Dorchester High School for Boys - Red and Black Yearbook (Dorchester, MA)

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Ilead Master Albert F. Reed Speaking At the request of the Editors, your Head Master submits the following facts concern- ing his Education, Hobbies, and Philosophy of Life . Born in Waltham, he graduated from the high school there in 19oo, from Harvard College CA. B. Magna cum Laudej in 1904, and received his M. A. degree from the Harvard Graduate School in 1905. He began his teaching that year in the Brunswick School, Greenwich, Connecticut, was at Milton Academy 1906- 7, and from there went to the Horace Mann High School of the Teachers' College of Columbia University. At Columbia, where as a member of the faculty he came to know personally many of its outstanding men, he completed the requirements for the Doctorate in Education, except for the required dissertation. In September 1911, he re- turned to Massachusetts to teach in the Public Latin School where he remained until September 1925, when he went to the English High School as Head of the Department of Latin and German. In January, IQBQ, he was called from his classes to head the school when Mr. Downey, at the request of Governor Saltonstall, became Commissioner of Education. Designated by the School Committee as Acting Head Master, Mr. Reed continued to hold that title until he was promoted to the position of Head Master of Charlestown High School in September 1941. He remained at English , however, while Mr. John J, Connelly, Head of the Department of Mathematics at English High, and also fondly remembered at Dore- chester High as a most friendly and expert teacher, directed Charlestown as Acting Head. On February 2, 1942, Mr. Reed was formally transferred to the English High School, sorry that he had not found time to visit the school of which he had for seven months been titular head. On September 1, IQ43, when Mr. Downey resigned the Commissionership, Mr. Reed was transferred to Dorchester, to fill the position left vacant by the retirement of Mr. Regan. As for Recreation and Hobbies , your Head Master has always been fond of books, gardening, boating, shooting, and fishing. As he grew older, however, like Henry Thoreau he put away rifle and gun, thankful that he could still use his fishing rod without qualms. He has always liked to putter with tools, a profltable hobby for one burdened with possessions. He believes that the educational opportunities which our country offers so freely should be better appreciated by our younger generation -that the future not only of our youth, but even of our country, depends on a more intelligent understanding of our present problems, and of the problems of the post-war world. He does not believe that radio or movies can take the place of reading, nor that any progressive methods can be substituted for books. He is con- vinced that much study, home study, must supplement school instruction, -that we otherwise fail to progress towards the goal of a truly literate nation. We must either face this issue, or else relinquish the freedoms of our democratic institutions. Let me finish by thanking you for your cooperative spirit, for your friendly attitude towards me. Our time together has been too short for us to become really acquainted one with another. We hate to see you go, knowing what you must face in the immediate future. But we look to you, and to the others who will take your place, for assistance in making our school outstanding, not only in attendance and punctuality and athletics, but also in scholar- ship, which is, after all, one of the chief functions of a school. Let us all work together to- wards that end. page three