Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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Table of Contents FRONTISPIECE, Group of South Greenlanders Before the Governor’s House..............................28 EDITORIALS........................................30 THE MOVIE RIVAL,” by M. Ruth Schofield, ’25 . . 31 “THE MACMILLAN EXPEDITION,” an Interview . 32 “GENERATIONS,” by Florence L. Lloyd, ’25 33 PUBLIC OCCURRENCES ...............................34 EXCHANGES.........................................35 POETRY............................................3G ALUMNI NOTES......................................37 LIBRARY NOTES.....................................39 CLASS NOTES............................... ... 40 SHORTHAND PAGE....................................43 ATHLETICS.........................................44 HUMOR . 40

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30 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR EDITORIALS Again the school is making its demand, more insistent than ever before, for a clubhouse and locker-room on George Dilboy Field. This year the need of such a building has reached its climax, and we feel assured that the acute necessity will lead to favorable action. We of the Somerville High School feel and have felt the disgrace of our lack of suitable accommodation. Through the courage and push of one member of the Senior class, Clar- ence Ingalls, assemblies have been held, peti- tions circulated throughout the city and school, and finally, on November 7, a well-advertised mass meeting was held in Clayton Ellis Audi- torium, which was attended by five hundred people. They were addressed by the following enthusiasts and supporters of the cause: Clarence Ingalls, the instigator; School Com- mitteeman Daniel Bradley, Coach Arthur Ayer, Senator-elect Daggett, Mr. Pearson, Daniel McFayden, Mr. Stephen Mahoney, Mr. Thomas Scanlan, Congressman Arthur Underhill and Dr. Cholerton. It may be added that we also have among our supporters, Mayor Webster. President of the Board of Aldermen Hodgdon, the Rotary Club, the Davis Square Business Men’s Association and many women’s organiza- tions. With such a backing we cannot fail. Hon. Charles Eldridge, when mayor of Som- erville, had appropriated $10,000 for a club- house and locker building, but the lowest bid for the construction was $12,500, at which the aldermen balked and refused to pay the ad- ditional sum. Since that time bids have been sent out each year and the amount has in- creased steadily. Now the lowest bid is $21,000. Certainly there cannot be anyone who doubts the immediate and urgent need of the building. Do you know that after a gruelling contest or practice, the boys must go home, oftentimes from one end of the city to the other, in their damp togs? Do you realize what a target these boys are for colds and sickness? What a dif- ference a hot shower would make both to their bodies and spirits! Have you heard the un- complimentary remarks made by visiting teams as to the scope of our hospitality? Have you ever visited the little shack under one end of the grandstand that we have been accus- tomed to call a “clubhouse”? If not, visit it without fail at your earliest possible conven- ience. It will interest and astound you. It has no showers. It has no lockers. It has no lavatory, and but a single electric bulb which serves as a light for it. Fellow students, these are several of its numerous deficiencies, de- ficiencies which are insurmountable. Think of it! That miserable little wooden box has served the athletic teams of the Som- erville High School, one of the largest high schools in the state, as a clubhouse for years, but, schoolmates, it shall serve no longer, and may it be known to everyone that we, the stu- dent body, are determined that a suitable club- house shall be under construction before the close of the year of 1925. The shorthand page in this issue is James T. Field’s well known story of an alarmed Nan- tucket skipper. The shorthand was prepared for the printers by Marguerite P. Smith of the Senior class. For the benefit of some who do not know it, we state that our High School Hall was re- named the Clayton Ellis Auditorium last spring in honor of Clayton Ellis, S. H. S., ’15, who was killed in the World War.