High School of Commerce - Caduceus Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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GasD UCcEUS ek) WARREN EDWARD POTTER SPORTSMAN, ADVISER, TEACHER; AND FRIEND THE CLASSES OF 1932 DEDICATE. THIS CADUCEUS Page Three

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nn GAD UCcEDS SSS MIN ———— 1732+ 1932 Washington's Coat-of-Arms and his Signature Now that the people of this country are universally celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Washington, we, the combined classes of 1932, in our endeavor to do our small part in offering homage to: him, have decided to carry as far as possible throughout our yearbook, Caduceus, the colonial theme. Page Two

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CFA DAUSG ER AUSS Warren Edward Potter Every student and teacher who has been at Commerce during the past twenty years has probably come in contact, in one way or another, with Warren edward Potter. This quiet, dignified, and unassuming member of the faculty has, for over ascore of years, been vitally concerned with every interest of the school, and patricularly with athletics. Rightfully did this tall, angular individual come by his interest in sports. He was born in the little village of Clarendon, among the rugged Vermont hills. He first attended school in that town and then completed his secondary school education at Rutland Classical Institute. There thirty years or more ago, our friend was renowned for athletics and was acclaimed the best all-around athlete in the State of Vermont. ‘The sports in which he excelled were football, baseball, and track. His scholastic and athletic ability brought him a scholarship award to Dartmouth College, where had he gone, his name would doubtless have been listed with such Big Green stars as Jesse Hawley, Alton Marsters, Earl Thomson, and a host of others. ; But these were war days. The stirring strains of martial music plus youth and patriotism proved stronger than the call to Dartmouth. When Company A, First Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Militia, entrained for further training and duty in Cuba and Porto Rico, the name of Warren E. Potter was on the roster. Directly after the war he went to New York City for further study, and subsequently took a teaching position in Long Island College. During the ten years that he taught there, he was coach of all the athletic teams. At the same time he managed and played on the Brooklyn Athletic Association baseball team. This team won the championship of Brooklyn, and because of its success, Mr. Potter was offered a contract with the Brooklyn Major League team which we know as the Dodgers. Illness, however, forced him to refuse the offer, and he retired to a farm in Charlestown, New Hampshire. Three years later, fully recuperated, he joined the faculty of the High School of Commerce. Here he has been a ‘good and faithful servant’ in many activities. Until a few years ago, Mr, Potter assisted in the coaching of the Crimson baseball teams. Ever since Commerce was organized as a separate school, he has also been Faculty Manager of Athletics and Faculty Treasurer for all organizations. Now he is Faculty Treasurer of the General Organization. He has been for a long time chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletics, a committee which ratifies awards to athletes and attempts to formulate the school’s athletic policy. Mr. Potter is a member of the Business Department and is at present teaching bookkeeping, although in the past he has taught a number of the various commer- cial subjects. He is also one of the mainstays of the Evening High School faculty. The family home is still in Charlestown, New Hampshire. He is married and has four children, two of whom have completed courses at higher institutions of learning and have started following their father’s profession. The other two are still in school. Mr. Potter's interest in athletics is as deep and unflagging as ever. Probably this interest and his own prowess in sports account, in a large measure, for his popularity with the boys, of whom many have benefited by his two-fisted straight from-the-shoulder advice. | Sportsman, friend, teacher, and adviser — Warren E. Potter, to whom the 1932 Caduceus is dedicated, is one of the most genuinely respected members of the faculty of the High School of Commerce. Page Four