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

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Editor THERON JOHNSON ’29 Assistant Editor HOPE WILLIAMSON ’29 Editorial Editor NORTON PRENTISS ’29 News Editor LUCILLE CATE ’29 Joke Editor WALTER INGALLS ’30 Exchange Critic RUTH FROST ’29 Art Editor DONALD BOWMAN ’29 Athletic Editors EUNICE ALBEE ’29 FRANCIS MERRITT ’30 Business Manager WILLIAM CARTER ’29 Literary Editors WILMER YOUNG ’29 VINCENT WHITNEY ’30 TRUESDALE FIFE ’30 LILLIAN CHAMBERLAIN ’30 PHILLIP PARKER ’30 WOODWARD LEWIS ’29 HERBERT HILL ’29 BARBARA KNIGHT ’29 LESLIE McAULEY ’29 FACULTY ADVISORS ELIZABETH A. BATCHELDER HERMAN T. WHEELER FRANCES GREENHALGH LUKE HALPIN HONORARY MEMBER HELEN BEALS ..... mu u in iniutiitii ntit nut mu util iitiu; ..iiiiimiiiiir.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiimiiiiiimiiiimmiiiim - IIIIIIIIM11II It 11111 III 111II11 It 111111M11111M111 III M1111111111111111MIII11111H t. k .. 11111111M11111111U111 M 111111111111111M1111111111111 tl 111111111111111111111111111111111111U1111111H111II111M t II111IIIIIIIII111II11111111H1111111M1111.II1111111111111 This issue of the Pioneer is called the Junior number, an honorary title, signifying that the Seniors “pass the buck’’ and it is up to us to uphold the Pioneer’s dignity. From now on we must carry on alone, except for the graduation edition. Do not get the idea that this paper is edited for your amusement only, in¬ stead it is meant to be a means of expression for the school as a whole, to be closely connected with school life. One of the best things in a good paper, is a good joke. When you see or hear a good joke pass it on to the editors. But do not fail to pass to the board many stories and essays. A paper stands or falls to the tune of these documents. Many of them means a wide selection and a corresponding improvement in the paper. Do you take the challenge? T. J. ’29. .miiimiimiiiiiimmiiiimmimiiimiimuiiiimiMitni ' r

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ULM AJ2 ' 3 rj 9 ft - ( NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING In co-operation with engineering firms offers four year curriculums leading to the Batchelor’s degree in the following branches of engi¬ neering: CIVIL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Co-operating with business firms, offers four year collegiate courses leading to the Bachelor’s degree of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION in BUSINESS MANAGEMENT or in ACCOUNTING FINANCE The Co-operative Plan of training enables the student to combine theory with practice and makes it possible for him to earn his tuition and a part of his other school expenses. Students admitted in either September or January may complete the scholastic year before the following September. For catalog or further information write to: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Milton J. Schlagenhauf, Director of Admissions BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Five year program on co-operative plan on and after September 5 1929. Quality Service Arlington Studio portraits of Distinction Class Photographer of 1927 394 Boylston St. Boston, Mass. Phone Kenmore 1519 Our Advertisers are our main support, patronize them READING PUBLIC LIBRARY REMtyNG, MASSACHUSETTS

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THE PIONEER PAGE THREE PIONEERS Oh, yes! Pioneers! They were people like Daniel Boone and the “forty- niners” who explored and settled the wilderness, but there aren’t any now. Pioneers according to Webster are those who go ahead to prepare the way and overcome obstacles. Today in every branch of science there are pioneers. Living conditions are being experimented with, researches made, and pioneers are forging the way. In aviation, men are experimenting in different directions. Safe travel by air is coming, thanks to the pioneers, the Wright brothers, and Curtis. Long sustained flight is being developed by Atlantic hops. Lindbergh showed it could be done, but there have been enough attempts since then to show that it is only begun and not yet de¬ veloped. Seven men have lost their lives trying to do what the “Bremen” has almost missed doing. In another direction pioneers are working, the heliocopter or vertical flight machine has great possibilities but only through the efforts of the pioneers can it become possible. The first of this year Captain Gray who has made many altitude records in balloons, broke the world’s record for the last time. In his endeavor to explore the region above the clouds he was overcome with exhaustion and died ' before he could open another oxygen tank. His new world’s record which promises to remain that for a long while is between 43,000 and 44,000 feet. He was one of the few men who had ever gone up eight miles into the air In science, pioneering progresses rapidly but cannot be said to be much but pioneering yet. Little is known of electricity except how to control it in certain cases. Work upon the cathode ray may open the way for exploration: of the mysterious world around the nucleus of the atom. German scien¬ tists have gone into the Alps to record voltages from electrical storms. Last year having measured voltages of 2,600,000 volts, they hope to measure up to 10 million this year. With such voltages, the highest yet handled by man, they hope to break up the atom. That tremendous energy will be set loose they acknowledge, but that it can be set to useful work they cannot say. Surely pioneers are only those who are in advance of the rest, but only by their efforts can the rest be benefited. T. J. ’29. HONOR LIST—READING HIGH SCHOOL Third Quarter, 1928 Maximum Honors Esther Malonson, Ethel Pratt; Edith Woods, Gladys Dyer, Vincent Whitney. Honors Ralph Burhoe, Eleanor Crafts, Sara Harnden, Edith Lindquist, Thelma Mc- Clintock, Isabel Parker, Boyd Parker, Ruth Wilkinson, Dorothy Berle, Esther Downs, Edward Herrick, Elizabeth Allard, William Burpee, Elizabeth Jef¬ frey, Kenneth Larrabee, Gertrude Mc- Auley, Ernestine Merritt, Olive Spear. Commendation Dorothy Barnes, Frank Heselton, Alice Hodson, Frank Howard, Alfred Kimball, Margaret Lindsay, Arthur Moyer, Berenice Parker, Francis Bangs, Walter Benjamin, Mary Car¬ ney, William Carter, Grace Curtiss,. Theron Johnson, Barbara Knight,. Ambrose Knowlton, Woodward Lewis, Phyllis Starke, Katherine Tolman, Eve¬ lyn Benjamin, Ruth Burdett, Lillian-. Chamberlain, Jeanette Cheyne, Edith Cohen, Helen Colley, Truesdell Fife, Marguerite Frost, Mary Murphy, Gloria Wilcox.