Edward Yeomans attended one of the schools described on the front flap: the Ojai Valley School in California, which was founded by his father. He prepared for college at the Thacher School,alsoin California, andentered Harvard College. After graduating in Biology, he returned to teach at Thacher School, but in the mean time hehad cometo know Katharine Taylor, director of the Shady Hill School Schoolin Cambridge. Two yearslater hejoined the faculty of that school as teacherof sixth grade.
In 1939hemoved into adult education work in the South and ten years later returned to Shady Hill asdirector. He left in 1962 to become a training officer in the Peace Corps and subsequently to becomea staff member of the National Association of Independent Schools. In that capacity he was among the first to introduce the socalled "integrated day," developedby Englishprimary schools,to American teachers.
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belongs to all who have been a part of the school and its community. He should be able to recreate the scenes: the shapes, colors, smells, and sounds; the feelings of dismay
tap experience that
bridge. There were already two private schools in the neighbor hood of Harvard Square: Buckingham for girls, Browne and Nichols for boys; both good schools in the classical tradition
Chaillu’s two thick volumes. During the pilgrim fathers’ first grim winter on the coast of North America, we suffered their privations. In the shed back of the temple boiled onion skins and bark
and in Children’s Museum, Boston.” Tuitions ranged from $90.00 for First Grade to $155.00 for the three upper grades: Seventh, Eighth and Ninth.
Americans until the eighth, after passing through the “Age of Ex ploration and Discovery” in the seventh. Meanwhile in the fourth grade we were Greeks, a year I remember with particular happi ness. We stenciled white sheets and made them into chitons,
position teacher and as chairman of a key committee at the Francis Parker School, then in its twentieth year. On the other hand, she was impressed by what she saw and heard, by the Atwoods, the Hockings, and others involved with the school,
participation, but to the majority it seemed to be a necessary step in the process of growth. Actually, parents had almost as much access to the school’s affairs as before, for the majority of members of the new Board
Children and teachers who cannot work in the
degree of comfortand safety. Collections are exhibited or stored. Classes see and share one another’s discoveries. A miniature darkroom serves amateurphotographers; a tool lockerholds equipment for class usein keeping the school grounds attractive andorderly.
Index Words to Search in the First 50 Years:
Apprentice (apprentices): 58, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84, 89, 90, 96, 109, 110, 111, 119
Apprentice Training Course: 74, 75, 79, 80, 81
Art (Art Studio): 76, 88, 115, 116
Assemblies: 15, 16, 33, 37, 53, 85, 98, 115, 120, 122
Assembly Hall (assembly hall): 7, 22, 42, 48, 60, 99, 115
Atwood (Prof. & Mrs. Wallace): 18, 19, 26
Badminton Building: 48
Miss Baldwin (Miss Baldwin’s School): 1, 4
Black community (black communities) (black students) (black families): 1, 24, 64, 65, 86, 87, 88, 98, 107, 122
Board of Overseers: 18, 19, 28, 31
Boston Public Schools (Boston Public School): 4, 112, 113
Jerome Bruner: 107, 111
Buildings (building): 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 19, 21, 22, 25, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 46, 48, 51, 59, 60, 61, 92, 96, 98, 99, 100, 104, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119
Buckingham School: 1, 9, 86
Cambridge: 1,4, 9, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, 31, 34, 39, 42, 48, 60, 62, 64, 75, 86, 89, 93, 96, 115, 118, 120
Cambridge Community Center: 85, 86, 88, 89, 91
Cambridge Friends School: 118
Cambridge Skating Club: 86
Central Subject (central subject): 15, 30, 38, 40, 53, 57, 97, 102, 103, 104, 105, 120, 121
Chicago Commons: 20, 24, 25, 27, 64, 88
Christmas: 42, 43, 60, 91, 117
Civil War: 57, 61, 102, 103, 121
Closing Day: 36, 57
Coolidge (John): 40
Coolidge Hill: 31, 32, 34, 104
Cooperative Open Air School: 4, 12
George Cuisenaire: 107
Curriculum (curriculum): 11, 16, 17, 19, 31, 36, 37, 38, 40, 45, 50, 52, 59, 61, 66, 67, 72, 74, 84, 85, 87, 90, 102, 103, 106, 109, 120, 122, 123
