Longtime Teacher Honored With Naming Ceremony

health and physical education teacher Sandy Robichaud announced today that the student fitness lab at the school is no more — because it is now the Clark Masters Fitness Center. Masters was honored in the school gymnasium with a ceremony before dozens of students and staff members.

Masters taught at the school for 36 years before retiring 11 years ago. He told the crowd that he and Robichaud helped to create a physical fitness curriculum that included character education.

“I wanted parents to say, ‘What did you learn in physical education today?’ and not ‘What did you do in gym?’”

Robichaud credited Masters with introducing a program that “educated the whole child,” and she added, “He’s the man who taught me how to educate kids.”

She said the fitness center opened in 1992 and included three rowers and a bike. Today, the room is lined with various pieces of fitness equipment and the center is part of the physical education curriculum.

“It’s a great honor,” Masters told Westborough Patch as he looked around the crowd after the ceremony. “All I have is great memories. It’s a good way to leave.”