Richburg Central School - Quill Yearbook (Richburg, NY)

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. . . . . the men of our Board of Education who have devoted many hours and untiring efforts to the fdevelopment, improvement and expansion of our school in order to make it an outstanding institu- tion of learning and training that it has become during 20 years as a centralized school. Under the supervision of the original Board of Educationg Henry Millis, Floyd Saunders, Her- bert Wightman, James Johnston and Clarence Allen Qdeceasedj, many outlying districts came to real- ize the advantages of a centralized school system to their children. On June 29, 1926 at a special meet- ing of the qualified voters of seven districts our school became known as the Richburg Central School, the nineteenth of its nature in the state. Advancing toward their goal, Better educational facilities and advantages for more childrenfl changes have been evident in their roster of members. Contributing their efforts and separate abilities, Lyle Canfield, Jesse Burdick, VVilliam Hammond, Howard Thomson and James lllclntyre were se- lected at different intervals to represent the district in all matters pertaining to its educational develop- ment. Our educational system has promoted the democratic patterns as set forth by those who drafted the first Constitution of the United States of America. Because they too expressed democratic patterns only a few changes have been made in our Board of Education and many of them were evident only when the individuals were contracted to drive school bus. Henry Millis has served his community well for the entire twenty years and Floyd Saunders has served intermittently for twenty years. Each mem- ber has performed his duties capably and has worked for the advancement of the children's welfare. The present Board of Education, Floyd Saunders, Henry Millis, William Hammond, Howard Thomson and James Nlclntyre, are thinking and planning toward the future-a larger central school which will extend to our rural youth educational services comparable to those of their city cousins. 10

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PROGRESS AT RICHBURG l l 13. R. C. S.-1947. and achieve that equality of opportunity to which public education has dedicated its services our obli- gations to the most menial of our society are no less than to its most scholarly and most privileged. Every pupil in our schools is entitled to that type of selected experience which will contribute most in preparing him for the immediate problems of lifeg and equip him to enjoy that degree of happiness, social usefulness and self-realization that can be achieved only through a functional education. Such diversification of program as is essential in provid- ing this larger area of service can be realized only in a school of such size as to justify the establish- ment of many specialized courses. The size of the student body, the physical facilities and specialized preparation of faculty members are factors of prac- tical consideration in determining the degree of so- cial usefulness that any school is capable of ren- dering. The Richburg and Bolivar Boards of Education in appraising their own local situations find them- selves confronted by these common problems. They, therefore, decided after considerable research on the matter, to experiment with the sharing of voca- tional teachers from one school to anotherg it has been economically possible and educationally sound to initiate vocational courses in the fields of Agri- culture and Guidance the past two years, and Indus- trial Arts this past year. Next year we plan to con- tinue the above courses and add vocational courses in the fields of motor mechanics and carpentry with an attempt to relate them in a practical way to the types of work that would be encountered in work- ing in the oil fields. VVe hope in the near future, if our thinking proves sound, to progress into more advanced educa- tional courses in keeping with our aim to provide the youth of our area with as equitable and suitable edu- cation as the youth in any area in the state.

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