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NORWOOD SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Eugene A. Nelson, Chairman
Charles L. Donahue Mary H. Hemman Thomas A. White Henry A. Diggs John J. Cavanaugh John F. Reynolds
Resolution
JOHN V. COLLINS 1941 t 1961
Mr. Jolin V. Collins worked as a Custodian in the Norwood Public Schools from 1941 to 1961. He served in practically every school building in Norwood over the years and was liked by all with whom he came in contact. On October 1, 1961, Mr. Collins retired after twenty years of service.
The Norwood School Committee extends best wishes for health and happiness in his retirement.
NORWOOD SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Eugene A. Nelson, Chairman
Charles L. Donahue Mary H. Hemman Thomas A. White Henry A. Diggs
John J. Cavanaugh John F. Reynolds
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the student who is successful at Norwood High School is well able to progress satisfactorily on the collegiate level and not infrequently to progress with distinction. Contributing to this happy situation are many factors - among them our Honors Track courses, our policy of homogeneous grouping, the invaluable help of our guidance counselors, and, above all else, the untiring efforts of the dedicated teachers in the school.
A Veteran Teacher Passes Away
The death of Mr. D. Vincent Kenefick of the High School Faculty last January was a severe loss for all of us. Mr. Kenefick, a graduate of Norwood High School, and of Harvard University, and a practicing attorney until the time of his death, had served with distinction at the school over a period of more than twenty-five years as teacher, as Guidance Director, and as Social Studies Department Head. Quiet, sympathetic, keen, and competent, Mr. Kenefick will always be remembered by his students and colleagues as truly "a friend of man."
A Final Statement
The times in which we live seem to underline as never before the critical need for what we might boldly describe as new academic thrust in the classrooms of our Nation. In the interest of brevity, only a few of our advances in this all important direction have been mentioned; other, perhaps equally noteworthy, classroom-oriented improvements in the recent past have been omitted. Also omitted at this time and for the same reason has been a description of the many faceted program of the extracurriculum. Suffice it to say that excellent work is being done in the school on many fronts and that we are indeed grateful for the wonderful cooperation which has made this success possible. As usual my report will conclude with a list of names of those who received special honors at the last High School graduation and with a copy of the program followed on that occasion.
CHARLES A. HAYDEN, Principal
Graduation Honor Awards
Lane Medal Awards
Paula J. Wilder
Richard O. Mackie
Skirmante Makaitis
Maureen E. Crook
Robert E. Cavallaro
Donna E. Olson
Janet D. Rosata
David L. Kelley
Daniel A. Sarno, Jr.
Joan E. Bayer
Carol M. Jewell
James C. Crawford
Mary M. Deasy
Renata Simenas
Maureen R. Brannelly
Jeanne Wallster
Berwick English Prize Mary M. Deasy
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Junior Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Janet D. Rosata
Norwood P. T. A. Council Scholarship Paula J. Wilder
Teachers' Club Scholarship Carol M. Jewell
Norwood Women's Club Scholarship Robert E. Cavallaro
Norwood Mothers' Club Scholarships Daniel A. Sarno, Jr. Patricia Flynn
Women's Community Committee Awards Beauty Culture - Nancy McCarthy Business - Carol Hertle Fashion - Bonnie Neilsen Foods - Madeline Schwendenman
Norwood Kiwanis Club Scholarship Maureen R. Brannelly
High School Scholarship Awards
Renata E. Simenas
Donna E. Olson
Paul D. Bergin David L. Kelley
Maureen E. Crook Joan E. Bayer
Norwood Mothers' Club Home Economics Award Grace M. Araby
Mathematics Award Janet D. Rosata
Lions Club Science Awards
Robert E. Cavallaro Joan E. Bayer
Nicholson Memorial Award In English
Skirmante Makaitis Robert Salie
United States History Medal Skirmante Makaitis
Sons of Italy Scholarship John A. DeFlaminis
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GRADUATION EXERCISES OF NORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL
Class of 1961 Tuesday Evening, June 13, 1961 Senior High School
Program
PROCESSIONAL - "Pomp and Circumstance" Edward Elgar High School Orchestra Under the direction of George H. Farnham
INVOCATION - His Excellency Jeremiah F. Minihan, Pastor, St. Catherine of Siena, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston
"Halls of Ivy"
Russell, Knight
Senior Class
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 hallow'd 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 Dr. William J. Pinard Professor of Psychology
"Look to the Day" Graduate School, College of Liberal Arts
Boston University
Medley from the Senior Musicale, "Sunbonnet Sue" Morgan, Johnson
Senior Class
Music, music, in ev'ry nation, Music, music, for celebration,
That will fill you with admiration To last you all your days. Singing, singing, the echo ringing Louder now your voices raise
For the warmest glow you'll ever know Is when the grand old music plays.
