Chelsea High School - Beacon Yearbook (Chelsea, MA)

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OUR LIBRARY O UR Library is open from eight-fifteen in the morning until after school closes at two o’clock. During this time the pupils come flocking in one after the other, either for reference work, to return a book they have borrowed, or to read the current magazines. At this time of year the members of the basketball team and their friends are the earliest visitors. They come before school to read the sporting news in the Boston Herald which Miss Walton, the librarian, brings each morning for the pupils. A large, sunny room in the front of the building is our library. It is a little over sixty-eight feet long and twenty- eight feet wide. There are ten large tables which seat approximately sixty people. It is at these tables that the pupils study. Miss Walton’s desk is in the center of the room and faces the main entrance. She is the librarian. There are three large bookcases and three smaller ones out¬ lining the room. Statues, pictures, basketball trophies and plants help to decorate and give our library a cheerful atmosphere. On one of the walls is a large bronze tablet in memory of Frank Milton Gilley. It was erected by the teachers of the high school in memory of his distinguished services. For forty-two years he was a teacher of science in our school. There are approximately sixteen hundred books on the shelves of our library. Most of them are for reference. The subject matter is classified under the Dewey Decimal system. They are: general works, philosophy, religion, sociology, languages, natural sciences, useful arts, fine arts, literature, history, and biography. The pupils are allowed to take these books to the tables for study, after having signed for them. Each year as money is available, new books are purchased. Last year from one lecture fund the school made eighty dollars with which to buy new books and magazines. Occasionally, the library is used for social events. Each year the French Club holds its annual party here. Recently a professor addressed the French Club all in French. Both the lecture and the reception that followed were held in this room. The pupils get a great deal of enjoyment out of going to the library. Everyone is allowed to take home certain books or magazines. In this way we have a chance of reading books that are well worth while. Good books and magazines add to the intellectual side of our character. They also give us a taste for good reading that will become a habit when we leave school. I think there is a feeling of goodwill in our library; when a student enters the room he or she cannot help feeling it. Miss Walton is always willing to help any one who is looking for material and cannot find just what is wanted. This year we have had library lectures for all the pupils about the care of books and good citizenship in the library. In one of the talks, Miss Walton said that each pupil is a share¬ holder in the school library while he attends this school. The room is for his use. If we take good care of the stock, not onlv are we learn- ing to respect books in gen¬ eral but we are helping the pupils of other classes to enjoy our library as we have done during the years we have attended high school. [ 12 ]

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M. E. STEWART, Faculty Adviser

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FACULTY ENTRANCE I TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Front Row: Miss Marguerite A. Bligh, Miss Helen H. Rigney, Mr. M. E. Stewart, Miss Margaret E. Nugent, Miss Rose F. Cohen. Back Row: Miss Carol E. Judkins, Miss Helen L. Kintz , Mrs. Henrietta M. Fay, Miss Margaret M. Banigan, Miss Anna F. Kuhn. [ 13 ]