Town annual reports of the officers of Southbridge for the year ending 1952-1956, Part 54

Author: Southbridge (Mass.)
Publication date: 1952
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 1060


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SCHOOL NURSES


Mrs. Lottie A. LeBlanc, 54 Westwood Parkway Tel. 4-3359 Mrs. Pauline Boucher, 13 Edwards St. Tel. 4-7772


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SCHOOL CALENDAR


Winter term, seven weeks January 2 - February 15


Spring term, eight weeks February 25 - April 18


Summer term, eight weeks April 29 - June 21


Fall term, sixteen weeks September 4 - December 20


NO-SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT


The official No-School Announcement for all schools will be given over Stations WESO and WTAG at 7:00 A. M. and 7:45 A. M. There will also be two sets of eight blasts of the fire siren at 6:45 A. M. When it is necessary to make such a deci- sion in the morning, schools will be closed for the entire day.


ENROLLMENT OCTOBER 1, 1956


5- 7


7- 14 Total Grades Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls


1


88


85


14


7


102


92


2


11


12


70


74


1


82


86


3


4


128


76


128


80


4


102


97


102


97


5


99


102


99


102


6


71


75


2


1


73


76


7


69


62


3


3


72


65


8


58


69


22


12


80


81


9


14


19


53


71


3


1


70


91


10


2


36


61


8


4


44


67


11


10


16


20


38


30


54


12


43


53


43


53


Trade


1


54


103


158


Special


14


6


4


1


1


19


7


Total


99


101


640


586


185


165


178


96


1102


951


Total Southbridge Public Schools


2053


Total Saint Mary's School


288


Total Notre Dame School


838


Total Ste. Jeanne d'Arc School


250


Grand Total (all pupils attending school in Southbridge)


3429


14 - 16


16 - Up


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FINANCIAL STATEMENT


Appro- priations


Ex- penditures


Reimburse- ments


Balance on hand Dec. 31, 1956


Salaries


$482,152.00


$479.617.66


$2,534.34


Other Expenses (Including Transportation, Tuition, Medical Expenses, Textbooks, Supplies, Operation and Maintenance of Plant, Equipment, Capital Outlay, etc.) Contingency


146,705.00


146,686.68


18.32


5,000.00


4,778.98


221.02


Audio-Visual Aids


2,000.00


1,969.68


30.32


Playgrounds


4,000.00


3,982.57


17.43


Driver Education


1,200.00


1,198.58


1.42


Federal Lunch Program (Cafeteria)


5,600.00


5,600.00


Smith-Hughes Fund


1,377.92


1,377.92


George Barden Fund


252.00


132.00


120.00


General Athletic Fund


1,500.00


1,453.62


46.38


School Building Improvement Acct.


4,767.61


3,216.57


1,551.04


Wells Toilet Accommodations


882.77


843.83


38.94


State Aid for Schools (Chap. 70 as Amended 1948 Chap. 643)


$106,138.97


Vocational School, State Grant


33,287.03


Smith-Hughes, U. S. Gov. Fund


1,377.92


George Barden Fund


132.00


High School Tuition


1,458.24


Elementary School Tuition and Transportation


1,438.72


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FINANCIAL STATEMENT (Continued)


Appro- priations


Ex- penditures


Reimburse- ments


Balance on hand Dec. 31, 1956


Vocational School Tuition and Transportation


7,617.85


Cole Trade High Evening School Tuition


161.00


Cole Trade High School - Goods Sold


6.70


Cole Trade High School - Clerical Services, Veterans' Reports


145.00


Transportation Vocational Pupils


689.53


Reimbursement-Vocational Tuition


611.92


Reimbursement-Special Classes (Mentally Retarded Children)


4,930.25


Reimbursement-Physically Handicapped Children


833.59


Elementary Schools-Restitution, Broken Windows


9.00


Rental of Auditorium


15.00


TOTALS


$655,437.30


$650,858.09


$158,582.72


$4,579.21


IN BRIEF:


Total Expenditures


$650,858.09


Total Receipts to Town Treasurer


158,852.72


Net Cost to Town


$492,005.37


A detailed financial statement will be found in the Town Accountant's report.


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SCHOOL PERSONNEL


The name, date of appointment, and degrees appear in that order.


