Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH ALUMNI NOTES 1927 Donald Hurd is a freshman at Suffolk Law- School . Muriel Jex is attending Bridgewater Normal School. Alice Van Ummerson is at Hickox Secretarial School. Joseph Corrish and Richard Joyce are at Bos- ton University. Joseph Corrish was admitted without examinations. He also obtained a scholarship. Betty Russell is attending Rogers Hall this year. Charles Finn is a freshman at Boston College. Marion Marshall, Janet Putnam and Eunice Collupy arc attending Jackson. Edward Bergen is at Holy Cross. Harriet Emery is at Chandler Secretarial School. Frances Waugh has entered the Wheelock Kindergarten School. Kay Hayward and Kathryn Murphy are at B. U. College of Practical Arts and Letters. Herbert Farr is at the School of Business Ad- ministration at Boston University. Svea Russell is a stenographer for Lockwood, Green Co., Federal St., Boston. 1926 Gladys Pingree and Caroline Marsh are sophomores at Jackson. Richard Miller, Alexander Ladd and Irving Simpson are at Tufts. Edwin Johnson, track star and class athlete, was struck by an automobile and passed away August 16, 1927. Last year he attended Bridg- ton Academy in Maine. He was the first boy to receive the Chester Otis Garland trophy. Eleanor Stackpole is working for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Dorothy Holmes is a freshman at Jackson. Frederick Hanna is a surveyor for the state. Daniel Cotter is a sophomore at Boston Col- lege. Anna Sandstrom is working for the Somer- ville Trust Company. Francis Kelly is at Suffolk Law School. 1925 The announcement of the engagement of June Rogers to Charles Miers, M. I. T., ’29, has been made. Ewing Spering is at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Blanche Canavan is a junior at Simmons. Richard Warren and Roger Van Iderstine are juniors at Tufts. SCHOOL RADIATOR 17 Ralph Crosby is a star athlete at Massachu- setts Institute of Technology. John and Leo Donahue are at Boston College. Constance Handy is a junior at Jackson. Kathryn Heater is at Boston University. The engagement of Ruth Hussey, ’25, to Dr. G. D. Schofield has been announced. Lawrence McCahey is at Dean Academy. Edmund Repetto is an honor student at Har- vard. Marguerite Smith, ’25, and Herman Gray, of Brockton, were recently married. 1924 John and Robert Holmes are at Tufts. John is president of the Poetry Club. Margaret Kendall is teaching the kindergar- ten at the Highland School. Kenneth Campbell is working for the Hood Rubber Company. Margaret Taylor is a member of the senior class at Wheaton. Greta Hedlund is treasurer of the senior class and president of the Music Club at Radcliffe. Bertram Gustin is attending Boston Univer- sity. Lillian Kingston and Gretta Dyas are among the ninety-one who received scholarships at Radcliffe for 1927-1928. The marriage of Clifton Campbell and Muriel Clark has recently been announced. Betty Maddison is a senior at Jackson. 1923 Miriam Gordon is a member of the faculty of Chandler Secretarial School. Dudley Noyes is teaching English in a Ver- mont high school. Leon Miller and Charles Clapp are at the Uni- versity of Idaho. Raymond Haskell has established a hardware store in Teele Square. John Hayward is an engineer for Harold J. Powers Company. Elizabeth Stewart, ’23, and Huntington Hill, of New York, were recently married. 1922 Mildred Nickerson, who graduated from Rad- cliffe in 1926, toured Europe during the past summer. Robert MacPhail is captain of the Dartmouth football team. Robert Stevens, who received the Gallagher prize at Dartmouth, is touring France. Marion De Witt, who toured Europe this sum- mer, is teaching again this year at the Biller- ica Junior High School.

