Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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THE GOLDEN-ROD Name Chief Characteristic Special Weakness Chief Occupation in School Ambition in Life Mary Nyhan Winning smile Business Working hard To grow old Ruth Packard Her prim smile Kissing Blushing To be a violinist Einiline O’Brien Petite Sociability Arousing sympathy To be a society leader Grace Parker Dignity Blushing Trying to hide her intel- ligence To learn something Nettie Parlee Grace Violet Water Whispering To change with the tide William Pearce Fascination Girls Creating a sensation To be a bookkeeper Anna Peterson Gay appearance Fudge Closing the door To kill time Rosanna Picard Looking sweet High notes Visiting the upper floor Tobea pianist Walter Piper Jr. Cupid Geometry Drumming To be a politician Elizabeth Powers Sanity Dancing Making conquests To live on honey Jessie Pratt Looking happy Physics Winking To live oil a Beach (y) Mabel Pratt Cuteness Being hungry Eating To know How (e) Alma Reed Flippant Ribbons Such noises as little feet can make To be a belle a la Paris Helen Reilly Looking cute What? Writing To be a cook Everett Rhodes Vanity His hair Despising the females To have joy Edna Rix Neither short or tall Silence Turning leaves To be an artist Harriet Ruggles Size “Will” Looking around To be happy ever after Richard Ryan Teeth High jumping Sharpening pencils To lie a librarian Geraldine Scott Shyness Boys Attracting attention To discover a new bug Stanley Sherman None Dancing Getting dews off the flowers To labor among the heathen Roberta Smith Height Tenderness for Virgil Writing notes To teach Mathematics Jenette Soule Imagination Coronets Writing love letters in short hand To be a poetess John Souter Notoriety Brown suits Looking into space To be a minister John Sullivan Dreaming Raising eyebrows Shutting his books To be a second “John L” Caro Sumner Sweet expression Rob (ins) Sitting still To be a society leader Mary Summers Giantess Cooking Killing time To be an angel Alice Thomas Scrupulous Smiling Bending over desk To be a twin Ellen Travers Coquettish ness Slang Flitting about To marry Harriet Waldron Cutenesss Sneezing Being good To serve Hash (en) Brewster Walker Strutting Brown Speaking when not spoken to To use Revenue Cutter service stationery Blodwen Walters Hair dress “Riding ponies” Keeping her mouth shut To bury Latin William Weeden Hands Burke’s speech Keeping books To travel Henry Welch Affection Gulliver’s Travels Studying ceiling To lie great Lawrence White Too numerous to men- tion Winking Shirking To go to college William Weeden Flippant Dictionary No one knows To be on the go May Young Feet Haste Talking To be an old maid

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THE GOLDEN-ROD Name Chief Characteristic Special Weakness Chief Occupation in School Ambition in Life Paul Fowler Fouls Laziness Studying in the base- To plav base-ball with ball season the Red Sox George Gavin Shyness Room 28 Moving his feet To grow up Edith Doyle A perfect dear Boys Smiling To be married four times James Duggan Just so high English Paying attention to—? To sell his skeleton Eleanor Dunn Sanity Eating Looking behind her To change her name Katherine Gay Attraction Bows Refraining from whis- pering To see him succeed Mary Geary Posing Jealousy Smiling at K—h—e To tour Atlantic Agnes Golden Scowling English themes Minding her own busi- ness To be a novelist Harold Gore Sublime goodness Love for teachers “Iknowhowtobequiet.” Most anything To capture a little dot” To be a monkey in a cir- Demi Gourlie Olympic brow Girls cus Lulu Hadden Finding faults Mathematics Working out problems To be happy ever after Kenneth Hewes Brown eyes Athletics Talking to himself To prattle Gladys Howe Marcel-wave Boys To capture To loook pretty Glover Howe Having his own way Basketball Making Miss Souther happy To be a Morman Marion Howe Diligence Hammering Getting “mixed” in Latin To be a “little man’s” darling Eliot Johnson Brain power Feinting Cleaning his desk To be a husband Albert Jones Good fellow Debating Intercoursing with teachers To toot a horn Annie Kane What? Hair ribbons Looking troubled To be a school-marm Pearl Keith Sobriety English Seeing funny things To pass exams Ruth Kemp Timothy Keohane Soft-hearted Beatific smile Rouging Amusing her friends To teach a district scliol West Quincy Catching flies team Walter Lacey Meeting Soft soap Getting into trouble To be a professor Grace Larkin 111 at ease Dictionary Fidgeting To become a mill ionai ress Harold leathers Innocence