Bourne High School - Canal Currents Yearbook (Bourne, MA)

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Canal Currents, Bourne High School SAGAMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL One of the best-loved teachers of our whole school career, Miss Hoxie, helped us through our fourth year. Her unlimited patience helped us through such trying things as Roman numerals and long division. Shadowcraft, pup- pets, and posters made our study of other lands our most popular subject. We even built a model of a Viking ship. At Christmas time we showed our dramatic ability by a presentation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol and in June many of us received our first reading certificates. FIFTH GRADE— 1936-1937 BOURNE GRAMMAR SCHOOL We started cut with Miss Ruth Sears, but because of her illness, we were taught most of the year by Mrs. Kimball. She took us to two dairy farms to watch the process of milking by electricity. Fractions and our first home- work put the weight of responsibility upon us. The cranberry industry and all New England came in for their share of boning”. At Christmas time, under the direction of Miss Newington, we did the operetta Scrooge and Marley. Many of us played the part of sprites. And Dorothy Bassett had to have the largest seat in our room! SAGAMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Now we were supposed to be big boys and girls; we certainly felt that way. Miss Sanborn was our teacher and she always had a surprise for us, ranging from tests to genuine maple sugar from Vermont. She left us in the middle of the year, however, and Mrs. Russell finished out the year with us. We studied New England and made stand table displays appropriate for each month. Here, too. we first joined 4-H clubs, and learned cooking, sew- ing, woodworking, and leathercraft. Art Anderson went out for baseball and pitched in a number of games! During this year Mr. Wallace taught us penmanship. SIXTH GRADE— 1937-1938 BOURNE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Miss Grace Ellis, who told us Paul Bunyan yarns and taught us to play the harmonica, was our leader in the sixth grade. Mr. Smith taught us arith- metic on Fridays. How well we remember that home room with Athens, Ethel, Mary and Eertha adorning the four corners. Mr. Demers had left us and Mr. Camrbell taught us phvsical education. Basketball and softball at last! We did an assembly in which we represented famous inventors such as Bell. Edison, and Morse. At graduation time, we were allowed to sing in the chorus. SAGAMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Mr. Gibbs, affectionately known as Major Hoople because he entertained us with tall stories, was our fir ' t man teacher. It was our first year, too, for changing rooms ?nd teachers for various classes. By this time we were be- ginning to misbehave quite frequently; so Mr. Gibbs started his Guest List of students who were to stav after school, and many a weary Friday afternoon we spent. Isn’t that so. Red? SEVENTH GRADE— 1938-1939 BOURNE GRAMMAR SCHOOL That never-to-be-forgotten disaster, the hurricane, took place a few days after Miss Magnusson had welcomed us to the seventh grade. It was during this year that we had two practice-teachers, Mr. Koskella and Miss Roberti. Page Nineteen

