Classical High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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THE OFFICE AIDES Back row: Vincent Valentine, Fred Weinberg, Bruce Cramer, Robert Bettinger, Richard Posnick. Third row: Jean Parkinson, Carol Locke, Louise Bogue, Virginia Paine, Beverly Briggs, Barbara Gale. Second row: Barbara Perry, Barbara Skinner, Beverly. Bennett, Carol Roper, Barbara Kingsbury, Bette Landen, Eileen Burke, Elaine Redmond, Barbara Scott. First row: Marilyn Clark, Ethel Lazarus, Harriet Schneider, Miriam Katz, Margaret Baker, Claire Roberts. Members absent from picture Barbara Lawrence, Anne Cooley, Jean Showalter, Janet Chandler, Ken Hatch, Bill Muir, Don Clifford, Anne Hamel, Claire Piques, Jean Prendergast, Harold Matroni, Jill Block, Pat Hall, George Panichas, Betty Burr, Melvin Blitz, Ed Cook, Patricia Tracey, Barbara Bailey. THE ATTENDANCE ‘CLERKS Back row: Stanley Cohen, Carolyn Mum- ford, John Houston. Second row: Selma Berkwitts, Joan Cater, Donald Mathison, Joan Cahalin, Margaret Houston. First row: Zylpha Smith, Louise Hobbs, Joyce Judson, Angie Colapinto. Not in picture: Ronald Nelson, Patricia Roberts, Mary Kalmbach, Harry Keirn, Harry Wilson, Louise Katz. Janet Chandler is taking care of the switch board. Jean Showalter Bruce Cramer is running the mimeograph ‘a6 7 - o Do is writing a pass for Beverley Briggs. machine 12

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FRANK HESS Mr. Frank Hess was born in Everett, Massachusetts, where he later attended the public schools. After receiving his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Education at Harvard University, he became successively, the submaster of Sanborn Seminary, New Hampshire, principal of the Whalen, Massachusétts High School, and princi- pal of the Lebanon High School at Lebanon, New Hampshire. He is now completing his thirty-first year as in- Kingstown, structor in chemistry at Classical. With- in these thirty-one years he has also found time to give evening and afternoon instruction in chemistry at the Wesson and Springfield Hospitals and at North- eastern University. He has been a scout master too, and he is still a lay preacher in the Methodist Church. Now that he has sent four sons and two daughters through college, Mr. Hess has decided to take a well earned vacation. He and Mrs. Hess will go south for the winters and spend their summers at Mascoma Lake near Enfield, New Hampshire. There they will cften be joined by the Hess family including their eight grandchildren. Mr. Hess has a sympathetic approach toward his students which inspires them with confidence and makes the subject matter seem less difficult. He is at once the father, the teacher, the counsellor. His clever analogies and his sense of humor translate a page of involved and tricky chemistry into a page from an His masterful technique in ‘‘human- is the key to his success. exciting novel. izing chemistry’ ’ 14 His is the passion of the true teacher; he has worked for spiritual rather than material reward. He is not only a teacher of chemistry but a teacher of character. His fatherly ways have endeared him to the entire student body, and kind thoughts will always linger in the minds of the boys and girls who were privileged to study under him. His never flagging patience seems to indicate his belief in the adage: ‘‘Patience is bitter but the fruit is sweet.’’ Each of his pupils knows all these grand qualities; we are only confirming them. Here’s a secret: Mr. Hess is hoarding gold — the gold of good will, affection, and admiration of his students.