Robert L. Fox-1954


M.Ed.


Sven Rosengren-1950


M.A.


Claire Birtz-1937


D.Ed.


Elwood Jenness-1948


B.S.


Paul Sweet-1950


Mary E. Wells High School


James M. Robertson-1937


D.Ed.


Nora Adams-1947 Secretary to Principal


Pauline Aucoin-1921


B.S.


Kathryn Beauregard-1922


M.A.


Rose Brodeur-1939


M.A.


Eva Casavant-1933


M.A.


Laura Chapman-1953


A.B.


Anthony Chlapowski-1956


B.S.


Constance Coderre-1929


B.S.


Luise Corbin-1915


Edward Desroches-1949


A.B.


Paul Duhart-1949


M.Ed.


Thecla Fitzgerald-1926


M.Ed.


Francis Flanagan-1956


B.S.


Robert Hart-1952


M.Ed.


Everett Holmes-1945


M.Ed.


Persis Howe-1930


B.S.


Barbara Kyrios-1940


B.S.


Eino Laakso-1945


M.A. M.A.


Fayne McMaster-1956


A.B.


William Nickerson-1941


B.S.


Elinor Small-1945


M.Ed.


Flora Tait-1939


M.A.


Frances Troy-1927


B.S.


Lindzay Varnam-1943


M.Ed.


Elsie Wanerka-1945


B.S.


John Welch-1948


M.Ed.


COLE TRADE HIGH SCHOOL


Raymond L. W. Benoit-1949


M.Ed.


Maureen Prokos-1946 Secretary to Director


Elsie Hofstra-1933 Clerk


John Benson-1942


B.S.


George Braman-1938


Walter Glondek-1938


David Knight-1956


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Lewis Kyrios-1954


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Harry McMahon-1926


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Lucian Manchuk-1956 William Paul-1942 Eugene Remian-1949 Frank P. Skinyon-1934 Lawrence Swenson-1932


Edwin Waskiewicz-1952


CHARLTON STREET SCHOOL


R. Joseph Racine-1944 M.A.


Dorothy Berthiaume-1954 A.B.


Lorene Fierro-1954 B.S.


Helen Golden-1948 B.A.


Claire Kirk-1949


B.S.


John Kowalski, Jr .- 1955


B.S.


Gwen Kuszewski-1954


Dorothy Locke-1954


Bernard Pouliot-1955


B.A.


Marie Saunders-1954


Linda Shipley-1956


B.A.


EASTFORD ROAD SCHOOL


Raoul Lataille-1940


M.Ed.


Theodore Finnerty-1948


M.A.


Bertha Foley-1912


Irene Gough-1912


Ruth Huson-1946


Thomas Mahoney-1954 B.S.


Julia Morrill-1914


Mary Puracchio-1956 B.S


Vincent Puracchio-1950


B.S.


Dorothy Simpson-1954


B.S.


Marie Skaza-1949


Florida Tarquinio-1942


B.S.


MARCY STREET SCHOOL


Constance L'Ecuyer-1940


M.A


Patricia Callahan-1939


M.A.


Alice Dion-1926


Faith Dostal-1956


Josette Dupuis-1948 A.B


Myrtle Jodrey-1944


B.S


Malcolm Nash-1948


M.Ed.


Eva Salviuolo-1943


B.S.


MECHANIC STREET SCHOOL


Anita Sfreddo-1953


Ms.B.


Elizabeth Curtis-1944


A.B.


Myrtle Harrald-1955


B.S.


B.S.


Martha Koprowski-1954


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PLEASANT STREET SCHOOL


Camella Dintini-1940 Maria Rayces-1956 Ruth Sampson-1930 Mary Winston-1951


B.S.


SPECIAL TEACHERS


William E. Rinehart-1952


B.S.


Stanley Naumnik-1954


Clara Reed-1941


WEST STREET SCHOOL


Laurenda Boyer-1927


Yolande Augusto-1951


B.S.


Raymond Fell-1956


B.S.


Nancy Jodrey-1954


B.A.


Madelene Proulx-1954


B.S.


Anthony Sapienza-1954


B.S.


Shirley Richardson-1956


B.S.


