Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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iiiiiiiii- YEKBBOOK :QZQZQXQZX Dedham High School and Simmons College. From her secretarial experience in a Boston firm for three years previous to entering the teaching profession, she is well acquainted with the held for which she is preparing her students. She usually devotes her summers to athletic pursuits, such as swimming and tennis, at Block Island or Narragansett Pier. Miss Laura J. Maclntyre, who teaches arithmetic to our freshmen, is a graduate of Simmons College, with a B.S. degree. The Wanderlust seems to have taken com- plete possession of Miss Maclntyre, her ambition being to travel, anywhere and every- where. So far this ambition has been realized to the extent of automobile trips around Canada and the northern U. S., and west to the Worlds Fair. In fact her automobile is one of her favorite occupations, but when gasoline is scarce she amuses herself by reading and playing bridge. She belongs to both the Dedham Teachers' Association Book Club and the Teachers' Bridge Club. During vacation her greatest hobby is her three-year-old nephew. Miss Florence Murdock, who teaches English to juniors, early showed her dis- position for traveling by moving from Dorchester to Milton in infancy: then she traveled to Radcliffe College for four years, from which she received her A.B. degreeg and this summer is to be spent in a European tour in which she will visit France, Switzerland, Italy, England, and Ireland. This voyage will partially fulhll her ambition to see the world. Past summers have been spent as a water-sprite at Shore Acres, Scituate. In addition to her regular duties as a teacher, Miss Murdock always coaches the class day play twhich has always been a successi and we are confident that our own Lady of Pain will prove her greatest triumph. In odd moments during the school year Miss Murdock works for her M.Ed. at Boston University, and attends the theatre-in any form. Her big night, needless to say, is that of the Senior Play. In 1920 the name of Tom O'Donnell was anathema to all loyal Dedhamites, being that of the captain of the Norwood football team. However, four years spent at Colby College, where he continued his brilliant athletic career by captaining the varsity football team and being on the track and baseball teams for recreation, plus a few more years, gave Dedhamites time to forget, so three years ago he returned and became a member of our faculty, his function being to teach history to sophomores, to play on the faculty basketball team, and to supply at least three-quarters of the news you read in the Mirror. He has since received his M.A. degree at Boston University, and is now studying at Boston College. During the summer months Mr. 0'Donnell supervises seven playgrounds in Norwood, with fourteen instructors working for him. By living in Norwood and teaching in Dedham he has become quite impartial, his present ambition being to see Norwood and Dedham tie at football. - Mr. Charles Peltier, who has been teaching English and Problems of American Democracy here for the past few years, is a graduate of Clark University, and he attributes his suaveness and polish to his further training at Miss Gonchls school, where he was Ufinishedf' His own description of his summer vacations, which sounds very interesting, is as follows: 'They are spent on the South Sea Islands, sleeping, and eating bananas which obliging monkeys throw to me from the trees under which I lie. His favorite occupations are looking at tiowers, and being interviewed by Mirror reporters, and the highlight of his career at Dedham High is the surprise party which the 4E division of the class of '35 gave him on his last birthday. Boston is the hometown of our genial Mr. Edwin Peterson, teacher of chemistry and physics and financial manager of school athletics. He is a graduate of Bates with a B.S. -degree, and has done graduate work at the University of Cincinnati, at Boston University School of Education, and at M. I. T. tfPete has been with us for eleven years and to him goes full credit for the success of the Athletic Association. His sum- EKEKEKEKfKfK'1335 Kfififififif Page Elewiz

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Ziiiiiiii DEDHAM H-S-:QQQEQQQZX Miss Marion Harding of Ossipee, New Hampshire, in the summer and of Dedham in the winter, a graduate of Tufts College with a B.S. degree, received her M.Ed. at B. U. and has studied at M. I. T. Discouraged by the cold weather at Robbins Seminary, Exeter, New Hampshire, she came to the sunny climes of Dedham in 1928 to teach biology and physiology. Her spare moments are whiled away by reading fshe is a member of the Dedham Teachers' Association Book Clubl collecting stamps, gar- dening in suitable weather, collecting autographed books about New Hampshire, and conducting trips to places of interest for her biology students. Miss Harding keeps tit by pattering up and down three flights of stairs at school, and the most impetuous thing she ever did was to decide to go to the World's Fair, and to put her decision into effect in twenty minutes. Our versatile coach, john Heaphy, officially entitled Director of Athletics and Physical Education of the School System of Dedham, received his foundation at Georgetown University, where during his year there he was All-Southern center, and at Boston College, from which he received his degree, he was an All-American football player. He has been a member of the Boston Post staff tcovering intercollegiate sportsl, has taught history and mathematics at Boston College High School, and has been a line coach for the Boston College varsity squad. In the summertime on the North Shore he attempts to progress from a duffer to a full-fledged golfer. The culinary art is taught at Dedham High by Miss Harriette Hunting, who came here seven years ago with a B.S. degree from Framingham Normal School. Her favorite occupation is reading and she devotes her summer vacation to keeping house. Miss Hunting hopes some day to produce a perfect cook, but realizes that she is