Middletown High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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Throughout Middletown High’s long history it has distinguished itself as an institution committed to, and capable of. transmitting the very best in secondary education. C. Green. Superintendent It has done this because it has been served by an ad- ministration and faculty that has recognized the need to change its responsibility to a changing society and the young people who are members of that society. This spirit and vitality will accompany the staff and students from Pearl Street to New field Street with the result that those who will be enrolled in the school will continue to gain the benefits accorded to the students who have so proudly counted themselves among its alumni. C. M. Green Superintendent of Schools 74 C. Snow, Pres. Of Board Board Of Education In A Light Mood

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One makes the journey of life only once, and he must make it worthwhile. To offer fifty-one years to a profession is a definite account of that life. Such has been the teaching career of Margaret Flynn, who spent forty-seven of these dedicated years at M.H.S. Her prayer, familiar to many of the Alumni, at- tests to her living example of a beloved friend and teacher. We who have known you and re- member you, salute you. (En-fcatr O Father, guide these faltering steps Today, Lest 1 should fall! Tomorrow? Ah, to-morrow’s far away; Today is all. If I but keep my feet till evening time. Night will bring rest; Then, stronger grown, tomorrow I shall Climb with newer zest. Oh, may I stoop to no unworthiness In pain or sorrow, Nor bear from yesterday one bitterness On to to-morrow! Then, Father, help these searching eyes Today the path to see; Be patient with my feebleness—the way Is steep to Thee!

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July 10, 1840 — Today at a meeting of the Christ Church it was vot- ed to rent to the City School Society the basement story of the church, reserving one-half of the vestry room at a rent of $125.00 per annum.” Spring of 1841 — The new School Board has voted to construct a building for the high school since the first year of operation has been a success. Consequently a lot has been purchased on Par- sonage Street. December, 1841 — The first high school building is now completed and occupied. The school boasts two floors and an attic, but inter- estingly enough, two high schools are established: the first floor confined to the young men, and the second floor to the women. Each floor is composed of one large room, except for a glass parti- tion at the far end with small cubicles designed to be classrooms. Each room is engineered for 200 students, but an average enroll- ment realized of about 150 per floor. The girls use the attic for re- cess on rainy days or indulge in “gymnastic exercises . 1847 — The school building is considered a show place and people from all over the country have come to see it. A committee from Hartford visited it before building Connecticut's second high school this year. For the first few years, there has been no definite course of study of any formal graduation from the school. Howev- er, curriculum was marked out in the first half dozen years. The New Look For M.H.S. In the short interim of my princi- palship, this building with its cen- tury of tradition has grown on me and I feel an integral part of it. I know that some element of its intangible spirit will be trans- planted to the new school. E. Pehota, Principal