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All hail to music, the concord of sweet sounds, Honor to music, where harmony abounds. Noblest of all the arts, moulder of human hearts Fervor and zeal imparts and joy abounds.
All hail to Norwood High, hail, all hail! To her we say goodbye, hail, all hail! Proudly the chorus raise while we in rapture gaze, Join in a song of praise, hail, all hail!
GIFT OF THE CLASS OF 1961
Charles L. Donahue
ACCEPTANCE OF THE GIFT FOR THE SCHOOL John H. D'Espinosa
AWARD OF MEDALS AND PRIZES
Dr. Philip O. Coakley, Superintendent of Schools John C. Lane Medals
Berwick English Prize
Junior Chamber of Commerce Scholarship
P. T. A. Council Scholarship
Teachers' Club Scholarship
Norwood Woman's Club Scholarship
Norwood Mothers' Club Scholarships
Women's Community Committee Scholarships
Kiwanis Club Scholarship High School Scholarships
The Norwood Mothers' Club Home Economics Award Mathematics Award
Lions Club Science Awards
Nicholson Memorial Award in English
American Legion United States History Medal Sons of Italy Scholarship
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS
Mr. Eugene A. Nelson, Chairman of the School Committee Mr. Charles A. Hayden, Principal of Norwood High School
"Norwood" Wheelock '13 Arranged by Walsh '13
Senior Class (The audience is invited to join)
"The Star Spangled Banner"
John Smith
Everyone
Choral music under the direction of Mr. John B. Faucett Organist - Jacqueline Anne Howard
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Graduates
David Joseph Abely Jean Marie Abreu Janice Mary Acker Clyde M. Adams, Jr. Richard Alan Allbee Rosemarie Allen John R. Anderson Grace Marie Araby Kenneth H. Arvidson Kathryn M. Babel
Martha Jean Badger Paul Bailey
Thomas Joseph Balfour Joseph West Barberie Susan Catherine Barrett Helen Loretta Bartsch Donald L. Bateman
Joan Eleanor Bayer Bonaday Carol Beck Clara Becker Julianne Mary Benkavitch Paul D. Bergin
George Peter Biagiotti, Jr.
