Melrose High School - Log Yearbook (Melrose, MA)

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Charles Dullea English Noah Fieldman Science The General Curriculum presents a basic grounding in English and social studies with a wide range of electives including art, business subjects, electricity, auto mechan- ics, shop clothing, foods and nursing, as well as the languages and sciences offered in the College Preparatory Curriculum. This General Curriculum furnishes a balanced and practical educational training for high school students.” The Business Curriculum offers a thorough training in the skills needed in both the accounting and the secretarial positions of industry. Surrounding a nucleus of English and social studies are commercial mathematics courses including bookkeeping and a rigorous sequence of typewriting and stenography. This introduction to the mercantile world leads to either secretarial placement or continued study in a busi- ness college. Claire J. Hanson School Nurse, Nursing and Health William E. Hanlon Social Studies, LOG Adviser Robert T. Grant Mathematics Ruth E. Foster English, Junior Class Adviser Freeman T. Frank Social Studies, Debate Club Adviser Thomas Ganley Mathematics Ruth Gaudet Modern Languages A. Bruce Gilchrist Science, Meteorology Club Adviser

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Alice Cann C.lerk-Typist Leonard W. Clark Physical Education. Cross Country Coach Alton B. Cole Social Studies, Foreign A ffairs Club Adviser William Griffith Couser Head of English Department, Ski Club Adviser Harold A. Crane, Jr. F.ngltsh, Cloak and Plume Adviser Eileen H. Carlson English Charles E. Carroll, Jr. Mathematics, Imprint, Business Adviser, Eloormaster Josephine M. Chase Physical Education, Girls’ Basketball and Softball Coach This spiraling increase in turn caused the 1961 innovation, the stationary schedule. By replacing our precious S blocks with another class, our homework load and our homeward load of books seemed much heavier. Far-away Freshman days had seemed so different from our hectic and eventful senior year! These four years, with such tremendous changes on both the inside and the outside of Melrose High School, had changed us too. The basic purpose of Melrose High School to provide each individual the max- imum opportunity for growth” underlies its diversification of curricula and courses. Working toward a goal of eighty points for graduation including four years of Eng- lish and physical education and one year each of mathematics, science, United States history and toward his own plans for the future, each student is free to choose his own program from four curricula and 107 courses after fulfilling the above basic requirements. I i Claude H. Croston Social Studies, Varsity T ennis Coach Antony DeTeso Social Studies, Foreign Affairs Club Adviser, Athletics John E. Driscoll Social Studies, Eloormaster, Athletics

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Henry W. Hughes Social Studies, Varsity Hockey, Baseball Coach Sara R. Hume Typing 1 II Literature is taught through illustrative pic- tures. Helen M. C. Hickey Bookkeeping Richard L. Hildreth Head of Social Studies Department , F.T.A. Adviser Joseph D Hoague Director of Physical Education and Athletics, Varsity Football Coach The Alternate College Preparatory Curriculum prepares students for college with a greater variety of courses than the straight College Preparatory Curriculum offers. The choice of electives, which can run the gamut from salesmanship to Latin to phys- ics, is combined with definite requirements in English, mathematics, and social studies. This curriculum requires an additional year of study before a student can enter a four year college or may lead directly into junior college. The College Preparatory Curriculum is provided for students definitely intending to go on to college. Its requirements are stricter than those of the other curricula; foreign languages, sciences, mathematics, history, and English in larger amounts are required. Here the necessary mathematics courses are in four year sequences rather than in one year courses as in the other curricula. Marion E. Hume Commercial Geography and Typing John P. Killilea Science, Varsity Basketball Coach Alice C. Kramer Commercial Arithmetic, Filing, Office Procedures Alice L. Heald Modern Languages . Sophomore Class Adnser Anna Kelley Stenographer Helen G. Kershaw Head of Latin Department, Junior Classical League, Honor Society David I. Hoyle Chemistry. Faculty Manager