Cranston High School - Cranstonian Yearbook (Cranston, RI)

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gewwrrrrerrrraj DUM WGILO C1190 EJ rrreerfrrrrrvs, 3, Graduate Program for 1926 Q B- '92 as Instrumental Recital- 'Q bl March-Happy Days , ..... , ..,..,. .... M akie-Beyer IQ L Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman ........... ..,.. O ffenbach lg - Overture-The Golden Sceptre ,..,.,,...,..,.. .. .Schlepegrell ,Q 6: High School Orchestra Q 6: Invocation- 6' Reverend Albert E. Kenyon .Q S: Songs- 'Q 3: Send Out Thy Light .,.,... ,.............. .... G o unod 'Q hi Bendemeer's Stream .... ............... .... A r nold 'Q 6: Class of 1926 A 'Q B: Presiding Member ,..,.,. ..... .......... ..., D o r is Miller Deming 'Q G The Many-Sided Franklin. . .....,.......,..,...... .... H elena Patricia Hogan 'Q at fNational Prize Essayj 'Q as Demonstration of Processes in Rubber Manufacture-- .Q L Norman Edward Searle. assisted by Grace Ruth King 'Q B, fExcerpts from prize essay on The Relation of Chemistry to 'Q L the Development of the Rubber Industry of the United Statesj 'Q a Permanent Possessions of the Cranston High School .,.............. Edith May Woodbury :Q 6. Song- as 5' A Gypsy Night ....... ,..., .............. ......,........,. G a n ne S? 8, Class of 1926 :Q Q Cranston Libraries of the Future ..............,.. .... F lorence Marjorie Thomson :Q L, Enlarged Opportunities in the New Building .... ....,.. E leanor Sara Rydberg :Q B A Plan of Decoration for the New Building , . , ....,. Vema Evelyn Follett ag sl Music- 2 S Spanish Dance ..... ....................... ........ E n glemann ,Y Q High School Orchestra :Q L Presentation of Gift of February Class .......,...., ........,. K ingsley Bowen Read :Q 5' Presentation of Gift of June Class . , ...,...,....... Helena Patricia Hogan Q E Presentation of Prizes ......... ...,..,.... C larence W. Bosworth. Principal 1? Bl Awarding of Diplomas . . . ..,....,..... John K. Fenner. Superintendent of Schools Q Q March--Petronel March .... .,..,...,................................ B ennet ,Y - High School Orchestra -Q 5, Graduation Essay 2 2: CRANSTON LIBRARIES OF THE FUTURE -Q L. Where is the Cranston library? asked a stranger in this city. 2 Q The Cranston library? Why, there isn't any Cranston city library. There Q, are the Arlington, the Auburn, and the Oaklawn Libraries, and the William H. :Q 5, Hall Free Library in Edgewood, but no Cranston library. 2 v5.8.8,6.3JJJJJJJVJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ3 I 1 l I

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germ-'e-e'e'r'e'e'e's e'e'L'Q DUM VIGILO CUPO M eAe'e'e'e'e'e'e'fr'e'f'e' f VY?WTYTffffffYf???????VT??T?f???Y??????TTYVYYV Foreword The Class of 1927 is publishing this Cranstonian as the best means of portraying its four years in Cranston High School. Our aim has been to make this a truly Crane-stone Yearbook. Cranological Crannies have been racked to obtain ideas about Cranes. Our poor Craniums have been crammed with Cranes from morning till night. As a result. we have Cranes surrounding each page, hiding under each leaf, and peeping from every corner. A sloganeer would put is Cranes Cram 'Cranstonian'. We young Cranes take this opportunity to thank the faculty Cranes for guiding our destinies through four of the uneasiest, squirmiest, noisiest, and most pestiferous years of a young Crane's life. Although, deep in our hearts, we know that some of us, in the minds of some Teacher-Crane, have been handed over to the hangman and others been consigned to the Angel Gabriel to be fitted for beautiful, shining wings, we still marvel at the impartiality, patience, good-humor, and wonderful endurance of all our teachers. We fervently hope that all our readers will enjoy this book, our effort to record the four years in which young Cranes have flown higher than ever before. XVe especially desire, however, that our Crane friends will maintain the wise middle course of Daedalus, and neither fly too close to the sun and be scorched, nor too close to the water and be drenched. May this book be the inspiration for our Cranes to soar forever! 9-5 'Q Y Q 'Y Q 2 S Q -2 -fa Q -9 Y 1 Y -9 'fa 1 -Q -9 -Q 1 'Q 'Q as 5 Q Y W Y W W N Y W Y T Y 5 1 5 Y Q W Y Y Q 5 Y Y .1s.s.a.s.M.a.a.a.s.e.a.a.a,M.a.s.a.a..4.a.as.a.s.a.o.a.a.a.a.a.s.z4.a.M.a.a.? ll0l

