Lexington High School - Lexington Yearbook (Lexington, MA)

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Dedication A century of progress has passed from our first school a hundred years ago to the birth of a new modern high school this year. Therefore, to those students, those accomplishments, and those ideals which continually contributed to that progress, we dedicate this volume of our history. We fondly hope that the future years may measure up to the past, be fashioned on the same moral and educational standards, and achieve the Same SUCCESS. Da vet nor eaM ER barr Mei ROE RE

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Spirit of a Century We present our theme to you this year in the form of a spirit—the Spirit of Lexington High—whose haunts for the past century have been our halls, classrooms, and playing fields. A direct descendant of the indomiut- able spirit of ’70, he represents the persever- ing spirit of our faculty, the irrepressible ‘ spirit of our students, the fighting spirit of our athletic teams. As your guide, he will | lead you through the events of the hundredth year of Lexington High School's existence. Cable of Contents PAGE DEDICATION : : ; : : : : : : ‘ : s) ADMINISTRATION: =: : : : ; ‘ : ; : 4 HISIORIGATZ HIGH EI GHlS aa 3 : : : : : : 9 ORGANIZATIONS : : : ‘ : : : : ; : 19 A Tita celal © ome ; ; : : ; ; : : 4 : ? 39 CHAS SOF 1954 We 4 ; ; , , : : : ; ‘ bs) UNDERCIUAS Ss MEN is : ; ; : ‘ : : ‘ : 73 Photographer — Zitso Studio, Inc. Cover design — Peter Zitso ‘44 Candids — William Wetherell ‘54 Printed by the Acme Printing Company, Everett, Mass. CAPY MEMORIAL LIBRARY $5 1 trike be UT radi itl LuUNGTON, MASS. 02173

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Mr. Charles H. Norris, Mr. Richard P. Cromwell, Mr. Myron C. Fisher, Mr. George Wadsworth, Mrs. George P. Morey, Mr. John Blackhall Smith, Superintendent of Schools SCHOOL COMMITTEE Unlike our high school system which is just a century old, the institution of a school committee in Lexington dates back to 1821. First in Massa- chusetts, this committee is credited with recommendations which, six years later, were incorporated into a state law requiring a school committee in every town. For over one hundred years our school committees not only have super- intended the schools but also have visualized our increasing needs in educa- tion. Their foresight has resulted in our new, modern high school. It was they who, having approved the plans of the building committe e, contracted the builders. It was they who, with the help of the teachers, selected the furniture and other equipment, and they who hired the necessary additional teachers. Even though the new high school has opened, the school committee is still called upon to solve many of the problems always needing adjustment after such an undertaking. In spite of the great amount of time, energy, and thought spent, the members are unpaid. Freely elected, the school committee represents, in its highest sense, democracy in education.