Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR MY SUMMER IN FRANCE (Continued from Page 12) Jacques Rousseau’s house on the way to Chartreuse. At Chartreuse I was rewarded with a visit to an old monastery founded in the eleventh century and had the opportunity to see the cells of the old monks. K12AR VI E V OF NOT It 10 DA.VIK. I A It IS. SHOWING FLYING RI'TTKKSSIOS After leaving Chartreuse I went to Grenoble, the cap- ital of the French Alps and a famous mecca for for- eign students. Here again I mounted to heights above, going up by means of a funicular railway to Saint Nizicr, which is at an altitude of 3,840 feet. The next morning before leaving Grenoble I visited the muse- ums and I saw where Bayard, the chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, lies buried in an old church. The next day I traveled on to southern France. Here the blue skies and the balmy air were most noticeable. Along the way the olives and grapes were growing in abundance. Here, too, could be seen the yew trees and reed fences to protect the crops against the mis- tral, a destructive wind. Avignon, where the Palace of the Popes is to be seen, was most fantastic in a southern moonlight. The Roman remains were best seen in Nimes. The Maison Carrce is the most perfect Roman temple in existence, while the old Arena re- minds one of the Coliseum of Rome. At Carcassonne 10 with its old fortress as in the crusades, I walked along the enormous walls and went in the old towers from which the arrows used to be shot down on the besiegers. Luchon was the starting point for the trip to the Pyrenees. I went by auto bus to the Pic du Midi, over 8,000 feet high. The view was beyond description, yet to me snow-capped Mont Blanc could not be sur- passed. Lourdes, the shrine of the lame, halt and blind, was most interesting. Arriving just before the great pilgrimage, I saw the first hospital trams bring the sick. I had traveled far, but my journey was not to be finished until a tour through the chateau country was taken. Starting from Tours, a visit of over ten chateaux was made. The old castles, with their tapes- tries, paintings and old furniture, were beautiful be- yond description. At Blois is the most celebrated chateau. Here three centuries were represented, tha; of Catherine de Medicis, Francois premier, and Henri trois. Francois liked the salamander, and you see decorations of it everywhere on the walls, doors, and staircases. Henry the Third liked porcupines; so he put them where Francis forgot to put the sala- manders. Catherine de Medicis’ rooms were most in- teresting, especially the one in which were seen the secret panels where she hid her poisons. Other cas- tles were famous for this or that, but I would tire you if I attempted to describe them all. We returned to Paris from our tour of southern France. We had seen a lot of that interesting coun- try, but not all; the rest is for another time. GIRLS’ ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION The first meeting of the Girls’ Athletic Association was held September 22 in Room 122 at 2 P. M. There were approximately one hundred and twenty-five girls at this meeting. Miss Burke, our supervisor, discussed the different sports open to the girls. At the next meeting, held September 28, the following officers of the year 1926-27 were elected: President, Helen Streh- lis; vice-president, Priscilla Lowell; secretary, Helen Chiesa; corresponding secretary, Frances Avanzino. Numerous sports will be open to the girls such as field hockey, swimming, tennis, and basketball. Field hockey will begin Friday, October 8, at I)il- boy Field. Miss Y’iano, a Sargent graduate, and mem- ber of the All-American Hockey team that played at. Philadelphia a few years ago, is to coach the girls. Swimming began October 6 at the Y. M. C. A. under the coaching of Miss Hubbard. Tennis will begin just as soon as courts can be ob- tained for playing. After Thanksgiving basketball will begin at the Bingham School. All girls arc urged to come out for at least one sport to meet the lack of a gymnasium at the school, as some exercise is essential to good health.

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 21 ALUMNI N( )TES ! 1926 Albert Bird, a member of the new club for ingenious boys conducted by the Youth’s Companion, won the first yearly award, given for “diligence of performance and praiseworthiness of character,” upon presentation of the clipper ship Flying Cloud. The award amounts to four years tuition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Elizabeth Raymond, Monroe Burbank, and Henrietta Springer are at the Boston Normal Art School. Irene Allen is attending school at Farmington, Me. Mary Hardy and Agnes Ward are at the Chandler Secretarial School. Edward Edwards is at Hebron Academy. Eleanor Stackpole, Caroline Marsh, Gladys Pingrce, Frances Mendell, Ruth Holmes, Dorothy Myers, Edith Foy, Pauline Gerald, Louise Wilcox, Dolphie Berg, And Elena Ivaska are Freshmen at Jackson College. James Murphy, Daniel Cotter, Frank Leary, and Joseph Gough are students at Boston College. Betty Fisher, Marjorie Price, and Mortimer Fisher are at Fisher’s Business College. Gladys Allen and Evelyn Palmer are at the Sar- gent School of Physical Education. Norman Savage is employed by the Beverly Times. Dorothy MacKnight is at Simmons College. Francis Hanson is taking a post-graduate course at the Lowell High School. Barbara Archibald, Marion Rich, Helen Minton, Mar- tha Johnson, Madeline Barrifaldi, and Shirley Lazarus are at Boston University, College of Practical Arts and Letters. Mary Hall is a student at Boston University, College of Liberal Arts. Pauline Baptista is studying at the Leland Powers School. Merle Ferguson is at the Boston Conservatory of Music. Harold Simpson and Albert Darcy arc employed by the United States Rubber Tire Company of Boston. Donald Matheson is a Freshman at Northeastern University. Grace Clark and Annie Wardrope are working in the office of Dr. Card, of this city. Richard Williams is attending Boston University, College of Business Administration. Annette Crowell and Dorothy Spooner are at the Bridgewater Normal School. Richard Miller, Lawrence Munro, and Irving Sim- mons are Freshmen at Tufts College. Anna Sandstrom is employed by the Somerville Trust Company. Ludwig Gordon is at Harvard College. William Sadlier is a student at Boston University, College of Liberal Arts. Janie Price is studying at the School of Osteopathy in Philadelphia. Frederick Ladd, Beverley Ottaway, Richard Berry, Edwin Hill, Gilbert Lown, and Albert Bird are Fresh- men at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lawrence Hesse is attending Huntington School at Boston. Marion Perkins is training to be a nurse at the Children’s Hospital. Doris Lamb is at the Salem Normal School. Joseph Kelleher is employed by the Hayward . Wakefield Company. Isabelle Noyes is a member of the Freshman Class of the Boston University School for Religious Educa- tion. Monica Cotter is at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. George Shaw is working in a New York bank. James and Joseph McGrath are at Bryant and Strat- ton School. Peter Peterson was one of the winners of the essay contest, in the subject, “Alcohol and Narcotics,” given by the Somerville W. C. T. U. He also was awarded a state prize, anci won honorable mention from the Na- tional W. C. T. U. He is now attending Harvard Col- lege. Myna Powell is in training at the Lawrence Mem- orial Hospital. Ruth Wiggins, Mabel Sheehan, Koleta Kaspar, Eve- lyn Cohen, Ruth Gordon, Francis Kelley, John Todsen. George Coyle, John Casey and Charles Aaronian are- taking post-graduate courses at this school. Beatrice Bates, Dorothy Crosby, Gertrude Wade, and Chester Nelson are employed by the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. James Cutler is attending New York University. William Rauh is working in the office of Clark Charles Company. 1925 Announcement has been made of the engagement of Ruth Hussey to Dr. Gordon Dennison Sheffield. Violette Babcock, teacher of violin, was the director of music at “The Nonantum,” at Kennebunkport, the past summer.