Dorothy Sheriff-1945


Anne Skudlark-1954


Celestine Sweet-1932


B.A.


Betty-Lou Whritenour-1956


B.S.


CAFETERIA PERSONNEL


Edith Freeman-1953


Manager


Viola Galligan-1953


Irene Gates-1954


Germaine Gravel-1956


Isabel LaForce-1953


CHANGE OF TEACHERS


LEFT


Retired


Estelle Hefner-June


Cathryn Maxwell-June


Corinne Beaudreau-June


Mary E. Wells High Eastford Road Pleasant Street


Resigned


Arthur Lane-August


Mary E. Wells


Guy Raiti-February


Cole Trade High


Lois Traub-October Eastford Road


Ann Bousquet-June Mechanic Street


Tynne Straatveit-June


Mechanic Street


Betty-Lou Whritenour-November West Street Pleasant Street


Maria Rayces-December


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Leave of Absence


Gilbert Lamarre-August


Ruth Mahan-August


Evangeline Towse-August


Mary E. Wells High Charlton Street Marcy Street


Appointments


February-Lucian Manchuk


Cole Trade High


April-David Knight Cole Trade High


September-Anthony Chlapowski Mary E. Wells


September-Francis Flanagan Mary E. Wells


September-Fayne McMaster Mary E. Wells


September-Linda Shipley Charlton Street


September-Mary Puracchio Eastford Road


September-Faith Dostal Marcy Street


September-Myrtle Harrald Mechanic Street


September-Maria Rayces


Pleasant Street


September-Shirley Richardson


West Street


October-Betty-Lou Whritenour


West Street


November-Raymond Fell


West Street


CHANGE OF JANITORS


Left


September-Joseph Libera


Mary E. Wells


Appointments


October-Wilfred Pelletier


Mary E. Wells


JANITORS


1954-Joseph Brouillard (Head Janitor) Mary E. Wells


1946-John B. Craite Cole Trade High


1942-Armand Gaumond Mechanic Street


1952-Wilfred P. Gauthier West Street


1952-Adelard Lavallee Marcy Street


1943-Theophile Leduc Charlton Street


1955-Joseph Libera Mary E. Wells High


1941 .... Joseph Moore Eastford Road


1949-Eugene Tetreault


Pleasant Street


1953-George St. Martin Mary E. Wells


1956-Wilfred Pelletier


Mary E. Wells


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ANNUAL REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS


To the School Committee of Southbridge:


Gentlemen:


I have the pleasure of presenting to you, and through you to the Citizens of the Town, my third annual report which is the sixty-second in the series of reports issued by the superin- tendents of the public schools of the town.


Enrollment Trends


Increase in school enrollment has not been as alarming as it has been in many other towns. School population in a neigh- boring community, for instance, has increased by several hun- dred each year for many years. In Southbridge our numbers have increased steadily at the rate of fifty to sixty each year, and the growth will continue at about the same rate during the years for which predictions may be made at this time. It may seem that fifty is a relatively small increase in a total enroll- ment of about two thousand, but, from an administrative point of view, the increase is the equivalent of about two classrooms.


A concrete example of the effect that this steady growth has upon school planning will be in evidence at the West Street School on next September. Two fourth grades, one from Pleas- ant Street School and one from West Street School, totaling sixty-five pupils, would enter the fifth grade at West Street School under normal conditions. There is, however, but one room available to them because at that school we shall have a double sixth grade and a double seventh grade. We shall have to place as large a number as possible, forty probably, in the room at the West Street School and transport the other twenty- five to other schools in town. The criteria used for the assign- ment of pupils to other schools are these: Those who live near enough to Marcy Street School shall be sent there even though Marcy Street School has thirty-two in its fourth grade this year and will be able to take no more than eight in its fifth grade next year. Since bus pupils have to be transported any- way, they will be transferred to other schools. If, by these methods, there are still too many in the fifth grade at the West Street School, a taxi service to Charlton Street or Eastford Road Schools will have to be instituted. This is but one of sev- eral similar problems which beset us in the elementary schools at the present time and which will become more harassing as the years unfold.


