Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 9 With the Faculty This Summer It is always interesting after the two-months vacation to know what the faculty, as well as the pupils, have been doing during that time, whether they were traveling, studying, work- ing or just “vacationing” like many of us. Of the seventy-seven teachers, two, Miss Smith, of the English department, and Miss Cunningham, of the Spanish department, were fortunate enough to visit Europe. Miss Smith visited England, Holland, France, Italy and Ger- many. Miss Cunningham spent the month of July in Spain and August in Italy, France, Switzerland and England. Both travelers re- port a most enjoyable and profitable vacation. Miss Teele studied “Virgil” and “Principles of Secondary Education” at Harvard Summer School, and later spent two weeks at Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Mrs. Mathews attended the Hyannis Nor- mal School and was given a diploma. Miss Follansbee studied at the University of Maine. Miss Campbell took a teacher’s course in pen- manship at Zanerian School. Miss MacDutfie studied physics at the Har- vard Summer School. Miss Solano took a six-weeks’ course at Columbia on Spanish methods, and later visited Manchester-by-the-Sea. Miss Mague took a course in French and one in psychology at the University of Vermont. Miss Burnham studied French at the Penn- sylvania State College. Miss Newborg took three courses in methods at Boston University. Miss Gatchell took three courses at Boston University, one of which was on “High School Journalism.” She also spent three weeks at her former home in Winthrop, Maine. Miss Kenney studied at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Miss Arrington, Miss Parmenter, Miss At- water, Miss Welch and Miss Pennock studied at Harvard University. Miss M. H. Brown taught at the Vocational School for Training Teachers in New Bruns- wick. Miss Gray spent the summer at her cottage at Peak Island, Maine. Mr. Obear took a course in science teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a course at Harvard on psychology. The rest of his summer was spent at Bustin’s Island, Casco Bay, Maine. Miss Richards took several automobile trips, one through Connecticut and one through Maine. Miss Whitaker was at Lake Winnepesaukee. Miss Bcwker was at Lakeport, New Hamp- shire. Miss Tuell spent a large part of the summer reading history at her home in Milton. Mr. Small was at North Truro with his family. Mr. DeCelles was at Rye Beach. Miss McAllister bought a Buick car and learned to drive it. She also remodeled her home. Mr. Hall took a trip to New York City by automobile, and later visited Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. Miss Moore drove over the road to Cleveland. Miss Todd spent the summer at Kennebunk- port, Maine. Miss Haley was at Bavside, Nantasket. Mr. Hosmer was at Hedding, New Hamp- shire. He also spent ten days at Ocean Park, Maine, attending the Baptist School of Methods. Miss Ritchie spent the summer months at a girl’s camp at Linekin Bay. Miss Lyle was in a girl’s camp at Lake Ma- quan. South Hanson, Massachusetts. Miss Veazie spent July in the White Moun- tains and August at the shore. Miss Saunders and Miss Cochran attended the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Sigma Kappa Sorority at Colby College, Water- ville, Maine. Miss Bradford spent a great part of the sum- mer sketching at Monhegan Island, Maine. Miss Woodward was a state delegate at the National Education Association convention at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Card spent part of the summer at her home in Wellesley. Mrs. Hudson took automobile trips through Vermont and Maine. Mrs. Topliff spent the summer at Prince Ed- ward Island. Miss Swallow took trips through Maine and the Adirondacks. Mr. Carrier was “farming it” in New Hamp- shire.

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR $ his food supply with fruits from neighboring trees and some wild rice. He had not, however, seen any trace of savages. Two miles away great preparations were be- ing made for the wedding of Chief Oompah and the captive daughter of one of the gods of Mars. This unfortunate deity had in a reck- less moment cast aside his magic protection and tried living on Startus, bringing his beau- tiful daughter with him. Oompah, upon see- ing her, had straightway longed to add her to his seventeen other wives. Her father, protest- ing, had been speared by Oompah’s men before he could invoke the aid of his divine brethren. The unfortunate girl was almost immediately ordered to prepare for her wedding. She was left alone for a minute or two, and in a sudden desperate resolve, she lifted the back of the unguarded grass hut and stole forth into the night. Once clear of the hut she ran for her freedom. In the meantime Simeon, little realizing the important events which were transpiring with- in a few miles of him, had succeeded in put- ting together the battered parts of his radio set. and was trying to hear some of the sta- tions on the earth. He was getting W. G. Y. at Schenectady, when there broke upon his ears the most horrible barking that he had ever heard. He had just removed the phones from his head, and thrown the switch turn- ing the power into the wire fence, when the door burst open and into the room staggered a girl, her clothing torn and flesh scratched by the bushes and vines. With an agonized cry of relief she hurled herself into his arms and fainted. Sim was at a loss to know what to do. He had a feeling that this sort of thing was not exactly conventional, but as for a solu- tion of the problem, he had none. The bark- ing had suddenly stopped, so seizing two Ro- man candles which he had brought, he rushed out into the enclosure, leaving the girl, par- tially recovered, on a bench made of two of the trunks. Oompah, entering the girl’s hut a few min- utes after her departure, discovered her ab- sence. Calling his henchman, Snyderglob, he ordered him to summon the dogs. Oompah prided himself on two things, his wives and his dogs. Of the former he had seventeen and of the latter seventy. 