Wilson High School - Nova Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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wax g 'f'-1' ' N'- T hw il... .JW School Board Uversees all School I-lffairs KC KNOW no safer depository of the ultimate pow- ers of society but with the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. These were the words of Thomas lefferson in a letter written to a friend in l82U. Such words have come from many wise men dedicated to the ways of democracy in past centuries: education has been repeatedly set forth as the best safeguard of a democracy. We are indeed fortunate to be living in a society which subscribes to this philosophy and has faith enough in the worth and integrity of every man to provide for his education. The nature of knowledge changes constantly and presents a challenge to our performance as citizens in a democracy. New areas of knowledge appear every day and the total amount of knowledge required for successful living is expanding. We can be certain that these advances of knowledge, specifically in the fields of scientific research, are resulting in the steady re- placement of occupations requiring lower levels of literacy and skill with occupations which require pre- cise use of the language, skill in mathematical reason- ing, and the exercise of sound Judgment. Your job as students and American citizens is to acquire the know- ledge, backed with moral integrity, necessary for living in and contributing to our democratic nation and the complex world of today. DR. ANGELO GIAUDRONE an DR. Giaudrone, director of Tacoma's Public Schools Seven

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Dedicated to Parents nt the Class ot 'til ix TWO Wilson parents attend a school game. NE of the most important parts of any yearbook is, of course, the dedication. For the '61 Nova the dedicaf tion is of especial importance, as is the book itself, because both belong to and represent what is actually Wilson's first graduating class. For this reason We of the Nova Staff Wanted our '61 Nova W- and therefore, our '61 dedication - to be especially significant. We felt that the book should properly be dedicated to someone connected closely and in some special. man- ner With the Class of '61. We finally found a person - or, rather, a group of persons - who We believe fill excellently these requisites Which the unique position of our class has established. These people are our parents, the parents of the graduating class of 1961, and it is With respect and with a feeling of propriety that We dedicate our 1961 Wilson Nova to them. In seeking a suitable subject for our dedication, We found that it is our parents Who best represent the occasion which our yearbook signifies to us of the graduating class. For certainly no other single group can claim to have a closer relationship With the grad- uating seniors or a stronger influence upon them, their ideals, and their characters. By precept and example our parents have striven to give us moral and social values and to prepare us for this time and this occas- ion, for this transition from childhood to adulthood which graduation represents. The Nova Staff would like, therefore, in real appreciation and with the great- est of respect, to dedicate our 1961 Nova to the parents of the Woodrow Wilson Graduating Class of 1961.

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Uliims . Q TIME for Learning . . . at Wilson, necessarily the most important time of any, for learning is the occupation and product of a school. Many things of this time we remember . . . things which, in the time yet to come, we will remember less clearly, perhaps, and certainly more wistfully . . . a favorite subject, a favorite teacher, a favorite class . . . an especially enjoyed or especially d i s l ik e d assignment . . . a brain to be respected and perhaps envied, a paper of which to be proud. As it inevitably does, time will dull the unpleasant or touch it with humor, and polish the pleasant so that it remains glimmering occasionally and agreeably, in the corners of the mind: in six months or six years we will remember, each time a bit more vaguely, long and crowded halls . . . linoleum tiled floors and broad panes of window . . . stiff blue rectangles of paper, bearing good news or bad . . . the clean perpendiculars of the windy breezeways which formed an accepted and often unnoticed part of the between classes routine . . . teachers, humorous or serious, kind or stern . . . all the multitudes of people, objects, and events which, pieced together, gave us at Wilson our Time for Learning. Sm! I T so .. Id Q S Q '9 C Q O ' 8 . . Q 'Q . ' Q y mv A t j M - to is wg? ,lu . H'-we 4 7 fmjffmf Q 'V W A V- + a if ' . 1 f-an-, -ifih.:-if' ,lyme J-: a a f f X - 2, Fw , 3 4:3421-,lf -fffsp'-a fr Q any 11? ' sys .- , - Ermflf- Hs- -' rise ,3 - 35 5' it if sb W if' ' 1 a f W. W ,wwf ,Q . at ECONO MICS FOR!