Lincoln School - Lambre Quin Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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STEP SINGING june 8, 1955

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MEMOIRS OF ALICE PREFACE We the Seniors of Lincoln School, present the story of our past years at Lincoln. Let us follow Alice down the rabbit hole as she reviews our younger days. Sandy and Dru, the original members of our class, are the first to honor the nursery school with their pres- ence. They do not retain this privilege long for within a year they are joined by three more eager Lincolnites. Hand in hand these five girls go through kindergarten anticipating the day they will graduate and become full-fledged first graders. CHAPTER 1 We survive the firrl grade without too many incon- veniences. Of course those ten spelling words a week make some of us wonder what this world is coming tog but it seems we all manage to survive. Wfe meet the complications of the .remud grade with much less skepticism than the first. Our minds at this period of school are centered on the production of our magnificent play, The Queen of Hearn. In spite of the math problems and the problems of trad- ing cards during recess, we graduate into the superior realm of the third grade. Third grade presents problems of higher mathematics including. the addition and subtraction of three col- umns of figures. We continue in the realm of artistic expression by gaily cutting and pasting pictures. Re- gardless of our lack of athletic ability most of us manage to go the full length of the parallel bars on the playground. Whitney finds she has trouble dis- tinguishing between june and Peggy. We conclude our year by proudly marching up the stairs to the room which is to house us during fourth grade. CHAPTER 2 Fourth grade. The four new faces Whom we greet soon become ardent supporters of our class. Madame Bert- home patiently introduces us to French and encourages us by assigning pages of pictures to be colored in Premier Lirre. Rest periods are shorter, class hours more definitely divided until we feel that we too can enjoy the new prestige of sharing the upper floor with fifth and sixth graders. As fizfer we extend our fascination for bunny rabbits to include live ones. Mr. Claflin brings us a white rabbit which each of us is allowed to pet while the bunny sits rather nervously on our desks. Africa, the land of intrigue, soon became a place of curiosity to us. We learn of her curious shape by making huge maps, the best of which are proudly displayed on the bulletin board. In the .rixfb grade we continue our geography by studying South America. Each of us reports about one country and illustrates her report with projects repre- senting imports, exports, and crops. History takes us to the Middle Ages. Having studied our Magna Charta, and learned of the feudal system, we visit the Childrens Museum in Boston. Included in our afternoon's entertainment is a movie on the feudal system of the Middle Ages. Feeling very wise with all the knowledge we have acquired during our first six years, we feel prepared for our final and more difficult six years. CHAPTER 3 We start Jeventb grade with another trip-Mrs. Gris- ley's tour of Concord and Lexington including the Wayside Inn, the Alcott home, and the Little Red Schoolhouse. Most of our spare time is spent on the playground with Mrs. Buivid, 'vhile Sandy W. excels in scrapbooks and map-making. I'!e have ou. .rst taste of the Big Stage when we present The Five Liffle Peppers with Frankie as mother. Our versatility is revealed when the former Scrooge of the Christ- mas Play turns into Polly. Our year ends with closing exercises, a program of folk songs. After a summer that is all too short we find ourselves back in school again-this time eighth gmderr-the aristocrats of junior High. We miss Lorraine who has given up Lincoln for boarding school. Miss Eddy takes us on a trip to visit the State Houseg the legis- lature has no business but manufactures some to show the Lincoln visitors what goes on on Capitol Hill. Miss Collins tries, in vain, to teach us to make out income tax forms. We just are not interested in in- comes-yet. Once again we all become Helen Hayeses when we give Madame Berthome's play, La Belle Au