Durfee High School - Durfee Record Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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A Message From... Our Superintendent You arc to be congratulated on having successfully qualified for a diploma from your school. With the diploma you receive on Commencement Day go the very best wishes of everyone in the city. To these collective congratulations I am happy to be privileged to extend my own. To many of you there will be other graduations, and for all of you, other periods of triumph, but none of them will have quite the same meaning as does this one. For this marks in a very special way your taking up the privileges and re sponsibilities of manhood and womanhood. Certainly there is very little needed by our society more than young, well-trained men and women of character and spirit. Fundamental to our belief in a democratic and God-fearing community and nation is the fact that each individual has dignity and the worth, the true measure of which will mark the success or failure of our ideals. We have every confidence in you, knowing that in your great hopes and high standards go the hopes and standards of all of us. Sincerely yours, Superintendent of Schools.

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n u u y p who wished to complete their high school education or to make further preparation for college. Those who availed themselves of the opportunity were impressed with thg cordial reception they received from the Durfec principal and his eagerness to assist them. EightyTive veterans received their diplomas with the Class of 1946, many of them going on to college. These, in brief, have been the highlights of Principal Carroll's administration. At the same time, he has been an ardent advocate of extracurricular activities. Durfee s numerous dubs offer all pupils opportunities for fraternization with others whose in- terests are similar, and a well rounded program has been developed. Alumni Field In the booklet published for the dedication of the clubhouse at Alumni Field in 1934, Mr. Ellis Gifford, secretary of the Alumni Athletic Association wrote as fol- lows : When Mr. Charles V. Carroll assumed the principalship, the field began to assume its real place in the life of the school. To his activities in erecting the steel bleachers, buying more land, and building a quarter-mile track and finally culminating in this wonderful clubhouse, Alumni Field owes its present position of being one of the best high school athletic fields in this part of the country . . An athlete in his school and college days and later coach of all sports at Woon- socket High, Mr. Carroll has been particularly interested in developing Alumni Field. Vistitors to the Elsbree Street stadium today find a modern, wfeli equipped recreation field — a far cry from the lot of other years, with its dilapidated fence and an aban- doned schoolhouse serving as a clubhouse. The present clubhouse was built after a city-wide drive for funds — generously contributed to by prominent local citizens. The renewed interest in Durfee sports following the Hilltoppers’ defeat of New Bedford on Thanksgiving Day, 1944, brought a pressing demand for a larger seating capacity. Section after section of bleachers was added until the present capacity of 8,000 was attained. Other improvements included the installation of a lighting system for night games, new tickets booths, accommodations for press and radio, a public ad- dress system, and more recently, the purchase of land immediately south of the field for a practice field. P reparation for Life Principal Carroll, we believe, has kept in mind at all times the primary reason for any school’s existence — the preparation of boys and girls for a good, useful life. We are convinced he has worked tirelessly to maintain Durfees excellent reputation as a preparatory school — whether for higher education or for its graduates’ life work. Names of Durfee alumni may be found on the rolls of America's greatest colleges and universities, and for those wrho have completed their formal education here, he has tried to make their high school years valuable stepping stones to success in business or in- dustry. His dignity in all his relations with the student body has commanded our respect; his efficiency and zeal in directing a large public high school in a cosmopolitan city have inspired in us great admiration. We of 50 are grateful to Principal Carroll for all he has done for Durfee, and for us.

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CHARLES V. CARROLL, Principal HERBERT W. PICKUP, Vice-Principal RALPH M. SMALL, Vice-Principal MARY LEE, Dean of Girls THOMAS F. DORAN, Assistant Director of Vocational Guidance Louis A, Allard Elinor F. Gilbert E. Estelle Miles Myron T. Ashley Frederick J, Gottwald George A. Mitchie Loretta R. Belmont Mary C T, Grandfield Stephen Nawrocki Eugenie W. Bent Marjorie Gray Ruth W, Newkirk Paul G. Buckley Thomas W, Hammond Caesar Nobrega M. Dolores Burns Alice C. Harrington William A. Nugent Emily B, Campbell Frederick J, Harrington Catherine O’Brien Joseph O. Carroll John J. Harrington Anne L, O’Neil Mildred V. Carroll Margaret M. Harty Margaret H. Powers Winifred F. Chase Joseph R. Hathaway Maybelle E, Ramsay William M. Cteare George C Hoar Antonio A. Serpa Lillian F. Cole Katherine L. Hogan Marie V. Shalloo James F. Conlin Mildred A. Hogan Henry J, Shea Mary B. Connors Mary E, Judge Charles D. Smith Berton Cook Margaret F. Keefe Hilda I. Smolensky Mary F, Corcoran Helena A. Kelley Anna L. Sullivan Angeline B. Crispo Daniel Kelly Dorothy C. Sullivan John T. Crowley John E. Kiley Helena V. Sullivan Joseph B. D Adamo Alice G, Langford Marian R. Thompson Margaret G. Dailey Joseph J. Lawdor Marion L. Torphy Edna U. Dclahanty Elizabeth L. Leonard Louis J, Urban Margaret G Doran Katherine F. Lomax Frederick H. Vinecombe Ruth N. Dow Margaret F, Lowney Barbara Wellington Edward B. Downs Harry P. Lynch Margaret J. Whalon Romeo J. Dufour Margarett E. Macdonald A, Wilson Whitman Ralph J. Fletcher Grace L. Martin Amasa F. Williston Carrie T. Foulkes Anna G, McCarty Helena H. Withrow Virginia W. Frost Florence M. Bums, Clerk Lauretta L. Butler, Qerk Rose E. McHaie Anne T. Coughlin, Clerk Kathryn A. Lenehan, Qerk Lillian Wightman, Matron