Norwood annual report 1957-1959, Part 50

Author: Norwood (Mass.)
Publication date: 1957
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 1194


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Low Standards at the High School?


It should be remembered that here in Norwood we are maintaining a public, comprehensive high school - typically and uniquely an American institution-a school which in the interests of democracy opens its doors to all the children of all the people, to the "ungifted" as well as to the gifted. If this be the school's function we must-all of us-accept without misgivings or alarm the simple fact that in such a school there will be in a sense low standards as well as high standards. The danger, of course, comes from appraising the school on either basis alone.


In the matter of low standards, I am happy to report that faculty members have recently approved the view that even in the lowest divisions no credit should be given unless there is substantial accomplishment com- bined with substantial effort. This, we believe, is all to the good. It should also be recorded that at the other end of the scale, during the year homogeneous grouping has been employed to a degree never before attempted, and Honors Track sequences have been set up in many key subject areas with the result that high college preparatory and similar standards have been still further raised.


National Merit Semi-finalists


In connection with school standards, mention may be made of the fact that in November two members of the Senior Class were named as semi-finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests. Miss


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Bonnie Hussey and Miss Nijole Makaitis brought new honors to the school -each of them scoring at the ninety-ninth percentile in each of the seven areas covered by the test. This means that only one per cent of those who took the tests all over the United States did better than they.


Our New Program of Studies


Progress in yet another area was registered last spring when for the first time a new completely revised twenty-six page edition of the program of studies of the school was made available for each of our students. Included in this new program of studies are meaningful descriptions of each and every course now offered at the Senior High School. Also there is a new faculty-derived statement of the educational purposes of the school as well as explanations of the policies and procedures which we believe will be of special interest and value to the student, to his parent, and indeed in many cases to the average citizen who would like to know more about the modern comprehensive high school.


Our New Physics Course


Fifty of our top senior physics students this year are having a challenging and regarding experience in our new college preparatory physics course. Developed by the Physical Science Study Committee at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology through a grant by the National Science Foundation over a period of years, the content of this new physics course represents the thinking of the outstanding physics instructors in the country.


Through arrangements made by Mr. Learnard, Chairman of our Natural Science Department, Norwood High School last September became one of an expanded number of 212 selected schools throughout the United States in which this new Physics course is now being presented.


Here as elsewhere pupils report that the work is "hard but interesting." This is not surprising as the course is designed to develop an ability to think scientifically, using basic science concepts rather than merely an ability to memorize and to apply formulas. In any event the course has been accorded special recognition by the College Entrance Examination Board, and beyond all doubt this is the type of High School physics which colleges increasingly will expect graduates of the best secondary schools to know. Returns from the Educational Testing Service indicate that Norwood is maintaining a creditable position among schools teaching the course.


Our New Reading Skills Center


Last September a full-time experienced reading skills instructor was assigned exclusively to the Senior High School. Also made available at the same time were the facilities and the special equipment requisite to set up top-notch development and remedial reading programs. This was a major step, and I am happy to report that both of these reading pro- grams are now operating in a most satisfactory fashion in our new reading skills center at the school.


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Our New Library Facility


In my reports over the years I have several times recommended that a full-time librarian be employed and that adequate books be purchased so that the school library might contribute significantly to our educational effort. The hopes which many of us shared for a school library are soon to be realized. We now have a full time experienced school librarian. We are now acquiring the books necessary to make our library truly functional. Gradually in the thinking of our students and their teachers the school library is becoming an accepted and integral part of the total school experience.


It is difficult to be less than enthusiastic with regard to the con- tributions which alert and progressive reading and library programs can make to the purposes of the school.


Our New Guidance Program


Last September Mr. Thomas White was transferred to the Senior High School as Boys' Guidance Counselor, with special concern also for our psychometric testing program. Principally because we have been able to free Mr. White from all teaching and administrative duties, there is now considerably more time available at the High School for guidance than heretofore. Yet in our judgment even this increased time is yet inadequate to permit Guidance to do all that Guidance in a superior school should do.


