Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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eegfffim ffflii THE QUIVER a af fa Mur1elMcFee George F Guyette Ellzabeth R ODonnell Matbematzcs TEACHER What ns the Pythagorean theorem? PUPIL The Pythagorean theorem 15 c a + b Th1s quest1on and answer tell us that our televnslon set has now brought us to a mathematlcs class where we shall learn the fundamentals of calculatxon Wlth a well sharpened pencll ln hand our da1ly algebra lesson commences wxth a short qulz of one or two eviamples based on the asslgnment of the prevlous nlght After the collectlon of papers the first row of pup1ls takes thelr des1gnated places at the black board, ready to solve equat1ons d1ctated by the teacher If by any chance one of the seated members d1scovers an error ln the board work, he IS obllged to po1nt If out to the m1staken pupxl Next, problems are worked out and brought to the teacher to be corrected At the end of the perlod the supervlsor may ask the pup1ls to glve the squares of any number from one to twenty seven or to rec1te a formula whlch has been prevlously memor1zed Whlle th1s thorough study IS be1ng speedlly accompllshed 1n the algebra class, just as dlfflcult materlal IS be1ng covered 1n the geometry recxtatxons where pup1ls are also at the board constructlng accurate figures or provmg essentlal theorems or corollarxes Throughout the geometry class compasses and stralght edges are used almost lncessantly t1ll the end of the lesson To be an A or B pupxl 1n e1ther algebra or geometry, nt IS xmportant that each day s homework IS done falthfully for as the renowned anclent mathema tlcnan Euchd, once sand There IS no royal road to geometry 15 . . , , . , . . 4 l u - as U ' 2 - 2 2 1 . . - , . . . , - . . . . U . ,, 3 3 '

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72 7'T'i-i' l'-ii T H E Q U ' Y E R ,'Si l 'iii'i ' , li N v Flrvt row MargaretE McG1ll Mmam B Adams joseph F Dowlmg Second row Benjamin T Messere Ralph Fitzpatrick Charles I Hull H :story The students at Woonsocket Hlgh are well acqua1nted wlth the world H15 tory, for here the puplls have an opportun1ty to study varlous klnds of hxstory anclent, Amerlcan modern and med1eval, and Enghsh Because t1me IS l1m1ted and we cannot v1s1t every class, let us focus our spotllght on one of the Amer1can hlstory classes In th1S class the students dxscuss all the lmportant events leadmg to the dls covery and settlement of th1s country such as the d1scovery of Amer1ca by of the first colony by the Pllgrlms The s1gn1ng of the Declarat1on of Independence on uly 4 1776 the most memorable day ln American hlstory the establ1sh ment of the new republlc, the ClVll War era and the reconstructlon per1od that followed are a few of the other toplcs dlscussed However lmportant these other events mav be, a study of the Constntutxon nts or1g1n, adoptlon and purpose proves to be the most lnterestmg Thxs docu ment IS dlrectly connected Wlth every 1nd1v1dual 1n the Unlted States and 1t IS lmportant that the student, lf he wlshes to be a true Amerlcan, should recogmze IS Slgl'l1flC8IlCC just as one of the pupxls IS recltlng the preamble to the Constltutlon, the bell rmgs and we dlscover that thxs lnterestmg televlslon broadcast must come to an end 14 Columbus, the explorations by the English, Spanish, and French, and the founding J , - , . . ' ' ' f . ' -

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THI: QUIVEI lure! mu Mane I. Lavlolette Jlllla A Dorrlngton Mlrlam B Adams George F Guvette F rencb The 1conoscope makes lt posslble for anyone to see one of our French classes held each day Thls dally chat ln the French room gradually enables us to become well versed ln the French language To see how thls IS done, won t you jom us rn one of our classes? Wlth the fam1l1ar Ferme7 la porte, class IS 1n sess1on The wr1tten gram mar lesson, ass1gned for homework, consxstmg of Enghsh sentences Whlch are translated 1nto French IS neatly COplCd on the blackboard by varlous puplls whlle the remammg members of the class rec1te the oral work, whxch IS composed of the format1on of the plural of nouns or adjectnves When the grammar has been corrected, each pupll WYIECS out the synopsls of a verb previously SPCCIHCCT Next we turn to our lecture, a story narrated xn French and translated 1nto Enghsh by the students Our allotted amount of lecture completed, we spend the rest of the pernod on snght translatlon The r1ng of the bell mforms us that our French perlod IS over A Latm Class Clmk and another com has been made, engraved wnth the well known motto of the Unlted States, F Plurlbus Unum SIDCC the Latm language holds such an emlnent place among the forelgn languages, we eagerly 1nv1te you to vlew the scene our televlslon set presents as nt spots a Lat1n class nn actxon 16 ,W WW, , , YW Y 7 - A 5 V ir Y H V-7 7 7 W- ,V WWW- Y -. Y, , X ,, fzn , ,l-Q44 , ,imrg .. h Y: . Q . 5 . i . , . . 5 A Second row: Benjamin C. Messere, Harriet J. Jalbert, Francoise B. Valcourt, . . . , . . . . . ,, ,, . . . . 7 . . . ,, . ,, . lf ' !! ' ' ' Q! ' 73