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Maintenance
Two major maintenance projects were undertaken during the summer and following months by the School Department. The first involved the installation of a dry line sprinkler system in the Center School. Four hundred seventy-two sprinkler heads have been placed in advantageous spots in the basement and on the three floors of the building. This installation serves an important purpose in making a frame structure almost com- pletely fire safe in the way of protection for our student body. Secondly, considering the relatively heavy capital outlay ex- penditure for our new buildings it will prevent loss of this school which, if replaced in the present market, would range between $350,000 and $400,000. Also immediate benefits are accruing to the Town in that the insurance on this building has dropped from $0.69 to $0.19 and insurance on contents from $1.16 to $0.28. As a result of this single installation the blanket rate for Town buildings has also improved appreciably, decreasing from $0.45 to $0.41. It is the present plan of the Committee to consider similar installations in the Cochituate and High School Buildings.
The second major project involved the replacement of the two boilers in the Center School. Long range plans had been established calling for the replacement of these boilers within five years. The fact, however, that they were installed in 1916 and had practically outlived their usefulness caused the Boiler Inspector to condemn them following the summer inspection. The Committee had no alternative but to install a new Smith Mills boiler with an operating capacity of 7,800 square feet of net radiation. When the installation was made, the engineer suggested that the boiler be placed on a brick pier to allow for easy conversion to an oil burning system. A conservative cost estimate of re-converting at a later date had this plan not been adopted, amounted to $1,000.
Care of School Property
This past year the School Department spent approximately $9,000 for textbooks and supplies. This amount is in line with the expenditures of towns of comparable size and wealth. With proper care, textbooks should last between three and five years
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and proportionate periods of service may be established for all school property. Such a program allows for the replacement of textbooks and supplies each year without placing an undue burden on the annual costs of instruction. It is somewhat dis- couraging, however, when books which must be brought home for assigned study are abused, and parents are asked to join with the School Department officials and teachers in inculcating sound habits and principles of responsibility for such property at all times. The benefits resulting from this emphasis will accrue to all parties concerned - the child, the parent, and the school.
Athletics
A word of commendation is included here for our coaches and athletic participants. Over the past three years the physical education program has been rapidly improving and our teams have now attained a reputation for top-level performance in our population class. This fall the football team completed the first undefeated season in the modern history of the school and prospects for continuing achievements in all sports, both varsity and intra-mural, appear good.
In closing I wish to express my deepest appreciation to the members of the School Committee, my associates on the staff, the student body, and the parents and citizens of Wayland, whose continuing cooperation and inspiration make our town and school system a better place in which to live and work.
Respectfully submitted, OWEN B. KIERNAN Superintendent of Schools
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WAYLAND HIGH SCHOOL HEADMASTER'S REPORT
To the Superintendent of Schools:
What we are tomorrow depends on our schools today. If our country is to continue to function efficiently, our education system must help our young people to appreciate and practice the principles upon which our democracy was founded. The second- ary school plays a most important role in this effort as it not only trains students for advanced schools, but prepares 70% of them directly for life. Often we hear people who wear clothes of the latest fashion, drive the latest model car, and own a television set, imply that the education system today is not as good as when they were in school. This is done without con- sideration of the fact that less than one-half of the youth of high school age were in school at that time, that those who did attend took subjects whose aim was to prepare for further school, and that mental discipline and drill for mastery received far more emphasis than understanding. Although it has been a difficult struggle against many handicaps, education has made great strides in its attempt to help youth of high school age, not just in preparation for further school, but rather in preparation for life itself. The present day pupil may do less well than his academic ancestor in tests of isolated facts, but society has little use for static encyclopedic knowledge. Today's pupil is far superior in range of interests, ability to think, and capacity to apply knowledge and skills. The curriculum today has been greatly modified to meet the needs of those going no further to school. It has been broadened in scope, made richer in detail, and has become more closely attuned to every day life. The high school program includes not only subject classes, but its many co-curricular activities provide opportunity for student participation, assumption of responsibility, and the "learning how to get along with people" which is so important to success. It is with this type of program, as exemplified at Wayland High School, that this report will concern itself.
