Newton North High School - Newtonian Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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AARON PINK 1,1 ' . - y, 3 ,lf Y' Ana 'Elin Aaron Fink has been Superintendent of Newton Schools since 1969. A graduate of Rutgers and Harvard Uni- versities, Mr. Fink worked as a high school principal in Stoughton, Massachusetts, Schenectady and Scarsdale, New York prior to coming to Newton. For many years he taught summers and part-time in the graduate schools of education at the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern and Harvard. How to extend education in an era of fiscal austerity is a particularly challenging problem to Mr. Fink. He feels strongly that expanding education at both ends of the spectrum -for young children and for adults - opens up new opportunities for public education. Educating older and younger people together, such as in the program of adults attending regular courses at Newton North during the regular school day, is of great interest to him. Per- haps some day we will not think of schools being organized between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. for students between the ages of five and eighteen, he says. Formal education - or schooling - will start at an earlier age, will be life-long and will be had at times and in places that provide for the needs of the whole popula- tion, Mr. Fink is still nostalgic about being a school principal, a time in his career when he could work more closely with students and teachers in areas of their concern. With 27 schools to visit my observations and contacts in the schools are sporadic at best, he says. Sometimes I feel as though l'm a part of everything and yet not a part of that which really matters, the relationship between teachers and students. As superintendent, Mr. Fink observes that in Newton he has worked with a staff superior to any he has encoun- tered elsewhere. The responsiveness of the students at Newton North to the tremendous opportunities made available to them has helped to make this an exciting place to teach, as well as to learn. The Class of '80 can be proud of the part it has played in maintaining this cIimate.