Haverhill High School - Thinker Yearbook (Haverhill, MA)

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1 I Ibnhnxntutnusutovtuse vsninQninQnx4 .QnQsvxnsugnQ4n5.,5,,,, ,qnQ--Q-a1nxuQnQ4vx-:Q-:Qc mformallty of those classes led to many playful pranks which made the study of French ln that room very delightful and enjoyable in the extreme The Debating Club was revived during this year and some few Sophomores were members of it A great many debates were held at its meetings in which the Sopho mores held up the class honor Candidates for the basketball teams were called for and Byard responded from l9l4 Sargent Hodsdon Page Byard Moore Read Downes and Laing won the champion ship of the school for the Class Girls never desire to be beaten or out classed by boys For this reason school suffragettes militant anti and otherwise planned and finally carried out a remarkable attraction One afternoon late in February the gymnasium was closed to the male observer and the girls held an inter class track meet of their own The l9l4 athletes finished third thru no fault of theirs Letters laurels and words of praise were extended to the participants To this day the boys firmly believe that the wonderful time reported for some of the runs was made because no boys were there with reliable stop watches Altho the Class of l9l3 may claim honor and pat itself on the back for having printed a new and up to date school paper all the journalists were by no means mem bers of that worthy and esteemed class Three Sophomore rooms 2l0 2l4 and 2l5 conceived executed offered to the public and finally buried three very Oflglflal and remarkable weekly school papers They were known to the prmters as The Sun Pro Bono Publico and The Daily Smile which by the way was printed weekly The names of their enterprising editors will be withheld for obvious reasons Baseball candidates were now called for Herrick Read and Byard responding from the Sophomore class The I W W as proposed by oseph Ettor descended into the lowliest place in the High School the basement Consternatlon relgned supreme one bright morning in May when it was brulted about that the waiters on the lunch counter had obeyed the mandates of the I Won t Workers or in this case I Want More Free Lunchers and had struck for more than fifty cents worth of lunch per week Even the Boston papers lunch counter after minute and scientific observations found that the strikers suffered not from being underfed but from being underwoiked Therefore they cruelly denied the strikers Sophomores mcluded the extra sustenance which wa demanded Thus ended the strike of the Long Lean Lanky Lunch room Lackeys Two Clee Clubs one for the boys and the other for the girls had been started under the guidance of Mr Keayes It vias decided by the tvso clubs to hold a Joint concert May I6 l9l2 At this affair Fred Moore gave promise of being another Marcel ournet by the deep and impressive way he used his bass voice a promise which by the way he has amply fulfilled by the wonderful solos he has rendered for the enjoyment of the school Soon came the end of school when we were to elect the officers who were to lead us for the next year The officers whom we selected were Hermann K Whitmore Presl dent Erna Downes Vice president Pauline Prescott Secretary and Edmund Sargent Treasurer -I Y , . , , . 1 9 v 1 9 9 , - . , Y Y 7 Y ' Y 5 Y Q , ' , ' 5. 11 ' 7 Y 7 V 1 ' 1 ' 9 if YY ' ' ' ' ff Y ,Y ' ' lf Y, U ' V ' - Q found this event important enough to place it on their pages. The proprietors of the ' ff YI ! l Y - ' . I . Y . . , 1 . , '- t . - . : . . V: 15lilIilliGl1lliCIi5lillHlli5lillilO?5'iii5:9137Lv57Lq52Qi'iG1i 5li6'ilKil'Lliillillhllililliiilihlliliil l

