New Milford High School - Schaghticoke Yearbook (New Milford, CT)

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RICHARD D. WILLIAMSON, Principal GEOFFREY GRAHAM, Advisor

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new Milford High school New Milford. Connecticut RICHARD O. WILLIAMSON PRINCIPAL WELDON R KNOX • UPIRINTtNOKNT Dear Graduate, Another school year has been completed, and the day Is at hand when the Class of 19 9 will pass through those doors which have heretofore served as the entrance to New Milford High School, and which now may be considered as the entrance to the wider worlds of life. Many have held the impression that graduation and the receipt of a diploma marks the achievement of a goal. Such a view, however, is far from the larger fact, soon to be more fully realized, that this point in life marks a beginning, not an end. The past four years have been, it is hoped, a period of exciting prospects—a transition period, one which has provided sound preparation toward a happy and useful life. Now, at its close, there is an opportunity for each graduate to carefully consider that preparation, and how extensively it will help in the pursuit of his chosen field of life work. May each more fully realize, too, the help received from teachers and other interested citizens. Many citizens have clearly demonstrated their intense feelings for the welfare and progress of our school by untiring work on various committees organized to study the needs of present and future pupils—needs which must be met if graduates of New Milford High are to have preparation equal to that available to graduates of other communities who are similarly entering into the challenging arenas of life. Therefore, realizing that these four years are spent in preparation for going through life in a successful manner, you, as a citizen of new stature in the community, have a debt to maintain interest in our school and to do everything possible to give not only the same but better opportunities to those who follow you. We must give more consideration to what our school ought to teach, and how these subjects ought to be taught. This is doubly necessary, when we realize how the vast and complicated responsibilities of adult citizenship require extended civics, vocational and cultural education. It is extremely important that we make New Milford High a school where all our youth may receive the training best adapted to them, and one that will give an opportunity for every boy and girl of New Milford to be prepared for useful citizenship as well as for a personally happy and contented With Best Wishes, 3

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d First Row: Mr. Joseph Wiser, Physical Education Mr. Phillip Messer, Physics, Chemistry, Aeronautics Mr. Geoffrey Graham, Senior and Junior English Mr. Weldon Knox, Superintendent of Schools Mr. Ray Bucknam, Algebra, General Mathematics Mr. Calvin Stevens, General Science and Biology Mr. Patrick Kelly, Sophomore English, Ancient History Second Row: Miss Rosemary Matriciano, Freshman English, Spanish Mrs. Joseph Wiser, Home Economics Miss Jeanne Cote, Bookkeeping, Typing Miss Marguerite Petersen, 7th and 8th grade History and Civics Miss Barbara Weaver, Latin, French, Freshman English Miss Caroline Keeler, History, Problems of Democracy Miss Beatrice Perry, Home Economics Third Row: Miss Marion Pothier, Typing and Stenography, Arithmetic Mr. Harold Hunt, Supervisor of Music Mr. Richard Williamson, Principal, Geometry and Trigonometry Miss Alice Northrop, 7th and 8th grade Science and Geography Mrs. Joseph Post, 7th and 8th grade English Miss Catherine Lillis, 7th and 8th grade Arithmetic Mr. Walter Went, Mechanical Drawing, Shop 7