Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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1 ENGLISH FACULTY Mr. Francis H. Duchny Mini Eli iilxth A. Gould Mrs. Evelyn Hornsey Mr. John L. Brown Miss Carolyn Magee (Head of Dept.) Miss Verna B. Ames Miss Ruth Zimmerman Miss Patricia O'Reilly 2 MATHEMATICS FACULTY Mrs. Annette R. Carpenter Mr. George W. Stone Mr. David J. O’Connor (Head of Dept.) Mr. Edmund J. Burke Mr. Richard J. Davis 3 SOCIAL STUDIES FACULTY Mr. David C. Jacobs Mr. John I). MaeBain Mr. Charles M. Meyers (Head of Dept.) Mr. Paul W. Carey Mr. Charles Chalghian 4 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FACULTY Miss Evelyn R. Noreen (Latin, French) Miss Marion B. Steuerwald (Latin) Mr. Joseph F. Solano (Head of Dept.) Miss Dorothy K. McCann (French, Spanish) Mr. Richard M. Penta (French, German) Mr. Arthur J. Martcllucci (French, Spanish) 5 SCIENCE FACULTY Mr. Albert R. ClUh Mr. William T. Cowing Mr. Ralph IJbby ( lead of Dept.) Mr. Icon E. Hamel Mr. Charles R. Holbrook 6 VOCATIONAL FACULTY Mr. Carlton L. Seaman (Machine) Mr. Henry A. Haroian (Electrical) Mr. John J. Corrigan (Sheet Metal) 7 COMMERCIAL FACULTY Mr. Frank X. Veneri Miss Prudence I. Mathews Mr. Lloyd K. Smith (Head of Dept.) Mrs. Lois M. Waldron Miss Eva P. Davis 8 OTHER FACULTY Seated: Miss Katherine F. Kearney (Home Economics) Mr. Norman E. Brule (Art) Miss Mildred Blcnncrlutssett (Librarian) Miss B. Alberta Cleary (Physical Education) Miss Theresa M. Smith (Home Economics) Standing: Mr. Howard A. Nettlcton (Music) Dr. William Bettencourt (Mechanical Drawing, Driver Education) Mr. A. Robert Frink (Physical Education) Mr. T. Meldon Wenner Mr. Leslie W. Crow son (Director) Mr. Michael J. Egan (Woodworking) Mr. Joseph L. Rogers (Automotive) (Health, Physical Education) 12 3

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Belmont Recollections Originally in 1898 the Roger Wellington School was a square building. loiter, two wings had been added as shown in this view from Orchard Street. In 1914, ground was broken for an addition which, until 1987, constituted our present high school. In the Belmont Citizen of March 30, 1929, ap| carcd a picture taken by Jay R. Benton (presumably) in 1914 from Fairmont St. looking toward the location of the present high school. It shows vacant land north of Fairmont St., then the Grady farm where Glendale Rd., Orchard St., and the high school are now. The Roger Wellington School is shown with two wings, but originally, it was a square building with two rooms on each floor plus a kindergarten room and office or storeroom. Miss Hannah McGinnis was Principal and taught the fourth grade. It was there that I first learned slant writing, after which vertical was tried for several years, after which they again reverted to slant. As a consequence, I write neither. At the southwest corner of the present high school property was a brick gas house, ami on the slope above the swimming pool was some kind of a factory. A brook flowed from a pond west of Common St. where Orchard St. now is. This is now piped underground. The fifth through ninth grades were on the first floor of what is now known as the Town Hail Annex, with the high school of alxnit one hundred pupils on the second floor. “In 1882, when the Town Hall was built, Belmont adopted a Town Seal. The design, drawn by Henry Mitchell, Seal Kngraver, represents a statue of Pomona, goddess of fruits and gardens, against a background which is the view seen from Wellington Hill looking towards the Town Hall. In the distance are the spire of the First Church, the roof of the Town Hall, and the railroad, all partly obscured by trees. The scene is drawn upon a trefoil thought to symbolize the three towns of Watertown, West Cambridge, and Waltham. On one side is a spray of laurel and on the other a spray of oak leaves. The whole is encircled by two rings between which is engraved the words ‘Belmont Incorporated 1859.’” 14 Town Seal