In our judgment the next step in our new guidance program should provide for further organization and expansion of guidance within the school. Under consideration is a plan whereby each teacher beginning in the tenth grade would have a three-year continuing responsibility with regard to the guidance of the same twenty to twenty-five pupils. Guidance counselors with the Principal would organize, supervise, and integrate the guidance program, counsel with teacher advisers in their counseling of their students, and handle all special guidance problems as heretofore.


New Advanced Courses and Honor Roll Revision


In September, Honors Track or Advanced Courses were scheduled for the first time in English, French, U. S. History, Problems of Democracy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geometry, Algebra II, and Mathematics IV. These courses at Norwood High School may be elected by individual stu- dents who meet the particular prerequisites, but there are no Honors divisions that move as a unit from one subject to another.


Also, following the recommendations of a teacher committee, the faculty has set new requirements for the scholastic Honor Roll. Some possible inequities were thus removed, and standards for Honor Roll classification were in some instances substantially raised.


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Summer Study


During the summer faculty members took special summer courses or attended workshops as follows :-


Miss Ellen Burke


English


Boston College


Mrs. Tillie Coburn


Mathematics


Brandeis University


Mr. Gilbert Dehler


English


State Teachers' College


Mr. James Dunn


Mathematics


Univ. of Vermont


Miss Delores Evans French


Univ. of Michigan


Mr. John Flaherty


Guidance


Boston University


Mr. Everett Learnard


Physics


M. I. T.


Miss Louise McCormack


English


Boston University


Mr. Martin O'Donnell


Biology & Physics


Colby College


Miss Elizabeth O'Sullivan


Television Workshop


Brandeis University


Miss Katherine Ryan Biology


Boston University


Some New Emphases in Particular Areas


* Here as elsewhere the mathematics program is undergoing revision to bring it in line with the recommendations of the Committee on Mathe- matics of the College Entrance Examination Board.


* During the coming spring some of our eleventh-grade English classes are to participate in an experimental three weeks television course in the Humanities. The entire project is being carried on under a grant from the Ford Foundation.


* To counteract possible "crash" concern with Mathematics and Science, last spring through Guidance new emphasis was given to Social Studies. Sequences in this area were newly delineated, and specific elections recom- mended. One possible result - twice as many students are enrolled in Problems of Democracy this year as last.


* In Latin a three-year sequence was reestablished last September with a four-year sequence in prospect for next September. As a matter of guidance policy for many years students at Norwood High School have been encouraged to take a three or four year sequence in one foreign language rather than two years in each of two foreign languages. This view was recently endorsed publicly by former President of Harvard, James B. Conant.


* To mention one other area-we have more students taking Personal Use Typewriting than ever before. New provision was made last Septem- ber for a student to receive instruction in this valuable skill even if he had as few as two periods weekly available for the purpose. The results have been most encouraging.


Our Foreign Exchange Program


In June, Masako "Suki" Hara, popular little Japanese foreign exchange student, said a tearful good-by to Norwood High School, and in September we welcomed to the school two new exchange students, one - Peter Koehl, a smiling blond boy from the Heidelberg section of West Germany, and the other, Belgin Tanil - an equally smiling young man from far-off Turkey. Both boys are immensely popular with students and teachers alike.


Resolution


MARGUERITE I. ELLIOTT 1920 - 1958


In the year 1920 you came to our community to serve us in our schools. In your quiet and gracious way, you have performed your tasks in an exemplary fashion.


You have always been interested in and worked for those who have found school work difficult.


Mindful of your generous and cooperative spirit, and speaking for the hundreds of young people whose privilege it was to be enrolled in your classes, we regret your departure from the service of our schools.


We hope that in the years to come that the good work you have done will always be a source of pride and satisfaction to you.


We would have you know that you are always welcome among us, and it is our sincere hope that you will have many years of good health and fortune.