Dalton School: 95
John Dewey: 74, 90, 95
Z. P. Dienes: 108
Division chairmen: 86
Double grades: 36, 97, 118
Educational Enrichment Program (EEP): 113, 122, 123
Eight-Year Study: 65, 66, 72, 104
Enrollment: 36, 86, 98, 119, 122
Eskimos: 105, 121
Faculty: 6, 9, 17, 18, 19, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 46, 66, 67, 69, 73, 74, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 100, 104, 105, 107, 110, 11, 112, 115, 119, 123
Francis Parker School: 18, 19, 25, 26, 27, 30, 36, 66, 74, 95, 122
Caleb Gattegno: 107
Gardner Museum: 57
Germany: 94
Great Depression: 82
Greece: 73, 121
Harvard College: 1, 6, 9, 13, 18, 19, 36, 44, 68, 94, 101, 107, 123
Harvard’s School of Education: 75, 106
Harvard University Press: 19, 44, 101
Hocking: 1, 5, 9, 11, 18, 19, 25, 27, 28, 104, 122, 123
Hocking, William Ernest (Prof.): 2, 4, 8, 11, 15, 16, 25, 45, 95
Hocking, Agnes (Mrs.): 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 25, 29, 30, 34, 42, 63
Indians: 7, 9, 11, 14, 38, 61, 105, 121
Barbel Inhelder: 111
Marietta Johnson: 38, 73
Languages: 66, 97
Lesley College: 75
Library: 37, 53, 104, 113, 121
Lower School: 38, 39, 52, 60, 105, 107
David Mallery: 108, 110
Mathematics: 17, 37, 45, 46, 66, 74, 76, 85, 97, 106, 107, 108, 109, 120, 121, 122
May Day: 54, 55, 97
Middle School (middle grades): 40, 50, 52, 53, 86, 121, 122
Music: 6, 14, 16, 42, 43, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 63, 67, 74, 76, 88, 90, 94, 95, 97, 100, 101, 110, 112, 120, 121
National Association of Independent Schools: 108, 111
Ninth Grade (Ninth Graders): 40, 45, 55, 56, 57, 60, 66, 85, 86, 96, 115, 118
Ojai Valley School: 46, 94, 95
Olympic Games: 49
Francis Parker: 18, 19, 25, 26, 27, 30, 36, 66, 74, 95, 122
Parents’ Council: 31, 35, 36, 88
Parents Work Plan: 100, 101, 102
Peace Corps: 96, 123
Jean Piaget: 74, 111
Play Program (Play/Plays): 40, 42, 48, 60, 63, 106, 117
Progressive school (progressive education): 10, 12, 16, 18, 38, 39, 72, 89, 90, 95, 119, 120, 122
Quincy Street: 4
Lore Rasmussen: 108
Reading: 5, 6, 13, 14, 38, 50, 61, 74, 77, 84, 105, 106, 122
May Sarton: Preface, 9, 11
Scholarship: 28, 80, 82, 92, 98, 104, 119
Science: 5, 9, 16, 17, 30, 35, 50, 51, 52, 66, 74, 75, 89, 94, 97, 112, 117, 118, 121
Second Grade Village: 39
Service: 21, 25, 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 100, 112, 115, 119, 123, 124
Shady Hill News: 58, 60, 90, 92, 102, 110, 115
Shop (Shop building): 36, 40, 60, 61, 62, 74, 88, 97, 101, 116, 117, 121
Theodore Sizer: 123
Catherine Stern: 45, 107, 108
Summer Session: 112, 113, 115
Teacher Training Course: 74, 75, 77 (see apprentice)
Thacher School: 94
Thanksgiving: 16, 91
Tuitions: 9, 28, 82, 100
Unitarian Service Committee: 91, 92
Upper School: 45, 53, 57, 62, 86, 106
Vikings: 46, 53, 121
Alfred North Whitehead (A.N. Whitehead): 46, 68, 69, 74, 90
Mary F. Williams (Mary Williams): 6, 17
Faculty & Staff
Ruth Abbott (Abbie): 52, 53, 54, 56, 58
Michael Butler: 97
Edith Caudill (Edie Caudill): 102, 103, 104, 112
Dexter Cheney (Dec Cheney): 40
Dorothy Coburn: 15, 106
Anne Coolidge: 73
Margaret Crane: 52, 54
Ellen Scott Davison: 9
Rebecca Dennison: 58
Ruth Edgett: 15, 17, 96, 104, 106
Mary Eliot: 112, 119
Helen Fogg: 73, 91, 92
Madeline Gabron: 105
Anne Glatzer: 106
Helen Hayes: 48, 98
Carmelita Hinton: 34, 39
John Holt: 110
Bill Hull: 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111
Ilmi Jones: 96, 99
Ted Martin: 40, 60, 116
James McCarthy (James P. McCarthy): 15, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 104, 106
Monica Owen: 38
Jane Prescott (Janie Prescott): 7, 14, 112
Lillian Putnam: 9, 17, 50, 96, 104
Kathleen Raoul: 105
Ned Ryerson (Edward Ryerson): 112
Joseph Segar: 123
Everett Smith (Everett H. Smith): 40, 46, 47, 48, 54, 56, 96, 104, 112
William Speer: 40
Adelaide Sproul: 112, 116
Harold Sproul: 40
Margaret Stout: 58, 60
Student Board: 123
Agnes Swift: 106
Miss Katharine Taylor (Katharine Taylor) (KT) (Katharine Taylor Fund): 18, 19, 27, 28, 34, 36, 41, 42, 52, 63, 64, 73, 82, 85, 88, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 100, 101, 104, 122, 123
Mlle. Thioux: 6, 17
Anne Thorp (Anne Longfellow Thorp): 40, 41, 42, 102, 104
Joseph Tierney: 99, 100
Frank Vincent: 91, 111
Tom Waring: 118
Dr. Ruth Washburn (Ruth Washburn): 80
Edwina Williams: 39
Edward Yeomans: 40, 95