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GRADUATES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
The class of 1950 was the first class to hold its graduation in the new High School Auditorium, whose ample stage and taste- ful background added so much to the ceremony. This year the graduates are occupied as follows :
College - 6
Nursing School - 3
Technical School - 3
Armed Service - 1
Business School - 3
Post Graduate - 1
Office work - 3
Industry - 11
Store work - 3
Sales work - 2
Other work -- 6 At home -- 4
Post Graduate - 1
We sincerely thank the sponsors for making the following scholarship awards possible:
Sponsor
Recipient
Attending
Wayland Woman's Club Wayland High School P.T.A.
Bernadette Houston
Regis College
Toni-Jo Gray
Massachusetts General
Hospital
Robert Payson
Gorham State Teachers
College
Rita Poirier
Katherine Gibbs Business
School
Frederick Riley
Bentley Business College
Cochituate Mother's Club
Charles Kelsey
Tri-State Engineering
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COURSES OF STUDY
Rather than mold the curriculum around college preparatory subjects, Wayland High School offers training in three fields - including business and general as well as college. The core subjects required of all students as well as those applicable to each of these fields are outlined here with the enrollment in each:
Core
College Algebra 1 - 26 Latin 1-22
Business
Gen. Bus. Tr. - 45
General Gen. Bus. Tr. - ** Shop - 21 House. Sc. - 24
Grade 9 English - 66 Orientation - 66 Gen. Science - 63 Phys. Ed. - 64
Grade 10 English - 62 Pl. Geom. - 20
Biology - 63 Latin 2 - 18 Phys. Ed. - 60 French 1 - 14
Grade 11 English - 56
French 2 - 15
Bookkeeping 2 - 17
Am. History - 54 Algebra 2 - 18 (or Solid & Trig. - * )
Phys. Ed. - 56
Physics - 17 (or Chemistry - * )
Bookkeeping 1 - 21
World His. - 13 Gen. Math - 27 Shop - 21 Home Mngm. - 21 Physiology - 32 (or Con. Sc. - * )
Stenography 1 - 20 Typing 2-20
Cons. Ed. and Sales- manship - 25 (or World Geog. and Com. Law - * ) Shop - 17 Home & Family Life - 22
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Grade 12 English - 43 French 3- 3
Prob. Dem. - 44
Phys. Ed. - 44
Algebra 2 - (or Solid & Trig. - * )
**
Physics - ** ) (or Chem. - ** )
Stenography 2 - 10 (or Con. Sc. - * ) Office Practice - 19
Physiology - *
Cons. Ed. & Sales- manship - ** (or World Geog. and Com. Law - * ) Shop - ** Home & Family Life - **
* alternate - given 1951-52 ** given under another heading
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It will be noted that a complete course of study is presented in each field, something possible only since the reorganization of the school on the six year plan.
Courses of study have been established by department com- mittee work in Mathematics, Language, Business, Physical Education, Art, Shop, and Homemaking. This year they are being evolved in English, Social Science, and Science. These will be revised at least once every three years.
ACTIVITY PROGRAM
Scholarship, Attendance, Citizenship, and Activities form the four important parts of a high school student's record. A rich co-curricular program is essential to meet the last two of these needs. In Wayland High School this may be divided as outlined below:
X Block Twice A Week
Chorus - 78
Dramatics - 27
Projectors Club - 36 Driver Education - 29
Typing for Personal Use - 15 Remedial Reading - 21 Refresher Arithmetic - 27 Mechanical Drawing - 14 Art - 14
Also During School Time
Band - weekly Orchestra - weekly
Sectional Instrumental work - weekly
Student Council - twice a month
Future Teachers of America - monthly Future Business Leaders of America - monthly Junior Red Cross Council - monthly
Class Committees and Officers
Reflector Staff
Chatterbox Staff
American Legion Oratorical Contest
Athletics
VARSITY AND JUNIOR VARSITY SPORTS
Boys - Football, Basketball, Baseball.
Girls - Field Hockey, Basketball, Softball.
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INTRAMURALS
Boys - Touch Football, Basketball, Baseball.
Girls - Field Hockey, Basketball, Softball.
School Service - Office workers, fire squad, Way-Co, cafeteria helpers, appearance of buildings and grounds, projectors club, dramatic club assistants, traffic squad.
