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

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One of our happiest experiences this year, a luncheon visit with older citizens from MacFarland House, was a coop- erative venture between the Food Trades class and the Humanities class. The older students planned and pre- pared a special menu, after cosuiting with administrators at MacFarland House. The younger students in the Humanities class acted as hosts and hostesses and presented an excellent and varied program on the American Indian for their guests. 4

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“The quarries . . . are things of beauty The life blood of our city The life blood of our town Things of terrible beauty . . . So it’s up with the boom and down with the fall Down with the fall and up with the boom. And there is music in the singing ropes A nd the guy wires sing in the wind A slapping and a sort of wail Go the singing ropes in the wind . . . ” The quarry is a symbol of both past and present. Centuries of geological devel- opment have created Barre granite, and now it is brought from the earth through hard work and ingenuity and know-how. We recognize that both imagi- nation and ingenuity have contributed to our granite industry. Granite lies at the center of Barre’s history, while education occupies the very heart of its future. Spaulding High School and its fine young men and women are ready to play an important part in that future. We accept the need for hard work, ingenuity and know-how in education as in the quarrying and manufac- turing of granite. Join OUR ECHO as we catch the rhythm of the year 1971-1972 at Spaulding High School. “Up with the boom and down with the fall Listen to your memories as the pages sing of successes and failures ... of happi- ness and heartbreak . . for you have shared many of these moments with us . . “O, I see a lot of hard work and ingenuity and know-how Just looking at that picture Quotations from “The Stranger in the Land by Franklin McKeage Courtesy Mr. Franklin McKeage 3

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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.