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gwwevrrrrrrrm DUM view cuno EJ rreereerrrrreg ?' Y' S. service in the different parts of this city. In Edgewood and Arlington the wants 'Q Q. of the people are supplied fairly well, but in Auburn and Oaklawn, where there 'Q L is little room and poor equipment, good service is impossible. Are not citizens 'Q L of Auburn entitled to the same library privileges as those in Edgewood? Should 'Q not a school-boy or girl living in Oaklawn, Meshanticut, or Knightsville have 'Q 5' the same opportunity to get information in preparing his lesson as one in Arling- 'Q 6. ton? lt is true that the number of volumes in the library of the High School 'Q B: has increased during the past few years, yet facilities there cannot supply all the 'Q pupils' requirements. 'Q The best equipped of the cityfs four main libraries is the William H. Hall 'Q QF Free Library in Edgewood, which has about eighteen thousand volumes, includ- 'Q at ing many reference books. The new building on Broad Streetlis to qebvery 'Q large and beautiful, with shelf-room for fifty thousand volumes. s this i rary is supported by funds left it by the late William H. Hall, there is every prospect as that it will grow rapidly and be a great asset to its own community. 'Q The Auburn Library, which serves a community almost as large as the 'Q Edgewood section, has only twelve thousand books, and very poor facilities. lt 'Q L is a long, crowded room without sunshine or even sufficient daylight. If a new 'Q as building could be erected on the lot owned by this library, on the corner of Park 'Y and Pontiac Avenues, where the branch is now situated, it would be a great 'Q 3' advantage to the high school pupils, and to all the people of Auburn as well. 'Q 2: In Oaklawn is another library which needs a larger building. It is ex- Q L: tremely crowded, with many books of its collection of nine thousand volumes 'Q S' piled in a back room because of the lack of shelves. More space also is needed :Q for tables. 'Q B' In contrast to the Auburn Library, the Arlington Library is fairly well 'Q 3 equipped. It is located in a room building of its own, where it has many read- 'Q ing tables and much shelf space. The collection of books, however, is pitia ly 3' small. The Branch of this library in the Print Works section also needs more Z2 3 volumes, especially books of reference. I ' 'Q an In my opinion, a library is needed very much in Meshanticut Park, a sec- 'Q tion which is being built up rapidly. If the people of Nleshanticut were given 3 any encouragement from the city, I am sure they would work earnestly to secure 3 a branch library. B' If all these individual improvements were made, the city's facilities would E 3' still be far from satisfactory. There should be an organized system centering -Q an in one main library with a corps of progressive librarians, and many books, .E which could be drawn upon by the other libraries. Q There are two important steps in the organization of Cranston libraries. Q Gr First, a board of trustees representing the present libraries must vote to consoli- .Q as date the system into a central library with branches. This might be modelled ,i an on the Providence system, which has three divisions of subordinate libraries: ,Q Eg First, the branches, which are libraries in themselves, having their own collec- ,E L, tions of books and their own staffs: second, sub-branches, which are not so large B, as the first division and contain chiefly loans from the main library: third, sta- 2 5- sz 'Y . .,5,8..8-.8J5JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJAA3 I 12 l 'Q '9 'Y Such a question and reply may well lead us to ponder on the inequality of B9