Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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We Dedicate The 1972 Tom Tom To ... I am honored to be chosen to write the statement dedi¬ cating this yearbook to Mrs. Samuel A. Graham, retiring vice-principal of Wicomico Senior High School. I feel that I am doing this not just for the class of 1972 but for all those thousands of boys and girls and teachers and par¬ ents whose lives she has touched. For Mrs. Graham ' s work in education — all at Wicomico High School (first on Upton Street, then Main Street, and finally on Long Avenue) — spanned forty-two years, a very long time indeed. During this time she helped open two new schools, the present Wicomico Junior High School and the present Wicomico Senior High School. It would be interesting to have a tabulation of all the decisions she has made affecting the lives of students dur ing those many years, first as a teacher then as an administrator. It would be folly to say that the decisions always pleased the individuals affected, or even that they were always correct. But certainly they were always based upon high standards of right and wrong and what she felt was best for the individ¬ ual, whether or not he agreed. My own association with Mrs. Graham covered the last fif¬ teen of those forty-two years. During that time I can testify from personal experience as to her complete k. loyalty, to her unselfish devotion to duty and to her deep involvement with other people - especially with the boys and girls who were her chief concern, day and night. Of her instructional ability I know little directly. But I have heard much about her thoroughness and of her drive for excellence both in her own efforts and those of her pupils. In her teaching of United States history and government, she showed a love of country and an abiding faith in the pro¬ cesses of democratic government. I know I speak for the thousands of people who have been privileged to work with her or under her direction when I say Thanks, Mrs. Graham, for all those years of faithful service. May the years ahead be numerous and happy! George H. Corddry Mrs. Samuel A. Graham

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TOMTOM 1972 Wicomico Senior High School Salisbury, Maryland