Herbert Marshall Bonney, II
Maureen Rita Brannelly
Robert Brissette Joseph F. Brown
Patricia Ann Buckley John A. Busch
Stephen James Butters
Robert Edward Cady
Judith Christine Campisano Stanley P. Carita Roseann Lillian Carrabino Frederick W. Carritte Charles Carl Carroll, Jr. Barbara Ethel Cass Richard J. Cavallaro *Robert E. Cavallaro Fred W. Chapman Ann Jane Cherry Linda Jean Chmielorz John Joseph Clancy Joseph Edward Clancy Anne Elizabeth Clinch Barbara Marie Close Virginia Elizabeth Cola
Charles A. Conley
Donna Marie Connaughton Noreen Barbara Connolly Salvatore Consentino, Jr. Susan Ellen Collins Jeanne Patricia Corcoran Paula Macy Cormier Nancy Jayne Correia Karen Louise Corsini John Lawrence Cotter Donald Leo Coughlin James Clark Crawford Francis John Crisafulli Caroline Marsha Croft Diane Marie Cronin
*Maureen Elizabeth Crook Robert T. Crowley William J. Crowley Lois Marie Curran William A. Curtis Thomas Henry Cyr V. Denise Daley Beverly Ann Day Mary Margaret Deasy Julia Anne DeBaggis John Alfred DeFlaminis Kenneth George DeLisle Judith Ann DeLorrio Elizabeth Ann Demery Peter David Denisi
Philip Francis DeRose, Jr. Janat Frances DiCicco Jacqueline Carol Diggs Maureen Ann Doherty Charles Lee Donahue, Jr. Ann Catherine Doran Michael George Drew Edward H. Duclos Frances A. Ekhardt Theodore Warren Edwards, Jr. Ralph Oskar Ekstrand Katherine C. Ellis Donna Lee Erickson Roberta Merriel Etter
Rachel Vera Famigliette
Margaret Roberta Fanning Robert J. Feeley
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Graduates - Continued
Janet C: Feeney Maureen Barbara Feeney
James A. Ferrara
Sandra Lee Ferris Melvern C. Fillmore
: Dolores Ann Fino Ellen Camille Fisher John Edward Flaherty Patricia Flynn Doris Anne Folan
Mary Louise Folan
Paul Theodore Folan
Brenda Margaret Foley
Joanne Marie Foley Pauline Marie Fournier Gerardo A. Frangiosa M. Kathleen Gallant Philip Mark Goldman
Ronald Lawrence Gomes
Robert Francis Goonan
Maura Graney
Peter Donahoe Grenon
Eileen Karen Grew
Marie J. Gugliotta
Joyce Eileen Hamilton
Carl Stanley Hanson Barbara A. Harris Brian John Hebner Carol Rose Hertle Joseph David Heylin Carole Marie Higgins James Theodore Hilliard Henry James Honeth Mary Ellen Houghton Jacqueline Anne Howard Janice Miriam Howard Roberta Eleanor Jensen James Edward Jessick Carol Mary Jewell Dale Sigrid Johnson
Joseph West Johnson, III Paul Johnson Thomas S. Kady, Jr. Uldis Kaktins Jeanne Marie Karshis
** 'Frank Joel Kauffman Ann Regina Kavolius
Joan Jacquelyn Keefe Vincent Francis Kelleher, Jr.
*David Leo Kelley Jean Marie Kelley Douglas Louis Koch Eric Carl Konstaitis
Hildebrand Kummer
Richard Joseph Lacana John Walter Lane Edith Ann Lindblom
Gintautas Jonas Liutkevicius Christine Susan Lovely Hilda Marie Lundberg Roderick Gordon MacIntyre Richard Onni Mackie Carol Ann MacNeil Elaine G. MacRae Nancy J. Mahar
*Skirmanté Makaitis Judith Charlene Maloof Suzanne Paula Maloof Thomas A. Manley
Michael Robert Marks Joseph Charles Martin Anthony J. Masse Linda Ann Mastandrea Nancy Elaine McCarthy Ralph C. McDargh, Jr. Patricia Ann McDonnell John McDonough William Michael McGovern, Jr.
David G. McMorrow Frances Mary McQuaid John R. Merrill
Frank Anthony Michienzie
Susan Elizabeth Miller
Carol Jean Mohamet Judith Anne Mohan
Paul James Monbouquette
Daniel E. Mullane, Jr. Michael Dennis Mullane Walter B. Nally Eileen Martha Naughton Bonnie Elizabeth Neilson Priscilla Jane Nettle
Lawrence Morgan Newman David Michael Nugent
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Graduates - Continued
Anne Marie Oberlander David J. O'Brien
John Stephen O'Donnell
Donna E. Olson
Joyce Ann Ostrom
Priscilla Arlene Ostrom
Edward Anthony Paduck
H. Grant Palmer
John Parker
Georgia V. Skope Sophie Ann Slawecki
Norman K. Parker
Alfred Anthony Pasquale, Jr.
