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

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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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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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CLASS HISTORY Fresh mon Year T was ubrught eheerful day when we the el1ss of 50 eame troopung to the pounded port1ls of our pulatual palladuum ot learnung After w uutung a long tume ull of tive munutes we were suddenly brought to attentuon by a ereak us the massuxe doors swung open we thought that ut was tume th 1t our gre ut d uy h 1d urrux ed when we would beeome hon st fur seeung ete treshnuen unste ud the hunges had fuuuully guxen wuy under the gentle pers11 usuon of one hundred plus people l5l'LlflIIl1g un unuson Most of us h1d heard th ut thus w lS 1 d urk und lorsuken unstututuon but we eould see lught ex rywheue under tl1e e oor through the lloor und penetrutung the w ull We found th ut the shortest w ly between two pounts us not .1 straught lune patrol boys tuught us thus lesson Our bug questuon w1s Wh 1t h uxe those p utrol men got th ut w havent' The answer was Two munutes plus off eaeh elass Yes thus nrst day was pandemonuum Mr Wuggun unformed us that we were to serxe our tume wuth out any fuss and that any reeourse to that old l1shuoned law Freedom of Speeeh would be purely aeeudental We were told that there w usn t uny elevator to the thurd floor To be truthful the only rapud means of transportatuon eupal wouldnt lose hus lure whule w uutung for the male faetor to eome down Unele Carl than took the poduuun not ex1etly th ut euther he stood on ut und told us why ut was wrong for us to have money I for one never knew th ut money was sueh a durty fulthy substunee uf the long green us really the root of ull evul whut 1 lot of ungels there must be floatung around' To muke sure that he eolleeted 1ll the eoun we possessed he made JOHN C ARLSON MARI LYN GUSTAISON BARBARA MAGNAGHI und BARBARA TATI' auxuluury eabbage eolleetors Before too long we poor luttle Ireshues wrenehed wrestled and worked our way unto the sel1ool lute of good U3 old B H S GREY GODDARD and ERNIE CARL SON found themselx es un that huddled mass of organuzed mayhem elassed rlther loosely under the headung of game whueh us known as football In the band under the poundung flaul er leadershup of dureetor Thomas erunged CARROL RICE WARREN LAZELLE VIR GINIA HERRICK BARBARA TATE CARL TEN NEY BTV DANIELLS PHYLLIS WHITNEY DAVE PERRY and CHARLIE LAVALLA un the band JOYCE NIXON PHIL SMITH SYLVIA SMITH ANN CHAMBILRLIN BPV DANIELLS and MARI LYN GUSTAISON quuuled un the orehestra PHIL SMITH ulso found humself Glee Club ueeompunust polute nume for whuppung boy Nl l1y we were studyung un room 70 we were uled' 1 1 lelte e euh urun e pag un eaeh prunted book was umprunted upon our bleary retunas Was sueh a thung possuble9 Dud thus mean that the days of usung a lumunous wateh du ul as 1 readung lamp were ox er9 Indeed ut dud' Rught on the heels of modern uuuxentuon no further than hxe ye urs behund eame B H S In plaee ot our old e 1ndles we had Huoreseent lughts Mr Wuggun seemed to be the butt of many freak aeeu dents durung our hrst year None of our sober senuors knows unythung ubout thus I presume I 1m sure tl1at we shull nexer forget the sught ot Mr Wuggun runnung uround luke un uthlete truunung for tl1e I00y1rd dash uuutortunutely both eloek and bells went blotto so our worthy pu-uneupul demonstruted l skull as un ularm eloek Whule we are duseussung ueudents here s one more After reeeuxung our usual verbal blusterung from the loud sp aker we relaxed unto our usual state of uneasy slumber Suddenly all heek broke loose' A paur of xouees eame through the speaker exudently the P A System wasnt a dead as some people thought It was a eheerful luttle e lrful but Mr Muller spouled our entertainment by send ung a messenger downstaurs The last words were Oh m ' Someone used a blue peneul The old folks found out why unuor eomes home from at B H S up and down the staurs they ran walked and hobbled Some were heard to duseuss the possubuluty of huvung un elev1tor unstalled To unsuue a taur proeedure the Student Couneul took over the tremendous tasks of nomunatung votung and eountung durung the eleetuon ot our elass otheers When th smoke eleared aw uy we found presudent DOODIE ANDLRSON vuee presudent BEV BOVER treusurer IIOHN CARLSON seeretary ANN CHAMBLRLIN Thus el etuon was remurkably tree of eumpaugnung al though sexeral drugstores notueed 1 sudden upswung ol busune s at the sodu fountuun OOD thungs dud not alw1ys follow us around be eause thus was the year when the bug tests were brought from theur war tume returement We the elass of 50 were shoeked by thus tremendous onslaught of un surmountable terror Ex en the teaehers eheery You eant do any more than get zero' fauled to eheer us up xery mueh Funally T day eame and so dud the tests' lor two hours we wrestled wutlu the deelensuon of nouns the eonyugatuon of xerbs and xaruous other phases of our erutueal eurrueulm We passed wuth flyung eolors most of them red We thought that we were 1 faruly he llthy buneh of hoolugans durung the huppy days of B C before elunuej A tune government undermunung the he 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