Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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24 THE ECHO FOOTBALL 1st row: A. Horte. J. Welch, V. Alhonetti. R. Colburn, captain; I Barrows H. Thayer, J. [Magree, G. Mills, managrer. 2nd row: ' Sir. WaNh ’coaclv t’ Zarelh, G. George, G. Huntington, K. McGaughey, R. Kunan, G.’ Jones’ h’ Helms. 3rd row: J. Behan. E. Powers, R. Smith, P. Burns, P. Powers, E. Crandlemere, W. Sands. This team, a light team, was very fa.st and played a wonderful offensive game. It played seven games winning four, tie- ing two, and losing one. Captain Robert Colbuin was the out- standing back on the team. He scored a great many of the touchdowns and had great running ability. Captain-elect Philip Burns credited especially for his fine passes. Tony Zarelli was a wonderful de- fensive back. Arthur Horte was batter- ing ram for the grid team, and what a battering ram. Roy Smith was another of the light backs which made up a light team. Smitty proved that he could lead the team as well as he could run and tackle. George Eldredge at right end aided the team considerably in his ability to run down the punts and spill the re- ceiver before he could get started. Irving Barrows at left end likewise showed that he was worthy to hold the first-string po- sition by running down punts, smearing the carrier, and receiving passes. Ed- ward Huntington was the outstanding- player in the line. No opposing ball car- riei broke through his side of the line, and when Jake tackled, they went down hard. He seemed to combine his weight and power. Richard Kunan showed he could block and tackle effectively. Crandle- mere, Jones, Carter, and Magee were powerful in both opening up huge holes in their own line or ripping huge holes in the center of the opposing- line. George George, the roving- center, backed up the weak spots in the Inie or played where the ball was likely to be carried on the defensive. The substitutes consisted of P. Powers, E. Powers, McGaughey, Sands, Albonetti, flelms, Behan, Thayer, Wallace, and Speller who did not see very much service this yeai-, but some will probably I ' e regulars next year. The team was ably managed by Gard- ner Mills while the good developmnet of the team is due to the hard work of Coach J. Walsh and Assistant Coach J. Budd who gave unsparingly of their time. Ih.s first football team of Sumner was a great suicess, and we feel the labor put into the team was certainly worth the re- ward received. STUDENT’S ASSOCIATION The Student’s Association, now in its third year, is an organization made up of members of the school who pay ten cents each week for a period of thirty weeks. This helps out the financial situ- ation for many a boy or girl, for when there is a basketball game and a dance or drama the same week, it is rather ex- pensive, but, by belonging to the associa- tion and having your dues paid up to that week, the price for both is simply your ten-cents association dues. This year members have received the following: class dues — 80 cents; 14 basket ball games at 25 cents each — $3.50; Senior dance — 35 cents; Junior Prom — 35 cents; June issue of the Echo — 35 cents, and 4 assemblies 10 cents each — 40 cents. All this amounted to S6.10, and was obtained for only three dollars in thirty weekly payments. Class Officers and all Team members are required to join. All hope that this organization may continue so that the incoming and present students may benefit as we have.

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HONOR ROLL Sumner High is a Class A high school. This means that because the boys and girls who have carried a B or an A grade through their high school course and were thereby certified to enter colleges without an examinauon and because they have not failed in the colleges to which they were admitted, the state has given this school its A rating. The colleges on this certificate list are as follows: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Clark, Colby, Massachusetts State, Middle- bury. Tufts, Williams, New England, State Teachers, Boston University, Brown Uni- versity, and Wesleyan University. Also Dartmouth, Harvard, Holy Cross, and Worcester Polytechnical Institute have all accepted on certificate when they were asked to do so. In fact, certificates were granted whenever application has been made. Sumner has sent its boys and girls to Harvard, Radclitf, Brown, Dartmouth, Boston University, Amherst, State College, Worcester Polytechnical Institute, and Bridgewater Teachers’ College. It is these students who keep the class A rating for Sumner. If they fail, Sum- ner fails; hence it is absolutely certain that B and A grades represent hard and steady work. Those who have stayed on the Honor Roll for the year 1934-1935 are as fol- lows: Freshmen, Robert Potts, Frances Lyons, and Esther Williamson; Sopho- mores, Richard Kunan; Juniors, Norma Caswell, Marion Churchill, Ada Clooney, Mabel Iveson, Roland Kearns, Ruth Mar- tin, Norma Pierson, Esther Seaverns, Miriam Severance, and Charlotte Stanley; McGaughey, and Gardner Mills. It is Sumner’s hope that the good work and Seniors, Geraldine Behan, Robert being done in college by its certified pupils will continue to go on, and that for years to come it will be graded as it now is. Class A. