Drury High School - Class Book Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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EDITORIAL STAFF President of Class, SAMUEL JONES Editor-in-Chief, - -WILLIAM EMIC-H Assistant Editor, FRED WINDOVER Business Manager, - - GEORGE CHASE Assistant Business Manager, - - - BERNARD BOLAND ASSOCIATE EDITORS MARGARET RICHARDSON THOMAS MULCARE THOMAS MALCOLM - RUTH I-IAMELEN WILLIAM OYHEARN CHRISTINE PHELPS

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INTRODUCTION For the last few years it has been the custom of the Academe Association to issue a special number of its paper devoted to the graduating class. This year it was thought advisable to try a new plan that the Seniors should publish a class book which might belong more particularly to them. While we speak of this as new, it is not entirely so, as the class of 1898 published a similar book and it is the custom in nearly all colleges to do this on a more or less elaborate scale. Whether we have made a success of the undertaking rnust be decided by those who read these pagesg we cnonly say that we have labored under many adverse circumstances and hope that our production will meet with just consideration and criticism. I

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THE FACULTY HERBERT HUME GADSBY, Ph D., was born in Gilbertville, N. Y., August 13, 1862. He re- ceived his preparation for college at Gilbertville Academy and entered Cornell in 1882, graduating in 1886. He was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. After graduating he was assistant in Owego High School, Owego, N. Y., for three years, and in 1889-91 was assistant teacher in Latin and Greek in Yonkers High School, Yonkers, N. Y. He then held the position of principal of that school for three years. In 1892, he received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of New York, and in 1895 becameprincipal of Drury High School. DEWEY T. HAWLEY was born in West Pawlet, Vt., August 17, 1876. He prepared for college in Griffith Institute, Springville, N. Y., and entered Hamilton in 1898, graduating in 1902. He' was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and the Senior Pentagon Society. In his freshman year he took first prize in declaination. For three years he was leader of the College Crlee Club, and in his Senior year tutor in the department of Rhetoric and Cratory. He took apost graduate year at Hamilton, study- ing for Masterts degree, specializing in English. He then became teacher in English in Wheeler's Pre- paratory school, and in 1903 became English teacher in Drury High School. FRANCES E. BROWNE was born in North Adams, Mass. She graduated from Drury High School in 1890 and was salutatorian of her class. She entered Smith college and graduated in 1894. The next three years she taught in the Grammar grades in North Adams and in 1897 was chosen teacher of French in Drury High School. MORTIMER THOMAS was born in Killingly,Conn. He went through the Danielson High School and received his preparation for college at Williston Academy. He then entered Williams. After grad- uating in 1887 he became principal of the Blackinton School. In 1903 he became teacher of History in Drury High School, and later vice-principal of the school.