Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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T II E G O L I) E N - R O D 17 the Professor of Thermo Dynamics at the Institute of Technology. Have you seen Ronald Shaw’s new physics book written in rhyme ? M. ROACHE: No, but I always thought he would write poetry of some kind. C. WILLIAMS: Of course, you’ve read Alma Lawry’s famous “History of the W orld War.” It’s used in all the schools now. E. HEAP: Say, Robinson, do you know of any inventors from Quincy? A. ROBINSON: Why, I’ll sec. (Takes small book from pocket). Here’s Ted Taylor who still lives in Quincy. He has invented a device for driving an auto without the use of one’s arms. I believe he has found it very successful. Nester Arenberg has invented a new style of spats which eliminates the bother of buttons, but is made of an elastic fabric which can be pulled on over the foot. Phillips Innis has discovered a method of canning heat by using the rays of the sun in some way. It is now used as the heating system in many buildings. E. MELLISH: I wonder what David Gcsmer is doing; W. BLAKE: Why, he is the president of the Boston Elevated Railway. I met him the other day just after he had had a conference with the Chief of Police, Gladys Irwin. lie told me that Catherine Osborne, Marion Ellis, Lillian Parker, and Madeline Parsons are also officers of the law. Ruth Sanborn and Cor- delia McLennan are judges of the Supreme Court. M. WATERMAN: Is there anyone we haven’t mentioned ? E, JACKSON : I’ll get my old class picture. It’s in this chest. Why didn’t I think of it before ? H. MURPHY: We haven’t spoken of Louise Hodge. A. WADDELL: Oh. she’s the cooking teacher in Quincy High. Helen Lawry has a dress making establishment, which is noted for its “room of mirrors” where she does most of her work. (E. Jackson brings picture. All look at it.) M. WATERMAN: Here’s Lillian Jones. M. ROACHE: Oh, I’ve read of her popu- lar millinery shop in New York where, I be- lieve, Florence Townc and Clara Jacobson Work. H. MURPHY: Did you see Sylvia Ruud’s picture in the paper last week? I guess she’s the most popular actress of the day. M. CURRIE: She was a Red Cross nurse during the later part of the War, wasn’t she? M. ROACHE: Yes, she and Margaret MacPherson went together. Margaret is now head nurse at the Boston City Hospital. Have you heard Elsie Oberg speak in public? She is a senator from Squantum. R. BLANCHARD: I saw Florence Thorne in the Boston Library not long ago. She is a librarian there. W. BLAKE: These three girls (pointing to certain ones in picture) are engaged in the office of the Hotel Bostonia of which I am Manager. They are Helen Riley, Penelope Stevens, and Ellen Fitzgerald. A. WADDELL: Have any of you heard Marie Ladd, Cecelia Devine, or Edith Nicoll, lecture? They are quite prominent in the New England Philanthropic League. They make speeches in the different cities and have succeeded in getting most of the tenement sections and slums of New England cleaned up. M. ROACHE: I haven’t heard them but I heard Agnes Jennings lecture on style: “The right thing to wear at the right time.” I haven’t heard what became of Doris Turner. W. BLAKE: I read a book of hers a short time ago. She is an explorer and has dis- covered a number of unheard of things. She writes under the name of “The Wanderer”. R. WEYMOUTH: Did you know that Warren Ladd is the manager of a large pe- troleum concern in Pennsylvania? John Mahoney and Frances MacDonald work in the office of the same factory. C. WILLIAMS: I happened to drop into the Y. M. C. A last week and saw “Frankie”

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16 THE GOLDEN-ROD a figure that seemed familiar, so afterwards I went up to him and as I live, it was Charlie McBrayne. He asked me if I had met the leader of the orchestra. As I hadn't he took me over to him and introduced ‘Mr. David Weinhouse’!” R. BLANCHARD: Well, that is interest- ing. I have seen a few of our former class- mates myself lately. After I finished the con- creting of all the Quincy streets 1 had to go to New York. While 1 was there I had occasion to visit a salt mine and I was certainly sur- prised when I found Stewie Dimmick work- ing in it. He said he had been there some years. M. WATERMAN : Why, he must be quite a different person now! R. BLANCHARD: Oh yes, he is. He very kindly showed me through the place and explained everything. I also met Henry Carl- son, now a popular New York artist. He makes a specialty of girls’ portraits. At the theatre one evening 1 recognized Sumner Robinson as the leader of the chorus girls among whom were Lillian Golden. Dorothy Empey, Gladys Barclay, and Mildred Morris. Edna Milford was the pianist. A. WADDELL: I suppose you know Mabel Roache is a very prosperous “Taylor” in Quincy now? E. JACKSON: Why no, who else has stayed in Quincy? A. WADDELL: Oh, Mr. Arthur Palmer is the master of the High School. Helena Buckley is his secretary. Richard Sheehan is a teacher of U. S. History, James Earle, teacher of Spanish, and I am an English teacher there. E. JACKSON: I should like to see Mabel. M. WATERMAN: Why don’t you invite her up? E. JACOBSON: I will! W. BLAKE: Get the Honorable Mr. Wey- mouth up, too. E. HEAP: And Charlie McBrayne. (E. Jackson goes to machine) “Mabel Roache”. C. WILLIAMS: I wonder if many mem- bers of our class have turned out to be