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DR. RICHARD DAY ALLEN
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i r!H m m Dr. R 1 chard DR. RICHARD DAY ALLEN was born on May 18. 1887. in Milwaukee. Wisconsin. With his family he moved to Providence and later to Pawtucket, where he entered high school in 1904, his junior year. While in the high school, which was then housed in the Broadway building, he worked nights in the telephone office, and before Thanksgiving of his first year at Pawtucket he left school to devote more of his time to work. Later in the same year Prof. Elmer S. Hosmer. who was then the principal, persuaded Dick to return to his studies. Although he continued in the telephone office' and had a great deal of back work to make up in school, he still found time to play football, manage the baseball team, organize the first track team and first glee club, and to be a leader in the debating society. Coincident-ally, at his graduation in 1906 he was captain of one debating team and Joseph B. Keenan, our other honor graduate, was captain of the other. After commencement Dick” had no hope for any further education, but in the summer Professor Hosmer. who had taken a great interest in the boy. went to “Dick's home and told him that he would like to see him enter Brown in the fall. As a result of much hard studying, some high marks in examinations, and a scholarship, the young man was able to do just that. At Brown he was also one of the most active students, and he obtained his A. B. degree in 1910. From 1910 to 1911 he was physical director at Wayne, Pennsylvania. After a year away from home. Mr. Allen returned to Pawtucket High School, where he was received by Professor Hosmer as a member of the English staff. For four years he taught at his alma mater , and during those years he coached debating and organized Pawtucket’s first society of Thespians. His kind Day Allen friend. Professor Hosmer. urged him to apply for a teaching position in the Providence school system. Mr. Allen was soon accepted in Providence, and in a short span of years he filled the offices of teacher, assistant grammar school principal, principal of a grammar school. Director of Research and Guidance, and finally Assistant Superintendent of Schools. By this time he was Dr. Allen, for in 1 9 1 2 he obtained his A. M. degree and in 1921 his Ph. D. Dr. Allen has the greatest admiration for Professor Hosmer and he attributes his success to him more than to any other person. Dr. Allen’s ambition in life is to organize the public schools sO that every student coming through secondary schools will have someone who will take the same personal interest in him that Professor Hosmer took in me.” And this is exactly what he is doing. In the educational field Dr. Allen is nationally known. He is assistant to Dr. Stude-baker. National Director of Education, on a oart-time basis. He is a graduate lecturer at Brown. Boston University, and Harvard. He is the author of five books and joint author of two 1938 yearbooks, one for the Department of Superintendents, the other for the National Society for the Study of Education. As a speaker on educational subjects he is in great demand throughout the country. No matter how much he has done Dr. Allen is still striving to make the way easier for the student of high school age who is hesitating at the crossroads in his life. In his fifty-third year he is a kind, lively gentleman with sparkling eyes, who exudes personality and vitality to all who are privileged to come in contact with him. To this man who has climbed to the very top in his profession belong all the laudation and honor of the Class of 1939 of the Pawtucket Senior High School. R. L. Knapp [ 13 ] m :
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