Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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Page 6 Robert W. Gibb . . . supervisor of music in Dedham schools for over twenty years . . . writes music in spare time . . . has had his songs published all over the United States, England, and the continent . . . spends his summers at his summer home in Kingston, building boats and remodeling his home . . . rivals Mr. Ryan in trying to keep his cabinet in back of the assembly hall in worse order than Mri, Ryan's desk . . . wrote his Gay Seville at the age of eighteen. Miss Doris M. Grant . . . hails from Mr. Desert Island, Maine . . . graduate of University of Maine . . . is now working for her A. M. degree . . . hopes to learn to knit the thumb into a mitten she started two years ago . . . taught some of us sophomore English . . . hasn't one good word to say for us fbut she is only foolingj . . . deserves plenty of thanks for the grand work she does every year with the senior play. Mr. Joseph Green, Jr .... holds A.B. and A.M. degrees from Boston College . . . has been teaching math here for eight years . . . claims he likes to just plain sit, but spends most of his time canvassing for our athletic association Mr. Eliot G. Hall . . . hobbies are reading and writing, but definitely not 'rith- metic . . . teaches English and does remedial work . . . holds an A.B. degree from Dartmouth and an M.A. from Boston University. Miss Marion Harding . . . has been teaching biology and physiology in Dedham for ten years . . . has a B.S. degree from Tufts, and is now working for an M.Ed. . . . spends her summers constructing the Pocket Mountain Nature Trail . . . thinks ambitions are dangerous things. Mr. John F. Heaphy . . . better known as coach or the Heaphn . . . graduated from Boston College with a Ph.B. degree . . . while not coaching football or baseball, tries to plant a germ of algebra and geometry into willing heads . . . spends summers at the North Shore . . . Jeekers! Miss Harriette Hunting . . . has taught cooking here for ten years . . . ambition is to produce a good cook someday . . . has a B.S. degree from Framingham College . . . enjoys reading and keeping house. Mr. Daniel Keegan . . . teaches sales, commercial law, and business organiza- tion . . . holds B.S.E. degree from Fitchburg State Teachers' College . . . spends summers traveling in the mountains and playing golf. Miss Dorothy P. Kendall . . . received A.B. degree from Mt. Holyoke, and A.M. from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College . . . will return there this summer to study play production . . . ambition is to discover in one of her pupils great poetic ability-or to inspire a literary genius. Mr. Thomas LeGuern . . . has taught business practice, commercial law, and business organization for a year . . . holds a B.S. in B.A. degree from Boston Uni- versity . . . spends his time playing golf and collecting football oflicials' horns. Miss Rosalie M. Lyons . . . has taught geography and business practice for the past five years . . . graduated from Simmons College with a B.S. degree . . . likes interior decorating, and spends her summers in Rockport. Miss Laura Mclntire . . . enjoys reading, swimming, motoring, and her nephews . . . has taught arithmetic, typewriting, shorthand, and geography here since 1929 . . . graduated from Simmons College with a B.S. degree . . . ambition is to be a perfect 363' Miss Florence E. Murdock . . . has an A.B. from Radcliffe and is getting her M.Ed. at Boston University this summer . . . teaches junior and senior English . . . spends summers traveling. DEDHAM HIGH SCHOOL

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OUR FHCULTY Miss Ruth E. Baker . . . has taught junior English here for four years . . . spends most of her spare time reading, walking, and studying for her A. M. degree at Boston University, her alma mater . . . spends summers camping, traveling, and recuperating. Mr. Howard T. Bottomley . . . graduate of Boston University with A.B. and A.M. degrees . . . refuses to disclose wlhat he teaches, but we know it's junior and senior history . . . true love is selling senior play tickets . . . thinks our class is terrible, Miss Margaret R. Boynton . . . graduated from Mount Holyoke College with A.B. degree . . . thinks we have some very nice components, ahem! teaches French to earnest juniors and seniors . . . has so many hobbies-sewing, knitting, golfing, skiing, etc., that it's pitiful . . . ambition is to have an answer to the question, NVhat is your ambition?,' . . . on the whole has quite a lot of fun. Miss Catherine E. Castle . . . graduate of Radcliffe College, is now working for a master's degree in education at Boston University . . . teaches English to freshman college divisions . . . fools around with knitting, gardening, and reading . . . has hopes of driving her own car to California some day. Mr. Fred A. Clark . . . graduate of Massachusetts School of Art with B.S.E. degree . . . thinks class is jolly and willing to work . . . started this year teaching me- chanical and free drawing . . . spends his summers sketching and reading. Miss Lucy Clough . . . graduated from Colby College with an A.B. and from Boston University with