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38-681: Luther Blount was born on September 5, 1916, in Warren, Rhode Island, to Willis Eugene Blount and Ruth Gibbs Blount. Luther had one brother F. Nelson Blount , the industrialist and steam locomotive collector. After graduating from Barrington High School , Blount attended Wentworth Institute of Technology , where he obtained an associate degree (at the time, the highest degree offered at Wentworth) in 1937. He got his entrepreneurial start by carving duck jewelry pins that he sold out of his "Dippy Duck Widdle Shop". During those years Blount continued to design jewellery, worked for his grandfather's oyster company, and

76-578: A California couple spent to go to the movies, $ 5 went to paying a babysitter. France and Austria experienced the strongest baby booms in Europe. In contrast to most other countries, the French and Austrian baby booms were driven primarily by an increase in marital fertility. In the French case, pronatalist policies were an important factor in this increase. Weaker baby booms occurred in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and

114-412: A few countries was there a significant and persistent increase in the marital fertility index during the baby boom, which suggests that most of the increase in fertility was driven by the increase in marriage rates. Jona Schellekens claims that the rise in male earnings that started in the late 1930s accounts for most of the rise in marriage rates and that Richard Easterlin's hypothesis according to which

152-539: A relatively small birth cohort entering the labor market caused the marriage boom is not consistent with data from the United States. Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan, and Yishay Maoz all argued that the baby boom was mainly caused by the alleged crowding out from the labor force of females who reached adulthood during the 1950s by females who started to work during the Second World War and did not quit their jobs after

190-419: A wealthy wool salesman and longtime Barrington resident. After a year of construction, Leander R. Peck Memorial School was opened on September 14, 1917. The Leander R. Peck Memorial School was used as Barrington's high school from 1917 until 1951, expanded in 1925 and again in 1935. During the 1950s, Barrington's population grew as a result of the post-World War II baby boom and the increasing availability of

228-648: Is a public high school located in Barrington , a town in Bristol County, Rhode Island . Barrington High School is the only high school of the Barrington Public Schools district, enrolling 1028 students in grades 9 - 12 . Barrington High School's school colors are blue and gold, and its mascot is the Eagle. During the early 1950s, Barrington's population began to grow as a result of the increasing availability of

266-525: The Easterlin hypothesis ) which considered the post-war economic prosperity that followed deprivation of the Great Depression as main cause of the baby boom, stressing that GDP-birth rate association was not consistent (positive before 1945 and negative after) with GDP growth accounting for a mere 5 percent of the variance in the crude birth rate over the period studied by the authors. Data shows that only in

304-493: The baby boomer generation . The boom coincided with a marriage boom. The increase in fertility was driven primarily by a decrease in childlessness and an increase in parity progression to a second child. In most of the Western countries, progression to a third child and beyond declined, which, coupled with aforementioned increase in transition to first and second child, resulted in higher homogeneity in family sizes. The baby boom

342-516: The 2022-2023 school year. In 1870, a Brown University alumnus named Isaac F. Cady established the Prince Hill Family and Day School. After the school closed in 1880, the now unused building was put to use as the first public school of Barrington in 1884; the school later moved to the recently constructed town hall in 1888. In 1916, the grounds for a new high school were donated by Sarah Gould Peck in memory of her late husband, Leander R. Peck,

380-453: The 2023-2024 school year, Barrington High School enrolls 1119 students and 83 faculty members: a student-teacher ratio of, roughly, 13:1. The student body of Barrington High School is mostly White , with a 7.2% Asian minority. Latino , African-American , and multiracial students together comprise about 10% of the student body. As of 2014, Barrington High School offered 20 varsity sports for boys and 3 varsity sports for girls. Run under

418-484: The 20th century was marked by a significant and persistent increase in fertility rates in many countries of the world, especially in the Western world . The term baby boom is often used to refer to this particular boom, generally considered to have started immediately after World War II , although some demographers place it earlier or during the war. This terminology led to those born during this baby boom being nicknamed

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456-576: The Barrington Boosters, these sports include cross country , soccer , football , field hockey , cheerleading , tennis , volleyball , swimming , track and field , basketball , wrestling , ice hockey , baseball , lacrosse , and softball . Barrington High School participates in the Rhode Island Interscholastic League and has won several championships since 2008. Post-World War II baby boom The middle of

494-668: The Netherlands. In the United Kingdom the baby boom occurred in two waves. After a short first wave of the baby boom during the war and immediately after, peaking in 1946, the United Kingdom experienced a second wave during the 1960s, with a peak in births in 1964 and a rapid fall after the Abortion Act 1967 came into force. The baby boom in Ireland began during the Emergency declared in