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veea 1s11s1eaeox1:g11g11s1:x1eaeen1:g :u::11eQn11vs1vs1:11ez:es ea1ex1vsuQ1eg1eQ vsnxn-s11s1ean111s1 school at all. Three members of our class tried out, they being Whitmore, Laing, and Bagley. However, no man received a letter. On October l0, I9l0, occurred the death of Linwood O. Towne, the chemistry instructor. This event saddened the entire school, altho few of our class were fortunate enough to know him personally. After football, little in athletics occupied our attention until the opening of the basketball season, and probably more attention was paid to lessons. None of us F resh- men turned out for the first team, but the class team was well supplied with candidates. We were beaten by the Sophs, but, glory of glories, we beat the Seniors. After the basketball season, with little else to divert their attention, a small group of Freshmen girls originated, or shall we say perpetrated, a weekly newspaper. This paper was written by one of the girls and passed around for the edification of the others. One of the contributors to this small paper has since risen to a higher position on a digni- fied periodical, and has written many articles for the enjoyment of the whole school. The Prom was not for the Freshies, altho some of us were there, giving promise of yet greater social achievements. A great event of the school year was the Mardi Gras a money-making scheme cooked and served mainly by Tom Wood President of the Class of I9Il and his gang. He harangued us for weeks before the event took place and thanked us after- wards for having donated so liberally to the Senior class funds The committee for the Class of I9I4 was composed of the following members Dorothy Tyler Marjorie Estes Aaron Hoyt and Lloyd Byard Baseball next interested those athletically inclined Byard was the only man from l9I4 to try out for a position and he made the much desired H being the only one of our class to obtain a letter that year With the close of the baseball season came the end of our period of servitude as Freshmen Next year we could take our position among the upperclassmen and feel that we were of some consequence in school Sophomore Bear School opened September ll l9ll with 205 left from the ranks of the Freshman class of the year before The first day we went to the Hall and from our exalted position looked down on the rest of the school How small and insignificant the Freshmen seemed The second day the first call for candidates for the football team was issued Eleven men responded from the Class of l9I4 Collins later elected captain Whitmore Read Laing Bagley Messenger Kief Haley Fernald Hatch and Comeau the last four of whom with the first have dropped from our ranks Haverhill won the State Cham pionship that vear Whitmore Read and Collins won their letters The Class foot ball team led by Captain Moore won the only game they played defeating the Freshmen 43 A number of the beginners in French took this subject in Room IOS This room instead of being supplied with chairs and desks as it is now had long benches The I3 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 . , , , . . . 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 ' 9 1 vs 1 1 ' 1 v 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - , - 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 I 6 . ' 1 1 1 1 21111151 11:11 111eQ11a11g1wa:es::ss::ns11s11e11Q11Q1:Q1eg1ea: snxnze 1s1:111e:1s1:z:::a:z:e:::a1e:::-

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QuQuQa.q.vss-QuQ4oQnQenq- ns. msn- ins-ng.vx-vs4vius-asuq.-snxnQ.-50505. At the end of our Sophomore year we learned much to regret that our Pnncxpal Mr Flles was to leave us to take a posltlon as prmclpal of the school at East Orange IN He took wrth hlm our b st wrshes for hrs future success After the electron the doors of the Hrgh School closed upon us not to open agaln untll September when we were to resume our studies as umors Elumur Bear School days school days Dear old golden rule days started for us agam It was on the mnth of September nlneteen hundred and twelve that we entered school to begln our work and play of the un1or year That eventful mornlng we marched mto chapel at the very beglnmng Whlle we were seated there we noticed Mr Head on the stage that IS we thought we drd Splrlt demanded that we clap and clap we drd But we soon found that lt was merely a case of mrstaken ldentlty The man whom we clapped was Mr Stevens a new member of the faculty Flnally the real Mr Head appeared Ever smce that first day Mr Head has been a true frrend of the Class of l9l4 Some of our classmates of the years before were mlssmg Llke the seeds of the Parable some fell by the wayslde and were trodden down But desplte thls the unlor class was by no means small nn slze All told lt contamed I87 puplls Hall the conqueung hero comes should have been sung on that first day Ebeneezer Cordon Barley ofhclally known as the orrglnal and only Georgetown Sneezer graced us wlth hls presence From the very beglnnlng football Interested us Nmeteen hundred and fourteen sent lts usual quota of men to Frght for the Brown and Cold Lalng Whltmore Bagley Vaughn Page Segal Read Greene and Messenger persplred for days tackled the dummy whenever posslble sacrlficed SfllCllCS for the school and fought for the team Every man but one finally had the satisfaction of recelvlng a brand new awe lnsplrlng golden H Room 213 lmmedlately became famous What Whlttler and Chrlstlan dldn t do Harry Cate dld for them Fmally an orgamzed chalk battle took place The part1c1 pants vlctors and vanqulshed came back one afternoon and fought to the frnlsh Thus was the end of orgamzed chalk battles Physlcs was a new study to most of us There we asked foolxsh questlons appeared wrse and enjoyed ourselves IH every way and manner A new organlzatron was lnaugurated by Mr Stevens of the facultv It was called the Hooks and Crooks Club The club stood for two very lmportant attrlbutes scholarshrp and fellowshlp It was one of the most successful orgamzatrons ever started IH hrgh school One day Colbv created one of hrs stlrs The mathematlcs teacher asked Now Colby what does Q E D mean3 u1te easlly done was the unexpected reply from Rats Is v v v v . , , T .I Q 1 v ,I ' vu . 1 a l n - v - Q - I I - v . , . , . - ' v . 4 K . - v 1 - . , . s s - - 9 v , . - - ' - 4 s v 1 r a ' v 1 1 7 V 1 ' 9 1 v 4 - y - 1 y 4 4 - v ' 1 1 v . . ' v , . 5 , 1 Q . . ' 9 . . . I 4 V ' 1 - v , . . . . 4 4 - ' s 9 A 4 1 a r 1 ,, - interim -Q--snQususns- vsnxnxugnxusl :unsung -Q--sus. -Qagnse agnqnxu -QnQuQ4sQnQ..5ug0