At the secondary level we have a situation which may be tolerable for another year. Including the eighth grade, there are 613 pupils in the Mary E. Wells High School building this year. The first indication of overcrowding has become appar- ent. During one of the class periods, a class in an academic subject must meet in the Household Arts Laboratory because


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no regular classroom is available. There are ninety-six in the Senior class and by some strange statistical quirk only 137 in the seventh grades of the town. Therefore the increase in the number of pupils in the high school building will be disturbing but not alarming next year. But with 150 in the sixth grades and an average of 200 in grades three, four, and five, no imagina- tion is required to foretell what must happen in September of 1959. The eighth grade must leave the high school building. Its destination, at that time, is uncertain.


Projects


The administrative guide, a book containing all the rules and regulations controlling principals, supervisors, teachers, and janitors, was published during the summer. It was the result of a two-year study on the part of the principals, and it is an extremely valuable document in that it serves to create common administrative practices throughout the system. With it as a guide, a comparison of policies between two schools within the community should no longer exist.


Another study of equal length on the part of all elementary school teachers resulted in the publishing of a curriculum guide for the elementary schools of the town. It is a volume of more than two hundred pages and contains, step by step, subject by subject, grade by grade, the elementary courses which are a part of the curriculum in grades one through eight.


The chief purposes of this project were:


1. To establish goals towards which every teacher shall work, contributing through her teaching and guidance to a planned total education of the children under her supervision.


2. To unify courses of study. A pupil moving from a third grade in one school to a third grade in another should have little trouble in making the adjustment.


3. To facilitate the entrance of a new teacher into our system.


4. To avoid unnecessary duplication in subject matter.


5. To propose such changes in textbooks and other in- structional material as may seem advisable.


6. To have, in written form, a planned educational pro- gram for our elementary schools. When this is not available, there is apt to be confusion.


The title of the book is "Elementary Schools Curriculum Guide." The word, "Guide," in the title is the key to its value. It should be considered a source of help, a tool to better instruc- tion, and a means of coordinating the efforts of all who partici- pate in the elementary school education of the youth of our community. There must be elasticity to any worthwhile pro- gram, and the opportunity for a teacher to use initiative should always be encouraged. These courses of study are the core of


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learning, but there is much more to modern education than can be placed between the covers of a book. In many interesting ways, according to her ability and personality, each teacher will add immeasurably to the hard, cold statements in the guide, breathing life and meaning into our educational program.


Planning for the Future


At the annual town meeting in March, a school building expansion proposal will be placed before the voters for approv- al. The proposal calls for the acquisition of a plot of land some forty acres in area and for the building of a high school, a trade school, and common facilities for cafeteria, assembly, athletics, and physical education. If the proposal is accepted, the present Cole Trade High School building will be converted into an elementary school of seven rooms, and the Mary E. Wells High School building will accommodate pupils of the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. The Marcy Street and Mechanic Street School buildings will be abandoned; the other elementary schools will be used for kindergarten, and grades one through five.


If the recommendations of the School Building Planning Committee are adopted, within two years not only will there be adequate space for the foreseeable future but also, quite suddenly for such a tremendous change, Southbridge will have a department of education which will be modern in every res- pect. Facilities which are available to high school students in most towns of our state now, will then be a part of our educa- tional program.


The cost is great but the rewards are immeasurable. The consummation of the project will bring educational oppor- tunities to the high school students of Southbridge equal to those of young people in neighboring towns. There will be a school library, complete facilities for the teaching of science of physical education, music, art, and the trades. There will be enough room in the elementary schools to create some of the special areas which are now a part of grade school work. There will be segregation according to age, and this element is a desir- able one wherever it can be accomplished.


The Southbridge School Committee and the Southbridge School Building Planning Committee are in complete accord that this propsal is the best plan of school building expansion for Southbridge. This plan has grown out of a two-year study both by them and by their predecessors, the Citizens Committee for Better Schools. They who have worked so long and dili- gently on this project ask only that every citizen in Southbridge investigate the proposal completely so that he may know from his own experience all the elements of the plan. The School Building Planning Committee, headed by Mr. George Metras, stands ready and eager to meet with any group and submit to


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any questions concerning the proposed new school and changes in the system allied to it.


Conclusion.


