Chelsea High School - Beacon Yearbook (Chelsea, MA)

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Are Today As we proudly scan the pages of our school’s own biography that started, just as in the fairy tale, an ugly little duckling which through a period of time and experience, eventually grew into a tall, magnificent thing of beauty, we find that this point is not the end of the tale. We see that after one hundred years of development, there are still many more pages left blank, pages to be filled in by future biographers and based on, we hope, the same meritable record of achievement. %9af

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As We Interior of Low’s Hall, first high school for Chelsea, founded in 1847, and located in a small room above the business sec¬ tion of Chelsea at the corner of Broad- wax ' and Everett Avenue. 4 M

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Our Founding 1874-1883 Jonathan Kimball 1883- 1884 A. A. Wordbridge 1884- 1897 Eben H. Davis 1897-1902 Walter H. Small 1902-1910 Bartholomew C. Gregory 1910-1913 Adelbert L. Safford 1913-1926 Dr. Frank E. Parlin 1926-1938 George C. Francis 1938-1942 Leo P. Casey 1942- Frank Fieriihy SUPERINTENDENTS Mr. J. Frank Herlihy, Superintendent of Schools. Ever since Mr. Keefe sat behind his desk, conducting the first class of the Chelsea Senior High School as both principal and teacher, students and graduates have owed the benefits received from education in the higher fields of knowledge, not only to the teaching they were given in the classes, but also, for the greater part, to the influence of many fine persons. Through all the understanding faculty leaders that watched their students complete their education in high school, and continue their careers later in life, superintendents and princi¬ pals who would always be a part of the rich, full memories of youthful high school days, the graduates of Chel¬ sea Senior High School, through the years, were able to acquire and develop the characters that they would carry throughout their lives. 1 he position of Superintendent of Schools which was created in 1874 because of the increasing number ol schools in Chelsea and the need of a well organized, powerful school system, since Jonathan Kimball first exercised his duties as Superintendent, has been expertly handled by his successors down through a century of 1 Iigh School’s progress. Our present superintendent, Mr. J. Frank Herlihy who has held this office for five years has capably suc¬ ceeded in helping to carry out the duties and traditions, handed down through the years and in executing his powers lor the benefit of the Chelsea schools. Having graduated from Boston College in 1928 with an A.B. degree and Boston University with a Master’s Degree in Administration in 1934, Mr. Herlihy, whom Chelsea Senior High School is proud to claim as one ot its own former teachers, has worthily proved his capabilitv as superintendent. 6