Amity Regional High School - Embers Yearbook (Woodbridge, CT)

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somooi. i-nsroifav Nothing can discourage the pioneers of Bethany, Orange, and Woodbridge! 'In the spring of 1952, when the city of New Haven informed them that it would not accept any more freshman-senior students to attend New Haven schools after 1955, plans were started and within six months Amity was built. This great undertaking was begun when the people of Beth- any, Orange, and Woodbridge held town meetings and elected three people from each town to serve on a Temporary Regional School Planning Committee. Due to the untiring efforts of these pioneers, within two months a referendum recommending the ioining of the Regional High School District was held and won by the affirmative vote. The site of Amity, approved by the state, was decided to be the former Charles Peck farm on Newton Road, Woodbridge, com- posed of fifty-four acres. After public hearings a bond issue of 51,800,000 was approved by the referendum. In March, 1954, the plans of the people of Bethany, Orange, and Woodbridge were put into action. Amity was created from pre-cast re-enforced concrete slabs, poured on the ground and lifted into place. Amity has the distinction of being the largest structure in the world that has ever been built by this process and the first east of the Mississippi. The usual building dilemmas were encountered and mastered. By the fall of 1954, Junior High stu- dents entered the newly built Amity with its modern facilities and conveniences. The main building, complete with every up-to-date appliance and advantage, was completed by the fall of 1955. Amity Regional High School, a credit to the townspeople of Bethany, Orange, and Woodbridge, accommodates over 1,000 students, giving them a wide selection of subjects in the academic and commercial courses as well as the advantage of many extra- curricular activities. Having as its principal, Howard D. Brooks, Amity is now making its mark as one of the finest schools in the state of Connecticut. Diane Alpert Mariorie Cohen

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DEDICATICDIXI We, the Class of 1956, dedicate our Embers to the people of Bethany, Orange, and Woodbridge through whose perseverance the dream of Amity has materialized. May we be duly grateful for this opportunity to be Pioneers.