The success or failure of a Superintendent of Schools is largely dependent upon the attitudes, the cooperation, and the achievements of those with whom he labors. If this past year has been a good one, and I think it has been a year of progress, I would extend a word of appreciation to a hard-working, loyal corps of principals, teachers, supervisors, secretaries, and cus- todians; to a school committee which has met every problem with open mind and has accepted responsibilities with un- swerving directness; to about two thousand friendly, coopera- tive young people who are a school's reason for being.


MARY E. WELLS HIGH SCHOOL DR. JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Principal


The enrollment for the year 1956-1957, as of October, is divided as follows: Seniors-96, Juniors-84, Sophomores- 111, Freshmen-161, Eighth Graders-161, making a total of 613 students.


Program of Studies


Diplomas are granted upon completion of four different courses; namely: Academic, Commercial, Civic-Social, and Homemaking.


Seventy-five pupils were graduated on June 8, 1956, and their names are included in this report for the information of interested citizens.


Class of 1956


John Waldemar Anderson *Lorraine Lucille Arpin


*Bruce Stuart Baker Irene Carolyn Barnes *Catherine Fay Beebe ¡Vasil Thomas Bellos *William Ernest Borsari Raymond Alcide Brousseau ¡Janet Marie Bumpus James Patrick Canty, Jr. *Judith Joyce Caron Rachel Joan Carpentier Patricia Ann Carragher ¿William Henri Clifford Michael James Congdon Joseph Philip Cordi Harry James Costa


¡Judith Anne Davey John Vincent Lachapelle


¡Robert Henry Lamothe


*Donald Samuel Lapierre


*Roger Henry Lapierre


*Patricia Ann Leveille ¡Dolores Estelle Liro Guido Domenic Digregorio


*Jean Helen Duda Joann Lillian Dulmaine James Bruce Dunn Henry Frederick, Jr. Donald Normand Gaudette


+Kleopatra George


*Kathleen Joan Grandone Judith Ann Groth Kenneth Hall


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Clayre Beatrice Hill ¡Joanne Gay Houle


¡Nancy Keating Hughes ¡Maureen Margaret Israel +David Arthur Kavanagh *Patricia Louise Kirry Barbara Kovaleski Chester John Krupinski


¡Jacqueline Annette Poirier David Joseph Quinn John Henry Rawson +James Heater Robertson


¡Paula Marie Rubenstein Eugene Walter Saletnik Barbara Joan McRoy Carolyn Fay McRoy Anna Rita Marino ¡Paul Armand Mathieu +Roland Paul Meunier


*Diane Godard Michaels


Arthur Mitchell


+Patricia Margaret Nichols Barbara Ann Osberg


*Bessie Naomi Pantos Theresa Ida Peck Alan Lewis Phillips Margaret Evelyn Serleto


*Irene Amelia Simonelli Raymond Milton Snow


*Peter Joseph Sugda


*James Thanas Tanca Helen Victoria Topi


*Joyce Madeline Ugalde Dorothy Peggy Vangel ¡Alexandria Marie Veshia Ferdinand John Volpini Elizabeth Marie Williams Kenneth Francis Willis


¡Marcia Warren Wilson


# War Diploma


Mario Piccione


Lawrence David Smith


Improvements in the School Plant


There have been several major improvements in the school building. These include:


1. A modern girls' lavatory installed on the basement floor


2. Additional lockers purchased and installed on the first floor, bringing the total number of lockers to 153, which affords locker space for 306 students.


3. Two additional rooms equipped with modern moveable furniture


4. The painting of the interior of the school which was started two years ago and recently completed


* General average of 80% or above for four years.


+ Members of the National Honor Society.


¿ Any person, who enters the armed services of the United States during time of war or during a period of national emer- gency by declaration of the President of the United States and has completed the first half of his senior year in a public high school and is in good standing in said school on the date of his entrance into said armed services, shall be granted a diploma forthwith, and shall for all purposes, be considered to have com- pleted his entire high school course. (State Department of Education: Chapter 91-Acts of 1954.)


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5. The installation of six new I. B. M. clocks


6. The installation of oil heat in the school plant


Junior Red Cross


The Junior Red Cross is a service organization. This group, under the able direction of Miss Luise Corbin, gives cheer and aid to the destitute, the ill, and the unfortunate.