an A.M. degree . . . teaches math to sophomores, juniors, and seniors . . . spends her spare time sleeping and gardening at her home in Kennebunk- port, Maine . . . her ambition is so worn out she hasn't much left. Miss Madeline Clough . . . has taught Latin to struggling sophomores, juniors, and seniors for eleven years . . . has an A.B. degree from Colby and an M.Ed. from Boston University . . . spends her summers with her sister in Kennebunkport, Maine . . . wants to retire eventually and travel in America, Europe, and especially, Rome. Mr. Joseph H. Connors . . . holds an A.B. and A.M. from Boston College . . . has been teaching United States History here for four years . . . likes all sports, but favors badminton, golf, and swimming . . . spends summers motoring in New Eng- land . . . refuses to disclose his secret ambition. Miss Marion E. Corley . . . teaches shorthand and typewriting . . . spends sum- mers reading and golfing in Vermont . . . enjoys the theater, and hopes some day to travel . . . is studying for a master's degree in education at Boston University. Mr. Harold E. Cowan . . . teaches bookkeeping, economics, geography, and secretarial accounts . . . thinks senior class has combined intelligence and personality . . . born in Brooklyn, New York, has attended both Harvard and New York Uni- versity . . . most in-terested in dramatics, but dabbles in bowling . . . enjoys traveling. ' Mr. Nicholas DeSalvo . . . stays home studying summers so that he won't get homesick . . . likes to fish, hunt, and swim, but favors hockey . . . teaches English . . . graduated from Boston College. Miss Katherine Gahagan . . . graduated from Middlebury College with an A.B. degree . . . has taught Latin and French to sophomores ever since she can remem- ber . . . ambition is to spend a year in Brittany and the Chateau Country. 1938 YEAR Book Poge 5

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Mr. Thomas F. O'Donnell . . . teaches Modern and United States History . . . coaches basketball and assists with track . . . holds an A.B. degree from Colby, an M.A. from Boston University and has completed a year's study for his Ph.D .... spends his summers as assistant director of Camp Day for boys . . ambition is to be- come Mayor of Islington. Mr. Charles L. Peltier . . . has honored Dedham's faculty for the past seven years . . . spends his summers reading . . . received his A.B. degree from Clark University, and his Ed.M. from Boston University . . . ambition is to have a civic class full of redheads. Mr. Edwin T. Peterson . . . has been at Dedham for fourteen years teaching sciences and mathematics . . . graduated from Bates with a B.S. degree . . . tries to make his pupils more open-minded . . . coaches track . . . thinks '38 is one of the best classes ever. Mr. James Riley . . . thinks this is the best graduating class he has seen in Dedham-should we mention that he has been teaching science here for just seven months? . . . graduated from Boston College with A.B. and M.Ed. degrees . . . likes to help coach the track team. Mr. Joseph H. Ryan . . . spends most of his time, etc., pampering Benny, whose wheeze smacks of asthma . . . graduated from Dartmouth with an A.B. degree . . . has taught senior English here for the last eight years . . . hobby is getting the Mirror off to bed. Mr. Orlando Scafati . . . one of Dedham's own sons, came back to teach junior business training, after getting a B.S. degree from Notre Dame . . . spends his summers at Home . . . assists Coach Heaphy with football. Miss Mary Sheehan . . . will travel somewhere this summer until her money gives out . . . graduate of Boston University with an A.B. degree . . . teaches English and Latin . . . thinks we have improved greatly since she first met us. Miss Mary E. Sullivan . . . teaches sewing . . . attended the Boston School of Domestic Science and Simmons College. Miss Mary Sweeney . . . ambition is to have a real good garden . . . teaches typewriting and shorthand . . . enjoys playing bridge . . . holds a B.S. dgeree from Simmons . . . travels in the summer. Miss Olga von Schantz . . . has been teaching sophomore English here for six years . . . spends her time ice-skating and coaching plays for the Dramatic Club . . . graduated from Radcliffe with an A.B. degree. Mr. John W. Wallace . . . spends his summers in New Hampshire gardening, golfing and motoring . . . thinks we are a most unusual class in our abiltiy to get things done well with a minimum of faculty supervision . . . graduated from the Harvard School of Education and Boston University School of Business Administra- tion . . . teaches appliances and business practice. Miss Mary Weeks . . . enjoys gardening and books . . . teaches Ancient and Modern European History to freshmen and sophomores . . . holds an A.B. degree from Smith and an Ed.M. from Harvard. H Miss Helen Woodside . . . thinks we're a grand class ffunny, they all say that when we graduatelj . . . received B.S. degree from Simmons . . . teaches science and algebra . . . enjoys driving, swimming and golfing. Mr. Thomas Yonker, teaches history to freshmen . . . is partial to golf and bridge . . . graduate of Villanova . . . spends summer doing nothing in particular. 1938 YEAR BOOK Page 7