Brockton High School - Brocktonia Yearbook (Brockton, MA)

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Qu LQ 14 HATS OFF H TJ HO is the lady we truly respect? Who puts on our programs the things to elect? Who checks the attendance unfailing each day, Telling the tardy the forfeits to pay? Who tells us all with a bounteous knowledge, When, where and how to get into college? Who always is pleasant and always is fair, Yet manages things with a business-like air? Whois there ev'ry morning 'fore school has begun? Who seems to know everything under the sun? Who doesn't get half of the credit that's due? Whose painstaking labors are known to but few? In the years of the future when you recollect Your friends in the High Schoolg pray, do not neglect Miss Brewer. n bgm gg Q ,-ir 7 Q

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BROCKTONIA CONTENTS- Continued from preceding page LITERATURE ' All Bunk- Kennison Bosquet, '26 . . The Woman Upstairs-John F. Donnelly, Jr., '26 Not So Ill a Wind .... SKYLIGHTS . . ATHLETICS Baseball . Track . Girls' Sports . Swimming Team . CLUB NOTES . . . LAUGHS ...... THE KNIGHT'S DEPARTUREfFranh Grindle. '26 of LIST gf ILLUSTRATIONS if-J Merle S. Getchell .... Broclztonia Staff Senior Class Officers Class Day Odicers . Heads of Activities . Graduating Class finsertj Class Poet-Doris K. Scribner . Class Odist-Martha Ewell Newton . Class Composer-Virginia Phelps Class Orator-Wilham Madden Class Essayist-Ida Morrison . Corps of Teachers . City Fathers-Loyalty Week High School Band . Brockton High School Congress Scenes from the Exhibition Cast of Senior Class Play ' 'Geerografs' ' . . French Club . . German Club . . Combined Glee Clubs . After Dinner Speaking Club Electrical Club . . Story-Telling Club Dramatic Club . Sewing Club . . . Baseball Squad . . . Bashetball'AFurst Team Champions Basketball-Second Team Champions . Track Squad ..... Hockey Team-Senior Girls' Class Champions Basketball-Junior Girls' Class Champions . Orchestra .... Spanish Club . . . Alpha Tau Debating Club Business Administration Club . Agricultural Club . lacing

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BROCKTONIA 7 . ws it 'I s f Illtilfliililt I liinlei,'I By M. S. Getchell PW' , NE day the latter part of June, 1906, I was invited . - by Dr. Wallace C. Keith and Mr. Whitcomb, the newly elected Head Master of the Brock- ton High School,vto come to Brock- ton and meet the members of the School Board and the Superintend- ent. At that time the committee and the Superintendent occupied the rooms in the present building now known as the Continuation School office and rooms 10 and 11A. The first member to greet me was Mr. Walter Rapp In -td- dition to Dr. Keith and Mr. Rapp the members of the committee Were Dr. A. V. Lyon, Mr. Eldon B. Keith, Mrs. Martha J. Farwell, Mr. Frank E. Shaw, Judge Loyed E. Chamberlain, Rev. Robert L. Rae and Mr. Frank E. Packard, with Mayor John S. Kent, Chair- man ex-officio and Superintendent B. B. Russell, Secretary. It was rather a formidable group to a newcomer, but their geniality quickly dispelled all doubts, and in a short time I was informed that in addition to serving as Master and head of the History Depart- ment I was to look after the Ath- letics. Within a few days I became a resident of the city for, as I sup- posed, two years at the most, but fate decreed otherwise, and here I am attempting to give in a lim- ited space impressions of twenty years of service to the city. I did not meet Mr. Parker at this time, but was told that as Principal Emeritus he had decided to teach United States History. This brought us closer together and thus we Worked as co-laborers for a little over eight years. In this way I came to know Mr. Par- ker and his wonderful spirit of service. It thus became my privi- lege to assist him through those diflicult days preceding his final re- tirement and at his death witness the honors given to him who was a friend to all. The two teachers whose names are linked with Mr. Parker's are Miss Pettee and Miss Poore. I never knew Miss Pettee but Miss Poore worked with me until re- tirement. She was a conscientious and loyal worker to the last. I shall never forget the day when Miss Poore came into the office to receive at the hands of former pupils-men of affairs in the city -honors in words and goods of this world. It was like a benedic- tion to those present. Brockton has had four Superin- tendents of Schools, Mr. B. B. Russell, Mr. Don C. Bliss. Mr. George L. Farley, and Mr. John F. Scully. It has been my privilege