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

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if Qs.,-h ROBERT L FOX Superintendent of Schools is!! TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1959 MARY E WELLS HIGH SCHOOL We are on the threshold of a nevt era in education just as we are on the threshold of a new era in industrialization and in communication through the use of atomic energy As we look forward into this era from a background of rich national experiences and young people with keen mquisitne minds and strong purposes haxe new er been so great One of the most important and critical times in the life of any person is the period lust following graduation from high school Then he must decide whether to terminate his formal education with what has gradually become the ax erage amount of schooling or to continue toward a higher more demanding goal All who face this decision may be comforted by the knowledge that opportunities for study on the college or adx anced school lexel are more abundant than exer and that contmued study exen on a part time basis will help to insure xocational or professional success 2 07 Superintendent of Schools 2 Q . 1 l l l F accomplishments in education, it becomes increasingly evident that opportunities for 7 ' ' r

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'Nt P V.. 'Cf' DR JAMES M ROBERTSON Prmclpal ' , TO 1959 Each year I gne a personal message to my semor class Thrs year I do the same but wrth more mrsgnmgs than nn the past Why? you ask Today we haxe to meet the screntrfic age the age when man plants hrs flag on the Moon or on Mars We worry when we realnze that a communxstrc country mlght establish 1ts flag IH outer space before we do But how absurd' Recollect 1492 to 1775 Spam France and Holland as well as England had establnshed clarms nn the New World Spam France England and Holland lost thenr colomes because the people spoke' I lrke to thrnk that you of 1959 and your nmmedrate successors wrll speak as our ancestors drd Freedom of relrgron speech assemblage and all of the other rxghts nn our first ten amendments are to be cherrshed tomorrow as they haxe been rn our glornous past and are today If you of 1959 stand fast and chernsh our democratxc prlnclples rt wrll not matter too much who hrts the moon first' Man must be free drgmhed and noble Man suppressed degraded and ngnoble tends toward anarchy Anarchy leads to choas Our free Amerrcan socxety leads to wholesome attrtudes My hope for you IS a srmple one cherrsh the first ten amendments and lne God fearxng lrves Prmcxpal KG! . .7 . . - 1 . . . . . ,, ,, y r 7 . . 7 a Q s 1 Y ' 9 Q y x v a ' v fr - H - - . , , . I v 7 x , x - - - hr - lv