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

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O Vs vV ' jl) v p) r The Winter Number In appreciation of the time and effort they have given freely to us, we re¬ spectfully dedicate this number of the Pioneer to the faculty. PIONEER BOARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Vincent H. Whitney ’30 ASST. EDITORS Philip G. Parker ’30 Katherine Spencer ’31 BUSINESS MANAGER Herbert B. Downs ’30 ASST. BUSINESS MANAGERS Bernard Bailey ’31 Robert Stewart ’32 NEWS EDITOR Ina H. Bergquist ’31 EXCHANGE CRITIC Lillian Chamberlain ’30 ATHLETIC EDITORS Girls.’—Dorothy T. Perry ’30 Boys’—William Burpee ’30 JOKE EDITOR Walter F. Ingalls ’30 ART EDITOR Francis Merritt ’30 POEM EDITOR Patricia Littlefield ’31 PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER Ina H. Bergquist ’31 TYPISTS Mary Murphy ’30 Dorothy Perry ’30 LITERARY EDITORS Sadie Birnie ’30 Mary Murphy ’30 Truesdell Fife ’30 Barbara Boardman ’31 Mildred Davies ’31 Jeanne Else ’31 Jean Marshall ’31 Irvin Brogan ’31 Raymond Nelson ’31 Dorothy Crosby ’32 Barbara Jewett ’32 Patricia Sussmann ’32 Ross Chapin ’32 Kenneth Latham ’32 FACULTY ADVISORS Elizabeth Batchelder Frances Greenhalgh Luke Halpin Hermon T. Wheeler HONORARY MEMBER Helen Beals, first Editor of the Pioneer. Published by the Pupils of Reading High School 1930 READING PUBLIC LIBRARY READING, MASSACHUSETTS

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Compliments STUDIOS OF music INCORPORATED Reading Branch, 5 Winter St. of F. S. WALLS, Director All Branches of Music Taught Arthur W. Coolidge Catalog Free Tel. Reading 0713-M Don’t Wait For Something To Turn Up The way to get ahead is to have a regular system of saving, — to put by a fixed amount every month. That’s why people make such fine progress who have co-operative bank accounts. Our regular plan calls for $1.00 or more monthly. PLAN TO TAKE SHARES OF THE NEW NOVEMBER SERIES AND SAVE SYSTEMATICALLY READING CO-OPERATIVE BANK 195 Main Street Reading, Mass. .. j - j- j-1- - j- i i i i IN THE LONG RUN you and your frauds will prize +be truest self, free t rt efi v It is in this “long ,u ' photogi. won. Portraiture later years For presen by having 160 Tremor Our — your ias been over in hic self Boston

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PAGE TvVO OPINIONS THE PIONEER The most important part of school is not the number of facts we learn and remember—although they are im¬ portant—but the training we get in thinking things out for ourselves. Tea¬ chers are always cautioning us not to be afraid to form our own opinions about things. We don’t always have to think the other fellow’s way, but we must have good reasons for our opinions. We must look over all the lessons we study and see how they are con¬ nected with real life. They show us what problems grown men and women have to solve, so that when we are called upon to solve our own problems of government, of the home, or of business, we will know how to do it. M. M. ’30. AN HOUR IN THE LABORATORY The bell rings, keys jingle, desks scrape open—and another laboratory period has begun. To some, a selected few, this will be an hour of bliss; to others it will be merely another hour to struggle through. Fortunately there is a happy medium between these two, those to whom chemistry is still much of a mystery but worth being solved. They will enjoy this period to the ut¬ most, even though they make a mis¬ take in the middle of the experiment and have to begin again. The “initiated few,” mostly boys, are held very much in awe. They know all about the experiments beforehand and just how they will come out. But no one dares to bother them with questions. Besides, questions would do no good; the explanation would be too far beyond ordinary understanding. There are crucial moments in the laboratory period (just as crucial as any in a Latin recitation.) Take, for instance, the time when, after working for two solid hours on an experiment, you bring a jumble of figures to the instructor. Perhaps they are one-tenth out of the way. He looks rather un¬ decided (of course you look hopeful:) “Well, I suppose—no, I guess you had better try it over.” Then there are those little slips, “breakage slips.” Perhaps you have been trying to conceal a crack in your test tube and are heating it in a busi¬ ness-like manner. The instructor, com¬ ing a r ound to see how your experiment is working, observes pleasantly, “Brok¬ en your test tube, girls?” You sigh, “Yes,” and think to yourself, “Another slip.” All these trying moments are offset, however, in the joy of completing an experiment successfully. When the figures do work out to something you can understand or when your acid and base evaporate nicely to a salt, it is enough to repay all your labors. The bell rings again, and the period ; s over. An end to working out the fascinating secrets of science for today. N E W S A general assembly, opened by the singing of “America,” was held on November 8. Mr. Sussmann gave a short talk after which everyone joined in singing “Step by Step.” After these Armistice Day Exercises we all had the extreme pleasure of hearing Walter Damrosch in one of his Friday morn¬ ing concerts. Everyone voted that he would be glad to have the privilege of hearing him again. A special assembly was called at two