Donald R. Smith Susan Ann Smith
Nancy Pelletier
Jacquelyn Ann Solomon
Suzanne Pauline Pelletier
Candace Holly Perchway
Malcolm J. Perna
Barbara Ann Starratt Ann Elizabeth Stitt Elizabeth Anne Stonis William Dean Storey, III
Diane Lorraine Pierce
Michael J. Stupak
Josephine Anne Piona
Charles Stuart Sulkala
Pauline Catherine Porazzo
Kathlene Mary Sullivan
Frederic N. Porfert
Dean Philip Sylvester
Carleton G. Pruell
Irene Adel Taylor
Claire H. Puchalski
Priscilla G. Timm
Mary Puopolo
William Joseph Toomey
William James Pye
Mary A. Travers
Carlene Race
David William Troilo
Sylvia C. Radei
Arthur J. Twomey
Peter James Reeves
Henry G. Twomey
Timothy J. Restall
Lawrence Blake Valentine
Jeanne Marie Rioux
Evelyn Mae Vinson
Mary E. Roderick
Evelyn Louise Wall
David L. Rodman
Jeanne Alice Wallster Russell E. Walton
Joan F. Rogers Paulette V. Rogers
Kathleen Mary Ward
*Janet Diane Rosata Kenneth J. Rowe
Michael David Ward Diane Elizabeth Welch
Cynthia Jean Rowland Sheila A. Ruscitti
Robert Douglas Salie
Leona Mary Sansone
Wayne William Santoro
*Paula Jean Wilder Patricia A. Wojdag Leona Carol Wozniak Joseph Francis Yelapi
National Honor Society Member
*Daniel Anthony Sarno, Jr. Judith Margaret Schultz Madeline F. Schwendenman George H. Shackley Kathleen Anne Shagoury
Renata E. Simenas Lee Suzanne Simoni Mary Elaine Skeans
Cecil F. Patnode, Jr.
Richard P. Peters
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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE HENRY O. PEABODY SCHOOL
The Henry O. Peabody School has reached the limit of enrollment as originally planned. With this capacity enrollment, our grade range has widened, as we are now serving students from grade 10 through 13. Fifty per cent of the students attending are graduates of High School before admission. Any expansion of our present training program will require additional classrooms, laboratory facilities, and staff.
The school now offers five courses, one new course having been estab- lished last year - Practical Nurse Training. Requests have been made by the State Department of Vocational Education for us to explore the need for training in other health occupations.
Although the School is primarily one for the training of girls and women for profitable employment, we have admitted a generous number of boys to our Food Service Course each year because of the excellent employ- ment opportunities this field presents to both boys and girls. However, future development of the School will be in the direction of training and placement for girls and women.
In reviewing my Annual Report of 1951 on the tenth anniversary of the School, I note the following:
"The first period in the history of the school has been
one of pioneering - the development of a new type of school to serve an area almost entirely unacquainted with vocational education."
In our twentieth year. we are still pioneering, and community necds will influence future expansion of our training programs. Our Business Department should expand in the future to include even more specialized training. There is also the possibility of including training for several new health occupations, as well as in the field of electronics.
Requests for admission this year to the Beauty Culture Department were overwhelming. Our present policy of admission is to limit the enroll- ment in this department, graduating about fifty students each year. Our graduates have been successful in positions in and around Bostou, and are assured of employment. Prospective employers are interested in interview- ing our students well in advance of graduation.
At present the Beauty Culture Department has three laboratories and is staffed by three full-time Beauty Culture teachers and two part-time teachers, one of whom is required for the teaching of science and the other for teaching units of related art.
We do not plan to expand this department in the future, but expect to maintain the number and quality of our graduates, being careful not to train more students annually than placement would justify.
The Business Program is emerging into a thirteenth-year offering on a graduate level. The accelerated course in secretarial training, started in September 1960, offering a business education to students who have com- pleted the college preparatory course in High School, has proved successful.
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The secretarial and the business machines programs are filled to capacity this year. Positions in the business field are varied and numerous, and placement calls continue to outnumber our graduates.
