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

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THE EXPONENT BOARD OF EDITORS Editor-in-Chief .Robert H. Alberti Assistant Editor.E. Willard Letourneau Business Manager .Eustace I. Merrill Assistant Managers.Philip B. Stearns Roland E. Reed Literary Editor .Ruth L. Putnam Ass’t. Literary Editors ....Louise D. Hunter Marion C. Hartwell School Notes and Senior Editor, Sam M. Cameron Grinds . ’22 Art Notes . . . .Evelyn V. Henderson ' 22 ' 24 Music Notes . .Hazel C. Atcherson ’23 ’23 Commercial Notes . . .Gertrude S. Miller ' 22 ’24 Athletic Editor . ’23 ’24 Junior Editor. .Ralph W. Haskins ’23 ’22 Sophomore Editor . . .Donald I. Roberts ’24 ’23 Freshman Editor . . . ’25 ’23 Alumni Editor . ’22 Exchanges . ’22 ’22 Illustrator . . . .Thurston W. Munson ’24 Muriel S. Crosier ’22 Mr. Smith FACULTY ADVISERS Mr. Pennegar Miss Atherton Entered as second-class mail matter April 3, 1920, at the postoffice at Greenfield, Massachusetts, under the act of March 3, 1879. Accepted at special rates of postage for second-class matter. Published five times during the school year— in October, December, February, April and June. 35 cents a copy; $1.50 a year. Once more the Seniors are leaving us after suc¬ cessfully completing the various courses they have followed in the Greenfield High School. After four years of hard work, they have arrived at the point toward which the rest of us are bound. Consider¬ able credit is due them for their showing and the manner in which they have upheld the honor of the school in scholarship and athletics. We wager they will continue to be successful in their future pursuits, whether those pursuits lie in getting a college training or in mastering the different trades and occupations of the working world.

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THE EXPONENT Greenfield Commercial School P A. TJARNELL, Prin. 96 Main St. Tel. 508-W TYPEWRITERS TO RENT

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2 THE EXPONENT Graduation represents a venture attempted and succesfully completed, something worth while gained. The members of the Senior Class take away from Greenfield High School a fund of knowl¬ edge of great practical value in very nearly every occupation one could name. Besides this knowl¬ edge, they take with them good habits of thought, speech and application, which are three of the best marks of an educated person and will stand by them like good friends wherever they go. Next year, we shall miss the support some of the members of the Senior Class have given to athletics, the Exponent and music; not only in these activities shall we miss them but as friends as well. That last statement may well include all the members of the class. Although they will be gone, followed by our best wishes for all the luck in the world, they will not be forgotten. M. S. ’23. VALEDICTORY The Golden Age for Women When the opportunities of the woman of today are compared with those of the woman of the past, the present woman should be thankful that she is living now. For, less than fifty years ago, at the age of eighteen or twenty an unmarried girl was considered to be an old maid and she usually had to go out and work as a hired girl. There were no modern conveniences and a girl was subjected to long hours of work with very little compensa¬ tion and she was given a small back-bedroom, to which she stumbled wearily every night. However, if she was clever with her needle, she might be a village seamstress, while the girl who found a posi¬ tion as a district school-teacher was considered fortunate by her friends and was greatly envied. How different the lot of eighteen year old girls now! They may choose the occupations of real estate dealers, florists, ranchers, fur traders, retail and wholesale buyers and sellers, book-binders, private secretaries, doctors, dentists, architects, landscape gardeners, poultry raisers, farmers, busi¬ ness executives, educational directors in stores, teachers, managers of tea-rooms, lawyers, profes¬ sors in colleges and many others too numerous to mention, for, two years ago a census taken of pro¬ fessions open to women showed that there were then three hundred and seventy. But it would be impossible to keep a correct list of these em¬ ployments as women are going into so many new fields of work daily. Some have taken the old home ideas and car¬ ried them out on a much larger scale. Such was the case of two girls, college graduates, who con¬ ceived the idea that if they made a new scientific bread, people would buy it. Their conclusion was quite correct for they have developed a large trade. Mrs. Louise Powis Brown saw the possibilities of introducing Philippine embroidery into this coun¬ try, developed a worth while business and today is reaping a fortune. And, we have all heard of Miss Gladys Wood’s successful tea-room at Nan¬ tucket, constructed from an old coaling barge, a tea room known all over the States because of its individuality. These are only a few examples of what women have done with their opportunities. How is so great a change in so short a time to be explained? It is but another of the great changes brought about by the industrial revolu¬ tion. After the introduction of factories, women were gradually forced to take up work outside of the home because it made the home duties lighter when manufactured articles replaced those which had formerly been so laboriously made at home. No longer did the mothers and daughters sit at their spinning wheels, for now they could buy their cloth. The butter which used to be churned and then placed under the willow tree to keep cool is made in a factory. The provision room is supplied with groceries from the store which tends to lighten household tasks greatly. No longer does the mother have to stand for hours over a kettle of soap or d dye pot. This great change has been wrought by the industrial revolution, but what was to be done with this surplus of women? The time was now ripe for women to break away, yet some one had to start the movement, for a break never comes unless it is started by some person. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. An¬ thony, and Lucy Stone Blackwell, are those pioneer women who faced ridicule in revolting against the injustice which women suffered. They had a long difficult struggle; they were ridiculed and scorned, not alone by men but even more by women, the very women for whom they were striving; they were called freaks, unwomanly and crazy but they carried on this work with the greatest determina¬ tion and they were victorious. To those “Liberat¬ ors of Women” we, the young women of today, owe a debt of gratitude for establishing the break. Since these women had paved the way, it was easier for the women of the next decade to fol¬ low in their footsteps. Consequently, when the World War made it necessary for women to fill men s positions, they were ready. They put on overalls, bobbed their hair, and went into munition factories, onto farms, and ran trolley cars. They took up the most difficult and dangerous work re-