Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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CLASS OF 1 9 J 0 room on the third Hoor much hotter than we did those that floated down to us from Mr. Peterson’s laboratory. Mr. Daniel Keegan (iraduated from Peabody High, and Sal- em N ormal. He arrived at Dedham High School in 1924 and is working for M. Ed. and B. S. degrees. Though Mr. Keegan served in the army, he’ll tell nothing of his e.xperiences. When not busy with school work, he has outside interests such as accounting and income tax work. He is very fond of music and golf. We all extend our appreciation to Mr. Keegan for so efficiently filling the place of Mr. (jibb. The orchestra has enjoyed his leadership. .Miss Dorothy Kendall graduated from Mt. Holyoke College. Before coming to Dedham in 1928, she taught in Concord, New Hampshire. She has varied interests such as hiking, mountain climbing, travel, literature, and drama. Her opinion of D. H. S. is that “it is so good, it should be better.’’ W e not only think, hut knoiv , that with- out her aid the “Mirror’’ could not have been published, and that her firm but tact- ful methods have inspired the respect and confidence of her classes. .Miss Elizaheth Knowlton graduated from Wellesley College in 1922 and the next year studied at the Erench School, Middlehury. In 1925 she went abroad and visited Flngland, Scotland and northern France. In the summer of 1928, she de- cided that she ought to see .“America first, so she journeyed to California. Last sum- mer (1929) she studied at the Breadloaf School of F ' .nglish and Dramatics. She says that it gives her a great deal of pleasure to coach the senior play but we don’t think she can possibly enjoy doing it as much as we’ve enjoyed having her. •Many poor lost souls in detention have enjoyed the vocal concerts which she sang to the unappreciative walls of an empty assembly hall. M iss Isabel Mi ir graduated from Mt. Holyoke, where she seems to have had a good time, according to the stories she tells of sleigh riding to Old Hadley for waffles and chicken, of pretending to be an artist from the .Art Building and so having after- noon lunch at the Gift Shop, and of cutting up worms, frogs ’n’ things in the biology lab. She taught in Harrisville, .New ATrk and Newport, New Hampshire before coming to Dedham High, “of which I must have a good opinion,’’ she says “since I’ve been here eleven years.” .M iss M uir will receive her M. A. degree from Boston University this June. The past school year her chief haunts have been the 1:15 train Boston University, and the Boston Public Library. “When I get my M. A .” and “when you get your M. .A.” have been favorite phrases around the bridge and at the dinner tables, until her young nine year old nephew was moved to ask one day, “What does M. A. mean. Aunt Isabel? Middle Aged?” M ISS F ' lorence M L ' RDOCK, who hasn’t been out of high school so very long her.self, is a graduate of Radcliffe, with an .A. B. degree. She has also attended the Harvard Summer School and Boston L niversity and taught in Barnstable before coming to Ded- ham in 1929. Miss Murdock is greatly in- terested in dramatics in which she has dis- played her skill by her able directing of the Class Day Play this year and last. Ve think she is an example of that saying about the best things coming in little packages. .Mr. F ' . T. Peterson, B. S. (working for .M. FAl.) graduated from Bates College in 1919 and studied at the I niversity of Cincinnati and Boston University School of F.d ucation. I le said : “1 find six years of experience at Dedham High School very interesting. The boys and

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6 THE TREASURE CHEST M iss Maoelixe Ci.ough graduated from Colby College with an A. B. degree and is now working for an Ed. M. degree at Boston University. She formerly taught in Concord, Abington, and (iloucester, and says that she likes I). H. S. the best of all. Her home is in Kennebunkport, Maine. Mi.ss Clough, as a Latin teacher, is just about perfect. ( Ask Mary Valdina, if you don’t believe it!) She’s one of the kind that gives you a helping word here and there and follows a poor translation on your part with the gentle words: ‘A es, you went off just a little hit there.” M ISS Mariox Corley: “I am a graduate of Bay Path Institute. My time outside of school is taken up with work at Boston Loiiversity, and the household duties of my apartment. I have nearly all the work finished for the B.B.A. degree at the College of Business Adminis- tration. In the apartment I respond to such lordly titles as cook, maid, and scrubwoman. d ' he sports in which I excel are swim- ming and golf. However, I shall be more willing to discuss both when I am able to dive without holding my nose and to hold