Central High School - Blue and White / Pnalka Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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THE BLUE AND WHITE . Yrff .D'-G- William Colver Hill ILLIAM C. HILL started his interesting career in North Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. His father was the captain of a clipper ship which sailed from Galveston to Liverpool, so that before young Will had many summers behind him, he was a sailor with two ocean voyages to his credit. When the old clippers were replaced by the modern steamships, the family moved to New York City for a year, and Captain Hill piloted a steamship from New York to New Orleans. The next notable event in our principal's life was his graduation from Malden High School, which had at that time a membership of one hundred and fifty. His chief interest there was the Debating Society, which con- tinues to hold annual reunions. After high school, William Hill went to Brown University, where he graduated in 1894 after having been awarded in his Junior year the Phi Beta Kappa key, the national symbol of superior scholastic achievement. Later scholastic honors were master's degrees from Brown in 1912 and from Harvard in 1923. His first position was in northern Maine, where he taughtin a private school, after which he served as principal of a small country high school for two years. In 1898, he left northern New England for Washington, Pennsylvania, to become a professor of Latin and Greek in a private school. His native state reclaimed him, however, and Mr. Hill returned to Mass- achusetts to be principal of the South Hadley High School. He had served in this capacity only four months when he accepted the position in Malden of sub-master in his own Alma Mater, which by this time had increased until it numbered about five hundred and fifty. As sub-master, he taught his favorite subjects, mathematics and English. At the end of two years, Mr. Hill became the principal of Chicopee High School for two more years. ln 1904, he went to Milton, Massachusetts, but was obliged to resign his position there after only three months, because of illness, from which he recovered in Minnesota and Iowa. Later, he held positions in Lewiston, Maine, and in Chelsea, until in 1910 he accepted the principalship of Central High School. During his twenty years at Central, he has undertaken much important educational work among which have been his presidency of the New England Asso- ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools, his fourteen years' service as one of the four New England school representatives of the College Entrance Examination Board, and his present membership in the National Council of Education in the National Education Association, where he is one of the three representatives of all the high schools in the United States. These positions he has filled with distinction for twenty years,-twenty years of hard and earnest effort to better Central, twenty years of keeping this the best school in the solar system , twenty years of inspirational leadership. Under his administration, Central has become nationally known as a school that places scholarship first. Mr. Hill deserves our re- spect, affection, and gratitude. Long may he reign! .4715-

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THE BLUE AND WHITE D-'CK The Faculty WILLIAM C. HILL, Prinzipal ENGLISH TIIARRY R. JEFFREY ' ARTHUR C. CURTIS RORANIA F. ANTHONY ADELAIDE H. BROWN RAYMOND E. FENNER SARAH C. PORTER H I S T O R Y TJEESIE M. LAW BERTHA T. DAVIS DAVID H. BROWN L A T I N TWALTER V. MODUFFEE EMILIE DE ROCHEMONT FRANCES H. KINGSLEY TELIZABETH S. MAGAY SIGNHILD V. GUDTAI-'sON ISABEL M. KAGWIN ICLARA A. SNELL FRANGI-is H. BOAL ISADEL M. KAGWIN TCLARENCE M. HALL EILEEN FITZGERALD MODERN LANGUAGES ELIZABETH O. P. LEWIS LINA J. MICHEL MATHEMATICS MARION C. MIIRPHY SCIENCE FRANK Y. HESS ALEPH E. C. OLIVER HOME ECONOMICS SUSAN R. SCOTT EDWIN E. SMITH ANNIE M. WHELAN HARRIET W. MARR JOSEPHINE A. WIIITPI IIOBERT W. RIJSENBERG HIFRTENSE E. SPAULDING FRANCES E. THOMPSON KATIILPINE H. TITTTLE ELIZABETH K. VAN SICKLE LELAND W. SMITH MARY C. STI-H-HENHON MARY H. WOQJDBUIIY LYMAN B. PHELPS, PAULINE H. SIRMAN HARRIET J. HEWITT EMMA E. GAMMIJNS A R T ROSE L. BUCKLEY BERENICE UTIS M U S I C HAZEL CLARK MARY L. REGAL PHYSICAL EDUCATION Girls MARGARET O. BATOHELDER BOSAMOND L. WRIGHT ' Boys DAVID H. REID WILLIAM S. FINN ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF DOROTHY D. KIRKI-IAM, Clfducational Counselorj ELIZABETH STONE MARIAN HOLLAND FLORENCE W. BUZZELL, CMalronJ ELIZ.ABETlI W. BRIGGS THead of Department IActing head of Department .399