Some Fletcher teachers and parents also say they regret having had to leave their small school and join the larger Maynard.
But by and large, staff members say they have overcome these problems and are happier with the merger now than they were last spring.
What's In a Name?
Maynard was a longtime employee of the Cambridge Department of Public Works who also served 19 years on the school committee--once in the late 1950's, once in the '60s and then continuously from 1970 to 1984.
He died of a heart attack on Nov. 26, 1985, during his tenth term on the committee. Within a week, the school committee had changed the name of the Roberts School to the Maynard School.
In its resolution to change the name, the committee called Maynard "an uncompromising advocate of, in particular, the schools which served those children he loved so much."
School committee member Alfred B. Fantini, who served with Maynard during his last term, says he remembers Maynard helping poor parents to buy clothes and shoes for their children.
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