Beverly High School - Beverlega Yearbook (Beverly, MA)

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Miss Helena Cronin The right word at fhe 1'fz'gh1f time, fitly spoken, E'7IC0ll,7'CLg6S2 we know her by this folcen.

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Mr. Elston Gaylord During the forty-one valuable years lNIr. Gaylord has devoted to the students of Beverly High School. he has made and kept innumerable friends. He came to Beverly from Uleveland, Ohio in l899,and immediately established the f'ommercial Department.of which he has been head since that time. M1'. Gaylord has ever continued to build his department so that now it is regarded as one of the best of its kind among lllassachusetts high schools. Our benevolent submaster has been active in numerous organizations. In 19052 he organized the New England High School Association and has never missed a meeting. He also organized and is now manager of the National Commercial Teachers' Agency and is a past president of the English Teachers' Association. Because of his sympathetic understanding lNIr. Gaylord has become almost a father to his students. The time has come for him to retire Although he is leavine our school, we should not feel that he is leaving us, for he resides not far from the school at the top of Peabody Avenue in a beautiful house. where be will always be at home to his former pupils. llost of his time will be spent in caring for his lovely garden and lingering with the memories of his year s in our school. lVe shall always remember Mir. Gaylord as a true gentleman and acomforting friend. VVe shall never forget his undying patience in his many trying conferences with us in which he never failed to appease our troubled young minds. He has often said that the greatest tribute his students can pay him is not to become a bank president but to remember and use the quotations he has taught them. 13

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Miss Helena Cronin Miss Helena Cronin has been rather more closely associated with Beverly High School than have most of the teachers. She entered the freshman class, as a very small girl with very long pigtails. Dramatic and teaching ability showed themselves early. At commencemenft, when parts were assigned for scholastic achievement, Miss Cronin Was given an honor part. Later, during the last half of her senior year at Boston University, she was released by college authorities to act as substitute in freshman English during the afternoon session at Beverly High School. After graduation from college, with a succeeding year of teaching at Wh'itman, she returned to Beverly High School as a regular teacher. Since that time, Miss Cronin has given valiant service. For several years, she has had full charge of all dramatic Work+including the dramatic club, the drama night-assemblies-operettas-Senior Plays. For many years she was literary adviser of the Aegis and is now literary adviser of the Senior Mem01'rs. Meanwhile, she has studied at Boston College and Boston University and has spent summers at Breadloaf and Columbia University. Most of all Miss Cronin has been a genial, understanding friend of faculty and of students. 15