Waterford High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Waterford, CT)

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Direction Given Growing School The school office provides direction and administrative services for the growing high school. Over 6,000 report cards must be key-sorted each quarter for the many sections of the l50 subiects available to Waterford High School students. Other things handled are such things as ordering supplies, handling various forms for such diverse areas as federal aid and student insurance, and the communications between the students, their parents, and the community! From the Board of Education that repres- ents the community to the superintendent of schools who carries out their directives to the principal and assistant principal who are responsible for administrating the high school, additional provisions are constantly being added to better educate the secondary students of a growing residential New England town of l5,800. MRS. JOSEPHINE P. BEEBE, Connecticut C. B.A., UConn M.A.p Guidance coun- selor. 0 JOSEPH C, HEAP, Trinity B.S.p North Adams State Teachers M.A.7 UConn CAGSy Guidance, Dean of Boys. 0 MRS. ARLINE P. KRUG, Willimantic State Teachers B.S., Yale and New Haven State Teachers M.A., Guidance, Dean of Girls. T g enlarged period indicates r ividuals in group picture identified left to right. L Y 7 , , J

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Necessary THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Mrs. Helen Prilchord, secretary Edward Dennison, chairmcmp Mrs Leslie Secorap Daniel Coughlin John Nederg William Dickinson

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-...Q -- M513 A H Q4 'A ' eff, JOHN H. ARCHIBALD- UConn A.B. M,A.' English. 0 MISS EMMA M. BURDICK' Alfred A.B. Syracuse- English. 0 MRS. RUTH B. CHILDS- Teachers College of Connecticut Columbia- English speech and drama reading- assistant CHARTER advisor Quill and Scroll sponsor. 0 THOMAS E. DORSEY- Brown A.B. Trinity, English, head of department, assistant football coach, golf coach. English, the only academic course required of each student for four years, has had its largest enrollment this year. With over I,0OO students attending. classes every day, the department has had to increase its staff from nine to I I teachers to be better prepared to instruct these additional eighty students. I They strive to encourage students to read and write on increasingly more mature levels. English land Il teachers begin the four-year instruction by aiding students to recognize complex grammati- cal construction, to increase their vocabulary, and to study various literary works. I Later in English III, the facuIty's maior stress in college prepara- tory classes is an analysis of short stories and poems in American litera- ture, while in the business and general sections, maior stress is placed on correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Emphasis in college preparatory English IV is on coherent and cogent substantiation ofa basic theme in writing, and in analysis of literary works of British and con- tinental authors. The general sections continue with emphasis on complex grammatical problems. O All in all, the department strives for an eleva- tion of literary taste, intellectual integrity, and exactness in writing. This goal tor exact writing to attain exact thinking is becoming more and more important in communication in this increasingly more populated world which is evidenced even here in Waterford by the continued large increase in enrollment. English Needed on Shrinking 14 I