Brattleboro Union High School - Colonel Yearbook (Brattleboro, VT)

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HISTORY OF VERMONT TEACHER TRAINING IRMONTERS ean be proud of the faet that the hrst normal schools an Ameraca were establnshed nn thas state Usually the crednt as gaven to Rev Samuel Read Hall who an 1823 establashed 1 school rn Con eord Corners Vermont Classes were held an a bulldmg whaeh was prouded by the parashloners of Rev Hall s ehurch Instruetaon was provaded an only the sublects whaeh the graduate teachers would try to convey to thear pupals Tuataon for 1 term of twelve weeks w as S7 00 af anstructlon was desared an languages tuataon was 82 50 per term The anstltutaon was open durmg the sprang summer and fall so that the male students wo11ld be free to teach durang the wanter It as also an terestang to know that Rev Hall was the hrst to use blaek boards an has elass rooms and to wrate the farst text books about the methods of anstruetlon After teachang an the Columbaa School nn Concord Corners for seven years Rev Hall resagned to establash samalar courses an other Vermont schools He daed an 1876 and from thas date on nothing more was heard from these anstatutlons Prevaous to thas tame sehools had been establashed an Danby Brattleboro and Maddlebury but because of thear tenure of exlstence they are not eonsldered com parable to Rex Hall s rnstatutxon Exen as late as 1867 when the first state endowed schools were establlshed an Randolph and ohnson the curraeulum was basically academac In thas year Edward Conant who as consadered by 1Il hxs contemporaraes as the true father of normal schools bee ame the pran elpal of Randolph Mr Conant reallzed that a knowl edge of subjeet matter was not enough therefore he rntroduced anto the course 1 method whach as stall used today It was designed to show the students the actual methods of anstructang an 1 elass room Model Schools were set Llp near the campus wlth grammar school chaldren as subjects Later an regular elass rooms the students were gnven the reasons for methods employed But Mr Conant soon saw that even thas was not sufhclent He arranged for has puplls to have the opportunity of actually teachmg an practace schools to gave them the experrence they would need In 1874 Mr Conant resagned from the staff at Randolph to accept the posataon of State Superantendent of Schools ln hns absence Mr A E Leasenworth was the super vlsor In 1880 Conant aceepted the prancapalshlp of ohn son where he ralsed the standards tremendously The courses were lengthened the entrance qualafaeataons were made mueh more ragld 1neI the loc 11 sehools were regraded to make them more 1d 1pt1ble to the practrce school method At tarst this caused a slump rn enroll ment but the hnal result was 1 much better student body and a more ethelent graduate ln 1884 Mr Conant lett ohnson to return to Randolph where he remaaned 1mtal 1903 Mr Conant was one of o11r leadang educa tors has memory wnll not be forgotten V1l11 able work was also contrabuted by Andrew W Fdson Has work at Randolph ln the years 1879 1881 eonslsted of makang the sehool even more ellaelent than rt l'1lLl been under Conants supervasaon Durmg the hrst months of has otlaee he m1de an extensave surx ey of the eo1arses an other te 1eher traanang anstatutaons and adopted the best qualrtaes of these schools for 11se If Randolph Students were urged to be Independent of therr text books to mduee eonstruetave thanking on theur art From 1903 1911 Charles H Morrrll was praneapal of Randolph At the end of that tame thas school drs eontanued nts teacher traanmg actlvnty but was reestab lashed as an agracultural college Castleton was converted from a grammar school to 1 teacher traanrng anstatutaon m 1869 The courses here were very samllar to those at ohnson and Randolph One of Castleton s most valuable darectors was Abel F Leavenworth He had prevrously been supervlsor of Randolph from 1874 79 Mr Leavenworth beeame popular wxth the students and teachers at once and as remembered by all who knew ham as 1 warm hearted ampulsave and enthusaastae person It beeame apparent an the early 1900 s th at Vermont was outgrowang her normal trarnrng system The towns an whleh the schools were loe ated eouldnt supply the requlred number of students for the praetlee school Although the state was wallang and able to proude funds and bualdangs nt was unable to provlde chnldren An estlmated 66 000 Vermont sehool chlldren began to feel the paneh of 1 teacher traanang system whaeh was too small for thelr needs Thus problem had been arns ang for a long peraod of tame but because of the an dalference of the general publlc nt was almost ampos sable for the ofhcaals to do anythang about lt They dad however publash several reports to try to star up some enthusnasm One of the basac reasons for the delay was a lack of anterest an anstntutaons whaeh the publac felt were pravate 1n nature for up untal 1896 these schools receaved only a small portaon of thelr total support from the state Rural schools were desperately an need of instructors who would be wallang to remaan an them permanently anstead of usmg them as a steppang stone to better posntrons rn the catles It was also amportant to provaele a specaal eourse whaeh would prepare the teacher for the problems whxeh exast an rural ITCIS Therefore ln order th 1t 1ll sehools and sehool ehnldren might have the best of te aehers courses were antrodueed anto the hrgh 5 A 1 1 . ,N . 