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

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MR. DEVINE Assistant Principal and Guidance director. MRS. McGILL English, Echo Adviser, English department head. MISS WATSON English, Junior Class Chairman. the crew carries out Freshmen entering the doors of S.H.S. for the first time may pursue one of four curricula: col- lege preparatory, academic, commercial, or trade and industrial with English predominating in all. In the first three courses leading departments are our foreign languages: French, Latin, and Spanish, which enable a student to learn the tongue of a distant land. Social studies teach us the history, geography, and economy of our great country. All freshmen are required to take civics, and U. S. History must be mastered before graduation. A wide field of science and mathematics is offered to the students. General science for freshmen, biol- ogy for sophomores, physics for juniors, and chem- MISS MARGWARTH English. Debating Coach, and Majorette. Adv.ser. 8 MRS. WORTHINGTON English, Sentinel Adviser.

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Our principal, Mr. Pendo, adminis- ters the rules and the regulations for the 740 students of Spaulding High School. He graduated from Norwich University with a B.S. degree and received his M.Ed. from Bates. Re- cently he was elected president of the Winooski Valley Principals Associa- tion. He has to supervise all activities of the school, organize our classes, and make up our curriculum. “Seniors, as your co-pilot, I’m about to turn on the switch which will eject you into the unknown. As I do, take a final look and give a fond farewell to your past twelve years of formal education, to that little red schoolhouse, and to the impres- sive building known as Spaulding High, where your happiest memories will forever be enshrined. “Into the vastness of ‘wild blue yonder’ you go! The world out there is waiting to receive you. Go and make your place, and may God speed you on your way! A. G. PENDO. Principal guide the ship while Mrs. Pelkey, bookkeeper of the high school, and Mrs. Fuller, secretary to Mr. Pendo, are always kept busy. 7

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MISS BRANON English, Sophomore Class Adviser. F 1-, RS- blackmore nglish, Civics, Junior Class Advi ser. the pilots’ orders. istry for seniors are the four sciences taught. Stu- dents preparing for college may take four years of mathematics, from algebra to solid geometry and trigonometry. General math is offered for those not planning to further their education. The con- tinuous click of typewriters, the scratching of the pen when taking shorthand, or the puzzled look on the face of the student whose bookkeeping will not balance—these indicate our future men and women of the business world taking the Commercial Course. Boys interested in industrial arts attend three periods at Spaulding each day and then go up on the hill. Here they have a chance to put their p r MR. JENNESS nglish, French, Freshman C,ass Adtjs.r MR. WILBUR English, Economic Geography, Dramatics Coach. 9