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Canal Currents, Bourne High School of the class took part in a Dutch play: Dorothy Jackson, Virginia McComis- key, Muriel Hendrick, Marilyn Crump, John Cunningham, Jack Gardner, George Hammond, and Robert Dean. We also had an operetta in which everyone was dressed in Chinese costumes. SAGAMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Miss Hazel Bradbury was our new teacher and extremely popular she was. She bought for our class a pet rabbit which we named Peter and some goldfish. We learned how to care for them. Then she had us make Mickey- Mouse puppets. When we had learned to manipulate them, we put on a ver y impressive show for the first-graders. In our little store, which helped us with arithmetic, one day we sold” some real cocoanuts. Another engros- sing event was our movies” about Little Black Sambo. Some of us made a trip to the Bourne High Cafeteria so that we could build a better play cafe- teria in our classroom. Every noon we bought cardboard food representing a healthful meal. THIRD GRADE— 1934-1935 BOURNE GRAMMAR SCHOOL We who had been at Bourne for the preceding two years could hardly wait to see our new classmates from Buzzards Bay. Among them were boys and girls who have become most prominent in our class. Miss Blanche Can- ham was our teacher until Christmas time when she left to be married. Sev- eral teachers followed, including Miss Ruth Dainty and Mrs. Horace Kimball. It was during this year that we were considered grown up enough to write with pen and ink. And multiplication tables! A Good Citizenship Club was formed in connection with the study of our home town. Bourne. In June all of us were excitedly taking part in a Field Day. SAGAMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Although we approached third grade and multiplication tables with some trembling. Miss Abbie Steele soon restored our confidence. She prom- ised each of us who had the tables learned by a certain day an ice cream cone, and most of us collected. To go with our study of Cape Cod, we had a sand table on which we made a relief map. In connection with our study of early America, we made a trip to the Aptucxet Trading Post. Most interesting to the bookworms was the library work we had once a week. FOURTH grade— 1935-1936 BOURNE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Besides Mrs. Breta Harris for our new teacher, we had a new vocal music teacher. Miss Pauline Newington. She immediately endeared herself to us by considering us capable of two-part music. Many of the girls played the part of bears in an operetta called The Honey Bee.” Something new in drawing, too. We were allowed to go out-of-doors to sketch the new bridge. Mr. Querze invited us to join the Junior Orchestra, a great opportunity and honor. In our own home room, we studied geography diligently and drew maps of the continents. We prepared plays for assembly and did a Major Bowes program. At Christmas time we studied the holiday customs of other peoples and made booklets on them. At graduation time many of us were presented with library certificates following our book reports. Add to all that, fractions and a little science and you will see that we were hardly idle. Ethel Parrott and June Rhodenhiser were new members of our class. Page Eighteen

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Canal Currents, Bourne High School Many of us made frequent and extended visits to the cloak-room for whisper- ing. Manual training and sewing were added to our course of studies and finally we were grown up enough to have important roles in Jack and the Beanstalk, as well as a pageant on Betsy Ross. In history, we made notebooks. Important to a part of the class, Betty Fontes joined us — the foursome be- came a fivesome. Some of us were plugging away in earnest, thinking of high school. SAGAMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Chiefly memorable in this year were our model ship with book covers for sails and book characters for passengers and the new auditorium. Book- reading and the library were emphasized and 2 5 -book-certificates became the order of the day. We could hardly wait for the day when we would be head- men of the school. Mr. Wallace certainly instilled in us the desire to read books. EIGHTH GRADE— 1939-1940 BOURNE GRAMMAR SCHOOL In spite of a tendency, to know-it-all, we studied hard under Mr. Smith, to make sure this would be our last year in Bourne Grammar. Then, too, we had tremendous responsibilities. Class officers, class pins, class colors, and graduation! After prolonged consideration w ' e chose Robert Dean, president; Ethel Parrott, vice-president; Marilyn Crump, secretary; and Hollis Phinney, treasurer. Following rather violent discussions, our class colors became maroon and gold and our pin a heart-shaped affair with guard and chain. Our graduation program, called Progress in America, depicted through song, dance, and speech, what happened in each decade. It certainly was fun to be excused from classes to practise marching. Our frequent candy and cake sales and the Bourne News Flash” made it possible for us to present a sun- dial to the school as a parting gift. The most important member of our graduating class was Mr. Smith, who retired from teaching. Mr. Wallace had come to us in the middle of the year when he changed places with Miss Magnusson. SAGAMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL Mr. Young, the principal, guided us to the completion of our grammar school days. Never had we been so busy. Class officers were elected to help direct the proceedings for the year. They were: President, William Hart; Vice-president, Olga Marchisio; Secretary, Florence Forlivesi; and Treasurer, Arthur Anderson. We ran a Halloween party for Grades 5, 6, and 7, with prizes for the best costumes. Later, under the direction of Miss Magnusson, we presented Little Women,” which is undoubtedly our greatest triumph to date. All these by way of making money. Then we put on a public baked- bean supper. The girls waited on tables and the boys enjoyed ( ? ) washing dishes and cleaning up. Then having collected a goodly sum, we bought class pins, and joy of joys! went to Boston on a class trip. We visited Bunker Hill and the Harvard Museum. Our graduation exercises were on American his- tory. We gave up our right to lord over our youngers willingly, for all the thrills of high school awaited us. Page Twenty