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THE RADIATOR SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 72nd YEAR OF CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION VOL. LXXII NO. 1 SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS NOVEMBER, 1954 ACTIVITIES Louise Voishnis '55 Potricio Flaherty '56 CHATTER Dorothy West '55 Woldo Corbett '56 Dione Doggett '56 BUSINESS Jone Emerson '55 Stephen Horris '56 Staff tf Editor-in-Chief ROBERT CARLTON '55 Business Monager PAUL HENEGHAN '55 ART Beverly Conn '55 Richard Howe '55 Elena Ciono '56 SPORTS Virginia Smithers '55 TYPING Rosalie Colozzo '55 Josephine Ciccoriello '55 Carole Meadows '55 Marie Lonero '55 LITERARY Thomas Wilton '55 Earle Prentiss '55 FEATURES Mary Caholan '55 Robert Rudolph '55 Elaine Kotell '56 John Knight '56 POETRY Roberta Gront '55 Faculty Advisers Heod Master MR. ALBERT H. GIROUX MR. NATHANIEL COLBERT Business Adviser MISS OLIVE B. MocPHERSON Literary Adviser
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WHEN SHALL WE LEARN Paul Heneghan 55 As Michael Washington Kelly left the new Edward Paton High School in Upton, Maryland, he wondered if he were dreaming. For years he and his fellow negro students had been forced to go to school in an old house on the far side of town; but now, here he was going to the new school for whites. He had been attending classes for over five weeks without any trouble, and it look as if the whites had finally accepted him and his friends. Michael started over to the gym for track practice. On the way he met Jim Richardson, and they talked over the coming meet with their arch rival, Nicholson High. Three years ago Nicholson High was opened to both white and negro students, and since then they had smashed Upton's hope of being District Champs every year; but this year with the change in Upton’s rules it looked as if Nichol- son High would be trounced. With the speedy six foot Michael Washington Kelly who was breaking records in nearly every meet, and last year’s star, Jim Richardson, who was attempting to set a new high jump mark for that district, it looked impossible for Upton to lose. However, four days before the meet a white boy and a colored boy had a fight over a called third strike. The following day a group of white boys refused to return to school, but everyone thought the trouble would blow over. It didn’t. The next day, over fifty per- cent of the students refused to enter the school as long as the colored students re- mained. The track coach started to worry. What coach wouldn’t, seeing his chances for a championship fade before his eyes? On Fri- day, the day before the meet, the police were needed to protect the colored students going from and coming to school. The coach made a desperate attempt to get the members of his team to return to school. Then he asked Nicholson High to postpone the meet, but Nicholson, even though they wanted to, couldn’t, because all the remaining dates were taken. The coach, one who would never say “no”, took the only possible course. He asked the remaining boys, who were all colored, to compete in the meet. The boys said “yes”, and so all that afternoon they practiced. On Saturday they met Nicholson High and really beat them. The final score was: Upton 52, Nicholson 25. The white students of Upton High realized their mistake, and on the following Monday they all returned to school. “I disagree with every word you say, and will defend to the death your right to say it.” —Voltaire. May liml qivi! us strenijtli tn insist every tyranny liver the mimi uf man. Four Till! Staff
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