Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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Paul Larkin is working for the Good- year Rubber Company. John Reardon has been traveling in Eastern United States for Proctor Gamble for some years. He expects soon to travel throughout the country for the same concern. 1916 Joseph Colletti, Harvard ’24, has re- ceived a Harvard fellowship and is studying architecture in Italy. 1917 Roger Berry and Howard Walther are in business in Texas. 1918 Elsie Broughton, 1918, is taking a spe- cial course at Cornell. Stuart Dimmock is with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Joanne Falconer is in Paris studying advanced French. David Gesmer is traveling for Brown Durrell Company. Ronald Shaw, 1918, has completed his course at M. I. T. and is now with Stone Webster. Hale Waite has an important position in the Foreign Department of the Mer- chants National Bank. 1919 Stanley Jenkins is preparing for Brown University. John Prete, who held the Buck schol- arship for five years at B. U., has re- ceived a fellowship from Harvard and is now doing graduate work at the Uni- versity of Grenoble in France. Walter Sargent, graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, is an Ensign aboard the U. S. S. Niagara, now in southern waters. Harriot Barbour has published, through the Macmillan Company, her first book, “Old Tales Retold.” The book is beautifully illustrated by one of the best illustrators on the Macmillan staff. James Bartlett, Northeastern ’24, is doing graduate work at Harvard where he received a scholarship. Edna Campbell is teaching in the Brookline High School. Dorothy Cole, who has graduated from Smith College, is taking a course at Bridgewater Normal School; but at pres- ent is doing practice teaching in the Quincy High School. Ruth Hillstrom and Hilda Wester are working in the John Hancock Life In- surance Company. 1921 Anne Stevens is training in the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C. Larry Leavitt, senior at Dartmouth, has been chosen chief marshall. Richard Saunders, who will receive an M. A. degree at Clark University this year, has accepted a three years’ teach- ing position at the American University at Beiruth, Syria. June 1922 Viola Anderson and Anne Wagelius, who will graduate from Bridgewater Normal School in June, have been ap- pointed teachers in Quincy. Wilson Barstow is president of the junior class at Norwich. Elford Durgan has attained second honors at Clark University. Edmund Johnson is on the honor roll at Dartmouth. Donald Mackay has been chosen a member of the Dartmouth Debating Team.

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22 THE GOLDEN-ROD Believest. Thou are noble, yet super- stitious. At the slightest fulfilment of the pro- phecy, You’ll be like the frightened stag at bay. For thee I have labored, sacrificed, and lost.— Now do what you will. Exeunt Lady Macbeth Arthur Dean, ’25. Seventeen Fines It was late afternoon of a hot day in August when a young traveler reached the outskirts of the largest wheat ranch in Minnesota. Four miles of dusty road lay between the lad and the big ranch house belonging to Franklin Bates, which was his destination. Heat and weariness impeded the progress of the young fellow, a boy of scarcely more than fourteen. Before the boy reached the ranch house, night had fallen. Even in the darkness on the broad porch, the keen eyed boy could distinguish Franklin Bates from his secretary. His splendid physique, his erect carriage proclaimed not only the successful business man but the accomplished athlete as well. Approaching the two men, the boy drew off his cap. “May I speak to you a moment, sir:” he asked respectfully. The man frowned slightly as he glanced at the speaker. “If you wish to wait half an hour, till I get back, I will see you,” he said carelessly as he got into the waiting car. Fully an hour later the car rolled up the drive. The boy, who had been sit- ting on the steps, rose as Mr. Bates got out. The man opened the door to his study, motioning the boy to follow, he went in. So intent was the lad on his errand that he hardly noticed the luxuri- ous but severe appointments of the study of America’s great wheat “king.” Bates looked the boy squarely in the face as he said, “I’ll