Woburn High School - Innitou Yearbook (Woburn, MA)

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J. FRANK HASSETT Our Superintendent MESSAGE TO THE GRADUATING CLASS You are one of the thousands of graduat¬ ing classes throughout the length and breadth of our land. From among you will come the statesmen, the scientists, the philosophers, the teachers, the doctors, and the religious lead¬ ers who will decide the destiny of the world for the next fifty years or more. The respon¬ sibility seems frightening in the face of to¬ day ' s precarious world situation, but it is also a tremendous and inspiring challenge. Many of the older generation have grown weary of the struggle. Your efforts in working toward the ultimate goal of a peaceful world with freedom for all peoples will be similar to a transfusion of fresh new blood to a tired soldier. Your faith, high ideals, and courage, coupled with your innate abilities, will make an invincible weapon against iqnorance and tyranny. The only danger we face is that of Youth ' s becoming lackadaisical and indifferent; of each underestimating his own importance in the General Plan. Let me say in the words of Father Keller, You CAN change the world. You must not feel that you have finished your education upon leaving High School. You must keep on learning and developing your native talents. You must start early to take an active interest in community, civic, and national affairs, contributing new ideas wher¬ ever possible. Yours is a tremendous task, but you have the youth, courage, and faith in God to face it. As we watch you leave the Woburn High School this June of nineteen hundred fifty- seven with a strong feeling of hope for your future and that of the whole world, we say, God bless you. 8 J. FRANK HASSETT Superintendent of Schools

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To The Class of 1957 To the Class of 1957: The Yearbook of the Class of 1957 is a tribute to the efforts of the staff, the skillful guidance of the assisting faculty, and the co¬ operation of the members of the graduating class. The associations of your high school days, the activities of your class, and the pur¬ pose of the school will always remain fresher in your memory because you carefully pre¬ pared this permanent pictorial record. The great challenge of the Woburn High School is to prepare pupils for their roles in our American society. From the relatively sim¬ ple and well-defined community in the early days of the school to the increasingly complex world of an atomic age, the Woburn High School has endeavored through an organic development of its curriculum to meet the challenge. On the eve of graduation in June, 1957, we are asked to rededicate ourselves to the attitudes and ideals which the school has stressed, and which have made our country the beacon light of freedom in a world beset by anxiety and crisis. It is the prayerful wish of the Woburn High School that each member of this graduating class has been prepared by the activities and associations which this book records to make his maximum contribution to the general wel¬ fare and attain his personal happiness in America ' s golden future. HENRY D. BLAKE Principal HENRY D. BLAKE Principal