Pembroke High School - Mattakeesett Yearbook (Pembroke, MA)

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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

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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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assisted by Mrs. Ruth Cote and Robert Prendergast, members of the teaching staff. Town selectmen furnished the student uoters with regulation ballot bores and voting booths. Walls of the school have been liberally supplied in recent weeks with campaign posters of the student candidates. Prin- cipal Creighton also permitted use of campaign speeches orer the school pub- lic address systems. During the past month, student groups haue interviewed the town's elected and appointed officers. They asked the officials questions about their duties, the length of time they had served and what qualifications were needed. Their questions were from prepared lists and the interzfiewers read the replies in classrooms. Nomination papers, requiring at least 16 signatures, were carefully checked by student registrars. The name of only one candidate for town clerk was printed on the ballot after another candida-te's n-ominaftion paper was found imperfect. -Brockton Daily Enterprise Wednesday, February 4, 1953 THE YOUTH FINANCE BOARD IN ACTION! MAREN SToLL, '56 AND SARA HAVEY, '56 CAMPAIGNINGl YOUTH TOWN MEETING All town officers having been previ- ously elected in a siznzdated town elec- tion, the first Youth Town Meeting of its kind in this section of the country was brought to order at nine-thirty on 16, 1953, by our Monday, February Moderator, Warren Call. Anne Creeden in her role as Town Clerk took her place the moderator and on the stage with kept careful records of each phase of the meeting. The Finance Committee, consisting of Richard Hall, Jane Cor- son, Donald Romine, Evelyn Fogg, Eugene Grant, and Randall Kunz, was on hand at the front of the hall to serve as an aid to the voters and the modera- tor with their recommendations on many articles. After choosing Addison Learned and Janet Gage as tellers,