JOHN J. CAVANAUGH, Chairman FRANCES L. BLANCHOT JOHN F. KILEY MARY H. HEMMAN


JOHN F. REYNOLDS


EUGENE A. NELSON


DR. JOHN F .KELLY


Norwood School Committee


June 27, 1958


Resolution


MARY ELIZABETH COUGHLIN 1923 - 1958


For your decision to teach in Norwood and to remain here through these many years, we, the Members of the Nor- wood School Committee, are most grateful.


You have always been interested in and worked with the young people in our community with a generous and enthu- siastic spirit. Your keen understanding and appreciation of the finer things of life have played a very important part in the effectiveness of our school program.


The compensations and rewards which spring from the knowledge that young people are happier and better for having your help must be many.


We hope that the memories of pleasant associations and work well done, will enrich the enjoyment of the years which lie before you.


We would have you know that you are always welcome among us, and it is our sincere hope that you will have many years of good health and fortune.


JOHN J. KAVANAUGH, Chairman FRANCES L. BLANCHOT JOHN F. KILEY MARY H. HEMMAN JOHN F. REYNOLDS EUGENE A. NELSON DR. JOHN F. KELLY


Norwood School Committee


June 27, 1958


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We are grateful indeed to Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Donahue, of 161 Bond Street, and to Mr. and Mrs. David Miller of 14 Longfellow Road. These citizens are making a major contribution to the foreign exchange program by acting this year as the American parents of our visitors.


In the reciprocal phase of the exchange program, Honor Student Miss Martha Keedy of last year's Junior Class spent a wonderful two months in Finland and Lapland.


Our Norwood High School P. T. A.


No report on Norwood High School would be complete without at least a brief reference to our excellent P. T. A. This year the P. T. A. presidency is shared by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wilson. President prior to June 1958 was Mrs. Francis Seeberger. By general agreement one of the most worth while P.T.A. meetings in recent memory was a panel dis- cussion last spring devoted entirely to high school problems. At this meet- ing, questions in some cases submitted anonymously and in advance were answered by one or more members of a panel whose members included both parents and teachers.


Year in and year out perhaps the most significant single contribution of the P. T. A. is the Honors Banquet which again last June was presented at the Lord Fox to honor students in the school who were outstanding in scholarship. We are most grateful.


At the fall P. T. A. meeting this year new attendance and new mem- bership records were set.


Retirements


In June 1958 three highly capable veteran teachers met their last classes at Norwood Senior High School. For Miss Mary Coughlin formerly of the Business Department, for Miss Rita Elliott formerly Head of the Social Science Department, and for Miss Ruth Gow, formerly Head of the Mathematics Department at the High School we wish many, many, happy years of retirement.


Other Personnel Changes


Last spring Mr. Thomas Roche, Guidance Director at the School, was elected to the Vice Principalship effective in September. Subsequently Mr. Thomas White was transferred to the Senior High School as guidance counselor for boys. Also effective in September, Mr. Vincent Kenefick, Social Studies teacher for many years, became Head of the Social Studies Department to replace Miss Elliott. Mr. James Dunn, veteran Mathematics instructor, was similarly appointed to replace Miss Gow, and Mr. John Flaherty, English teacher in the School since 1948, was named to under- take the additional duties as Head of the English Department-in this par- ticular to replace Miss Elizabeth O'Sullivan who because of ill health had asked to be relieved of this extra assignment.


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Effective in September the following additional appointments were made to the departments indicated:


Mr. Warren Averill A.B. '58 Boston University


Natural Science


Mr. Richard Bonin B.S. '58


Boston University


Social Studies


Miss Ellen Burke A.B. '58 Regis College


English


Mrs. Carol Davis B.S. '58 Northeastern


Business


Mr. Gilbert Dehler M.A. '57


St. John's


Foreign Language


Mrs. Ethel McGrath


B.S. '58 Boston University


Reading Skills


Mr. Vincent Overlock


B.A. '58 Univ. of Maine


Mathematics


Mr. John Piccirilli


B.S. '57 Bridgewater


Mathematics


Mrs. Joy Spanos


B.S. '57


University of


Art


New Hampshire


Mrs. M. Theresa Sweeney B.S. '28 Boston University Librarian


Credits and Appreciation


I wish to thank most sincerely the many citizens who during the year have shown a real interest in all that we are doing at the Senior High School. Indeed the participatory concern of a community in its schools determines in no small degree the quality of the schools the community has.


