Woburn High School - Innitou Yearbook (Woburn, MA)

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• there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?” 8

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Fifty-four years ago a young graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, came to Woburn to begin his teaching career. This native of Freeport, Maine, was Orel M. Bean, who was to become a part of the Woburn school system for over forty years. After completing graduate studies at Harvard and Boston University, Mr. Bean was appointed to a teaching position at Woburn High School. Here the faculty knew him as an excellent educator; the students regarded him as a patient and discerning teacher, who constantly urged them to better them¬ selves and thereby better their school. In 1916 Mr. Bean was named principal of the high school, a post that he was to hold until his retirement in 1951. During these years many changes had to be effected in the school, and they were accomplished under his able direction. We are told, however, that when one reflects on the memory of Mr. Bean, the image recalled is that of a mild-mannered man who possessed an admirable type of discipline. Severe, indeed; yet somehow this discipline did result in friendships in later life with those pupils upo n whom he felt it necessary to impose his authority. At the time of his death on February 17, 1964, many of his former students remembered him as a person who was always concerned with the welfare of the school; he viewed its future optimistically; he admired the courage, imagination, and energy of youth. The “old” Woburn High School 7

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