William E Tolman High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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Dedication Miss Edna M. Carlson We, the class of 1958, respectfully dedicate our classbook to Miss Edna M. Carlson, a brilliant teacher and a woman of broad culture. Her teaching career has extended through the elementary, junior high and senior high schools. Her dedication to the teach- ing profession, her patience, her understanding, together with her interest in students, have made her one of the most outstanding and respected teachers in the entire school system. For the past few years Miss Carlson has held the position of head of the English Department. Under her guidance and direc- tion, our teachers and students have benefited greatly from her wise, firm, but gentle personality. It is our sincere wish that her remaining years as a teacher and friend will be filled with the same measure of success and that she will always recall with pleasure the great esteem in which we, the class of 1958, hold her.

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Foreword In the past three years, the advances in the world have changed our pace of life. The new era of science and sci- entific ideas has replaced the old era of mechanical inven- tions. Our pace in life is no longer slow and steady, but fast and complicated. Just as the world has changed in the past three years, our life has changed, too. In these past years, we not only have gained knowledge, but we have learned the meaning of truth, honesty, and friendship. With God’s guiding hand, we shall use these principles in our lives to achieve our goal. —MARJORIE NASHAWATY

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 Mr. James P. McGeough Principal’s Message This is my tenth annual message” to a class graduating from Tolman High School. In all these past ten years, the results of world affairs have not had more effect on any graduating class, than present world affairs have had on your own. Early in this, your Senior year, Russia launched the first satellite and immediately all attention was focused on the high schools of the United States. Newspapers, magazines, radio, and television carried the story that the schools of our country were not preparing the students for life in this satellite age. They depicted the Russian schools and their courses of study, and how much more that country was doing in preparing their youth, than was our own. We were told we have been coddling our youth, while the Russian schools, through their discipline, were forging way ahead of us. Perhaps there is a shred of truth in all of this. Perhaps the Russians have been preparing their youth for their way of life and for their particular purposes, better than we have been preparing our youth for our way of life and for our purposes. But — and it is a big BUT — our way of life is not their way of life. We live in a democracy — thank God — and they, in a totalitarian dictatorship. Thus their way of life and their purposes of education must be different than ours. In spite of our presumed lack of preparing our youth, there isn't a person in any country, anywhere on the face of the earth, who doesn't want to come to the good old United States of America to live and work. Because of the education received in the schools of this country, our scientists have sup- plied us, and the world, with all the creature comforts of our time. Because of their education, our medical men hold first place in the healing arts in the world today. There are more books published, more books read, and more libraries in the United States than in practically all the rest of the world combined. Do not these figures speak volumes for the education received by our youth in the fields of science and the humanities? Do they not speak volumes for the spiritual and moral growth of our graduates? This threat of Russian supremacy and total war, while indeed a most real and threatening menace, and a menace about which we must con- stantly be aware, should not divert us from fol- lowing our pursuits under God’s plan and with His direction and guidance. Recall from your World History classes the all conquering march across China and Europe of Genghis Khan in the 13th Century. He passed away and with his passing his vast empire was dissipated. Recall also the conquering marches of Suleiman and his tremendous Turkish army in the 16th Century. Where are these great em- pires today? They fought and conquered for man without God. So too, the Russian conquests today — conquests for man without God — can- not survive. We have been trained and educated in the Christian concept. We work for and with God, and by asking Him for guidance and di- rection in all of our undertakings, we cannot fail. In this spirit, look facts in the face. Search after truth. Hard, clear thinking, not loose, loud talking; courageous action, not overbearing pride will guide your steps to the fulfillment of your foundest hopes and dreams. This is my wish and prayer for each of you. God bless each and all of you, James P. McGeough, Principal