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A) The Masconomet Chapter of the National Thespian Society was formed in May 1963 to give recognition to students willing to gain the necessary points for membership through their participation and support of dramatics activities.
B) Two Plus One, three one-act plays were held in the spring of 1963, and the annual three act play was held in November 1963. The Importance of Being Ernest was chosen and produced with two commendable performances.
C) The Magic Carpet, a program of interpretive reading was presented in two assembly programs and has prompted interested students in continuing this worthwhile activity.
2. Our Student Announcers program has steadily improved and provides very valuable daily experiences for students making morning broadcasts of opening exercises, daily devotionals, and daily announcements. Added to these daily services this fall has been the Weekly School Opening Exer- cises inaugurated by our Student Council. Each Monday morning (or the first day of school for the week) as student leaders ceremoniously raise the colors in front of the build- ing, all personnel stand at attention facing the front of the building toward the flag raising ceremony and follow this with the pledge of allegiance. The program broadcast throughout the building provides all personnel with the op- portunity to dedicate themselves to the ideals of our nation
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and reminds all of the responsibilities we have for using our educational system to foster democracy.
3. Projects and activities related to our Social Science program and designed to have students actively involved in citizenship experiences produced very satisfying results during the year.
A) Student planned and conducted assembly programs made Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day more significant for all students.
B) The American Legion Oratorical Contest, sponsored by local American Legion Posts was held successfully again this year.
C) We increased our efforts in the State Student Govern- ment program this year through the Student Govern- ment Exchange Program. This exchange with Newton and the project developed by our students which ex- plained our local form of goverment gained us a First Place Award from the Massachusetts Secondary Principals Association and the Massachusetts State De- partment of Education. We continued to send a student representative to the Student Government Day pro- gram held each spring at the state capitol.
D) Our International Affairs Club with the help of CARE included the entire school in the Masconomet-Monter- rey-Care Project which resulted in our helping to build a school in Monterrey, Honduras. The significance of this project was conveyed to our student body at an assembly program in September at which time a Special Citation was awarded to Masconomet under a grant from the Sears-Robuck Foundation. Masconomet was selected for this citation by the Massachusetts Secondary School Principals' Association and the Massachusetts Department of Education. Pictures were also shown of the school in Monterrey being construct- ed and made possible through our support.
4. Our Student Exchange Board has markedly increased its activities and for the first time we have students living for a year in foreign countries. The Exchange Board has raised nearly $600 in scholarship support for our two students living for the year in Hannover, Germany. They have like- wise been in close touch with these two students and another member of the Class of 1963 who is spending the year in Norway.
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5. In addition to a great deal of assistance to the Exchange Board, students in the Foreign Language department have participated in the annual International Nite which gave the public attending a well planned sample of how our modern techniques of teaching foreign languages work.
6. Our students with special interest and talents in writing continue to do quality work as illustrated in Kaleidoscope, The Best From Masconomet, and the Regional Review. Since September, the school newspaper has been a weekly feature of the TRI-TOWN TRANSCRIPT, thus increasing the circu- lation of our paper as well as increasing the journalistic activities of our newspaper staff.
7. This year for the first time our National Honor Society shouldered the responsibility for planning and conducting our four Honor Roll Assemblies. This leadership by students in emphasizing scholarship increased the significance of the Masconomet Arrowhead that is awarded to students making the honor roll.
8. Experiences provided for students with special interests and talents in the field of science have included: Masconomet Annual Science Fair which included over 100 exhibits; Regional Science Congress held at Hamilton-Wenham Region- al High School with 34 of our students participating. Two of our outstanding science students were selected as partici- pants in the Summer Course for Academically Talented under National Science Grants.
9. Our Mathematics Teams finished in the first division in the Tri-State Mathematics League and also in first division of the Northern Division of the Eastern Massachusetts Mathe- matics League.
10. For the second year the unusually fine and creative talents of our Home Economics, Industrial Arts, and Art students provided exceptional displays and ideas for the Christmas Fair. This exhibit was open to the public and it, together with the Creative Dance production, brought many commen- dations and suggestions that this be an annual event.
11. In May 1963 our Industrial Arts students entered over 50 projects in the State Industrial Arts Fair held at Fitchburg, Massachusetts and we gained five first prizes and over 40 honorable mentions.
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12. We witnessed the continued excellence in our music pro- grams. The year included Exchange Concerts for our band, Christmas Concert, Operetta, Spring Concert, and several as- sembly programs. Our Singers were especially honored by a special invitation to perform as a group at the 1963 State Music Festival held in Springfield. Our Band was likewise given unusually fine honors by being invited to participate at the World's Fair in New York City. The Band will go to New York for this performance on April 30, 1964. The energetic support of the Music Parents Organization is making the trip possible.
