Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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16 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR TVOTES OF THE ALVMNI CATTEBELL-OS Somerville High School Roll of Honor We give below the names of our graduates who have died in the service. They aVe, indeed, our honor men. The supreme gift lias been theirs. No finer expression of their spirit can be offered than that given in the words of one of them, Up- ton, written a few days before his death: “It has been hard to remain patient when we read of the brave French and English and Ital- ians on the various fronts, when we had heard first hand of the sacrifices of the people of their different countries, when we had felt the pinch of food in restaurants in England, France and Italy, when we had seen the train loads of wounded pass us, knowing from everything we had seen and heard how much even our little bit was needed. It has only been our grand ideal that has kept us in spirit, only the knowledge of the glorious cause to be served. Now we are happy for our chance is coming soon! “Those in the States may find it difficult to be- lieve. but be assured the task before us has be- come so all-absorbing, so gripping, so glorious a chance for service, we have come to feel that it is sacred! “So we rejoice in our chance and are happy and impatient as never before! Can you blame us?” Well has it been said of them: “Every such life as theirs lifts up our common earth a little way towards the heavenly world! The ideals which they in a measure realized, lessen the distance be- tween us and the stars; between the mortal and the immortal!” Graduates Who Have Died in the Service Robert A. Bowl by 1906 Wallace T. Crispin 1912 Clayton C. Ellis 1915-B Ernest A. Giroux 1915-B Douglas R. Locke 1912 Joseph G. Murphy 1915-B Harold L. Pinkham 1915-B William W. Thayer 1912 Charles H. Upton 1912 Ernest A. Ware 1905 Under Graduate Who Died in the Service John J. Falvey 1919-A 1918 Bernice C. Hamilton (18-B) has entered Jack- son College. Eleanor Hall is attending Bryant and Stratton Business College. Eleanor Libby (18-A) is with the Charles River Trust Company. Reina Hadley is a freshman at Wheaton. The Somerville High School is honored by one of its alumni, Dorothy Currie, who won the $250 scholarship for passing the best entrance ex- amination, and is now a freshman at Radeliffe College. “Bud” Young has enlisted in the S. A. T. C. at Boston College. Dorothy Pray is a freshman at Jackson College. William Moore, president of his class during his senior year, is in the S. A. T. C. at Tufts. Muriel Wardrobe is a student at Burdette Business College. Anna Fulton has entered Boston University. Mary Robson is employed by the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Boston; and is attend- ing night school at Bryant and Stratton Business College. Raymond Eldridge has enlisted in the S. A. T. C. at Tufts. ’17 Alice Padelford is a sophomore at Wheaton. David Hill has enlisted in the S. A. T. C. at Boston University. Beatrice Savage, secretary of her class during her senior year, is a freshman at Jackson College. 1917 Merle S. Hunt has enlisted in the United States aviation service and is stationed at Mineola, L. I. Francis B. Hamilton (17-B) has enlisted in the merchant marine. The engagement has been announced of Alice LeSueur (17-A) to C. Lawrence Poore of Somer- ville. Florence Parker is attending Burdette Busi- ness College. Pete Allen has enlisted in the S. A. T. C. at Tufts. Edna Marsh (17-A) is married to Clifford Gil- lette of Somerville.

