Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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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.

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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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7 l$aA«t«rr V3 213000 SOMERVTLLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Support all your school activities with all the school spirit you possess. Do not neglect your studies, for. after all. arc they not the reason you are here? Work for the debating clubs, and let’s produce a champion team. Support the Orchestra, the Glee Clubs and the other musical organizations. Work to bring honor, praise and recognition to your school. Seniors! This is your year! Make it a memorable one. Enjoy it! The Radiator extends a cordial welcome to the new members of the faculty and to the Class of 1924. and wishes a happy and prosperous year to all. It is hoped that the pupils of the Class of 1924 will co-operate with the upper classes and the faculty in making the school year of 1921-1922 a banner year. The new pupils can materially assist by observing the school rules. While these rules may seem unnecessary to you now. they have proven, by experiment with classes like yours and ours, to be invaluable for the better- ment of the school. As you become acquainted with tne Somerville High School, your class spirit and pride will develop and by the end of the second quarter the Class of 1924 will be a class of which you yourself and the school may well be proud. Owing to a delay in organizing the Radiator staff and the amount of extra work entailed by the primary issue of the Radiator, the October Number is considerably late. However, as soon as it is possible to do so. the Radiator will return to its original schedule. In the November Issue the Radiator will pub- lish a cartoon suggested and drawn by a mem- ber of the school. As cartoons are quite expen- sive, and can be used but once, it is not advisa- ble to publish very many. Suggestions concern- ing the betterment of our school paper are wel- come at all times, for after all the Radiator is just as good as you make it, no better. The Somerville High School can be called a well equipped school. It has two chemical laboratories, a physical and botanical laboratory, an art studio, and a machine and printer’s shop, as well as many classrooms, and an assembly hall. But the Somerville High School lacks an im - portant piece of equipment. That is a well equipped gymnasium, where it could hold basket ball games, track meets, competitive drills and other athletic “stunts.” Must the students of S. H. S. always go with- out sufficient exercise? To be seated bending over books or reciting for the greater part of every day is not conducive to good health, and good health is essential to good scholarship. Is not the training of the body as important as the training of the mind? Without the body the mind could not exist. The only objection to the erection of a fine, well equipped “gym” is the cost. An addition could be built, connecting the Hast and the West Buildings, or the basement of the West Building could be made over at a cost that would not be prohibitive to the city. What can be done about it? Must the future members of the Somerville High School be known as students of “The School without the Gymnasium”? Vours for a well equipped gymnasium ior S. H. S! ! There conies a time in the history of all people when the question arises: “By whom are we gov- erned?’' “Are we our own rulers, or are we being ruled by someone else?” Last year reforms were made in the different phases of school rou- tine by means of the Student Council, which is an intermediate organization between the students and the faculty. These changes, for the most part, were successful. The students were made to feel their responsibility. Has the Student Council been organized this year? What is it doing? Let’s see the Student Council at work again. FE3 33 JS23