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

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Tuft graduate. 1899. He has been principal of Stow High School. Salisbury Grammar School, and Ashfield High School. He is the possessor of a Phi Beta degree. MR. Jonx MCGRORY graduated from Holy Cross in 1911. Having taught there 1911-1912 he accepted the position of Physics and Chemistry teacher in Drury. filling the vacancy occasioned by Mr. Kearney's resignation. In l1is first High School position Mr. McGrory has entered into his subject with vim. MR. BARNABY A. HOGAN has been teaching in Drury since 191-2 when he came to fill the vacancy caused by llr. Fallon's resignation. He has taught French and mathematics and has also taken a great interest in the athletic teams of the school. He is a graduate of Williams, 1906. Miss CHRISTINE PHELPS. one of our youngest instructors. is a Drury graduate,'05. She then entered Vassar and graduated.'09. In 1913 she came to Drury and teaches Freshman English and Mathematics. HARRY PRATT. a graduate of Drury. Class of '03. He then entered Boston Normal Art School from which he graduated. class of '05, Since then he has been instructor of drawing at Drury. MR. ROLAND Y. TRACY. one of the new instructors this year. came to us from the Pittsfield High School Commercial Department to take the position as teacher of Commercial Law and Bookkeeping and head of the Business Course. Before teaching in Pittsfield he was an instructor in The Manor School for boysf, at Stamford. Conn. Miss Anne Collins. a North Adams Woman. graduated from Trinity College, Washington, D. C., and was teaching in the ninth grade at the Brayton School previous to coming to Drury. She is a teacher of Business Arithmetic and English in the Business Depa1'tn1ent. S

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and English teacher in Drury. Of late years, however, she has devoted most of her time to German which is her specialty. Bliss NIARIA B. GOODXVIN is a Smith graduate of 1895. She prepared for college in Dover and hlalden High Schools. From 1895 to 1900 she taught in Needham High. She came to Drury in 1901 as head of the Business Department. Later she changed to the Classical Department where she now teaches Latin and Greek. Miss DORA A. RADLO is a Drury graduate of ,83. After graduating she specialized in the Sciences, which she has taught in Drury since 1903. MRS. CLARENCE GALLUP is a Smith graduate. She took a course at Harvard and came to Drury in 1910. She teaches Freshman History and English. Miss BEss1E M. MILLER is a Boston Universitygraduate of 1903. After her graduation she taught in grammar schools and in Searles High, Great Barrington until coming to Drury. She has charge of most of the Latin in Drury. lllns. JENNIE DOXVLIN, the present head of the French department is herself a Drury graduate, 1891. She completed her education at Smith from which she graduated in 1898. She started her teaching career in 1910 when she taught conversational French inthe ninth grades Of the grammar schools. In 1912 she entered Drury as a teacher of French and was elevated to the head of the department. hlrs. Dowlin went to Paris to further her acquaintance with the French language last summer and received the diploma inferieure at the 'cAlliance Francaisef' Mr. MORTON A. STURTEVANTl1Z1S been with us since 1919. At first he l1ad only Freshman and Sophomore classesg but since the resignation of Mr. Coleman he was made head of the English department. He is a P' 1

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IIB. FRANK E, IICCOY, one of our youngest instructors, graduated from the English High School in Lynn. He worked with various business houses for a short time after and then took a course in the Salem Normal School. Last year, he accepted a position in Drury in the Business Department, and at the present time, teaches shorthand and Freshman bookkeeping. Bliss Miarion II. CUSHING was at one time a pupil in the Girls, Latin School in Boston. After leaving that institution she Went to the Chandler Normal Shorthand School from which she graduated in '99. She then taught in Drury 1900-1902 after which she was employed as a private secretary in 1Yashington until 1910 when she again accepted a position in Drury as a teacher of commercial subjects. Miss BILIDRED BIACDONALD, the present head of the mathematics department, came to Drury in 1911. She is a Drury graduate, Class of '06, and also a Smith graduate, class of '10. After her graduation from Smith she taught at Orange, lNIass., and New Britain, Conn., previous to her engagement at Drury. I fl BQ I ' r'i '? 3YR ' flflmk N 1,!,!,,f2.s'g5 ,rsgfef mlm .Maa s LL4 z1,Mk,wKdx4 4 Wffw este 5' 4-'55 ii'-SJ '? 9