Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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National Honor Society Class of 1940 FIRST DRAWING: Moy, 1939 SECOND DRAWING: Morch, 1940 Girls ELEANOR AHEARN DOROTHY BAGDIGIAN GERALDINE BLOOMER MARGUERITE CHAMBERLAIN DOROTHY FOX ALICE GEROTHEOU GRACE KELLEY RUTH KNIPES ELVIA KNOX MARY MAHONEY MARY MARTIN MAUD MILLER BARBARA ABRAHAM ADELA BARLEY WINIFRED BRYANT CHRISTINE BUONOPANE MARION BURNETT WILMA BUTLER MARY CAGLIUSO GERTRUDE CARO HELEN COSTAS LEAH DiLORENZO PRISCILLA DiLORENZO DOROTHY DUSHUTTLE ELEANOR KANE ROSE LIMA MARY LOMBARDELLI VIRGINIA MacCULLUM ALICE MocKENZIE ANNA McCAFFERY EDITH NUNZIATO SIGNE PEARSON DOROTHY SAVAGE CATHERINE TSOTSI SOPHIE WARFOLOWSKI SARA ZOUVARTIAN Boys MARTIN ABRAHAMIAN ANTHONY AVILA ROY CARLSON GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN HARVEY GINSBERG EARLE HODGDON RICHARD PRENTISS THOMAS RAPHAEL RALPH TARULLO WALTER WELCH JOHN COULOURIOTES SALVATORE DiMlLLA ARTHUR DWYER ROBERT ESTEY WILLIAM FARRELL BASIL KALOYANIDES IRVING KESSLER ERNEST MARTINI EDWARD McCABE VINCENT PIANO ANGELO ROMAGNA COSMO SPINOSA

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Student Council This hos been o most pleosont ond successful yeor for the Council under the copoble leodership of our president, Louise O'Donoghue, ond the generous ossistonce of our foculty advisors, Miss Browne and Mr. O'Loughlin. The Student Council consists of outstanding members of the school: Senior and Junior Class Officers, the Sophomore Executive Committee, the chairman of proctors from eoch floor, ond a representative from each of the following activities: Athletics, Dramatics, Debating, Literary, Music, Notionol Honor Society, Red Cross, Troffic Squad, ond Art. The aim of the Student Council is to promote o closer co-operation between the student body and the faculty, and also to work with the students for their welfore ond that of the school. Among the mony duties which ore performed by the Council, the most important one is to take the initiative in conducting ond supporting the various activities of the school, ond to represent the student body on occasions when representatives of other schools ore en- tertained for business or social purposes. The Council's undertakings this year were very successful, including the Red Cross Drive, Lost ond Found Auction, and the semi-onnuol Council Conventions of the Eastern Massachusetts League, which were held in Notick ond Everett. The annuol Student Council donee held on April 1 8, wos a very outstanding event and attracted much fovorable attention to this enterprising body and aided in maintaining its high standards.

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National Honor Society I will be a loyal member of the Notionol Honor Society in the Somerville High School, steadfast in my purpose to abide by the right, to serve all just causes, ond to seek the truth with oil my heort. I will prize scholarship os a sacred trust, and o noble character os my most valuable possession. Bencoth the bonner of Honor and Progress I will loyally serve. ► • Thus, on the morning of their ceremonious induction into this orgonizotion, eoch mem- ber pledged himself to fulfill and uphold the splendid principles of the Notionol Honor Society. Twice each year an induction is witnessed by the faculty ond students. The members are chosen not only for high scholarship, but olso for character, service and leadership. Numbered in the society this year are fifty-eight members of the Senior Closs; twenty- two inducted in Moy, 1939, and the remainder in March, 1940. The officers elected for the first semester were: President ........................................................Walter Welch Vice-President ..............................................Elvia Knox Secretory ..........................................................Ruth Knipes Treasurer..............................................Thomas Raphael President .... Vice-President Secretory .... Treasurer .... Second Semester ...........................Richard Prentiss ...........................Alice Gerotheou ...........................Groce Kelley ...................... Mortin Abrohomian This society is a goal for all types of students, those of dramatic, musical, ond othlotic groups olike, and leads the way toward attaining higher aims and honors. Moy the National Honor Society hove a lasting influence on the lives of oil students.