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Thoughts on Graduation
Marion Preston, Principal
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Four hundred and seventy-five of you are
graduating. As members of the class of 1962 you have spent three
of the most important years of your lives as students in the Roy W. Brown
Junior High School. These growing up years have helped you to realize
that you have all had "problems." You have learned that you can not
exist without running into obstacles and difficulties. As growing
persons you have been changing persons and have been living through an
anxious and uncertain period. Now, most of you are emerging with
definite, responsible personalities. You have made a decision about
the kind of person you wish to be, and the type of school work you wish
to do.
Your physical growth has been most obvious.
You have made rapid progress, intellectually, as you have met the challenges
of daily classroom routine. Many have made excellent scholastic records.
In social maturity your growth is still in progress. Most of you
are building on the strengths you possess and venturing into the possibilities
that lie before you.
Your participation in the athletic, dramatic, musical,
and club programs has provided you with many opportunities to enjoy yourselves
and to share your enjoyment with others as you have worked together in
large groups.
In the Roy W. Brown Junior High School you have
spent these years building on the firm foundation of your elementary school
training, and now, as grown-up young men and young women you will spend
your next three years in Bergenfield Senior High School meeting and solving
problems which will require more mature and more independent thinking.
Make the most of the excellent opportunities offered there. Remember
always, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." |
Alan Tannaz, Class President
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As we come to the end of our three years in Roy W. Brown
Junior High School, we do so with mixed feelings. We are happy to
have completed the required work to enable us to graduate, and we are looking
forward to becoming part of the new Senior High School. On the other
hand, we are sorry to leave the familiar surroundings in which we have
had many good times, and to leave our friends, both among the teachers
and the present 7th and 8th Graders.
When we look back through the past three years, we have
many pleasant memories. But in a more serious vein, this time has
been an important part of our growing up and it has prepared us for the
coming three years of High School.
It will be a repetition of our first Jr. High School
experiences in that we will enter the Senior High as shy boys and girls,
not knowing exactly what to expect, and come out grown-up sensible, and
mature persons.
We owe a great deal of our development to the teachers
here who have not only taught us the academic material, but have also helped
us in sports, music, dramatics, and many other extra-curricular activities.
As we go forward in to our high school education I wish
all my fellow classmates the best of luck and success on whatever paths
they choose to follow and I hope the friendships we made here in Roy W.
Brown Jr. High School will continue during the next three years, and longer. |
Muriel Pindar, Class Sponsor
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TO THE CLASS OF 1962:
Just a short time ago you entered the building as scared seventh
graders. Getting lost in the halls, greatly surprised (and proud) when
you found your classroom on the first try, and the certainty that you would
never, never be able to get the names of the faculty straight were all
part of this overwhelming Junior High School. You were sure you were
not going to like this strange place and you yearned for the comfort of
our "old school" where everything and everyone was so familiar.
Now, as ninth graders, you are quickly drawing to the end of your stay
with us and again you must face a new, much larger building and many strange
faces. This time not as scared seventh graders but as proud sophomores.
We hope you are leaving us with some regrets and pleasant memories and
that you will think of us as you did your "old school." Although
we are sorry to see you go we wish you success in all your endeavors and
hope that all your plans and dreams for the future are fulfilled beyond
your expectations.
All classes are remembered by the faculty for something and perhaps
you will be remembered by some as the class with the "crazy fashions,"
but the class of 1962 will always be remembered fondly by me as the first
class I sponsored at Roy W. Brown.
My personal wish for you is that you will find whatever you are looking
for in life and that your joys may be added, your sorrows subtracted, your
happiness multiplied and your sickness divided. |
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