Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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CcJ'fiito’iu The Closs of 1939 embarked upon its academic coreer ot the Somerville High School on September 10, 1936. The early hours of this dim, distant phase of our adolescent life were spent in discovering the locations of rooms and the identities of the different teachers. Later in the year we elected an Executive Committee consisting of Doris Cooper, Helen Vincent, Don. aid Gordon, and Francis Warren. The principal function of this group wos to moke the necessary orrongements for the Annuol Sophomore Hop This event wos well supported by members of all closses and was both a sociol and o financial success. This was the lost im portant event of our first year in the Somerville High School, gleefully we owoited the future!!! Upon returning in September we found our membership greatly reduced. This did not prevent us, however, from establishing very satisfactory scholastic achievements. The results of the annual election found Donald Gordon to be President, Doris Cooper, Vice-President; Ralph Nosh, Treasurer, ond Helen Vincent, Secretary. As events proved, we made a very efficient selection of officers, who proved their ability os the year wore on Still later in the year, a Junior Night committee was elected, consisting of Margaret Buckley, Mobel Crone, Morion Drew, Carl Lucos, ond Leonard Cummings, who, by their dili gent efforts, made Junior Night an epochol milestone in the annals of Somerville High School To paraphrase Scott's famous line, Time rolls his ceaseless course, the old clock surely does gallop onward. And now we find our Senior year rapidly drawing to o close. As we pause in thoughtful reminiscence we recall many of the interesting highlights of the last few months. At the election of officers these fortunote people showed their popularity when they came out of the race victorious; Donald Gordon was elected President, Doris Cooper, Vice- President, Helen Vincent, Secretory, James Sharry, Treasurer Our basketball tcom certainly deserves high proise ond commendation for being one of the best teams Somerville High hos ever hod. Congratulations and felicitations also go to our football squad! They were splendid representatives of our school ond emerged very success- fully from a none-too-eosy schedule. Our Senior ploy, presented on May 21, wos entitled A Howling Success. It wos in- doed all that the name implies, if not a great deal more. The scholarship play, a very com- mendable presentation of Shakespeare's As You Like It, was greatly enhanced by the op- peoronce of mony seniors in the cost. The Closs Doy committee, consisting of Edward Hinkley, Paul Roche, Margaret Buckley, Edna Skerry and Hortense Di Mattco, with the helpful co-operation of members of the faculty, were very successful in engineering a colorful ond impressive spectacle. Both parents ond students alike were treated to o delightful ond well-managed program of oratory, ceremony, ond song. The Senior Night committee, composed of Leno Ferrorini, Carl Lucas, Ralph Nash, Mabel Crane, ond Marion Drew, likewise deserved the highest commendation for their efforts in making this a gala occasion The music! The lights! The clothes! The otmosphere! Ah, me—romantic thoughts to carry owoy and pass on to our grandchildren obout the days when we were young. Graduation is practically upon us. It is merely a matter of hours before we shall (we hope) hove our diplomas firmly in our clutches. This magic scroll is our reward for three years of delightful slovery. The memory of this happy event will be one for oil of us to cherish down through the unpredictable days ahead of us.