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

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Barre is an enthusiastically sports-minded community, and the Boosters' Club has encouraged wider community interest in school events, especially athletics. The Club’s current goal is the installa- tion of outdoor lighting for athletic events, with 12 the target date. The Student Council has awarded its Crimson Key to Mr. Edwin Free in recognition of his leadership as president of the Boosters. When we shop downtown stores, we see how closely the academic programs of SHS are tied to the community. Students in the Dis- tributive Education course work in many local stores, with local merchants furnishing the actual experiences which these students study in the classrooms, and in return DECA is happy to arrange to have Santa arrive right on schedule for the Merchants' Bureau Christmas festivities. We are proud of the several SHS students dedicated to the Big Brother-Big Sister project, giving help and encouragement to children who need adult guid- ance and interest. The idea of the project is to give those child- ren an opportunity to do things they ordinarily couldn't do. More than 25 children have ben- efited from this student service. We also cite those Spauldingites who devote many hours to tutor- ing boys and girls in the graded schools that they might have more academic success. These students cannot be identified; they sought no praise; their only purpose was to help a child. An so this year we have listened to children, to older citizens, to our teachers, to lawyers, mer- chants, friends, families . . and because we have listened, we have heard the beat of life in our community.

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Spaulding students are sharing in the physical growth of the great- er Barre community. Boys in the Building Trades class have been erecting a ranch style home on Gallow Avenue, which will be com- pleted in the fall of ’72. This is the second home that students in this course have built; the first, on Beacon Heights, has already been sold. The Walk-a-thon, a new project this year, caught the imaginations of many students who participated on behalf of the March of Dimes. These students, grateful for physical and mental health, walked so that others, born less fortunate, might share more fully in the community. During the year we became accustomed to seeing some very young citizens as they came to Spaulding to attend nursery schools con- ducted by the Home Economics class and also the Health Occupa- tions class. These children played an important part in our learning experiences and proved that people of all ages can hold a place in our modern curriculum. In watching little people learn, we discov- ered much about ourselves. 1971-1972 was marked by growing concern for the environment, so we worked hard on BARRE, the recycling project, and participat- ed in Vermont’s annual Green Up Day in April. We also shared our ideas about beauty in other ways, with our exhibits at the Art Fair evidence of our talents.

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When activities succeed at Spaulding, we become aware of family participation. Families attending our games, our plays, our concerts; families furnishing transportation, food for suppers, props for plays; families encouraging us in our studies, in our interests, in our friends. Sherry Clark s fami- ly is one of the many actively interested in SHS activities. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Clark have just been named DEC A Family of Barre. They hold the distinction of having had 4 children and a son-in-law participating in the DECA program. The full realization of our roles in the adult community came when several seniors were called upon to perform their first real responsibilities as citizens to serve a jurors at the Vermont District Court. We knew that we could now vote, but somehow we had not thought of the responsibility of silting on a jury to decide the fate of a person accused and to try to make sure that all parties receive justice. Among those fulfilling this civic duty were George Watt, Eileen Gen- dron, James Austin, Peter Norkeveck, Michael Stevens, Donna Conti, and Stephen Nutter. Also called to duty were Claude Viens, Alain LeClerc, and Ernest Lavigne. Peter Norkeveck boasts of being the youngest juror in the state; he was 18 the day the jury drawing began. 7