Everett High School - Crimson Tide / Memories Yearbook (Everett, MA)

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3 1759 00146 6626 CRIMSON and BLUE NCE again the E. H. S. year¬ book appears, but this time under its older name, “The Crimson and Blue,” the colors of good old Everett High. A new feature has been introduced in this year’s issue: that of having a photograph of each mem¬ ber of the Senior Class, giving the year-book, I think, a more personal touch, and one to be highly prized in the years to come. The editor regrets that not all the art work and cartoons submitted could be used, but space would not allow. He extends, his most sincere thanks to each and every one who contributed work or co-operated with him in making the 1921 Crimson and Blue a success. To Mr. Bryant we are especially indebted for helpful and untiring ad¬ vice which has been a source of great assistance to us all. We as a class should patronize our advertisers liberally on every possible occasion and try to induce our friends to do likewise. To the members of the staff, I have only words of the highest prais for the unselfish and energetic work which they have put into the many tasks that they have found confront¬ ing them which are to be met and ac¬ complished in the effort of making a year-book worthy to be contained between the covers of “The Crimson and Blue.” H. McQaseney. THE PERIOD OF RECONSTRUC= TION INCE hostilities ceased, we have heard a great deal about the period of recon¬ struction. We thought that the world would be re¬ constructed on a magnificent scale after the war had swept everything clean, much as we would rebuild a city on a grander, more beautiful plan after a great fire has swept ev¬ erything clean. As we review the past two years and a half, we cannot point out any great progress in the line of recon¬ struction. Factions have sprung up in Europe, and strife is still going on. In the United States, the govern¬ ment has, refused to enter the League of Nations as a move toward recon¬ struction. Both in Europe and America there is a period of moral laxity which is by no means whole¬ some. In the business world, men feel that we must get back to nor¬ mal, to pre-war conditions., with low¬ er prices, lower wages, and lower taxes. We might well ask, however, “Were the pre-war conditions so

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V THE CRIMSON AND BLUE CLASS OF 1921 EVERETT HIGH SCHOOL TOT EDITORIAL STAFF Managing Editor.Harry T. McQueeney Treasurer .Eugene Auld Advertising Manager .Donald Hunt Ass’t Advertising Manager.George Bussell Athletic Editor.Marcus Wright Lyceum Editor .Chester Hills Philomaths Editor.Henning Hanson Relief Work Editor.Harland Carpenter Girls’ Glee Club Editor.Ellen Lundegren Girls’ English Club Editor.Beatrice Heinz Commercial Club Editor.Joseph Sliillady Tech Club Editor.Henry McGonagle 1924 Editor .Randall Weeks 1923 Editor ...Helen Rich College Editors .Dorothy Holmes Elmer Kerwin Commercial Editors .Alice O’Leary Arthur Berry Domestic Science Editor.Ruth Mayo Technical Editor .Clyde Stickney m 1922 Editor . .Mary Hutchings 1 ! 1921 Editor . McMahon h 1

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CRIMSON and BLUE good that they are all we desire?” Shall we simply go hack to where we were in 1914? This is not the re¬ construction we hoped for. It may he that having become used to war-time intensity and speed we expect too much in a short time. After all, reconstruction is evolution, and evolution is a gradual process. There are two facts which are hotli significant and hopeful. As citizens we may he glad in the fact that schools, and colleges are more crowded than ever. This crowding demonstrates one thing: the people are convinced that they must learn more. They must learn mor e to fit them for their life’s work. They must learn more to enable them to influence government and society in the right direction in these days when democracy brings great re¬ sponsibility. A second stimulating fact is the cry for “increased production” which is becoming more and more the slo¬ gan of commerce and industry. Peo¬ ple now understand that they must work more and not less. P»y in¬ creased production we may hope to relieve suffering and bring prosperi¬ ty to the common people. America is not so much in a stage of rec onstruction as in process of first construction. America is still in the making. Her mixture of races must be blended into one. Her industries must be made to serve the public better while furnishing to la¬ bor an adequate compensation. Her masses must be raised out of illitera¬ cy and ignorance. Her government must be freed from corruption. All these things come home direct¬ ly to us. We trust we have an in¬ telligent interest in the country’s welfare. We are told that we are the hope of, the nation. Let us firm¬ ly resolve that great expectations, shall not fail of realization. Dwight H. McMahon. WALLS NCE in the dark ages, historic times there ed in Everett High several thick, high These walls were of pre- exist- Sehool walls, raised like dough, on hot air and gas, and grew like mushrooms. But unlike mushrooms they were deeply rooted and could not be torn up. These walls came about in this way. In every High School there must be at least three walls. That num¬ ber is absolutely essential to the good and democracy of the school. There must be a wall between the sopho¬ mores and freshmen, another be¬ tween the juniors, and sophomores and a third between the seniors and juniors. This surrounds the seniors by three walls and makes them very exclusive. Granted that these walls are necessary, let us, discuss the others. The unnecessary walls wer e those between the - four different courses. The highest and strongest of these walls was that between the college, or academic, and the commercial courses. There was a bitter feud in progress between the two. The tech¬ nical boys, found it the correct thing to do and surrounded themselves lik ewise with a wall. But they were a sociable set and frequently emerged from behind their wall much to the open disgust and secret admiration of the others. The do¬ mestic science girls had to erect a wall or lose caste and erect a wall they did. Now you see the condition of affairs when the class of 1921 arose and took their exalted thrones as seniors,. The year began with fireworks and a partisan election of class offi cers where much blood was shed (figuratively) and the academic seniors won out for the most part. No sooner was this over than the rival organizations in both parties began to die natural deaths. The wall was crumbling. Perhaps one cause was, the new law compelling students to take American history before they can graduate, which brought both factions together and gave them a chance to see that there was not so much difference between 11W