Within the past ten years, Charles Hayden has endeared himself to the hearts of hundreds of high school students in his capacity as Submaster and Latin teacher in the Norwood Senior High School. He has won the complete respect and admiration of the high school girls and boys, of whom he is deeply fond.
Mr. Hayden has a fine educational background, and the major portion of his life thus far has been devoted to the acquiring of liberal and cultural knowledge.
Although Mr. Hayden was born in Boston in 1904, his parents took up residence in Wellesley while he was still very young. He attended the public schools up to the end of his junior high school grades. He then attended Boston Latin School, commuting there daily from Wellesley.
B. C. Graduate
Mr. Hayden attended Boston College, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927. Many honors were conferred upon him during his four years in college. He was a member of the Boston College Intercollegiate debating team for three years, sending as president of the Fulton Debating Society in his senior year. This society has acquired an eminent reputation for the excellence of its debaters. He also served as Associate Editor of the Senior Year Book, and as Salutatorian of his class graduation exercises.
In 1930 Mr. Hayden was awarded a Master of Arts degree from Boston College Graduate School. He has continued his studies with courses at Harvard, Boston University, and Northeastern. All of these were specialized courses on subjects of liberal arts, and administration of educational principles. Mr. Hayden commenced his teaching career in 1929 serving as substitute teacher, in the Lynn schools.
He came to Norwood in September of 1930, where he served as Latin teacher for three years. During this period he was coach of the Norwood High School Debating team. Undoubtedly his college debating success served the Norwood debaters well, for in three years, these teams had won the aggregate total of 18 out of 21 debating engagements with the finest teams in the state.
Appointed Submaster
He was appointed Submaster in 1933, a position he now holds. In 1935, Mr. Hayden was elected president of the Norwood Teachers Club and he was appointed chairman of the Curriculum Committee of the Massachusetts State Teachers Federation in 1936. He is married to the former Ruth Gleason. Mr. Hayden has chosen reading and studying' as his particular hobbies. Through these hobbies he has acquired a prodigious amount of knowledge of law, philosophy, and a finer appreciation of Latin.
Mr. Hayden plays golf, though he claims that the scores usually run to about a hundred. However, close associates claim that given ideal conditions, Mr. Hayden can blast out very impressive scores.
It is Mr. Hayden's duty in his capacity as Submaster to counsel and guide the spiritual and mental progress of the high school boy.
He has acquired an abundant knowledge of character and personality traits during the course of his ¡duties, and states in all sincerity that he thinks highly of the average Norwood high school student.
He feels that in the long run they have always shown a wonderful spirit of cooperation, and asserts that never in his long years in Norwood has he been confronted by a caso of a student to whom he was obliged to apply stringent discipline, graduating without a friendly farewell. He states that many of his difficult problem cases appeared at first to be dismal failures, but they were only "postponed efforts," and that his guidance was amply rewarded in the end.
(All articles originally published in the Norwood Messenger)
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