Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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The old structure still stands with experience and age, through trying times its corridors have bellowed agony, and its cafeteria has swelled up with ecstacy. How diversified Belmont High has been. What we would now call the present — it has taken on new leadership, with regard to a principal; it has taken on student government, no more codes for students’ clothes; and it will take on a new form, but the Old will not die. Within less than a year, the darkening red bricks will collect their ivy, and the old Orchard Street school will be long-forgotten. Old must give way to Young, but what is new today — is old tomorrow. The fire it survived or the double sessions begun in March, will all become ancient history in the annals of the town of Belmont. The final construction of a new Belmont High, will succeed in preparing its youth for the future — this once accepted as current events, will soon sit side by side with countless items of old news. The New will include a campus-big and beautiful; who could ever have dreamed of such a reality! Yet the dream will soon be fulfilled. But before it is, we, some of the members of the Old — the class of ’70 — wish you — the long line of classes who will be entering the New — a sincere hope, that the New will serve you — as the Old has served us. Howard Goldstein 2

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Administration Mr. Robert J. O’Donnell Principal Mr. George W. Stone Assistant Principal The three members of the administrative staff are men often left unrecognized by students. They are the ones who deftly handle the intricate and time-consuming details related to organizing the func- tions of the administration. Mr. O’Donnell, in his second year of office, has been developing effective curricular plans for the new high school. He has listened with genuine interest to the wishes of student groups and has at- tempted to implement those requests which were practical and desir- able. Devoting their time to the regulations and the code of the high school, Mr. Stone and Mr. Sullivan have been capable assistants to the principal. Mr. Corrigan, as director of the vocational-technical portion of the school, has co-ordinated curricula to teach young men the vocational skills necessary for a technical career. Each man has successfully fulfilled his duty to enhance the bene- fits that students may receive from a public education. They are responsible for earning Belmont High School the fine reputation that it has. Mr. John J. Corrigan Part-time Director of Vocational-Technical High School; Metal Fabrication; Key Club Mr. Robert D. Sullivan Administrative Aide 4