Cranston High School - Cranstonian Yearbook (Cranston, RI)

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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 '

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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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1 QRANSTON allIllllllmllllllllllllllllllllll . c'willlllllllllltllllllllllltlII IW 5...- u u -4 Thrrteen years after 1ts erectlon the present bu1ld1ng was filled to overflowmg wlth more than SIX hun dred students Consequently part t1me sesslons were held unt1l a wlng on the Pontlac Avenue s1de was ready for occupancy m 1917 Thxs w1ng relleved the congestlon tempo rarlly but durmg the last two years the crowded cond1t1ons have made rt necessary to resume the part t1me ses slons The lncreased enrollment has been paralleled by advancement rn ll other llnes The faculty has grown from the first sole xnstructor who taught n1ne subjects to thxrty teach ers especlally tramed 1n the1r respec t1ve branches Several of these be srdes those already mentroned have served the school for many years MISS Barrett since 1907 Mr Burt and Mrss Carpenter s1nce l9l0 and both MISS Holt and Miss Kane for more than ten years The scholastxc standmg has been steadxly ralsed unt1l now the s hool 19 rated 1n class A among the other hr h schools 1n Rhode Island I 1904 the certlficate prlvllege was granted by the New England Col lege Entrance Board and has been constantly retamed ever s1nce on ac count of the excellent records made by our graduates at Brown Unrver slty and other hlgher mstltutlons Among the graduates of whose rec ords the school 1S justly proud IS MISS Ruth Lothrop who after leav mg college was granted a scholarshlp Gfltltllflg her to one years study 1n France Many of our graduates have been elected to Phr Beta Kappa or Slgma Psx One or two have had the honor of belng elected to both soc1et1es The graduates of the com 0 merc1a1 course have also met w1th s1g nal success Employment offices of Provldence state that there are no bet ter prepared graduates from any bus1 ness course than those from Crans ton Not only busmess firms m the C1tV but also some of the ofiicrals at the State House demand Cranston graduates to fill therr vacancies When the Hrgh School was first founded three four year courses were offered the Englrsh the Classlcal and the Commerclal Later a two year and a one year Commercral Course and a four year Greek Course were added It IS 1nterest1ng to no t1ce that only three of the or1g1nal courses remam wrth the Engllsh Course d1v1ded mto two parts the Englrsh College and Engllsh General In addxtron electlve subjects have been offered from t1me to t1me draw 1ng mus1c manual trammg and phys1cal tramlng In compllance wlth the state law phys1cal tra1n1ng IS now compulsory An lnvaluable 1nst1tut1on of Cranston Hrgh School IS the school lrbrary The present Room 17 was furmshed for thxs purpose through a glft from the Alumm Assoclatlon When the books had lncreased t about 500 and the locatlon changed to Room 5 the name Valentme Almy Memonal Lrbrary was wrrtten upon 1ts door In 1920 MISS Car penter offered to organlze and super v1se the llbrary Under her manage ment xt became an lmportant factor 1n school lrfe and 1ts value was soon students The1r shown by many gxfts whlch have ralsed the number of books to two thousand These are supplemented by newspapers and magazmes a vlctrola lantern sl1des real1Zed by the lnterest has been S - - . . . . , . .1 r ' : . - . . . . - - - - nn , - -, ' ',- .. .- .. - . . . 2 , , - .- - . . . . .- 1 1 ' -' . . . . .- 1 , - ' .1 .- . . . Z r - . . . . - . I 1 , . - - .. . ' - .1 -. , -u - - - , - 1 -I ' . . - : ' T 1 1 Z ' ' - - - 1 1 - . . - : 3 ' - , .- - , - .- - . .. - - - - 1 ' I . . . . .. n , -n Y - .-' - Q - ' t . .. . - 1. -. 1 1 ' n . . - . un nu , 1 : .. . . - I '1 - - . , . . . an - - p . - - . . - . ., - - , 1 1 1 . .. . - ' - U . ' . . .- un - Q ' ' un ' ' nu ' - . ' ' . . . . . . : f - ' - . . . . Q , 1 .1 - - ' Q U - as - I1 ' - . .. - . s .4 , . 1- . . .. - - - . U , Q - O - - . . - -: - , a . nu , - 1 , u , an ' ' ' , u - : . . . . . - . 1 . . 1 ' nn , nu 1 - - : . - 4 - . in . ' - . . . 1 nu , , - : . . . . . 1 1 - .. , .' . . nu - . an un ' - , . . . - I- - - nu . . - - . . - I an - - - .. . . . - .. - ' 1 1 1 un an - -- .- -