Woburn High School - Innitou Yearbook (Woburn, MA)

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In Memoriam MR. JOHN MAHONEY Mr. Wilfred Walsh was a teacher of Graphic Arts in the Woburn schools for over twenty-five years and for the last five years he was the coordinator of the Practical Arts De¬ partments of Woburn Senior High and Kennedy Junior High School. During his tenure of office he was also Direc¬ tor of Athletics for the Junior High School and served as Director of Athletics in the Senior High School during World War II. In his youth he was an ardent athlete with his strongest interest in hockey and as he grew older followed the Wo¬ burn High School hockey team in all of its games. He was extremely interested in all youth and by personal example served as an excellent model. The gymnasium at the Me¬ morial Junior High School has been named in honor of Wilfred A. Walsh and a bronze plaque installed there to commemorate his name. MR. WALTER CARROLL Mr. John Mahoney was associated with the Woburn Public school system for most of his adult life. Serving as the administrative secretary for the Superintendant of Schools, Mr. Mahoney later be¬ came registrar of the Woburn Senior High School. Whenever consulted, he could be depended upon to give freely of his time and effort to both students and teachers. Mr. John Mahoney has left an indelible mark upon the minds of all who have come in contact with him, and the students of Woburn High School have shown their gratitude by awarding him the Dedication of the 1960 Innitou. MR. WILFRED WALSH Mr. Walter Carroll was a teacher in the Kennedy Junior High School for many years, but through an intense interest in sports he became associated with underclassmen at Wo¬ burn High School as the coach of freshman baseball. Mr. Carroll also coached the American Legion teams, and di¬ rected youth recreational programs. He gained the admira¬ tion and respect of all students who came in contact with him. A firm believer in competitive athletics, Mr. Carroll in¬ spired his boys in sports and in life to play the game fairly. Requiescant In Pace

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I. EDWARD MARASHIO, Assistant To The Superintendent Of Schools. Superintendent Of Schools DR. J. FRANK HASSETT Assistant Superintendent MR. JEROME T. LYNCH. MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF 1968: Each year it is with great pride that I write a message to the graduating class. It is, in a sense, the sort of pride an artist must feel looking at his canvas, or an author upon completion of his novel, or a sculptor who has molded a fine object. My pride, however, must be shared with many others—your par¬ ents, teachers, and religious instructors. All have had a share in molding your ideals, beliefs and habits, the sum of which produced your character. If at the age of six you had entered a school in some foreign land whose principles were totally different from our democratic traditions, you today would have an en¬ tirely different concept of the meaning of life. You would have been taught that the State, not God, is supreme, and that it is the masses, not the individ¬ ual, that is important. Your graduation from High School into this turbulent world would indeed look dim if it were not for the bright light of Faith—faith in yourself, faith in your country, and above all, faith in an eternal and all loving God. That is the torch which we of an older generation are putting into your hands. Carry it always, and hold it high. The subject matter which you have been taught is secondary to those princi¬ ples of democracy and good citizenship which your teachers have made the keynote of all their classes. It is our prayer that in whatever endeavor you may pursue, you will never compromise with these ideals; that through your efforts, and those of all the other graduating classes, our Country will remain “one na¬ tion, under God, with liberty and justice for all. Dr. J. Frank Hassett Superintendent of Schools 21