Rindge Technical School - Brownie Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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IQ4I Che Brownie” IQ4I THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 194) SEPTEMBER 13, 1937 TO JUNE II, [941 FRESHMEN On September 13, 1937, at ten o’clock, the largest class yet to enter Rindge met in the Edward W. Quinn Auditorium to receive program cards. For several weeks thereafter, the class of °41, the tiniest and newest ‘frosh’, wandered be- wildered through a maze of endless corridors, peering anxiously at hundreds of doors to find the one with the right number. Seven times daily our short legs, encased in their new longies, churned manfully to take us in two minutes flat over the Corridor Course in the Inter-Period Walkathon. And the obstacles in that race! Stairways - One Way! - in the other direction. Slippery and very hard floors! Square turns! Swinging doors! Open locker doors! Race officials stationed every twenty feet over the course, eager to detain us at 2:06 should we cheat and run! Those of us who did run (and who didn’t) paid for our gallop plus additional time for covering th e course in more than par. How we struggled to open those lockers! In vain we prayed that Mr. Banks and Mr. Moore would let us make stools that we might reach that upper section of which we had heard reports. But these were minor tribulations as we learned when the death of Mr. Joseph R. Little was announced to us. Mr. Little had taught some of us Materials of Industry; he had coached others of us on the JV football squad; he was friend and counsellor to all of us. In January, 1938, the Rindge ‘Pucksters’ undefeated, won the Greater Boston Interscholastic Hockey Trophy and went on to conquer new fields in New York City and Washington during the Feb- ruary vacation. SOPHOMORES Storm signals were flown from Sandy Hook to Eastport, Maine. Trees were uprooted. Signs were torn from their moorings. Steeples rocked ontheir foundations. Roofs, conscientious for years past, lost their grip and sailed away. The historic hurricane of 1938 heralded and marked forever the graduation of °41 into the ranks of the upper classmen. Truly we had become important men. For, after the noise and tumult that hailed our initiation into the rank of Sophomores had subsided, two days vacation were granted the entire school system that all might recuperate fully from the celebration. During our Sophomore year two events took place which helped us to appreciate the meaning of the phrase ‘school spirit’. In November the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Rindge was celebrated; in December our first co-operative class effort was the production of the annual Christmas play. On Friday and Saturday, November 11 and 12, 1938, the citizens of our city joined with the alumni, faculty and student body in celebrating the school’s fiftieth birthday. Many of us marched in the parade that preceeded the Lynn-Rindge football game on Friday. The program for this cele- bration will be found elsewhere in this volume. On the day school closed for the annual Christmas holidays, the Sophomore class presented to an appreciative audience a dramatization of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. Mr. William S. Lynch direc- ted this production. This was our first effort as a class working as a unit to do something for Rindge. Proud we justly are of that effort. Our Sophomore year was saddened by the death, during the hurricane, of Mr. Saville Moore.