Newton High School - Newtonian Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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15 is, Tf Recent history shows several changes in Newton High School. In 1946, the junior college was founded. Three years later, there was great speculation as to the space problem and how bad it would become by 1960. The Newtonite suggested such improvements as elevators, food pills to eliminate lunches, discontinuation of marks, and rubberized walls. Within the last few years, honor studies, Tigerama, and the Rally Com- mittee have been introduced to the school. In 1956, a new teaching method was introduced. This system, the Newton Plan, greeted the Class of '59, the Centen- nial Class. In 1957, Harold Howe II joined the Century Class in their exploration of Newton High School.

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A new interest in science at the turn of the century at- tracted many Newton boys to M.l.T., and the curriculum was broadened to prepare them for engineering. By 1901, pressure was being placed on the Board to build a new structure to house the commercial and technical students, Completed in 1909, the Technical High School absorbed commercial courses from the classical school and admitted some of its students. Under the leadership of the first headmaster, Charles Kehrner, the Technical High School increased its enrollment, and a vocational school was installed within the same building. In 1926, Building III was completed, and in the new gymnasium, boys' basketball was first introduced to the school. During the next year, several activities were added. The first chapter of the National Honor Society in Massachusetts was established in Newton High School. The new athletic Held, composed of a quarter-mile track, a varsity gridiron, a baseball diamond, hockey fields, and tennis courts, was dedi- cated to Alfred Dickinson, who had died in that year. r L , V i ' ii r 1 l , i l 0 , i l 1 i 1...

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Now, to the background of IBM machines and Russian teachers, the Century Class is looking forward to graduation as Newton High School looks back over its first hundred years, over the simple beginning, the growth, the road to the present. We look back, over the past, around us at the present, and with a greater understanding and dedication, we advance toward the future. 1959 1859