Rindge Technical School - Brownie Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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IQAI “(6She “Brownie.” 1941 JUNIORS The world was shaken by the events of September, 1939. In the United States our class became Juniors; in Europe, World War II broke out. Both events were remarkable chiefly for the ‘blitz- krieg’ of that fall and winter. Spring came. And with it the realization that 50 s never produce an average of 60. So the ‘Battle of the Books’ began. In this corner, a man armed with his ‘little black book of bad boys’ in which, like Gabriel, he noted faithfully our failures, all of them, and we hoped our successes; and, in this corner, a boy armed with a textbook, paper, and occasionally a pencil. The winnah? As Juniors we became organized; we held our first elections. Jack Sugrue was elected President; Don Lorenzo, Vice-President; Art Lee, Treasurer; and, Eddie Aroyan, Secretary. Immediately the officers organized the Junior Council and instituted the practice of collecting monthly dues from the individual class members. The Junior Prom on May 12 at the Elks’ Lodge Room in Central Square was a social success, a fin- ancial failure. ‘The Star Duster’, Rindge alumni, furnished the music. Those who could not ‘jive’ did not attend but resolved to join Mr. Ladd’s dancing class in the fall. Miss Pike, Miss Cassidy, Mr. Diehl, Mr. Haugh, Miss Mosher and Mr. Wood were guests of the class. Mr. Mahony assisted the Officers in making the arrangements for this affair. « Two events saddened our Junior Year. Mr. John R. Curry, Oral English teacher and baseball coach, died. George Kesselhuth, co-captain elect of football, was obliged to leave school because of the death of his father. As Juniors we had come to appreciate the scenery in the vicinity of the Public Library at one fifty each day. Our keen delight in watching ‘the Fords go by’ led us to resolve as vacation began in June to give Barrymore, Nelson Eddy and Tyrone Power serious competition for the title of ‘All American Romeo’. ; SENIORS A martial atmosphere marked our induction into the status of Seniors. The talk, early in Sept- ember, of drafting America’s manpower between the ages of 18 and 45 was complimentary and fright- ening, too. For we had scarcely come to realize that we are men with the responsibilities of men. It was with a sense of relief that we learned that the lowest age limit of the Selective Ser- vice Act is twenty-one. Now, most of us could complete our high school career without interuption. Yet, three Seniors have been affected by our national defense program. Ricardo Poncé was mobil- ized when the National Guard was inducted into the federal service; William P. Jones was called into active service by the Navy; and Cornelius O’Leary was called to work at the Navy Yard in Charlestown. Members of the faculty, too, have been talled into the nation’s armed forces. Mr. Joseph Freni was mobilized with his National Guard unit in January; Mr. Hugh Curry was selected for Army Ser- vice inMarch; and in April, Mr. Arthur Morash was called to active service as Lieutenant -Commander in the Navy. Anumber of other teachers are awaiting the callof their local Selective Service: Boards. Senior class officers elected in November were William P. Mullane, President; Henry Sartanowicz, Vice-President; Edward Stankus, Treasurer; and Edward Shine, Secretary. As in our freshman year, we saw a Rindge championship team - the ‘hoopsters’ this time - set out for New York and Washington in search of new fields to conquer. For a time there was some doubt concerning the publication of the 1941 ‘Brownie’. Apprised of the difficulties, the class got behind this project and thanks to their cooperation we accomplish- ed what had been considered impossible. We were unable to present the usual ‘Football Night’ but our Senior Drama ‘Night Must Fall’ was a huge success. Again °41 was responsible for a world shattering event. For the first time in his- tory a Rindge Senior Drama had girls cast in the feminine roles; and Francis Willard, a refugee from Vienna by way of Prague and London, brought a real Oxford accent to his part. This, then, is the recorded history of RTS ‘41. What of the future? Joe McCarthy, Class Seer, has read the cards and gazed long and earnestly into his crystal. He tells all in the Class Pro- phecy which follows.

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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.

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IQ4I “Che Brownies” IO4I SENIOR ADVISORS, OFFICERS, AND COUNCIL befit Lo right ‘ First row: Mullane; Mr. Mahoney; Mr. Wood; Mr. Fitzgerald; Sartanowicz; Sdankus. Middle row: Cooper; Tashjian; Lunsford; Medeiros; Wm. Jones; A.P. Stone. Back row: Mellerup; Emery; Tonshend; Ridlon; Sniegiecki; Tibbetts; Lorenzo; Har- we pell; Wigham.