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E D pedoes and reduction rn food and fuel They keep the shrp on an eyen keel so they must be checked con stantly Because of the yulnerabrlrty of a submarrne whrle on the surface deck guns are belng elrmmated on our newer models The chref weapon of the subs rs the tor pedo Our modern undersea vessels have ten tubes from whrch to fire the so called trn frsh Torpedoes are launched by actlon of swrtches rn the control tower They are fired by compressed arr once under way they furnrsh therr own power and can travel from 30 to 50 knots Each tm Hsh contarns about 500 lbs of T N T and costs Amerrcan taxpayers approxrmately 312 000 Durrng the war the Germans developed an acoustrcs torpedo This remarkable rm entron was attracted to the spot on the shlp creating the most norse usually the propellers A sensrtrve sound devrce was responsr ble for this so called hommg torpedo Howeyer Yankee xngenulty was not to be denrecl Allred ships crursmg through submannc rnfcsted waters tovned norse makers behrnd them thc acoustrc torpedoes were wasted and thc shrps saxcd a double blovs at the Axrs NDI R WATI R craft are dm en by dresel engrnes whrle on the surface Our newest types are equipped with snorkels or breathmg tubes whrch permrt the operatron vented by the Dutch and taken over by the Germans By means of thrs dence a sub can crurse almost rndefinrtely wrthout commg to the surface Deep down of course the subs must run on their storage batteries Whale b low the surface Uncle Sam s png boats can detect ships and other obstacles and determine therr loca tron from the ocean floor by means of Sonar the Naxy s name for sound naylgatron and range From the submarrne a supersonic sound wave rs sent out through the water When rt strrkes an obyect the returnmg waye srmrlar to an echo rs picked up by a microphone another rnstrument measures the distance and a so called firefly lrghts on a screen the posrtron of the object Sonar works rn water the way radar operates rn arr Depth bombs are the nemesis of the under sea fleet They look like ordinary ash cans and are so called but they spell disaster rf they hrt close enough to therr target Subs often Ire on the bottom wrth motors off durrng a depth bomb attack so that they cannot be detected by sound xnstruments During the last war one U S sub had 105 depth charges on her but she came home under her own power The control room rs the brarn of the submanne Lo cated here are the controls for hrrng torpedoes and the perrscopes for vrewrng actron above the surface The perl scope an mgenrous mechanlsm of prrsms and lenses can be rarsed to a herght of 35 feet Only officers are permrtted to peer through thrs magrc eye rt rs a prerogatrve of command The crew may go for months wrthout seerng anythrng but the rnsrde of therr shrp Exen the men who load the torpedoes do not see them hrt Also found rn the control tower rs the sub s christmas tree This rs a num ber of rectangular rows of red and green lrghts whrch by therr color denote the condrtron of all xalses and hull openrngs aboard the submarrne UBS are nrck named png boats because when they were first called this they were hardly better than pig pens The shrps were small and the men were crowded The crew couldnt smoke for fear of foulmg the already none too fresh alr Food and water came from cans and the men often went wrthout baths for the entrre duration of a crurse Modern submarrnes haxe alr condrtronrng systems rf a sub has been deep down for a long trme carbon droxrde absorbmg chemrcals are exposed oxygen from tanks can be rnyected rnto the atmosphere Usually howew er the alr rs kept fresh and the men are allowed to smoke As for food the submarmers clarm the best rn the fleet Food rs kept fresh rn refrrgcrators and freezers Cleanlmess rs the vsord aboard our under sea craft subs are kept spotless and there are showers and washrooms for the crew Personnel are chosen carefully the men are all volun teers and naxy psychiatrists screen out all the candldates saye those rn dead earnest The chosen men must be rn excellent physrcal health and must be able to get along well wrth others for the submanne crew rs a team If one man makes a mrstake all are lrkely to perrsh To be elrgx ble to wear the rnsrgnra of the two dolphrns whrch de notes under sea duty a member must qualrfy by showmg that he can do the yob of exery other man aboard the yessel In an emergency therefore no sallor will be un certam of hrs duty UBMARINFRS must qualify themselves ln lung tramlng once a year Usrng the Momsen lung they must make four ascents two from a ley el of 12 feet and two from a depth of 18 feet Escapes from 50 and 100 feet are optronal but most men try them to rmrtate more realrstr cally the condrtrons they would encounter rn makrng an ascensron from a sunken submarine Another rngenrous device rs the submarine rescue cham ber Thrs craft rs operated by two men and can save eight at a trme A dner secures a lrne from the rescue bell to the hatch of the xessel rn distress and an electric motor wrnds up the cable pulllng the craft down Thrs efhclent dence was responsrble for saung 33 men aboard the rll fated Squalus whrch sunk off Portsmouth N H rn 1939 Twenty Hve years ago the back bone of naval power was the battleshrp In the last war thrs posltron of prom: nence was occupred largely by the carrrer In a future war however the submarrne wrll be the most rmportant shrp of the fleet capable of crrcumnavrgatrng the globe whrle submerged and from whrch at a depth of 100 fathoms gurded atomic mrssrles can be fired agamst an enemy shore Such rs the submarine of the future The Russran Nasy rs estrmated to possess 250 subs fcllilllnllkd nu pzge 712 1 0 T H IA L 1 ' ' Y n 7 , . 1 - f ' ' - I 1 A . 3 ' I . 1 ' 1 , ' ' - I I . 1 ' 1 Y 1 . 