Junior High School Weekly - X Block
Also in School Time
Orchestra - weekly
Collectors Club - 38
Band - weekly
Discussion Club - 36
Instrumental sectional work - weekly
Dramatics Club - 28
Student Council
Projectors Club - 36
Class Officers and Committees
Sports Club - 43
Traffic Squad
4-H Club - 23
Junior Red Cross Council - monthly
ASSEMBLIES
Assemblies form an important part in the program of activity of the school. These are planned by the Student Council with the emphasis on student participation and assumption of re- sponsibility. Even the paid assemblies are introduced by student chairmen. This year the program included the following:
National School Assembly. Service programs - 5 Dramatic Productions - 3
Rallys for Sports Contests - 3
Observation of Special Days - 4
Sponsored by Other School Groups - 8
GUIDANCE
Guidance is an integral part of the educational process. Guid- ance facilities at Wayland High School have greatly expanded under the direction of Miss Nelson in the High School and Mrs. Draper in the Junior High School. Some of the leading features are:
Educational Guidance - adjusting to school, scholastic difficulties, election of courses, testing, preparation for, contact with, and application to advanced school.
Occupational Guidance - Occupational meetings with out- side speakers, curriculum work in Social Science and English.
Grade 9 - studying general occupational fields.
Grade 10 - personal inventory in special field.
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Grade 11 - choosing special job.
Grade 12 - applying for the job.
Social Guidance - Emphasis on getting along with people, personal problems, health and safety, leadership training, leisure time training, community relations.
Testing - Intelligence, occupational, aptitude, basic skills, personal, social.
Record Keeping - Permanent Record Card, Test Record Card, Cumulative Guidance Record, Personality Rating Sheet, Activity Record, Health Record, Pupil Folder.
Placement and Follow-Up - During school, for the summer, for those leaving school, work experience, alumni surveys.
AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS
Since ninety percent of learning is done through the eyes, the audio-visual aids program attempts to make material more life-like, colorful, dynamic, and appealing. Some of the features of this program are:
Classroom films (average 5 a week), film strips, film slides, opaque projector, wire recorder, radio, record player, models, pageants, field trips, dramatizations, pupil made projects, maps - globes, charts, graphs.
FACULTY MEETINGS
The topic "Secondary Education in an Atomic Age" was chosen by the faculty as the main subject for the monthly faculty meeting discussion this year. Particular topics being discussed are :
Changes in Education Atomic Energy
Guidance and Testing
Health Consumer Education Homemaking
Student Participation in School Management
School Plant
Public Relations Citizenship and World Affairs
MAINTAINING CONTACT WITH THE SCHOOL
Close cooperation between the parents and the school is essential to the success of the school in producing well trained 'citizens. There are many avenues open to parents to maintain
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closer contact with the school. These are enumerated below with the hope that parents will use them to advantage.
Reports - Rank card, Supplementary Report, Message to Parents, Annual Report.
Publications - Weekly School News, (containing one feature article concerning school activity) Chatterbox, Reflector, School Handbooks.
Meetings - American Education Week, monthly Parent- Teacher Association Meetings, Graduation.
Individual Contacts with: Teachers at P.T.A. and after school, Guidance Director, Headmaster.
Appointments may be arranged with any of the above mentioned.
PARENTS
A student goes through high school only once, and thus has but one opportunity to build a good high school record. Because of this we sincerely wish that parents would do their best to help their children get the most possible out of school and to have this record one to be proud of. The students reflect a great deal the attitude of the home. If the parents are lackadaisical, the students are likely to be also, whereas if the parents are interested and cooperative, maintaining close contact with the school, the students cannot help but have a better attitude. Parents can aid so much in improving student cooperation, in promoting home study, in reducing absences and tardiness. Parents should re- member that only absences involving sickness are excusable. Visits, shopping, work, doctors' appointments, etc. should be arranged for after school, Saturdays, or vacations. The student belongs in the school unless it is absolutely impossible for him to be there. It is well to contact the school in advance for any absences about which there may be a question.
In addition to rank cards, supplementary reports are sent home midway in the marking period. These reports, as well as the rank cards, should be useful in bringing home and school closer together. We wish parents would visit school more often, particularly the monthly Parent-Teacher Association meeting'
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where teachers may be seen individually in their rooms.
It has been most inspiring to work in the atmosphere of our fine new building. We are very proud of it, and have had many occasions to show it with pride to visitors, or to talk about it at educational meetings outside of Wayland. The morale of the student body has been excellent this year, and that, together with the splendid cooperation of the faculty, Superintendent of Schools, School Committee, and other citizens of Wayland, has made this a most enjoyable year.
