Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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1— Notolic Forte, Dolores Pike, Mono Forte, John Rogers, Virginio Humber, Phyllis Pork, Anna Solono, Beverly MocNcill, Joc- quc'inc Scovitto, Anno Stiles. 2— Anthony Porcoro, Carolyn Lopodulo, Audrey Peterson, Mary Lou Clancy, Shirley Corkum, Sandro Perry, Anncmoric Tovores, Kay Gormley, Cynthia Shedd, Mary OrouQos, Robert Miraglia, Miss MaePherson. 3— Richard Mangen. Lourence Moults, Chorlcs Beede, Robert Fasciono, Kenneth Matheson, Robert Browne, Nicholas Marmokis, Nicholos Kiladis, Donald Colontino, Anthony Kounelas, Glenn Tobey, Robert Bicnkowski. Robert Brown. Remember the donees, the Scholarship Ploy, the Glee Club concerts, ond the breothlcss moments of the Tech Tourney? Of course — we oil do, ond to preserve these moments through- out the coming years, the Yeorbook Stoff hos tried to incorporate os much as possible into this — your 1952 onnual. Plans for the Yearbook were storied in the Foil ond truly did not end until Moy. Many, many hours were spent in compiling, checking, ond rechccking doto, posting glossies, taking candids , photographing the organizations, sketching the cuts for the Book and planning the layout. Under the leadership of Virginio Humber, Editor-in-Chicf, the Stoff worked diligently ond steadily. Phyllis Park, Associate Editor, John Rogers, Business Monoger, Anno Solano, chief typist, ond our fine adviser. Miss Olive MaePherson were moinstoys during the compilation. We are grateful to our chief artist, George Price, for the numerous drowings. Alwoys teeming with octivity, the Editorial room took on its usual aspect of piles of poper, glue pots, ond busy people. Keeping in mind the desires of the closs, the Yearbook Stoff hos tried to sotisfy them. It is for you that we, the Yearbook Stoff, have put forth our efforts and with the wish that it moy bring you many hours of pride ond pleasure, we present the 1952 Yearbook.

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CoL oiman For a hundred yeors Somerville High School has served our community, and we are proud of this fact. But there is no pride in institutions apart from pride in the men who hove served them, and given to them their character. We honor in this 1952 Yeorbook a man who for thirty-seven yeors has served this school faith- fully ond well. When Irving Colmon come to our school in 1915, he brought with him the experience of five yeors of teaching. But he brought much more. The United States, whose history he elected to teach hos been not merely a textbook course but a live and vital subject. His scholarship — for he is a scholor as well os a teacher — hos been enlivened for him by the fact thot his family roots lie deep in its history. His first Col- mon ancestor had settled in Scituote in 1637. In o day of self-advertisement ond loud confus- ions, strength con be found as it alwoys hos been found in the quiet, deep springs of the human personality and spirit. The real builder, whether he foshions a fine sailing vessel or a fine character and example, docs this only through quiet, persistent effort, through a care- ful economy of time and labor, through constant, precise selection, To be New Englond is to get up eorly And make the most of the doy. It is to spend Speech, labor, time ond oil essentials dearly; Rarely to buy ond patiently to mend. If is good to have had in our school a man whose troits of character stand for so much that is good in our New England heritage: self-containment; industry; sobri- ety; a sense of direction (os we should expect from one who comes from a long line of navigators); o man to whom true north is not merely o compass point. — 13 —

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Editorial Dcor Clossmotcs: Hovcn't our high school doys passed quickly — almost too quickly to hove accomplished os much os we'd like in these fost moving times! Yet, os the post three years ot Somerville High School ore reviewed and memories come flooding through our minds, the doys hove been filled with activity. We shall never forget the goietics of our youth — in time, they moy be tucked unobtrusively into o corner of our memory, but we shall never entirely forget them. Perhaps, about now, we might be feeling quolms os to whether we ore quite ready to enter the world — on our own! I think we ore; becouse of modern education ond troining, we hove the greot odvontogc of understanding the complexities of the world situotion. No longer must one venture blindly forth. As the future businessmen, politicians, ond homemakers of the United States, our responsibility is greot. Ycors from now when we leaf through the poges of this 1952 Yeorbook, faces of classmates who hove mode o plocc for themselves, who hove led successful lives, will be recognized. One of our moin purposes in compiling the Yeorbook has been to keep olive the remem- brances of our glorious high school doys. As for os hos been possible, the Staff hos tried to insert mony, mony nomes ond items of lasting interest between these covers of royol purple Truly hoping that this gool hos been accomplished, the Yearbook Staff presents with pride their efforts — the 1952 annual. Sincerely, VIRGINIA HUMBER, Editor-in-Chief JOHN ROGERS Business Monager — 15- OLIVE B. MacPHERSON Advisor