532-461: The U.S. birth rate began to increase in 1941, and decline after 1957. Deborah Carr considers baby boomers to be those born between 1944 and 1959, while Strauss and Howe place the beginning of the baby boom in 1943. In Canada the baby boom is usually defined as occurring from 1947 to 1966. Canadian soldiers were repatriated later than American servicemen, and Canada's birthrate did not start to rise until 1947. Most Canadian demographers prefer to use

570-403: The United States. Beginning in 2017, the school began implementing a "de-leveling" program which removed advanced courses and ultimately all honors programs. Thereafter, the school's academic rating dropped precipitously in the U.S. News & World Report , to #308 in 2022. As a result of parents' pushback against this, the school reversed course and said honors programs will be reinstated in

608-721: The University officially dedicating its "state-of-the-art" shellfish hatchery to him. In 2006 Blount donated the Niagara Prince to three New England schools. The $ 6.5 million ship was built by Blount and was part of one of his cruise lines. The recipients of the donation were Wentworth Institute of Technology , Rhode Island College , and Roger Williams University . All three had given Blount honorary doctorates. List of vessels built by Blount Marine Barrington High School (Barrington, Rhode Island) Barrington High School (formerly known as West Barrington Senior High School )

646-404: The age of 20. A joke emerged at the time around comedic speculation that women were going to college to earn their MRS degree due to the increased marriage rate. The baby boom was stronger among American Catholics than among Protestants. The exact beginning and end of the baby boom is debated. The U.S. Census Bureau defines baby boomers as those born between mid-1946 and mid-1964, although

684-504: The automobile and the baby boom . Barrington High School was the first of many public schools constructed during this period to accommodate the now larger populace. Barrington High School has been noted for academic success; Niche ranks Barrington as the best public high school in Rhode Island. In its 2014 list of "America's Top High Schools", Newsweek ranked Barrington High School as No. 200 out of an analysis of 500 schools across

722-419: The automobile. To facilitate the education of this increased population, new public schools were constructed throughout the 1950s. Barrington High School was constructed in 1951, the first of the modern Barrington public schools. In 1964, a construction project doubled the size of the original building; twenty years later, the library was expanded in addition to renovation of the art and science rooms. In 1999,

760-446: The correlation between cohort fertility of the relevant women and access to electrical service in early adulthood is negative, and that Amish also experienced the baby boom. Judith Blake and Prithwis Das Gupta point out the increase in ideal family size in the times of baby boom. Peter Lindert partially attributed the baby boom to the extension of income tax to most of the US population in

798-689: The country during the Second World War . Laws on contraception were restrictive in Ireland, and the baby boom was more prolonged in this country. Secular decline of fertility began only in the 1970s and particularly after the legalization of contraception in 1979 . The marriage boom was even more prolonged and did not recede until the 1980s. The baby boom was very strong in Norway and Iceland, significant in Finland, moderate in Sweden and relatively weak in Denmark. Baby boom

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836-547: The early 1940s and newly created tax exemptions for children and married couples creating a new incentive for earlier marriage and higher fertility. It is proposed that because the taxation was progressive the baby boom was more pronounced among the richer population. In the United States and Canada, the baby boom was among the largest in the world. In 1946, live births in the U.S. surged from 222,721 in January to 339,499 in October. By

874-466: The economic stability of the country and how people are raised to value material objects. The "relative income" theory explains the baby boom by suggesting that the late 1940s and the 1950s brought low desires to have material objects, because of the Great Depression and World War II, as well as plentiful job opportunities (being a post-war period). These two factors gave rise to a high relative income, which encouraged high fertility. Following this period,

912-478: The economy recovered. Andriana Bellou and Emanuela Cardia promote a similar argument, but they claim women who entered the labor force during the Great Depression crowded out women who participated in the baby boom. Glenn Sandström disagrees with both variants of this interpretation based on the data from Sweden showing that an increase in nuptiality (which was one of the main causes of an increase in fertility)

950-436: The employment of his brother's seafood company. Blount started a shipbuilding company in 1949. Out of the over 300 ships his company built during his lifetime, over 100 were built in the first 15 years. The company, founded in 1949, was originally named Blount Marine Corporation and later renamed to Blount Boats, Inc. Seeing the potential of the consumer tours market, Blount began to offer cruises. The venture, founded in 1966,

988-463: The end of the 1940s, about 32 million babies had been born, compared with 24 million in the 1930s. In 1954, annual births first topped four million and did not drop below that figure until 1965, by which time four out of ten Americans were under the age of 20. As a result of the baby boom and traditional gender roles, getting married immediately after high school became commonplace and women increasingly encountered tremendous pressure to marry by

