Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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10 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 7VOTZS OF THE A LVMNI CATTPBEL.L-08 1919 Gertrude Barker, Louise Woods and Dor- othy Sawver are attending Boston Normal Art School. Ruth Caulfield is employed on the clerical staff of the Boston and Maine office. William Hayes is at Holy Cross College. Edgar Lyle and Oscar Ilockenson are freshmen at Dartmouth. Helen Sweet is at present assisting Mme. Lombard at her studio of music. John Avery is a midshipman at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. Md. Mildred Scribner and Ethel Swineham- mer are employed by the Gillette Razor Company. Dorothy Loring is a freshman at Whea- ton College. George Keegan is a salesman for the Cole Motor Company. Charles Kolb is employed by the F. H. Thomas Company of Boston. Carleton Knox and Charles Kendall are attending Lowell Textile School. Jessie Moore is manager of the Dainty Waist Shop at Gloucester. Beulah Nowell is employed by the John Hancock Insurance Company. Norman Paasche is at Brown University. Francis Howland and Charles Easton arc at Boston University. 1918 Adelaide Furlong entered Forsythe Den- tal School, October 1, 1919. Dorothy Pray and Beatrice Savage arc sophomores at Jackson. Mildred Saunders is at the Quartermas- ter’s Depot, Medford, Mass. Raymon Eldridge is a sophomore at Tufts. Lillias Durning was married to Carlton Potter, September 17. 1917 Stella Crow is completing a course at Framingham Normal School. It is interesting to note that Harry Moore, president of the class of T7, is work- ing hard to complete a four years’ course in three years at Harvard. Arthur Gorham is with the E. R. Nash Company, wholesale leathc house. Harold Kolb has returned from service and will again take up his course at the Mu- seum of Fine Arts. 1916 Helen Haden is employed by the Ameri- can Glue Company. Ruth Armstrong is with the American Woolen Company. Charles, “Breezy,” Morse is a salesman for Libby, McNeil Libby. Howard Whitaker is a senior at Dart- mouth. 1915 Margaret Wiley is Vice-President of the Senior Class at Wheaton. John Brewer is a research chemist for the American Paper Company of Holyoke. John Chipman. returned last spring from the French service as 1st lieutenant, has finished a course At Harvard Summer School. Horace Ford, Tufts ’19, was with the Boston Braves this season and is now a chemist in the Hood Rubber Company. Roscoe Elliot, having served in the U. S. Navy, has re-entered Dartmouth this fall. 1914 Frank Lincoln, Tufts ’19, is employed by the Walworth Manufacturing Company as a mechanical engineer,

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 9 Colonel French has spent altogether fif- teen months in Rome, taking these pictures. He has made three complete tours of the world. His collection of ten thousand slides is the largest of its kind in the world. He also has a collection of about thirteen thousand feet of motion picture films. Colonel French took all of the pictures for the slides himself, which makes his lectures doubly interesting. He is the only man in his profession who lectures to adults and to school children as well. All who have heard Colonel French will be glad to hear him again, because they know what an excellent and interesting speaker he is. Those who have never heard him have missed a great deal. All are invited to attend this entertain- ment. Tickets will be io cents and will be on sale later. Remember. Colonel French, High School Hall. 2 P.M., Wednesday, No- vember 3! The “Radiator” extends a hearty welcome to the new members of our faculty. We stand ready to help them in any possible way, and wish them all success. The fol- lowing is a list of the new teachers: Miss Elizabeth M. Welch (Stenography), Room 102. Miss Welch graduated from Somerville High School, and Chandler Nor- mal Shorthand School. She taught in the Howard High School, West Bridgewater. The last two years she has spent in the serv- ice of the government, part of that time being overseas. Miss Ruth L. Ranger (French, Mathe- matics), Room 228. Miss Ranger graduat- ed from Somerville High School and from Boston University. She has taught in Bethel, Vt., and in Wayland, Mass. Miss Ruth H. Merritt (Typewriting), Room 224. Miss Merritt graduated from the South Portland (Me.) High School and from the Nasson Institute, Springvale, Me. She has taught in Bath. Me. Miss Louise M. Saunders (French, Spanish), Room 214. Miss Saunders graduated from Somerville High School and from Tufts College. She has taught for a number of years in Braintree High School. Miss Ella W. Burnham (French), Room 322. Miss Burnham received her training in European schools. She has taught in Miss Doris Crcsto (French and Draw- Gloucester High School (Mass.), ing), Room 400. Miss Cresto graduated from Somerville High School, and Massa- chusetts Normal Art School. She comes to us directly from the art school.. Mr. Leander T. .DeCelles (Chemistry), Room 301. Mr. DeCelles graduated from Boston College Preparatory School and from Boston College. While in college he was very active along literary