Maynard High School - Screech Owl Yearbook (Maynard, MA)

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TIhlE SCIRIEIECIM OWL PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF MAYNARD HIGH SCHOOL PRICE. 25 CENTS JLP IE., 119 3 0 ) TABLE OF CONTENTS== Editorials Literary Senior Class Roll Class Superlatives On The Spot (Activities) Picture — Senior Private Dance . . . Exchanges Picture — Student Council Picture — Screech Owl Staff Picture — Commencement Speakers Athletics Wise Old Owl Current Quips Alumni Notes SCREECH OWL STAFF== Editor Assistant Editor Business Manager Assistant Business Managers Alumni Art Activities Exchanges Jokes Athletics Circulation Literary Aaron Glickman Jean Davis Doris Kelley Typists Charlotte Duckworth Lena Shubelka Olga Rudziak Faculty Adviser Page 8 ...AO . ... 16 .... 40 ....41 . . . .42 ....43 ....44 ....44 ....45 ....46 . . . -48 ....50 ....53 Daniel O’Leary Robert Veitch Leslie Rivers j John Kulik [Bennie Gudzinowicz Margaret Crowe Sadie Harachko Marie Flaherty Virginia Taylor j Stanley Zancewicz ( Eleanor Murphy j Dorothy Hansen ( George Whalen j John Yanuskiewicz ( - William LeSage Edward Donahue Barbara Whitney Sylvia Johnson Helen Dzerkacz Sadie Harachko Irene Morrill William H. Reynolds

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WHAT IS OUR ATHLETIC FIELD GOING TO BE? The New York World’s Fair was built over a dump. There a beautiful spot has been created from waste- land. I wonder what kind of future our athletic field holds for itself. Is it going to be the site for the next World’s Fair? Alumni Field is a place where the boys of Maynard High School spend much of their time par- ticipating in various sports, such as football and track. When football and track were brought into existence for the boys of high school age, I am quite sure that they were used to keep boys occupied and off the streets in order to reduce the rate of crime. I think I am justi- fied in saying that the boys of May- nard have quite a clean record as far as crime is concerned, but now let us return to the subject of Alumni Field. When we think of an athletic field, there is something that connects itself with our thought and makes us think of a park and a place of beauty. What do we behold when we enter our athletic field ? Yes, it’s a ghastly sight at that, in many ways, no better than a public dump. An athletic field is a place which should not only keep the boys off the street, but should build up strong bodies and sound minds. But is it healthful to be inhaling smoke from burning rubbish while trying to engage in athletic sports ? Many a time the fire department has had to be summoned to extinguish this burning rubbish, so that the spec- tators on a Saturday afternoon might enjoy a game of football. If an end run was to be staged, it was not enough trouble to try to dodge eleven players of the opposing team ; it was also necessary to dodge a multitude of flying papers blown across the field by the wind. At pres- ent, cans have been dumped within ten yards of the track. I am sure that the citizens of the town who use the dump do not realize how they mar a place that could be beautiful and beneficial to the young people of the town if the dump were done away with, not immediately of course, but as soon as possible. — Daniel O’Leary, ’39. Mu A PLAN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF OLD JOKES There is no greater menace facing the people of the United States today, than the over-worked joke. It is sur- prising that John L. Lewis hasn’t grabbed this great opportunity for making a little more coin by unioniz- ing the jokes on the principle that what we need are shorter hours and more higher-grade comedians.