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

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AMY D. THISSELL, A. B., was born in Beverly, Mass. ancl grarluatecl front the High School ol' that town in 1000. She gracluatecl 1-rom Bates in 1000. Alter teaching one yt-ar in Peterboro High School. Peter- boro, N. H., and three years in North Brookliclcl High School, she was appointecl teacher ol' French at Drury in 1010. WILLIAM CASEY, A. B., was born in lYorccster, Mass. Alter gracluating lront XYorcestcr South High School in 1005, he entered Holy Cross. He graclnatccl lront that institution in 1010 ancl since then has been teacher of Creek anfl History in Drury High. WILLARD S. MCINTYRE, A. B., was born in the province ol' New Brunswick, fanatla, ancl gracluatefl 1-rom St. John's High School, St. John, N. B., in 1000. llc gracluatctl lroni Acarlia l'nix'ersity in 1010, with honors, ancl since then has been instructor ol' 1Xlatltentatics at Drury High. WARREN E. BENSCOTER, B. A., was born in Carbon founty. Pa., gracluatctl from Dickinson Seminary. VVil1ia1nsport, Pa., in 1803, attended Dickinson College, 180.3-T, anal gratluatecl from Haryartl in 1002. Since then he has taught in the University ol' Yerniont ancl in high schools at XXI-st Chester. Pa.. Spring- field and Camden, N. J. He came to Drury as heatl ol' the Business Department in 1010. MARION CUSHING graduated from the Girls' Latin School in 1808 and from the Chandler Shorthand Normal in 1000. Alter several years experience as a private secretary, she was appointetl teacher in the Business Department of Drury High in 1010. HARRY Ii. PRATT is a graduate of Drury High School, class ol' '03, ancl ol' Boston Normal Art School, class of '05, Since then he has been instructor of Drawing at Drury High. S

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DORA A. RADLO, was born in North Adams and graduated from Drury High in 1883. She then made a specialty of sciences. After teaching in the grammar grades, she was appointed teacher in the Science Department of Drury in 1903. She also teaches history. MARIA B. GDODWIN, A. B., was born in Dover, N. H. She prepared for college in the Dover High School and the Malden High. After graduating from Smith in 1895, she taught for five years in the Needham High School and then came to Drury as the head of the business department and later as mathematics teacher. MARY F. CURRAN was born in North Adams. She prepared for college at St. Joseph's High School, North Adams, Our Lady of the Elms Academy, Springfield, and at Botsford's, Williamstown. After graduating from St. Angela's College, New Rochelle, N. Y., in 1908, she entered upon her duties as tea- cher of English in Drury. MAURICE KEARNEY A. B., entered Holy Cross in 1903. Graduating in 1907, he taught one year in Lafayette College, Hartford, Conn. ln 1908 he was appointed teacher of Physics and Chemistry in Drury High. VVILLIAM H. COLEMAN A. B., is graduate of Acadia University, 1906. He received the degree of A. M. from that University in 1909 and the same degree from Yale a year later. In 1906-07, he was vice- principal at Mount Allison Academy, New Brunswick, Can., in 1907-08, instructor of English at King's College School, Nova Scotia, Can., in 1908-09 Supervising Principal Broadway Schools, Mystic, Conn., in 1909-10, a post-graduate student at Yale, and in 1910 he was appointed head of the English Department at Drury High. 7

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BESSIE M. MILLER graduated from the high school of Calais, Maine, and later from Bridgewater Normal. She then went through Boston University. In 1898 and 1899 she taught Latin in Pawtucket, R. I. and in 1903 she came to Searles High where she took the complete Latin course till 1911. She came to Drury September 1911, teaching freshman and sophomore Latin. MORTON A. STURTEVANT graduated at Tufts College in 1899, was successively principal of the grammar school at Salisbury and the high schools at Stow and Ashfield, and came to North Adams in 1995 to enter the employ of the Transcript. He remained with that paper, much of the time as city editor, until his appointment at Drury at mid-year of this year. He teaches English in the business department. HAROLD SMITH graduated from the High School of Commerce, Boston, in 1911. During summers he has been engaged in bank and oliice work. He came to Drury in September 1911, and teaches shorthand and bookkeeping in the commercial department. ALICE J. THATCHER graduated from Drury in 1911. In September she entered as assistant teacher of typewriting in the commercial department. 9 v