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

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JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL ALLEN L. GESING Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4 Allen, we all love your boyish shyness and your dark good looks. You’ve caused many a girl’s heart to flutter. With your natural good humor as an aid, success should be easy to win. WALTER KOZLOWSKI Chefs’ Club 4 Walter is a quiet fellow in school. His interests are fishing, farming, and roaming in the woods. Re¬ member, Walter, the farmer is the backbone of the country. AMERIC P. LANNI Football 3, 4 Basketball 4 Chefs’ Club 3 Americ is one of the big boys of the school. He likes to take part in the rougher sports but that doesn’t stop him from gracing the dance floor. He’s quite a stepper (not on the girls’ toes.) JAMES F. STEWART Jimmy is a general good fellow, popular here at Johnson. It s a Queer W oriel CLASS OF 1939 HAS . . . a Banker but no capital Barnes but no farm a Miller but no flour Binns but nothing- to put in them Dill but no pickles Kane but no sugar a Woodhouse but no mansion. WILLIAM AMSHEY 14

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1 9 3 9 YEAR BOOK JAMES P. SHAW Chefs’ Club 4 The burdens of life don’t seem to bother Jimmy. He always has a big; grin or a witty remark. Inci¬ dentally he’s not a bad singer, either. NELLIE SUMMERS Dramatic Club 4 •‘Year Book” Staff 4 Nellie will be remembered for her contagious smile and her witty remarks. With her sense of styie, and ability as a costume designer, success is not far away. FRANK A. THOMPSON Dramatic Club 1 Chefs’ Club 3 Chemistry Club 2 A.A. Play, Stage Mgr. 4 Here’s a boy that is tail, dark, and handsome, with a vengeance. More than that: he’s friendly, well- liked, and has a discouraging (to the rest of us) aptitude for physics. RUTH A. WHITTAKER Class Secretary 2 Cheer Leader 4 Class Sec’y-Treas. 3, 4 Dramatic Club 2 Sub-Deb Club 3, President 4 Student Council, Sec’y-Treas. 3, 4 Ruthie’s friendly disposition and bright smile have combined to make her one of the most popular girls of our class. We need people like Ruthie to brighten up this glum old world. PHILIP M. YOUNG “Deke is right but the world’s strange;” at least Deke often gives voice to this opinion. He is a good sport and has the rare quality of being a true friend. Here’s hoping you get that goalie job with the Boston Bruins, Deke! SHIRLEY R. NUSSBAUM Dramatic Club 1, 3, 4 Glee Club 2 Nussie may seem like a quiet little thing to some people, but she’s really quite a girl— with what a voice! (Eh, Bobby?) We know she’ll find success and happi¬ ness with that happy-go-lucky disposition of hers. WINIFRED A. TEMPLE Friday night means sea food to most of us, but to Win, it’s a dance, or a show, or something; and it’s steady. ROBERT D. TURNER Chefs’ Club 3 Basketball Mgr. 4 Ass’t Sports Manager 3 Sam is a carefree sort of guy, and is always ready for a good laugh. He can really buckle down to work when he wants to, though. VIRGINIA B. WOODHOUSE Dramatic Club 1 Student Council 1 Sub-Deb Club, Vice-President 4 Virginia is a tall, attractive girl, but the J.H.S. boys have not had much chance with her, because she’s monopolized by a certain fel¬ low from Andover. We are sure she’ll succeed as a hairdresser, if she makes her customers’ hair look anything like her own. JAMES G. H. YULE, JR. Baseball 3, 4 Basketball 4 Football 4 Chefs’ Club 4 Although Jim came to us late, he has certainly shown his worth. His contagious grin and “happy-go- lucky” manner will always stand him in good stead. 13

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1939 YEAR BOOK SALUTATORY ra T is my pleasure, this evening, in behalf of the graduating class of 1939, to extend to you a most hearty and sincere welcome. You parents, who have sacrificed much in order that you might see us graduate here tonight; you teachers, who have urged us on to greater and you our friends and classmates who have made our school life so memory ; one and all we welcome you. effort vivid that it will live long in our On all sides the world is an armed camp. We see conscription in England; increased armaments in America; war in China; and the Hitler Youth Move¬ ment (to mention only a few examples.) We’re not sitting on top of the world, but the world is sitting on top of a sputtering firecracker. Where is this all going to end? What it driving us on? The first question stumps more learned minds than mine, but it is my purpose to show that nationalism is the power which is driving us on. Militarism is the result of extreme nationa lism. Militarism exists prima¬ rily for the sake of national honor, national rights, and national interests. As soon as a group develops a spirit of nationalism, it achieves political unity and independence; then it begins to prosecute its national interests. For example: German manufacturers, immediately after the establishment of the German Empire, demanded protection for their industries against com¬ peting foreign industries. Their grounds were that it would make Germany stronger and more self-sufficient. Simultaneously the German farmers and landlords demanded protection against the importation of cheap foodstuffs. They received protection, too. We Americans also demanded tariff-protection ; and got it. This public policy of tariff-protection originates with a relatively small group and serves only group interests. However, under national in¬ fluence they become identified with national interests and they soon take on the almost sacred character of national tradition. Henceforth, any citizen who criticizes this or that “National policy” is considered by his fellow cit¬ izens as lacking in patriotism, if not in sense. National rights are needful and highly desirable, but they are connected with certain dangers which threaten the peace of the world. One such danger arises from the fact that domestic legislation may satisfy national opinion at home but will create ill-feeling abroad. The Untied States acted within its national rights when it levied a protective tariff, or restricted immigration, or adopted the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The refusal to buy liquor injured the national rights of France; refusal to admit immigrants from the Far East ran counter to the national interests of Japan ; discrimina¬ tion against imports helped American producers, but was very costly to many foreign countries. Another danger arises from the presence of aliens in the national state. Due to this we have conflicts over national rights of citizenship. Great Britain believes, “Once an Englishman always an Englishman.” Her refusal to recognize American naturalization justified, to her citizens, her imprison¬ ment of sailors who were of English nativity but of American residence. She asserted her national rights but assailed the national rights of Americans. 15