In planning for an expansion program, it would be possible and prac- tical to include in our business school a course for medical secretaries, as well as units of business training for medical and dental assistants.
With monies furnished to us from the Department of Vocational Educa- tion on a matching basis to subsidize new health occupation programs, these courses could be established with minimum expense and could become attractive offerings in our curriculum. With these plans in mind, additional staff and class room space will be required.
The Dressmaking and Fashion Course attracts a limited number of students, but these programs are being maintained in the vocational schools throughout the state and are being upgraded to reach those who plan fashion and design careers.
The Foods Service Course seems at this time to attract a number of young men due, no doubt, to tlie addition of a Chef Instructor to our faculty. There is a great need for men cooks and bakers, and placement is assured for any young man who shows ability in food management. In 1962, we will accept fewer postgraduate students in this department, as we are planning again to enroll younger students. Having the students with us for two or three years allows for depth of training, wider placement opportunities upon graduation, and encouragement of those students who do show managerial ability to further their education in this field.
At the Hotel and Restaurant Show, held in Boston in April, 1961, the Peabody School received the major school award of the Culinary Salon for its display, which was the result of the combined efforts of three food classes.
Our school dining room is again open to the public. Mrs. M. Adele Marcoux, who formerly was the instructor of quantity cookery, and who managed and operated the school lunch program, is presently instructing the classes in dining room management.
This year we are accommodating the High School teachers, as well as a few regular guests, for luncheon. The small public dining room serves approximately forty to fifty guests daily; the school cafeteria, approxi- mately 154 students daily. All baked goods for both operations are prepared in the school bakery. This is a large-scale operation which affords fine basic training for entrance into the field of work. Placement this year was excellent.
The first meeting of the Advisory Committee for the Practical Nurse Program was held on Thursday, December 14, at the School. Dr. Philip O. Coakley, Superintendent of Schools, addressed the group present. Mr. Charles Richardson, Administrator of the Norwood Hospital, reported on the hospital affiliation and plans were made to publicize further the new offering and to aid in the recruitment of students.
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Our Practical Nurse Program is progressing well, as planned. The first class will be graduated in February 1962. A second class which entered the School on October 2, 1961, will begin hospital affiliation on March 1, 1962. A third class is now being recruited. A very attractive and informative bro- chure was published this year to aid in the recruitment program.
I believe that the following remarks quoted from a letter written to me by Miss Grace L. Nangle, Supervisor of Practical Nurse Education, Massa- chusetts Department of Vocational Education, are indicative of the progress we have made in this program:
"I would like to state that I am very happy to note the con- tinued progress of the program of practical nurse education at the Henry O. Peabody School in Norwood. I would summarize my impressions as follows:
The high quality of the members of the first classes has been obvious. This indicates selection and guidance techniques. In addi- tion, the integration of the clinical experience and pre-clinical studies is proving its value as a method of curriculum organization.
"The contributions of your excellent faculty members in pre- senting a vital and challenging course of studies are outstanding. I am delighted, as I know you must be, with the capability, enthusiasm and loyalty of your faculty members who are working so hard, under your leadership, to develop a successful program.
"The cooperation of the Norwood Hospital in offering facilities for clinical experience for the students has been most generous and helpful.
"1 am eager to see more spacious facilities for teaching practical nursing and training for other health occupations. I know that you will recommend additional class space as soon as it becomes available."
For our Evening School Program additional facilities were made avail- able this year at the Junior High School to accommodate the ever-increasing enrollment in the Adult Education Program. Miss Veronica Simpson was appointed as Evening School Supervisor.
We now have two large centers; one at the Junior High School, and one at the Henry O. Peabody School, and look forward to having additional space at the High School when it is completed.
