Norwell High School - Shipbuilder Yearbook (Norwell, MA)

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Page seventeen THE LEONARD ALLEN FUND In memory of LEONARD JAMES ALLEN 1907 - 1939 In the Fall of 1933 Leonard James Allen came to Norwell as teacher of English in the Junior and Senior High School. He died in Norwell on March 17, 1939. In those five and one half years Mr. Allen gained the respect and affection of all who knew him. His death was a loss to the community he had grown to love and to look upon as his home. By personal association, by direc- tion of school dramatics, and by his work in the class-room, Mr. Allen de- voted himself to imparting to the boys and girls of Norwell that respect for the written and spoken word and that appreciation of good literature that was so deep and sincere a part of his own nature. The establish- ment of a school library by means of which all the children in the school might have access to good books was his great ambition. As a memorial to Mr. Allen and to perpetuate the work in which he was so deeply interested the Leonard Al- len Fund for the purchase of books for the school library is to be estab- lished. The nucleus of the Fund will be created by voluntary donations from all who knew Mr. Allen and from any others who might be interested and wish to participate in such an under- taking for the benefit of the com- munity. The increase of the Fund and the memory of Mr. Allen's name will be carried forward through the years by the school children themselves. Mr. Allen's birthday, February 28th, or some other designated date of each year will be Leonard Allen day. On that day all school children who wish to participate will bring to the school their pennies to swell the Leonard Allen Fund for their library. The Fund, itself, will be adminis- tered by a selected group of trustees who will supervise its investment and spend a specified portion of its in- come for the annual purchase of books. By this procedure the Fund, itself, will continue to grow and hence the money available for the purchase of books will increase with each new year. Everyone is welcome to participate in this memorial to Mr. Allen. All who wish to be Charter Members by subscribing to the nucleus of the Leonard Allen Fund may give their contributions to the temporary re- ceiver, Mrs. C. Campbell Baird, Main Street, Norwell, Mass. + + + CLASS ROOM CONDUCT As I have become a graduate of Norwell High School, I take the above title in mind. I often wondered if my class room conduct was the best that I could offer. Of course, I can't say that I didn't try my best. There are many phases of class room conduct, a few of which I am going to explain or describe. First, there is the person who comes in banging the doors and making all the possible noise he can, while morning exercises are being conducted. Na- turally, he did not chance to look through the little 8 x6 window pane in the door, to see if the exercises were being carried on. Second, comes the person who just loves to open his desk cover, yank out his books, drop them on his desk, and then sit down with a big grin on his face, while the teacher looks angrily at him. The next phase that comes to my mind is the person who speaks to his classmate while the teacher is read- ing the notices to her class room. This is a hindrance, because with the un- dertone only few in the class room will be able to hear all the notices, thus probably not hearing the impor- tant ones. It is also hard for the teacher due to the fact that she has to speak louder. As conduct does mean a lot in the carrying on of the school, pupils should try to cooperate in classes and the study hall. Classes cannot be carried on as well and the pupils can- not do their studying thoroughly if we do not have this cooperation. BARBARA WEARE

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Page sixteen THE SHIPBUILDER Continued From Previous Page come, we will be heart and soul with Czechoslovakia. These letters were all in English, but just as often the correspondent writes his or her letter in French. In return we write our letters in Eng- lish. In this manner valuable prac- tice in reading a foreign language is received at both ends. Such corres- pondence not only affords the student an enjoyable pastime, but also broad- ens his knowledge of how the rest of the world lives. LAWRENCE NEWCOMB, Jr. +++ SOCIAL STUDIES Social studies include United States and modern history, economics, and Problems of Democracy for the up- per classes. In grades seven through nine there is a course of combined civics, geography and history. The classes are taught, not by the tradi- tional single text book style, but by the use of a variety of pamphlets, bulletins, papers, books and maga- zines. The social studies collection is filed by unit subjects in a large clos- et titted for the purpose. In studying a unit, each pupil re- ceives work sheets of activity and problems, vocabularies, outlines, and reference lists. These are used as guides to enable each pupil to work independently, at his own rate. Each student gets credit for his own inter- est, initiative and ideas. No two pa- pers are done alike. The teacher acts as a guide in explaining prob- lems, and suggesting ideas at a con- ference between pupils and teacher. He also helps to find and plan the use of materials. All work, in its first form, is checked for possible ini- provement before being iinally made into booklets. In the course of a year each pupil writes eight to twelve units - ill- ustrated with graphs, charts, clip- pings and other material that makes the booklet interesting. This method of teaching has ap- pealed to everyone, and is very inter- esting. VIRCINIA HALL, '39 REPORT OF UARSENE LUPIN By Maurice le Blanc, famous writer of crime stories This tale is composed of six minor stories, all individual, yet all in chron- ological order and recounting the adventures of a certain part of the life of Arsene Lupin, gentleman burg- lar. The first story, L'Arrestation d' Arsene Lupin, tells how, journey- ing on an ocean liner, this man was arrested for the theft of jewels and money. The story, written in the first person, is a surprise as the sup- posedly innocent guest telling it turns out to be the guilty one. The second story, Arsene Lupin en Prison, deals with his attempts at escape, and his final success by which he was released by the court as being the wrong prisoner, and had really disguised himself, is told in L'Evasion d' Arsene Lupin. The fourth story, La Perle Noir, is, I think, the most exciting. The Countess of Andillot was relieved of a precious black pearl and assassin- ated early one night. Arsene, ignor- ant of this, and having the same idea, crept in and discovered her. Sus- pecting a certain man of having done this, he posed as a detective, forcing him to give up the pearl. Le Mysterieux Voyageur was the account of Arsene's train ride from Paris while sought for escaping, his li ing hed up by a bandit whom a lady passenger supposed to be the hunted Lupin himself, and how, by the help of the police, he recovered his stolen papers, which in the hands of the police, would have sent him back to prison. Le Sept de Coeur contained an interesting episode in which Arsene played the good samaritan against a couple of blackmailers. I very much enjoyed reading this book, for the following reasons: C15 The stories were interesting, humor- ous, mysterious, with plenty of ac- tion, chills, etcg C21 The French was extremely easy to read- that is, by the help oi' footnotes and analyses of syntax. I didn't have many new words to look up, and also most of Continued on Page Twenty-eight

