Greenfield High School - Evergreen / Exponent Yearbook (Greenfield, MA)

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THE EXPONENT 5 CLASS DAY Greenfield High School June 29, 1921 High School Lawn Nine O’Clock PROGRAM Music by High School Orchestra, Address of Welcome, ELPHEAGE V. KIROUAC Class Oration, The Duty of the Individual in the New Age. RUSSELL P. JONES Class Poem, REBECCA S. EBERLEIN Ivy Oration Pioneer Women Educators B. CONSTANCE LOVELL History of the Class of 1921 Freshman and Sophomore Years, CATHERINE F. HAMILTON Junior and Senior Years, HOLLIS D. BILLINGS Class Prophecy, EDNA CHRISTOPHER. ROBERT J. RIST. Presentation of Class Gift to G. H. S. Planting Ivy by Class of 1921. Ivy Ode by The Class, Words by MILDRED A. STILES, ’21 Class Officers President, Elpheage V. Kirouac Vice President, Edna Christopher Secretary, Irma L. Winslow Treasurer, Madeleine E. Field Assistant Treasurer, Donald L. Perry CLASS MOTTO Da dextram misero. Officers Elected at the Annual Elec¬ tion of the Student Activities Society for the Year 1921-22 President: Sam M. Cameron, ’22. Vice President: Louise Hunter, ’23. Secretary: Marguerite Cowan, ’23. Treasurer: Paul Bittner, ’22. Senior Directors: William An¬ drews, ’22, Tom Nims, ’22. Junior Director: Merrill Parten- heimer, ’23. Sophomore Directors: Francis Al¬ berti, ’24, Leonard Thompson, ’24. Basket Ball Mgr.: Linwood Sam¬ son, ’22. Assistant Basket Ball Mgrs.: Mal¬ colm Cameron, ’23, Wadsworth Croft, ’23. Baseball Mgr.: Harold Smith, ’22. Assistant Baseball Mgrs.: Robert Hall, ’23, Edmund Sullivan, ’23. Track Manager: Richard Camp¬ bell, ’22. Football Manager: George Cor- siglia, ’22. Assistant Football Mgrs.: Frank Merriam, ’23, William O’Neil, ’23. Business Manager of Exponent: Eustace Merrill, ’23. Assistant Business Mgrs. of Ex¬ ponent: Roland Reed, ’24, Philip Stearns, ’24. SCHOOL NOTES On June 10, the Senior debating team, Miss Eberlein, Jones and Tjar- nell, with Billings as alternate, won a fine debate from the Junior team, O’Hara, Bostley and Magoon, with Feldburg as alternate. The subject was, “Resolved, that labor unions, as they exist today, are beneficial to the American people.” An en¬ graved loving cup, given by the Eng¬ lish department, was presented to the Seniors at the decision. On May 27, at Washington Hall, the Juniors managed a very success¬ ful “Prom.” The hall was very at¬ tractively decorated. The music was furnished by Curley’s Orchestra of Hartford. The Sophomore class has not been in the public light much this year, though well represented in the honor rolls and in athletics. In the latter, Merz, Brown, Cavanaugh, Parten- heimer, Corless, Powers and Vickery have taken part. Vickery did well in football and started well in base¬ ball, but had the ill luck to have an attack of appendicitis which kept him out of the game. The Freshmen have the longest honor roll of any class. This, of course, speaks well and we hope they can boast of the same during the rest of their course. In athletics, they have had Jan- gro, Richmond, Kauchinski and Thompson, Jangro being especially proficient. On the evening of the Junior-Sen¬ ior debate, the Freshman English Division presented two scenes from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The players were Ralph Davis, Donald Roberts, Robert Clifford, George Voetsch, William O’Hara, Francis Alberti, Stephen Long, Arthur Lynch, Leonard Thompson, Lucy Sawtelle, Louise Donley and Theresa Shaw.

