Newton High School - Newtonian Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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Professor john J. Mahoney, Co-founder of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs wrote many years ago, The most important business of the Ameri- can public school is that of making good citizens. It may turn out scholars. It may pro- duce successful men of business. It may edu- cate for culture. It may make possible for its graduates to make a better living. These and other things it may do and yet possibly fail. The real test of its accomplishment is the kind of citizen it furnishes the republic. That is its excuse for being. That, and that alone, primarily justifies its support from public funds. In a time when our country is recognizing and encouraging intellectual achievement, and in our Newton community where aca- demic excellence is our heritage, we must remember that good citizenship must head our list of objectives of public education. Increasing numbers of parents are turning to the schools for help in this area. As students we ask to be vitally involved in Values and Citizenship. As teachers we cannot but honor the request. So at Newton High, respecting the indiv- idual, we give help and direction in this super-curriculum called Citizenship. Our A.F.S. brings students from countries all over the world and sends some of ours across the globe. For the past few summers Newton has offered a Seminar in Citizenship to high school sophomores and juniors. Our school annually has a Student Government ex- change with smaller schools in the Common- wealth. However, the concern for Citizen- ship goes on most regularly and most ef- fectively in the clubs and classrooms, often without fanfare, but always with enthusiasm. Probably every student who has ever at- tended N.H.S. knows that in definition and analysis he must be specific! If someone asks you to define this school I hope you will be at least this specific: Newton High is the pursuit of academic excellence and good citi- zenship. Good citizenship of course, is not easy to define either. We may not capture it or mas- ter it, but no matter, we strive for it. What- ever Citizenship means, it must be akin or lead to another word, perhaps the noblest of all. That word is Compassion. RICHARD C. HOWLAND Arrirtant Principal Mr. Richard C. Howland Arristant Principal Robert Mitchell Gaidance Department H eaaf

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One of the frustrations in teaching is that the teacher seldom sees the full results of his labors. To be sure, examinations are administered and evalua- tions made, and students are graduated. These, how- ever, are things of the moment, necessary and im- portant, but not the true test of the school's effective- ness. This comes later, and comes in many forms. Some parts of the test are obvious and straightfor- ward, such as the record of our graduates in college, or their performance in a vocation, or their success in a business or profession. Others are less obvious, perhaps, but even more important. These have to do with the attitudes and values you hold, and will be measured against your performance as a citizen in an increasingly complex and difficult society. Here the test will come in such places as the voting booth, where you will exercise Cor notb your right to deter- mine what kind of people will represent you in es- tablishing the legislative and executive framework of our government. It will come in the schools of the future, as you help to decide just how important the matter of public education is, and how much support it deserves. It will come in the churches and temples and other places where we will decide what the spiritual fabric of our society will be, and what rela- tionship this fabric will have to the rest of our cul- ture. It will come in the press, and on our television and radio sets, as we determine the quality of the ideas that will be discussed in these and other forms 16 Dr. Charles E. Brown S nperinlendent 0 f Schools of public communication. It will come in the streets of our great cities, as we wrestle with the question of whether Ieffersorfs promise of equality for all men is something we wish to take seriously. It will come as each of you in the Class of 1967 examines your relationship to Emerson's statement that an institu- tion is the lengthened shadow of one man. Each of you, in one way or another, will be shaping an insti- tution, even, if you will, the institution we call our society. The true test of our effectiveness in helping to educate you, and of your ability to assimilate the ideas, the attitudes and the values that we have tried to make important to you will come as you measure the length of your shadow of influence on the world of the future. That is what education is all about. DR. CHARLES E. BROWN Snperinlendent Newton Public Schools