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Page eighteen PARENTS AND TEACHERS ASSOCIATION The P. T. A. meetings for the year of 1939 started Monday, January 9, at the Norwell High School auditor- ium. Mr. Marion Roberts, the director of Physical Education of Brockton was the speaker. His success as director of physical education has shown in the many state champion football teams he has turned out. On February 13, 1939 the boys be- longing to the art classes, under Mr. Booth's direction, presented a play on the Life of Abraham Lincoln. A moving picture, The New Fron- tier, completed the program. The P. T. A. program for March 23, 1939 was put on by the pupils of classes seven through twelve. Each department, made up of the students from these grades, namely the com- mercial department, music depart- ment, English department, French department and the home economics departmentg presented some form of their proceedings in their everyday classes, to the audience. At Norwell High school, April 10, 1939, the Brockton Federal Band, a unit of the Federal Music Project of Massachusetts, under the direction of Arthur S. Kendrew, presented a mu- sical program for the parents and teachers of Norwell. + + + TRI-TOWN PLAYS The Tri-Town Play Contest was held November 3, 4, 5 of the year '38. Scituate, Marshfield, and Norwell were the contestants. On No- xember 3 the three plays were pre- sented at Norwell, November 4 at Scituate, and November 5 at Marsh- field. Judges were chosen by the three schools to decide upon the best play. The honors and cup went to Norwell for the production of Jon. Scituatc's play. The Finger of God and Marshfield's No 'Count Boy, were both well done. Jon directed by Mr. Allen had the following as cast: Lawrence New- comb as a fisherman, Alyce Joseph as his wife, Harold Young as their little boy, Constance Joseph as the grand- mother, Robert Newcomb as the dead Jon, Marie Sandberg as Jon's lover, and James MacDonald as a friend of Jon's. Mary Skelding, Virginia Gaudette, Charlotte Dunbar, Eliza- beth Hall, Roger Apts, Donald Burn- side, Howard Shearer and Ralph Burns were the supporting cast. Norwell is very proud of winning this cup and hopes that she might be fortunate enough to win it for two more successive years thus enabling her to keep it permanently. + + + INTER-CLASS PLAYS Every year for the past three years the four upper classes of Norwell High school have each presented a short one-act play. A first and sec- ond prize has been awarded to the two best plays which were chosen by popular vote. This year the plays were presented on Thursday, March 30. The freshmen began the pro- gram with Mistletoe And Moon- light. The sophomores followed with Buddy Answers an Ad. The juniors came next with, The Re- venge of Shari-Hot-Su, and the clos- ing play was presented by the sen- iors, The Lord's Prayer. All four plays went off well and the audience found it difficult to choose the best production. The priz- es however were won by the Junior and Senior classes. The Junior play, which was a Japanese comedy, won the first prize of 358 and the Seniors, serious play, The Lord's Prayer, won the second prize of S-1. The evening was a huge success and we hope that this contest will be carried on through the future years. + + + St'HO0I. AFFAIRS During the week of September 16, 1938, the Student Council and Mr. Thayer, our principal. planned for a get together social. This was Continued on Next Page