Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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CHIMES 19 LUNCH PERIOD DANCING For a long time there has been a question about what the students should do during the ten or fifteen minutes after they finish lunch. It has been the custom of the pupils to congregate in the locker rooms, hall and cafeteria. Gathering in the halls caused confusion and blocked the passageways. Staying in the cafeteria made it difficult for the girl workers to prepare for the next lunch period. A committee of students selected from each class met with Mr. Nelson to discuss possibilities. They finally decided to have dancing in the au- ditorium as soon as the students had finished eat- ing. Music was provided by the piano, Louise Reddy playing for the first lunch period and Emily Whittaker for the second one. This short interval of entertainment affords opportunity for conversation and get-togethers that naturally cannot exist during class periods. The plan went over very well in the first lunch period, but in the second the older boys are very shy or re- luctant and prefer not to dance. COMMERCIAL NEWS In the fall, the senior stenography class issued a newspaper called the Commercial News. It contained news from each commercial class, jokes, shorthand notes, and other articles. The winter edition was made up by the junior class. This work gave the classes a chance to practise cut- ting stencils and mimeographing in an interesting and enjoyable way. SHOP There have been varied activities in the shop this year. Under the able supervision of Mr. Dodge, students have made many articles, from tie-racks to dressers. Lamps of all sizes have been turned on the lathes. The shop has some new machines which make the work easier. Mr. Dodge introduced a new and interesting subject to shop students this year, work in and study of plastics. Because of the war plastic was hard to get but with the supplies available, boys have fashioned many interesting and useful things. PRE-FLIGHT AERONAUTICS The pre-flight aeronautics course offers pre-in- duction training for boys who plan to join the aviation branches of the armed services. In this course basic principles of theory of flight, air- craft recognition, aircraft construction, aircraft engines, meteorology, and air navigation arc taught. Field trips and a number of moving pictures supplement regular classroom work. ART ACTIVITIES At the very beginning of the school year, Paul James and Polly Hardwick entered an art con- test at the Women ' s International Exposition in New York. Paul, a graduate of the class of 1944, submitted a water color painting, while Polly sent in a pencil sketch of one of the faculty, Mr. Wilcox. Paul received an honorable mention and a prize of ten dollars, and Polly re ceived a huge 1945 calendar with the twelve winning pictures on it. During the month of November and the first part of December, the art room was in a dither! Every available art student was working madly on linoleum blocks for a calendar they designed, using sketches of historic landmarks of Scituate. We made sketches, transferred them to the lino- leum blocks, and cut out the blocks. Henry ZoUin drew the Cudworth House; Ruthie Whit- taker, the high school; Albert Avery, Lawson ' s Tower; Josephine Miles, Minot ' s Light; Ora Brown, the Old Oaken Bucket; Alette Dolan, Second Cliff; Shirley Litchfield, the Hatherly School; Mary Fresina, the Jenkins School and the town seal; Madeline Riani, the Old Scituate Light. George O ' Neil entitled his sketch Moss- ing. Last but not least were Polly Hardwick ' s pictures of the Boston Sand and Gravel and the harbor with its boats and pier. The calendars were sold before Christmas for thirty-five cents each. In this way we made a little over fifty dollars which will go towards purchasing a drop curtain for our stage. Decorations for the class dances, and posters for various occasions, have been made in the art room. Just recently, some of the students in Junior and Senior High entered a contest put on by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The results of this contest have not, as yet, been tabulated.

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CHIMES 21 EDITORIALS Room 3o. U -Att Tom Macy, ' 45 yg HEN we take leave of our alma mater, 11 we shall have much to hope for and much to do. Ahead is the brightest horizon that men of this generation can look forward: to, a fut ure which many people have been anticipat- ing for a long time. It would be an almost un- forgivable crime for America and the rest of the peace-loving countries if we should allow this opportunity for world peace to slip away. America should not only take the initiative in post-war reconstruction, but also be influential in setting the pace of the post-war world. An eager world awaits the coming of the uni- versal peace, and the world-wide enforcing body which will insure it. The important thing is that the organization which the peace-loving countries set up, should be so derived that the political importance of the country would be subordinated for the benefit of the world. This step toward an arbitration group of combined forces has, perhaps, been attempted before; but this time it must be made boldly, not with fiery words, but with exemplary action. It must be well planned and faithfully executed by the best minds from every peace-loving country, which truly represent a cross-section of the country ' s wealth and interests. To say that war is going to cease on the face of the earth would be an over- statement. Perhaps wars are inevitable for a long time to come. War, perhaps our greatest enemy, is a thing of our own making. We have put criminals in the places where they belong, and have found the secret of control for many diseases. It is time that wars should be resorted to only for peace enforcement. A world of in- dividuals must unite for the welfare of all. To have a friend, one must be one. This is as tn.ic of countries as it is of individuals. That the money we have spent in the prosecution of the war could have been spent more rewardingly for increased travel and improved diplomatic re- lations is a fact worthy of note. The citizens of a country must know their neighbors. For in the final analysis the fate of a nation is decided by its people. The lives of us, who are young, will really begin when the war is over. Today ' s youth is working and thinking in the present of goals for the future. Ahead we can see happy people liv- ing rich and well-rounded lives in the simple at- mosphere of progress. There will be plenty of jobs, good jobs, and education for all who want it. Science will become the tool of the common man; and for all who seek it, there will be ad- venture, adventure in new horizons. Yes, there is plenty of room in this old world yet. There is room for everybody.