Pembroke High School - Mattakeesett Yearbook (Pembroke, MA)

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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.

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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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Will the lunch period be any longer? The lunch periods will be staggered as they are now, but the lunch period will be somewhat longer, ten minutes, as a matter of fact, so that they will have two lunch periods 30 minutes in length. Will the Junior High be a definite part of the school? The Junior High classes will use the facilities of the Wood Working classg however, for the most part the Junior High classes will be held in a separate wing. Whereas the Seventh grade in Pembroke now doesn't even change their classroom, they will have the oppor- tunity of changing rooms in the new building. Will we have greater interscholas- tic sports ? I feel that that is a natural out- growth of the increase in the size of the school. Where almost everyone who goes out for basketball or baseball here at Pembroke is almost assured of a place on the team. That condition will not be quite as ideal in the new school and yet these people are still interested in sports and want to play them. Because we have an increased faculty group we will probably have 3 men coaches and 2 or 3 women involved with sports. It is logical to believe that we will develop an intermural program. Do you think that we will be able to offer a first year language every year? There will be no alternation of courses and every course that is given will be given annually. The only excep- tion to this will be pcrhaps in your very advanced classes, Latin 3 and perhaps Latin 4, Mathematics and the very high Regi mal School A rlmifnistrators Principal LLoYD CREIGHTON Superintendent CHESTER T. RAY Assistant Superintendent M. FRANCIS MORAN branches Trig and Solid Geometry, may not be offered annually, but they will be offered if 5 or more students Wish them. That is all of the questions I have. Thank you very much, Mr. Creighton. DEBORAH JONES, '55 YOUTH TOWN ELECTION Monday, February 2 1953 UFFIGIAL BALLUT Fon PEMBROKE PEMBROKE PLAN STUDENT TOWN MEETING The ballotfiig ions clone at Pembroke High School airditoriurh, usual voting place of the toiorr, under supervision of Principal Lloyd M. Creighton who was