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schools At the tnme thxs was the only solution ayarl able lt IS qurte apparent that the students who toolc these courses were not so well prepared as were those who had gone to normal schools but they were ex pected to assume the same responsnbxlxtres ln 1919 the state refused to renew the contracts of the normal schools on the grounds that they were not producmg the quahty of teachers needed In 1971 homey er a solutron to the normal school problem vsas provrded for Vermont The Carnegrc Ioundatron of New York offered to grve 310 OOO and the trustees of the Unrversrty of Vermont offered to rarse 3200 000 for a centrally located normal school for the state For seyeral reasons Burlington was proposed as a possrble srte for the new lnstltutlon The town was easxly acces slble to all students there were enough children for practrce methods and there were many cultural facllr tres not avarlable IH other crtres When a brll for the establishment of such an mstrtu tron was presented to the General Assembly the senate passed nt by a yote of 29 9 The House however re fused to act posltlyely and mtroduced a plan to reestab lush the normal schools already ln existence After cer tam amendments had been made by the state the blll was passed The towns of Castleton and ohnson but not necessarily the present mstltutlons vsere given the right to establxsh teacher tramxng courses By 1915 Castleton and ohnson had adopted tvso year courses nn order to rmprove the standard of the graduates By sheer accident the state was agaxn prouded vs 1th an opportumty to bunld a centrahzed normal school for rn 1924 the burldmgs at Castleton were destroyed by hre An emergency board decided howes er to reburld much to the drsapporntment of those who fasored hay mg one school One of the major arguments against the location of the lnstltutlons vuas the lack of children ayallable for practlce purposes As a solution to thns problem rt vas proposed that the normal students be transported to nearby towns The arguments agamst thrs vlere as fol ows 1 While practlcrng the students should be under the supervrsron of the mstructor of the course This IS rmpossrble vxhen the students are scattered all os er the state 2 School boards and parents might be hostnle to wards havmg young rnexpernenced strange teachers practxce upon thelr chrldren 3 It would be an added expense to the student or school dependrng upon who was responsxble for the charges A great deal of time would also be wasted rn travel Another solution to the problem mnght have been a wrser dlstrlbutxon of puprls Twelve students were allowed to disregard the courses available at Lyndon six enrolled at Castleton could more easnly have gone to Burlmgton On the basls of these facts It would have been less expenslve by 38 000 for the state to E D have sent all of these students to Burhngton 312 000 could haye been say ed nf otflclals had opened addrtronal one year courses at Castleton and had sent the second year students to Burlrngton and Lyndon To crown It all lt would have been 3515 000 less expenslye to send all of these students to other states where at the trme they would haye recexved a better educatron Today the normal school sltuatlon rs the greatest problem confronting the State Board of Educatron By leglslatron rn 1947 Castleton and ohnson adopted four year courses at the same tlme the state leased class rooms from Lyndon for teacher trarnmg faelhtres and also offered to pay the tuntnon of any student vsho vushed to take the course at U V M Castletons most essentnal need at the present tnmc I9 a campus practice or laboratoryj school ln order to galn experience the students must go to other prrts of the state where pubhc school teachers are mllmg to cooperate rn the practxce program Den lf expense were excluded from the arguments against thus pro cedure the fact that the students are not under the superuslon of their Director of tramlng stlll remalns In this particular case the Board of Lducatron has sug gested that these changes be made or near the school property 7 lzqurpment should be prouded by the stlte or local authorrtxes 3 A contract should be made mth the toysn ot Castleton to rnclude taJ a cash payment to the state for the educatron of local school chlldren tbj the payments of laboratory teachers by the state and under the superusnon of the college cj the arrang mg for houslng and for releaslng these telchers so that no teacher who IS not acceptable to both the town and the state may be employed or contmuccl rn his vuorle Seyeral lmproxcments hase been made at johnson Ill the last few years New land has been purchased to pro yrde an athletxc field and space for nevs dormltorles as needed Repalrs and new equnpment haye greatly ln creased the efficiency of the school provrded dormr torles for students and supplred apartments for the mstructors A college bus has made rt possrble to tray el to varlous crtres nn the area for lectures plays specnal courses and teaching practrce Among other communrty projects the mstltutron rs operatrng a kindergarten for local chxldren Recently Lyndon has been 1n the spot llght The mstructxon at thus rnstrtutron rs excellent new courses have been made as arlable and the school has ample faerhtnes for practrce through nenghborrng schools The Chamber of Commerce rn Lyndonvllle and the students and faculty ofthe college have cooperated nn a project to proylde the school with new class rooms To rarse money for th1s venture a food sale an auctron and fCw111nucd cn: page 912 1 2 T H I A L . . 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