Sewanhaka High School - Totem Yearbook (Floral Park, NY)

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i r f f ' we YUM JW, fllfflftfffr in I VVALTHR TI IONPSON Cbpportunities for advancement in lite are many and varied. Those who see and talie advantage rise, move forward, accomplish, and are crowned victors. The high school opens great doors and urges onward and upward all who enter. increased opportunities mean increased responsibilities hut success and happiness come to those only who are willing to pay the price. ln dedicating this l056 Totem to Vvalter Thompson. we are ex- ' pressing our sincere gratitude and appreciation to one who unspar- i 'O' 4 X 1 ingly has devoted his time and energy in helping us to the end that ... we may rise. move forward, and accomplish. U of ' O., Through Education we pass on to posterity the heritage of Civili- zation. '. ..

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I IE I II CAT IIUN IVEN a tew statistics in almost any subject one can develop a fairly accurate picture ot the subject to be presented. This we shall attempt to do in a briet biography ot Mr. Thompson from the outline ot facts we have. Nestled in the iastness ot Vermonfs beautiful mountains is the town of Saxton,s River. Mr. Thompson made his appearance in this pleasant location not so many years ago that he has torgotten his first classes at school. After he had finished the grammar and high school at Saxton's River, his next step was to prep school. New England is lcnown for its many good preparatory schools ot which Vermont Academy is one. Upon graduation from this institution Mr. Thompson entered Nliddlebury College, Vermont. Four years later, with a Bachelor ot Arts degree in his possession, he left the confines of his native state and began his teaching career at Collinsville, Connecticut, a small town not far from Hartford. This school offered the varied experience necessary to the develop- ment ot a good teacher. Small high schools frequently require the ability to teach not one but several subjects. This was true at Collinsville. Mr. Thompson taught both English and French. Now comes an abrupt shift in this biography to Rome, New Yorlc, where three years of teaching experience were accumulated. And then Mr. Thompson decided that he might improve his knowledge and teaching technique by going to school himself. Once more we find him baclc in Vermont, this time talcing his Master of Arts degree at Middlebury. The final curtain rises and we see our subject taking up his duties at the newly opened Sewanhalca High School ot six years ago. It is hoped that after reading this brief slcetch Sewanhalcans will feel better acquainted with their friend and teacher.

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DR. JOSHUA BLOCH President of Board SEWANHAKA Oat or EDUCATION NE ot the most important factors in the smoothly running organization of a large modern high school, is the efficient sincere group of citizens who have heen chosen memhers of the Board ot Education. The whole-hearted, enthusiastic support of this group ot men to a great extent de- termines the success of the high school. These men have unswervingly stood for and symphatized with a program devised to give the very hest to the students of Sewanhatca. Two memhers are chosen from each ot the tour districts of Sewanhalca Cen- tral High School. They select instructors, approve courses and make the hudget for school maintenance. One important result ot their energetic activity was the acceptance last year of Sewanhaka High School into the Association ot Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Middle Atlantic States and Maryland. Sewan- hatca is ot course, on the approved list ot secondary schools of the New York State Board ot Regents. This year the Board found it necessary to propose an addition to the school to relieve the overcrowded condition in the present struc- ture. The citizens supported their representatives in this matter. Dr. Joshua Bloch ot New Hyde Part: was chosen president ot the Board this year. In this capacity he has been supported hy Walter A. Etson and Frederick VV. Schaefer ot Franklin Squareg William L. McQueen and Henry Bauer of