North Quincy High School - Manet Yearbook (North Quincy, MA)

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I I I I I The preference which our two stores 1-QSTIQRBROOK I have won has been won only by the x v r 1 Y N I . . . IOL N I --IIN Pl'.NS 1 high standard maintained DURACROME-51.50 ' A Y with corrosion-proof I C. SANSONE cY SONS I re-new-point I 23 GRANITE ST. 9 DEPOT AVE. I I Quxcx I - ON SALE AT I I I I I MACKAYS I I I i -IO6 Hancock Street T1-l. 1'l'esltlvl1l liilll Ivorfolk Downs I I WE INVITE Each Student of North Quincy High To visit HISTORICAL SPOTS OF BEACON HILL Yvltlle you are sight-seeing, be sure to liave Blotlier or Dad park tlie car at CHARLES STREET GARAGE Near New Charles Street lillevatetl Station and avoid parking worries. They will also find it very convenient to park here while shopping-only two minutes from the heart of Boston RATES VERY REASONABLE SERVICE UNSURPASSED I I Compliments of the I I I BERWICK I 'AK E SALE SMAN I YVIIU SUPPLIES '1'llI'I SCHUUL fTAl I'I'1'ERI.-X

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MANET -f FRANK E. MacDONALD l wish I might get to know him better-this man who has made himself so much a vital part of our school since the very day ,hc came in September, 1931. Perhaps if I cultivate his qualities I shall be a bit nearer his level. May- be that is the Ollly way to know him. I've gathered so little about his past-only this- that he was born in East Windham, Maine- that he is a Bowdoin graduate, played football there, that he has taught in Maine, western Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, that he finally came to us from Quincy High School. lle is president of the Schoolmasters' Club, too, but how little all this really matters. I shall never forget the first time he made an impression upon me. It was at an assembly. He was called upon to say something about athletics. I liked the way he stood, tall, square- shouldered, with his hands behind his back, and looking straight at us. I always remember voices. His was well modulated, calm, reassur- ing. He said something about having heard of a splendid team we had tbasketball I thinki and then told us he was looking forward to see- ing ns maintain our record. Although I Wasn't on tl1e team, I felt like a million dollars when he got through! I have him in class, too. Heis the head of our inathematics department. Hc's thorough. lt seems as if everyone must understand whci. he finishes explaining. We work, but yon ought to hear the side lines on his amusing ventures in the culinary field! Did you ever get a chance to See him Wrcstlei lt's worth most any price. He trained an uns defeated wrestling team last year and somehow he trained more than muscle co-ordination, he trained character. You're at your best when you 're with him, you ,just can 't be small. But he can make you feel small though. Oncm l was supposed to correct a paper. I knew it couldn't be very valuable, there was almost nothing on it. So I marked it nothing at all. The next day he showed me the paper, said he'd figured it out. I believe the percentage was eight. Better than nothing--anyway. Funny, I can never tell what he thinks of mc When he smiles, I wish I knew whether it's at me or with me. And it 'S positively impossible to anticipate what he's going to say or what he 's going to ask me to do. He's always cir- cuitous, and begins with generalities. Before he's half-way through I change my mind a dozen times. But it doesn't matter much, he 's so persistent. And fair. I know the students like him. We feel we can talk to him whether we 're happy oi whether we're sad. And, if it ever came tc that, l wouldn't mind being tried by him! 4- ON THE OPEN SEA One Saturday morning last April I visited a friend of ours, a captain, and we had a long chat over different things. He certainly did know what he was talking about. He told me of his first experience on a sailing ship. On a Monday morning in June, at 7.30 QI couldn't sleep the night beforej, I applied for a job. Since there were about twelve experienced sail- ors ahead of me, the prospects looked discour- aging, but I had a note from the captain. So I was accepted as an ordinary seaman on board a sugar boat at S30 a month, sailing to different ports of Cuba and back to Boston. My watch was six hours on and six hours off. VVe mad- in all three trips during the summer, each one eovering a period of about twenty-one days. As soon as I was picked I was set to work cleaning up the deck, for the ship had been tied up since April. Late Monday evening wc went into dry dock, and until VVednesday we chipped. washed, and scraped paint. Late XVednesday we sailed for Cuba. XVasn 't I scared, not of the water, but of the mate. He seemed to be bawling me out all the time, but as I look back I can 't blame him much. The sailors told me he was about the finest mate I would ever meet up with. I spent four hours one day cleaning up oil about the deck. The mate came along and told me he could havi- done it in ten minutes. I was never so dis- lieartened in my life. Most of the time I cleaned brass, chipped rust, and took the wheel from 12 to 6. I stood' lookout often, and although I felt drowsy at times, I managed not to fall asleep. I had to chip water tanks on the inside and what a job it was. Every time I would get a kink in my leg and an electric shock from the lamp. One Saturday morning at the wheel It saw about six porpoises, no more than six feet from the boat. Sundays found me reading and washing clothes. ' lt. was now beginning to get warm and I could see flying fish from nine to twelve inches long. They would get up speed along the stu face and then fly into the wind thirty feet oi more. The water was now very blue witl' patches ot' sea-weed here and there. and nothing' in sight except the sun and the sky. Perhaps you would like to know what we did while off duty. l'll start from the captain. down. Ile spent most of his time making models of ships. The mates and sailors reac magazines, made cord belts, boat-s. painted or. canvas. and carved. It was amazing how clear. the sailors kept themselves and their rooms. One thing that surprised me greatly was that the ship in ballast would go to Cuba in