Smith Academy - Echo Yearbook (Hatfield, MA)

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SMITH ACADEMY Mrs. Pruzynski, of the commercial department, has been an indispensable helper to the editors of both our school paper and our yearbook. She and her typing students have done a marvelous job, and Smith Academy students certainly appreciate her advice and assistance. Mrs. Pruzynski is also the adviser for the sophomore class. Miss Ryan, our home room teacher, has been a great help and inspiration to us all throughout our high school years. Besides teaching us not to say ain ' t got no, she has helped the juniors and prize speakers with their declamations each year. She coached those in the senior play, and it was largely through her efforts that we were so successful. Miss Ryan has been active in helping us publish the school paper and the yearbook and is adviser for the freshman class. Mrs. Spakowski, a newcomer to Smith Academy, has indeed been an addition to the faculty. She was of invaluable assistance to us in arranging the stage for A Date With Judy. Mrs. Spakowski is in charge of the Home Arts course. She even has a class of boys who are trying to beat the girls at cooking. (Are they succeeding girls?) She helps the H. A. girls put on those wonderful parties which make the rest of us want to take the H. A. course. Mr. Symancyk, besides teaching two regular classes every day, and coaching boys ' sports, is also the physical ed instructor in both the high school and the grammar school. That position, we are sure, has meant a great deal of work for him, because this is the first year that we have had such a program in Hatfield. Mr. Symancyk has also done a wonderful job in his various other assign- ments.

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PURPLE AND WHITE ECHO Mr. Jakobek, principal of Smith Academy for two years, 1946 - 1948, has gained the lasting admiration and appreciation of all the students in the school. He has helped and is helping many with the guidance pro- gram that he is trying to institute into the school sys- tem. The class of ' 48 says, Thanks, Jay, for every- thing, and all the other classes echo this sentiment. Mr. Hibbard, our Aggie teacher, is one of those few (at least in Smith Academy) shy quiet people. The swell field trips that he and his boys take are envied by everyone else in the school. Also, it is Mr. Hibbard and his Aggie boys who are lucky enough to get invited to those wonderful H. A. parties. Mr. Hibbard has to come all the way from Hadley; and although it never ceases to amaze onlookers, he always gets here. Mrs. Muller, who this year taught French, Latin, World History, and Algebra I, is also coach of the girls ' basketball team. As you can see, she is very versatile. Mrs. Muller is also the class adviser for the class of ' 49. We are glad to leave our place as seniors to such a group as the one she advises. Mrs. O ' Neill has been our class adviser during both our junior and senior years and has helped us along tremendously. It has been she who has guided the com- mercial students of the senior class through the ins and outs of that complicated subject — bookkeeping. She and Mrs. Spakowski accompany Mrs. Muller to Hat- field every day — rain or shine.

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PURPLE AND WHITE ECHO Yearbook Staff Seated — Jeanette Niewinski, Ethel Omasta, Francis Dugal. Standing — Richard Jandzinski, Barbara Ryan, Walter Moskowicz, Evelyn Kacinski, Roger Wendo- loski, Bernard Saydlowski, Esther Carter, Patricia Mullins, Dorothy Skarzynski, Kay O ' Neal, Carole Howard, Virginia Yarrows, Dorothea Fortsch. Not in Picture — Robert Breor. At the fall meeting of the Western Massachusetts League of School Publications held at the Univer- sity of Massachusetts, one of the highlights of the program was the round table discussion of year- books. The discussion favoring a school year- book instead of a senior yearbook was led by Miss Una Hilliker of Technical High School, Spring- field, and Mr. John E. Snow of the Valley Litho Company, Holyoke. Those who attended gathered many pointers which they passed on to the rest of the yearbook staff. Both the speakers emphasized the fact that the yearbook should represent the school instead of presenting the seniors to the public. In an atempt to compile a book of this type, we have put greater emphasis on pictures, including some of the classroom scenes. It is our hope that by publishing a pictorial school yearbook, we shall be able to give our readers some idea of just what our school is doing in the classrooms as well as in extra-curricular activities.