13. Unusual - is the term for the success of our interscholastic athletic program during the past year, especially for the boys' teams.
Boys' Basketball (1962-63 Season) team qualified for the Eastern Massachusetts Basketball Tournament by winning over 65% of its games.
Boys' Track Team won the Essex County Track Conference Relay Meet; Essex County Track Conference Champion- ship; Essex Track Open Meet; and they remained un- defeated in dual meet competition for the third straight year.
Boys' Baseball Team won second place in the Cape Ann League.
Our 1963 Football Team completed the season with an undefeated record and continued its undefeated streak to 14 consecutive games, emerging as football champions of the Cape Ann League. Steve Chew (a member of the Junior Class) won the state individual scoring champion- ship.
Boys' Cross-Country completed the season undefeated, win- ning the Cape Ann Championship, the Cape Ann Open Meet, and the Class "D" State Championship. Our Fresh- man and Sophomore Cross-Country squad also brought honor to themselves and to the school through winning the Catholic Memorial Invitational Meet.
Our girls' athletic teams failed to win championship honors, but they did win the majority of their games.
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GUIDANCE SERVICES EXPAND
"Guidance is the high art of helping boys and girls to plan their own action wisely, in the full light of all the facts that can be mustered about themselves and about the world in which they will work and live." - This definition of guidance provided by the Educational Policies Commission is accepted as an overall guiding principle at Masconomet and when analyzed into organized services which we should provide, we realize that the complexity and diversity of the world in which our boys and girls will work and live and the maturing science of counseling challenges us to improve a dual approach to our guidance services. (1) A coordinated and cooperative approach involving all teachers and staff members helping boys and girls muster all the facts that can be gathered about themselves and about the world in which they work and live, and (2) Specialized services directed at helping each individual boy or girl with the more personal and individual problems involved in planning his own action wisely.
Contrary to the belief of some, our expanding emphasis on improved guidance services does not take guidance responsibilities away from classroom teachers and centralize them in a guidance department. Rather, it stresses even greater participation by class- room teachers as illustrated by increased meetings with small groups of teachers and counselors to deal with adjustment problems of individual students. Likewise, this year has seen the birth of a faculty advisory system wherein every faculty member is assigned between 15 and 20 students with whom to work as a personal advisor in dealing with educational decisions and in other ways being concerned about the welfare of individuals. This advisory system is in its infancy and will take a great deal of planning, evaluation, and cooperation on the part of both teachers and guid- ance personnel. A temporary obstacle is the extremely limited space and crowded schedule which makes it difficult for students to meet with advisors.
This year has seen the addition of a School Adjustment Coun- selor Program at Masconomet. The school adjustment counselor be- came a new member of the Guidance team in May 1963, and although much of his salary is provided by the Division of Youth Services under the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, he is a regular member of the school faculty with an office in the high school and works under the supervision of
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the Director of Guidance. He is employed on a 12-month basis. Be- cause this position is new this year and the responsibilities are not clear to many citizens, space is given here to an explanation of the purposes and functions of this service.
The adjustment counselor program, established by law in 1955, Chapter 696 Section 460, is designed to help youth who have ex- treme problems of adjustment which are preventing them from functioning normally and satisfactorily in learning situations. This help may be accomplished in a variety of ways, but basically, the adjustment counselor brings a psychologist's point of view to the school situation. Extremely important in the success of the adjust- ment counselor's work is the classroom teacher, for much of the responsibility for identifying symptoms of emotionally upset, unusual behavior, and other poor adjustments to school lies with the teacher.
In treating cases, there are three basic methods of using serv- ices of the school adjustment counselor:
(1) As a consultant to any member of the school staff and community agents regarding particular problem cases of grades 7-8.
(2) As a counselor to the student, using verbal skills of the counselor and/or the manipulation of the school milieu in order to bring about an expedient, but effective modifica- tion of behavior within the existing program of the school.
(3) As a case-worker, working with the home, community agencies, and medical personnel. The nature of many cases handled by the adjustment counselor necessitate the pro- fessional opinion of a psychiatrist. It is also the responsi- bility of the school adjustment counselor to enlist the in- terest and help of clergymen and other local leaders and officials in a mutual effort to save children from delinquency.
