Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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THE CHIMES 19 ing the decrease of our woodlands. A chart we mad; showed how our government works. At the prejent time in geography, we are studying Europe. Every one 3 in a while we do a project on the country being studied. We have just finished one on whatever we chose, such as silk, rubber, cocoa and coffee. We have had a variety of games in gym, and we played one basket- ball game with the freshman boys which ended in a sad defeat for the eighth grade. The following students were chosen to enter the semi-finals of the speak- ing contest: Walter Allen, Claire Burns, Patrick Butler, Mary Ann Evans, Marion Hill, Mary Esther LaVange, Charles Manning, Alice Moffit, Dorothy Secor, Anne Steverman, and Frances Williams. The following were chosen for the finals on April 1 1 : Patrick Butler, Mary Ann Evans, Marion Hill, and Frances Williams. The honor roll for the year thus far is as follows: Patrick Butler, Marjorie Hatlin, Mary Lou Hersey, Jean MacNeil, Matthew Miles, Joan Rouleau, Frances Williams, Dorothy Secor, Martha Lavoine, Maria Mans- field and Gordon Page. The honorable mention list is as follows: Charles Manning, Virginia DuBois and Helen Stark. SEVENTH GRADE CLASS NOTES Shirley Huntley Arnold Fuller For the first and second marking periods, Paul Carter received high honors. Marguerite Bartlett received them for the second marking period. The following members thus far this year have been on the honor roll: Richard Bresnahan, Theodore Holland, Beverly Briggs, Rose Marie Downie, Fay Joseph, Lyman Preston, David Quinlan, Jean Cole, Amalia Gillespie, Lois Heard, Peter Morton, Catherine Peirce, Arnold Fuller, Roger Zollin and Robert Rouleau. The following members have been on the honorable mention list: Jean Cole, Amalia Gillespie, Shirley Huntley, Patricia Lovewell, Peter Morton, Catherine Peirce, Roger Zollin, Beverly Briggs, Arnold Fuller, Jane Evans, Frank Hall, Virginia Heffernan, Joan Nash, Muriel Bonney, and Richard Bresnahan. In history class, the seventh grade made some projects about the Pil- grims. They also made magazines. The nine leaders were Paul Carter, Marguerite Bartlett, Virginia Heffernan, Richard Bresnahan, Arnold Fuller, Catherine Peirce, Lyman Preston, Fay Joseph, and David Quinlan. In English class, the seventh grade organized a club known as the Bet- ter Speech Club. The purpose of this club is to improve our speech.

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18 THE CHIMES Honorable Mention Doiolh) Bates Thomas Calkin Lester Chadbourne James Hill Christel Jonleit The following class officers were elected by the Freshmen this fall: President. Dana Condit; Vice-President, Everett Dorr; Secretary, Julia Brown; Treasurer, Gladys Ellms; Class Adviser, Mr. Sandberg. Three former members have left the class this year. Lulu Hezlitt went to Whitman; Ramona MacNaught, to Winthrop; and Leona Freeman, to West Roxbury. W e have welcomed a new member, Nancy Parker, from Weston, Massa- chusetts. Many girls and boys went out for sports this year. Ardemis Basmajian received a letter for hockey and Everett Dorr received one for basketball. The Freshmen and Sophomores held a joint social on Friday evening, March 24, 1939. There was a good orchestra and a large crowd attended. Several members of the class were chosen for the semi-finals of the speaking contest. They are as follows: Josephine Spear, Herbert Bearce, B rbara Murphy, Ceceline Stetson, and Irene Jacobson. EIGHTH GRADE CLASS NOTES Patrick Butler Charles Manning During the school year, beginning September 9, 1938, the eighth grade has been kept busy with various activities. In October Betty Jane Botham left and Jean Arnold, a new member, enlered our class. Later in the year one member, Robert Pyne, moved to Roxbury, making our present membership fifty-six. We have done many projects in the various subjects. In English tw o activities that were very interesting were A Winter Booklet based on our study of John Greenleaf Whittier ' s Snow Bound , and another book- let, which we have just completed in connection with our study of Poe ' s Gold Bug. Some graphs were made in mathematics. For two weeks, when we were studying stocks and bonds, we copied the quotations from the daily papers and at the end of that time, passed in a paper showing our losses and gains. We are now studying insurance of different kinds, life, fire, theft, automobile, as Avell as others. In history and civics, we have made a map of Scituate showing prin- cipal roads and points of interest. Besides this, we have made several maps, one of which was a series of small maps of the United States show-

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20 THE CHIMES We made a Fall Booklet, a Winter Sports Booklet, and just recently a little newspaper. The pupils who entered the semi-finals in the speaking contest were: Arthur Anderson, Barhara Billings, Jean Cole, Rose Marie Downie, Amalia Gillespie, Lois Heard, Virginia Heffernan, Russell Murphy, Betty Vickery, and Lyman Preston. Amalia Gillespie and Russell Murphy were chosen for the finals. In mathematics class, the seventh grade made mathematical diaries and booklets on circles and percentage. In geography class, we have made projects on certain products. We have also made projects on different countries. Some of the activities in girls ' gym were field hockey, basketball, and dancing. The boys ' gym classes have not been able to organize teams and play other schools, but we have had competition between the two divisions of the seventh grade. The seventh grade membership at present is sixty-three. During the year, John Stanton, David Parrott, Maurice Murray, and Mary McCormick left, and Dominick Bonomi entered. THE BOSTON PRESS CONFERENCE David Murphy, ' 39 On Saturday, January 14, the members of the Chimes staff attended the first annual Greater Boston Press Conference which was held under the sponsorship of Northeastern University for the representatives of the publications of all the secondary schools in the Eastern part of Massa- chusetts. At nine o ' clock in the morning over a thousand delegates gathered in the new University Hall to register and to see the various exhibits of the different school papers and magazines. From nine-thirty to twelve noon representatives of the leading Boston papers gave talks on the different aspects of the publishing of a newspaper. Mr. Lincoln O ' Brien, editor of the Boston Transcript , and also its publisher, gave a very interesting talk on a newspaper from the editor ' s point of view, explaining the dif- ference between editorial writing and writing the news as news. He also discussed the value to a paper of having an editorial policy and sticking to that policy. Mr. Charles Marchant, advertising manager of the Boston Post , ex- plained the mechanical side and actual printing of a paper, giving a de- tailed account of the different processes involved, from the time a paper matrix is made to the time the paper itself is ready to go on the street. He had with him several very interesting plates showing the dies for the front pages of the Post for some of the biggest news stories of the