East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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CLASS ODE OF IQ4 . qrcia Loebenst ein Catherine Waddington Through the yearr, through the years,Wh‘t e our liberty brought cheerj. Ed. U. •v Sm’ile and sigh, say good bye, With ijour Courage flying high; Always cation was t nnarching a.- long; With these cheers, of-teri Keep East Highs memo strong. hout on high. Shout the -pLr t -i -1 i-f I.: i. , ’« r- j ij tt ' i ft ft fears Were Ok. Conn panted by teari Still our ctesJnriaKi all Sang freedoms Crg‘ We thave hbertx-j or die' While our classmate all sing freedom •faith m you. is true ; Liber ty, Liberty, LibertyLiberty, )s the pledge of For ty - Tw

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Willard L. Beaulac AMONG the most important men in our government today are the representatives of our government in those neutral nations which border the Axis countries. These men form the only diplomatic link with the enemy. We arc proud of the fact that one of the most prominent of these men is a Pawtucket High graduate. He is the United States Consul-General and Counsellor of Embassy in Spain, Willard L. Beaulac. Mr. Beaulac was born in Pawtucket on July 25, 1899. In high school he was active on the school paper, in dramatics, and represented his class on the school debating team. He is well remembered by one of his teachers. Miss Sarah M. Osborn, as a brilliant scholar and a very agreeable person”. Graduating in 1916, he attended Brown University for two years. He then enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy and for sixteen months served with the A. E. F. On his return to civilian life he entered Georgetown School of Foreign Service during its first year of existence. It is interesting to note that because he was a member of the first graduating class and because his name is so high in alphabetical listing he was given the first diploma ever awarded from that school. They certainly have every right to be proud of him Willard served in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for a short while but soon entered the Diplomatic Service with the post of vice-consul, class three. His first post was the Tampico consulate in December 1921. Next he served in Puerto Castilla and was soon promoted to the post of foreign service officer. Assigned to Arica, Chile, as Secretary of the American Legation, he became affiliated with the Tacna-Arica Arbitration in 1926. This famous Board met to settle the boundary between Peru and Chile, and as he was Assistant Secretary General, he had much to do with the final and successful settlement of the dispute. From October 1927 to April 1933 he served as Third Secretary of the Legation in Port-au-Prince and as Second Secretary and Acting Charge d’Affaires at Managua and San Salvador. In 1933 he was called to Washington. D. C.. where he was made Assistant Chief of the Division of Latin American Affairs. He served a short term at Guatemala but was recalled to Washington as Assistant Chief of the Division of American Republics. In June. 1937, he was appointed First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy, where he served under Ambassadors J. Butler Wright and George S. Messersmith. He was recently sent from Cuba to Spain as Consul-General and Counsellor of Embassy, and is located there at the present time. In the pursuit of his diplomatic career Mr. Beaulac has undergone many interesting and varied experiences. He lived through a severe earthquake in Nicaragua. He is a member of the American Club, the Havana Country Club, and the Havana Yacht Club. It is interesting to note that the two men the Class of 1942 has chosen to honor in their Redjacket were both faced with the same difficulties this class is faced with today. War was declared during their stay in high school and they both must have had the desire to enlist, but they both decided that the most helpful thing to do was to further their education. They both attended college for two years and. as a result, were more valuable in their chosen branch of the Armed Services. Mr. Beaulac's conspicuous success in the Diplomatic Corps is a source of gratification to his friends and should prove an inducement to ambitious students to try to follow his example. In this day of Diplomacy, no boy could go wrong in choosing this work for his career. Harold C. Kinne

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First row. left to right: Norman Dorian. Edith Masgay. Livia Lucchesi. Dorothy Bergeron. Helen Markowski. Jessie Cameron. Florence Gagan. Second row: Harold Walmslcy. Joan Fowler. Joan Chatterton. Constance Brugge. Alice Petersen. Maybellc Ferguson. Daniel Rylands. Third row: Michael Strychan. Sylvia Rosen. Isabelle Alix. Elaine Bigos. Beatrice Bourgct. Clifford Duxbury. Rhode Island First row. left to right: Nancy Arnold. Dorothy Tildsley, Shirley Simmons. Janet Lane. Mary-Lou Brownell. Mary Tarpy. Second row: Gloria Lang. Adela Wachta. Nellie Paquette. Anne Siniak. Janice Wood Matthew Maziarz. Third row: Milton Phillips. Raymond Cooke. Robert Watson. Rudolph Babel. Daniel Rivet.