East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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1941 CLASS BOOK BOARD phebe thresher.

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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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CLASS OF 1898 u rSS,:. AARuad,«rGvt°rRC„E Pearson- Na,han w Whipp’c. Charles D. Shore. Michael F Costello, Frank H. Kelly. Charles F. Jenks. Arthur V. Newell. Second Row: C. Emmons Pccvcjr. Frederick W. Tillinghj.t. Mark Whi.ehead, Samnel Cohen. L F. H. Delany. Earle O. Sweet. E. Olney Burlingame. The Boys of '98 FEW college classes can boast of a more wonderful bond of friendship than that which has kept the Boys of ’98 together for the past forty-three years. Every year since their graduation they have held a reunion. Certainly this is a record of which they can well be proud. They held their first reunion at the To Kalon Club. No girls were present. Why? The boys themselves really don’t know, and now the absence of the girls has become an unwritten law. Two years of their high school course were spent in a rather makeshift school: it consisted of two buildings on the corner of High and Exchange Streets. Then the class moved to Pawtucket’s first real senior high school—the school which is now the Joseph Jenks Junior High. William A. Readio. perpetual secretary of the class, entertained me with recollections of those halcyon days. An initiation was being held by the Sumner Lyceum, the boys’ debating society. The members-to-be, blindfolded, of course, went through all sorts of ridiculous actions, ignorant of the fact that their principal. Mr. Curtis, our Miss Curtis’ father, was standing on the sidelines enjoying every bit of it. Another time, unknown to Mr. Curtis, the boys and janitors arranged to meet in the boiler room in the late hours of the night to hold some boxing matches. The leather was thrown hot and heavy.” but the boys and janitors had fun. As the years rolled on, the boys realized that in a school as large as the Pawtucket Senior High there might be some young people who, because of poverty, would be unable to complete their courses. Therefore they established a fund to help those students continue their education. During the dark years of the depression the fund was also used to buy lunches for pupils unable to buy their own. Is anything further needed to show the caliber of these alumni? The Boys of ’98” have made names for themselves. Among their illustrious number was Raymond M. Hood, one of the greatest architects our country has ever known. His greatest work is the Chicago Radio Building, though he did much in the reconstruction of Belgium after the first World War. His name is immortalized on a bronze plaque in a theater which he assisted in designing—the Roxy Theater in New York City. The example set by the Boys of ’98” is one well worth following. Meeting every year, keeping alive their famous class spirit, watching their members attain new honors, helping others reach those heights—this is the class of ’98. Gentlemen, we salute you. Morris Percelay