Playthings Going to sleep To run an automobile James Lewis Grinning Wearing his heart on his sleeve Asking questions To teach correct German Marcella Little Vanity Pink Expounding history To be an old maid Imogene Livermore Coiffure Chocolates Drawing pictures To be a queen of Scotland in Shakespear’s time Daniel MacQueen Midgetness Winking Reading the Post To find a position Marguerite McCarthy Curls Ray Giving kisses To make others happy Hugh McDonald Pretty eyes Algebra Trying to forget where his is To be a lecturer Katherine McDonald Dim pies Love for Latin Keeping still To be a stenographer Christina Moody Coloring Baseball captain Attracting attention To be an artist Blanche Morrison Ambling Paper rails Making others jealous To keep house for two Beatrice Morrison Flirting Cats Trying to look innocent To have a bow Lucy Moyle Meekness Writing notes Looking coy To go abroad William Nolan Pretty Stockings Writing invitations To be a soldier boy

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1T1E GOLDEN-ROD Lieutenant M. Antony, P. C. First Prize, J. L. MURRAY On account of the limited size of the Golden-Rod it is impossible to print this story. Bud Ricker’s Apology Second Prize P. 11. MARDEN NOTICE All those desiring to form a school basket ball team will meet in Room 1 at the close of school today. McCraigan TTHIS NOTICE posted on the school bulletin attracted much attention throughout the day and at one-thirty a number of fellows gath- ered in room one to hear what the trainer had to say concerning basket ball. When McCraigan stepped into the room it was nearly filled and he immediately opened the discussion. He told them that they had a splen- did chance for a basket ball team in a school such as theirs, with a new gymnasium and a name for clean sports; and that there were at least six fellows in the school who had played before with Y. M. C. A. teams. In the end he asked those desiring to form a team to stand. Everybody stood. As the crowd slowly dispersed, it was easy to discern the most prominent fellows. Standing near the door, a tall well built fellow was slowly filling his pipe, at the same time keeping his eye on the door through which the trainer had passed Seated near him was a short, stocky lad, whose face would suddenly expand into an enormous smile, and as suddenly return to its former look of soberness as though ashamed of its hilarity. At the other side of the room was a fellow with light hair and blue eyes, whose bearing was athletic to say the least. This was Whitmarsh. Ricker, having filled his pipe to his satisfaction passed out with Raynor, and soon the rest dis- persed to their homes. Some explanation should be made here as to conditions at Rockridge High School at this time. A new gym. had just been presented to the pupils by a wealthy man of the town. They had raised enough money to hire a phy- sical director, and had obtained a young fellow by the name of McCraigan. Previous to this the only basket ball team was the Y. M. C. A. team which was really a high school team. The school committee, however, would not recognize a school team on their floor. But now, with a gym. of their own, a physical director and several good men to pick from, everything pointed to a successful winter. The day following the meeting in room one saw the first piactice. For a time things went smoothly, McCraigan criticising and helping each player. In his playing, Ricker had a pe- culiarstyle which the trainer very much objected to. He showed Ricker how to remedy it. After a few tries, however, he would return to his old style of shooting. McCraigan would immediate- ly remind him, however, and at last Ricker turned and swore at him. The trainer’s eyes flashed, but with scarcely a pause in his work he ordered him to leave the floor and to report to Mr. Brooks, the head master. This he did but not before he had given his opinion of the trainer to any one who would listen. Practice over, the players returned to their locker rooms and there, secure from the trainer’s ears, they talked over the events of the after- noon. Many were of the opinion that Bud, as Ricker was called, had gotton no more than he deserved. Conspicuous among these was Whit- marsh. Some of the others led by Raynor de- clared that McCraigon was too hasty and that anyone would have sworn under the circumstan- ces. Thus, opinion was pretty well divided. During the next week, at a class meeting, the seniors decided to hold a class party. In doing this they broke a custom of years and failed to give the juniors a dance. The juniors were nat-