Newington High School - Sequin Yearbook (Newington, CT)

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Sufce rcKteucCent mmm school department Town Hall Newington, Connecticut SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS JOHN W. WALLACE February 1, 195U ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT EMILLE J. COMEAU We are free to the extent that we base our opinions on evidence that we know is accurate and complete. We are enslaved to anyone whose opinions we believe without checking his reasons. We are enslaved to our prejudices to the extent that they cause our opinions to be based unfairly on other than accurate and complete evidence. Ignorance enslaves us by limiting our ability to test the truth of information and to interpret evidence. The Great Teacher said, Tou snail know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. The highest purpose of education is to help people to achieve and maintain freedom, because only as we are free can we fulfill our God-given potentialities for

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Seated, left to right: N. Johnson. A. Schwager. D. Platt, C. Heald. K. Daly, E. Casey. Standing: R. Stingle. K. Langille. R. Picard. V. Madden. Sequin Sta i Editor-in-Chiej CHARLENE HEALD Assistant Editors EILEEN CASEY ROBERT STINGLE Business Manager VINCENT MADDEN Assistant Business Manager KENNETH LANGILLE Typing Editor ANN SCHWAGER Sports Editors KATHLEEN DALY RONALD PICARD Art Editor ................. NORMA JOHNSON Photography Editor DOLORES PLATT tUCY ROBBINS WELLES LIBRARY NEWlNGTOfj. CT. 06' '1

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 PxittcifoiC 'IKea aye NEWINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Office of the Principal Newington Connecticut Principal Charles A. Bowes Guidance Director E. Joyce Jamer One of Connecticut's English exchange teachers recently made some interesting observations. She was most impressed by the American school relationships, wnich are on a much more democratic basis than those in England, where each grade is separated into three distinct classes: the intelligent, the mediocre, and the dull. Pupil-teacher relationships are also somewnat different in England. Quoting Miss White: In England there is a wide gulf between the two which is very difficult to span. Here, because of a way of life generally less formal, there is often a friendlier, more intimate relationship, with frequently pleasanter results for both teacher and pupil. In all probability, members of the Class of 195U have hardly given a thought during the past three years to any of the relationships which have made such a deep impression upon Miss White. The Class of 195U will be the first class to be graduated after having had three years in the new high school building. In thinking of Miss White's reference to the democratic way of life, and going back to the time when we were in the old building, evidence has presented itself from time to time that the democratic basis of school relationships has strengthened and grown these last three years. Having the senior high school as a separate identity has made the group more homogeneous. Evidence has also been shown that pupils have been thinking less of self and have given more of their time and effort to individuals within their group who have been overtaken by misfortune. For further evidences of the democratic way of life at Newington Senior High School, it is suggested that the reader turn the pages of this book and see, in mint ana picture, the examples presented by the Class of 195U.