Wolcott High School - Aquila Yearbook (Wolcott, CT)

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 Ided-to higtr school, dr th nejw, both brought fey. lake and care, arid si in time to witness and our house” grew, so did My dear friends: You are the first class to graduate from the newly must say that both class and school are well met their present state through great expense in time,! promising much for the future. You have been a fl academically superior, socially mature, responsibly easy to say goodbye to you. Four short years ago, you came to us children, participate in the building of our new addition. AsF Life was difficult here while we bore with eating in the auditorium and all the other discomforts of construction while school went on. The school got much smaller for a time before it got larger, and just getting through the day was an accomplishment. But you did it, and superbly. I will never be able to praise you adequately. Do you Amid it all, we celebrated our nation’s two hun our Bicentennial Dress-up Day? And who will ever forget tl other great events of the Fourth of July, 1976. What a glo what an exciting time in which to live! I was never proude inheritor of the great legacy given us by Washington, Jeff and all the other great men whose lives have enricl In the ancient world, the greatest thing a perso sum - I am a citizen of Rome.” I hope you will al privilege and honor you possess is to be a citizen As a class, you have, in your own special way, ad school, the all-time record for a Senior Magazine Drive being only one of; outstanding achievements. You have been mature and forward-thinking, and t am deeply proud of you all. And now it is time for you to go. If I have any regrets, they would center around the fact that, occupied as I have been with construction, budgets and all the other concerns of administration, I have not gotten to know some of you individually as well as I would like. That is my loss. Those friendships I did make among seniors have enriched me. . ’ I pray that the years ahead will be as distinguished and fulfiHing as have all-too-short years you have spent with us. As you leave. J now that you take w you our pride, our affectionate remembrance, and moqffi|en than mere w could ever convey. I hope you will return to us asd e H fortune the ties that bind. In the interval, may The Creato you and give you happy lives. Affectionately, Laurence E. Shapiro Principal I Ships and day that was, a e, as we all are Franklin, Lincc yo , ■ • ••• • » the een and