Milford chronicle., 1958-05-30

responsible for some of the kids
we saw / would have disowned
them"
At four o'clock in the afternoon
the superintendent met the dean of
Wesley College in Dover. Say fei-
low, those sophomores who visited
us today were a fine looking bunch
of extremely well-behaved boys and
girls and the sponsors seemed to be
top-fiight people. hadn't met them
before" Needless to say the Dean
made hit The sophomores were
visiting Dover as field trip in the
vocation unit IN English 10. It's no
use to wait until you are a senior
before finally deciding what you
want to do.
Mr.. Mac" was glad to hear about
the sophomores especially since he
had spent hours with the guidance
counsellor and the senior secretary
in working out the details, not only
the schedules of. visits for the
s0phomores, but also reshuffling the
teaching schedules so that other
classes would proceed as usual.
This was more difficult to arrange
as the seniors, sailing under a, set
of their own rules, were on a tour
of New York City with four faculty
helpers. However, with couple of
substitutes and cheerfully cooper
ative staff, the schedule worked. A
SEM high school teacher report
ed getting a ''big kick" out of the
bright-eyed enthusiasm of the 9Th
graders for English
Would this run of successes con-
tinue "Mr Mac" wondered. What
makes C. r. effective? On second
thought he didn't doubt. 1t starts in
the first grade.
Even while .'Mr. Mac" was SHUT
ling his sophomores in their quest
of vocational information eight con-
fident smiling teachers were in
doctrinating. the second section of
the group of $50 new first graders
in the G. r. traditions of good
citizenship. Did we say teachers
were doing this? More than tea
chers and in some respects better
than teachers current first graders
with almost a year of school expert
ence under their belts demonstrated
with pride to their beginning bud
dies that-This is the way we do
it in the classroom and on the play
ground. To make certain that the
visiting day was happy and re-
assuring F. T. A. assistants helped
in every room with room mothers
helping in the lunch line.
Eyuo1 xxrhiIa UMr. MooO uac hQln-
ing chaperone the Freshman Dance
the Elementary School Student
Council was holding it's annual ban
quet in the cafeteria with reports
on services rendered in several
fields and the installation of new
set of officers from grade five being
pledged to lead next year. The ex-
perienced outgoing officers, will be-
come a leavening influence with the
struggling to become adults next
year.
The school does not do it all.
The parents of the Student Council
members were present at the ban
quet to encourage and to under
stand. The hopes is still the best
bulwark of America. The school and
home must ever work together with
mutual understanding of America.
The school and home must ever
work together with mutual under
standing to give every boy. and girl
the best possible chance to de-
velop their citizenship and the
talents to the maximum.
Yes "Mr. Mac" may sigh glow and
even smile at 11:15 p. M, at the
conclusion of just another day of
school, with perhaps a few more
than usual satisfactions in a school
where Everybody is Somebody.
Note: "Mr. Mac" is Richard w.
MacFaddin, principal, Caesar Rod
ney High School.