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

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THE PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE To the Class of 1958: Your senior year may well be remembered as Year One in the beginning of a new era-the Space Age . This will increase your responsibilities and duties, both as individuals and as citizens, an increase that is an addition to the responsibilities that have been bequeathed to you by previous generations. The Unit- ed Nations, Nuclear Energy........These must be faced, together with the responsibilities that your heritage has given you...the establishment of your home, econ- omic security, civic obligations, social equality, and religious tolerance. Your years in school have been an attempt to help you to obtain some of the foundation and back- ground that you may need in your task of confronting and shouldering these responsibilities. Your parents and your teachers have devoted a good part of their lives to helping you prepare yourself to intelligent ly fulfill your obligations, moral and legal, just as you will soon help your children prepare themselves to meet their responsibilities. The future is yours, but not to possess. It is yours only to the extent that you are charged with the responsibility of the stewardship of all it holds forth to mankind until it is time to relinquish your charge to a younger generation-your children. Your charge of stewardship is much more than that of a le- obligation. You will be expected to accept those tasks that demonstrate your worth as a moral individ- ual, initiative, integrity, self discipline, co-oper- ation, and a willingness to accept instruction. May you fulfill that stewardship to the best of your a- bility and by doing so, reap the rich reward it holds forth to you.