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT In order to receive an “A” rating from the Commercial Course of the school, a graduate must transcribe, with a mark of at least 90 , one of the Standard Gregg Shorthand Tests dictated at 100 words per minute for a period of five minutes, in other words, a letter containing 500 words. Not onlv the shorthand and tvning musst be correct, but also the English, punctua- tion, and spelling. For an “A” ratino- in tvpwritiner the graduate must ' be able to type at least 40 words per minute for fifteen minutes with no more than five errors. in bookkeeping the pupil must satisfac- torily complete a two years’ course which gives him a thorough understanding of the general principles necessary to enable him to adapt himself to the type of work en- countered in a business office. He must complete two sets of books which teach him to record routine transactions, handle business papers, make financial statements and reports for a single-proprietory busi- ness and a partnership. Any graduate of the Commercial De- partment who has entered office work has always done completely satisfactory work judging from the reports of employers, the manner in which the employee has been advanced, and the length of time some of the graduates have worked in the same office. At that time when one of the leading typewriting companies gave employment tests at the various schools using its ma- chines, some of the pupils of Surnner High School were chosen for positions because of the high rating received on the exam- ination. SCHOLARSHIPS Sumner High is very fortunate in being able to offer three one-hundred dollar scholarships to as many members of the graduating class. In 1925 a class who evidently had the future of someone in view gave at gradu- ation a scholarship of one-hundred dollars to be given to a worthy member of the in- coming Freshman class at his graduation. Since then each graduating class has done this same thing. In 1926 The Friendship Club, a social organization in the town, gave a scholar- ship of one-hundred dollars to a member of the graduating class. Each year since then a similar scholarship has been given. This money must be earned bty the Club so that various methods are used, but in June the scholarship has always been ready. The latest scholarship to be given is that of the Alumni Association. This asso- ciation reorganized in 1935, and almost their first venture was the raising of a one-hundred dollar scholarship for some member of the 1935 graduating class. To all three: the previous classes, the Friendshin Club, and the Alumni Associa- tion. much thanks and gratitude is given, for in many cases had it not been for this money, the start into college life could not have been made. These groups have carried many to their coveted goal.

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THE ECHO GIRT.S’ BASKETBALL 1st row: M. Iveson, E. Seavenis. 2nd row: M. Stonkus, G. Beban, captain, A. Clooney, 3rd row: Miss Richardson, Cf ach; Churchill, I. George, R. Clooney r 4th row: G. Collins, C. Caspersen, A. Holmes, E. Williamson. Basketball, one of our liveliest games, has only since 1930 become a game for the girls of Sumner High. Since I have been in Sumner High the girls’ basket- ball team has been very good. However, owing to graduation last June some of the very best players left, thus handicap- ping this year’s team, as Miss Richardson had to break in new members, a difficult task. This year quite a f ew of them went in for this exhilarating game but sad to say only a couple stuck. The team of 1935 is made up of the following: two Seniors, Geraldine Behan, captain and guard; Carlotta Casperson, guard; seven Juniors, Mary Stonkus, for- ward; Ada Clooney, guard; Marion Chur- chill, forward; Ouida Holmes, forward; Irene George, guard; Mabel Iveson, for- ward; Esther Seaverns, forward; one Sophomore, Louise Carter, guard; last but not least, two Freshmann, Ruth Clooney, forward; Esther Williamson, forward. The costumes of these athletes are blue rompers, blue socks, and white sneakers, and let me tell you, they look very nice in them darting like so many bluebirds on the gym floor as they toss and run to catch the ball. The team played their outside games at Sharon, Stoughton, St. Paul’s, W. Bridge- water, Hanover, Foxboro, Norwell, and Randolph. The rest of the games were played a t home where they won most. Of course the games won by Sumner when playing against Stetson High were crowed over by us. Inter-class games were played under the names of birds such as Robins, Eagles, Owls, Jays, and Hawks. If one team didn’t show up, it forfeited the game to its opponent; a very square arrange- ment. This arrangement kept the girls from losing interest as one hated to forfeit anything, and it also kept the players in practice for the big games. Basketball is a great game, one of the best, and even though I don’t play, I hard- ty miss a game and go home hoarse from yelling. I advise anyone who goes out for athletics to go in for basketball as it is an asset not only physically but mentally, for one has to be a quick thinker to play this game of basketball. Although sixt een games were played, it wa ' ? a fifty-fifty proposition. Eight were lost and eight won. It wasn’ t so bad, and it wasn’t so good; rather a mediocre seoson. Transportation was always a question but was solved by the use of biases some- times and private cars at others. Miss Richardson of the faculty is the Coach, and she works untiringly with the girls. To her is due much of the success of the team.