Wells River High School - Chatterbox Yearbook (Wells River, VT)

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C? aii j j-Lc£%i SENIORS President Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer Patricia Stearns Roger Simmons Marion Webster JUNIORS President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Evelyn Provencher Nancy Mays Marion Chamberlain Priscilla Pudvah SOPHOMORES President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Barbara Bailey Herbert Chamberlain Ann Demeritt .. Winefred MacDonald FRESHMEN President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Jane Rowden Priscilla Mays Idamae Chamberlain Elaine Guay ----WRHS----- COMMENCEMENT DATA Friday, June 3 — Senior Reception, Village Hall at 8:30 P. M. Senior Ball, 9:00 P. M. Sunday, June 3 — Baccalaureate Service, Congregational Church, 8:00 P. M. Wednesday, June 8 — Class Day Exercises, Village Hall at 8:00 P. M. Friday, June 10 — Final Assembly, School Building at 9:00 A. M. Friday, June 10 — Graduation Exercises, Village Hall at 8:00 P. M. — Four —

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TH6 CHATTERBOX SPONSORED BY THE SENIOR CLASS SENIOR ISSUE JUNE, 1949 Chatterbox Staff Editor Assistant Editors Joke Editor Artist JOHN MAHNKER Business Secretary Business Manager Advisor Wells River Directory Schuyler Cornthwaite, Principal; Dartmouth, A. B.; Albany Law School, LL. B.; University of New Hampshire, M. ED. SOCIAL STUDIES Elizabeth Gibson, Westminster, B.A................. ENGLISH Arthur Stone, University of Vermont, B.S. PHYSICAL ED SCJENCES, MATHEMATICS Jean Spear, Tufts, B.A........................... LANGUAGES Marie Farrow, University of Vermont, B.S........ COMMERCIAL HOME ECONOMICS Lois Stanley, Johnson Normal School .......... INTERMEDIATE Nora Darling, University of Vermont Summer School . PRIMARY J. Stewart Garvin, Westminster, B.A., M.E....SUPERINTENDENT Samuel Stanley .................................. CUSTODIAN School Directors — Mr. James Thomas, Mr. Edgar Spear, Dr. Harry Rowe.

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PREJUDICE There is not a person in America who at sometime or other has not heard (perhaps from his own lips), ' I hate him, he’s a Jew” or we can’t associate with that foreigner, his standards are not equal to ours.” Our country is burdened with these racial and religious preju- dices. What is prejudice? It is a judgment formed without due con- sideration and knowledge. Ignorance is the mother of prejudice! Should we judge people and groups only by the wrongs that have been exposed t6 us ? Every person has some good characteristic. Why don’t we notice and stress the good traits instead of the wrongs which may be slanderous? Must we be reminded that we, ourselves, are not perfect ? Several people have been seriously injured and even killed because of prejudice. Thousands of people have been severely hurt in mind. Religion has become marred by false judgments. What are we going to do about these things? You may say that we, who live in a democracy, have the freedom to believe as we wish, speak at our own desire, and to choose our own religion, but do we have the right to destroy the rights of others and eliminate certain individuals from our society level? Is it not true that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”? Let’s preserve these truths for all mankind. Today, the greatest aim of our time is peace. To have this there — Five —