Woodbury High School - Warrior Yearbook (Woodbury, CT)

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THE WIDE AWAKE Page Eleven EDUCATION Sonnet: A teacher to a pupil (Juline Warner Comstock, 1915) Behind my desk I sit in solemn sway, Compelling you reluctantly to learn Th - mysteries of ablative in turn, W hit. Fancy bids you wander far away. I wonder, do you guess as here I stay Aloof, as on a throne, with aspect stern. Imparting ancient wisdom, how I yearn To he a sharer of your dreams and play? Your love of Life that bygone Rome defies; Your closer contact with a world that's new,— How powerless I feel where you are wise! 1 lo lg to pierce the barrier 'twixt us two: Would you respect my years, should you surmise How ceaselessly, in truth, I learn from you? Juline Warner Comstock 176 Highland Avenue Leonia, New Jersey IN THE SPRING A STUDENTS FANCY— Oh, the air is sweet with lilacs. For Spring is at the May— Why do I have to sit and plug At Caesar, night and day? In the passive periphrastic— 7 wo brown wrens have built their nest. And a bob-o-link is carolling. For Caul slopes north and West. In the liy of the valley Callic chief's have pitched their tents. And Caesar sent-two orioles!— To Warn him of events. Having built his camp of dogwood, ( The bridal wreath’s in flower!) He slew two thousand robins Before the seventh hour. Azalia is subjunctive— What Was that note I heard? And having fought this battle He spared the humming-bird. Oh, why did Caesar have to Conquer Caul in early spring? And teacher won't believe I study Hard as anything! Juline Warner Comstock. Woodbury H. S„ 1915 SONG OF A SENIOR (To be sung to the melody of Love’s Old Sweet Song. Once in the dear dead days beyond recall I look many subjects, but Ceometry Was worst of all. Out of my day-dreams there came the teacher's Voice, Which made my heart do everything except rejoice. He'd call on me, just when my dreams seemed bright And of course my answer Was never right. Just a mem'my to me Days too soon gone by— Sighing I'll remember Days at Woodbury High, Soon I'll part from classmates Who have toiled with me, Toiled through hardest problems Of Ceometry. —May Swanson, '32. Life linmrsuniee The Basis of Success W. J. BURTON. Special Agent Connecticut General and National Life of Vermont C ♦ 1 w

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Page Ten THE WIDE AWAKE The term, which signifies a garden of children, ’ implies that the education is primarily a process of development rather than one of mere learning, and this development can be directed by providing right conditions, and by the guidance of a person trained for the task. Froebel’s system is based on a metaphor found in the theories of Johann Pestalozzi-namely, the school is a garden in which the children are the plants. The teacher is the benevolent superintendent who studies child nature and contents himself with encouraging that nature to develop itself.” Froebel believed that such an institution as the Kindergarten was needed to supplement the home, since the child has needs during the period from three to six years which the home can only partially meet, and which the school does not recognize. These needs arise from the development of his play instincts and require for their full satisfaction, the companionship of children of his own age, and the opportunity for experimentation in larger variety than the home can furnish. The Kindergarten, therefore, fills the gap between the home and the school. That it furnishes a real basis for that of the grades has been demonstrated by practical experience as well as by more recent study of the child's development. Among the various needs of the child which the Kindergarten meets, tht need for companionship with children of the same age is one of the most important. In the home the child is too often either a monarch of a subject. In the Kindergarten he is an individual among his equals. In mingling with his fellow playmates he is stimulated to his best effort by the opportunity for comparing his own achievements with those of his companions. The joys of companionship are often interrupted, however, because the children are not yet acquainted with the laws of right conduct; but these are learned readily by the experience of losing favor with their playmates if they offend in any way. It is through experience that children learn that good behavior is the means by which they can secure happiness in their play and in their work. If this is instilled in their minds early in life it will remain with them when they become older. Many of the kndergarten exercises prove that right conduct is necessary for their happiness, but none more so than the games, because they are so largely co-operative. The games have many other purposes. Among these is the development of the physical side of the child. The period from three to six years is of such rapid growth that energy is generated faster than it can be used. It is for the purpose of affording the right exercise for the overflowing energy that the various running, skipping and dancing games have been involved in the Kindergarten program. Sihce these are necessarily rhythmic, they not only aid the children in gaining control over their movements but also become the means by which they learn to understand and express music. The Kindergarten children are often able to display much ingenuity by experimenting with the different kinds of materials with which they are provided. The use of cubes, prisms, spheres, and the use of clay is one of the means by which their inventive powers are displayed. They become inventors by expressing, through their hands, the thoughts of their minds. Nature observation and story-telling from a large part of the Kindergarten program. Not only is the knowledge of the children increased, but their vocabulary is also enlarged by means of careful observation of nature, and of their intimate surroundings. As they become familiar with different objects and actions, words are constantly associated with them until the expression of their thoughts in appropriate words takes place unconsciously. Story-telling and the children's reproduction of the stories are additional means by which language is acquired and the introduction of literature is made. It is through these various agencies—the games, stories, songs, the play with materials, and nature study, that the child is able to express his thoughts, to experiment, and to increase his knowledge and vocabulary. It is also through these activities that obedience, co-operation, and honor are taught, thus preparing the child to take up his work successfully in the primarv grades. More and more, psychologists realize that the critical years in a child’s life are those before he enters the school room proper. It is then that habits are formed, and character is developed. It is for these reasons that the principle of the kindergarten have been accepted in the educational theory of practically all civilized countries. —Jeanette Stone, '29. A Full Line of Spring Coods Now in— Ladies’ House Dresses Children’s Dresses Boys’ and Girls’ Suits Stockings of all Kinds Straw Hats for the Garden and Hayfield C. H. DAVIS Woodbury, Conn.

