Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR The S»mervllle High Hadintnr published by the High School on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can be received aft.-:- the Nrst Thursday of the month. Mat: r for Inseriter may be left with any of the editorial staff or mailed t the editor at the High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only, and sign full name. Communications, according to their nature, should be mailed to the editor, business manager, or ex- change editor. Manuscript must be accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, $1.00 per Year Entered as second class mail matter at Boston P. O. Single Numbers. 15 Cents Vo I. XXXI SOM ER 11.Llv. BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS. OCTOBER. 1921 No. 1 SomKRvii.i.K Journal Print. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in Chief W ILBUR G. STANLEY, '22. Associate Editor NATALIE HAILWOOD, 22 Business Manager HOMER ROWE. ‘22 Exchange Editor OLIVE HOLMES, 22 Assistant Business Manager DONALD GRINNELL. '22 Library Editor MARY ROOD, 22 Sporting Editor MURRAY HART. '22 Alumni Editors Staff Artist CLINTON MINER. '22 MARION DE WITT, '22 LYDIA MARVIN. '22 Faculty Adviser A. MARION MERRILL Faculty Treasurer GEORGE M. HOSMER Class Editors CHARLES DANIELS, '22 JOHN HOLMES. ’23 Assistant Class Editors WALTER ROBINSON. '22 STANLEY TEELE, 23 DOROTHY CRAG IN. '24 (Pro tern)

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MR. ROYAL B. FARNUM. Director of Art for Massachusetts. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. 1902

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 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Wo of the 1921-1922 Radiator Staff make our initial bow to you. our readers, with courage and hope. YVe believe that “plain good intention.” which we promise you. plus your cordial support, «encouragement and help, will carry the Radiator from its present standpoint to a higher level. We •oficr as our slogan for the coming year: ADVANCE! The Radiator, emulating the example of its esteemed contemporary, the Somerville Journal, in its “Strong Men Series” of a few years ago. Avill publish, from time to time, a sketch of ■graduates of earlier and of recent years who have reached special distinction. The subject for this month is Mr. Royal B. Farnum, S. E. H. S.. 1902. Royal B. Farnum, principal of the Massachu- setts Normal Art School and director of art education by the State Department of Education, was born in Somerville, June 11. 1884. and is the •son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Farnum, of 21 Walter street. He is a graduate of the Edgcrly Grammar School. 1898. and the Somerville High School. 1902. He graduated from the Massa- chusetts Normal Art School in 1900. studied in connection with the International Art Congress at London in 1908 and gave special attention to manual arts at the International Art Conference at Dresden in 1912. He then toured Italy. Ger- many and Belgium. He taught in summer .school in Knoxville. Tennessee. 1907-1909. and svas teacher in the Chautauqua Summer School for many years, later becoming head of the art «department, from which he resigned in 1920. Mr. Farnum was director of the normal depart- ment. Cleveland School of Art. until 1910: for nine years State Director of Art Education and Manual Training in the elementary, secondary training and normal schools of the state of New York, and since 1919 in his present position. The college seals in the Commissioners' Room of the State Education Building of New York were painted bv Mr. Farnum. He has been chairman of the American committee of three appointed by tiie International Art Congress at Dresden. 1912. and for the Paris Conference in 1916: chairman editorial board. Eastern Arts Association. 1913- 1916; chairman Congress of Art and Manual Training Teachers. Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915: chairman National Board School Poster Competition for War Savings campaign. 1917; chairman committee on Art Education of the Commission on the Re-organization of Secondary Education, appointed by tin National Education Association, 1917; contributing editor of School Arts Magazine, 1917-1919. Watch for next month’s Radiator! These articles will interest you. 'Hie Somerville High School is proud of these graduates. Will she be proud of you? Seniors! Do you realize that this is your last year in the Somerville High School, and that you are now on the “home stretch”? If you had the opportunity to begin again, would you do differ- ently from what you have done? Think it over! Remember, there is still time -to accomplish much.