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Stoneham High School has been fortunate to have had Mr. Chester Jordan, the present chairman of the math department, as a faculty member ever since this building opened in 1954. He has seen many changes from 1955, when the first class graduated, to 1 981 when our class, the last class in this building, graduates. The dress of the students, for example, has changed considerably. Mr. Jor- dan remembers a time when boys were required to wear suitcoats and ties, while the girls’ skirts had to be long enough so that when they knelt the hemline brushed the floor. Although the dress code is not nearly so strict today, Mr. Jordan agrees that the “leather jacket and mini-skirt era” has given way to a somewhat neater, if still informal, style of dress. The teaching of math, however, is one thing that hasn’t changed too much since the fifties. “Maybe we can’t cover as much material as we used to though,” says Mr. Jordan. He thinks that perhaps increased participation in extracur- ricular activities and the growing number of students who hold part-time jobs have contributed to the slower pace. Mr. Jordan does not see the introduction of calculators into the classroom, however, as an impediment to learning. “If they can’t do it in their heads, they can’t do it on the calculators” he contends. ‘‘Stoneham is lucky” says Mr. Jordan, “because violence and vandalism have not become as serious a problem here as they have in some places.” And despite the com- plaints of many adults concerning the lack of respect that teenagers show to the elders, Mr. Jordan does not consid- er disrespect to be a problem. “The respect is still there, the kids just don’t show it as much,” he says. Obviously, SHS is fortunate to have had a teacher for so many years with such a sense of humor and positive attitudes as Mr. Jordan.
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