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During the fifties and sixties a dress code was in effect. This meant shirts and ties for the boys (if you didn ' t have a tie you were sent to the office to rent one or sit there for the day), and the girls had to wear dresses. Commenting on the dress code. Van Pelt said, The dress code gave a nice appearence for the kids and they felt better about themselves, but it was a financial burden for some and probably a bit much for a public school. Then the late sixties arrived, the era of Vietnam, protests, and ' doing your thing. ' At Masconomet the abolition of the dress code, the introduction of more freedom, and an entirely new outlook on education arose for both the students and the teachers. In the Sixties we became more concerned with the whole person, said Van Pelt, and that has carried on right through today.
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Today ' s Masconomet, a somewhat average looking high school with an above average reputation for education, serves the three towns of Boxford, Topsfield and Middleton. Upon the school ' s opening in 1959 an entirely new concept was introduced for each of the three small towns — a regional high school, the combining of students from the three towns into one large school rather than small schools in Boxford, Topsfield and Middleton. Math teacher Donald Van Pelt, who came to Masconomet 24 years ago, remembers the tri-town integration as a tight situation. “We were instructed to never identify which town a student came from. The kids also made a great effort to avoid saying which town they were from. But that was in the beginning, now it is a matter of much lesser concern. MASCONOMET 4
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Liz Taylor Peg Wallen Bob Parker Gerry Plumley Jean Jarvre Ralph loPilato The original Masconomet family as they were referred to in the beginning opened their classrooms in September 1959 to the first students of a new regional high school — an innovative concept at the time. Brought together from all parts of the state, this original group set out to provide the best education to a generation of Tri-town youths. DEDICATION
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