West Springfield High School - Terrier Yearbook (West Springfield, MA)

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Offerin Their Assistance Harris Tanner advises Norine Bresnahan in her decisions for college next year. ln his capacity as Guidance Placement Director, Mr. Tanner helps studens make college choices and obtain employment upon graduation. The hands of the Guidance Depart- ment help shape the future of each student at West Springfield High School. The Guidance Counselors 'have advised us, planned our programs, pointed us toward successful future careers, and helped us to solve our problems, both scholastic and personal. Because the same counselor is assigned to a class from its entrance to its grad- uation, he gains an insight into each student's character and becomes a friend as well as an adviser. Class advisers are, left to right: Milton Laufer, Mrs. Alice Cowing, and Albert Bessette. Albert Bessette points out the new guidance bulletin board to Carol Baiardi and Marilyn Shapter. Through this device students learn dates of College Board examinations and of prospective visits by college representatives. The capable hands of our office staff, Mrs Irene Conklin, Mrs. Edna Christian, Mrs. Mariorie Rockwell, and Mrs. Edith Dut- kiewicz, perform a variety of clerical and administrative tasks which help to keep our school operating smoothly and effi- ciently.

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PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Education is a lifelong process by which we con- tinue to feed new vigor in- to the life stream of our community through intelli- gent, reasoned decisions. Let us think of education as a means of developing our greatest abilities, be- cause in each of us there is a private hope and dream, which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone. RGBERT C. SHIELDS Principal uidin Our Lives 8 VICE-PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE I congratulate the Class of I963 for a job well done, and I wish to take this opportunity to thank its members for the assistance and co-operation given me this year. West Springfield High School has a rich her- itage. As you now take your place among the thousands of its graduates, you will add some- thing, great or small, to that heritage. How much you have learned and what you will do with that learning will decide your contribu- tion. I wish to leave with you a formula which I hope you will find useful: Faith in God plus trust in yourself equals happiness and success. RAYMOND W. WILLIAMSON Acting Vice-Principal

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Increasing Our nderstanding The Task of The English Teachers is multifold. Their hands musT mold us as Turure individuals, because from Them we learn The arT of commu- nication-To wriTe eTTecTively, To speak coherently, To read reTlecTively, and To lisTen aTTenTively. Through English we learn To evaluaTe The world of books, and To discriminaTe between The shoddy and The worthwhile. We become acquainted with The besT That has been said and Thoughf in The world, and we gain an appreciation of our cul- tural heritage. By reading, we begin To under- stand The world around us. Through greaT char- acTers and great poeTry by greaT authors we come To know human naTure-our,fellow man as well as ourselves. Mrs. BerTha Hertz, a member of the English Department, proves she is always ready to lend a helping hand To students in study hall. s l l i , . l In The above picture are, seared: Mrs. Pearl Chouffet, Mrs. Lois Bopp, and Mrs. Bertha Hertz. Standing: Joseph Plourde and John Chandler. Miss Arline Riggs and Gordon Vye, speech Teachers, help William Teece, Lucinda Taylor, ErnesT Carbone, and Randolph Caney to im- prove Their speaking Technique. Students are Trained in the art of oral expression in order To give Them poise, confidence, and ef- fectiveness in speaking, especially in laTer life. Members of The English DepartmenT pause for the camera- man. Seated are Miss Dorothy Shaw, and Miss Mariorie Cos- tello. Sfanding: Miss Victoria Swistro, Richard Pervoinga, and Mrs. Eileen Donnelly.