Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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Tv ' 'S , k iff' 6 . 1 , 1' sf '- 1' Is ' 'Q . c L - ' 4 'Size Fzzrulfy These are the teachers to whom we owe our sincerest gratitude for the help and guidance they have offered during our years at Dedham High. Rear rozr, leff fo riglvf: Mr. Daniel Keegan, who graduated from Salem State Teachers, College and studied at B. U., Simmons, and Fitchburg State Teachers, College, again guided the senior play program committee to a very successful end. XYe are sure that he has already obtained his ambition for successful living. Mr. Thomas F. O'Donnell, our basketball coach, would not state his ambition, he is waiting for the presidential election. Mr. James Smith, our newest history teacher, hopes to wow 'emu at graduation, like Mr. Bottomley. Mr. Orlando Scafati, a Notre Dame graduate, who is assistant coach of football and baseball, wants to see the income of sports balance the outcome. Mr. Eliot G. Hall, a graduate of Dart- mouth and B. U., who teaches English and remedial reading, likes music and has many fine records. He says that he does not believe in having ambitions: Look at Caesarf' Mr. James KI. Riley, one of our most popular teachers, hopes to improve his voice, but that seems impossible, as it is so good already. Mr. Thomas M. Yonker, a graduate of Villanova, teaches freshman history, he hopes to have sometime an all A class. Mr. Joseph Green, Jr., a B. C. graduate and our faculty manager, would like to see the A. A. comfortably out of debt. Mr. Charles L. Peltier, who graduated from Clark University, teaches civics to seniors, he likes his discussion periods and would still like to have a class of red-heads. Mr. Joseph H. Ryan, another Dartmouth man, teaches senior English and junior journalism. XVhen he finishes work on the Mirror and the Year Book, he is going to try to get back the seventy-live books people have borrowed from him. Mr. Thomas Le Cvuern, a Dedham High and B. U. graduate, teaches junior law and hopes some day to break 70 in golf. Mr. Nicholas De Salvo, whose alma mater is Boston College, coached a successful hockey team in the Eastern Massachusetts League and hopes that some day Dedham High will have a hockey rink and that he will catch a three-pound trout. 1940 YEAR Book poge 5

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Page 6 Middle row: Miss Florence E. Murdock, who graduated from Radcliffe and teaches English here, hopes that she has made good spellers out of 4 D. Miss Mary Sweeney, who graduated from Simmons and teaches commercial subjects, has, at present, the ambition to grow grass on the shaded parts of her lawn. Miss Katherine Gahagan, who graduated from Middlebury College and has recently received her M. A. from Boston College, hopes some day to vacation in the Swiss Alps. Miss Olga von Schantz, a graduate of Radcliffe, was adviser to our dramatic club and coach of the class day play. She hopes she will again have a senior class who can write their own class day play. Miss Mary E. Sheehan, a graduate of Dedham High and B. U., is in search of a suitable ambition. Miss Catherine E. Castle, another graduate of Radcliffe, hopes some day to have a class that will behave itself and not have a membership of a Dedhamite, attended Simmons and hopes to College graduate, our girls' gym teacher by was given, hopes some day to have all her and low. Miss Helen Woodside, one of the forty-five. Miss Rosalie Lyons, who is travel. Miss Joan F. Tobin, Sargent whose efforts the gym demonstration girls poised, with voices soft, gentle, most genial and hard working teachers, hopes to have enough money to enjoy life. Miss Ruth Baker, who helped one of our honor essayists this year, is a graduate of Dedham High and B. U. Her ambition is to see America. Miss Mary Weeks, a Smith graduate, teaches European history. She would like to have time to read all the books she has been listing in the last few years. Miss Doris M. Grant, who coached the very successful What a Life graduated from the University of Maine. She teaches English. To produce a real drama for a senior class is her ambition. Miss Laura Mclntire, who has her B. S. from Sim- mons, teaches commercial subjects and hopes to get to the World's Fair this summer. Miss Marion S. Harding, biology teacher and adviser for the photography club, trusts that some day the Year Book will contain none of the teachers' ambitions. Front row: Mr. Fred A. Clark, who has been very helpful in supervising the drawings in this book, hopes to become a better artist. Mr. Edwin T. Peterson, our track coach and science teacher, has as his ambition, To train boys and girls to be good American citizens who will do some thinking for themselves, especially at the polls. Mr. John F. Hieaphy, whose alma mater is B. C., teaches algebra and gym and has been the coach of our football and baseball teams, and an ardent supporter of other sports. Some day he hopes to have his football and baseball teams cham- pions at the same time. Miss Madeline Clough, one of the kindest and most patient of our teachers, has taught us Cicero, Caesar, and Virgil. If her wish is fulfilled there will be an elevator running from 308 to the cafeteria. Miss Dorothy P. Kendall, head of the English department, helped with Grace Matthew's poem and Anna De Benedictis' essay. She hopes that she may assist young people in discovering the satisfaction and joy found in literature. NVe have printed a separate picture of our principal, Mr. Ralph H. Eaton, on page four of this book, together with a note of appreciation of his assistance to us. Miss Lucy I. Clough, who sympathized with our math problems, hopes some day to have an all A class. Miss Margaret R. Boyton, whose cheery advice guided the student council and helped us answer P.irlez-vous francais? wants to enjoy life. Miss Marion E. Corley, who taught many of us to type, graduated from B. U. School of Business Administration. Mr. Howard Bottomley again brought a senior play to a sell-out. He is going to write a sequel to G. WC T. called Buz'ku'aril Willa the Breeze. Mr. Harold E. Cowan, the assistant principal, wishes to round out a hundred years at Dedham High. Mr. john XV. XXi'allace, to whom this Year Book is dedicated, ends this row and the faculty. No! i!ll'1Ilt1l'tI our band, and our Mary E. Sullivan, in this jvivfzzre: Mr. Robert W. Gibb, who directed our orchestra, music, Miss Harriette Hunting, who taught our girls to cookg Miss who taught them to make their own clothes. DEDHAM HIGH SCHOOL