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16 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 1929 Harken, ye big and honorable seniors! Ye must needs admit that the Junior Class is indeed at the top, and that the proud Seniors have had a “come down.” We believe in the comparative form of good, and admit that the Seniors are indeed good. What, ho, Seniors! The Junior Class is proud to say that six of its mem- bers, Peterson, Luppi, Rondina, Stevenson, Cochrane, and Casey, are regular players on the football squad. Heard in Chemistry:— Mr. Ob—r: “What per cent, pure is commercial oxy- gen ? ” V—d—to: “Commercial oxygen is about ninety-five and five-tenths per cent, pure.” Mr. Ob—r: “You're sure you haven’t that confused with Ivory soap?” We wish to congratulate Warren Lindquist on his appointment as leader of the second orchestra. There are at least 2,200 parents who don’t think as the Scotchman did who wouldn’t send his son to school for fear he might learn to pay attention. Room 305 has the distinction of being the first Junior room to secure 100% subscription for the Radia- tor. Senior in Chemistry class (holding thermometer up- side down trying to take the temperature): “Miss Ke—n—y, my temperature registers below' zero.” Miss Ke—n—y: “I didn’t ask you to test your brain.” Dear little Sophomores down below, To be Juniors you will grow. Don’t get blue and start to cry, You’ll be a Junior by and by. (Maybe.) It is interesting to note that there are 750 Juniors this year, which shows a gain of exactly 80 over last year’s class. We are bigger; can we prove we Are better? It is very evident that the football season has ar- rived. Mr. Pearson has (bought?) a new hat. Senior to Junior: “When I walked on the stage the Sophs, just stared at me open-mouthed.” Junior: “Quit your kidding. No class of over ten thousand could ever yawn all at once.” Mr. Avery called a meeting of the Junior Class on Friday, September 30. Ke gave us very many helpful suggestions which we Juniors should take to heart and should let them help us to make this a successful year in High School. How do you translate this:— “Never copy; it might be wrong”? It has been rumored that the Sophomores in Room 205 have had a very enjoyable year, up to date. Many of them delighting themselves by the manly art of playing with aeroplanes. No accidents have been re- ported from this advanced form of amusement. Juniors, we have a very serious matter to consider very soon, and that is our election of officers. The Junior election is not far distant, so be on the lookout for really good candidates. 1930 After a few weeks of turmoil, peace has settled on Somerville High School. The Sophomores have dis- covered, to their surprise, that they are able to find their way to and from the various classrooms. There are 957 of us at present, and we would do well to look at each other and get acquainted, because, some- time in the future, it will be necessary for us to elect our class officers. For the present, however, the daily routine occupies most of our time and thought, and all is well in the rooms on the second floor. The class of 1930 met for the first time in the hall on Friday, September 9, immediately after the second period. Mr. Avery in a few words clearly pointed out the respects in which our responsibilities this year should differ from those of previous years. He also- explained the hitherto unsolved mystery of the ar- rangements of rooms, which had been, since the prev- ious morning, the means of turning gray the hairs of deserving Sophomores, who had been rushing about frantically trying to reach their assigned rooms. After Mr. Tuttle had been introduced to the assembly and had said a few words, the class was dismissed. Won’t it be great, fellow Sophomores, when, having toiled our way through the amount of work necessary to raise us to the dignity of Seniors, we find ourselves the occupants of the new High School and, of far greater importance, its first graduating class! Picture, if you can, the chagrin of our present Junior and Senior classes when they realize that this distinc- tion would have been theirs had they been born about two years later. In the quaint language of someone or other: “We hope they don’t feel hurt.” Pupils are not the only ones who ask unnecessary questions:— Floor master, to a room teacher, time 11.50: “Are you full up?” The Accommodating Pupil Teacher (tc pupil without a chair in an overcrowded room): “I hope to find a chair for you tomorrow, Wil- Ham.” William: “Oh, never mind. I’ll bring one from home.” Houghton Dutton’s for the boys, Raymond’s for the men, But what would we poor flappers do, Without the 5 and 10?

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18 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Athletics THE cup pictured on this page is awarded each year to the winning football team in the Suburban League. It is donated by Mr. Foss, an ardent and enthusiastic sup- porter of the League, and is presented by H. D. Foss Co., Inc., of Cambridge. It was won last year by Brookline High School, but this year we hope to see it among the many other trophies which have been awarded the victorious teams of Somerville High. THE football team opened the 1927 season by winning the first two games. The team has nine veterans from last year, and the prospects of winning the championship this year are excellent. The veterans are: Ends, Captain Paul Mac- Innis and Ray Fermoyle; tackles, Charlie Casey and Toothaker; guards, Stevenson and Charlie Peterson. In the backfield are Luppi, Ed. Pet- erson, and Rondina. Some of the new men who are doing well so far are Walter Corbett, quarterback; John Murphy, Dick O’Brien, Donald Wells, and Charlie Dresser. The 1927 football schedule is as follows:— Sept. 24 Worcester H. S. Commerce at Somer- ville. Oct. 1 Dean Academy Second at Somerville. Oct. 8 Salem at Somerville. Oct. 15 Somerville at Medford. Oct. 22 Somerville at Cambridge Latin. Oct. 29 Newton at Somerville. Nov. 5 Everett at Somerville. Nov. 12 Somerville at Brookline. Nov. 24 Somerville at Rindge. SOMERVILLE WINS SECOND GAME FROM DEAN ACADEMY SECOND The football team won its second game from Dean second team 8 to 0. Peterson, kicking for Somerville, outpunted the Dean kicker by 10 yards on each exchange of punts. Stevenson blocked the Dean kick that gave Somerville its first score. In the last period Somerville marched 40 yards for a touchdown. Luppi, Peterson and Rondina took turns, making four or five yards at each rush, and Luppi finally went over. SOMERVILLE LOSES TO SALEM! SOMERVILLE was defeated 6 to 0 in a thrill- ing game at Dilboy Field, October 8. It was the Salem centre who intercepted a pass near midfield after it had hit a Somer- ville man on the shoulder. Then the Salem team, which has not been functioning this year, started to work. With Foley and McMahon crashing through for consistent gains, the ball was carried to the 30-yard line, then Salem completed a fine forward, Anderson to McGee, for the only touchdown of the game. Peterson’s run of 35 yards off right tackle was the longest run of the game. Luppi carried the ball on the kick-off in the second half for 25 yards, bringing the ball to midfield. Captain Mclnnis after playing a wonderful game was carried off the field. Murphy was sent in in the last half and he showed himself a clever, shifty runner. Captain McGee starred for Salem. He was (Continued on Page 19)