Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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22 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Clifton Campbell, who is attending Boston Univer- sity, was assistant steward on one of the trans-Atlantic lines during the past summer. He secured leave of absence for two weeks and visited Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, and England. 1924 Basil Mills has left college for one year, and is now in Jamaica. Leslie Thompson is at Brown University. Greta Hedlund, Eleanor Macdonald and Lillian King- ston are at RaddilTe College. 1923 Announcement has been made of the engagement of Drucilla Allen to Ross Winfield Thompson, of South- port, Maine. Paul Wilson, a member of the Senior Class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the four winners of the student cross-country flight, offered l;y Miss Lydia Pinkham Gove, of Salem. Mildred E. Osgood was recently married to F. Wes- ton Fames, of the class of 1919. During the past summer Dorothy Baxter played the violin at Squaw Mountain Inn, at Moosehead Lake, Maine. The wedding of Margaret Goodwin to Lester Arthur Thorne took place recently. 1922 Helen Marshall, a graduate of the Massachusetts School of Art, is now assistant to Miss Bradford, head of the Art Department in the Somerville High School. The wedding of Dorothy May Sprague to Myron Ken- nard Chandler took place Wednesday evening, Septem- ber 22. Mr. Chandler graduated from the Somerville High School in the class of 19K , and from the Mass- achusetts Institute of Technology in 1923. The engagement has been announced of Lillian An- drews, a graduate of the Bridgewater Normal School, 192«, to Chandler Parkhurst, who graduated from Bos- ton University, College of Business Administration, in 1925. Miss Andrews is at present a teacher in the Glir.es School. 1921 Rita Nolan is ingenue with the stock company of Portland, Maine. On September 25 Alice Hancock (S. H. S., 1920) was married to Fred A. Babcock, Jr., who is in the employ of the General Baking Company. Harry Smith, who is now in Spain with the Inter- national Telephone Telegraph Company, visited all the large cities and many of the small villages dur- ing the past summer, and also was in France. Sherman Maxwell, with the Terry-Turbine Company, has been transferred to the New York headquarters, where he is in the advertising department. Dr. Saul Biller, who graduated from Tufts College in 1926, is now a member of the faculty of the Tufts College Dental School. He is also a member of the Robert R. Andrews Honorary Society, and is now prac- ticing at 176 Broadway, Somerville. 1920 Joseph Caiies, who has been practicing pharmacy in his native 'country, Portugal, for several years, is a member of the first-year class of the department of podiatry at the Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery. 1919 Charles E. Mongan, M. I. T., ’23, who has been en- gaged in research work in electro-chemistry at Tech- nology, will enter the Federal Technical Institute at Zurich and for a year will study in the laboratory of Professor Debye, the eminent Swiss chemist. 1916 The wedding of Phoebe Grace Beer to Clement Lor- ing Lockwood, of Waban, Newton, took place recently. 1912 Edith Brooks, of Marblehead, was recently married to Herbert C. Merrill. DAD’S KEN (Continued from Page 11) Miss Blake! A beautiful thought before breakfast, I don’t think! I remembered that summer when she was angling for some city man. We were on a pic- nic down by Miller’s Lake. She was all rigged up. Miss Blake was, painted and powdered, and she’d been to the city to have her hair curled. She was a sight anyway. But that day, oh, boy! Anyhow, several girls and women were talking with her and we kids were just drifting around. Someone said one of the gills was pretty or something and Miss Blake, look- ing like a relic of the ‘Seven Years’ War’ said, as sh» gave her hair a dignified pat: - “ ‘Why, anyone can be pretty if she wants to.’ ‘‘I remember Kenneth’s eyes widened innocently (he was only a little shaver 'bout eight), and he asked:— “‘Didn’t you want to be pretty, Miss Blake?’ “The look she gave him would have cut through an ocean fog. “ ‘Well, Doris, the rest of the morning I was too busy digesting bean soup and hard tack, and helping keep the ship off a bed of rock to think of the ravishing Miss Blake.” • Lawrence’s lodge gave a hilarious celebration when Lawrence was promoted to the rank of second mate. He was a born leader, he could rule himself and he had the ability to direct others. The very first of November we were awakened in the night by a loud, penetrating ring from our door- bell. It was a telegram for Dad. It was snowing wildly—the first storm of the season, and screaming gales blew around the house—extraordinary even in

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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.

