North Andover High School - Knight Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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1937 YEAR BOOK HAROLD R. WEST Baseball 2, 3, 4 Glee Club 2 Football 2, 3, 4 All Suburban Football Capt. 4 Westy, one of Johnson’s star athletes, held the unbounded approval of the high schools’ sport fans for three consecutive years and topped it as the loyal captiin of his squad. Here’s wishing luck to you, Westy, and may you lead your boys with the voice that resounded throughout the Glee Club. MARY G. WILCOX Glee Club 2 Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4 Sub-Deb Club 4 Year Book 4 One of the sleepiest they say, but Mary is sure wide awake when it comes to playing the trumpet. We wonder what the orchestra will be like without her. MILDRED I. DILL Practical Arts Club 3 Sub-Deb Club 4 Mildred is a shy and quie girl but she will find success it whatever she undertakes. JAMES E. WILLIAMS Chef’s Club 3 Dramatic Club 4 Journal Staff 4 Year Book 4 Jim may be regarded as quiet and shy, but he knows how to get the advertisements. EVERETT R. WOODHOUSE “Ev” Year Book 4 Ev is an ardent sports fan, and an accomplished dancer. He is an artist and because of his humor is the life of the school. 17

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JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL EVELYN S. SAUVAGEOT “Eve” “Eve” has always been rather quiet in school but outside she is a good sport and liked by every¬ body. FRANK H. SPOFFORD “Spiffy” Chef’s Club 4 Hi-Y Club He may be a little shy and quiet but he has the ability to get ahead in this tough old life. KATHERINE SHERIDAN “Kay” Because of her unassuming manner, her independence, and sincerity. “Kay” has won a wide circle of friends. An explosion in the chemistry class knocked off her glasses and singed her hair, but not even a bomb could dull her friendly soirit. NORMAN A. STEAD “Steady” Debating Club 3 Chef’s Club 4 Hi-Y Club Year Book 4 Humorous among his friends and of a studious character, “Steady” will some day be the pride of his school. FRANK SZYMOSEK “Red” Chemistry Club 3 Football 4 Frank’s marvelous laboratory technique last year won him the honorable title of the “Mad Chemist.” He also contributed to the success of the football team this year. GORDON THURLOW Year Book Business! Mgr. 4 Journal Staff Business Mgr. 4 Chemistry Club 3 Debating Club 4 Annual Play 4 Gordon is a pleasant, likeable fellow who is bound to succeed. He has a level business head. MARY E. THOMSON “Sally” Glee Club 1 Dramatic Club 2, 3, 4 Year Book 4 Sally is good-natured and full of fun and pep. She plans to be a nurse. PEARL WATERHOUSE Dramatic Club 2, 3 Pearl is a good sport, and we feel sure that she is bound to succeed in anything she under¬ takes. Her charm and smile is captivating and she’ll get her man. Keep on, Pearl, and good luck to you. 16

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JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL SALUTATORY is due in a great measure to you, our parents, friends, and teachers, who, during the past four years, have so well trained us for our part in the world. Youth Will Speak for Itself This is the season of baccaulaureates, in which the adult reaches into his years of worldly experience to advise youth and to inspire youthful hopes. We seem to have arrived at a period in the progress of civilization when youth would be well advised to form some conclusions of its own. Only in a very limited sense does the younger generation stand today, diploma in hand, before the door of opportunity. Eight years of economic unbalance and experimentation have not only closed the door to youth, but have left him the legacy of failure, together with the bill. Specifically tonight, I want to express a viewpoint of youth, about to com¬ plete what is for many the end of a school career. I want to express a most vigorous opposition to—even a rebellion against—what are known as youth movements. It seems to have become the passion of leaders of the past futile decade to attempt to perpetuate their errors by developing a generation blindly obed¬ ient to regimentation and willing to place upon their necks the yoke of intel¬ lectual slavery and civilized decay. We have in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics the Young Communist movement, in which the rising generation is influenced by every form of mental coercion and social ostracism to dedi¬ cate itself to the materialistic conception of history, to collectivist economics., and an animalistic social order. We have in the German Nazi government the enslavement of youth behind the fictional and fanciful primitive economics of autarchy, the paganism of race spirituality and the social doctrines of rancor and hate. We have in Fascist Italy’s corporate state the drilling and regimenting of youth in preparation for war’s baptism of blood, a social con¬ trol moulded by ancient historical romance and ignoring realities and an economic concept in harmony with such a program. In each of these forms of government, the first creed is that the individual is wholly the creature of the state. Under each of these forms of government learning and information, history itself, is censored to support their dictator¬ ial concept. Under each of these forms of government, the first energies of the state are directed to stultifying youth. No one of them has proven its right to perpetuity as a form of government. No one of them has endured long enough to prove its capacity to solve the riddle of political and economic life today. No one of them has solved even a primary problem of its own on a permanent basis. Yet, in each, youth is taught that the goal is reached, the millenium is at hand, the individual is dead, society is a vast, colorless, mono¬ tonous, workaday mass, mentally and spiritually sublimited and suppressed. The United States of America has its National Youth Administration. It has its C. C. C. camps, which the President desired to make permanent, an idea which Congress fortunately rejected a few weeks ago. It has its advo¬ cates of Marxian youth policy, naively cloaked like Little Riding Hood’s wolf in the innocent dress of the Child Labor Amendment. It has its spokesmen on every hand, addressing themselves to the problem of youth as to a mass of 18 © E of the class of 1937 wish to extend to all of you who are here tonight a most cordial welcome to our graduation exercises, the termination of our high school career. Any success which we may have in the future