Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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24 THE GOLDEN-ROD Alumni Notes 1909 The engagement of Nettie Pote and Edward Lee Brooks has recently been announced. Miss Pote is employed by the United Fruit Company at Brockton and Mr. Brooks is working at the Boyl- ston National Bank, having served over- seas in the 82nd Division. 1914 Did you know that Miss Jones of the High School office is a graduate of Q. H. S.? Didn’t know we could produce such fine material, did you? Charles Mullen, one of Quincy’s best athletes, has further distinguished him- self at Tufts by winning the champion- ship title and the Crocker trophy in tennis. “Mul” is one of the most pop- ular men in the college, being secretary of his class and a member of the hono- rary societies of Ivy and Tower Cross. He is also a member of the Sigma Tau Alpha Fraternity. 1916 Elizabeth Sayward is working at Dr. Andrews’ office in Quincy. Arthur Crosby is attending courses at Boston University. 1917 Albert Baker, alias “Fish,” is slipping through Boston University. That famous athlete, Percy Jenkins, is at Staunton Military Academy, Vir- ginia. Conrad Keys is a student at Dart- mouth College. Jimmie Le Cain and Theodore Hig- gins, who played on the Alumni football team, are enrolled at Tufts College. Luther Bennett is working hard at Boston University. Thomas Maloney does his reciting at Boston College. The News Editor of the 1916-1917 Golden Rod, Hugh Nixon, is at Bowdoin College. There being no high school doctor, I suggest engaging Miss Priscilla White, who will soon finish her course at Tufts Medical College. Those Ewertz boys, Harold and Roy, are at M. I. T. John Cummings is the happy class- mate of Russell Johnson at M. I. T. Russell was Editor-in-chief of the 1916- 1917 Golden Rod but he has gained the courage to come back to Q. H. S. and address Miss Dawes’ fifth period En- glish class. We surely did enjoy and appreciate his inspiring speech and those of his colleagues, Henry Erickson and Hilton Marr. We suspect Marr of speaking merely to win a bet. However, it was most welcome, as is anything which excuses us from English C8. Henry Erickson delivered an interesting and splendid talk concerning his late experiences in France, going more into detail in the sixth period when he ex- plained to Miss Damon methods and courses at the French University he at- tended at Bordeaux. Lawrence Beaton, who enlisted in the Navy before his graduation, is at Dean Academy. Paul Richmond is a student at B. U. but just at present he is also one of those “plaguey” census takers. The following letter was received at the office from Boston University C. L. A.: December, 5 1919. My dear Mr. Collins: I am sure that you will be interested to learn of the honor which has been conferred upon one of your graduates by his classmates in the College of Liberal Arts. Mr. C. Heber Bailey is Business Man- ager of the Hub. The Hub is the Col- lege Annual, edited by the Juniors. It involves a great deal of work and places a great deal of responsibility upon Mr. Bailey.

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THE GOLDEN-ROD 23 men who ever attended the school. Mr. Paul Blackmur, recently returned from France, gave an account of his war ex- periences. His talk was interesting, instructive, and humorous. The thanks of the pupils were well expressed by the long applause which followed his address. On Jan. 16, Mr. Collins called all the classes to the hall at the beginning of the 6th period for the presentation of a Pathescope picture of Treasure Island. Although the lighting conditions were not the best, the picture was greatly enjoyed. SENIOR CLASS At the Jan. 2d meeting of the Senior Class, Lindsay and Jackson were chosen to represent the Class in the School Athletic Council. The following Dra- matic Committee was elected: Messrs. Horrigan, Fitton, and Misses Cole, Cleale, and Johnson. FOOTBALL RECEPTION The Junior and Senior classes gave a reception to the football players on December 19. The presentation of the Q’s by Mrs. Collins and steropticon views of the players by Mr. Ball were the features of the evening. Dancing and refreshments were enjoyed by all. CHRISTMAS PAGEANT Through the efforts of a committee from the English Department, assisted by other departments of the school, a pageant representing “Christmas in Old England” was given before the school on the day preceding the Christmas vaca- tion. The first scene considered the arrival of the guests on Christmas Eve; the second scene, The Christmas Din- ner, represented an old fashioned En- glish Christmas Dinner. Dancing and singing played an important part. Miss Eleanor Collins and John Barr were the favorites of the affair. The cast: The Squire His Wife Their Son The Maiden Aunt The Parson Master Simon Julia Her Mother Vivacious Thirteen Her Mother Children Butler Servants J. Beale M. Whitton J. Laing A. Lyons J. Wentworth I. Jackson M. Nelson M. Johnson A. Brown II. Thomas E. Collins, J. Barr G. Cook Aver son and Bar stow The School Art Department deserves the highest praise for its untiring efforts in preparing advertisements for all school activities. The entire school wishes to express its thanks both to Miss Bushnell and to those pupils who have assisted in this work. Edward Shyne, News Editor. THE CHASING OF THE GREEN What’s all this noise upon the stairs? This trotting up and down? We never had such doings here ’Till SOMEONE came to town. What’s struck the girls at Quincy High? Such things we’ve never seen Sure! They’ll hear from Mr. Collins For the Chasing of the Green. Mr. Thomas: “The line of civilization is along the 45° North Latitude.” Lindsay: “Is that near here?” OLD STUFF! Miss Page: “Dodge, give the 3rd per- son singular, future of ‘capio’.” Dodge: “Capit.” Miss Page: (correcting) “Capiet.” Dodge: “Oh ya, that’s what I meant.”

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THE GOLDEN-ROD 25 With best wishes for the Quincy High School the coming year, I am Sincerely yours, ALICE SPRINGFIELD. Sec. to the Registrar. 1918 Louise Hodge has returned from South America where she had gone on a busi- ness trip with her father. Hale Waite is working in a Boston bank. Our little maid, Dorothy Empey, has gone and got married to Harry Johnson. Best wishes to them both. 1919 The Alumni Editor erroneously re- marked that Rita Prout went to Bur- dett’s and that Mildred Bishop was a student at Hitchcock’s. The truth is that they both go to Hickox. Don’t hesitate to note and correct all mistakes of this blundering editor. Hobart E. Prime is learning the en- graving business at the Suffolk Engrav- ing Company of Boston. Helen Alden is attending Miss Evans’ school in Boston. Edna Campbell, Alumni Editor. A PSALM OF SCHOOL Tell me not, in mournful numbers, School is but an empty dream! For the pupil’s dead that slumbers, And marks are not what they seem. School is real! School is earnest! And good marks are not its goal; It’s the hard things that thou learnest, Which make up your daily role. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to study that to-morrow Finds us wiser than to-day. In the school’s broad field of romance, In your dreamy hours of nod, Do not waste your empty moments But write for the “Golden Rod.” Trust no S. P.’s howe’er pleasant! Do your boneing all at night! Act, act in the living present! And continue with your fight! Lives of teachers all remind us We can make our marks sublime, And leaving Q. H. S. behind us, Leave honor on the sands of time; Math is long, and time is fleeting, And our pencils, full of lead, Still like muffled drums are beating With great rhythm on our head. Let us then be up and passing, With a heart for any fate; Still a-plugging, still a-massing, For a hundred as our rate. —M.L. Abele, ’21. Honor that perhaps another, Sailing o’er a flunking main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall get “E” again. Little drops of knowledge, Grains of common sense, Make a mighty difference When the tests commence. T. L. D., ’20. Mr. Harrington: “What is this part of the fern plant called?” Bright Pupil: “Pinnae.” Mr. Harrington: “No relation to you are they, Miss Pyyny?”