Milford High School - Spartan Yearbook (Milford, NH)

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ADDRESS Secondly the mushroomrng enrollment in all our schools IS producing facilities problems unheard of in previous years This is one of those problems that must be settled on a strictly local basis Third is the inability of teachers particularly in mathematics and science to be come informed on the latest developments in their fields This is not the fault of the teachers but IS due primarily to the lack of facilities for obtaining this advanced knowledge Finally the problem of handling the exceptional child presents itself Facilities are available for the retarded student but what of the exceptional? In many cases unless he is extremely self motivated he will be forced to dog along with his less endowed classmates This results in boredom and loss of interest The answers to these problems are many Summer courses for teachers will an swer the needs of the teacher interested in the latest developments in his subject Summer school for students is the answer for the advanced student New Hamp building projects for the enrollment problem seem to be the only answ er in this case There is one last barrier to our realization of our dreams as far as education concerned This is money All ofthese things will be expensive and the burden most cases will fall on the back of the taxpayer Where is this money to come from It has been proven in the past that the American people can finance anything that they really feel they need It then becomes important to convince the public rn general of the importance of this Because of the Sputruks I am sure that everyone is conscious of education but not everyone is education conscious A campaign of sorts is necessary to sell this idea to the public Education interest must not be confined to people with children in school but must be spread to everyone as a very important thing lS at stake the very life of our nation In conclusion the answer to our problem does not he rn the Russian educational system as many people suppose It lies in our own system and the natural develop ment of it into a more advanced form Ray mond P Regan -19 l I 1 - , . . 1 Y I f r shire is fortunate to have such a pioneering summer school already in operation. Vast . . . . . is . ' ' . ' 'i I in . V

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Approxrmately a year and a half ago the Umted States recerved a sharp blow to her ego A country that had always supported the underdog but never really placed rn that posmon was nom runnrng second 1n a very rmportant race I am referrrng of course to the contest of mlnds and money that wrll ulttmately lead to the conquestof space a contest that the Unrted States and the Sovret Umon are trylng desperately to w1n The s1tuat1on a year and a half ago stood at th1s The Sovret Unron had a satelhte crrclrng the globe we drd not Important people rn tmportant places asked the all rmportant questrons why? and how? The frnger of blame slowly swung to our educatlonal system I am not gorng to say that our system ts not faultless but rev1s1on to Sovret tech ntques as many people suggest IS not completely deslrable Let s examrne the plc ture a lrttle more closely It 15 defrmtely true that upon complet1on of a secondary educatron a Russran student has had more scrence mathematrcs and forergn language than a graduate here Thrs IS where the advantages end Tlus graduate IS not by our standards an average student If he were he wouldn t have been allowed to complete hrs schoohng Translatrng rhrs lnto the terms of our own lrves would mean srmply that many of us recervlng drplomas torught would not be rn a posruon to under that system Another aspect rs the end product of such an educatron Sovlet educatron 15 hrghly effrcrent It turns out a specral type of student He lS a hrghly effrcrent thmker rn hrs own freld but polrucally speaklng he must remaln mrndless I thlnk the drfferences 1n phrlosophres here are obvlous and that the undesrrabrlrty of such a system 1n thrs country IS equally obvrous The questron strll remarns What 15 to be done? The f1rst thlng to be done lS to start thrnkrng rn terms of our own educauonal sys tem rather than the Russran s We should not of course rgnore them but use them as a source for rdeas Secondly a complete evaluatlon of our educauonal system should be made Thrs could be done by a board of educators or Independently by each school Through thrs the problems could be defrnrtely defrned The problems wrll vary from locale to locale but many of these are natlon Wlde Many of these stand out rn my mrnd and I m sure they w1ll be famllrar to you Frrst of all many new teachers are not well enough prepared as far as subJect matter rs concerned Many teacher s colleges waste valuable trme on so called edu catron courses wrth thc result that the new teacher does not have the subject back ground that he mrght have had 48 . . V . . . . 1 ' I I . . , . . . - - H .r H H - , - . , . , . . - l l ' . 1 1 . . , I I ' I . . . , . , . . . . . . ,. . ' I .. . , , ' I I - I - . . . . . . , . , . 1 . , . . . x , -

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CLASS We the class of 1959 Mrlford I-hgh School town of Mrlford county of Hrllsborough State of New Hampshrre Unrted States of Amerrca berng of farrly sound state of mrnd recognrzrng the overcrowded condrnons of our dear school and realrzrng that our days here are numbered do make publrsh and declare thrs our last wrll and testament drsposrng of our possessrons sentrmental and otherwrse After our debts have been pard we bequeath as follows Harold Adams leaves hrs elevated shoes to Carol Worthen Allen Bay leaves hrs French accent to Mr Halloran Bonnre Brllrngs leaves the underclassmen boys to the underclassmen grrls Paul Blakeburn leaves hrs mathematrcal abrlrty to anyone rnterested rn workrng wrth frgures Lrnda Blanchard leaves confused Dorothy Brrstol leaves wrth a mrllron thrngs to do Janet Byam leaves her quret ways to Mary Shea Sherla Card leaves her abrlrty to get along wrth everyone to Lana Whrte Rrchard Carleton leaves hrs love for Chevres to Draper s Garage John Carter leaves the basketball team well managed rn the hands of Bob Grassett George Chandler leaves hrs dancrng abrlrty to Rob Wetherbee Ann Chappell leaves Mr Tucker Wrllram Cheever leaves Mrlford Hrgh wrthout a Don Juan Marrlyn Crardellr leaves East Mrlford rn the hands of Martha Shaughnessy Lrnda Crrronr leaves her ltalran Jokes and love for przza to Mrs Center Lynn Corson leaves takrng hrs trrcks wrth hrm Drane Courage leaves her agreeable manner to any teacher who needs rt Allan Crooker leaves Mrs Tonella Leonard Dean leaves rn a black Ford to see the world Lrnda D Ortona leaves the Senror boys rn peace Maxrne Farrfreld leaves her ladylrke manner to Ann Jackson John Farwell leaves hrs quret manner to Gerry Chrrstre whom we hope wrll put rt to good use Davrd Frtch leaves hrs Jet black harr to Davrd Stevens Tyrone Forbes leaves hrs posrtron at the Thrrft Stores to Eddre Nrchols Eleanor Forsyth leaves wrthout a word Janrce Fraser leaves her place as class man hater to Shrrley Johnson Leon Frye leaves the trtle of cutest boy to Dennrs Holland Susan Grdge leaves her artrstrc abrlrty to Beth Carter Pearl Grant and Fred Salrsbury leave together Wrnston Grant leaves hrs nrckname Butch to Herbert Hardrng RobertGrrffrn leaves hrs way w th women to Kent Clark Terry Hennessey leaves hrs herght to Alden Prper Marran Holland leaves her nrckname to Donna Ashford Patrrcra Hopkrns leaves her understandrng ways to be drstrrbuted among the faculty Brad Hutton leaves hrs vorce to Susan Ferguson Barbara Isaacson leaves her Xwal'C11'Ob6 to her srster Roger Jackson leaves the underclassmen grrls weeprng Beverly Jones leaves her front row P O D seat to Shrrley Taylor 50 , 1 1 I l 1 n v , 1 I i l . , - , . . . . . , . . . . , . . , . . I .. .. . - - - H H . . ' 4 V , .