Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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Senior flight (Committee Left to right—Elir.obeth Anderson, John Knight, Louis Show, Jonon Rice, Robert 8rcdin. (jrand Yf)arcL at Senior jPromenade Twenty-three

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 The child is fothcr to the mon. —Wordsworth The moment comes when children must stop ploy — Must reolize toil ond recognize strife. Time now for us to put our toys owoy. To be odult ond bend our bocks to life. The day is here ond you who come to see, Are witnessing the advent of the down — The doy on which the soul is set ofree. The doy on which the mon from boy is born. As the infont bird comes from its shell ond blinks its widened eyes. So come we here. And os the bird drinks in life-giving sunlight ond utters its first cries ond flops its wings. So tried we to sing, ond did. Now comes the moment when we leap from our protecting tree. Sholl we fly or foil? And os the coptive bursts his bonds ond runs, unfettered into liberty. So run we. Fledglings, supplionts, conquerors. Into the world. Twenty-two

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VLCL On leoving the holls of our beloved Somerville High School, We, the closs of 1956, hove decided to leove end bequeath, os gifts and remembrances, some of our most treosured possessions. To Mr. Giroux: A geiger counter to aid in the detection of hidden bombs in the event of o bomb score. To Dr. Morrissey: Happiness and contentment in his retirement. To every homeroom teocher: A lie detector for students who are inclined to tell toll stories. To the Boston Gorden: Sixty tons of torn paper that we didn't get to use. To room 106: A set of Venetian blinds to replace the decrepit shades which ore honging in tot- ters there. To the building mosters: Help from Joe Fridoy in tracking down missing pupils. To the traffic squad: A barrel of white point to mork off white lones in the corridors. To the typewriting closses: Automatic word counters ond mistoke subtroctors. To some of the more unfortunote students: A bottle of red ink eradicotor. To the CDD: A simulated Air Raid so thot they con goin actual experience with First Aid procedures ond use some of their paraphernalia. To the teachers who would hove the most use for it: A personalized rubber stamp with a red D attachment. To the girls' badminton team: An infinite number of new birdies to replace the ones which hove flown to the rafters of the Gym. To the Hockey Team: A smoller net ond o bigger goalie. To those who will use them os we did: Our books. Treat them the woy we treoted them. Twenty-four