Bromfield High School - Beacon Yearbook (Harvard, MA)

Page 36 text:

Eromfliegd Be acson of a corresponding size mesh. Now it is time to lay the pipes and have a glass of cool, refreshing water from your own well. Because of our increasing usage of water and because of water shor- tages resulting from droughts, more and more people are becoming acquainted with the process by which men tap our underground reservoirs. VALEDICTORY As classmates bidding farewell forever to our high school days, we make numerous promises to one another and to friends to correspond often and to share now and then the memories of these days and of our dreams and ambitions. I sincerely hope that every promise is kept. It was Tryon Edwards who said, He that resolves on any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. Wayne W. Blackwell PF ik PF SENIOR ROLL CALL Barbara Carol Benjamin Wayne Waldo Blackwell Lois Adiel Dickson .......... Robert Kenneth Hall ...... Catch Bill ....................Wayne Won't Budge .......... Lois Adheres ftoj Dreams ................Robert Keeps Happy Frank Lennihan ................. .......................... F atiguing Life Marie Eugenie St. John ....... Paul Irving Thatcher .... Harold Albert Tooker ........ Jane Ann Waters ............ ........................................ ...........Marie Enjoys Sailor Jack .......Paul Insists fonj Tarrying .......Has Angelic Tendencies C ?J .Jane's Always Winsome Barbara C. Benjamin .................................................................................... Bill Wayne W. Blackwell .......... I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair Lois A. Dickson ........... R-obert K. Hall ......... Frank Lennihan ...... Marie E. St. John ....... Paul I. Thatcher ..... H. Albert Tooker ........ Jane A. Waters ........ Senior Class .......... Mrs. Turner ...... Miss Brown .......... Mrs. Clifford ........ Mrs. Drescher ..... Mrs. Flaherty ...... Mr. Drisc-oll .......... Mr. Dunlap ............... Bromfield School ....... Mr. Vattes Mr. Kelly ......... I Could Be With You The Girls Go Yourself .........She's Only a Sailor's Sweetheart Fry That Man of Mine ..........We've Come A Long Way Together Knows Day Is Done ...............Typewriter Song .............Music, Music, Music .......The Old Master Painter .............................Memories ..........................Good-bye ........M1SS You ........Rag Mop

Page 35 text:

Brom? i el.cl Beacon Strictly speaking, -artesian is the name given to such wells as discharge water at the surface under natural conditions, but here we define the term as a Well in which the water rises under its own pressure above the point where it was found. There are a surprising number of people who believe that no matter where they would like a well - hill, valley, forest or desert - a few feet of easy drilling will bring a water spout of the softest, purest water with limitless abundance and great rate of flow. In reality, the depth -of a well and the quality of the water depend upon the earth structure surrounding the well. Nowadays when the surface water is so polluted, we must go down to another layer. The well then goes down through the surface soil - down until it reaches solid rock ledge. After it goes through this ledge it should reach a layer of sand or porous stone in which there is water. If this water is contaminated, too hard, or not sufficient, the well must go through another rock ledge and on to another porous layer containing water. You may wonder why the sides of a well do not cave in, as in your ex- periences of digging at the beach or in the back yard. The sides would fall in if they could, but the driller starts out digging a hole larger than the intended well size and, when he has reached rock ledge, places large pipe inside the hole to hold up the sides and to keep surface water from running into the well. Then he drills inside the pipe. Seams in the rock ledge must be sealed up with cement. Sometimes the cement is poured into the well, and the hole dug right through it. A less costly scheme is to place a small- er pipe inside and pour cement around it. Nothing, -of course, is gained when, afterwards, the driller cannot extract the smaller pipe from the cement. You would not use the same cement in building your house that you would use in well drilling. Such cement is not of poor quality, on the con- trary, you could not afford it since it c-osts three times as much as ordinary cement. The driven well that we are concerned with is supposed to be vertical. That doesn't mean that it always is. When the tool strikes the side of a boulder, it has a tendency to bend the hole slightly, and this leads to trouble. Occasionally a tool breaks off down in the hole and then a process follows called fishing. Fishing wastes time and labor and requires specially made gadgets - and a rabbit's foot. Success often depends more on the good luck charm than on the device. One contrivance is an inverted cone which is lowered onto the tool With the hope that the tool will stick inside the cone until it reaches the top. Fishing isn't always successful, but when it is, it sometimes saves 81500. Experienced well drivers can tell exactly what is going on down below by the sound of the drilling and the feel of the cable. When water is reached, the bale is let down. The bale is a cylinder with a valve in the botton to let the water in when it touches the end of the well. The bale full of water is dumped in a sluice for examination. The well, if the water is good, is then test-pumped for twelve or more hours to see if the Well recedes at the given capacity. If it does, it may need to be gravel-packed. The gravel used for packing is a certain carefully graded size of stone de- pending on the surrounding earth. Inside this packing goes a bronze screen Page Thirty-three

Page 37 text:

BromQl:el.d. Beacon WE WONDER Why Barbara enjoys 4-H meetings. Why Wayne is going to Manchester this summer. To whom Lois writes all those letters. How Robert manages always to have someone extra to take home from the dances. What Frank does with his spare time Why Marie buys Air Mail stamps. Why Paul isn't interested in girls. Why Albert would like to grow at least an inch. Where Jane is planning to spend the summer. Sli 21 Pls SENIOR LOCALS Mr. Driscoll in chemistry class: What is the heavier form of hydrogen called? Miss Waters: Duridium ? Miss Blackwell: No, that is the new razor blade - you mean deuteriumf' Mr. Driscoll, talking of man-made and natural law: When the crow protects its fellows, is it man-made law? F. Lennihan: No, Crow-made. ' THAT PROBLEM OF GROWING UP Don't do that, Sarah, you're too old, cries Mother. - Don't wear that, Sarah, you're'too young. That's all one hears from the time she is thirteen until after graduation from high school. That in-between age is the worst age of all. If you do one thing, every- one calls you a child, so you decide to grow up. Then they tell you to act your age. Actually the uncertainty of this period is enough to put anyone in a mild dilemma. You get a beautiful new formal all picked out for your first high school dance. But Mother says, No, its too old-looking for you. S-o you bring home the dress she chooses. The night of the dance comes and your escort arrives for you. Just as you're leaving Dad says, Doesn't my baby look cute tonight? Be sure to come home early, Little Girl. Of course this remark nearly spoils the evening for you because you're wondering if your escort now thinks of you as Daddy's Little Girl . Then you decide t-o act the way that you think your mother expects you to. When you're reading J unior's new copy of Hop Hazard and he starts yelling, Mother says, You're getting rather old for comic books, aren't you ? lt's really a terribly unfortunate spot to be in. You're too young for high heels, too old for bubble gum, too young for make-up, and too old to wear ankle socks to church. And people wonder at teen-agers! Don't they remember when they were too old and too young at the same time? Marie St. John '50 Porcre Thirty-five