Wolcott High School - Aquila Yearbook (Wolcott, CT)

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TO THE CLASS OF 1982 My dear friends: The journey which your yearbook depicts and is its theme now nears a point where new directions, new roads perhaps, are about to be taken. Your four years in high school have, indeed, been a remarkable journey in themselves, for you came to us children and you leave as young adults. Much has happened in between. You came to us in a momentous year in our exciting and proud history, for it was in October of 1978. as the addition and renovation of our house” neared completion, that we were evaluated by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and found worthy of the highest possible form of accreditation which can be given to a high school. That recognition placed us in the top seventeen percent of public secondary schools in New England, truly a great distinction. As freshmen you helped to earn that distinction, and you have continued to be a distinguished class. We have watched as you have grown and become what you are, and we have been proud. You have become more and more a part of a world where swift and often incredible change has become commonplace - where new knowledge is accruing at a rate too fast to take in - where the wonders of modern technology, while improving life in many ways, have threatened to overwhelm us in others - where inflation continues to erode the value of all we own - where energy resources have suddenly, through increased costs and threatened scarcity, become as precious as they should have been all along - where the world is a world in turmoil - where freedom is still only a word to many on this planet - where old values are daily challenged, and where the perils of the modern age confront you at every turn. In the main, it appears that you are keeping your balance, and that is all to the good, for you will have your turn at combatting these ills, for it is you who must safeguard the future for your own generation and for your children. As you now become full-fledged citizens of what Abraham Lincoln called The best hope of earth” remember that each individual can make a difference - that great individuals make great societies and that what you can become is limited only by what you wish to be. As a free citizen of this Heaven-blessed republic, you have, and I hope will cherish increasingly, opportunities for self- development shared by no other people on the globe. I hope you will continue to learn and use what you have learned to help yourselves, your fellow human beings and your world. There is a school of thought which says that we are everyone we have ever known, every place we have ever been, and everything we have ever done. If this is true, and I think it is, we have all given to each other. I know I am richer for having known you, and the school is richer for your having been here. As you depart from us, take with you our affectionate best wishes and our highest hopes that your individual and collective lives will be all you and we would wish. Laurence E. Shapiro Principal 2

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 THE JOURNEY AQUILA 1982 Wolcott High School Wolcott, Conn.

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 THE JOURNEY” SOPHOMORE THRU SENIOR YEAR This is a very special time in our lives. We stand here now, together, the Class of 1982. This moment marks the end of one journey and the beginning of an even greater one. for it is time to take the unknown path which lies ahead. Like travelers on a road, we go forth in confidence and hope, strengthened and reassured by the friends who travel with us. The road has been a long one. We have known the seasons of life, ever-changing. We have known happiness, success, sadness, and failure. We have learned that today's storm is broken by tomorrow's sunshine. We have learned of others, and of ourselves. And we are ready for what lies ahead.