Exeter High School - Pinnacle High School (Exeter, NH)

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19 EXETER HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 38 THE EXETER HI-Y CLUB President .... ............. K ENNETH JEWELL Vice-President . . . . ROBERT WINKLER Secretary . . . . . LION1-:LCARBONNEAU Treasurer. . . . ROBERT CROSBIE Warden ,,.. ..... ......... W 1 LLIAM BREWSTER As the school year 1937-IQ38 draws to a close, the first season of the Exeter Hi-Y Club also ends. Starting in late October with ten members, the organization has now twenty boys in the sophomore, junior and senior classes. Mr. George Knox, coach at Exeter High School, was asked to be the leader and immediately accepted. Rev. Paul Martin of the Exeter Congregational Church and Mr. Percy E. Jewell were chosen as advisers of the club. The club is both a service and a social organization and during the past season has had chance for both. Besides many educational and instructive meetings, the club has had several social evenings. On the service side, the boys sold programs during the sled dog races, sponsored by the Exeter Lions Club. They were also the first boys in school to be asked to usher during visitors' week. Five of our members were football letter-men and six received basketball letters. Two were chosen to compete in the annual Prize Speaking Contest and one is a member of the school orchestra. None of the boys belonging to the club has an average of less than 7 5'Z1. That is one requirement for a boy wishing to join the organization. - We can well call this Hrst year a successful one. We could not have done so if we had not been given such wonderful co-operation every way we tumed. First, we wish to express our gratitude to Mr. Knox who gave his time and influence to make our club the organization it is today. Thanks also go to Rev. Mr. Martin and Mr. Jewell who helped guide the club along the right paths, and lastly, to the Congregational Church for permission to meet in the recreation room weekly. As the seniors depart this year, they leave several holes which will be ditiicult to till, but the Hi-Y of Exeter is looking ahead to the next school year and hoping to make it the second successful year of the Exeter Hi-Y Club. KENNETH JEWELL, President. THE HISTORY CLUB , 1937-1938 President . . . ....... . . ROBERT Bsmou Vice-President . . . . ROBERT RAMSDELL Secretary . . . . . HENRY E. SI-IUTE Treasurer ........,.......... IRVING BREWSTER In May, IQ 32, a small group of Class II boys organized a club known as the History Club. As its purpose at the time was to leam more of the history of Exeter, arrangements were made to visit the historic Cincinnati House. Woodrow McLane, the first president, and Alfred Fernald, the fiist secretary, and now a student at New Hampshire University, did much to start the infant organization on its way. The first field trip to the Cincinnati House proved most interesting. Charles Thomson read excerpts from a state document prepared by Miss Edith Green on the Cincinnati House and the Society of the Cincinnati. The Stuart painting of George Washington, the replica of George Washington's desk, colonial utensils of all kinds, and many other things were a revelation to the boys. Twice since other groups have enjoyed a similar trip. The following year as the club grew in interest and popularity and plans for longer trips were made, it became necessary to limit its membership. This was done by requiring each member to have at least a rank of B or eighty-tive percent. for his quarter average in 26

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J a. 19 EXETER HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 38 BASEBALL VARSITY April zo .......,.... P. E. A. Junior Varsity May 7 Portsmouth May I I Dover' May I4 Sanborn May 18 Somersworth May 2I P. E. A. Junior Varsity May 2 5 Dover May 28 Rochester june 41 Portsmouth' June 7 Somersworth' june 81 Sanborn' June rx Rochester' Home games. Although there will be many new faces on this year's nine, prospects for Coach Knox's first Exeter High Baseball team look bright. The squad comprises Petroski and Magoon, catchers, Walsh, Dorman, McNulty and Swiezynski, pitchersg Freedman, Brewster, Mazalewski, Brewitt and Richard, infieldersg Martell, Cote, Wasiewski, Papandrew, and Cottrell, outtielders. Others working out include Adams, Lewis. Schur and Lane. We are all pulling together for victory. but win or lose, the entire team will display fine sportsmanship, characteristic of all Exeter High teams. CAPTAIN FRANCIS WALSII. JUNIOR HIGH BASEBALL At the start of the 1938 Junior High Baseball season, a squad of 38 reported, including five letter men from last season. This squad was cut to 23 after about a week on the held. If spirit alone could win games, we should win all the games on the IQ38 schedule. It is a hopeful sign to see the entering class give such support as this class has produced. At this date, two games have been decided upon with each of the following schools: Emerson, Newmarket, and Hampton, with a possible third game with the latter. Two games are under consideration with each of the following: Salisbury, Amesbury and Ports- mouth. I might add that since the first season in I92 5, I4 have received three junior High in- signias each, 30 have received two each, and 85 have received a single insignia, making a total of X87 awarded. RALPH H. PARKER, Coach. 25