A new and interesting development in the Adult Education Program was the setting up of three courses to retrain women to enter the clectronics industry. The courses offered were Module Assembly, Inspection and Solderer, and Assembly. This was accomplished through the cooperation of the State Department of Vocational Education, the United States Em- ployment Service, and the Norwood School Department qualified instructors from the Raytheon Company conducted the courses, which were very successful and resulted in immediate employment for many of the trainees. Ninety students took the prescribed courses. A fourth course is scheduled to start in January 1962.
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This school year has been all too short for me! I wish, at this time, to express my appreciation to the faculty of the Henry O. Peabody School who carried on so admirably in my long absence, and to Dr. Philip O. Coakley, Superintendent of Schools, Miss Marjorie McCready and Mrs. Helen Beardsell through whose leadership and direction "school kept as usual."
We have had another very happy and satisfying year together, and I feel we all look forward with enthusiasm to a new era in vocational education.
BLANCHE M. KINGSBURY, Director
List of Graduates
Beauty Culture
Jean Abreu
Dorothy Abruzese
Roberta Anderson
Mary Bertoni
June Merrill
Arlene Burek
Carol Mohamet
Barbara Cass
Sandra Morrell
Judith Cassidy
Edward Morrill
Ann Cherry Karen Corsini
Patricia Colwell
Donna Connaughton
Diane Nashawaty Judith O'Connor Suzanne Pelletier Josephine Piona Judith Ridlon Marylou Roberts
Karen Deady Frances DeBaggis
Sally Russell Carol Smith
Elizabeth Demery Louise Gaffney Carol Gaudette Sandra Gilcoine Vivianne Kieltyka Nancy Leary Susan Leary
Karen Smith
Patricia Stone Kathlene Sullivan
Caroline Liley
Hilda Lundberg Linda Mastandrea Nancy McCarthy
Linda Werning Helen Wilson
Foods Department
Robert Brissette Thomas Cyr Peter Denisi Bernard Haloon David Holden Albert Hudson
Patricia McDonnell
Nancy McGrath Joyce McLeavy
Patricia Sullivan Juliann Taylor Kenneth Tracy
Linda Trenouth
Christine Lovely Suzanne Maloof Gail Robertson Wayne Santoro Madeline Schwendenman Nicholas Silletti
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Dressmaking Department
Joyce Hamilton Bonnie Neilsen
Sandra Pritchard
Jeanne Rioux
Business Department
Carolyn Cammarata
Mary MacIsaac
Virginia Cola
Margaret McLaughlan
Patricia Dempsey
Judith Mohan
Rachel Famigliette
Priscilla Nettle
Dolores Fino
Priscilla Ostrom
Kathleen Folan
Doris Schwendenman
Eileen Grew
Jean Sibley
Carol Hertle
Ruth Stack
Ann Kavolius
Barbara Waugh
REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
I herewith submit my twenty-second annual report as Principal of the Norwood Junior High School.
A substantial drop has occurred in our enrollment with the transfer of Grade Nine to the Norwood Senior High School. There has been no change in our belief that it is desirable to include Grade Nine in an inter- mediate school to provide more adequately for the special needs of early adolescents. However, the shift of this one grade has resulted from increased enrollments.
Since we are relieved of the large enrollments of the last several years, we have found it possible to return to some of our more desirable practices. Class sizes are generally below thirty, which enables teachers to work more effectively with their pupils. Our library is no longer used as a classroom, and therefore it can fulfill its function in our program. Music instruction is now conducted in a classroom which is proving more satisfactory.
Our curriculum continues to be modified so that we may improve our offerings, especially as they affect our more able students. Algebra I, a course for our superior pupils in Grade Eight, is now replaced by the School Mathematics Study Group Algebra I. This newer course includes the essentials of the first year Algebra, and this type of modern mathematics will be continued for the more able students throughout each year of Norwood Senior High School. A modified program that includes much of the modern mathematics is offered to two classes in Grade Eight, and to three classes in Grade Scven. All who are concerned with these courses, both pupils and teachers, find them of interest and value.
French is now taught three periods each week to three classes in Gradc Eight, and two periods each weck to two classes in Grade Seven. Science has been expanded from three to five periods, while social studies has been
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