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The Cl ass o f 1886 ' 'NF all the classes to be graduated from the Pawtucket High School, there has been none so distinguished for the fine bond of friendship and loyalty among its members as the class of 1 886. On the evening following their graduation from high school, located at that time in the Second Baptist Church on High Street, the boys of '86 held their first reunion, and they have kept up the custom every year since. Although only four of the twenty-two boys are now alive, the decrease in numbers has not dampened their enthusiasm for these annual get-togethers. They have a solemn pledge that so long as two survive, the yearly reunion will always be observed. William L. Perkins, custodian and treasurer of the group, with Rufus S. Adams, John Blodgett, and George M. Rex, is now making plans for the fifty-fourth reunion to be held in June. Of the sixteen deceased members of the organization, many were especially prominent. Walter G. Gatchell was a first lieutenant in the Spanish American War and a major in the World War. The Gatchell Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, was named in his honor. Lyman C. Newell, with degrees from Brown and Johns Hopkins Universities, was a professor of chemistry at Boston University, and the author of several textbooks of chemistry. The class, as a whole, has been exceedingly successful. A grouping of the occupations of the boys after college days reveals twelve businessmen, three civil engineers, one army officer, one lawyer, one minister, one doctor, one composer, one professor and author, and one certified public accountant. Mr. Perkins has placed in the. office of our school a box to be formally opened in 1955. the one-hundredth anniversary of the Summit Street High School, the first in Pawtucket. It contains a composite picture of the students of the school in 1886, with a brief biography of each, and a picture and description of all our school sites, complete to the present day. The purpose of the history is to acquaint posterity with the rapid growth and development of our city's educational facilities. We. the Class of 1939. pay tribute to the men of 1886 who have made so important a contribution to the life of the community, and who have set us and all other classes of P. H. S. an example of what class spirit really means. John Hynes [ 16 1 ■
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