Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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The Lawrencian CLASS HISTORY Tonight is the last time that the class of ’34 will ever be assembled, and now it is a good opportunity to review what has happened in the three years just gone by. In our sophomore and junior years our class meetings, which were few and far between, were led by Robert Dufur. This year the many meetings were successfully conduc- ted by our president, Lester Davis. Of the other officers, Anne Leather- bee, our treasurer, was the most noticeable. We shall remember her coming around every once in a while, wanting to know where our dues were, and why they were not paid up to date. In athletics we have eleven boys who at one time or another have played on the football, basketball, or baseball teams. The four out- standing ones are: Armand Parent, Edward Sheehan, Leonard Rogers, and Joseph Towers. These four boys are so good that they have played on all three teams at some time during the past three years. We have also had two basketball captains from our class: Edward Sheehan in our junior year and Ernest Johnson this year. The Dramatics Club has shown us that we have a group of very good actors and actresses, though these actors did not all show up until our senior year. In our soph- omore year Marion Smith was the only one to represent us in “She Stoops to Conquer”, a very good play by the way. In our junior year Margaret Lawrence had to do all the honors for our class in “I’ll Ex- plain Everything”. But when this year came with the very thrilling “Drums of Death”, we were well represented. The cast included such talent as Ernest Johnson, Edward Sheehan, Marion Smith, Marjorie Simmons, Harry Hauston, Francis Mclnnis, and Genevra Carpenter. While we were juniors, we gave the seniors such a successful party at the Coonamessett Inn, in Hatch- ville, that the juniors this year chose the same place in which to give us one. During their junior year four members of our class had the honor to become members of the Sports- manship Brotherhood, the society whise members play fair. This year seventeen more were admitted. Last year three of our classmates had the good fortune to go to Pro- vidence to sing in the Eastern Music Chorus. These three were Alice Giflord, Vera Welsby, and David Tait. Also last year there was an or- chestra which played for dancing after the basketball games. This orchestra went by the name of “The Lawrence High Collegians”. John Wayman and Ross Green played in it. It is my belief that the people went for the dancing and not for the games. This year the “Weakly Chuckle”, a paper edited by the VI C English Class, was started in March and faithfully appeared once a week until near the end of school. This paper cost only a cent and we re- ceived our money’s worth, especially if there was something in it about us. During the past three years we have had many interesting assem- blies. In one Cameron Beck, direc- tor of the New York Stock Ex- change Institute, spoke to us, and in another Congressman Gifford spoke. This winter we had one day so cold that there was no school. This was the only time during our whole high school life that school was closed on account of bad weather.

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Lawrence High School RODNEY CHARLES TURNER— Falmouth Heights, Mass. Born January 22, 1917, Stoneh am, Mass. Attended Falmouth Junior High School. Curriculum — College. Mem- ber of Sportsmanship Brotherhood ’33, ’34. Destination — Northeastern University, Boston. JOHN GODFREY WAYMAN— Falmouth Heights, Mass. Born May 5, 1916, New Haven, Con- necticut. Attended Falmouth Junior High School. Curriculum — Col- lege. Member of Student Council ’32, ’33. Member of Sportsmanship Brotherhood ’33, ’34. Member of Orchestra for three years. Presi- dent of Sportsmanship Brotherhood ’34. Vice President of class ’32, ’33. Name on Honor Roll Tablet. Valedictorian of class. Destina- tion — Dartmouth College. VERA MARY WELSBY— Cotuit, Mass. Born March 2, 1916, Farnworth, England. Attended Roosevelt Junior High School, New Bedford, Mass. Curriculum — Household Arts. Destination — In training. PHILLIPS BROOKS WILDE JR.— Woods Hole, Mass. Born September 15, 1916, Boston, Mass. Mem- ber of Sportsmanship Brother ’34. Member of the Coin Club ’33. Destination — Columbia University.

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Lawrence High School Don’t we wish there had been more days such as that! This spring an important event took place when Alva Barstow and Henry Peters received National Athletic Scholarship Society keys. These boys have won a letter in a major sport and have an average in school work for three consecutive semesters equal to or higher than the school average. During the winter and spring of this year there have been Monday morning musicales every week, though they sometimes came nearer the end of the week than the be- ginning. Lester Davis, Merton Baker, Ernest Johnson, Genevra Carpenter, Ross Green, Selena Edwards, and Felix Barboza have taken part in them. The greatest honor that a mem- ber of the senior class can receive is to have his name placed on the Bronze Honor Roll Tablet. This honor is given to the girl and to the boy who in the minds of their fellow students have best exempli- fied in their school lives the ideals of Loyalty, Honor, and Service. The ones from our class are : Frances Knight and John Wayman. We hope that the things we have learned during the past three years will remain with us, and that we shall go cut into the world living up to our motto : Either find a path, or make one. RUTH CAROLINE COWEN. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Music in one form or another has been an essential part of man’s life since the earliest times. Although its influence has varied with passing ages, it has steadily increased in im- portance. A pleasure open to all, its power is almost unlimited to reach and affect people. To the peasant of three centuries ago, music, hand- in-hand with dancing, was one of the few relaxations possible; to the modern ten-dollar-a-week clerk it is just as important. Tonight I want to give you a brief history of the development of typical musical in- struments and the place they have held in human history. The first, in point of age, is the drum. Invention of the drum was due to man’s desire to express some sort of rhythm for dancing. Two sticks beaten together did very well for a while, but there came a time when improvement was desired. The use of a hollow gourd, struck by the hand or stick, satisfied the desire for progress. By stretching a taut skin over the open end of the gourd the instrument was finally changed into the type of drum we employ to-day. As the drum became less of a novelty and more of an institution, its employment in other fields in- creased. Religion adopted the drum. It was used by the medicine-man to drive evil spirits from a disease- wracked body, or to accompany his weird rituals. Among savage peoples, drum-worship became a fetish. Long distance communication by drums throbbing through the jun- gles was another development of this instrument. The trumpet, designed expressly to produce shrill, piercing tones, came into use soon after the drum. An indispensable part of the equip- ment of armies, its bold martial blasts did much to uphold the morale of the warriors. The trum- pet-blast of a host yet unseen may have turned the tide of many a pitched battle,, renewing hope in the hearts of one army and instill- ing terror in their enemies. Because of its clear penetrating tone, the trumpet was universally used for