Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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Quincy High School Bradford Library TLhc ©olt en 1Rot PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE PUPILS OF QUINCY HIGH SCHOOL Vol. XXXIX No. 1 QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS November 1926 February, ’27 Editor-in-Ch if f FRANK IRWIN June, ’27 Edit or-in-C'hiet MIRIAM CARR ...Grace Kieswetter .. ..Josephine Wl'stcoat ..Elvira Harlow William Masson Donald Cameron Elsif. Hai.onf.n - Joseph Foy Jean Harper Paul C. Reardon ... Joseph A. Erickson Advertising Manager.. — A’ictor C. DeBoer Assistants J. Ford R. MacGrecor Jessie Alexander Nelson Cochrane Faculty Advisers Isabel Schuyler Browne Joy L. Nevens Ethel Crockett Leslie C. Millard Twenty Cents the Copy TO THE CLASS OF 1929 FROM THE CLASS OF 1927 Welcome to our abode of knowledge. May you prosper mid our walls. May your loving friends be many. Be an honor to our halls. The way seems long and hard and stony As you view it from the start; But oh how short and smooth and lovely As we look back with longing heart. Do your best, keep up your courage, We’ve succeeded; you will too. Love your work, enjoy your play, Sophomores, we welcome you. Isabel Cossaboom, J. ’27. 5

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6 THE GOLDEN-ROD To MR. FAXON Quincy High School is fortunate in hav- ing, among its many supporters, one who is deeply interested in the school and its sports. Mr. Henry M. Faxon has given Quincy High School the spacious athletic field on Coddington Street, near our splendid building. Although PfaffmaifT Oval is one of the best gridirons in this section, the hill making a natural bleacher from which to watch the games, the new field will in all probability be improved and enclosed to such an extent that it will surpass any of the neighboring high school gridirons. Word at hand also dis- closes the fact that the remainder of the land is to be divided and developed into more gridirons, diamonds, and perhaps later, a running track. To Mr. Faxon the pupils are grateful for this lasting gift. F. I. THE BIG SISTER CLUB What a wonderful opportunity for the girls of Quincy High School to get ac- quainted is the Big Sister Club, estab- lished by Miss Baker and carried on by- girls of Quincy High School. When the Sophomores first come from Junior High they feel very strange and lonesome, al- most like intruders in the big family of Juniors and Seniors. In order more per- fectly to unify these classes a Big Sister Club has been formed in which each Jun- ior and Senior is given a Sophomore for a “little sister.” The “big sister” has a duty, which soon becomes a pleasure, of introducing her “little sister” to all the girls she herself knows. So many of the girls find it hard to speak to those they do not know that it is a great opportunity to have someone introduce others to them. We are sure that Quincy High School and all its girls are very happy over the new found Big Sister Club. Louise Locke, June, ’27. OUTSIDE READING Four times during the school year there reigns at Quincy High the most bewilder- ing state of chaos ever seen in any well conducted house of learning. I am, of course, alluding to the four times when outside reading, the bane of so many school boys’ existences, is due. For about a week before the date set the school and the Thomas Crane Libraries are the scenes of agonizing “book hunts.” Some lazy persons have left their outside reading until the last minute, and are caught in the tide of other delinquents streaming in and out of the libraries with anxious, faces. All other studying is ne- glected. home work becomes a mere farce, and the mutual aim of all is to have their outside reading done on time. Even to the end some few careless persons neglect the duty, but there is no escaping it, for if it is not finished at the appointed hour one has just twice as much ahead. I suppose it is of no use to urge and preach at length, for human nature can- not be altered, and an unpleasant task is put aside as long as possible. But why think of it as such an ordeal: Of course if one waits, then has to dash through five hundred pages of uninteresting read- ing in an evening there is no pleasure in it; but really there are some lively, en- tertaining books on the reading lists, and if one takes example from the early bird, securing an interesting book and giving himself time to read it at leisure, one will find his task not at all hard—even pleas- ant. I’ll admit that some of the five-point books, dusty old biographies and essays, are dry. Why not then get two easier, more readable books and learn to enjoy outside reading, rather than struggle through a five-point, boresome book in order to get the distasteful task out ol the way in one sweep? The English teachers know how much they are helping us by acquainting us, willingly or no, with the famous writings of literature, so let us depend upon their wisdom, and since outside reading is in- evitable, make it pleasant for ourselves and for them. M. C.