Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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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

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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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8 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Winning His Letter Russell B. Crush, 1922 LARGI'' number of boys were assem- bled in the spacious gymnasium of the Essex High School. It was the first call for football candidates, and as the big suburban school was | noted for its formidable athletic teams, the gathering was both enthusiastic and promising. There were fully sixty boys present when tin meeting was called to order and the coach.. “Lefty” Edwards, a former Princeton man. took command and set things in motion. It was customary for him to address the can- didates at the first gathering every year to impress upon their minds that the fellows who went to work with determination stood an excellent chance of making the team and winning their letters at the end of the season. Having firmly stamped this view in the minds of his pupils, the coach was assured of better success and cooperation than he would have been if he had played favorites. Edwards, in passing over the faces of the resolute young men in the group that had responded to his call, was confident of having an eventful season and forecast a championship. His reasons for thinking so were justified. The war was just over and the young blood of America who had left school, enlisted, and had gone across to fight the Huns, was now return- ing home to complete unfinished education. It was a golden opportunity for coaches of eastern high schools to spring into prominence by producing champion heavy elevens. Those rugged voting men who. from the North. South. East and West, had relinquished their studies to light their nation’s enemies were now eager to receive high school diplomas before “bucking tip against” the business world. The majority, on their return from France, instead of going back to their homes inland, remained in coast cities to finish their high school course, if it was convenient. The flourishing city of Essex was a suburb of the big sea-port Union, and both cities received a good share of the young World War veterans. In this way it came to pass that John Edwards, the Essex coach, on first inspection of the new football timber, had dreams of a powerful champion eleven. Of all the new faces he saw among the candidates at the first calling, one in particular drew his attention. It was that of' a small, puny boy. who stood out boldly in front of bis tall, heavy companions, listening attentively to the coach’s instructions; not so much his looks that caused the coach to smile, but his noticeably small size. True, there were other short youths in the throng, but none like him. In the ;• itendance of husky lads the little fellow, with his anib folded and a merry twinkle in his eyes. h:ul the appearance of the proverbial Jack the Giant Killer. He did not look, however, as if he could play football, and the instructor turn- ing his attention elsewhere forgot the midget for a time. It was not until he was jotting down the names of the candidates and the positions they aspired to. that he thought of the quiet fellow again. “Your name?'’ he inquired, when his turn came in line. “Castleton.— Lee Castleton, and I’m going out for quarterback.” was the calm answer. “I see you’re a newcomer.” said Edwards in a friendly tone. “Have you had any previous experience at the position?” “No—I’ve never had a chance before.” Castle- ton admitted frankly, “but I think I can manage the position.” It means a great deal of plugging and hard knocks.” warned Edwards kindly, and passed on to the next man. Since Castleton is the hero of our story, per- haps it would be well to give a more detailed account of him and how he happened to be in Essex. His home was originally in Texas and his parents were ranchers. Although a dwarf in stature, he was a wiry, active lad and at the age of sixteen was well adapted to border life, being an expert horseman and crack shot. Then a happy life became clouded: his parents were victims of a Mexican outrage and left him an orphan. His only living relative being a maiden aunt in Essex, Delaware, it became necessary for him to give up his outdoor, care- free life and come north and accept her for a guardian. Forgetting the tragedy in his life. Lee entered the high school and concentrated his attention on subjects he had never studied before. The call for football players brought back memories ol. bis former life. A champion western college eleven had once trained for an intersectional game with Texas University, near