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4 THE EXPONENT GRADUATION EXERCISES, CLASS OF 1921, GREENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Lawler Theatre, Thursday Evening, June 29, Eight O’clock CLASS MOTTO “Da dextram misero” PROGRAM Music, “Overture Fraternity” Beyer HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA Invocation, REV. W. H. McLEAN Music, “Bella Napoli” Boscovitz SENIOR BOYS’ GLEE CLUB Salutatory and Essay, “Faith in America” REBECCA S. EBERLEIN Music, Minuet from E Flat Symphony Mozart HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA Address, “The Educated Man and Woman in the World Today” PRESIDENT MARY EMMA WOOLLEY, Mt. Holyoke College. Music, “The Hill of Success” Targett SENIOR BOYS’ GLEE CLUB Valedictory and Essay, “Our South American Problem” MADELEINE E. FIELD Presentation of the Class of 1921 to the School Committee of Greenfield by Prin¬ cipal Edgar B. Smith. Presentation of Diplomas, DR. HALBERT G. STETSON, Chairman of School Committee. Music, Medley of National Airs Furey SENIOR BOYS’ GLEE CLUB Class So ng, Words by Rebecca S. Eberlein CLASS OF 1921. March of The Graduates, Priests’ March from Athalia. Mendelssohn HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA HONORS Members of the Pro-Merito Society Greenfield High School Class of 1921 Madeleine Elizabeth Field, Rebecca Salome Eberlein, Bertha Constance Lovell, Mariam Eames Sevrens, El- pheage Victor Kirouac, Mabel Wil- helmina Sweeley, Edna Christopher, Beatrice Jeanne Bourbeau, Russell Paul Jones, Doris Elizabeth Coller, Irene Julia Horrigan, Irma Luella Winslow. College Preparatory Course: Mad¬ eleine Elizabeth Field, Ruth Evelyn Higgins, Katherine May Lawler, Mariam Eames Sevrens, Irma Luella Winslow. Technical Preparatory Course: El- pheage Victor Kirouac, Ralph Charles Lockhart, Verne William Lyman, Donald Lawrence Perry, Clark El- bridge Woodrow, Commercial Course: Charles Ed¬ ward Ballou, Irving Lucius Bartlett, Junior, Beatrice Jeanne Bourbeau, Ethel Ada Brocklesby, Gladys Florence Butler, Edna Christopher, Ralph Hanson Clapp, Doris Elizabeth Coller, Rebecca Salome Eberlein, Wilbur Clapp Hartman, Irene Julia Horrigan, Florence Eirene Kiley, Mayda Elsie Lamoureaux, Celia Ethel Pease, Marjorie Emma Phillips, Mar¬ jorie Eloise Shattuck, Mildred Agnes Stiles, Mabel Wilhelmina Sweeley, Marion Avery Woodard, Mildred Avery Woodard, Edward Read Zeiner. General Course: Merle Comfort Starr Adams, Charles Henry Bates, Hollis David Billings, Frances Eliza¬ beth Blackall, Juanita Bogue, Joseph Ernest Bonneville, George Harold Boutwell, Herbert Francis Buckley, Ruth Irene Clarke, Jeanette Coates, Ruth Annie Freshour, Gretchen Mae Fullerton, Mary Elizabeth Grogan, Catherine Frances Hamilton, Helen Louise Hartshorn, Raymond Stetson Houghton, Lucile Esther Hunt, Nellie Marion Avis Johnson, Russell Paul Jones, Bertha Constance Lovell, Giuseppe Marini, Shiela Katherine McCarthy, Mary Prudence Nims, Mary Catherine O’Brien, Elizabeth Doris Peck, Robert James Rist, Bea¬ trice Dorothy St. Lawrence, Alice Celia Scott, Homer Newton Staples, Harold Andrew Tjarnell, Anna Grace Turner. Did You? Did you ever get to class without your work? Did you ever think that maybe you could shirk? Did you ever think that maybe, if you’d try, That for just the one time you’d get by? Did you? I did. Did it work—that old-time bluff, “I hadn’t time enough?” Did the teacher say, “All right, Do your work tomorrow night?” Did she? You bet she didn’t. (Exchange)

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6 THE EXPONENT SALUTATORY Friends of Ireenfield High School: It is the custom of the graduating class to express its appreciation to those who have sacrificed and made possible this : oment, when we leave behind, forever, our high school days, and step forth into the world, young men.and women. 0 b, the class of 1921, following this ' long established custom, feel that the best way to show our sin¬ cere gratitude is to extend to you, our fathers, mothers and friends, the most cordial and warmest of wel¬ comes tonight. FAITH IN AMERICA Following swiftly the hour of Vic¬ tory, those glorious days of joy and gladness with their hope of a new and better life, came a breakdown in the morale of the peoples who had been engaged in the great conflict. As we look about us today, we see a world torn and troubled, grop¬ ing for a way back to light and op¬ portunity. True, it is the period of reconstruction, yet there seems to be no reconstructing. Even here in America we find ourselves halting instead of going forward. In our midst are depression, discontent and unemployment. We wonder what is to come of it all. What will America be ten years from today? What is to be our course at home? What is to be our conduct among the nations of the world? In our hearts we know the an¬ swer. America will continue to guarantee life, liberty and the pur¬ suit of happiness and be the leader and supporter of an advancing civi¬ lization. Now our problem is to determine the course of action that will get us on the right track to accomplish this end—then “full speed ahead!” That course of action will spring from a firm faith in America—her ideals, her traditions, her institu¬ tions; for it has been the indom¬ itable faith in these ideals, tradi¬ tions and institutions, a faith tested in peace and strife and made secure forever on the bloodiest battlefields at home and abroad, that has made America—and all she stands for to¬ day. If these then are to be our guide posts it will be well to stop and ask ourselves, what are these ideals, tra¬ ditions, and institutions? Go back to the very beginning. What trought the Pilgrims here? What did they want? Was it a thirst for gold, a passion for adventure or for dominion? No. Loyalty to truth and to duty as they saw it brought them to the rocky shores of a wild and savage land. The next great step was the Dec¬ laration of Independence, holding forth that all men are created equal and that life, liberty and the pur¬ suit of happiness are the inalien¬ able rights bestowed by God upon all his people. The republic was well launched under the guidance of George Wash¬ ington, whose advice and hope was that the North, East, South and West would ever be firmly bound togeth¬ er. In the progress and develop¬ ment of the one lies the progress and development of them all. And in our relations with the nations of the earth he would have us exert our in¬ fluence, not for one nation, but for the good of all nations. American ideals, traditions and in¬ stitutions so well laid, gathered strength as the years went on and were made secure in that next great ordeal—the Civil War. There is much that we can take to heart from this bitter struggle. How clearly those patriots of yester years perceived that their first duty was to preserve the institution of popu¬ lar rule, of national solidarity, that the institutions of this country were good and worthy of being preserved to keep the union a power for the advancement of America and human¬ ity—“that government of the peo¬ ple, by the people, and for the peo¬ ple, shall not perish from the earth.” It was the same in the more re¬ cent war of the free peoples against