Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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Editorial Well, here it is! We hove not plonned anything serious this year, but something of o lighter noture; something which, we hope, will couse us to remember our high school days with o smile, for we believe that youth should be recalled os o time of happiness ond vivacity. These ore among the most importont years of our life, to be sure, ond some aspects of them should not be token lightly. But whot advantage does youth possess other thon its opti- mism and cheerfulness? So we offer the Radiator Yearbook in this spirit. The work of the staff was commendable. We thank Mr. Sprague, Miss MacPherson, and Mrs. Augusta for their advice ond assistance, without which we would hove been irre- trievably lost amongst the many difficulties attending such a project. LAURENCE A. SPRAGUE Business Manager WILLIAM M. KAULA Editor-in-Chief OLIVE B. MacPHERSON Literary Advisor

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Faculty Hugh McCusker, Biology, 35 Burton Street, Brighton Mory G. McGonn, Music, 71 Eliot Rood, Arlington Robert E. McKelvey, Bookkeeping, Commerciol Low, 6 Jerome Street, Arthur L. McManus, History, 6 Putnom Road Frances Mendell, Mathematics, 241 Powder House Boulevord Forrest S. Miller, Manual Arts, 8 Hudson Street Morgery Moore, Bookkeeping, Commerciol Low, Business Organization, Commerce and Industry, 1 1 Summit Avenue Arthur L. Morrissey, Latin, 17 Warner Street Bernard R. Moulton, Physical Education, 38 Ware Street James J. Murroy, English, 37 Irvington Road Joseph J. Nangle, Commerce and Industry, Commerciol Low, 37 Follen Rood, Lexington Bernice O. Newborg, Typewriting, Business Organization, 141 Park Avenue Ext., Arlington Heights Mildred A. Nugent, History, English, 46 Richdale Avenue Richord W. Obeor, Librorion, 94 Bromfield Rood William W. Obear, Chemistry, 94 Bromfield Road Helen O'Brien, English, Guidonce, Occupations, 30 Barton Street Mary C. O'Keefe, Freehand Drawing, 29 Forest Street, Alice M. Potterson, Typewriting, Commerce and Industry, 63 Webcowet Road, Arlington Eva M. Piercy, Mathematics, 57 Apthorp Street, Wollaston Albert 0. Plantinga, Graphics, 46 Melrose Street, Melrose Highlands Robert A. Radochio, Biology, 9 Joques Street Mrs. Estelle C. Reycroft, Household Arts, 23 Whittemore Street, Arlington Elizabeth W. Richords, Physics, Pre-flight, Physiology, 123 Orchard Street liene C. Richie, Typewriting, Stenography, 19 Willoughby Street Helen B. Ryan, Bookkeeping, Arithmetic, Commerce and Industry, 85 Oxford Street Matthew J. Ryan, Physicol Education, 20 Columbus Avenue Louise M. Saunders, French, 391 Broadway Coroline A. Sheo, Typewriting, 64 Pearson Road Arthur N. Small, Spanish, 1 1 Pembroke Street Mory C. Smith, English, History, 1 17 Prospect Street Margaret F. Snell, Physical Education, 36 College Avenue Carmen Solano, Spanish, 62 Highland Avenue Laurence A. Sprague, Graphics, 17 Perkins Street, West Newton Katherine E. Stack, English, 29 Park Drive, Boston Ruby F. Sutherland, History, 46-A Spring Street Charles B. Sylvester, Latin, 5 Washington Avenue, Cambridge Alfredo Veozie, Stenography, Typewriting, 123 Orchord Street Agnes F. Viano, Physicol Education, 186 Bedford Street, Lexington Mrs. Amy I. Webber, Household Arts, 49 Bartlett Avenue, Belmont Joseph B. Weene, Problems in Citizenship, History, 52 School Street E. Bella Weismon, Algebra, 78 Gibbs Street, Brookline Elizobeth M. Welch, Clerical Practice, 3 Washington Avenue, Arlington Heights Mrs. Nora Whittemore, Clerical Practice, Office Mochines, 9 Mt. Vernon Street Annie C. Woodward, Commerce and Industry, Business Organization, 78 highland Dorothy A. Wymon, English, 19 Powder House Terrace Mrs. Mary G. Collohan, R. N., Matron, 85 Oxford Street Alice Sconlon, R. N., Matron, 49 Dover Street Gertrude R. Luce, Lunchroom Monager, 23 Francesca Avenue Mabel F. Kelley, Clerk, 283 Medford Street Georgianna Tripp, Clerk, 50 Cherry Street

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Class Oration Whenever the cry of war rings out through the notions of the earth, the lands and the peoples ore thrown into a caldron of fear, hatred, uncertainty and suffering. Man is no longer considered as a human being, but os a thing which must sleep, eat, think, act and even die as the lords of war shall dictate. Man can no longer call his life his own. All must be sacrificed for the good of the cause at the altars of the gods of wor. Thus is the state of the world in which we now live. A world in which uncertainty, con- fusion, and fear rage unchecked over the surface of the earth. The one idea of the people is simply to exist and to let live. Yet through all this fog of despair which seems to blanket our earth, there shines a light, a light of hope and of courage which should give warmth to the hearts of the people. It is the light kindled by the spirit of the determined and resolute youth of the world. The cynics will cry, What has youth, the irresponsible, the playing, the immature, to offer to the world? We hove but to look back through the pages of time and of history to find the answer. In all the battles and wors since time immemorial, it has been youth who has fought with the most courage ond with the most determination for the ideals and the truths in which mankind has believed. It hos been youth with its optimism and exuber- ance who has lifted the world out of its despotic melancholy and set it once again in the poths of peace and of plenty. It hos been youth with its strength ond its life, which has sometimes been called irresponsibility ond immatureness, who hos won the wars ond the bottles for the world. This, my fellow classmotes, is the tradition ond the privilege which we, the youth of this war, must live up to. It is o difficult task considering the magnitude and the intensity of this present conflict, but I believe that we shall succeed for we have olready made an admirable beginning. The enemy, by o cowordly, despicable ottack, delivered the first blow on our unprotected ond unprepared shores. They displayed then the mqiwjrar i which their youth was fighting for its ideals. It was then our turn to show the moncould fight when the occasion demanded it. Thousands of our youth rallied to which they carried with honor and with determination on all the battlefields on which ro ffffifoqed the enemy. The way hos not been without difficulty and without privation?.. verses; we have made our mistakes at the cost of much in men, irr'.ir In fact the task has demanded so much that even our youfi contribute their part to the services. Yet, at Midway, in Burmo, and in China, in the Africa, in Itoly and in the corners of the earth, the youTh ing their own and adding to the traditions of the post. Come then, let us go forward together with our place where the peoples of the earth may wolk togeth