East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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CLASS BOOK BOARD Left lo right Morris Pcrcclay. Dorothea Con key Rosemary Twomey. Mabel Menconi. Chester Tammany. Harold Krueger. I.ois Scott. Muriel Breault. Betty Thresher. John Whitmore. Grace Sonntag. Myrtle Goldberg Class Book Board ANOTHER year rolls around, bringing with it the Herculean task for the 1941 Class Book Board of producing a REDJACKET of the standards set by REDJACKETS of previous years. Because we agree with Robert Louis Stevenson that a preface is more than an author can resist , we shall show ourselves for a moment ideas in hand and with a friendly demeanor. Nobody realizes the tremendous amount of work entailed in producing a book of this sort until he actually participates in it. Fortunately each member of the Class Book Board has cooperated fully to complete a product of which we hope the Class of 1941 will be proud. Through these long weeks of preparation we have been grateful for the kindly help of faculty members who have given unlimited time and advice. To Miss Nellie V. Donovan, our beloved faculty adviser, the Class Book Board is deeply indebted. To Mrs. Lottie B. Carpenter, head of the Art Department, whose experience and talent is evidenced in the excellent work of students under her guiding hand, we pay tribute. We also express our appreciation to Raynor Ahmuty. our art editor, whose boundless energy and originality have produced for the Class Book art work of superior quality. And to Myrtle Goldberg, our business manager, we pay special tribute for her untiring efforts in making the 1941 Class Book financially successful. We hope that these reminiscences of our days at East Pawtucket High will recall happy memories so that in years to come we may see here all that we loved long since and lost awhile . Dorothea Con key. Associate Editor

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Reverend Harold Lawrence Sweet AMONG the most promising young men to graduate from Pawtucket High School in recent years was the Reverend Harold Lawrence Sweet, late rector of the Church of the Advent. Pawtucket. At his untimely death in May. 1940. this young man was known throughout Rhode Island as one of the state's best loved ministers. Harold Sweet was born in North Providence on February 20. 1905. Even as a boy the Church was his main interest. During his boyhood he was identified with the work of the Church of the Messiah. Providence. He graduated from Pawtucket High School, class of 1926. In the fall of the same year he entered Carleton College, Minnesota. Upon completion of the prescribed course there he took special theological courses at Nashotah House, an Episcopal seminary in Nashotah. Wisconsin, and Berkeley Divinity School affiliated with Yale University. Mr. Sweet returned to Rhode Island in 1933 and for two years did supply work in the Providence diocese. In the summer of 1934 he substituted at the Church of the Messiah during the absence of Rev. John Morris Evans. D.D. It was from this church that the young curate entered the ministry. In January of that year he first became connected with the Church of the Advent as assistant recor to the Rev. Seelye Bryant, and on November 1 he succeeded the retiring pastor as rector. Under his leadership the church prospered. He was able to cut down the parish debt materially and was largely responsible for the largest confirmation class in years. The young priest's warm friendliness and winning personality soon won him the love of the entire congregation. In a very short time he had more than doubled the number of baptisms and was warmly commended by his bishop for his excellent work. For five short useful years Father Sweet was the beloved teacher and friend of every person in his little parish. The atmosphere of his church was always pleasant, for he had a fine sense of humor and a hearty, contagious laugh. The old and infirm were always his first concern. He never failed to call upon a sick parishioner, and these little visits always were calming and soothing. In May. 1940, the young rector decided to take a well-earned vacation and visit Canada. He had reached Buffalo. New York, when he was suddenly stricken with appendicitis. He failed to recover from an emergency operation, and on May 27 the youthful priest went to meet the God to Whose service he had devoted the thirty-five years of his life. Father Sweet is truly deserving of any honor that we are able to pay him. It is with deep respect and sincere admiration that we. the Class of 1941. pay homage to a man who was so fine a citizen of his community and so truly a religious leader. Eleanor Claire Cox

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