The number of cases demanding the specialized skills of our school adjustment counselor are a small minority and it is worthy of note in this report that we have four full time guidance coun- selors, in addition to our Director of Guidance, who are serving the vast majority of our students whom we consider normally well adjusted but are in need of a great deal of information about them- selves, the educational opportunities available and desirable for them, and the educational and occupational opportunities available to them as adults. These counselors continue to service approximate-
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ly 1170 students, 70 teachers and administrators, and parents through their analysis and interpretation of student records and test data, arranging and conducting meetings with teachers to discuss student cases, workshops with parents to explain program offering at Masconomet and the interpretation of educational and occupational requirements beyond the secondary school, details of grouping and programming of all students, and day in and day out counseling of students with their major and minor problems of both an educational and personal nature.
As our school system strives to provide for the needs of all youth in the district and we observe ever increasing specialization and diversification of choices available to these youth we recognize the increasing importance of having effective guidance services.
GRADUATES OF 1963
¡John Paul Albanese
Donald Ellis Fadden Jr.
Gary W. Alpaugh
Susan Esther Fairbanks
Paul Omer Angers
David Edward Faucher
Thomas Harry Angers
Parris James Ferry
Karen Ansteensen
Christopher Foye
Kathleen Terrell Austin
Sandra Lucille Frost
+Carol Ann Baer
William Thomas Gamble, Jr.
Carolyn Ann Banks
Arthur Gingrande, Jr.
Jacqueline Joyce Bergstrom
Mary Virginia Goettel
Richard Warren Bergstrom
Bert Henry Goodwin
Eileen Linda Berube
Paul Joseph Greenler
David Channing Bickford Jonathan Bond
¡Deborah Hall Thomas Roger Hall Jane Hardy
Paul Downing Bowler Betty Jane Broughton
Hawley Christina Harwood
*Robert Samson Burtiz, Jr.
Peter Stuart Haywood
Wayne Peter Cameron
Sally Ann Hilyard
Walter Paul Campbell
Pamela D. Hosman
Paul Eric Carlson Susan Chartier
+Meredith Alexandra Houston Robert Theodore Hubbard
James A. Clark Susan Conley
Cheryl Ann Connor
Christopher Sargent Cross
Charles Gage Curtis
Bruce Thomas Devlin
Kathleen Elaine Doyle Susan Helen Eaton
** Anne Elizabeth Jansen Raymond Louis Johnson Andrea Florence Karayianes Katherine Brooks Kerr
##Deanna Pan King
+Robert Wayne Klingensmith, Jr. Joyce Ann Knudsen Ronald Alfred LaChance
Gary Leonard Balevre
George Elwood Gentuso
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Yvonne Mary Lemieux
Holly Elizabeth Lindbloom Paul Bradford Lindquist Phillip Leslie Lindstrom Charles Nathaniel Love §Luis Machorro Edward T. Maguire, Jr.
Allison Carol Pierce Diane Helen Pilecki
+Virginia Mary Pollard Richard Edward Quinn, Jr.
"John Gilbert Ray, III Lona Lee Reed John Pinkham Reidy
Cheryl Lee Rendle
Shirley Ann Roberts
Richard David Ross
Robert William McManus
Judith Caroline Means
William Charles Meeker
Ralph Pingree Schott, II Raymond Charles Shaw Kendall-Jane Steimen
Roger Alfred Merriam Earle Ladd Morrison
Linda Sue Munroe
Susan Ellen Nangle
James Henry Nason
Lee Noseworthy
Robert Daniel O'Meara
Leslie Ann Paulson
Harry Winfield Perkins
Donald Hopkins Walsh Paula Ann Wesson
Francis Frederick Perry, Jr.
Margaret Jean Whorf
Vance Allen Perry
Priscilla Ann Winn
Donna Marie Peterson
Judith Anne Woodbury
Katherine Phillips
Robert Martin Woodbury
/ National Honor Society * First Honors ** Second Honors
Į Third Honors § Foreign Exchange Student - Certificate Awarded
Class of 1963
The 111 members of Masconomet's fourth graduating class were presented their diplomas at impressive exercises held in the Henry F. Long Auditorium on Thursday evening, June 6, 1963, by Mr. Hans Barber, Chairman of the School Committee. One foreign exchange student from Mexico was also honored at this time.
Thirteen of the class were elected to membership in the New Meadows Chapter of the National Honor Society, with five of them earning this distinction in their junior year. Of 111 graduates, 31 were from Boxford, 32 from Middleton, and 48 from Topsfield.
