Wells River High School - Chatterbox Yearbook (Wells River, VT)

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SENIORS President ... Vice-President Secretary ... Treasurer .... JUNIORS President..... Vice-President Secretary .... Treasurer .... SOPHOMORES President .... Vice-President Secretary ... Treasurer .... ERESHMEN President ... Vice-President Secretary ... Treasurer .... .... Barbara Bailey Horace Symes, Jr. ... Ann Demcritt ... Frances Bailey Ida Chamberlain .... Philip Currier ... Elaine Guay ... Paul Kaiser .. Caroline Boyce .. David Bidwell ... Adele Bailey Connie Mayhew Bob Provencher Richard Sherwin ... John Demeritt Geraldean Brock — Four —

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THG CHATTERBOX SPONSORED BY THE SENIOR CLASS SENIOR ISSUE JUNE, 1951 Chatterbox Staff Editor ..................... Assistant Editor ........... Art Editor ................ Literary Editor ............ Sports Editor .............. Joke Editor ................ Business Manager ........... Assistant Business Manager .. BARBARA BAILEY REYNOLD BOYCE ... DAVID EGNER .. ANN DEMERITT ... FRANCES BAILEY . RACHEL SIMMONS HORACE SYMES, JR. .. ANN DEMERITT Wells River Directory Schuyler Cornthwaitc, Principal; Dartmouth, A. B.; Albany Law School; LL. B.; University of New Hampshire, M. Ed. SOCIAL STUDIES Elizabeth Gibson, Westminster, B. A................ ENGLISH Floyd McPhetres, University of Vermont, B. A. PHYSICAL ED., SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS Jean Spear, Tufts, B. A........................ COMMERCIAL, LANGUAGES Virginia Rowell, Carson-Newman College, B. S.; Univ. of Tennessee, Graduate Work........ HOME ECONOMICS Lois Stanley, Johnson Normal School .......... INTERMEDIATE Nora Darling, University of Vermont Summer School . PRIMARY J. Stewart Garvin, Westminster, B. A., M. Ed.SUPERINTENDENT Samuel Stanley .................................. CUSTODIAN School Directors:— Mr. James G. Thomas, Dr. Harry M. Rowe, Mr. Edgar G. Spear

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CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS The world is moving fast. In order to keep up with the times we must move fast also. Boys and girls must have a good education to get anywhere today. Do we get a broad enough education in the small schools which we attend? Courses given in a small school are few in number com- pared to those given in a consolidated school. About five or six teachers are needed for each school. If the schools could be combined into one large school, fewer teachers would be needed. Often teachers that go into a small school have to teach more subjects than they are trained for. It is hard on a teacher to be burdened with courses of different types. Teachers in a large school would specialize in one field. Students find that college work is much different from that of high school. We do not learn how to really study as you have to in college. One thing that would help to form proper study habits is a proper library. We ought to have a library with a large assortment of all kinds of books. A quiet place where you can really hunt for material is a great advantage. This asset is rarely found in small schools but is found in the large ones. Athletics can play a large part in a student’s life. In a consoli- dated school a student is given a choice of many sports that would be impossible in a small one. When a school has a limited number of pupils, many have to participate in every activity in order to keep the activities going. A person does not have time for everything. Thus, — Five —