Wethersfield High School - Elm Yearbook (Wethersfield, CT)

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Anne Hope, VIII A 'he 'lm Vol. V. june, 1927 ELM BOARD BUSINESS MANAGER Robbins Allen, '27 ' EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Assistant Editor-in-Chief Graydon Lockwood, '28 Literary Editor Isabelle Wolcott, '27 ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT Charles Woodward, '27 -Assistant Burton Wooley, '28 ALUMNI DEPARTMENT Eleanor Buck, '27 Assistant Mildred Hannum, '28 ART DEPARTMENT Althea Dixon Assistant Ruth Peticolas EXCHANGE EDITOR Winston MacDonough, '2 Assistants Lawrence Hubbard, '27 Alwyn Broadersen, '28 Frances Deming, '29 SCHOOL NOTES Ruth Coughlin, '27 Assistants Ruth Towne, '28 Isabel Warner, '29 Mary Allen, '30 JOKE DEPARTMENT Douglas Wilkinson, '27 Assistants Frederick Pritchard, '28 Olive Symonds, '29 Virginia Becker, '30 JUNIOR HIGH EDITOR Lois Hartman FACULTY ADVISERS Miss Alice H. Clark Miss Marcella Harradon 7 No. 1

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Zlinretnnth HIS is the fifth publication of The Elm. Each year it has been improved and enlarged. We hope our readers will find that the fifth number has followed in the footsteps of its predecessors. The Literary and Joke Departments have been enlarged. This year also we have initiated a new type of advertisement in which each one tells its own story. That this has proved veryisuccessful is due to the untiring work of the heads of the Business Department, Winston Macdonough and Lawrence Hubbard. They deserve credit for their good work. I It has been suggested several times in the past that the school publish either a semi-annual or a monthly paper. We hope that this will be done next year, as it would undoubtedly be a success. We wish to thank the members of The Elm Board for their great assistance in bringing out The Ellllj especially Miss Clark and Miss Har- radon, our faculty advisers, without whose help and advice The Elm could not be published. Miss Appelbaum and her assistants have been a great help in type- writing all the Elm material. We wish them to know how much we appreciate it. Above all we thank the students of Wethersfield High School for their cooperation both in making up and in selling The Elm, and we wish the greatest success to The Elm of 1928. -The Editor.

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lihitnrialz THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL During the last year it has been planned to build a new High School in Wethersheld. After careful consideration of the center of school population, the Board purchased a plot of ground on Church Street, west of the railroad. This plot is almost exactly at the center of school population. Plans were drawn up for a High School Building. which will provide excellent modern high school opportunities. It will have facilities for manual training, domestic science, drawing, music, gymnasium classes, and a cafeteria. This is certainly a step in the right direction. The new High School will aid in relieving the conditions in the other Wethersneld schools, which are crowded. What is more important to a progressive town than its schools, where boys and girls are given training for their work in life? The new High School will provide every advantage for this training, the most important being the combination gymnasium-auditorium. The gymnasium will make it possible for the town to comply with the State Law which requires a certain amount of physical education each week, while the auditorium, with a seating capacity of seven hundred, will be the largest public hall in Wethersheld. The facilities offered in this building for the training of pupils in Grades VII to IX are of great value. They will be able to try many kinds of work previously unknown to them. On the basis of their suc- cess in these trial courses, they can be more wisely guided in the selection of their advanced work. Fewer failures and less discouragement will re- sult, many will remain in school longer, thus fitting themselves more thoroughly for a life of service. The school population of Wethersneld is growing at a tremendous rate. It has been estimated that in 1932 there will be 1437 pupils in the schools. This figure is based on the rate of increase for past few years. It can be seen from this that it will be absolutely necessary to have a new school within the next two or three years. WethersHeld's schools are rated among the best in the State, and the many advantages which the new school will bring will put it near the top. Therefore, we should have a new school. -Robbins W. Allen, '27.