Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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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.

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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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Q.HS. Students Learn in Driver fluent ion—A vital program Mr. (ira.vsie demonstrates a rocket. University, and during the year, various publications, meetings, and speakers, arc provided for the English faculty. Dr. Gossard and other administrators strive for a constant awareness of new methods and ideas. The past ten years have shown an increase in the use of audio-visual aids. Here at Quincy High School, tape recorders, record players, and records arc available for use. The various filmstrips and movies are compre- hensive and up to date. Plans are already being made for next year’s Ad- vanced English Placement Program, and this May, Quincy High School hopes to lx able to send candi- dates to the English Advanced Placement Tests. The use of television as an education supplement is a fast growing possibility. In April and May, Quincy High School will lx able to take advantage of this ex- panding medium. At this time, there will be a three weeks pilot course, a Humanities television project directed by Clifton Fadiman and financed by the Ford Foundation. Both the F'nglish Department and the students in Quincy High arc fortunate to have such a generous supply of up to date, attractive books at their disposal, both in and out of the classroom. With strong educa- tional trends there is much attention being focused on presenting challenges to the advanced youth of our country and city. However, these trends are also work- ing for anti responding to the needs of non-academic pupils. For them, special books have been designet! and bought. Watching and working at various levels, the English Department of Quincy High School, along with 18 Mr. Mitchell's su| cr 4lraftMiien. The spring style show.