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ft L9 EXETER HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 38 American History. In 1935 a constitutional committee was appointed: Edwin Wiggin, Verne Smith, and Kenneth Jewell, now of the class of 1939. 'I' he club work is carried on by boys of Classes I and II but at that time it was agreed that any boy in the High School who had been a member the last quarter in his Class II year might remain in the club as an honorary member and participate in field trips. Elmer Stevens, Robert Winkler, Thaddeus Klemarczyk, Raymond Martell and Robert Crosbie, now seniors, have been loyal supporters throughout their six years at High School, have been on nearly all trips, and have been of great assistance in helping to share the responsibilities of the club. In 1934 the club made Mr. Willard Rowe the first honorary member of the club. In 1937 Judge Henry Shute was a guest speaker at an open meeting when the club invited the entire student body as guests. Judge Shute read selections from one of his own books and the boys greatly enjoyed seeing and hearing him. To show their appreciation they invited him to become another honorary member of the club. Many interesting places in southern New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts have been visited. These trips are usually made on Saturday. We leave in the moming, carry a basket lunch, and return late in the afternoon. A school bus is usually available and about iifty cents apiece covers all expenses. Mrs. Richard Shute, who is a most loyal supporter, has twice accompanied us in her own car, thus enabling a larger group to go, and aiding in many ways. Beside the Cincinnati House we have visited the Garrison House in Exeter, the Old jail in York Village, Maine, the Bartlett house in Kingston, where Mrs. Levi Bartlett, a most gracious hostess, thrills the boys with her tales of Revolutionary Days and Josiah Bartlett, the first occupant of the house and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Whittier birthplace and the Captain's Well in Amesbury, Mass., Odiorne's Point in Rye, the Woodman Institute in Dover, Fort McClary in Kittery, Maine, and the Frost Garrisons, in York, Maine. Captain Adams at Adams Point made one trip an outstanding one. The boys were his guests at his home on Great Bay where they crawled all over his gundelow, then in the pro- cess of construction, being hewn out by hand as in the days when gundelows were used on the Exeter River. On April ro, 1937, we ventured farther than usual and spent the day in Lexington and Concord, Mass. We visited the Lexington Green, the Hancock-Clark House, and the old Belfry in Lexington, the historic North Bridge, Colonial Inn, the Wright Tavem, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, and the Public Library in Concord. An unexpected treat was a stop at the Mohawk Trading Post in Concord. When some unusually good moving picture of historical interest comes along, we plan a movie party, attending in a group. Rarely our business meetings are social. One held at the home, of the club adviser will long be remembered for the puppet show put on by Robert Crosbie a tire in the neighborhood barn to which the boys hurriedly fied, and delicious cakes made by understanding mothers. The club records are a constant source of enjoyment for they contain pictures taken during the trips, reports of all meetings and trips, and letters from the late Edward Tuck, Daniel Carter Beard, the late Ambrose Swasey, and several others, when in 1933 the boys carried on a citizenship project. At present a stamp unit is a new feature of the club. Lionel Carbonneau has given talks on stamp collecting, and we are starting a stamp collection of historical stamps of the United States. Our club is an incentive to better work in history, it furnishes much pleasure, and it points a profitable way to spend one's leisure time. The interest it creates is far reaching and it does much to develop civic pride. We trust the boys who carry it on in years to come may continue to make it a very worthwhile project. HELEN B. MACNABB, Club Adviser. 27