Andover High School - Archer Yearbook (Linthicum, MD)

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Lillian DexTer I I I ndover takes another look NOT AGAIN! For The second Time in The school's brieT l3lf2 year hisTory, adminisTraTors Tound Themselves Taced wiTh The Task oT geTTing ready Tor anoTher evaluaTion. EvaluaTion? WhaT's ThaT? Ask one oT Andover's adminisTraTors or any oT The Teachers and you mighT geT The answer, a loT oT work. AcTually, iT is a process oT sTudying The program oT a school and The way iT Tunc- Tions. This is a naTional sTudy oT second- ary schools. done by The Middle STaTe AssociaTion oT Colleges and Secondary Schools every Ten years. The resulTs deTermine wheTher or noT The school will be accrediTed. MosT oT The work musT be done The year beTore and ThaT's whaT The sTaTT This year had To prepare. MeeTing in boTh I-I a rvey Ta Te curricular and exTracurricular commiTTees Tor monThs, someTimes Twice a week. kepT everyone busy during acTiviTy periods and aTTer school. Finally. by May I The reporTs were ready excepT Tor Tinal ediT- ing and updaTing which will be done in The Tall oT l974. Even Though iT was a loT oT work, Mr. Oliver WiTTig, Andover's principal, com- menTed ThaT iT Torces you To Take a good look aT yourselT. This was whaT The school did in I965 Tor The TirsT evaluaTion and even Though Andover received high cornmendaTions and was accrediTed, The sTaTT made needed improvemenTs Through The years. Now as They Took anoTher look aT The school They hoped Tor a successTul evalu- aTion in l975. Thomas I-lasTy, Jr.