West Springfield High School - Terrier Yearbook (West Springfield, MA)

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Kenneth Kindig watches and grades students as they perform various gymnastic skills. Mrs. Marian Kurtz and Mrs. Mary Thayer, physical education teachers, help girls Mrs. Kurtz demonstrates proper spiking achieve physical fitness and develop their athletic skills. technique to junior Sheryl Berti. Indoor Pool Under Construction Through Physical Education students learn to combine fun with fitness. The department's pro- gram covers many iports, including track, golf, tennis, gymnastics, eld hockey, wrestling, and softball. . Students who are especially interested in gym- nastics are offered the opportunity to join the schoolis gymnastic team and to participate in the Gym Shows. Underclassmen are looking forward to using the indoor pool now being constructed. Ernie Senez performs a muscle-up on the still rings with the help of Coach William Jones. ?E:52s50xPisfm: rs shi 'fx ri 'f f ' f

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Federal Funds Granted for Special Education Special education has taken on an expanded and distinctive role at WSHS. Supplemented by a federal grant of 3Sl40,000, a three-year demon- stration project is under way to train students in skills employable in a variety of service and trade organizations. An extension of the traditional academic, in- dustrial and domestic arts Iprogram, the project emphasizes on-the-job wor background, made possible lg the installation of a completely equipped omestic and Personal Service Labora- tor and Food Service Laboratory. Among the skills practiced in the labs are the operation of domestic equipment, care of patients and inva- lids, and the preparing and serving of food. The high school program is singular in that it is one of the few fpilot projects in the country to be made a part o the public school system and the only one in the state to be run by local edu- cators. Superintendent Grammaticas is director of the project. For domestic eliiciency, Miss Blish teaches Mary Kennedy, Sharon Uhl, and Susan Brennan how to operate kitchen appliances. I I 1 l Academic learning is stressed by Mr, Smith, who explains environ- mental changes in animals to Mark McCullah. I Thomas LaRochelle mans the counter in the Food Service Laboratory, which is open to the faculty for coffee and lunches. Implementing the special edu- cation pilot project are George Proulx, food serviceg Eugene Sullivan, vocational counselor, Miss Florence Blish, Donald Snyder, Project Coodinatorg and Mrs. Louise Fleming, do- mestic and personal service. Absent: Miss Jean Shegas, project social worker, and Theodore Smith. 22

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Service Departments Assure Performing a myriad of services and providing a wealth of in- Miss Lorraine Shaw, and Mrs. Edith Dutkiewicz, secretary to formation and assistance are West Side's oliice staff: Mrs. Ger- Mr. Shields. ry O'Donnel1, Mrs. Marjorie Rockwell, Mrs. Edna Christian, a f w 2 Miss Victoria Swistro, who formerly taught English, is in her first year as head of the expanding school library. She replaced Miss Alice Burkhardt, who retired in June, 1965. Carolyn Cordonnier and Linda Sanczuk receive suggestions from Mrs. Annette Arsenault, sophomore English teacher and assistant librarian. 24