Particularly are we grateful to Superintendent Lynch and to School Committee members who during the year have helped us so often and in so many ways.


This report as usual will close with a reproduction of the program followed at the Senior High School graduation exercises last June and with a list of those who received special honors on that occasion.


CHARLES A. HAYDEN


Principal


GRADUATION HONOR AWARDS


Berwick English Prize Judith Mary Dempsey


Leighton Sumner Thompson Memorial Trophies Judith Mary Dempsey, Kevin T. Dixon


Edward S. Costello Memorial Trophy Richard Edward Pellowe


Veterans of Foreign Wars Scholarship Peter Kulsa


Teachers' Club Scholarship Judith Mary Dempsey


Norwood Women's Club Scholarship Rochelle Margaret Kady


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Norwood Kiwanis Club Scholarship Joan J. Johnson


Norwood Mother's Club Scholarship Louisa A. Honeth


High School Scholarship Awards


Nancy N. Saarinen Julia C. Ruotolo Johanna M. Wennberg


Nancy Newman


Sandra J. Pudsey Mary L. Curran


Norwood Mother's Club Home Economics Award Sandra Claire Peachey


Mathematics Award Louisa Ann Honeth


Nicholson Memorial Award in English Louisa Ann Honeth, Peter Kulsa


Lane Medal Awards


Nancy N. Saarinen


Rochelle M. Kady


Louisa A. Honeth


Sandra M. Weiand


Julia C. Ruotolo


Nancy Newman


Peter Kulsa


Joan J. Johnson


Johanna M. Wennberg


Carol A. Nordblom


Judith M. Dempsey


Sandra J. Pudsey


Mary T. Naughton


Mary L. Curran


Mary S. TenEyck


Alice M. Vitartis


Nancy I. Wenstrom


Donna J. Bergman


Ellen J. Cotter


Ann U. Picard


GRADUATION EXERCISES OF NORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Class of 1958 Tuesday Evening, June 10, 1958 Junior High School Gymnasium


Program


PROCESSIONAL-"Pomp and Circumstance" Edward Elgar INVOCATION .... Rev. Ferdinand V. Miszkin


"Halls of Ivy"


Russell, Knight


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Chorus Soloist - Gail Ziegle


Oh, we love the halls of ivy that surround us here today And we will not forget tho' we be far, far away.


To the hallowed halls of ivy ev'ry voice will bid farewell And shimmer off in twilight like the old vesper bell


One day a hush will fall, The footsteps of us all will echo down the hall and disappear,


But as we sadly start our journeys far apart,


A part of ev'ry heart will linger here.


In the sacred halls of ivy where we've lived and learned to know That thro' the years we'll see you in the sweet afterglow.


ADDRESS


Lester Seth Vander Werf, Ed.D. Dean of the College of Education Northeastern University


"Graduation Day"


Sherman


Chorus Soloist - Lester Marchand Accompanist - Richard Anderson


It's a time for joy, a time for tears,


A time we'll treasure thru the years.


We'll remember always, Graduation Day.


At the Senior Prom we danced till three,


And then you gave your heart to me.


We'll remember always, Graduation Day.


Tho' we leave in sorrow, all the joys we've known, We can face tomorrow knowing we'll never walk alone


When the ivy walls are far behind, No matter where our path may wind, We'll remember always, Graduation Day.


GIFT OF THE CLASS OF 1958


Arthur R. Armour, Jr.


