what sea shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great. J . pJ . Principal