inventors. E. HEAP: 1 don’t know. Albert Robin- son could tell you. He works in the patent office in Washington. E. JACKSON: I’ll call him, too. (Speaks in tube). Royal Weymouth. Charles McBrayne, Al- bert Robinson. (Filter one by one and greet others). M. WATERMAN: How’s Quincy, Mabel? M. ROACHE: Splendid! I’ve just been visiting the girl you knew as Eieanor Phillips. She has a lovely big mansion on the banks of the Xeponset where children from different parts of the country live, because their mothers arc too busily engaged in politics to keep house. M. WATERMAN: Isn’t that fine! I should think she would be just the one for that place. M. ROACHE: Oh, she is! She mothers them just the same as she does her own chil-. dren. Elsie Peterson and Helen Sands, not caring for a political life, are her assistants. C. McBRAYXE: Well, whom do you think I’ve just seen? I came up from Hawaii a short time ago and while I was in San Fran- cisco I ran across Laurence Curtin. He has founded a school for the reform of giddy girls, and as a side issue is writing a book entitled, “How and When to Argue”. Some of his pupils used to be in our class. Let’s see—there were Eva Smith and Mildred Brown and Mary Grady. E. MELLISH: Well, I’m sure no one would have thought that Mr. Curtin would ever have as much to do with girls as that!! R. WEYMOUTH : I heard Sydney Pearce in a debate the other night. He is one of the most forceful speakers in the House of Rep- resentatives at Washington. M. ROACHE: Have you come in contact with many Quincy High people in late years? R. WEYMOUTH : No. I haven’t met many. I saw Aubrey Nicholson last month. He is

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18 TIIE GOLD EX-ROD Morrison. He is janitor now, and has hopes of becoming pin boy soon. W. BLAKE: Speaking of bowling, Ivar Lofgrcn made a record last week. He shot a ball down his alley, it bounced over to the next one. and knocked down all the pins. R. BLANCHARD: Why, I didn’t know that he could bowl. By the way, “Dick” Beck- with is treasurer of the Fat Men’s Union. He tried keeping a drug store, but he ate so many ice cream sodas that he couldn’t make any profit. M. WATERMAN: 1918 must be fond of the drug business, Josephine Bennett is a soda clerk in Irene Pitts’ drug store at Quincy Point. Right beside her store is “Chet” Wee- den’s poultry farm. He might be here now, but he is too attached to his chickens to leave them. R. BLANCHARD: He must be very rich by now. That reminds me that “Charlie” Stewart is getting rich on his fish market, and his cashier, Mary Drohan, is also prosperous. A. WADDELL: Sarah Grossman must have millions from the royalty she gets from her book, “How to Earn Money?” But to change the subject, Violet Finn is running a summer hotel in Squantum now since her namesake. Katherine Finn, became mayor of it. She had Joseph Chignola, the famous brick-layer specialist, lay down marble streets, with rubber curb-stone. II. MURPHY: Talking about inventions. “Clif” Canniff made a great one. He invented the steam-heated, super-heated steam sidewalk. Whenever a crowd gathers on a sidewalk, a person can just turn on the steam, and the sidewalk gets so hot that the crowd disperses. Then there is Mollie Kaufman, who invented a new hair-restorer and made herself famous. W. BLAKE: George Fostello, Alvah Rey- nolds and Roy Walker certainly made them- selves famous. Then enlisted in the marines in the European war and were among the first to arrive at Berlin. E. MELLISH : That reminds me. Esther Canty and Hilma Hendrickson became Red Cross nurses and did good work at the front. E. HEAP: Did any one in the class go on the stage? A. ROBINSON: Surely, Bartholomew Gunning and Howard Dunkerly are touring the country as the “Gold Dust Twins.” “Mawrie” Berry gives vocal selections on the Victor records. He tried the stage, but his facial contortions were too much for the au- dience, so he had to go back to phonograph records, where he is heard but not seen. M. CURRIE: That makes me think that Frank Julius and Edwin Johnson are famous music writers. You can look into any of the sentimental songs they sell in the “5 and 10” and see “Words by ‘Eddie’ Johnson, Music by Frank Julius.” Another musician of our class is Grace Ballou, who teaches the ukelele. M. ROACHE: I suppose you have heard of Harold Herrick. He proved that bald heads are hereditary, and he showed how a moustache can be developed in two days. By the way, Carl Friberg runs a jitney plane from Atlantic to Squantum, and Harold Lar- son goes with him to keep the passengers in good humor. C. McBRAYNE (leaking up): They need to be in good humor to go down there. Poor “Don” Blake needs cheering up. His girl jilted him, so he became a hermit, and is now living in the wilds of Houghs Neck, writing books on the fickleness of women. He's not so far off. at that! E. JACKSON: Don’t get personal, now. By the way. has Houghs Neck grown any? C. WILLIAMS: Not much. Since “Plank” O'Brien left to become a bicycle rider in Herbert Hendry’s circus, poor Houghs Neck has degenerated. E. MELLISII: That’s too bad. I always had hopes for Houghs Neck. That reminds me that Mabelle Geddes and Joanna Falconer are running a boarding-house at Quincy Point, which is quite a nice place now. H. MURPHY: How times have changed! Our old friend, Anna Irvine, wrote a history which Mr. Roache said had Muzzey’s “skun”