ACCEPTANCE OF THE GIFT FOR THE SCHOOL Michael A. Rizzo


AWARD OF MEDALS AND PRIZES


Mr. Lincoln D. Lynch, Superintendent of Schools Berwick English Prize Leighton S. Thompson Memorial Trophies


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Edward S. Costello Memorial Trophy


Veterans of Foreign Wars Scholarship Teachers' Club Scholarship Norwood Woman's Club Scholarship Norwood Mothers' Club Scholarship


Kiwanis Club Scholarship


High School Scholarships The Norwood Mothers' Club Home Economics Award Mathematics Award Nicholson Memorial Award in English Charles R. Donnell Memorial Trophy John C. Lane Medals


PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Mr. John J. Cavanaugh, Chairman of the School Committee Mr. Charles A. Hayden, Principal of Norwood High School


"Norwood"


Wheelock '13 Arranged by Walsh '13


Chorus (The audience is invited to join)


"The Star Spangled Banner"


John Smith


Everyone


Music under the direction of Mr. John B. Faucett


GRADUATES


Mary Ann Alukonis Richard Copp Anderson


Nancy Jean Boone


Frank Borsa


William Alfred Anderson


Brenda Ann Bothwell


Arthur Robert Armour, Jr. Susan I. Atherton Ruth A. Bagley James Christopher Baldwin James D. Balfour, Jr.


Geraldine Breton James Peter Bright Robert Paul Brock Mary Ann Broderick Beverly Jean Brown David Joseph Butters Rosemarie Ellen Cady ,


Mary Louise Balfour William A. Balfour Marianne Bamford Joseph J. Barone E. Mark Barrett Judith Barss Joseph Alexander Bartell Linda Marie Bassignani Carol Ann Bean Joan B. Beltis


Althea Louise Callahan Ronald H. Cameron John Francis Campisano Edith Jean Carlson Ellen Joan Carlson Andrew Ernest Carmichael David E. Cedarfield Jean Marie Cefalo


Donna Jeanne Bergman


Joan Elaine Berry Lorraine Berry David Jack Bitar


Kenneth Anders Chamberlain Elaine Rita Chamberland


Carol Ann Cole


Barbara Ellen Collins


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GRADUATES-Continued


Arlene Joyce Connolly


Maureen Patricia Connolly


Catherine Patricia Corbett


Daniel Edward Greenwood


Arthur David Grenon


Lois A. Corish


Kenneth Joseph Grew


Carol Ann Corso


John Lincoln Griffin David L. Groves


Ellen Joanne Cotter


Kenneth Allen Cox


Anthony M. Gugliotta


Corinne Marie Croteau


Rosemarie Gugliotta


Paul John Crowley


Evelyn K. Hanscom


Richard C. Cullity


Masako Hara


Margaret Ann Cummins


Mary Ann Hartnett


Mary Louise Curran


Chester Robert Hartshorn


Suzanne F. Hennessey


Mary Elizabeth Hilliard


Virginia Claire Hoar


Francis Paul DeBenedictis


Marcia Madeleine Deeb


Judith Mary Dempsey


Heather Frances Horgan


Judith Anne Howard


Kevin T. Dixon


Ann Marie Donohue


Josephine Donohue


Francis Joseph Doran


Brian F. Drummey


George Oliver Ducharme John Dulkis


Joan Jeanette Johnson


Leon Paul Durbin


Janice M. Eisnor


Virginia Howard Ellis


Catherine Enos


Patricia Louise Joy


Rochelle Margaret Kady


Robert Vincent Kelley


Edward John Kelliher


Maureen Judith Kelter


Jacqueline Isabelle Kerr


Paul James Ferrick Robert Charles Ferris


Arthur Knoll Peter Kulsa


Kevin Thomas Flaherty


Leslie LaCivita


Lois Gayle LaCivita


David A. Lane


Evelyn Rosemary LeGay Eric R. Lewin


Lorraine Elizabeth Livingston


Anthony Michael Lorusso


Richard Lowe


Jean Ross Mackinnon


Marylyn Ann Mackinnon


Eleanor Mary Golden James Joseph Gordon


Keneth Joseph Gore


Joseph Edward Green


Lawrence A. Johnson


Donald Malcolm Johnston


Janice Ann Joseph


Margaret Pauline Eppich


Edward Xavier Feeney


Lois Patricia Ann Feeney


Martin William Feeney


Patricia Frances Ferrara


Francis Marie Hurley


Irene F. Ikasala


Sally Ann Jackson


Merill C. Jenks


Aaron Johnson


Mary Margaret Flaherty Frances Jean Franciosi Linda Rebecca Freni Laurie C. Gallagher


