Pembroke High School - Mattakeesett Yearbook (Pembroke, MA)

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The Educational Future: The Regional School The voters in Halifax, Kingston, Pem- broke, and Plyfnpton have voted to ap- prove a regional senior and junior high school, which will be erected near Sil- ver Lake where the boundaries of the four towns meet. --The Massachusetts Teacher February, 1953 DEBBY INTERVIEWS PRINCIPAL CREIGHTON I am here, Mr. Creighton, to ask you some questions about the Regional School, since our class probably is to be the fIrst graduating class. Well, I'm glad that you came in, Debby, and if there is anything that I am able to tell you, I will be most pleased to do so. One of the most important is about our senior class relations. Will we have trouble when we get together with all of the other classes? I really don't think so, Debby, for this reason. Mr. Moran, who is the principal of Kingston High School, the student council adviser at Kingston High, Mr. Hand, Mr. Bakon, and myself are working on this problem, and I rather suspect that next year the stu- dent councils of Kingston and Pembroke will get together a few times during the year to discuss some common problems and try and reach some answers. If it is at all possible and we can arrange it, we will also have students from Hali- fax and Plympton meet with you people at these meetings. In this way, we will get all view-points from all of the towns concerned, and we should be able to solve a number of the minor problems. Some of the minor problems would be the class colors, school ring, and things of that sort. About how large will this school be? According to the brochure that we published last year, on opening day there will be S00 students, 100 of whom will be the senior class, based on the school enrollment in 1952. About how many pupils will the school hold?l' We are planning the building such that it will hold at maximum capacity 1200 students. It will hold 1000 stu- dents easily. What courses of study or curricular is there going to be ? MR. MORAN, MR. RAY AND MR. CREIGIITON WORKING ON PLANS

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The Choir Scores a Hit on T.V. November 28, 1952 Lloyd M. Creighton, Principal Pembroke High School Pembroke, Massachusetts Dear Mr. Creighton: I will be looking forward with a great deal of pleasure to having your students on my program on the nineteenth of December. I am certain that their contribution will be well appreciated by the many thousands who visit with us each Fri- day evening at 6 p. m. S'incerely yours, JOHN C. MACFARLANE Animal Fair WBZ-TV We were also looking forward to our December performance and so were our many friends and relatives. After much revising of program and rehears- ing-at last-We were sitting on the Boston-bound bus. Upon arrival at the Westinghouse studio, time permitted us to tour the studio and one of the thrills that afternoon was meeting Norm Pres- cott, the disc jockey, to Whom so many THE VERSE CHOIR Bos'roN BOUND of us often listen. He was very friendly and measured up to our expectations. Any T.V. program must be studio- rehearsed-ours was no exception. As part of it all, cameras were swung this Way and that, the mikes yanked here and there, last-minute position changes became necessary-then-set-all eyes on the elock's second hand going round and round-six o'clock!-and there we were-ON T.V..' Our selections: Psalm Eight. The Quest Eternal by Margaret Widdemer, To a Young Wretch by Robert Frost, the Christmas Carol, Adeste Fidelis g and the Anonymous Around the Man- ger were illustrated on the screen by the studio technicians. To complete the happy day, we dined at Dinty Moore's. It was thrilling to participate in this most exciting experi- ence. CYNTHIA PHILLIPS, '54 January 30, 1953 Mrs. Carl Etelman Pembroke High School Pembroke, Massachusetts Dear Mrs. Etelman: . . . It was a real pleasure and treat for me to be privileged to have the Pem- broke students, under your leadership, on our Christmas program. May the future bring you much hap- piness and success. Sincerely yours, JOHN C. MACFARLANE Animal Fair WBZ-TV

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We are going to have the three standard courses of study. Namely, the Vocational, the Academic, and the Com- mercial. Will the Vocational course be better than it is now ? I believe so. The Vocational House- hold Arts that we offer here at Pem- broke now is rather small. As a matter of fact, we have only 5 girls who are actually following the Household Arts course through. I think that ,Kingston could add 5 girls to that and perhaps the other two towns 5 between them. Such that, our class in Household Voca- tional Arts would consist of a group of fifteen girls in each class which is con- sidered the ideal class for a home- making program. In addition to that we are going to have a General Metals Vocational class, which is primarily automotive. There will be a General Wood Working class as well as an Agricultural class. As it stands now Pembroke is the only school offering any vocational program at all and that is the Vocational Household Arts. What we do oHer now is called Industrial Arts and is not state-aided. All of these other programs will be state-aided. Will we have to hire very many more teachers? As it stands now according to our best figures, we will need in addition to the present Pembroke and Kingston faculty ten more teachers. How long until the school will be completed ? If plans progress on schedule and we are not affected by labor conditions or a steel strike or an increase in the Korean War, We should occupy by the fall of 1954. Ha fzfax Jzgpfrfon Hmbrole fgjfmp for? fl7oJ.roc6u.r e ffm, -'VX ,-.J5!-,.' , ., 1 ,,--, 1 X' -- ,-., -. x Y I , I fem .- 3 w an fi ,- 1 I I 5 5 ' x N 9 I x A 4 . . '11 , J, 1 Q 5' . fA, , X '-I I-fafffox ix 4 P ' lg ,' 1 ff1gJ!'on N 1 I xx FQ' ,IX Pf fofv xx ' x Q? 1 X I ,---1 N J,--' I fx' --- I f,f !?eporf 1 rd fi, Gcifonofcf C150 offfifrfbfffonngdgov Q: 19.52 SITE or REGIONAL SCHOOL How long will the school day be ? The school day is going to be some- what different than it is here at Pem- broke now. The actual school day for students will be from 8.20 until 3.00, and instead of having seven periods in a day we will have six periods in a day and the periods will last 55 minutes in- stead of the present 42 minute periods. To what do you account for this change in the length of the periods ? The change is primarily due to this fact. The trend in education is toward the longer class period such that, the teacher can give instruction and then supervise the home assignments. In other words where we have fifty min- utes in a class, twenty-five minutes will be given to instruction, and twenty-five minutes to actual project work. That will enable the students to finish the bulk of their home assignments in school.