give you five minutes.” “I’m Frank Mason, sir, from Red Hill, Illinois. My mother is the owner of Seventeen Pines. It is the farm that you hold a mortgage on. Mother said that you were going to sell our home. Please don’t do it, sir. Give us another year to “Red Hill,” the man repeated several times. His voice betrayed deep emotion when he spoke. “I remember now. Did you say the name of the place was Sev- enteen Pines:” At the boy’s ned he went on, I’m afraid I’ll have to foreclose. Your mother has not paid any interest for two years. I’m planning to sell to a railroad company.” “Oh, please wait a year or two. I’m going to work this winter. A big boy like me can earn a lot of money—maybe three dollars a week. That would help a lot. Mother said it would,” the earnest voice brought a smile to the man’s lips. Ten minutes passed in silence; the man gazing into the cheery fire playing on the hearth, and the boy looking past the man out of the window. Then the man’s eyes narrowed, a trick he had when he was in deadly earnest. “Do you know Mrs. Henry Adams:” the question was shot at the lad. “Yes, sir,” the boy’s eyes showed his surprise at the turn the subject had taken, “She is my grandmother.” “Your grandmother!” the man stood up breathing hard. “Did she send you to me?” “No, sir, I did not even tell mother because I thought that she would not let me go. I left a note on the table. Do you know my grandmother?” The boy rose too, without in the least knowing why. “I—rather think I—do.” The man’s voice was dry. “I know also your mother —and her—husband. What do you know about your father, lad?” “Very little, sir,” the man had dropped into a chair, but his eyes were looking Continued on Page 3«

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24 THE GOLDEN-ROD Lawrence MacQuarry is a member of the junior class at Yale. Hyman Miller has been elected to the nominating committee for the Ivy Day speakers at Bates College, where he is a prominent member of the junior class. Arthur Parsons is working for the John Hancock Insurance Company. Gertrude Rogers is a junior at Fram- ingham Normal. Priscilla Streeter is attending Welles- ley. Francis White is a junior at Boston College. June 1923 Mable Miller, a freshman at Mount Holyoke, has received honors in mathe- matics and credits in French and geology. Alice Goodhue is attending the New England Conservatory of Music. “Ding” Heap attends Dartmouth. Mildred Julius is at Boston University. Janet MacDonald goes to Catherine Gibb’s School. Mildred O’Meara is working in the office of the Hallet Davis Piano Com- pany. February 1924 Helen Bahr and Marcia Van Strv are working in the office of the John Han- cock Life Insurance Company. Helvi Sunderlin has received a scholar- ship at B. U. June 1924 Ermanio Basilio is doing excellent work at M. I. T., receiving honors for his first term’s work. Priscilla Griswold is working in the office of the John Hancock Insurance Company. Ruth Hill has attained honors in Eng- lish, French and Latin at Brown Uni- versity. V illiam Hodgkinson is a tenor soloist for the Norwich Academy Glee Club and has been traveling through the eastern states with this club. The club recently broadcast from WNAC. Margaret Walker has announced her engagement to Roy Hayward of Natick. The following graduates .of the classes of 1924 are on the honor roll at Bridge- water Normal School: Evelyn Ambrose, Hazel Bissett, Leo- nora Colombo, Blanch Cutler, Eleanor Fredette, Olive Fuller, Helen Latine, Anna Palazzi, Mable Pratt. February 1925 Laura Aalto is attending Burdett Busi- ness College. Robert Fay is working in the Quincy Savings Bank. Esther Halonen is employed by the Halsey Stuart Company. Margaret Hezalton is working for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. Henrietta Johnson is working in the office of the Taylor Mfg. Co. Clarence Nickerson is attending Bos- ton University. Clara Saylor is working in the office of the Christian Science Monitor. Theodore Trask is working at Shaw’s. Miriam Westland goes to Howard Seminary. Henry Carlson, Joseph Curran, John Martin, Wade Shorter, Alexander Sou- den, William Tarbox and Carl Wennberg are registered at Northeastern Univer- sity. Ethel Kimball, Paul Littlefield and Frederick Sproul are attending Bryant Sc Stratton Business College.