Newington High School - Sequin Yearbook (Newington, CT)

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Principal;’s Message As the class of 1959 entered its final year, Newington High began its third decade of growth. During the month of February, the class had the experience of taking part in an all-school evaluation conducted under the auspices of the State Department of Education, and participated in by sixty prominent educators from within and from outside the state. Quoting from the report given by the visiting committee, I call your attention to the following: “The quality of education in Newington High School is good and appropriate to the school population. The school is making progress sufficient to keep abreast of the changing demands of needs and abilities of pupils. The spirit, reactions and attitudes of students regarding student activities, and the Student Council in particular, were commendable. Without exception, those consulted were willing ahd able to take a critical look at their program and seriously consider possible improvements. The morale and school spirit are high.” Favorable comments of this type come because the Class of 1959 and other pupils in the school work harmoniously with the staff and administration. I extend my sincere appreciation to the seniors for their leadership in helping to make a good school better. (2, 6

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Superintendent’s Message Perhaps, in the final analysis, what we are all seeking is a healthy or, as the Psalm puts it, a right spirit. Such a spirit is free from chronic conditions of hatred, anger, fear, guilt, shame, or feelings of inferiority which can stunt and distort growth and impede activity. Freed from these diseases, our spirits will be healthy and hungry for the sustenance of knowledge. They will exult in growth in power to comprehend and in the challenges that exercise that power. They will enjoy the supreme satisfaction of the assimilation and re-direction of knowledge and insight into creative achievement. The purpose of education, it seems to me. is to help people achieve such healthy spirits, to develop their abilities to torage for sustenance, to provide the full amount and variety of nourishment and stimulation that each of them can use. and to help them to learn the techniques of creativity best suited to each. As education comes near to reaching this goal, it will contribute mightily to the joy of individual fulfillment and the achievement of a continually improving social order that will make this individual fulfillment increasingly possible. 5

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Administration MR. JOHN WALLACE Superintendent of Schools MR. EMILLE J. COMEAU Assistant Superintendent 7