Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 5 much improved over those last year. Best of all, the pupils now breathe fresh air instead of the vitiated atmosphere of the crowded rooms in pre- vious years. Much of the over-crowding has been dispensed with, and the students are now in a position to do better work. Notwithstanding these changes, it is still evident that an addition to the English School is much needed in the fast-growing city of Somerville. r r . 'Hie Radiator staff extends a hearty welcome to the members of the class of 15)11. Freshmen, you will find the first year of high school both en- joyable and trying, and should take care to form habits which will make your work in high school successful. Above all. do not shirk your lessons because they seem easy, but “do a day’s work each day.’' We appreciate your feelings, as we distinctly re- member our own three years ago. r r r. The football season is now in full sway. Al- though it is too early to prophesy, we expect to have a team worthy of the school. We have been defeated, it is true, but by defeats come victories, so the followers of the team should not be down- cast. Mr. White, our new coach, is doing excel- lent work, also Captain Millmore and Manager Hamilton. By the way. don’t forget that Waltham game next month, also the Rindgegamc on Thanksgiving Dav morning. r ‘ . The members of the English School regret the resignations of Miss Winifred E. Howe and Erank A. Scott. Miss Howe has accepted’a posi- tion in the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts in New York City. Mr. Scott is now principal of the Belmont High School, being one more sub- master who has left us to become a head master elsewhere. r r r The R a in a to it expresses its pleasure at the re- turn of Miss Anna Pushee, head of the German department in the English School. Miss Pushee was granted a year’s leave of absence last year, and spent the time in study and in travel in Ger- many and other European countries. r r r If our readers find the class notes a little below the usual standard in quantity and quality this month, they must not treasure hard feelings to present to the class editors. The class elections were held so recently that many of the editors have been obliged to burn the midnight oil in order to produce their contributions. p I’he Latin School is glad to welcome Miss Kaan and Mr. Hawes safely home from a summer of travel through Germany, Switzerland. Italy, and I'rance. We regret the resignations of Miss Cliff and Mr. Dickinson, who were highly re-, spected by us all. On July (5 Miss Cliff became Mrs. Percival Way land White. Mr. Dickinson will continue his teaching in the Newton High School, where he was recently appointed coach of the football team. . The Radiato» presents this month as a frontis- piece the pictures of the new members of the fac- ulty in each school. We much regret that we arc unable to furnish the pictures of two of the five new instructors, but we extend a most hearty wel- come to all of them. •» ► Mr. Ilosmer’s report, which appears in this issue, shows that the Radiato» stands upon a sat- isfactory financial basis.

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It is with mixed feelings of pleasure and mis- giving that the members of the Radiator staff of 1010-Tl make their official editorial debut. Owing to the high standard of Volume XIX. set by our predecessors in office, we feel that we must each and all do our level best to shoulder success- fully the burdens of the previous staff. It is our earnest desire to make Volume XX. a publication which shall be as worthy of merit as the work of our esteemed predecessors. e hope to produce a paper which shall prove of interest to the stu- dents of both schools, and which may also be of some literary value. We call the attention of the members of both schools to the necessity of supporting the Radiator. Let the class editors rejoice in an abundance of notes and of real jokes. While we realize that not every member of a class has the ability to create witticisms, yet a large proportion of students are able to furnish the class editors with material. The Radiator requires, also, stories, alumni notes, club notes, and other mat- ters of interest to the schools at large, which we feel sure our readers can readily furnish. Con- tributions for the Letter-Box. established two years ago, are much desired. In the past, mat- ters of vital importance to both schools have been discussed by this method, open to all; and it is our earnest wish that these discussions may be extended in the present volume. k® 'I'he Somerville High Schools have opened this year with radical changes in both. These changes have not been made without difficulty; results show already the wisdom of the School Board in instituting them. In the Knglish School the three upper classes are in session from 8 to 12 o’clock, a short recess following the third period. The number of pe- riods has been shortened to five, necessitating fewer study periods in school. The freshman class is in session from 12.30 to 4.15 in the after- noon. under a corps of teachers in charge for the afternoon only. All double desks have been removed, except in the lecture hall, and many of the smaller rooms, formerly filled with desks, have been converted into recitation rooms. The physics department has been newly equipped. The typewriting department has been given adequate quarters, and modern business desks have been installed in the bookkeeping room. Bubble fountains have been placed in the cor- ridors. and the sanitary condition of the school has been improved. I'he changes in the Latin School have been less radical. All students attend from 8 until 1 o’clock, except the members of the first-year class, some of whom are present from 8 until 12. and others from 10 to 2. The English School has given up two of the annex rooms to the Latin School. As a whole, conditions in both schools arc

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6 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ©ur IFlew XCeacbevs Xatin School Edith L. Hurd was born and educated in Som- erville. She graduated from the Forster Gram- mar School and the Latin High School, ftcr leaving High School, she entered Radcliffe Col- lege. Since that time Miss Hurd has taught Eng- lish. Latin. German, and mathematics at the Lit- tleton High School. Mount llermon Hoys'School, and Xewton Classical High School. At present she is teaching German. English, and Latin. Nancy I». Kimball, who is teaching French, his- tory. and geometry for us. was born in Man- chester. X. 11. There she received the first of her education, graduating from the Manchester High School in 1902. Then she entered Yassar Col- lege. and graduated in the class of 190(5. While at college. Miss Kimball was a member f the college glee club, and took an active part in dra- matics, being business manager of the senior play. She has taught in the grammar grades at Man- chester. X. H.. science at Chelsea High School. Massachusetts, and French and science at Y olfe Hall, a boarding school for girls, in Denver. Colo. Enolisb School Miss Esther Parmcnter was born in Clinton, la., and was graduated from the high school of that city, from the Salem .Normal School, class of IS9T. and from Wellesley College, class of 1903. Miss Parmcnter comes to the English depart- ment of the English High School from Westerly, R. I., where she has taught for the last four and one-half years. She succeeds Miss Winifred E. Howe, resigned. S. Thomas Hall, who is teaching mechanical drawing in the afternoon session of the English School, was born in Providence. R. I. After graduating from the public schools of Providence, he took a college preparatory course at Medford High School, and entered Tufts with the class of 1899. ()wing to ill health, he was not graduated until 1903, when he received the degree of P . S. in the electrical engineering course, and after graduat- ing spent some time in private manufacturing in- terests. Mr. Hall also did construction work for S. I’,. Church Co., and has taught in the State School at Shirley. Mass. Horace Taylor is assisting in the chemical and physical laboratories, taking the place of Mr. Tripp, who is now of the physics department. Mr. Taylor was born in P.rookline. Mass., was graduated from the Brookline High School in 1903. and from Harvard, class of 1907. He was graduated from the Harvard School of Arts and Sciences in 1908, and has taught in the Exeter High School and at Camp Ossipee. $51