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Page Twelve THE WIDE AWAKE .UYTttu (YEWS. CLASS OF 1IW7 Charles Adams—employed with the Western Union Telegraph Co. in Bloomfield. N. J. Sherwood Allen—working on state road construction job in Avon. Elliot Balkcom—working in Bridgeport. Myra Coad—training to be a nurse in the West Haven Hospital. ALUMNI NOTES CLASS OF litts Elizabeth Atwood—living at home. Alexander Darrow—attending the Yale Art School, recently won a scholarship for high standing. Shirley Dawson—a member of the class of '31 at Boston University. Marjorie Frazier—working in New Milford. Jennette Hitchcock—a member of the class of '31 at Smith College. Edla Judson—living at home. Eleanor Dickinson—a member of the class of '30 at the Danbury Normal School. Margaret Fleming—a member of the class of '30 at the New Haven Normal School. Vella Leslie—a member of the class of '29 at the Danbury Normal School. Priscilla Moore—a member of the class of '31 at Boston University. Doris Hull—living at home. Estella Isham—living at home. Harriet Minor—training at the Millard Filmore Hospital in Buffalo. N. Y. Helen Pratt—now Mrs. Clarence Anderson and lives in Woodbury. Florence Sharrow—a member of the class of '30 at the Danbury Normal School. Ruth Stiles—attending the Waterbury Art School. Earle Munson—working atJ. D. Kimball's. Mildred Parkin—attended Post’s Business College. now employed by the Farrell Foundry Co. in Waterbury. Ralph Parmelee—living at home, and running a milk route. Frank Reichenbach—completes his pre-medical training course at Tuft’s this year, and will enter the medical school next fall. Doris Roswell—working in the Woodbury Telephone office. Hazel Swanson—a member of the class of '32 at Boston University. Earl Anderson — attending Stone’s Business College in New Haven. Charles Balkom—attending State College in South Carolina. Karl Bryant—working as a painter with C. J. Smith. Dexter Clark—Working as a painter with C. J. Smith. Dexter Clark—working in the Service Garage, Waterbury. Rollin Hotchkiss—a member of the class of ’32 at Yale University. Elmer Munsell—a member of the class of '29 at Dean Academy, and expects to enter Rensselaer next fall. Jack Niekerk—taking a post graduate course at Crosby High. Charles Parmelee—living at home. Allen Smith—attending Mount Hermon School. Frederick Strong—a member of the class of '29 at Cushing Academy, and expects to enter Yale University next fall. Robert Sullivan—taking a post graduate course at Crosby High. CLASS OF 1926 Jeanie Adams—a member of the class of ’29 at the Hartford Hospital Nurses' training ing School. Pearle Capewell—living at home. Evelyn Curtiss—graduated fro mthe Danbury Normal School in ’28. Now teaching in Kent. Walter Dixon — completes his pre-medical course at Tuft’s this year, and will enter the medical school this fall. Harriet Isham—graduated from the Danbury Normal School in '28. Now teaching in Warren. Elizabeth Judson—graduated from Bay Path Institute, Springfield in Feb. 1929. Employed in the Beachman Advertising Co., New York City. Merwin Mitchell—a member of the class of '30 at Amherst, Fannie Niekerk—attended Post’s, now employed in Scovill’s. Eva Roswell—a member of the class of '29 at the Waterbury Hospital. Margaret Thomas—working at the Woodbury Telephone office. Emily Tomlinson—a member of the class of '30 at Connecticut College.