Respectfully submitted, STANLEY L. CLEMENT Headmaster
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
To the Superintendent of Schools:
The present report covers the period from the opening of the schools in September to the Christmas holidays.
Complete physical examinations have been made on all students of the Wayland High School except for a very few to be completed after the re-opening in January. The Wayland Center School and Cochituate School children will then be examined.
The first of the series of three diphtheria toxoid inoculations has been given to each child whose parents have so requested. Booster inoculations have been completed.
A new file is in the process of compilation, so that each child will have a complete medical record aside from the regulation state card. This will provide a permanent record of an indi- vidual's physical condition during the school years, somewhat more complete than the necessarily stereotyped forms.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLOTTE A. STEWART, M.D., Ph.D.
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CLASS OF 1950 WAYLAND HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
CLASS OF 1950
OFFICERS
President, Bertram Ketchen
Vice-President, Joseph Tierney
Secretary, Toni Jo Gray Treasurer, Paul Keith
GRADUATES
Robert Vernon Baker
Avis Arlene MacArthur
Myrtice Anderson Barr
Patricia Emily Mclellan
Jacqueline Ann Black
Mary Helen O'Brien
Ronald Eugene Bradley
Richard Henry O'Brien
Robert Edward Brogan Patricia Ann Carroll
Edward James O'Neill, Jr.
Phyllis Shirley Collins
Robert Edwin Payson Virginia Ann Perodeau
Loretta Marie DeSimone
Walter Francis Perrin, Jr.
Barbara Ann Devine Ann C. DiModica
Frederick Joseph Riley
Dorothy Marie Dupree
Bessie Eva Gaudet
Toni Jo Gray
Elizabeth Harrington
Mary Bernadette Houston
Frances Alice Shufelt
Malcolm L. Ide, Jr.
Paul Dean Keith
Jerome David Smith Betty-Lou Spencer
Charles Henry Kelsey, Jr.
Joseph Raymond Tierney
Bertram Eugene Ketchen
Barbara Ann Weeks
David Paul Kicilinski
Isabel Ann Weirs
Robert Edward Lehman
Diana Morgan Yarrish
John Francis Lupien
PROGRAM
Processional - Pomp and Circumstance Elgar
Invocation Rev. George P. McColgan
Claude Debussy
Piano Solo - Clair de lune Betty-Lou Spencer
Symposium - Patterns for Living Introduction Bertram Ketchen
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Marie Rita Poirier
John William Roche Leonard Frederick Rodier Norman Joseph Rodier Joseph Arthur Shepard
The Pattern of Responsibility The Pattern of Leadership The Pattern of Mental Development Interlude - Trumpet Solo
The Pattern of Physical Development The Pattern of Social Development The Pattern of Spiritual Life Good Night ()l' Man River
Jacqueline Black Fred Riley Bessie Gaudet Paul Keith Bernadette Houston Toni Jo Gray Robert Payson
German Folk Song Jerome Kern
Glee Club
Presentation of Class Gift
Bertram Ketchen, Class President
PROGRAM
Presentation of Awards
Mr. Stanley L. Clement, Headmaster
*Award of Diplomas
Mr. Harvey Newton Chairman of School Committee
National Anthem Key
Benediction
Rev. Claude H. Voorheis
Recessional
Pomp and Circumstance Elgar
American History Award Sponsored by Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Good Citizenship Award
Sponsored by the National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution
Reader's Digest Award Sponsored by the Reader's Digest Association
Business Scholarship Key Sponsored by Becker Junior College
Scholarship Awards
Sponsored by the Wayland Woman's Club
Sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association Sponsored by the Cochituate Mother's Club
* Please refrain from applauding until the last name is called.
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THE FRANCIS WAYLAND CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
Scholarship, Leadership, Service, Character CLASS OF 1950 Bernadette Houston
Diana Yarrish
CLASS OF 1951
Barbara Bragg
Eileen Costello
Dorothy Kohler
Marilyn LeDrew
REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR GIRLS
To the Superintendent of Schools:
I wish to submit the following report concerning girls' Physical Education in the Wayland Schools for the year 1950.
The same basic activities have been carried on as discussed in previous reports.
