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

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HARRY E. PRATT is a graduate of Drury High School, class of '03, and of Boston Normal Art School, class of ,05. Since then he has been instructor of Drawing at Drury High. BESSIE BI. BIILLER 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, B. 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. IXIORTON A. STURTEYANT graduated from Tufts College in 1899, was successively principal of the grammar School at Salisbury and the High Schools at Stowe and Ashfield, and came to North Adams in 1903 to enter the employ of the Transcript. He remained with that paper, much of the time as city ed- itor, until his appointment at Drury at Inid-year of last 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 oftice work. He came to Drury in September 1911. and teaches short- hand and bookkeeping in the commercial department. ALICE J. THATCHER graduated from Drury in 1911. In September she entered as assistant teacher of type- writing in the commercial department. CHRISTINE PHELPS, A. B., is a graduate of Drury and also of Vassar 1909. She became a teacher in Drury this year and teaches hlathematics. S

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MARIA B. GOODWIN, 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 Need- ham High School and then came to Drury as the head of the business department and later as Math- ematics 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 Botsfordis, Wllll3Il1S1.0W11. After grad- uating from St. Angelais College, New Rochelle, N. Y., in 1908, she entered upon her duties as teacher of English in Drury. WILLIAM H. COLEMAN A. B., is a graduate of Acadia University, 1906. He received the degree A. M. from that University in 1909 and the same degree from Yale a year later. In 1906-1907 he was vice-prin- cipal at Mount Allison Academy, New Brunswick, Can., in 1907-1908, instructor of English at Kingis College School, Nova Scotia, Can., in 1908-1909 Supervising Principal Broadway Schools, lVIystic, Conn., in 1909-1910, a post-graduate student at Yale, and in 1910 he was appointed head of the Eng- lish Department at Drury High. AMY D. THISSELL was born in Beverly, Mass., and graduated from the High School of that town in 1900. She graduated from Bates, 1906. After teaching one year in Peterboro High School, Peterboro, N. H., and three years in North Brookfield High School, she was appointed teacher of French at Drury in 1910. WILLARD S. MCINTYRE A. B., was born in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, and graduated from St. John's High School, St. John, N. B., in 1906. He graduated from Acadia University in 1910, with honors, and since then has been instructor of Mathematics at Drury High. 7

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EDWARD BICCARTHY graduated from the Boston High School of Commerce in 1911. He came to Drury in 1912 and teaches shorthand, arithmetic and penmanship in the Business Department. MRS. CLARENCE GALLUP, A. B. graduated from Smith College and then took a course at Harvard. She came to Drury in 1910 and teaches History and English. MRS. JENNIE DOWLIN, A. B., also graduated from Smith College. She has made a specialty of French, hav- ing taught it in the Grammar Schools. She now teaches French in Drury. JOHN MCGRORY A. B. graduated from Holy Cross in 1911. He taught in Holy Cross 1911-191Q and then came to Drury where he teaches Chemistry and Physics. 9