Punchard High School - Prism Yearbook (Andover, MA)

Text from Pages 1 - 48 of the 1935 volume:

High School Class of 1935 Created by, Anne McDonough Peter Jensen V Andover High School Class of 2003 Faculty PRINCIPAL Nathan C. Hamblin HISTORY LATIN Charles A. Gregory William McDonald Helen C. Munroe Ida M. Grover SCIENCE Eugene V. Lovely Joseph B. Doherty MODERN LANGUAGE Helen DeM. Dunn Marjorie Smith ENGLISH DRAWING AND ART Mary L. Smith Lilian J. Fox Emma G. Carter Dorothy C. Tbott MATHEMATICS Alice Olliff Mary Bailey MUSIC Miriam Sweeney Marjorie F. Stevens Gertrude Berry MANUAL TRAINING BUSINESS Mervin E. Stevens Agnes V. Dugan Marion MacDonald Carl M. Gahan DOMESTIC SCIENCE Margaret Hinchcliffe -. ■■ .p ■ ...,■ ■ . From left to right Back Row: Ms. Dunn, Mr. Lovely, Mr. Stevens, Ms. Carter, Ms. Bailey, Mr. Gregory, Ms. Smith, Mr. Gahan, Miss Sweeney Front Row: Mr. Doherty, Miss MacDonald, Miss Munnroe, Miss Smith, Mr. Hamblin, Miss Fox, Miss Berry, Mr. MacDonald Henry C. Sanborn Superintendent Nathan Hambiin Principal REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS To the School Committee of Andover. Ladies and Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit my nineteenth report which is the forty-fifth in the series of similar reports. These reports, naturally, are more or less alike in the subject matter treated. However, as each year ends there is something of especial interest. It is not likely that all of the report will interest all people. It is likely, however, that some part of the report will interest all and that everyone will find something of interest in it. SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS The last of May 1934, looking forward with the hope of an improved and much enlarged school plant, the School. Department at the request of the Building Committee vacated the old Punchard School building. This building was extensively used. The upper floor had for years been the assembly hall for the high school. On the first floor there was one high school class room, special room, a sewing room, a manual training room, and the stock room. In the basement there was a coat room and a store room for the manual training department. Soon after these rooms were vacated and the activities housed in them re-located as best they could be under the circumstances, the tearing down of the structure began. Before the summer was over, the parking area and play grounds between the old Punchard and John Dove were covered with bricks and large areas of the lawn about the high school were either covered with debris or made unsightly by the removal of turf from one area and the piling up of the same in other areas. Confusion about the grounds was accompanied by an even greater confusion in the administration of the schools. Every available space including basements and stairways has been utilized for classes. The sewing room was transferred to the basement of the Stowe School, the special room to the basement of the High School, the manual training to the basement of the Jackson School. Convenient accommodation for the assembly of the high school pupils has not been possible as there was no place that could be utilized as the hall in the old Punchard had been. The town authorities were generous in offering the use of the Town Hall but the distance from the school and many engagements for the hall made it practically impossible to make any free and general use of this offer. In addition to this, beginning in September 1934, it was necessary to have two sessions in the High School. The three upper classes came in the morning and the first year pupils in the afternoon. All these changes caused considerable confusion and naturally diminished somewhat the efficiency of the school work. However, when the new development is completed all this unpleasantness and inconvenience will soon be forgotten in the