Bristol High School - Green and White Yearbook (Bristol, RI)

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THe Green C X WHite Editor-iii-Chicf—RUTH SANFORD Assistant Editor-in-Chici ROSE TUFAROLA Business Manager JAMES CONLEY Assistant Business Managers BETTY HAM BRICK WILLIAM OWENS JEAN deROCHA Circulation Manager ARNOLD DRYER Assistant Circulation Manager ALTON MOLASKY Facultv Advisor- Senior Editors IRVING MURRAY ELSIE GILROY NORMAN HIBBERT A RTHU R M ANCHESTER Junior Editors BERNARD GRABERT IRVING PIERCE LOUIS CODOLA Sophomore Editors PALMEIDA PINHERO ANN LEAHY Alumni Editor MISS SISSON MISS CALL AN iiWi,rrioK (iv IPHOMORES! Uncertainty, anxiety, and a tumult of emotions—all existing in Sophomores upon entering high school. Students, who. through teachers’ tireless efforts, proper coaching, and example, become individualists, leaders in their own fields. Students whose in-feriorty complex is overcome as June approaches. knowing they will soon be Juniors. Then, their final examinations, and dreams become reality. Their uncertainty develops into self-confidence. as they can now. triumphantly call themselves Juniors. What an exceedingly wonderful year this is. Everyone is a year older, full of new ambitions, new ideas, and new hope. Everyone works industriously. All join one or two of the various clubs organized to develop our interests, ideals, and morals. But soon, unbelievably soon, it is time for the “prom.” When thinking of Juniors, this “prom” is always linked with them. It is their event of the year. Girls visualize themselves in lovely, colorful gowns, dancing in tniin Hc.Kom, the dimly lighted hall. However, that too, comes to an end and once again we reenter the world of reality, studying hard for final examinations. Another year has passed, and the once timid Sophomores are now Seniors. Seniors! The final year in high school life-sadness mingled with joy. Sadness because for the majority it is the last of school days. Joyful because soon they will be ready to face the world with a store of knowledge that will enable them to be successful in their chosen careers. Before all this, however, final examinations cause many moments of worry. CloseVr following comes graduation day, the joyous conclusion of the school life of some of the seniors. We would now start over again with the Sophomore year but that is impossible. Others will take our places, and so it shall continue forever in this manner. 5 ROSE TUFAROLA, ’38.

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GREEN AND WHITE STAFF

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L ( T I'! BOOKS A BOOK is a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and enclosed in a case called a cover. The modern book is the result of centuries of development. The Babylonians made their records on soft clay tablets, which were hardened by drying. The Ancient Egyptians used papyrus and the Romans used wax tablets. The making and selling of books is now one of our largest industries. It is estimated that the value of books produced annually in the United States amounts to at least one hundred million dollars, including books of fiction, travel, law. medicine, theology, education and for children. We are. however more interested at present in what books contain. Literature some say. But we know that it is not all literature, because according to our definition literature must be of lasting interest to mankind in general, and some of our modern novels will surely never live as did the Chaucer and Shakespeare of long ago. Whether they are literaure or not. books give us a means of learning the ideas of our fellow beings, expressed in their best manner, while we remaining comfortably in our own homes. According to our own age and thoughts, we each have a definite choice of the kind of books we best enjoy. When children, our parents read to us the Mother Goose Rhymes and fairy tales. Later Aesops Fables held our interest, and so on our reading lists vary with the years. As an example I will tell you something of my reading experiences. My first book was one my father owned when lie was a boy, a book about dogs, printed in England, with advertisements of cocoa and soap etc., on the inside of the covers. When I learned to read for myself, I eagerly followed the adventures of Mary Jane or the Bobbsev Twins. At the age of nine, I had a beautiful red and gold copy of Kipling’s “Two Jungle Books” R A M IT givfcn me, but until this day I have never read the entire account of Mowgli with the greai beasts of the jungle. The two French stories of Perrine and Remi next came to my bookshelves. During my years at Junior High School. I read Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables,” Date Douglas Wiggins’, Tarkington’s and Alcott’s stories for the early teens. It wasn’t until I entered High School that I began to enjoy biographies, travel stories and some of the classics. The newest member of my collection is the book, written last summer aboard the “Yankee,” by Captain and Mrs. Irving Johnson and sent to the publishers during my stay with them. Westward Bound on the Schooner Yankee” is one of my most treasured possessions, and 1 have many more hours of enjoyment from it vet to come. Although I have never read the entire Bible or even half of it, with my knowledge of its contents, I would choose it to take with me to that desert island, the only representative of the literature of our great world. As for my next literary purchase, I will not make any definite statement, but travel books are always acceptable. In this world we have books and literature about everything under the sun. so learn to enjoy good reading, right now. Next to his dog. man’s best friend is his book. RUTH HAZLEDINE, ’37 COSMOPOLITE—A DOCTOR’S WAITING ROOM IN this small town of Bristol we have the world. Does that seem utterly impossible? Not if viewed from the standpoint of people in the world. New York is only a bigger Bristol; our United States is only a larger New York; the nations of the world are only a more extensive United States. For example, in a smalltown doctor’s waiting room we can see people, as unknown to us, after all. as any Patagonian. GREEN ttmdL WOlOUtE- 6