The work of the group with the veterans supplements the tremendous task carried on by local, state, and national pa- triotic groups.


The work of the Junior Red Cross, however, is not con- fined to local problems. Cognizant of the needs of many of our overseas allies, they have filled chests full of supplies that will take care of a school of forty-eight pupils for a period of one year. Each chest costs one hundred dollars to fill. The Mary E. Wells Chapter of the Junior Red Cross has sent chests to Hungary.


Guidance Department


The work of the Guidance Department will be covered in the report of the Guidance Director, Mr. Sven Rosengren.


The Commercial Course


The commercial program includes: typewriting, book- keeping, comptometry, filing, office practice, and all general business courses. The cooperative program with industry is still in operation. The course takes place in the last semester of the senior year and permits pupils to alternate work weeks with instruction weeks. The students, four units of them, take places in reliable business institutions and have found this program most beneficial.


The equipment of the Commercial Department is kept at maximum efficiency.


The College Preparatory Course


The college preparatory course prepares students for all leading universities and colleges in the country. Many of the pupils receive large scholarships, a tribute to their own in- dustry and a tribute to the excellent instruction of their teach- ers. Students from this course have entered such leading in- stitutions as the following: Cornell, Connecticut College for Women, Brown University, The College of the Holy Cross, Tufts, Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts, Boston Univer- sity, University of Michigan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Clark University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Smith College, Mount Holyoke, Welles- ley College, Simmons College, Columbia University, University


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of Connecticut, University of New Hampshire, Williams Col- lege, Colorado College, Ohio State University, The College of New Rochelle, California Institute of Technology, Georgia In- stitute of Technology, Pennsylvania State College, Northeastern University, Westminster College, Bates, Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, Colby, plus most of the leading business colleges, and nursing schools.


The Eighth Grades


The eighth grades of the school system are still housed in the high school building. This year it has been necessary, be- cause of increased enrollment, to have five eighth grade home rooms. The pupils receive the program opportunities of the high school, and they are eligible for all high-school activities, including sports.


Student Council Activities


The Student Council of the Mary E. Wells High School plays an important part between students and administration. This organization is under the direction of Miss Rose Brodeur. The values of the organization are manifold.


1. Pupils participate in or manage extracurricular affairs.


2. Responsibility, initiative, and leadership are developed.


3. Proper Student-Faculty relations are promoted.


4. Training in worthy citizenship is furnished.


5. The general welfare of the school is promoted.


6. The internal administration of the school is aided.


The Fred E. Corbin Chapter of the National Honor Society


The local chapter of the National Honor Society, named in honor of the late Mr. Fred E. Corbin, inducted twenty-six mem- bers during the past year. The most recent induction was hon- ored by the Superintendent of Schools, Mr. George Sellig, who spoke at the ceremonies.


The following young people have been inducted into the society during the past year:


March 1956


Seniors


David Kavanagh Robert Lamothe Dolores Liro Paul Mathieu Patricia Nichols James H. Robertson Marcia Wilson


Juniors


Diane Allen


Muriel Brown


Louise Coccia


Marion Croke


Stephanie Domijan Carole Dudek Kenneth Ethier


Vincent Kochanek Florence Ludwin Loda Slota


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November 1956 Seniors


Thomas Libuda Theresa Martin Russell Mckinstry


Juniors


Santhe Billis Alanson Bowen Madeleine Caplette Walter Damian David Harrald Richard Mathews


Assemblies


Assemblies are held every other week. These assemblies are of immense value to any student body inasmuch as they are not only educational but explore the various phases of school life. Furthermore, they widen and deepen the interest of the pupils and serve as a means of developing public opinion and appreciation. The types of assemblies fall into many cate- gories, such as:


1. Education


2. Music


3. Rallies


4. Drama


5. Club Programs


6. Movies


7. Entertainment


8. Honor Society Installation


9. Science


10. Commerce and Business


11. Observance of Special Days


12. Guidance


The assemblies are held in the auditorium of the high school.


Senior Class Trip


One of the extracurricular activities which is of educational value is the trip taken by the seniors to Washington, D. C. In order to acquaint the townspeople with the educational value of this trip, the routine itinerary is published in the local news- papers.




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