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 15 The High School library holds a unique posi- tion in the school. It is to the whole school what the laboratory is to the science department, what the kitchen is to the cooking classes. Its position has been slow in becoming recognized, but is final- ly coming into its own. Somerville is one of the first cities in the state to establish a library with a librarian in charge who is to devote all her time to this work at the public library. There are three distinct types of High School libraries: First, the one in which the librarian is under full control of the school authorities; sec- ond, the one in which the librarian is under the control of both the school authorities and the pub- lic library, and divides her time between them; and third, the one in which the librarian devotes part of her time to the library, and part to teach- ing. The second is the arrangement adopted by Somerville. This brings the relations between the public library and the school particularly close. The High School library aims to have material that will be of interest and of use to every de- partment. every teacher and every student in the school. Besides the general reference books, the dictionaries, encyclopaedias, year books, etc., there is a large collection of special reference books particularly useful to students of those subjects, —community civics, commerce and industry, lan- guages. Then there are the special editions and books to help make the studies more attractive. “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” with Rockham’s fantastic illustrations, “As You Like It.” so dain- tily and delicately illustrated by Hugh Thomson, the King Arthur tales with their spirited pic- tures, are some examples. For pleasure reading there are books to appeal to all tastes,—stories of adventure, of travel, of college life, novels that have stood the test of time, stories of today. There are war books by the men at the front,—personal narratives of all phases of the war,—air service, tank service, prison life, life on the sea, life in a submarine,— every field of action, Vritten by men who have been through it. The more serious type of the war books is also represented—“The Glory of the Trenches,” “World War,” “Land of Deepening Shadows”—books that you read through with great thought. For oral themes, for work in current events, for debates, periodicals are most helpful. The “weeklies,” Outlook, Independent, Literary Di- gest. Scientific American and its supplement con- tain some very valuable material; the “month- lies,” which touch nearly every department in the school, include the American Builder, Ameri- can Forestry, American Cookery, American In- dustries, Bookman (which contain some excellent book reviews, good models for yours), Industrial Arts, National Geographic, Popular Mechanics, Review of Reviews. Stenographer, System, Travel, and World’s Work. This year a filing cabinet has been added in which will be stored clippings, pictures and other valuable materials so as to be made more avail- able. New bulletin boards have been put in and the material on these will be interesting and in- structive. The library is open from 8.15 to 2.30. and stu- dents may come at any time. It is for their con- venience especially and the librarian is there to help them find what they need. The public li- brary is more generous, not only in lending books, but in purchasing books. Any book desired for use in school work may be borrowed from there through the system of interchange now used. Books may be taken from the library at the close of school, some to be returned the next morning, some to be kept longer. A cordial invitation is extended to all students to visit the library and inspect it for themselves.

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 17 .John Grininions lias enlisted in the S. A. T. C. at Technology. William Perry has transfered from Tufts to Dartmouth. Enid and Winifred Kenney are attending Bur- dette Business College. Stanly Cliff has enlisted in the S. A. T. C. at Technology. 1916 John 1). Chequer is now stationed at France with the U. S. signal corps. James Kellock is commissioned second lieuten- ant at Plattsburg. Lieutenant Thomas F. Scanlon is stationed at Camp Sweeney, Missouri, as instructor. Melville Pride is in the Tech aviation and is commissioned second lieutenant at Pensacola, Florida. Donald Marshall has enlisted in the S. A. T. C. at Tufts. 1915 Everett Doten has enlisten in the engineer ' reserve corps. First Lieutenant Harold Pinkham died in France. Warren L. Adams, who played football at Tufts, last fall, is a senior at dental school and expects to be transferred from the medical re- serve corps to the S. A. T. C. Corporal David J. Lanigan, who won inter- scholastic distinction as a cross country runner while at the S. II. S., has been awarded a medal for service at the second battle of the Marne. He is attached to the headquarters company of the 104th infantry. 1913 Harold Leland. who played on the football team, is commissioned ensign at Annapolis. Walter P. Sweet, Tufts ’17. is in the navy officers’ training school, expecting to go soon to the ensign school at Harvard. Chancey O. Cosgrove has received a commission as ensign. RESOLUTIONS Whereas, by the Divine Will of Providence, our friend and classmate, S. Sumner Lewis, has been taken from us Be it resolved, that we, the class of 1908, tender to his wife and family our heartfelt sympathy, and Be it also resolved, that a copy of these resolu- tions be published in the Somerville High School Radiator. Robert O. Cheslky, President. September 20, 1918. 1916-B Headquarters, 414th Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps France, via X. Y., June G, 1918. Alumni Editor, S. H. S. Radiator: I noticed in the March Radiator that you had my name on the Honor Roll, so I felt it my duty, seeing that you had taken interest, in my welfare, that I ought to at least write and ac- knowledge that interest. As you note from the letter heading, I am with a telegraph battalion, whose work is to construct and maintain tin battalion line, while the field battalion constructs and maintains from the front lines back to tin telegraph battalion, and from the line forward to outposts, and also when the infantry advance, carry communication lines to the points of advance. Our work is very interesting, although we have not yet got near enough to see any real action, but one never can tell what the next move is in the army. We are fed and quartered well, and by the thoughtfulness of many in the states, we are kept pretty well supplied in tobacco, and I realize now why it is said that “an old pipe and a good maga- zine” constitute the soldier’s paradise. There are many Boston boys in the battalion? but the majority are from Pennsylvania, Chicago, Buffalo, and a few points even further west. I was pleased to see that so many graduates and undergraduates had volunteered, and believe me, Germany is going to get beaten so badly she won’t get her head above water for at least 100 years — and the Kaiser—I know what I’d like to do with him, and I presume you have your preference. T will close wishing the Radiator the best of success and hope the old Alma Mater will mean as much to others as it does to me, in these days of trial. Fraternally yours, John I). Chequer (16-B).