Cranston High School - Cranstonian Yearbook (Cranston, RI)

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y ............... llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll '66 Jlllllllllll lllll 71.- Foreword The Senxor class IS publ1sh1ng th1s Cranstonzan not because every other Senlor class for the past twelve years has publlshed one but because we feel that our final year 1n hlgh school would be lncomplete w1thout the publ1cat1on of th1s book Our Senxor year IS perhaps the fullest of the four h1gh school years We try to crowd 1nto It everythlng that we have wanted to do for three years and for Wh1ch we have had nelther the t1me nor the opportunxty We have tr1ed 1n thlS Cranstonzan to g1VC to faculty to undergraduates and to all fr1ends of the school an accurate account of the year s many act1v1t1es It IS our hope that when members of the school read our year book they w11l l1ve agaln th1s year and that when non members read lt they w1l1 feel as 1f they had been w1th us throughout the year sharlng 1n all our act1v1t1es We want th1s Cranstoman to be representatlve of school talent The storles poems essays and drawlngs show you what members of our own school can do They are ent1rely the work of present pup1ls Our year book 1S a b1t of school that we can carry w1th us when we leave It w1ll always serve as a souvemr and a rem1nder of the rlchest years that we have thus far spent But more than a record a repre sentat1ve of school talent and souvenir we s1ncerely hope that faculty and undergraduates will re gard the 1926 Cranstoman as an ex presslon of our gratitude for four happy years spent with them l ' A mm munnnm Cv ' 5 ' 0

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7-.- S :- S an n - nu - - - '- - nn nu - - - .- -1 -n - an -. -1 - .- 1 I .... Principal CLARENCE W BOSWORTH A Brown University Latin WILLIAM .I REYNOLDS A Brown University History EULALIA -I TOWNE A B Brown University French HELEN D BARRETT A B Boston University GEORGE F BURT A B Amherst College Bookkeeping and Economics ANNE W CARPENTER A M Brown University English Librarian HATTIE NI HOLT A NI Brown University Latin M IVIADELEINE KANE A Brown University History BESSIE L COGSWELL A B Boston University Typewriting and Stenography VERA L MILLIKEN A B Bates College English. IDA E. ARNOLD A. M. Brown University. English Civics and Commercial Arithmetic SARA A. THOMPSON A. B. Boston University. English. 'MARGARET A. FULLER A. M. Wellesley College. English. THALMA H. GORDON A. B. Smith College. Geometry. KATHERINE PAGE Chandler School for Women. Stenography and Commercial Geography. EVELYN R. BROWN A. B. University of New Hampshire. English and History. MARIAN A. BENTON, Litt. B. Boston University. French. CARLETON W. MERRITT, A. B. University of Maine. Physical Geography, Commercial Arithmetic, and Botany. GRACE C. EMERSON, Ed. M. Harvard University. Mathematics. QRANSTUN Faculty Sub Principal RAYMOND R THOMPSON B S Colby College Chemistry and Physics ARLENE E PRESTON A B Mount Holyoke College Algebra and French ISABELLE V ROBERTS B B Boston University Bookkeeping Penmanship and Commercial Arithmetic GEORGE B HEFLER B S Elementary Science and Algebra EDYTHE F REEVES A B Brown University Latin IRENE D CARLIN Ph B Brown University English AIMEE L SPENCER A B Brown University English DOROTHY C IVIAGUIRE A B Brown University English and History SPECIAL TEACHERS HENRY F ANGLIM Fitchburg Normal School Mechanical Drawing and Manual Training ANNA L. IVICINERNEY R. I. C. E. and Institute of Music Pedagogy. Supervisor of Music. HENRY C. REEVES Springfield Y. M. C. A. Physical Training. MARY D. JACKSON Simmons College. Domestic Science. ELIZABETH R. SULLIVAN R. I. College of Education. Domestic Science. ERNE SONNE R. I. School of Design. Drawing. HENRY E. CUTLER B. S. University of New Hampshire. Mechanical Drawing and Manual Training LOUISE M. PINE. R. I. C. E. a d Institute of Music Pedagogy. Assistant Supervisor of Music. E. ANNA JOHNSON, Sargent School for Physical Training. Physical Training. RUTH U. BURT, Ph. B. Brown University. Clerk of High School. Left, Rllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllml 'lillllllllllllllllllllllIllNNW

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' lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllx flllllll llll 1 j 1 mmm munmmw '- 1 E .1 .1 A Hrstory of Cranston I-hgh School Cranston Hrgh School IS nearrng another mllestone 1n 1ts usefulness and achlevements Probably w1th1n the comrng year It w1ll be located ln a commodxous new bulldmg B fore such a change IS made If IS natural to look back over the past and trace the hlstory of the school s development As early as l892 when Cranston was a town of less than frfteen thou sand lnhabrtants the first hrgh school course was offered to students The sessrons were held 1n connect1on wrth the grammar schools and were attended by only twelve puplls After three years under these condr t1ons a chance for a permanent home was offered 1n the old Auburn Gram mar School bulldlng left vacant at the erectlon of the Dor1c Avenue School From 1ts establlshment rn a sepa rate burldrng 1ts growth was excep tronally raprd The faculty of one Mr Keyes was soon rncreased by the add1t1on of Mr Reynolds who IS stxll on the teachrng staff and MISS Tower who for twenty years served the school w1th rare skrll and devo tron Mr Fenner was a teacher of the scrences and mathematlcs from l9Ol to l909 He returned IH l9l2 as pr1nc1pal and 1n 1917 he became superlntendent Th1s long and varled career has been attended w1th great progress 1n our school system and Wlfh great usefulness to the c1ty l 1904 the number of puplls warranted the erectlon of the present bu1ld1ng a frfty thousand dollar structure Wlth the new school came MISS Towne another of the present fac u ty .- E E E E I E - : : 1 .. E E . . .- : : : . . . . . . : ' ' ' ,, . . . . . . 1 - - , .. . . . . . - . ... - . : . . . . . I ' P an . . . .. , : . 6- . , : 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 ' 1 E , Q I 1 1 1 1 - .. ., . 1 Q w o ' 1 ... . . : 1 - . 3 - my - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ,, , .. . . . I o Q - .. . . . . : , - . . - ,.. , , - . . . I . ' . Il - 1 1 1 - I 1 1 1 1 1 1 .. , , ? 1 1 - - : . ,, .. . . : , : . . X - : , : . l. .. 1 : 5 l9l '