over- ambitious in this respect. Should you succeed, Miss Hunting, please invite us down for a meal. Miss Dorothea Karr has been with us only one year, but she feels quite at home here, as she is a graduate of Dedham High School. The years between her graduation from Dedham High and her return as a teacher, were spent at Simmons, where she received her B.S. degree. She modestly refuses to talk much about herself, but does admit a penchant for reading and dancing. Mr. Daniel Keegan, our hard working senior play program advertising manager, hails from Peabody, is a graduate of Salem Normal School, and has continued his education at Boston University, Harvard, Simmons, and Fitchburg State Teachers' College. He is now working for his M.Ed. degree at Harvard, and has been teaching in the commercial department of Dedham High for eleven years. Mr. Keeganls avoca- tion is music, and in the summer he engages in businessg although we are not free to be specific about his business, as it would be advertising, we are free to advertise the fact that this suave gentleman considers the 1935 seniors one of the best groups he has ever worked with. Miss Dorothy Kendall, the industrious head of our English department, is a gradu- ate of Mt. Holyoke College, and received her A.M. degree from Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College. Since her arrival here in 1928, her constant ambition has been that each year her English classes should profit more from her instruction and guidance than the previous classes did. Though she admits some improvement in the quality of work done. we notice that she does not consider that the class of '35 stifles further ambition. In the summer she travels tshe has been to Europe twicej and climbs mountains. This last summer a great deal of her time was occupied by the ascent and descent of twenty-four New England peaks. During the school year her hobbies are the theatre and the Appalachian Mountain Club. Miss Rosalie Lyons, who teaches bookkeeping and typewriting, is a graduate of KEKEKEZEKEKE N35 KEKEEEKEKEKE Page Ten

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EQZQEQEQE DEDHAM H-S-QEQZQZQZQ mers are spent at a boys' camp or at the New Hampton Summer School. Need we add that his hobbies are athletics, particularly golf-and he spends his odd moments explaining the whys of algebra to a certain freshman at Dedham High. Mr. William M. Polishook, who is also a Bostonian, faced the teaching world with a B.S. degree from Salem Teachers College-and later earned his M.I5d. degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education. This enthusiastic Boy Scout the has recently been elected to the office of Boy Scout District Commissionerl, has been at Dedham High for four years, where he teaches commercial geography and bookkeeping. His hobbies are photography in the darkened biology room, playing basketball on the teachers' tcreak-bonesl basketball team, coaching boys' baseball teams, the Boy Scouts, and thinking up names for Mirror reporters. His ambition is to become an Eagle scout tif that isn't flying too highj. Mr. joseph Ryan, who came here tive years ago, is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and, like Mr. Peltier, was t'tinished at Miss Gonchls School. Next to man- aging the Mirror, he considers his greatest achievement the fact that he persuaded Mrs. McGuinness to sell beef-stew at the lunch counter. Summertime usually finds him sittingg but to avoid having to join the great army of the unemployed, he takes an occasional trip here and there. Then he comes home and cries over his bank state- ment. During the winter Mr. Ryan amuses himself by playing bridge. Of Dedham and for Dedham is Miss Mary Sweeney, who was born here, educated in Dedham schools, and has taught commercial subjects here for a considerable length of time. Her college years were spent at Simmons, where she received her B.S. degree. In the summertime she travels as far as the Chevvie and the pennies will take her and one summer she reached St. Anne de Beaupres. Although it is not for publication, she is an enthusiastic knitter and she enjoys a good game of contract now and then. When we accosted Miss Sweeney she was in reminiscent mood, and recalled the good old days of four winters ago when one wall of 303 was missing during the reconstruc- tion of Dedham High, causing Miss Sweeney and her classes nearly to freeze even with their coats on and some pupils even to fetch their overshoes. Miss Mary E. Sullivan, the well known teacher of sewing in Dedham schools, is herself a graduate of Dedham High School and has attended the Boston School of Domestic Science and Simmons College. She modestly refuses to tell us anything further about herself, so we leave the rest to the reader's detective ability. Miss Olga Von Schantz, who joined us about three years ago, had previously spent four years here as a student, followed by four years at Radcliffe College. She teaches algebra and commercial subjects to freshmen, and she has used her business ability in commercializing her favorite occupation-she runs a yarn shop at the beach. Miss Von Schantz does not reveal her ambition to the reading public, and although she is not artistic, she does devote a great deal of her time to drawing her breath and her salary. For more than ten years Miss Joan Tobin, a graduate of Sargent, has taught the feminine -contingent of the D. H. S. student body the art of being athletic. She is not very talkative on the subject of her summer whereabouts but alert Mirror reporters have espied her at St. Anne de Beaupres and at Hyannis, Massachusetts. Miss Tobin doesn't go in for ambitions, but about hobbies she is enthusiastic, her present one being an intense interest in art. Mr. John Wallace, who teaches advanced bookkeeping and office appliances to juniors and seniors, is a graduate of Boston University College of Business Administra- tion and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is one of our few teachers who have definite ambitions which they condescend to reveal for student consumption, and KEKEKEKEKEKE 1935 KEKEKEKEKEKE Page Ttueltie