West Bridgewater High School - Climber Yearbook (West Bridgewater, MA)

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ADMINISTRATION CILTY

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3S INDEPENDENCE 776 A people wanting change . . . To them, their new world was s ore contrary than typified -- eals so strong and unified -- hey bred a law and equal land The word of freedom seemed so grand. The Nation ' s learned; and its Wise Saw Independence as a prize. + ■ 1976 A Class in hope of change; o us, the world is also strange s our goal still Democracy, Or is it, rather, currency? We ' re entering a troubled world - UR Independence is unfurled. ,-, m y%. £ « ' ■ ' fct

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DONALD A. FISHER Superintendent m mm w i SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS To The Class Of 1976: What a thrilling moment --completion of your first twelve years of formal schooling, less than one month before our Nation ' s 200th Birthday! Long as two centuries may seem in your history books, they have actually moved rapidly and never trouble free. Our democracy is still a very young type of government, successful in many ways, yet ever challenging. We have gone the route from great sacrifice and struggle to periods of prosperity and placidness, not once, but several times. Most re- cently we rushed through the prosperous post World War II years. Suddenly we were tragically jarred by the Wars in Korea and Vietnam and by the events of Watergate which culminated in the first resignation of a President. With all this, our government has survived and stayed on an even, though shaken foun- dation, an accomplishment not achieved by other governments strained by internal and external pro- blems. Democracy may still be the only type of govern- ment under which man can fail, suffer, and yet come back, stronger than ever. We Americans have done it. Our government obviously can ' t avoid set backs yet it leaves opportunity for a return to success. BUT it can ' t do it alone, it needs those magic ingre- dients so ably expressed by a widely read columnist, the late Mr. Walter Lippman; The elementary prin- ciples of work and sacrifice and duty --and the trans- cendent criteria of justice and righteousness are the things which have made men free. There ' s your challenge- -go out and show the World you can do it as our ancestors did two hundred years ago. Good luck and God Bless you. SCHOOL COMMITTEE Standing: D. Mclver; D. Raleigh, N. Palmieri, B. White, C. Barros; Seated: D. Fisher, Superintendent, G. Lepine, Chairman, G. Smith, Secretary