Spaulding High School - Our Echo Yearbook (Barre, VT)

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MQ fl serif! In l HE above picture was taken on Mr. Hosmer's last day as principal of Spaulding. Below is an excerpt from La Derniere C1asse, Mr. Hosmers contribution to Our Echo of 1947 Unlike recent classes, you members of the class of 1946, are the first class in several years that do not definitely face war time con- scription. The role of your world is reversedg Germany has been con- quered. The Spaulding roll of hon-or bears silent testimony to those those who helped make this peace possible. However, when you have received your diplomas on graduation night, you will have become my Uderniere olasse of Spaulding. Your class brings up to nearly thirty- two hundred the total number of graduates since I became Spauld- ing's skipper twenty-four years ago. This year I shalll have com- pleted forty-three years of consecutive teaching' in Ver-mont. I used the word skipper because an educational institution is not unlike a shipi. Just as much hard work and much drilling are nec- essary ere a ship becomes an eflicient unit of a fleet, so too, much drilling, much real effort. and much projected vision are needed ere a school can win in the educational world the status that Spaulding has always held. Just as it is a thoughtful time when a naval officer leaves his last big ship command, so it is with me. When you become alumnli, I ask you to give the same loyal, whole-hearted support to the next leader of Spaulding th-at you have given to me. C133

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refill ! 2 if ilu menlnrianx IB75 -15147 WILLIS H. HOSMER, A. B. June 2l,1875e4lDecenmber 7,1947 R. HOSMER was a scholar and a classicist, and was never satisfied with less than the best elTort toward learning on the part of his students. Miss Stella M. Brooks, for many years a member of his faculty at Spaulding, said last night of Mr. Hosmer: He was, first of all, a scholar in every sense of the word. He started at S. H. S. determined to keep to the high stan- dards started under O. D. Mathewson. I know that he was very interested in individual pupils and helped them to prepare for further education. Often- times he also helped them in getting that education through scholarships. Similar tributes were paid Mr. Hosmer at the time of his retirement 18 months ago. Dr. Ralph E. Noble, state commissioner of education, said of him that Uwholeheartedness and responsibility have characterized his devotion to the high calling of teaching. Mr. Hosmer has borne uncomplainingly the heat and burden of the day, steadfast to his standards of scholarship and jus- tice. He has worked quietly year in and year out, seeking no popularity for himself, giving his whole strength to the good of Spaulding high school . . . His work will endureg it has that degree of pe:manency to which all teachers aspire but which few attain. Courtesy of Barre Times, December 8. 1947. C125

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5 NIH , ! V XX , figyfflf Advisers Advisers for HOU? Echo for Senior' Class U43