Commentary
THE REAL PROBLEM
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Fire!
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of June, 1958:
Teaching is a strange business! It’s a little like gardening in that you plant seeds and hope that they grow and that you will recognize the plant that appears. It’s fair to say that learning will always happen, but that we teachers have little or no control over what is learned.
Even though I partied so much in college that I graduated magna cum lager, I went to class often enough that I still have a dream that is common among people who subconsciously recall the old alma mater. It starts with a beautiful co-ed in a filmy negligee — oops, sorry, wrong dream!
Greetings to all our readers. This is our last Sophomores Speak Out. Next year we will be moving up and won’t be eligible to write as sophomores. We’ve really enjoyed writing for you, and hope that you find our choice of topics interesting this week. We have a wide range for our last page. Everyone wrote about what they cared about, so enjoy and have a great summer.
Here Comes Summer
By Hannah Marlin
Improving County Government
In the end, after a laborious and sometimes painful process, the Dukes County Charter Study Commission has recommended relatively little change in county government.
The commission’s conclusions match the gut feeling that many Island residents held at the start of the study: that the failings of the existing county government have owed far more to the members of that government than to its structure.