enjoyment of new accommodations. COURSES OF STUDY The subjects of music, home economics, art , and manual training have been very seriously interrupted this year through the necessity of having two sessions in the senior high school and also the forced use of basements and corridors for class rooms. Each department, however, has carried on with more success than could possibly have been expected. Miss Sweeney, supervisor of music, is to be especially commended. She has succeeded in carrying on all her regular work along with an orchestra, glee club and the band. These musical organizations have taken part in many programs. A great deal of attention has been paid to music appreciation. This has been done to a large extent through various musical clubs and the Damrosch programs which come weekly over the radio for the grades. REPORT OF PRINCIPAL OF PUNCHARD SCHOOL To the Superintendent of Schools and the Trustees of the Punchard Free School. Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit my twenty-fifth annual report as principal of the Punchard High School. A new record of enrollment has become a regular feature of these reports. The number for the fall term of 1934 is 494. In September after the old budding had been razed, two sessions of the school were scheduled, one for the three upper grades from 8 untU 12 noon, and the other for the ninth grade from 12:30 to 4 :30 P. M. On the whole the arrangement has worked better than we had hoped. It is hardest on those teachers who have classes in both the morning and afternoon sessions with only a half-hour interval between. It must bring its difficulties to parents who have children in both sessions of the high school and others in the grades. Probably the greatest losers by the two session plan are the 9th grade pupils. They are so separated from the rest of the school that they have no opportunities for the contacts with the older pupils which should be a part of their education. The lack of any room for a school assembly or even a class meeting is keenly felt. A continuation of this condition would result in a very considerable loss of morale and school spirit. The good nature with which all concerned have accepted the situation deserves high praise. The situation is such temporarily that we are avoiding changes in our program of studies but are devoting a good deal of thought to the future when the reorganization possible with the new building shall take place. For the same reason we are keeping our requests for new teaching material as modest as possible. There is every indication that many vital questions concerning public secondary education must be settled in the near future. The bill for the extension of the compulsory school a ge two additional years, which has been introduced in several successive legislatures, now has the backing of the State Department of Education and of the American Federation of Labor and has been advocated by Governor Curley in his inaugural address. It seems sure to pass. This will not only increase the number of high school pupils but will inevitably bring in a group ill-equipped for the academic work of the secondary school. That we must eventually adapt our program of study to the needs of such pupils is a simple corollary of the proposition that every youth is en titled to secondary school education at public expense. There is, however, a serious question as to whether an individual may not forfeit the right by negligence, laziness or sheer indifference. Furthermore there seems to be a law of diminishing returns for many young people in formal education a point is reached where the best efforts of teacher and pupil alike seem to produce little farther development. Should such pupils be encouraged to stay in school? In trying to find answers to these and similar problems we shall undoubtedly revise our curriculums with the needs, of