Williamsburg High School - Tattler Yearbook (Williamsburg, MA)

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EPILOGUE What you have been reading on these pages has been the record of just one year, but the pa st four years, from 1953 to 1957, the high school years of this graduating class, have been years of significant changes in Williamsburg school history. Sadly, a few of these changes resulted from sorrowful events, others resulted from the demands of time and progress. A boon to the town socially as well as educationally was the construction of a lovely new elementary school in 1954. Modern classrooms and more than adequate facilities greeted the children in grades one through six who left the old Helen E. James building in 1955 and moved into their own school, the Anne T. Dunphy School. For many, many years the people in Williamsburg, and surrounding communities looked for leadership in education to Lucius Merritt and Anne Dunphy, our late superintendent and principal. With their deaths in 1956, we felt that an era had come to an end, and with the subsequent appointment of Walter Richard as superintendent and Edmund Houle as principal of the Helen E. James School, we knew that a new era was beginning In order to keep pace with the demands of an increased enrollment and the principles of modern education, the junior high school was re-organized on a departmentalized basis and so brought into closer relationship with the senior high school. This necessita- ted additions to the teaching sta ff. In attempts to meet the needs and demands of a varied student body, new courses have been added to the curriculum and new activities have been organized. Physical edu- cation for both boys and girls and speech are now required courses: a science club and a debating club are now active groups. No doubt each year will see this trend continu- ing. All these innovations were witnessed by the class of 1957 which has now completed four years of schooling which we hope were happy, exciting, interesting and beneficial. How many important tasks await each one! With the training they have received in this high school and with the help of God, may their lives contribute only good to the world. 46

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