Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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6 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR The Radiator welcomes to the school the newcomers, both teachers and pupils, and trusts that the year will be a happy and pros- perous one for all. Seniors, this is your year! The year you have been working toward for two long years. Make the most of it! Join the Debating So- cieties, the Orchestra, the Glee Clubs or any of the various organizations of the school. Get into something. Do something. And above all, Seniors, keep up your studies. 1923 has not been noted for its high standard in studies. Let’s turn over a new leaf and make this senior class the best that ever graduated from Somerville High School. The class of 1922 was a remarkable class in many respects other than size. It had school spirit and class spirit to a remarkable extent. It backed every activity to the limit and this readily accounts for 1922’s enviable record of achievement. 1923, we have a standard to live up to and if possible, to surpass. It is a high standard in- deed, but will 1923 admit that 1922 was su- perior not only in quantity but in quality? If not, get a little of 1922’s enthusiasm and spirit, and achieve this year on a larger scale than any previous class. The Radiator needs stories, good, -clever stories. This is one field in which, the .under- classes can take equal part with the seniors. It is an honor to have a story accepted. Re- gard it as such. It takes brains to write a good short story. Show us that you have the brains. If you aspire to a place on the Radiator your senior year, bring your name signed to a good story to our attention. It will help. We publish, as our leading article this month, an account of an honored graduate of the Somerville High School. We appreciate Miss Spaulding’s kindness in granting our re- quest for permission to publish her record. She has brought honor to the school. We point to her record with pride, and commend it for inspiration and example to the present students of the school. “Yea ho! Blow the man down!” If the boys had as much enthusiasm plus good tone in the music hour, wouldn’t Mr. McVey be startled. The Radiator extends its congratulations to the various newly-elected class officers and assures them of its co-operation. We are very pleased to print in this issue a picture of the Technology buildings at which so many Somerville graduates have matricu- lated.

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Vol. XXXII Somerville, Boston, Massachusetts, October, 1922 No.l The Somerville High School Hadintor Is published by the High School on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can be received after the first Thursday of the month. Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the High School. In contributing;, write on one side of the paper only, and sign full name. Communcations, according to their nature, should be mailed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor. Manuscript must be accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms. $1.00 per Venr Single Numbers. 15 Cents Entered as second class mail matter at Boston I . O. SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT. EDITORIAL STAFF Edilor-in-Chief STANLEY TEELE, '23. Associate Editor DOROTHY LAWSON, ’23 Exchange Editor DOROTHY OBEAR, ’23 Library Editor GRACE FIGVED, ’23 Alumni Editors FAYETTE HASKELL, ’23 LILLIAN LEIGHTON, ’23 Joke Editor BERTRAM GUSTIN, ’23 Business Manager REGINALD WENTWORTH, '23 Assistant Business Manager HARRIS NEIL, ’24 Sporting Editor JOHN HAYWARD Staff Artists BEATRICE LORD, ’23 DE LANCEY CLEVELAND, ’23 Assistant Joke Editor GRANT KENT, ’24 Student Council Representative HARRY HURLEY Faculty Adviser A. MARION MERRILL Faculty Treasurer GEORGE M. HOSMER Class Editors WILLIAM STEVENS, ’23 KENNETH CAMPBELL, ’24 Assistant Class Editors MIRIAM GORDON, ’23 HESTER SMITH, ’24

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219152 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ALICE HOWARD SPAULDING After graduating in the first class to receive diplomas from Somerville English High School, Alice Howard Spaulding, 1896, entered Tufts College. While at Tufts, Miss Spaulding was active in the musical organizations, in the Alpha Kappa Gamma Sorority, and was the second president of the All Round Club, an as- sociation of girls intended to further the in- terests of all girls irrespective of sorority lines. At her graduation in 1900 Miss Spaulding re- ceived the degree of A. B., with highest honors in French, and honorable mention in English and music, and she composed the music for the Class Ode. The next September Miss Spaulding was first and only assistant in the High School in Edgartown, Mass., where she taught English, Latin, French, German, Astronomy and Geol- ogy,—after the fashion of novices in the pro- fession. The next year she accepted a posi- tion in the Fitchburg High School as teacher of English and Latin. She remained there for 7 three years, leaving to accept a similar posi- tion in the Brookline High School, where she has taught ever since. Miss Spaulding has been at the head of the English department in Brookline for ten years, during which time the department has grown from four teachers to thirteen. During this time also, Miss Spaulding has studied at Rad- cliffe, and been granted the degree of A. M. She has been closely associated with the 47 Workshop since its founding. She has lec- tured frequently before women’s clubs on sub- jects connected with the theatre and drama. In addition she has for three summers con- ducted courses in drama, play production and play writing at the Summer School of English at Middlebury College, located at Bread Loaf, Vermont. Here she has been associated with such well-known writers as Grace Hazard Conkling, Robert Frost, Willa Cather. The plan of having weekly assemblies with an outside speaker is to be continued this year. Not all the school will hear each speaker but certain groups will be called to the hall each week. The assemblies are an aid to edu- cation. A broadening influence, a glimpse of other sides of life, a breaking down of the lines of a school boy or girl’s narrow world. All this is education. Somerville is represented by a light fighting football team. They have the spirit and deter- mination to win. They may be defeated, but there is the glory and honor of a clean, hard- fought game even in defeat. The student body of Somerville High School apparently does not take this view. It is extremely difficult to get a cheer when the team is losing. 1923, change this. Appear at games and cheer for the team. It’s your first and best chance to show you’re alive as a senior class. 1924, give us a glimpse of what you’re going to do next year. 1925, start in the right direction by getting school spirit now. ic :s?3