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 23 our “down Maine” town, at such an early date. Dad stood there in the lamp light, in the little cold hall, with the envelope in his unsteady hand. “Open it, Doris.” He was that same ashen color that he had been only once before that 1 can remem- ber. I couldn’t read it to him—but he knew! The blurring words read:— “The Dorinda Mary sunk. Entire crew lost, includ- ing Kenneth Watson.” Ken dead! Dad raised his arms above his head .and everything we had feared before came then. Daddy had already borne too much; his mind broke! He recognized no one, and hour after hour he sat looking into space. Our only hope, the doctor said, lay in the possi- bility of his knowing the other boys when they re- turned. But our expectations, however slender, were un- grounded, for though my brothers came home in the early summer, they were strangers to Sam Watson. Once when Ken’s name slipped from our guarded lips, he straightened in his chair and said: “Ken, Ken- neth?” and then slipped back into his bewilderment. In the silence of the night when the waves could be plainly heard dashing on the break-water, I could hear Dad pacing to and fro in his room. August came. We had promised a neighbor some goose eggs and I trudged down the sun-burnt road to deliver them. I became aware of someone running be- hind me, but just as I started to turn, to satisfy my curiosity, two hands gripped my arms. I swung around, and looked into a pair of the darkest brown eyes. Curly golden-brown hair waved down over a tanned forehead. “Ken!” “Same old boat, Dorry,” he said grinning. Father was sitting in his chair on the piazza, rocking slightly back and forth. His chin rested on his chest, his eyes were closed. Ken stood on the porch a few feet from him and waited for Dad to look up, but he rocked, rocked on. I slipped out of sight into the hall, then Ken spoke, very, very softly—hushed:— “Dad!” The rocking ceased! Slowly he raised his head and his eyes rested squarely on his son. He rose from his chair, still staring. “Kenneth, my boy,” he said, stumbling toward him. Kenneth caught him in his arms and his eyes were wet. In a moment Dad looked up and saw me in the doorway. “Dorry!” he questioned, dazed and confused. He turned back to Ken, then looked about him—at the summer sun shining on everything, at the greenness all around, at the field, filled with nearly grown corn. A bird trilled! Dad looked back at his boy and clung tighter to him. “Ken,” he said, “Ken, I guess I—I must have- been—asleep.” Athletics SOMERVILLE 7—SAINT MARY’S 0 Somerville won the opening game at Dilboy Field on September 25, beating Saint Mary’s High of Waltham. The weather was extremely hot and uncomfortable for football. Somerville had the ball three times within Saint Mary’s ten-yard line, but could not score. The touchdown was scored in the first period. Saint Mary’s punted from near their goal line; the teams exchanged punts evenly. A penalty, a first down from line rushes, a long run by Charlie Finn, Somerville's flashy half- back, put Somerville in a scoring position. Tom Mc- Govern went over the line for the only score. Good- win kicked the goal. Captain Bergen played a bril- liant game and shared the honors with Charlie Finn. Somerville Saint Mary’s Mclnness, De Silva, 1. e.......r. e., Garafals, Morris Bickford, I. t..............................r. t., Ford Stevenson, Crockett, 1. g................r. g., Kinslea Bergen, c................................c., Chisholm Greenicks, r. g.................1. g., Smith, Coleman Whyte, Casey, r. t.......................I. t., Higgins Hall ion, r. e.........................1. e., Frechette Goodwin, q. b......................q. b., Moran, Coye Finn, r. h. b................r. h. b., Powers, Daniels E. Ewell, 1. h. b......................1. h. b., Hawey McGovern, McCarthy, F. Ewell, f. b..........f. b., Cox Referee, W. R. Fleming. Umpire, S. V. White. Lines- man, C. Murphy. PROVIDENCE TECH 12—SOMERVILLE 7 Providence Tech’s strong team by a final drive in the last period beat Somerville, 12 to 7, October 2. Somerville scored in the second period. A thirty-yard run from midfield by Charlie Finn and two first downs on line rushes gave Goodwin a chance to go over for the touchdown. Goodwin kicked the goal. In the third period Providence scored on rushes by Gifford, Cuffec and Wood. Providence scored again in the final quar- ter on a long march down the field. A forward pass finally scored after Somerville held for three downs. Gifford, Cuffee, and Wood played well for the win- ners. Bergen, Ewell and Finn played best for Som- erville. Providence Tech Somerville Mathews, 1. e....................r. e., Hallion, Mclnness Hanley, McDonald, Dipippo, I. t., r. t., Bickford, McGovern Dewinski, 1. g...................r. g., Greenicks, Casey Moss, c......................................c., Bergen Mondelli, r. g...............1. g., Crockett, Stevenson Haskins, r. t.................................1. t., Whyte Gailand, r. e............................1. c., Rondina Gibbons, q. b....................q. b., Goodwin, Isenstadt Gifford, 1. h. b...........r. h. b., E. Ewell, F. Ewell Cuffee, r. h. b..................I. h. b., Luppi, Peterson Wood, f. b.......................... Referee, J. Donohue. Umpire, L. Cushing. Lines- man, C. Murphy.