Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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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-

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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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CLASS OF 1930 eon, or jogging off with a brisk pace the long way home — just for the exercise. Miss Frances Thumim has an A. B. and an M. A. degree from Radcliffe Col- lege. She also attended the State Normal school in Lowell, Massachusetts, the Har- vard (Graduate School of f ' ducation, and the University of Berlin, Germany. Her teaching career began in Freeville, New ork. She taught several years in Newton, Massachusetts and then returned to Ger- many as instructor for three semesters m the L ' liiversity of Berlin. During the war she served as a social worker in the L nited States, where she dealt with children and immigrants. She fosters her interest in dra- matics by acting as dramatic instructor in a girls’ camp during the summer months. M iss d ' humim came to Dedham in 1928 and since then has been the “little Napo- leon’’ of the faculty. Miss Jo.vn Tobin, who has put “us girls” through our paces for four years, and has done her best to make some of us (?) stand up straight with feet parallel, gradu- ated from the Sargent School of Physical Education, and attended Harvard Summer school. She refused to give dates at this point, because she says she knows what good mathematicians there are in the senior class. In 1919 she came to Dedham after get- ting the pupils in (iloverstown. New ork ) and Somerville, Miussachusetts all “lamed up.” Miss Fobin says that she is one of the shaky supports of the school ! M ISS Mar ' S’ Weeks graduated from Smith College with an A. B. degree, and spent the next year at Simmons College. Before becoming a member of the Ded- ham High School P ' aculty in 1918, she passed two interesting years teaching the pupils of W oods Seminary, a private school at Suffolk, Virginia, and those of the Ips- wich High School. Always cheerfid, jolly, and lovable, al- though now and then that tiny frown on her brow tends to frighten us, she comes out with the statement that the students of the Dedham High School are the finest group she ever taught. Miss Dorothy Weller, who graduated from IVIassachusetts School of Art has de- voted herself for the most part to her art both in and outside of school hours. We think she must have had a few spare mo- ments, though, because she is to be married June 21, 1930 to Mr. Harold Kenyon. FHsie Haley, the popular .secretary in the office, who is to be one of the six bridesmaids, has told us all about the w ' edding. Fhe matron of honor and the two flower girls are to be gowned in yellow aiul the bridesmaids are wearing shaded-green dresses and are carry- ing bouquets of sweet peas, d ' he future rs. Kenyon is going to make her home in Providence, R. I.