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...issue started to bubble quietly in 1951 when the Communists imported an Italian named Pacifico Montanari to reform the republic's schools. Montanari, 36, is an ardent apostle of Celestin Freinet, a freewheeling French innovator who claims non-Freinet schools teach by the medieval notion of rigid authority, argues for a classless classroom, with the teacher as merely a "master companion" who discusses with the pupils what and how they should study. Montanari installed the Freinet method in all of San Marino's elementary schools except one: Mother Veronica's St. Clare's Convent...
Last year Mother Veronica's little girls, well-drilled in their ABCs and one-two-threes, scored far better on the state elementary exams than Superintendent Montanari's Freinetized pupils. This June Montanari vengefully flunked half of the conventtrained girls. The trick fooled no one. Parents suddenly realized that Montanari was not teaching their children to read, write or add. Said the wife of one leading party member: "After two years my daughter Paola could not count up to ten. When I asked her, she just gave me a pained look...
Jacob Aloff '34; as of the Class of 1933, William B. Bacon, Keith Famuleney, Walter S. Fox, Jr., George Fremd, Jr., Thomas H. Jameson, Ellis Jandron, Charles P. Lewis, Edward E. Mitchell, Valerio R. Montanari, James D. Reiher, Samuel Silverman, Samuel Spencer; as of the Class of 1932, George de F. Bissell, Jr., Spartaco V. Monello, David V. Smith; as of the Class of 1931, Paul A. Fullam, Frederick W. Thon; as of the Class of 1924, Daniel S. Holder; as of the Class of 1918, Hugh M. Hite...
...result of a tie for first place by Dunster and Lowell at the end of the first half of the tournament. Edward Milton '34, J. L. Noyes '34, and A. H. Brown '34, won the three hard-fought matches for Dunster. Hamilton Gray '33 and V. R. Montanari '33 were winners for Lowell...
Edward Milton '34 (D) defeated J. B. Hyman 1L (Low), 3-2; R. S. Greene '34 (Low) won by default; V. R. Montanari '33 (Low) won by default; F. L. Wiegand, Jr. '35 (Low) defeated A. H. Brown '34 (D), 3-2; Hamilton Gray '33 (Low) defeated Harper Woodward...