pupils and of the society in which they are soon to take their places as the measure of values. We must not shut our eyes to the tremendous changes that are taking place in the environment of every citizen. These necessardy involve careful revision of the subject matter of our educational offering from time to time. But in making changes in our menu it is imperative no substitute a soft mental pap for solid nourishment of proved value. No school training is of permanent worth which does not involve training of the will by the setting of tasks which require some work. It is discouraging to have parents ask that their children be transferred from one course to another because they don ' t like the subject very well or they find it rather hard. No one today is asking that school work be made disagreeable on the old theory that bitter medicine is better than that with a pleasant taste, but there is danger that in the attempt to secure an adaptation to individual needs and abilities we shall lose sight of the necessity for creating habits of application arid persistent work which are the foundation of successful living. Finally it should be remembered that to teach the subjects included in a modernized program requires instructors of broad sympathy, well-balanced learning and with a high degree of tact, ii i u i ii ii i i m wmwwwffffwwfffffwwfwfffwfffwwffwwfffw i iiiiw itmttifwtwwwwwwwwwwmwTWWWWHmi teachers who must be capable of developing their own class room technique as new problems present themselves to meet the needs of constantly changing groups of pupils. Last June the 75th anniversary of the Punchard Free School Commencement was fittingly observed. The meeting held on Sunday afternoon, the 17th opened a week in which many of the older alumni visited the school to take a farewell of Punchard Hall. Even those whose association with, the old building was most cherished expressed real satisfaction that we were to have improved quarters: The booklet- published by the Alumni Association has already proved a valuable source of reference, containing, as it does the complete list of former pupils and teachers and the historical sketch by Miss Bessie Punchard Goldsmith, ' 99. A year ago I had to report an unfavorable balance in the Athletic Association treasury. It seemed as though we should have to give up having a school baseball team, but through the generosity of -friends on whom we never call in vain, enough money was raised to carry us through. As it was our year to entertain Methuen High School on the football field, the financial returns this fall were better than a year ago. Consequently the present year opens with all bills paid and a small balance. I have maintained for years that the athletics in our school were better managed, on a saner basis, and contained more of real value to the participants than those of most similar schools. With suitable quarters in view, we should be able to get nearer our goal of physical education for every pupil. There will always be an anomaly, however, in a situation which includes athletic sports as a part of our educational program and makes them depend for their support on the uncertain income from gate receipts or the charitable donations of friends. This series of reports began years ago. At first they were largely statistical. Such statistics have long been included in the superintendent ' s reports. The trustees originally made the report for the school but now for nearly fifty years they have been made by, the principal. In the meantime the relation of the Superintendent of Schools to the Punchard School has grown closer. With the daily meetings which come from having offices within a few feet of each other, it is hardly more than a formality for the principal to make an annual report to the superintendent. The present principal has long since exposed his educational ideals to