A survey of the class made early this fall by the Guidance Department revealed that 79 out of the 111 graduates (71.2% )
¡Phyllis Ann Marshall Laurence Peter Martin
Andrea Marie McIntosh
Richard G. Ross
Leea Barbara Sterling Jerome Carl Swindell Patricia Mary Taft Edward Wilson Thistle
*** Maureen Patricia Toomey Paul Clifford Waitt Christine Elliott Wall
+Joyce Beryl Perkins
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are continuing their education, and that of these 51 (45.6%) are attending four-year degree granting institutions. The following summarizes the placement of the members of the class of 1963:
*Four Year Colleges 51
45.6%
Two Year Colleges
12
10.7%
Nursing
2
1.8%
Technical School
11
9.8%
Armed Forces
4
3.5%
Prep or P.G.
3
2.7%
Work
25
22.4%
Undecided
4
3.5%
112
100.0%
* Includes Luis Machorro (Exchange Student from Mexico) and David Bickford and James Clark both in Europe for a year as Exchange Students.
Admitted to Degree-Granting Institutions (39 institutions represented)
Northeastern University 6 Nasson College 1
Univ. of Massachusetts 4
Northwestern 1
Univ. of New Hampshire 4 Norwich University 1
Lowell Technical Institute 2
Oberlin
1
Amherst 1
Ohio Weslyn
1
Boston University 1 Paul Smith's College 1
Bridgewater State
Pembroke 1
1
Carleton College
1 Russell Sage
1
Colorado Col. for Women 1
Salem State
1
Doane College 1 Skidmore
1
Emmanuel
1 Stetson University 1
Georgetown University
1 Syracuse University
1
Gordon
1 Tufts 1
Harvard
1 University of Maine 1
1
Kentucky Weslyn
1 Wesleyan
1
Keuka 1
West Va. Institute
Mary Washington 1 of Tech. 1
Mass. School of Art
1 Wheelock 1
Merrimack College
1 Yankton College 1
Geographical Distribution of College Attended
Colleges in Massachusetts 13 33.3%
Colleges in New England outside of Massachusetts 7 18.0%
Colleges outside of New England 19 48.7%
High Point
1
Valparizo
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Admitted to Junior Colleges
Ambler Junior College
1
Becker Junior College
1
Bentley School of Accounting 1
Boston U. College of Basic Studies 1
Brevard Junior College
1
Cazenovia
1
Chamberlayne Junior College
1
Colby Junior College
1
Dean Junior College
1
Northern Essex Community College
2
Westbrook Junior College
1
Admitted to Other Post-Secondary Schools
Cullinary Institute
Newbury School
of America 1 of Business 1
Essex Agricultural I.B.M. School 1
Hairdressing School 1
Wentworth Institute 6
Franklin Institute 1 Beverly Hospital School
of Nursing 2
As their gift to the school the Class of 1963 presented two roving microphones.
The following awards and scholarships were presented to members of the Class of 1963 at the Graduation Exercises:
To MAUREEN TOOMEY, the D.A.R. Good Citizenship Award for demonstrating in the highest degree of dependability, leadership, service and patriotism.
To ANNE JANSEN, the American Legion School Award for exemplifying to an outstanding degree the attributes of a Good Citizen - Courage, Leadership, Honor, Service, and Scholarship. The award sponsored by the Legion Posts of the member towns consists of a medallion, a lapel pin, a certificate, and a $25 Savings Bond. The latter is presented by the recipient's home town Legion Post (Topsfield in 1963).
To ROBERT BURITZ, JR., the Bausch & Lomb Science Medal for academic excellence in science.
To ANDREA KARAYIANES, the Topsfield Lions Club award for General Excellence in the field of Business Education. This award consists of a wrist watch and an engraved placque.
To JOHN RAY, III, the William Cargill Award in English Composition. The award is an attractively bound book selected from
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the best of the classics, work of reference, or the field of current publications and of special interest to the recipient.
To ANNE JANSEN, a Certificate of Merit in recognition of her achievements in the field of Mathematics in the annual contest sponsored by the Mathematics Club of the University of Massachu- setts.
To ANNE JANSEN, a medallion presented by the French Embassy through the Office of the Cultural Attache in recognition of efforts and perserverance applied to the study of the French language.
To KATHERINE PHILLIPS, a book presented through the office of the German Consul, in recognition of an outstanding student of German.
To JOHN RAY, III, a medallion awarded by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese to an outstand- ing student of Spanish.
The Masconomet Regional Scholarship Association through its Scholarship Committee has awarded a total of $4200.00, including the 1963 presentations. The following members of the Class of 1963 were recipients: Robert Buritz, Mary Goettel, Anne Jansen, Katherine Phillips, Lee Noseworthy, Judith Woodbury, Carol Baer. A portion of the Masconomet Regional Scholarship Funds has been designated as the Franklin C. Roberts, Sr., Scholarship for Excel- lence in Academic Achievement in memory of Franklin C. Roberts, Sr., who was so instrumental in guiding the development of this regional school. From the funds established in his memory the scholarship award was made to Anne Jansen.
