Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 15 1st Senior: “Why the black eye, old man?” 2nd Senior: “I told a man he had a funny looking fist.” 1st Senior: “Well?” 2nd Senior: “He poked fun at me.” Professor: “I wish now to tax your memory.” Voice from the rear: “Has it come to that?” $ $ $ There was a thin maiden called Rena, Who worked with a vacuum cleaner; But she got in the way Of the suction one day, Since which date no one has seen her. Nearly everybody has a well-developed bump of curiosity. And what does it lead to? •uMop apisdn aSsd aq; 3u;u.m; o; spea[ ast?D siq; ui ‘ qA Downstairs in the kitchen his mother was struggling with the supper fire. “Tommy,” said his mother, “fetch me a stick of wood.” “Ah, mother,” replied Tommy, “the gram- matical portion of your education has been sadly neglected. You should say: ‘Thomas, my son, transport from the recumbent collection of combustible material on the threshold of this edifice one of those curtailed excrescences of defunct log!’ ” Daughter: “Jim was the very goal of my ambition, but----” Mother: “But what?” Daughter: “Father kicked the goal.” ❖ Were it not For this sweet verse There’d be a joke here Ten times worse. Maiden: “Don’t you think Life Savers are thrilling?” Youth: “Yes, they often take my breath away.” ate Senior: “What do you think of the Turkish atrocities?” Soph: “I don’t know. I don’t smoke.” “Money is not at the bottom of everything,” sighed J. Hayward as he plunged his hands in his pockets. y.: “Can I hold your Palm Olive?” “Not on your Life Buoy.” “Then my Lux against me.” —School Life. “Raining Pitchforks” is pretty bad, but when it comes to “hailing street cars,” it’s rather rough weather. —School Life. I thought I saw a mass of green, And gazed intently on the scene, When, quickly looking through a glass, I simply saw the Sophomore class! ! He took her for an ice cream treat, His pretty blue-eyed Sal, But fainted when he saw the sign, “Cream, ninety cents a gal.” ’Tis said that a certain young Mr. Met a girl in the dark—straightway Kr. But it gave him a fright When he found in the light She turned out to be only his Sr.

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14 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR m mam An enthusiastic mass meeting was held Friday, October 20, in the interests of the Radi- ator. Stirring addresses were made by Mrs. Topliff and Mr. Hosmer, faculty treasurer of the staff. Donald Miller, S. H. S., 1921, Tufts, 1925, former business manager of the Radiator, and now manager of the Tufts Weekly, came over to help the cause for which he had done so much while in the high school. Mr. Miller plainly showed, not only interest in the Radiator, but power to reach all hearts through that interest; this with “dollar bill” proved a magnet which drew plentiful sub- scriptions. We are greatly indebted to you, Donald, come again. TEA FOR MISS BRADFORD Miss Blanche M. Bradford was recently the guest at a tea given at the Normal Art School. Miss Bradford spoke before the senior teacher class on “The Art Work of the Somerville High School,” and illustrated it with specimens of the work. GIRLS’ DEBATING SOCIETY The first meeting of the Girls’ Debating Society was held on October 20, 1922. Mem- bers of the Boys’ Debating Society were judges. We are desirous of increasing the member- ship. All girls are eligible. Seniors: Join this important school activity. Remember you should set a good example. Juniors: Next year you will manage the so- ciety. Prepare now to do it well. Sophs: Now that you are members of the Senior High School, join its societies. This year’s officers are: Kathleen O’Brien, president; Dorothy Obear, vice-president; Grace Figved, secretary: Mrs. Card, faculty. K. H. O’Brien, President. BOYS’ DEBATING SOCIETY The Boys’ Debating Society, hampered by two years of idleness, has the task to regain, this year, the honorable place that it should hold in the school. This is no unfounded state- ment. In the past two years various mis- fortunes have reduced the society from debat- ing supremacy to oblivion, from a powerful or- ganization to a meagre gathering, from the glory gained in achievement to the ridicule found in failure. These years of inaction are past. The same obstacles remain to be sur- mounted by Somerville spirit. Somerville spirit in this case means intelligent support. The coaches and officers are doing more than their share. Plans have been made, and ap- proved by Mr. Avery, for outside debates with prominent schools by a bigger and better Boys’ Debating Society. If the society is not forth- coming neither can the debates be. Every boy of any taste for debating should join and sup- port the society. Think it over. THE SENIOR-JUNIOR PLAY For a long time the feeling has been grow- ing that the annual play of the Somerville High School should be presented by the Senior Class and not by the Junior. This year the first step in the change will be made. The play will be presented by the combined Senior and Junior classes and the proceeds divided evenly between the classes. The try-outs for the play were held October 26 and 30.

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16 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR yNOTES or THE ALVMNI CAITPBELL-08 1916 Jack Harding is in the automobile business in Greater Boston. 1917 Doris Homer Richardson is now living in New York City. Florence R. Parker was recently married to Raymond G. Hastings, of Weston. Dorothy A. Haskell is secretary to the super- intendent of schools in Melrose, Mass. Harold Kolb is on the art staff of the Boston American. Wilda Chipman Bernard is now living in Lindsay, California, where she is teaching the voice. William Walsh is working in the Panama Canal Zone. A double wedding took place in Park Avenue Church on June 17 when Elizabeth Creighton became the wife of Lawrence Cook, 1918, and Miriam Cook, 1919, the wife of James Sawyer, 1917. 1920 Roland Barker is a Junior at Dartmouth, a member of S. A. E. and was last year elected to the Green Key, a sophomore society. Betty Haskell has announced her engage- ment to Charles Emerson Wyman, Jr., of Dor- chester, Mass. “Jim” McNamara is a junior at Georgetown University. Wilton Smith is a sophomore at Dartmouth and has joined Psi Upsilon. Anna Corliss, who was recently married to Alfred Norris, of New Jersey, is living in Rah- way, New Jersey. 1921 Sherman 0. Maxwell has been elected presi- dent of the sophomore class at Northeastern University. Donald Miller is a sophomore at Tufts and manager of the Tufts Weekly. He also has charge of the Sophomore Calendar. Harry Smith spent the summer as assistant superintendent on a plantation in Costa Rica. He is now a member of the sophomore class at Harvard. Hermon Fleming is at Lowell Textile. “Buster” Martin is with Lee, Higginson Company. Mary Ranton is a sophomore at Radcliffe College. The engagement of Gladys Johnston to Ralph Warner Procter, Tufts College, 1921, has been announced. Lenore Aiken has been substituting at Som- erville High School as a teacher of stenography during Miss Welch’s absence. Warren Gilkey and “Beanie” Simpson are at Rhode Island State College. 1922 Gladys French and Marion De Witt are freshmen at Wheaton. George Novack is attending Harvard. Homer Rowe is a freshman at Dartmouth. Harry Rice is at Tufts. Henry Tadgell is at Tufts Medical. Russell De War, Wilbur Stanley, Kenneth Wolf and Aldus Trowbridge are at Tufts. Whitman Goodwin and Leon Yacubian are freshmen at Lowell Textile. Robert Stevens is a freshman at Dartmouth. Harold Freeman, Ralph Ells, Albert Forbes, Donald MacGilvray and Lawrence Daggett are at Harvard. Lydia Marvin, Mildred Nickerson, are fresh- men at Radcliffe College. “Bob” McPhail is at Exeter. Helen Cunningham and Ethel Ricker are freshmen at Simmons College. “Lem” Rogers is at Dartmouth.