North Andover High School - Knight Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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194 1 THE GOBBLER GRADUATION PROGRAM Entrance March Prayer Rev. Alexander S. Twombley Response Chorus Class Salutatory with Essay — “Were We Born Fatally Late?” Barbara P. Dearden “Glow Worm” Paul Lincke Chorus Class Essay — “Youth Will Shoulder Its Burdens” Thomas Barbour Lesure “The Forest Dance” Arthur B. Targett Chorus Class Oration — “The Secret of Success is Constancy of Purpose” John Joseph Greenler Piano Solo — Faust Waltz Gounod-Liszt Robert Leo Garneau Presentation of Prizes The Principal North Andover Woman’s Club Scholarship Award Mrs. John W. Hegarty Presentation of Diplomas Rev. Clinton W. Carvell “The Lost Chord” Arthur Sullivan Chorus Essay with Valedictory — “Education for Democracy” Joseph Charles Finneran Class Song — “Adieu Johnson High” Arlene V. Smith Graduates Exit March 22

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THE GOBBLER 194 1 CHARLES W. WELCH “Smile and the world smiles with you. ’ ’ Chefs’ Club 3 Journal Staff 4 Yearbook Staff 4 Charlie’s good nature and will¬ ingness to oblige will carry him to the heights. You can always bank on him. Here’s luck to you, Chuck. ERNEST W. WESTBROOKE “You ' re a better man than I am, Gunga Din. ’ ’ Debating Club 2, 3 Football 3, 4 Ish Kabibble, what a man you are at the movies, and what an actor on the stage! Remember that cigar in “Bluebeard’s Wife ” Don’t let math bother you. It has stumped better men than we are. JOSEPH P. WILLIS “The luck of the Irish.” Chefs’ Club 3 Basketball 3, 4 If Joe has as much success in life as he has down at Joe Filletti’s there is no doubt that he will get along. GEORGE H. WILTON “Men of few words are the best men. ’ ’ Georgie is one of the big, silent boys of the class, and if silence is golden, he will amass a great for¬ tune. Best of luck to you in the engineering field. KENNETH B. ROBINSON “Little sleepy head ” Chefs’ Club 3 He’s quite a man for one his size. Here’s a boy with sparkling eyes, ALBERT JOSEPH COLBY (1922- 1938) Those who knew him will never forget his amusing ways and his kindness to others. He was a superb athlete in track and base¬ ball. He had the mind of an in¬ ventor. Although he is gone, he is not forgotten. 21

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19 4 1 THE GOBBLER SALUTATORY WERE WE BORN FATALLY LATE? When we hear our parents and grandparents speaking about the “good old days”, many of us pity ourselves and feel that we were horn fatally late. We think, “There aren ' t any new lands to he explored, or frontiers to be opened and there aren’t many more things that can be invented. Yes, perhaps we were born fatally late!” But first, let us look at the advantages offered to women today as compared with those offered in the nineteenth century. After the Civil War, a woman’s place was in the home and there she remained, except when invited out by a man. The only occupations available to women of gentle breeding were those of school-teaching and nursing. Women probably became teachers because teaching was the one occupation which tied in closely with the life of the home and because for a long time it was felt that no special preparation was needed. Nursing was another occupation which tied in quite closely with the home. However, there were no regulations as to how long a nurse should spend on one case, the pay was not too good, and the work was usually the same monotonous, routine drudgery. Women also worked in shops, factories, and large stores from seven-thirty in the morning until nine or ten at night and for this health-ruining work received approximately five dollars a week. I do not mean to say that women have never been anything hut housewives, nurses or teachers. There were empresses and queens, women physicians and women writers, even before the nineteenth century, but they were regarded as very unusual. Such women felt themselves superior to other women and didn’t encourage the belief that there should be more opportunities for women in general. For the past fifty years women have fought to gain a place in the business and professional world. Suppose a girl and her brother went on a hike. The boy, whom convention had clothed more sensibly, wore long pants and high boots, and plunged on ahead unhindered by the underbrush. But the girl, who wore the tradi¬ tional skirt of women, was hindered by briars and brambles. This same condition is true in women’s fight for a place in the world. Some of the brambles the world has placed before women are the ideas that: the woman who works outside her home loses social position; she lessens her chances of marriage; she does not take proper care of her home. All these statements have been proved false by statistical studies. A study was made of one hundred professional women, who had homes and chil¬ dren to take care of. Their attitude was that because of their professional training they have higher standards for their homes and as a result have more successful homes than they would otherwise have. The single woman who works is made inde¬ pendent of all her relatives. In the nineteenth century a girl, who didn’t care to get married (or didn’t have the chance), and who didn’t care to become a teacher or a nurse, had to depend on some generous father or brother to support her. Women who have reached middle age and find their children are able to get along without them, can and are entering commercial, industrial and professional work. Now let us look at the occupations available to women today. Women are still be¬ coming nurses and teachers, hut how different it is now! ()ne has a choice of teach¬ ing in kindergarten, grammar school, high school or college. It is necessary to have 5 O the Principal, to the faculty, to parents and friends, it is my pleasure, on behalf of the Class of 1941, to extend to you all, a most cordial welcome. 23