the golf stick correctly, to say nothing of hitting the hall. M y summers are spent in the peaceful hills of Vermont.” Mr. Harold Covvax, the head of the Commercial Department, gave his life his- tory in the humorous vein for which he is noted. He said that he graduated from New ’ork University, where he spent most of his time wishing he were back in high school, a place he had formerly disliked, (to put it mildly). Before coming to Dedham in 1920, he taught in Manchester, New Hampshire; Pa.ssaic, New Jersey; and Ar- lington, Massachusetts. We judge that he likes D. H. S. pretty well, since he has taught here longer than in any other place. Aside from being a cracker-jack of a teacher, Mr. Cowan makes a splendid class advisor. Under his supervision, the “Mirror” has been “multigraphed” every two weeks this year. Come on, now, a big hand for “Baldy”! Miss Mario.x Hardixg’s home is locat- ed in Ossipee, New Hampshire. She gradu- ated from the Arlington High School in Massachusetts in 1920, received a B. S. de- gree from I ' ufts College in 1925, and dur- ing the summer of 192S studied at Mas.sa- chusetts Institute of Technology. Mirs Harding has held teaching positions in the following schools: Durham, N. H. Junior High School; Robinson Seminary in Exeter, N. H ., and is now teaching science and Biology here. Although she is a woman, and rather tiny at that, she seems to have no fear of all those pickled, crawly, squirm- ish things that she keeps in jars. After graduating from Beverly High School, where he left an enviable athletic record, Mr. Jack Heaphy went to George- town University and continued to show his athletic prowess; he was chosen “all-south- ern center.” Mr. Heaphy enlisted for the world war, but since a previous operation prevented his being sent to France, he was stationed in the R. (). T. C. in Georgia, where he took charge of the football teams. After the war, he transferred from Georgetown to Boston College, where he played center on the football team that beat ale and went through a season without defeat. Graduating from Boston College in 1923, he became teacher-coach at Boston College High and later coach at Boston College. In 1927 he came, he saw, and conquered Ded- ham High. Miss Harriet Huxtixg came to Ded- ham in 192H to take charge of the Cooking Department. She received a B. S. degree from Framingham Normal School and has had experience in teaching at the E.ssex County Agricultural School in the Home- making Department. We liked the odors that wafted from her

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8 THE I ' REASURE CHESl ' FACTETV Left to right — First ro ' Zi ' : Miss Murdock, Miss Corley, Miss Thumim, Miss Richards, Mr. Eaton, Miss Hovnton, Miss Muir, Miss Campbell, Miss Heckert. Second rcm;: Mr. Pearson, Mr. Hottomley, Mr. Keegan, Mr. Heaphy, Mr. Cowan, Superintendent Anthony, Miss Goodale, Miss E. Clough, Miss Knowiton, Mr. Peterson. Third ronv: Miss Sweeney, Miss Trethewey, Miss MacIntyre, Miss ( ' hick. Miss Tobin, Miss M. Clough, Miss Harding, Miss Kendall, Mr. Jenkins. gills are very enjoyable to work with. I am a firm believer that the boy ami girl of today is a better type than has existed previ- ous to now, though w e hear them criticized severely by some of the older people, who do not seem to understaiul conditions of the present day. Outside of school my chief hobbies are bowling and golf, though I am still in the duffer’s class. My pride was greatly hurt when Coach Heaphy and I were beaten by a ten year old boy.” Chemistry and Physics never seemed hard while we had Mr. Peterson for our teacher. He was very understanding and no one is rated any higher than he is hy his students. M iss M.arv E. Sulliv.an, who has taught so many girls how to make stylish dresses without sewing the ends of the sleeves together, is herself a gratluate of Dedham High School. She has also attend- ed the Boston School of Domestic Science, Simmons, and the State Vocational schools. No wonder she sew ' s so well! Mls.s M.arv Sweexev graduated from Simmons College with the degree of Bach- elor of Science. She hopes that some day she may acquire a Master’s degree from the same college, so that she can sign herself M. S. ; B. S. ; M. S. ; and then she won’t know whether she’s coming or going. After teaching a year in Huntington, a small village in the western part of the state, where the thunder rolling through the valleys frightened her more than the big- gest boys and girls in her classes, she came “back home” to teach. Naturally she thinks Dedham, Dedham High and its boys and girls are tbe best ever. Outside of school hours, you’ll find M iss Sweeney around the bridge table with a groiqi of congenial soids, or starting off in her Ford, packed with the aforementioned congenial souls and a large basket of luneb-