a public which probably never reads his report. The proper communications to the trustees can be made orally. It seems then, a fitting time to suggest the termination of this series, in the interest of utility and economy, with, this twenty-fifth annual effort. Respectfully submitted, NATHAN C, HAMBLIN. [January 1, 1934 - January 1, 1935 Town of Andover Report of the School Committee 1934] Diploma Students Class of 1935 Abbott, Priscilla Anderson, Edna May Armitage, Gwen Barrett, Patricia Bernadine Bartlett, Barbara Louise Billings, Martha Albright Bodwell, Elizabeth Louise Boucher, Francis Henry Brown, Eleanor Louise Brown, Roy Bruorton, Barbara Louise Burbine, Marguerite Frances Chadwick, Alan Cordon Chlebowski, Edward Joseph Chmielecki, Stanley Collins, Doris Patricia Cromie, Marianna Darby, Mary Elizabeth Dennison, Ruth Esther Deyermond, William James Doherty, Edward Augustine Edmands, Ernest, John Elder, John Charles Evans, Charles Edward Flaherty, Edna May Gillan, James Maurice Goodrich, Tnelma Elizabeth Gordon, Vivian Estelle Hall, Warren Cleveland Hardy, Helen Rebecca Hardy, Hazel Marion Hartmann, Ruth Hathaway, Eleanor Meredith Higginson, Doris Muriel Hilton, Marion Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth Kimball Kearn, Ruth Evelyn Keay, Euphemia Sarah Kefferstan Jr., Frank John Kidd, Frederick Ku pis, Wunda Jenny Lee, Mildred Jessie MacKenzie, Harry Nicoll McNulty, Mary Monica Milnes, Gladys Mary Morandus, Edna Ruth Muise, Mary Rita Ormsby, Marion Albertina Poirier, Marcelle Mary Raidy, Eleanor Genevieve Ratte ' , Margaret Alma Ready, Mary Elizabeth Francis Reed, Jeannette Blackstone Reed, Winthrop Blackstone Richard, Annie Laura Rizzo, Antionette Robertson, Alice Rita Sanborn, Louis B u 1 man Saribogosian, Avedis Paul Saribogosian, Hygazoon Sayles, Warner Sheehy, Maryann Sherman, Betty Smith, Helen Mary Souter, Frances Adele Stevens, Russell Colby Stirling, Kathleen Bruce Stone, Charles Chapin Stubbs, Jane Augusta Swenson, Dorothy Mildred Tammany, William Francis Thiras, Antoinette Thomson, Martha Valentine, Ronald Melville Walker, CI if ford Walker, John Ward, Mary Letitia Whitaker, Leonard Arthur Winkley, Fred Louis Winters, Joseph Michael Honors Class of 1935 Abbott, Priscilla Anderson, Edna May Abmttage, Cwen Bacher, Edward J. Bailey, Irene Barrett, Patricia Bernadine Bartlett, Barbara Louise Benoit, Ernest William Benson, William Billings, Martha Albright Bodwell, Elizabeth Louise Boucher, Francis Henry Brackett, Evelyn Brown, Eleanor Louise Brown, Boy Brucato, John A. Bruorton, Babbaba Louise BuRBiNE, Marguerite Frances Calctna, Mary Concettina Campbell, Fbeda May Campbell, Sarah Chadwick, Alan Cordon Chase, Somerby Noyes Chlebowski, Edward Joseph Chmielecki, John Chmielecki, Stanley Collins, Doris Patricia Cromte, Marianna Crowley, Paul J. Dane, Katherine M. Darby, Mary Elizabeth Davis, Helen B. De Blois, Vebon F. Dennison, Ruth Esther De Solvo, Grace Deyebmond, William James Due, Marion Doherty, Edward Augusttne Dole, Lawrence Donaghey, Herbert F. Edmands, Ernest John Egitton, Nicholas J. Elder, John Cmablm Eldred, Louise A. Eldbed, Mary C. Evans, Charles Edward Flaherty, Edna May Gillan, James Maurice Godin, Alyre Jerome Goodrich, Thelma Elizabeth Gordon, Vivian Estelle Gordon, Ruth Graham, Dorothy M. Graham, Robert Guilmet, Raymond Hall, Edward Hall, Gordon Hall, Warren Cleveland Hardy, Helen Rebecca Hardy, Hazel Marion Habtmann, Ruth Hathaway, Eleanor Meredith Higginson, Doris Muriel Helton, Marion Elizabeth Hurley, Charles Jenkins, Elizabeth Kimball Keabn, Ruth Evelyn Keay, Euphemia Sarah Kefferstan Jr., Frank John Keogh, Ruth M. Kidd, Frederick Koza, John Jr. Kupis, Wunda Jenny Lee, Mildred Jessie Leslie, Frank William Locke, Lilliam Loosigian, Rose MacKenzte, Harry Nicoll MacLachlan, Barbara McCarthy, Brounie McGlynn, Claire Mildred McNulty, Mary Monica Class of 1935 Mills, Zilpha