Peabody Veterans Memorial High School - Meta Yearbook (Peabody, MA)

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WILLARD W. WOODMAN Principal

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OUR FRIN C I P A I It would be hardly fitting for our c-lass of 1929, or in fact any class that has graduated from Peabody High School in the last quarter of a century, to omit from the pages of our Year Book the mention of the name of our beloved principal, Mr. Willard W. Woodman. The helpful advice and wise counsel of Mr. Woodman, who has worked untiringly to help us steer our courses along the path of progress, to show us how to avoid the easier but ignoble course that leads to failure and dis- grace, — his advice and counsel, we cannot say it too sin- cerely, have permeated every moment of the five happy years we have spent under his careful guidance. Mr. Willard Woodbury Woodman has been the leader and director of our school since 1900. During this time many changes for the better have taken place in the High School curriculum. Both the growth of the student body and the rapid extension of all the courses, necessary to fulfill modern demands, are due to the conservative leader- ship of Peabody High School’s principal. Always an able student, Mr. Woodman graduated from Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1888 receiving an A. B. degree, and three years later was awarded an A. M. degree from the same institution. During his college career he proved to be an exemplary student. He was an honor speaker at his commencement and on Ivy Day was awarded the medal for highest athletic excellence. Before coming to Peabody, Mr. Woodman taught in Thayer Academy, South Braintree and was principal of the High School in Gorham, Maine. He has a large acquaintance in educational circles and is a member of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., former vice-president of the Essex County Teachers’ Association and belongs to the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mr. Woodman has always retained the love, the respect and admiration of the entire student body. Always will his thoughtfulness and interest in everything that concerned our scholastic, athletic and social welfare be one of our happiest remembrances in the years to come. The high scholastic standing and the dignity which characterize our High School today, are true and lasting monuments to the untiring efforts of its zealous principal, Mr. Woodman.