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

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R. H. S. Class of 1936 Ardis Paul Sam” is one of the musically inclined girls of the Senior Class. At the football games and at orches¬ tra one can hear her beating her drum. Believe it or not, Ardis dislikes nothing and prefers math. She’s headed for Massachusetts State College, and even with¬ out her drum, she ' ll make ’em sit up and take notice. Virginia Elsie Pease “Ginny”, though she is a possible nominee for the title of class giggler, certainly doesn’t spend all her time giggling! She’s one of those two brilliant females who have undertaken solid geometry, and what’s more passed it. “Ginny” plans to enter Jackson College, rides horseback, and, whoops, she’s a Girl Scout! Helen Ruth Picard Helen, whose friends know her as “Honey”, is a newcomer this year, and we regret she didn’t come here sooner. She intends to study hairdressing, but states her future as just work. Heaven protects the working girl, and especially such pleasant and cheerful ones as Helen, but here’s our good wishes, just the same. Beulah Pierce Beulah, who is taking the Commercial Course, may be rather quiet, but she’s always efficiently on the spot. Her plans include studying hairdressing at Wilfred Hairdressing Academy, and she harbors the lofty ambi¬ tion of being successful. With all that ambition, Beulah certainly ought to go places and do things. Bernard Pitman Short and blonde with a quizzical smile” sums Bar¬ ney up in a nutshell. Who doesn ’t remember that blonde youth streaking around the building? And when he stops, you can always see his blue eyes twinkling as he gazes over your shoulder at some beautiful damsel. Not that he can often see over anyone’s should¬ er but then you might be sitting down. Virginia Frances Pitman “Ginny” ranks fourth on the class honor list, is tond of sports, but is especially interested in reading good books. She seems to have chosen a life of work for which she is very well suited, for she will make a fine secretary, since she is keen, unobtrusive, and efficient. “Ginny’s” a fine friend, too. Virginia Pomeroy “Ginny” participates very actively in sports such as tennis, hockey, and swimming. Her life work and her pet aversion are strangely alike. The former is to a dietitian, and the latter is eating. We don’t know why, but her special interest is Chevrolets. Helen Powell “Donny”, a member of the field hockey team, be¬ longs to the Sport Club and the Upland Club. We wonder if she giggles to the goal in hockey too. Her future plans are to follow in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale and be a nurse And how we all sym¬ pathize with her pet dislike—the seats in the assembly hall.

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R. H. S. Class of 1936 Muriel Areta Newberry Muriel is our salutatorian and an eminent contribu¬ tor to the Pioneer. We feel sure she is our class gen¬ ius, and, when she has won the Nobel Prize for in¬ ternational peace, (for it is her desire to do something to promote world peace), we shall be proud to say we knew Muriel in our school days. Muriel is going far from Reading to college—to the University of Missouri. She is going far in the world, too. Bernard Nichols Through the portals of the ol’ school this June will pass one of the best tuba players and chorusites the music department has even seen or heard, in the per¬ son of Bernard Nichols. Barney plans on Northeastern to bring his knowledge of accounting into tip-top shape. Bike-riding, he says, because he is a paper boy, is ab¬ solutely despicable, but Barney, how do you feel about that brunette you’re trying to beat downstairs? Raymond Nichols Ray is that chuckling bit of greased lightning glid¬ ing about the corridors in work and play. He’d do almost anything to have things work smoothly; there¬ fore, he doesn’t like horseback riding. Bookkeeping is his field right now, and he hopes to keep loads of books in the future. Irene Norton “Buster” is that bouncing, boisterous barrel of buf¬ foonery who’s into everything. She’s a hockey-tennis- basketball player, an honor student, a Pioneer contribu¬ tor, and an actress, but her chief delight is U. S. His¬ tory. Walter Noyes At least we have one good history student who just naturally sees the point of Mr. Dixon’s subtle remarks. “Spike” considers accounting necessary in his future of a republic’s chief. He’s not particular what republic, but any one will do as long as there is a swimming p@ol to cool off his short thickset frame after he’s been sub¬ way riding. That lust after subway riding we attri¬ bute to the probability of there being a girl on the car; you can’t fool us, “Spike”! Dorothy Mae O’Brien We tremble to think what we would have done without Dot as the very capable stage manager for the senior play. Dot swims, plays hockey, and giggles. Her special interest is having fun, and her pet aversion is a serious person. Need more be said? Agnes Joan O’Dowd Because it is her pet dislike as well as her nick¬ name, we won’t call her “Aggie”. She is active in sports, among them, basketball, hockey, and tennis. Agnes probably is building up muscle to handle de- lirous patients, for she is to be a nurse. Have you tried “Pop Eye’s favorite cereal”? Oscar Olsen Everybody knows Oscar with his alert, flashing brown eyes and his quick pearly smile. O. O. is a chief source of amusement and amazement, and just what would the teachers do without those classroom questions of his? Another outlet for Oscar’s energy is the ether waves into which he injects the news from his own short wave station WLUQO.

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R. H. S. Class of 1936 Lois Pratt Ouigley “Lo’s” ambition is to grow an inch! Ask John Cullinane the secret of his success; he must have the formula. Lois is going to Burdett College to train for a private secretaryship, so our future vice-presidents should put their orders in early, for she will be useful as well as ornamental. Esther F. Ray “Sunny” is the budding artist in our midst, who hopes to attend the Massachusetts School of Art, and become a commercial artist Her nickname matches both her hair and her disposition, and she likes all kinds of sports. But late homework is her pet aversion. We wonder if that refers to English. Joseph Reed “Joe”, you’re a thief, ’cause when you left the Southland you took all the sunshine with you! “Yep, that smile gives you away; old Sol sorta oozes right out of ya, Joe.” Yowsah, Joe climbs, in less than a year, by leaps and bounds both in the social register and the scholastic thermometer, being one of the most popular fellows in the class and earning class honors, and then we find him to be an actor par excellence. Gee whiz, Joe, is everyone in the South like that? Elsdon Richardson The greatest interest in Eldson’s life, outside of girls, is music. Make way, Fred Waring, for “Richie” of the twinkling eyes, who’s dragging his piano and sax behind him. Pigeons fascinate “Richie” too, and we suppose he’ll soon have them trained to play the xylo¬ phone. Elinor Muriel Salmon One of our leading athletes, whose name has been prominent in the basketball line-ups, is Elbe. Bicycling is her favorite sport, and she may be wanting one be¬ fore she finishes dashing around those long hospital corridors where she will start on a career dfi nursing. Linton Salmon The race is on! Who’s to be the most famous writer of R. H. S. ’36—Linton Salmon or Gardner Knapp? “Lin” is our source of light humor, and that’s why the joke editor made him his worthy assistant. Our light-haired four-eyes is already noted for his poems about farms and pithy analysis of the opposite sex. Frank Sargent “Frankie” is one of our potential Bobby Joneses. His laughter and indomitable freckles together with his miraculous golf put the editor into such a frame of mind that he, the editor, is often surpassed by the “little pro.” Besides golf, Frank manages somehow to collect stamps with one hand, hold his French book desperately in the other, and climb steadily in DeMolay with both feet forward. Barbara Knight Sawyer “Be” is the young lady we see on stair landings and outside of Room F with a certain young man from North Reading. She’s heading for Sargent, and from her list of athletic awards already won here, she ought to make the grade.