11 is pack was the fiercest and best on the planet, and was used chiefly to subdue or pursue his seventeen wives when, in fits of anger or jealousy, they ran away. The dogs were now put upon the trail of the runaway and followed by Oompah alone, as usually was the case in his matrimonial con- quests, gained rapidly upon the fugitive. They were almost upon her when she beheld the strange hut with the light in the windows, and utilizing the last of her ebbing strength she pressed forward. Just as she stumbled between the strands of the wire fence the current was turned on, and fifty-five of the dogs following behind her sprang at the wire and were in- stantly killed. The remaining fifteen, seeing the fate of their comrades, stood for a minute in open-mouthed astonishment and then fled. When Oompah came up a minute later and saw fifty-five of his pet dogs hanging on the wire he went post haste for his tribe. They arrived in a remarkably short time greatly out of breath, just as Simeon emerged from the doorway with his two giant Roman candles. The savages, seeing him, rushed forward, but Sim, lighting one of the candles, turned it full upon them. Not being able to understand this force which sent balls of fire chasing them, they turned and fled, Oompah in the lead, stumbling over stones and brush in his mad rush. Believing himself rid of the savages Sim re- entered the hut. The girl, now fully recovered, welcomed him thankfully, and implored him to name his desire that she might serve him. “I would like,” said Simeon, “to return to the earth and take you with me. Ah, if it were possible.” He turned, but the hut no longer held another occupant. Puzzled he beheld the girl in the doorway, her hands raised as if in supplication. Her face was lifted and there was a smile upon it. Suddenly she turned and came toward him. “My prayer will be answered,” she exclaimed. “We will soon be on the earth, how? I do not know.” The New York Times for April 20, 1963, in- formed the world that:— Professor John Simeon Simpkins, Jr., the young man who, in the interest of science, es- sayed a trip to the moon, has returned to the earth. He reports that he did not reach the moon but the planet Startus. How he returned to earth he is unable to explain, as his rocket was demolished in the landing on the planet. He believes that it was through the aid of di- vine assistance, but, while we do not wish to argue with such a learned man as Dr. Simp- kins, we are skeptical. We learn that Dr. Simp- kins has just purchased the Snow estate at 11 Westwood road, where he will reside with his wife from Startus.

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10 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Miss Sprague was at Ogunquit, Maine. Miss Boole was on Cape Cod. Miss Bell attended many of the plays at “The Gallery on the Moors ’ East Gloucester, and also took a trip to New York to see some plays that will not be in Boston this year. Mr. Plantinga took numerous trips through- out New England. Mrs. Wyman visited the White Mountains, Casco Bay, and Hingham, where she had the interesting experience of attending a service in the oldest meeting-house in this country, built in 1680. Miss Hastings, our new librarian, worked in the Central Library this summer. Mr. Mahoney had charge oi the Somerville playgrounds. Mr. Sears spent the summer at his hundred- acre farm at Hawley, Massachusetts. Miss Helen Smith spent the summer at Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Miss Dodge was at Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, during August. Mrs. MacLaren, Miss Weisman, Miss Han- non. Miss Hezelton and Mr. Hayward taught in the Y. M. C. A. Summer School. Mr. McVey was at his summer home in Ed- gartown, Martha’s Vineyard. Miss Ham spent the month of August at Monhegan Island, Maine. On September 3, 1924, Miss Ross was mar- ried to James N. MacLaren, of New York City. Mr. MacLaren is secretary of M. H. Avram and Company, manufacturing engineers. Mr. and Mrs. MacLaren are temporarily residing in Can- ton, where Mr. MacLaren has charge of an en- gineering project for his firm. Mrs. MacLaren for the present will continue to teach in the English department. SMOKING AND HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLAR- SHIP (Continued from Page G) to smoking, to interfere with my respiration, and there lies the cause of my cough. “As I have said, you need to be keen and alert in school, and it is bound to interfere with your mental progress. “In athletics, smoking is extremely harm- ful. A learned professor discovered that in one institution, eleven habitual smokers tried for the football team but only two, mind you, suc- ceeded, whereas, out of nineteen non-smokers who tried, eleven won places. So there you can see for yourself. I hope you won’t ever smoke, my son. It’s a nasty habit. If a smoker could smell his own breath he would never touch to- bacco again. The best synonym I can think of for a cigarette—a cigarette especially—is a coffin-nail. And when you once get the habit it’s almost impossible to break it. “Of course, my boy, when you are a full- grown and well-developed man of the proper age, you can smoke with safety. I started smoking very young, but the saddest thing about a young fellow beginning to smoke is his belief that he can quit the practice any old time, but he can’t, because I know from per- sonal experience. But now where did I put that—?” And I left my father looking for his paper. As I walked to my room I resolved to abstain from smoking forever. Sunrise By Clarence Ingalls, 1925 OWARD the orient the horizon grew SsH lighter. A cock crowed on the farm on t le r sht; another answered from the farm on the left. Their hearse cries seemed to come from very far away. The stars, imper- ceptibly paling, disappeared in the immense vault of the sky. The little cry of a bird rose somewhere in the distance. Twitterings, timid at first, came from the leaves; then they grew bolder, became vibrating, joyous, spreading from branch to branch and from tree to tree. I suddenly per- ceived myself to be in a ray of light, and was almost dazzled by the splendor of the dawn. A mountain of empurpled clouds cast hues of blood upon the awaking earth. And sud- denly, bursting asunder the gleaming clouds, touching with fire the trees, the plains, the ocean, all the horizon, the great flaming globe appeared. The sun! the dawn! the beginning of life! the rising of hopes! Oh! fellow schoolmates, may your school life be as beautiful and helpful as the superb glory of the dawning day.