Rindge Technical School - Brownie Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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MR. FRANCIS T. McCABE Headmaster Mr. McCabe has been in the Cambridge school system for the past 37 years. He was appointed a teacher in 1922 and master in 1928. He became assistant headmaster in 1937; acting headmaster in September of 1950 and headmaster in 1951. Mr. McCabe is a graduate of the University of Maine, being awarded his Bachelor of Science degree in 1922. He has also received a master of education degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1928. It has been through Mr. McCabe’s encouragement, understanding, guidance, and friendship that many of our classmates are now graduating. We, the Class of 1959, will never forget him and wish to thank Mr. McCabe for his help. We hope that those coming after us will for many years have the advantages of his friendship.

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DEDICATION The class of 1959 affectionately dedicates its yearbook to a man who will live forever in the history of Rindge. The editorial, which appeared in the first issue of our last year at Rindge, crystallizes our feel- ings towards him: “As a new school year opened, a definite void seemed to exist. No one at first could seem to explain this emptiness. It took only a few days to realize that a man who had been an integral part of the very foundation of Rindge was no longer with us. Mr. Walter H. Gomes had retired. For thirty-nine years, Mr. Gomes had been the so-called faculty technical advisor of the Rindge Register. This was a misnomer, for Mr. Gomes was actually “The Register,” as those of us who knew him know full well. The Register would never have been produced without his able, expert knowledge, his indefatigable energy and his abiding devotion to the Rindge technical school. It doesn’t seem possible that he is no longer with us. “To stop here and wish Walter many years of health and happiness in his retirement would be a gross injustice. The Rindge Register was just one of his many noteworthy accomplishments although, we suspect, his best. The paper is truly a monument to him. ‘We, at Rindge, need only to pass along our first floor corridor and see in frames a complete athletic history of our school. The countless hours that this dedicated man put into this project probably will never be known. He was too modest a gentleman to think that this time spent was a sacrifice. He was imbued with so much Rindge spirit he probably felt it was his duty as a Rindge man. The research re- quired to bring this most amazing project up to the present day, required a tenacity of purpose that only a man like Walter possessed. We feel certain in saying that no other high school in the country has as complete a visual athletic library under glass as we possess. So Walter leaves yet another monument. “There are those of us who can, with a little retrospection, recall yet another monument that could not be seen with the naked eye. For years when we were producing our annual senior drama, or, as a matter of fact, for any type of entertainment he had in the auditorium, Walter supplied all the lighting equipment, stage accoutrements and a working crew without ever submitting a bill for his services. We suspect, and in fact-we know, that it cost this noble character money out of his own pocket. “Back in 1931, our first yearbook was produced and here again without the guiding hand of Walter this project would not have reached fruition; this yearbook fathered our present book. ‘As we bring this article to a close we know we are going to leave many things unsaid, but the wide range of his services to Rindge were of such magnitude that it would take a much more proficient re- searcher to do this truly wonderful person justice. His place in Rindge history is intact—as long as the name Rindge lives, the name of Walter H. Gomes will be indelibly associated with it.”

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