1026-442: The fertility rate fluctuations and the decreasing mortality rate. Easterlin attempts to prove the cause of the baby boom and baby bust by the "relative income" theory, despite the various other theories that these events have been attributed to. The "relative income" theory suggests that couples choose to have children based on a couple's ratio of potential earning power and the desire to obtain material objects. This ratio depends on

1064-567: The later date of 1966 as the boom's end year in that country. The later end to the boom in Canada than in the US has been ascribed to a later adoption of birth control pills . In the United States, more babies were born during the seven years after 1948 than in the previous thirty, causing a shortage of teenage babysitters . At one point during this period, Madison, New Jersey only had fifty babysitters for its population of 8,000, dramatically increasing demand for sitters. In 1950, out of every $ 7 that

1102-473: The next generation had a greater desire for material objects, however, an economic slowdown in the United States made jobs harder to acquire. This resulted in lower fertility rates causing the Baby Bust. Jan Van Bavel and David S. Reher proposed that the increase in nuptiality (marriage boom) coupled with low efficiency of contraception was the main cause of the baby boom. They doubted the explanations (including

1140-508: The oyster population in the bay. In early 2003, Blount renewed his efforts with 4,000 adult oysters which, according to marine biologist Matt Jaglieski, produced "over 40 million" fertilized larvae. Two years later he donated 80 acres (320,000 m) of his land to Roger Williams University to the cause. Blount's contributions to restoring the Bay earned him an honorary doctorate degree in marine science from Roger Williams University in addition to

1178-589: The school completed a $ 14.25 million (equivalent to $ 26 million in 2023) expansion/renovation project, which included new classrooms, administration and guidance offices, a renovated auditorium, and several other expansions/renovations throughout the building. Barrington High School has been deemed a National Blue Ribbon School , and has received a gold rating from U.S News & World Report . In 2014, Newsweek ranked Barrington High School as No. 200 in an analysis of 14,454 U.S schools based on graduation rates, SAT scores, and AP participation rates. As of

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1216-652: Was absent or not very strong in Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain. There were however regional variations in Spain, with a considerable baby boom occurring in regions such as Catalonia . There was a strong baby boom in Czechoslovakia, but it was weak or absent in Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Estonia and Lithuania, partly as a result of the Soviet famine of 1946–1947 . The volume of baby boom

1254-788: Was admitted as a compatriot of the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution . Blount donated millions in time and money to various causes throughout his life. This included giving the University of Rhode Island $ 300,000 to help build an aquaculture research lab in 2001. Blount was responsible for four million juvenile oysters that were later "planted by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management in various parts of Narragansett Bay" in an effort to grow

1292-421: Was also a mill machinist and plant engineer. Blount and Mary Ellen Hustad married in 1943, which was followed by brief service in the army. He got his start in inventing early. In seventh grade he reinvented the steam engine. "It was a crude sort of steam engine that he made from a tin can, an alcohol burner, and a paddle wheel." He honed his inventing talent while creating a steaming process to open clams under

1330-542: Was called the American Canadian Caribbean Line. From the 1970s to the early 2000s Blount offered cruising tours of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island under the name "Bay Queen Cruises". The ships involved with this venture were named Bay Queen (1977) and Vista Jubilee (1989). By the 1990s, Blount Marine, now known as Blount Boats, was one of the few independently owned shipyards in the United States building commercial passenger vessels. In 1960, Blount

1368-625: Was limited to economically active women. He pointed out that in 1939 a law prohibiting the firing of a woman when she got married was passed in the country. Greenwood, Seshadri, and Vandenbroucke ascribe the baby boom to the diffusion of new household appliances that led to reduction of costs of childbearing. However Martha J. Bailey and William J. Collins criticize their explanation on the basis that improvement of household technology began before baby boom, differences and changes in ownership of appliances and electrification in U.S. counties are negatively correlated with birth rates during baby boom, that

1406-454: Was most prominent among educated and economically active women. The baby boom ended with a significant decline in fertility rates in the 1960s and 1970s, later called the baby bust by demographers. Economist and demographer Richard Easterlin in his "Twentieth Century American Population Growth" (2000), explains the growth pattern of the American population in the 20th century by examining

1444-682: Was the largest in the world in New Zealand and second-largest in Australia. Like the US, the New Zealand baby boom was stronger among Catholics than Protestants. The author and columnist Bernard Salt places the Australian baby boom between 1946 and 1961. Many countries outside the west (among them Morocco, China and Turkey) also witnessed the baby boom. The baby boom in Mongolia is probably explained by improvement in health and living standards related to

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