The Masconomet Teachers' Association Scholarship is given an- nually to a member or members of the graduating class who plan to enter the teaching profession. Class of 1963 students receiving this award were: Carol Baer and Anne Jansen.
To CHARLES LOVE, MAUREEN TOOMEY, and JOHN ALBANESE, the Topsfield Lions Club Masconomet Scholarship.
To PAUL WAITT, the Essex County Electrical Club Scholar- ship awarded to a student who is pursuing an education that will lead to a career in electrical engineering.
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Other students who received financial-aid awards are listed below: (Based on the Follow-up of Class of 1963)
ROBERT BURITZ, the Harvard Club Scholarship.
PETER HAYWOOD, a Working Scholarship from Yankton College.
PRISCILLA WINN, a Musical Scholarship from Stetson University.
PAUL CARLSON, Grange Scholarship and Loan
MASCONOMET REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Boxford, Massachusetts FACULTY - FALL OF 1963 Position
Name
Appointed
Julius H. Mueller
Superintendent
1958
Corridon F. Trask, Jr.
Principal
1961
Rodney C. Dresser
Assistant Principal
1959
Edward C. Bryant
Director of Guidance
1962
Janet G. Baker
English
1960
Doris E. Barr
Science - Math
1962
Helen V. Barry
French
1959
Roger W. Barry
English
1959
*Herschel G. Benson
Physical Education
1959
*Dorothy H. Blanchard
Home Economics
1959
Richard M. Boysen
Boys' Counselor - Grades 7-9
1961
Gail A. Bresnahan
French - Spanish
1962
Gelean M. Campbell
Mathematics - Faculty Manager
1959
George Carpenter
Physics- Physical Science
1962
Charlotte S. Cory
Librarian
1962
Judith P. Coutts
Science
1962
Joseph A. Curran
Science- Visual Aids
1959
Roberta W. Friedman
Social Studies
1962
Erna W. Fullerton
German
1959
William Ganter
Biology - Chemistry
1961
*Donald M. Gay Suzanne Glidden
Music, Grades 9-12; Band - Chorus
1959
Social studies
1962
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Name
Coleman P. Gorham Ruth J. Halloran Robert A. Hawkes George Horn, Jr.
Position
Appointed
Boys' Counselor, Grades 10-12 Girls' Counselor, Grades 10-12
1962 1962
Industrial Arts - Asst. Football Coach, Varsity Basketball Coach Industrial Arts
1962
Jean Jarvie
Music, Grades 7-8. Orchestra
1959
Ethel A. Jewett
Homemaking I, 8th Gr. Homemaking, Advanced Clothing
1962
Elizabeth S. Kennedy
Shorthand, Typing, Office Practice, Secretarial Practice Social Studies
1961
Barbara S. Kimball
English
1962
Ralph V. LoPilato
Science
1959
Joseph Lyons
Social Studies - English
1961
Shirley Marchalonis
English
1962
William J. Mastroianni
Latin - French
1962
Robert E. McDonald
Mathematics
1960
Norma W. McGarr
Science - Math
1962
Theodore C. Meinelt
Art
1959
*Richard P. Merrill
Languages
1960
Sara Jane O'Hara
English
1962
*Teunis J. Paarlberg Allison Parker
Spanish
1959
Robert W. Parker
Industrial Arts - Director of Driver Education
1959
*Richard W. Pavesi
Industrial Arts - Mechanical Drawing
1959
Sandra Peabody
Physical Education, Jr. High Girls
1962
Theodore Pikora
Social Studies
1962
Gerald Plumley
1959
Gail Reynolds
Physical Education, Coach of Jr. High Boys' Sports English
1962
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Mathematics
1962
1959
Elisabeth M. Kenosian
1959
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Name
Position
Appointed
Walter C. Roberts
Mathematics, Coach of Football and Baseball
1959
Mary M. Rowell
Science
1959
Daniel J. Ruggiero
Social Studies - English
1961
James W. Russell
English
1961
John P. Sangermano
Biology
1960
Jeannette F. Scholer
English - Speech
1961
¡Herbert E. Silander
Special Education
1959
Norman Soucy
Shorthand, Typing
1962
* William R. Stanton
Business Education
1959
Linda D. Stone
English
1962
*Louise O. C. Swanson
Chemistry
1959
Lillian Taylor
Mathematics
1959
Doris K. Tirrell
Homemaking Grades 7 and 8
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