Reading Memorial High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Reading, MA)

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The Pioneer JUST BIRDS. On the Fourth of July the eagle will scream, Symbolical he of the free; Ere I run out of ink I’ll convince you I think, There’s a bird that is nobler than he. Next, as a bird, comes the staid old hen. Whose life is a round of woe. If you feed her on yeast cakes to raise the eggs. In winter you’ll raise the dough. The quail, next in line, if in season, is fine. Though you’ll find that of these there’s no host; When you ask your best girl to go with you to dine. And she orders the small bird on toast. There’s a knowing black bird that you all must have heard. He is not the best bird ever was, We know not the reason just why he should live. But there could be no crows without “caws.” You all must have heard of the Thanksgiving bird.. Oft of him you have been a partaker. After cleaning your dish how often you wish. For some ginger from far off Jamaica. The Vulture you’ll find very careless of diet. Eats any old thing without stopping to fry it, Eats bottles and can openers, old win¬ dow-screens. But wisely abstains from canned Bos¬ ton Baked Beans. These are some of the birds And they each have their place, I could name many more, But 1 have not the space, There’s a bird to my mind, Who surpasses them all. He is not very large. But exceedingly tall. Some birds fly by day. And some fly by night. This bird only flies when he thinks it is right. He is here in the winter. He’s here in the fall. In the summer he’s here. He can’t leave us at all. He comes any day at any old time. In any old weather, in any old dine. When the birds see him coming. They take to the woods. For the stork is the bird that delivers the goods. “No, my child, harpies did not wan¬ der around singing ballads. ’Twas harpers. But I see you have been lis¬ tening to the Junior Latin class. Ye baskets on ye desks, “My paper’s out so nearly.” Alas, ’tis ever thus. “To push a High school paper Is very little fun. Not even tho’ the pushers Could get a little ‘mon.’ ” ’ 10 . Botany Teacher—“What is a willow catkin?” Bright Freshman—“An old pussy.” ’ 10 . BY A LATIN GRIND. “All are dead who wrote it: All are dead who spoke it: All must die who learn it: Welcome death! they earn it.” ’ 10 .

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The Pioneer ETTA DOYLE—“The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.” HENRY MULLARKY—“ ’Tis not wit merely, but a temper which must form the wellbred man.” GERTRUDE GRANFIELD—“Do you not know I am a woman? When I think I must speak.’ EDITH BUCKLE— “There was a young lady said “Why Can’t I look in my ear with my eye? If I FMt my mind to it I’m sure I can do it You never can tell till you try.” ARTHUR BATCHELDER—“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves com¬ mit.” RACHEL SMITH— “Heart on her lips and soul witliTi her eyes, Soft as her clime and sunny as her skies.” BERTHA LEE—“Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied.” AGNES CONNELLY— “Not only good and kind. But strong and elevated was her mind.” MARY CULLINANE— “By the kindness of her ways She made sweet the sourest days.” DONALD RAMSAY— “Some hae meat that canna eat. And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.” BELLA MUSE— “Well spelled was shee in needle¬ work Egyptian shee could speak. Could manufacture griddle oakes And jest in ancient Greek (?)” ELLEN McGARRY—“One of these who win our hearts by show of sympathy.” FRANCIiS JOHNSON—“Just for a handful of silver he left us.” SUMNER WHITTIER— “Strange to the world he wore a bashful look. The fields, his study: Nature was his book.” ANNIE DAVIS—“A merry hea t goes all the day.” JOSEPH QUINLAN—“He can write and read and cast accompt. 0 monstrous! ” JENNIE PARKER—“Bonnie brown eyes are the eyes for me.’ MARION PERRY—“For she v as jes’ the quiet kind whose natures never vary.” DOTTY H0D30N—“Love me little; love me long.” LEONARD BARTLETT— “A kind and gentle heart he had To comfort friends and foes.” JOHN O’BRIEN—“As man; false min; smiling, desTnictive irj-n.” NELSON V ESTON—“Hunt half a cay fer a forgotten dream.” HAEEL WILCOX— “Cr light, or dark, or short, or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all: All’s one to her—.above her fan She’d make sweet eves at Calitan.” ASUNTA MICHELINI—“And both were young and one w ' s beautiful.’ ' THE! EDITORS—“Work, Work, Work.” CLASS OF ’07—“Let them freely feast, sing and dance, ha ' e their puppet plays, hobby hcr.-es, tabors, crowds, bagpipes, etc.; play at ball, and barley-breaks, and wbat sports and recreat’ ' ons they like brst.” CLASS OF ’08—“0, r:re the head piece if but brains were there.” CLASS OF ’09—“iSo wise, so ycung! not a vanitv is given in vain ” CLASS OF ’10—“All eye, all ear.” ENGLISH IV. A.—“Oh let me sleep, and do not wake me yet.” EPILOGUE. “And now, gentlemen. PAX VOBIS- CUM as the ass said to the cab¬ bages.” “Now I lay me down to rest For tomorrow’s awful test, If I die before I wake. Heaven be praised, no test I’ll take.’ TO.

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Back Row: Sub-Master William T. Redden (Coach), Brooks c, John O’Brien (Manager) Middle Row: Michelini sub., Kingman 2b, Stembridge sub., Flint cf and p, Chase p Front Row; L. Devaney ss, Trenholm If, M. Devaney lb (Captain), Holmes rf, Fames 3b