William Thomas Geary Joseph Bernard Giusti Martin R. Glebus


Edward William Goba


Gerald Corcoran


Nicholas Patrick Curran


Peter Maxime Curtin


William T. Dalton


Brenda Merel Holder Louisa A. Honeth


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GRADUATES-Continued


Joan Elizabeth Mahar Agnes Mary Mahony George Michael Malacinski Marcia Frances Manning Lester Marchand Joseph W. Markowicz Ruth Janet Martin Joan C. McAuliffe Mary Alice McCormack


Marsha Frances McDargh Grace Christine McDonald Michael J. McGowan Lois Ann McKenna Mary Teresa McKinnon John J. McMahon Nancy I. McManus Joan McNulty James Michael Millin Wilfred Thomas Mitchell David Randall Morin Joan Louise Mulhern Louise Elizabeth Murphy Albert L. Murray Paul E. Narbut


Mary Teresa Naughton Henry Irving Nettle, Jr. Nancy Newman Carol Ann Nordblom


Loretta F. Obergfell Peter J. O'Connor John Martin O'Donnell


Ronald Paul O'Donnell


Dennis Patrick O'Leary, Jr. Conrad J. Palsic John C. Parker Sandra Claire Peachey Rebecca Pelletier Richard Edward Pellowe Ann Ursala Picard Merril C. Pidzewick Elaine Ruth Pierce Lilias C. Pierpont Barbara Clementina Plante


Edward R. Poirier Sandra Jean Pudsey Sally Jane Rafuse Helen Elaine Regan Lawrence Jerry Restall Floyd Daryl Richardson Elena Marie Ridikas Regina Anne Ridikas Richard Fred Rogan Janet Faye Ross Neil Gordon Rowland Julia Caroline Ruotolo Yvonne Ruth Rusell Judith E. Ryan Nancy Nellie Saarinen Thomas Dale Santoro


Vera Marsha Selwyn Daniel Joseph Smith Elizabeth J. Strasunskas Bette Mae Stuck


Edward Philip Sullivan


Daine Marie Sutherland


Georgianna Frances Sweeney


Mary Susan TenEyck Joseph F. Tessicini


Peter P. Thomashay Michael Edward Thornton


Johanne Tragakis Gerald Stephen Traudt


Elena M. Vasquez Alice M. Vitartis


Grace Marie Walsh


Sandra M. Weiand Mary Ellen Welch


Johanna Marie Wennberg


Nancy I. Wenstrom Marjorie F. Wheeler Mary Elizabeth White Edward Campbell Williamson


Judith Blanche Wood


Robert Laurens Woodward Gail B. Ziegele


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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE NORWOOD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL


I herewith present my nineteenth annual report as principal of the Norwood Junior High School.


The two new elementary schools have relieved us of the necessity of housing an elementary unit in the Junior High School, which we have done for more than six years. While this arrangement was the best that could be had, it deprived the elementary pupils of facilities for better development which they will now enjoy. It has also pointed up to us that the problems, needs, interests, attitudes, habits, and physical development of early adolescents differ greatly from what we find in the elementary grades. We must conclude that elementary and junior high school pupils move in different worlds and wherever possible should be housed in separate buildings.


Our present enrollment of approximately 830 pupils in grades 7, 8, and 9 is close to the number that should be housed here. All the rooms are still being used, although three of our classrooms now serve special needs. The band now uses a basement room which it used before space was at a premium. The remedial reading teacher shares the use of another base- ment room with the mechanical drawing teacher. Both guidance teachers share a small, partioned room beside the office. This arrangement is for the present year only, since our enrollment will increase to 900 next year, and most of this space will again be used as regular classrooms. In September of 1960 another increase in enrollment will occur, and we shall again be pressed for space.




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