Mitchell, Charles Mitchell, Phillip Milnes, Gladys Mary Molloy, Anna Mooney, John Morandus, Edna Ruth Muise, Mary Rita Ormsby, Marion Albertina Ostrowake, Julius Ostrowskj, Joseph Ouellette, Raymond A. Parker, Wilfred Pettitt, Marcelle Poirier, Marcelle Mary Porter, Frank L. Raidy, Eleanor Gene vieve Ratte ' , Margaret Alma Ready, Mary Elizabeth Francis Reed, Jeannette Blackstone Reed, Winthrop Blackstone Richard, Annie Laura RlZZO, ANnONETTE Robertson, Alice Rita Sanborn, Louis Bulman Saribogosian, Avedis Paul Saribogosian, Hygazoon Sayles, Warner Serio, Joseph Shaw, Herbert Sheehy, Maryann Sherman, Betty Skea, James Skulski, Helen Nellie Smith, Dorothea Veiteh Smith, Helen Mary Smith, Manford Edward Snow, Arthur Sorenson, Casper Souter, Frances Adele Spinella, Grace M. Spinella, Laurence Stevens, Russell Colby Stewart, Angus S. Stirling, Kathleen Bruce Stone, Charles Chapin Stubbs, Jane Augusta Swenson, Dorothy Mildred Tammany, William Francis Thiras, Antoinette Thomson, David McIntosh Thomson, Martha Thompson, Roland Thornton, Eva Mary Valentine, Ronald Melville Watnwright, John Harold Walker, Clifford Walker, John Ward, Mary LEnnA Whttaker, Leonard Arthur White, Delia WrNKLEY, Fred Louis Winters, Joseph Michael Winters, Patrick Winters, Patrick R. Yancy, Gayton Slewellyn Waldie, James Stephen Punchard High School Armitage, Gwen 123 Haverhill Street June 13, 1917 Boucher, Francis Henry 34 Shawsheen Road November 28, 1916 Barrett Patricia B. 102 Chestnut Street February 11, 1918 Brackett, Evelyn Lowell Street July 17, 1917 Bartlett, Barbara L. 363 North Main Street March 15, 1917 Brown, Eleanor L. 115 Elm Street December 10, 1916 Bodwell, Elizabeth L. 71 Elm Street January 28, 1917 Chadwick, Alan G. 34 Avon Street August 20. ioi Chlebowski, Edward J. 98 North Street July 16, 1916 Darby, Mary Elizabeth 94 Maple Avenue April 30, 1916 Chmielecki, Stanley High Plain Road December 10, 1917 De Blois, Veron F. Ballardvale December 9, 1917 Collins, Doris Patricia 36 Summer Street May 20, 1917 Dennison, Ruth Esther 79 Pine Street August 23, 1916 Crom ie, Marianna 17 Abbot Street September 3, 1917 Deyermond, William J. 11 Shawsheen Road August 21, 1917 Doherty, Edward A. 125 North main Street July 25, 1918 Elder, John Charles 71 Stevens Street Jdne 12, 1917 Donaghey, Herbert F. 46 Stevens Street September 7, 1915 Eldred, Mary Catherine 28 Brechin Terrace September 14, 1916 Edmands, Ernest John Carmel Road September 30, 1917 Evans, Charles Edward Dale Street, Ballardvale December 24, 1916 Egitto, Nicholas J. 70 River St. Ballardvale October 5, 1914 Flaherty, Edna May 42 Enmore Street May 25, 1918 Goodrich, Thelma E. 14 Abundel Street augdst 12, i9i7 Gdilmet, Raymond 8 Ferndale Street February 16, 1917 Gordon, Ruth 13 Washington Street January 16, 1917 Hall, Cleveland Warren 37 High Street September 20, 1918 ■ F B |v Ik aL Gordon, Estelle Vivian 10 Central Street April 4, 1917 Hardy, Hazel Marion RFD 1 Haggetts Pond Rd. May 12, 1917 Graham, Robert M. 6 William Street January 10, 1918 Hardy, Helen Rebecca 111 Chestnut Street January 8, 1918 Hartman, Ruth 89 Elm Stbeet January 24, 1918 Kearn, Ruth Evelyn 44 Hacgetts Pond Road October 29, 1916 Higginson, Doris Muriel 60 Chestnut Street September 7, 1918 Kefferstan Jr., Frank John 115 Haverhill Street December 26, 1917 Hilton, Marion E. 122 North Main St. February 12, 1917 Keogh, Ruth M. 95 Maple Avenue December 4, 1916 Jenkins, Elizabeth K. 287 South Main Street July 28, 1917 Leslie, Frank William 35 Main Street September 14, 1015 Lee, Mildred Jessie Haggetts Pond Road October 7, 1918 Milnes, Gladys Mary 71 Shawsheen Road May 4, 1917 Locke, Lilliam E. 133 Highland Road January 30, 1917 Mitchell, Charles Everett 16 Morton Street August 5, 1916 MacKenzie, Harry N. 51 WHrmEH Street August 23, 1916 Mitchell, Phillip Dana 16 Morton Street July 18, 1917 McGlynn, Claire M. 220 North Main St. December 