Richard Montgomery High School - Rocket Yearbook (Rockville, MD)

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THE ROCKET Top Ron•—Miss Shades, Miss Xiciioi.i.s. Miss Sherwood, Mrs. Carr. Second Row—Mr. Tram.. Mrs. Hai.com, Miss Rowdybush, Mr. King. Bottom Row—Mr. Norris, Miss Hauke, Mr. Wiuteford. FACULTY URTHF.R ON in the Rocket you will read that the first high school in Montgomery County was started in Rockville just sixty years ago. The faculty consisted of the principal and two assistants. Today our principal has a secretary and thirty-one assistants. You will note also that these early teachers had to build fires sweep, dust, and perform numerous other tasks which now fall to the lot of the janitors. Just what does this mean? That teachers have more leisure time? Not at all! It does mean, however, that being relieved from these petty jobs they have more time and opportunity for creative work, for becoming better acquainted with the pupils, for planning courses that will be most beneficial, and for inaugurating special projects and activities which will develop the pupils into many-sided individuals. The old idea of education as mental training only is rapidly disappearing and we have instead the new ideal of education along social, ethical, physical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual lines. Under Government” and Activities,” you will find an account of the many extra-curricular affairs which are open to the pupil. Each year new projects are added. Vocational and educational guidance have made their appearance in the curriculum this year. Coming in the School Life Period,” they fill a long-felt need in our school community. The purpose of the former is to open before the students as many fields as possible in which they may find their careers. Eight

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MR. L. FLETCHER SCHOTT E dedicate this page of our Rocket to Mr. L. Fletcher Schott, our Principal, who has not only upheld all the finest traditions of our school, but has also been largely responsible for the introduction of new plans and policies which have made Montgomery County High School outstanding. Notable among these innovations have been the establishment of the Junior Republic and the beginning of work in Vocational and in Educational Guidance. Believing firmly as he does in student government and pupil activities, Mr. Schott well meets Walter Hines Page’s definition of a constructive statesman— Far-reaching educators are lifted out of the ranks of mere school-masters and are put on the level of constructive statesmen. They are the servants of democracy in a sense that no other public servants now are.”

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THE ROCKET FACULTY The qualifications for the job, the preparation required, the opportunity for service, the salary paid, the chance for promotion, and the social contacts incident to the work are a few of the topics discussed. The aim of educational guidance is to orient the pupils not only in relation to their school environment, but also in relation to their community, to make them feel at home and to help them to get the most out of their experiences. From the very beginning of the year the Faculty have worked diligently to make these activities and School Life Periods a success. As progressive educators, led by a progressive principal, they have caught the vision of a program which has as its objective the development of the Whole Child. Need- less to say, they do not think of the clubs, student government and athletics as extra-curricular activities but as an integral and most necessary part of the school program—placed on a par and in many cases even above the value of the so-called regular school work. To quote from Prof. M. V. O’Shea— The only way to train the nation to self government is to give practice in it to the young. Our faculty firmly believes this and would broaden the statement to run— The only way to train the nation to live fully and abundantly is to give opportunity for rich experiences in living to the young. With this as their aim, our teachers cannot fail. Top Rotv- Mr. Vogt. Miss Cockbur.n. Miss Sheehan, Mr. McCi.ung. Second Row— Mrs. Molmf.ad. Mrs. Vogt. Miss Stover, Miss Lour. Bottom Row—Mrs. Morgan. Mr. Cooney, Miss Jones. Nine