Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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Making antique car fenders. as a bomb but as a cure, will be made by the gifted few discovered in the accelerated scientific courses offered by the high school and colleges throughout the country. Curiosity and skill will be more quickly detected and directed in such classes. Government appropriations and private endowments are being allocated to scientific improvements and addi- tions in colleges throughout the United States. At Quincy High School a new biology laboratory with the most modern facilities has been installed. In the chem- istry laboratory new equipment is being used with the promise of more to come. Many teachers in the Quincy School System are spending their summers studying and preparing themselves for teaching new theories to our junior and senior high school students. Comparing a casting and its corcbox. Industry Needs Our The small man-made sphere circulated around the world is a triumph of science. It is reported that Rus- sia’s Sputnik was the product of thirty-one brains. The concentrated effort of the whole world to apply the findings of scientists and technologists to useful and moral ends is necessary to preserve the world. Ameri- can schools are revising their curricula to give oppor- tunity to youngsters to develop their scientific curios- ity and to produce interplanetary minds. More and more schools around the country have been requiring four years of English, social study work, sci- ence and mathematics, block grouping of students is being excluded and the curriculum is being revised. In Quincy the trend is toward homogeneous groups. In this way the school tries to meet the needs of the Checking gauges in the test laboratory. 16 Turret-head lathe work in the Machine Shop

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Pupils for the Modern World erty. This fact shows a growing concern on the part of the nation for the education of the generation to come. In languages, there has been a turning from the teach- ing of strict grammar to acquiring a conversational abil- ity. Quincy is introducing languages to ninth grade pupils. World culture and world welfare and responsi- bilities are often emphasized. During the past ten years, there has been a definite trend toward more extensive study in the field of math- ematics. In September of 1958, an Advanced Place- ment class in plane geometry was begun. It is hoped that the selected students will reach calculus and ana- lytic geometry by their senior year. Besides the ad- vanced classes, there is an accelerated class in algebra II and in solid geometry and trigonometry. A greater percentage of students are pursuing classes in advanced mathematics now than ten years ago. This change is attributed to the fact that the nation as a whole is be- coming more science minded and mathematics is the chief tool of the scientist. Recent scientific developments have prompted edu- cators to re-evaluate the science curriculum in second- ary schools. The “Sputnik fever” or “satellitis” epi- demic has awakened the need to produce greater num- bers of physical scientists. Scientific break-throughs: such as the motive power of a military missile, nuclear energy harnessed for man’s use, and the atom used not “Debits or credits—assets or liabilities?” asks Mr. Kerwin. “The, there, the, there, the, there ...” Miss Roddy’s Type I class. The importance of artistic displays is a daily lesson. 15 Distributive Education breeds super-salesmen according to Miss Krickson.

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Aligning front wheels. Electrical Department—Testing currents in the laboratory. Trade School Graduates student and the curriculum is fitted to the student, not vice-versa. A very adequate guidance department under the direction of Mr. George Phillips is at hand to advise and help students at any time. The administration is becoming more democratic. Committees and staffs do more work than formerly. The teachers arc being given more in-service training, and also have a chance to discuss their ideas with their superiors. Instructors are adopting more democratic attitudes toward their students. Progress may seem at times slow in a Democracy, but it is our way of life. The advent of Sputniks, increased enrollment, and demand for specialists, have combined to necessitate some of the changes that have been made—but what of the future? A committee of principals from around the nation have made a nine year study of the situa- tion. They express hopes for the use of television, chang- es in size of classes to allow individual work, and new designs in school buildings to meet these needs. In general the changes in Quincy are in step with the leading schools of the country. The English Department of Quincy High School strives to keep in touch with all new trends, possibil- ities and developments. Contacts with the National Council of Teachers of English and the New England Association of English Teachers, provide one method of accomplishment. In addition, the English Depart- ment each year sends representatives to the New Eng- land School Development Council. In the spring, the department head attends an annual conference at Vale Shc«t metal pattern drafting. 17 Shortening pieces of lumlx-r in cabinet making.