Cranston High School - Cranstonian Yearbook (Cranston, RI)

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THE CRANSTONIAN CLASS OF 1936 ww w, Somew CLARENCE W. BOSWORTH, SUPERINTENDENT ...Digg 6

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THE CRANSTONIAN CLASS OF 1936 medication WITH the highest esteem and respect the Class of 1936 dedicates this CRANSTONIAN to the memory of that great educator, john K. Fenner, who devoted his lifetime to the interests of youth. Mr. Fenner was graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Before coming to Cranston, he taught in the schools of Block Island and North Scituate, and served as headmaster of Hopedale High School in Massa achusetts. Mr. Fenner served as principal of Cranston High School for six years, after which time he was appointed Superintendent of Schools. His untimely death in Septemf ber, 1935, occurred five days after he was forced to resign because of ill health. When Mr. Fenner took over the reins of education in 1917 there were 5,122 pupils registered in the twenty-two schools of Cranston. At his death 9,863 students were enrolled in twenty-eight schools. Mr. Fenner by words and deeds was the incarnate exemf plification of that traditional Spirit of Rhode Island which is indelibly associated with leadership, progress, and indef pendence of thought. The faculty that he possessed to inculf cate that spirit upon those intrusted to his care has been of primary importance in elevating the standard which the schools of Cranston at present enjoy. -a5l5lS+-

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THE CRANSTONIAN CLASS OF 1936 C. HERBERT TAYLOR, PRINCIPAL -wgif 7 Eggs.-