lines.. He was associate editor of the college paper, and he won the Bapst prize in debating. He has taught in New Haven, Vermont, and in Boston College. He entered the serv- ice in the aviation corps. After about eigh- teen months in the service he was released, and finished the year teaching in Roxbury High School. Mr. Wallace S. Hall (Physics, Chemis- try), Room 302. Mr. Hall graduated from Woburn High School and from Knox Col- lege (111.). He did post-graduate work at Harvard. He has taught in Oak Bluffs, Mass., Hanover, Mass., and in Woodstock, Conn. OMICRON PI SIGMA Psi Chapter of Omicron Pi Sigma Fra- ternity is entering into one of its most suc- cessful years. Never before has the out- look appeared more bright and promising. We are aiming to maintain the high stand- ard which our graduated brothers strove hard to acquire and hold. Sadly do we miss the familiar faces of our brothers of the class of nineteen hundred and nineteen. Many of them have entered higher institu- tions. To them we send our best wishes for success. Upon us who remain, falls the task of choosing those who are to enter into our circle. May we be able to do this with the clearest of foresight so that only those who will uphold the true principles of man- hood and fraternalism can enter. Co-operation with the school and faculty is our object. Second to this is the promot- ing of. the social side of school life. Social gatherings will be held several times during the year. Included in these is a dance which will be held November 26, the night before Thanksgiving at the Hienc- man House.

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 11 OOOOQOOOGQQQQQOOQO O P 0 P Q PQQ C QOQPQOQJ?QQQ J)Q9QQP0QQQQQ0Q0P Q Q Q 9 0gQ LIBRARY DEPARTMENT r nnnnrT nr5ir?nnnr ’?nr?nnnnnnnnnnnnr nrT5t s “Would you care to visit our library?” I asked a friend to whom I was showing our school building last year. I was fairly taken off my feet by her enthusiastic replay, and right then I discovered she was a so- called “book-worm,” and loved books better than anything else. I told her she could make herself at home and that she could find books of all kinds to entertain her. room, the beautiful pictures of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Abbey, the neat rows of books, orderly tables, and last, but far from least, the flowers in the vases about the room. It did look very charming, and best of all it happened at the particular time to be filled with boys and girls reading, which showed the pupils found it attractive, too. My friend said she was surprised to find so many different kinds of books, for instance, she found books on special shelves, labeled: W' xceading. riome Economics. Vocations. Literature. Biography. Drama. Commerce and Industry. Community Civics. Reference Books. With my friend’s experience in mind I went to the library at the opening of school in September. Of course ill of us regret very much the loss of our ist year’s libra- rian, Miss Kneil, but Miss Miller gave me such a kind greeting it helped to make Miss Kneil's absence less noticeable. Miss Miller assisted Miss Kneil last year and so knows the ways of the school, and best of al is ready to help all boys and girls who come to her for advice about books and reading. After my talk with Miss Miller I wan- dered over to the periodical rack. “My! I see you have a good number of periodicals, Miss Miller.” “Yes, we have many very good maga- zines.” “Now, really and truly Miss Miller, do you think the scholars get much help from these magazines? That is, enough so that it pays to have them?” “Why, I should say most decidedly yes! Now in the study of science, the National and the Travel are very great helps, and in current events any pupil who has any am- bition can improve his work greatly by reading any of these five.” At this point she picked out the Independent, Literary Digest, Review of Reviews, World’s Work, and the Outlook. Then she continued, “The System, Popular Mechanics, and Scientific American, are nearly always in use, for they come under Useful Arts. Hardly a day passes but some girl comes in who is faking Domestic Science and wants to look over American Cookery. Then again, all the magazines I've mentioned are used in the preparation of oral themes. Yes, indeed, I surely do think the periodi- cals are a great help to the pupils.” I then went over to the Short Story rack. “What about story books, Miss Miller?” “We have some very interesting ones on this shelf just now, and I’m quite sure all the pupils haven’t read them,” said Miss Miller. She then pointed out six that she con- sidered most interesting, they were: The Day of Glory, by Dorothy Canfield, Cab- bages and King, by O’Henry, Captains All, by Jacob, Short Stories for High Schools, by Mikel, Harbor Tales, by Duncan, Mys- tery Tales, by Smith, and there are also some interesting stories by Kipling, Haw- thorne, and Poe. The library is open during school hours, and books may be taken out after school. I, for one, think it would be a great im- provement if all those who now “hang around” outside the library would go in and find something to interest them. How about it, classmates?