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

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The Pioneer Page Twenty Reading defeated the strong Milton team, 17-12, in a fast and well-played game. The playing of Gibbons and MacLeod was the feature. Saturday, Jan. 20, Lynn Classical played here, and Reading easily de¬ feated them, 60-16. Stembridge and MacLeod starred. At this time individual stars can not be chosen, as all the boys are playing well, and with credit to the school. ROMEO MICH ELINI, ’12, Sporting Editor. CLASS ALPHABET, CLASS ’12 A is for Abbott, who from North Reading hails, B is for Buck, who in school never fails. C stands for Currell, who plays bas¬ ketball, D is for Doris who is not very tall. E is for Eisenhaure, black hair has she, F stands for Foster, our vice-presi¬ dent, he. G is for Gage, the “J. G. T.” star, H is for Helen, who comes on the car. I stands for Isaac ot very wide fame, J stands for Jeanette, you know her last name. K is for Kinsman, a decided blonde, L stand for Laurie, of whom every¬ one is fond. M is for Morrison, whom we some¬ times hear sneeze, N is for Nelson, he gets reports off (?) with ease. O is for the owl who once perched in a tree, P stands for Patrick, a business man¬ ager, he. Q is for Quinlan, who lives not very near, II stands for Raymond, who came from Revere. S stands for Stevens, Marion and Frank, T is for Turner, she plays many a prank. IJ stands for Us, a great class are we, V stands for Victory, which we all like to see. W is for Warren, our Junior class grind, X is a quantity in Math, hard to find. Y is for Young, who cheers for our team, Z stands for zealous, which all of us seem. MILDRED AKERLEY, T3. Carrie is an excellent housekeeper; in fact, she is always Dustin. Will Ruby B. Mansfield ten years hence? M. M-ntg-m-ry, walking backwards, ran into an electric light. “Oh, ex¬ cuse me!” she exclaimed sweetly. At last 1912 has entirely outgrown its childhood! W. Cail has appeared in long trousers. C. J-n-s, T2, firmly believes he has a perfect right to talk to himself if he wants to. French II B. “Certaines fleurs sont sauvages, certaines autres sont cultivees.” Miss P-w-rs—“Certain flowers are wild, certain others are civilized.”

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Page Nineteen The Pioneer water went all over Mike an Skinny. They’ve been madder than hornets ever since. I kinder guess I’d better stop, cause I just heard Ma say supper was most ready. Hope you had as good a vaca¬ tion as I did. Your cousin, JIMMIE. Different Ways of Addressing the Teacher Freshie—“Please, ma’am, I didn’t understand what you said.” Soph.—“I didn’t quite understand.” Junior—“What d’you say?” Senior—“Huh?” —Ex. Probably our future “white hope” may be found among the fair sex ac¬ cording to the demonstration given on the girl’s side of the lunch-room a few weeks ago. What might have been a serious conflict between E. F-y and V. Br-gh-m was averted by the coolness of our sub j master, who. like ex-President Roosevelt, was the dove of peace. In the French class: Teacher—“What is the word for yes in French?” T—“Oui.” Teacher—“How is it spelled?” T—(intently thinking) “0-U-” Teacher—“0-U-what?” T—(looking vacantly into space) “O-U-kid.” —Ex. French III. “L’angelus! Deja!” “The angels! Already!” ATHLETICS Basketball Season 1911-1912. The basketball quintet representing Reading High for the season of 1911- 12 has so far made a very brilliant record. The credit for this must be given to the boys, who worked hard and well and have overcome all ob’ stacles under Captain Hartshorn and Coach Carroll, who has always kept them keyed up to the highest pitch of enthusiasm Dec. 2 the first game was played wdth the Wakefield Independents at Reading, and resulted in a victory for Reading. The following Thursday Reading High went to Melrose and played Melrose High at the Y. M. C. A. gym. in a fast game, and as at end of the game the score was a tie, the captains decided to leave it as it was, and wait for the return game. On Saturday, Dec. 9, Reading again defeated Wakefield in a rough game. Friday, Dec. 15, Winchester jour¬ neyed to Reading to try their luck here, but were defeated in a fast and interesting game. On Friday, Dec. 22, the Alumni played the High School, and defeated them, 21-14. The boys worked hard, but the grads proved too much for them. After the Christmas holidays the boys, with two of the regulars out, de¬ feated the Alumni, 11-7, on Jan. 6. Since the game at Melrose the boys looked forward to the return game here, but R. H. S. was defeated, 21-18. Saturday, Jan. 13, Reading defeated Allen School at Newton, 20-11. At Milton, on Wednesday, Jan. 17, m

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Page Twenty-one The Pioneer “That automobile was expeeding the seed limit.”—M. E. P-rk, ’12. E. M. P. and M. E. M., ’12—“Is this a bargain which I see before me?” Certain Sophomore boys object to being obliged to walk home when they go on a slfeighing party. Teacher (after fire-drill)—“Why, where did you go?” Pupil—“We didn’t go. We just turned around and came back.”—Ex. Notice: All jokes handed to the editors should be written on tissue paper, so that we may be able to see through them. —Ex. I. V-ill-rs, T2, says a “catastrophe” is a great “kerplunk.” ???????? R. B. M., T2. French IV.: Miss E.—“Will you please translate. Miss C—?” D. C-mm-ngs (translating)—“I did not say no.” It sounded rather suspicious when G. P., ’12, asked Miss G— how to write “announcement.” It’s Leap Year, you know. Soph.—“It’s all over the school!” Fresh. (excitedly) —“What?” S,oph. (calmly)—“The roof, little one.” —Ex. In Alg. I A, C. G-dr-dg- suddenly made the discovery, after due de¬ liberation, that x plus x actually equals 2x.