Due to the expanded classes in the Cochituate School and the time allotment in that school, a slight change was necessary for the primary grades. Actually, the children do not lose any Physical Education periods, but a period is dropped every third week from the supervisor's schedule for each of the primary grades (1, 2, 3). The classroom teacher is requested to teach the lesson at this time. Perhaps this is a step toward an in-service training period for the classroom teacher in one of the special subjects.
No doubt in another year or two, the elementary school population will have grown to the point where an instructor for combining elementary Physical Education and girls' after-school sports will be necessary. The present set-up includes Grades 1-3 boys and girls and Grades 4-6 girls and all after-school activities for elementary, junior high and senior high girls in the program of the girls' Physical Education instructor. The boys from the
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4th through the 12th grades are under the boys' instructor.
Several times during the year the boys' and girls' classes are combined to include social activities such as dancing.
I believe that Wayland High School is one of the few high schools in this vicinity that conducts a successful co-recreational program in class time for high school boys and girls. Volleyball, ping-pong, badminton and gym games are some of the activities carried on in these periods which meet once a week.
We must face the world situation which is before us now. Physical Education becomes a major subject in times such as these. Our young people must be physically fit. We found a great weakness there during the last war and the forces had to take much valuable time to train men and women to become physically fit. In this atomic age, we will not have time to prepare people to be physically fit. They must be ready when and if a situation arises, and Physical Education in our schools plays an important part in meeting these standards. I believe that the boys and girls here in our schools are getting an adequate training to fulfill these requirements.
Standard first aid courses are being set up as part of the regular high school program.
Aside from these special phases of our program, the regular activities include sports, games, stunts and tumbling, gymnastics, and dancing.
May I take this opportunity to express my appreciation to you and your committee, and the people of Wayland for any assistance which has been given to help make our Physical Edu- cation department a better one.
Respectfully submitted, MARJORIE P. SISSON
REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR BOYS
To the Superintendent of Schools:
I herewith submit my second report as director of Physical
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Education and Athletics in the Wayland School System.
The physical training phase of the overall program con- tributes much to mental and physical health. Equipped in schools with facilities to accomplish varied applications of organized skilled activities, a person goes out into life with a lasting interest in specific forms of wholesome exercise, which contributes much to social adjustment and development.
The elementary grades (4-6) in the fall were strengthened by an intensified curriculum involving fundamental skills. This contained warm-up periods, basic drills and activity time. Soccer from the embryo to the regulation play was used as the basis. All types of individual and group lead-ups were employed.
During the winter similar participation in relation to basket- ball, indoor games, and gymnastic work, was carried out. In the spring work along the same general pattern was carried on in relation to softball and limited field events.
In the Junior and Senior High which meets twice weekly, a program consisting of soccer, touch football and limited outdoor games was carried out in the fall. Each period was preceded with warm-up drills, plus a few minutes devoted to basic work in practical first aid. While classes are indoors during the winter, it is planned to assimilate a program containing some basketball, volleyball, badminton, indoor group games, dancing, ping-pong and mat work. When spring arrives, work will be done in soft- ball, baseball and field events.
After fundamental training in handling balls, clubs, bats, rackets, and other implements, boys are gradually introduced to various features of organized teamwork.
Intramurals in touch football, grades 4-12, were carried out in the fall. A limited amount of basketball will be done this winter, and a full program of spring baseball will be carried out.
Athletics, which I believe develops many desirable qualities such as coordination, physical fitness, alertness, discipline, team- work, and good sportsmanship, really flourished this fall with our football team winning all nine games against excellent opposition.
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The basketball team has hopes of another good season, which again will include teams in the 8th and 9th grades, plus a Varsity and Junior Varsity.
Our baseball team should enjoy one of the finest seasons this spring.
As recommended last year, I would like to see Wayland include a nice closed in field with small stands on each side. I believe it would be most beneficial to the school and town.
I sincerely thank you, the principals, the entire staff, as well as the townspeople, for complete cooperation in helping to carry out this program.
Respectfully submitted, SAMUEL P. STRICKLAND, JR.
REPORT OF THE ART SUPERVISOR
To the Superintendent of Schools:
When, how, and where, appear to be the major problems in planning a constructive, functional and creative art program today.
It is the accepted thing to have creative art in the modern school. However, with a personnel of all types of teachers; those accustomed to a dictated form of lesson, those from other systems using various methods, and new teachers fresh from training schools; it is sometimes difficult to have a working plan harmonious to all and still give the child the right type of art lesson.
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