5, 1917 Muise, Mary Rita 21 Bartlet Street April 17, 1916 Ormsby, Marion A. Center Street June 22, 1917 Raidy, Eleanor G. 64 Summer Street August 19, 1917 Ostrowski, Julius Francis Holt Road April 10, 1915 Ratte ' , Margaret A. 82A Beacon Street January 7, 1916 OUELLETTE, RAYMOND A. West Andover Ready, Mary Elizabeth F. Osgood Street October 2, 1916 Poirier, Marcelle M. 202 North Main St. Octob er 12, 1918 Richard, Anne Laura 50 South Main Street September 27, 1916 Rizzo, Antionette 279 South Main St. February 20, 1916 Robertson, Alice Rita 6 Avon Street October 27, 1916 Sayles, Warner 101 Salem Street October 14, 1916 Serio, Joseph Burtt Road April 6, 1916 Saribogosian, Avedis P. 15 Cassimere Street December 8, 1916 Sheehy, Mary Ann Argilla Road June 27, 1916 Saribogosian, Hygazoon 15 Cassimere Street November 10, 1914 Skea, James 17 Pearson Street October 9, 1915 Skdlski, Petroneli Nellie 39 Corbett Street May 31, 1916 Stone, Charles Chapin 173 High Street January 20, 1917 Smith, Manford Edwin 51 Elm Street July 2, 1915 Stdbbs, Jane Augusta 6 Ferndale Avenue December 4, 1917 Souter, Frances Adele 174 North Main Street October 31, 1917 Swenson, Dorothy Mildred 198 North Main Street August 18, 1917 Stirllng, Kathleen B. 8 Cuba Street June 1, 1917 Tammany, William F. 16 Fletcher Street April 3, 1916 Thiras, Antoinette 4 Upland Road Februaky 20, 1918 Walker, John 67 Bartlet Street January 27, 1917 Thompson, Roland E. Porter Road June 17, 1915 Ward, Mary Letitia Argilla Road December 12, 1915 Thomson, Martha Highland Road January 7, 1917 Whitaker, Leonard A. 408 North Main S treet June 19, 1916 Valentine, Ronald M. 53 Red Spring Road September 18, 1917 Winkley, Fred Louis 4 Carmel Road February 23, 1918 Winters, Joseph M. 137 North Main Street April 20, 1918 Yancy, Gayton Slewellyn 6 Central Street February 14, 1916 Class of 1935 at the Andover Playstead, Photo by Charles Newman 2ND PUNCHARD HlGH SCHOOL 187I - 1934 m. Punchard Hall Punchard Classroom New Punchard addition 1917 New Punchard addition 1917 Punchard High School 1934 New Punchard High School and Junior High built 1934 - 1 Year in Events r m 1 mmM Bl jHh Ej -• .-■ v 1 jftf • 1 o A 1 iHJi tf ' -H B _ NEWS Dust storms ruin about 100 million acres and damage another 200 million acres of cropland in kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma Dust Bowl dlonne sisters, first quintuplets to survive beyond infancy, born in canada. background! multiple births Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie create the first man-made radioactive substance by bombarding aluminum with alpha particles that create radioactive phosphorus Henrik Dam discovers vitamin K Enrico Fermi works on the creation of new elements through the bombardment of uranium with neutrons Library of Congress Notorious outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were killed in a roadside ambush near sa1les, louisiana, early on the morning of may 23, 1 934, ending the most spectacular manhunt seen in america up to that TIME It Happened One Night sweeps the Academy Awards, winning Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Actress Politics U.S. Congress passes the Civil Works Emergency Relief act, allotting new funds for Federal Emergency Relief Administration The Communications Act of 1934 creates the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates broadcasting Hitler becomes Fuhrer when chancellorship and presidency are UNITED Securities Exchange Act is passed, establishing the securmes and exchange Commission Prohibttion is repealed Sports World Series St. Louis Cardinals vs. Detroit (4-3) Stanley Cup Chicago vs. Detroit (3-1 ) Wimbledon Women: Dorothy round vs. H. Jacobs (6-2 5-7 6-3) Men: Fred Perry vs. J. Crawford (6-3 6-0 7-5) Kentucky Derby Champion Cavalcade NCAA Football Champions Minnesota (8-0-0) World Cup Italy vs. Czechoslovakia (2-1 OT)