Silver Creek Central School - Hi Lites Yearbook (Silver Creek, NY)

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FOREWORD Because 1960 will bring the completion of Silver Creek's new Junior-Senior High School, we feel that the evolution of our school system is an appropriate theme around which to develop our H i-Lites of 1960. The Silver Creek Central School, like the community, is continually changing and growing. In this record of changes, we can note briefly some of the highlights in the development of our school system. It began in 1823, when Chalon Burgess, the first male child born in this community, attended class in a one-room building located on Upper Main Street. Through the years, the site changed, stoves replaced open Hreplacesg and debates, composition, and eloquent declamation were added to the early course in English grammar. Eventually the curriculum was expanded to include all the elementary grades, but students seeking further education had to attend boarding school. Soon high school courses were addedg the awesome Regents Examinations were introduced about 1874. We can glimpse, through written records and then and nowu pictures, some of the changes that the years have brought. The administration of our present system requires the full time of two principals and a supervising principal, in the beginning, there was only one teacher. Classes have so increased in size that 1960's seventy-six seniors compose the largest class ever to graduate from Silver Creek. In olden days, schools were concerned only with formal teaching of traditional subjects. Today we have, besides an enlarged course of study, many extra-curricular activities which offer enjoyment and democratic co-operation, along with learning. Likewise, the athletic program now provides a wide variety of sports, something for everyone. Old pictures show vividly how the community has changed and developed, along with the school system. Horses, wagons, and streetcars have disappeared from the streets of our village. In 1956 the citizens voted to streamline our education by forming a central school district, so as to equalize and increase opportunities for all children in the area. We, the Class of 1960, have seen this and many other innova- tions during our years at Silver Creek. Now it seems fitting that we should try to record a few of these changes in our yearbook, before we step out into the ever- evolving world of tomorrow. 2

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ADMINISTRATWN Mr. Warren C. Lockwood Assistant Principal Mr. Frederick A. Feltz Supervising Principal ! Mr. Melvin C. Hall Vice-Principal E S8 if - If DY' ' ll ., seg? sq E 3333 . are Q- E . C if f fe 55 if NW Q' r KL X C il 5 1 f . THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Row l.' Dr. C. S. Barresi, Mrs. Margaret Train, Mrs. Harold Cullen, Mrs. Matthew Pelletter, Mr. Walter Wilson. Row Q: Mr. Sheldon Burmaster, Mr. Delmar Brinkman, Mr. Howard Ward, Mr. Dale Weaver, hir. Roy Gull. W'ith more pupils, more regulations, and more services, administrative responsi- bilities have increased by leaps and bounds. No longer is it possible for the principal to teach a class, supervise a study hall, or even get to know every pupil well. During the past fifty years we have added bus fleets, cafeterias, building programs, insur- ance, taxation, and financing with much accompanying paper Work. Fifty years have seen tremendous strides in the Way we liveg the administration must guide curriculum changes in light of this progress. In education, as in all our living, we have left the horse and buggy era and been catapulted into the jet age. 4 is iff-f 5, - ' . rg., sf-gNSg.7..s e 7' s.. i. nw 1 sf'