Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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dreads op departments MARY M. BROWN Clerical Procticc GERALDINE F. FITZGERALD Mathematics VIOLA M. JACKSON French PATRICIA F. KEATING Latin KATHRYN L. LOMBARD HELEN B. MacLOUGHLIN Stenography and Typewriting Home Economics FRANK L. MARTIN Spanish and Itolion MARY HALL Social Studies i W li MARIE E. KENNEY Science FRANCIS X. ROONEY English Nine

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 JJeads oj C-oursei JOHN J. BRENNAN Prcporotofy ILENE C. RITCHIE Business Educo lion ROBERT A. RADOCHIA General JOSEPH A. DONAHOE JOHN J. HOBAN HUGH F. McCUSKER Eight

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eunna 'eacherd MR. CHARLES DICKERMAN Thousonds of Somerville citizens will rcod with nos- talgic regret of the retirement of Mr. Chorlcs Dickermon os Director of Athletics in the Somerville schools. From his youthful doys, when he storred on the base- boll and football teams at Somerville High School from 1906 to 1910, Chorlie Dickermon and High School sports were synonymous. Mony o thrilling run on the gridiron brought victory to Somerville High School ond mony a liner, slashed into Alcwifo Brook, sent students home with hoppy shouts. Three years at Exeter Academy and four years at Princeton added new laurels in sports to the name of Somerville's famous stor. Then come a change from the ploying field to the coaching bench. Turning his othletic tolents to the youths he loved, he produced countless champions to win many league victories for Somerville. A sod yeor for local sports fans wos 1918. Dickermon, yielding to the pressure of his many successful business friends, resigned os coach and entered the commercial world. But not for long. The love of sports and the old long- ing to be with his boys drew him back to coaching; and in 1925 he returned to Somerville High School, this time os coach of all sports. His obvious talents were reworded in 1937 when the School Committee appointed him os Director of Athletics for tne entire Somerville school system. Here he continued his successful work in his chosen profession until his recent retirement. Charlie Dickermon, Mr. Somerville High in sports, hos gone. His thousonds of former players, stars ond friends wish him many years of reloxed ond hoppy retirement. MISS MARGERY MOORE Teacher of Bookkeeping and Business Organization, Miss Moore taught in the High School at Andover before coming to Somerville in 1920. A graduate of Chorles- town High and Salem Normol School, she hos personified for her students the modern career woman upon whom to- day's business world depends for energy, efficiency, and attractiveness. Her quick wit ond olert, vibrant manner set the pocc necessary in the effective motivation of the students who must leorn that our country's industry has no tolcroncc for the lethorgic and passive. A lively in- terest in reading, in pcrsonol hobbies, and in family will continue os she finds more leisure for enjoying them ot her home in North Easton, Massachusetts. MISS ALICE M. PATTERSON Secretarial Training and Typewriting require the steady discipline of an understanding teacher whose ability is recognized by her students. The preparation for her life's work began in Somerville High School ond con- tinued ot Salem Normol School. Later she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Salem Stat? College, ond a Mostcr of Arts degree from Boston University. Her teaching began in Quincy, Mass. When she came to Somerville she taught in Junior High before her assignment to the High School. A sincere singleness of purpose has distinguished her ottitude through the yeors. Stalwart and true, devoted to doing her work well, she will be remembered for setting on envioble example. The Somerville Teochers' Club elected her President, and benefited from the time ond experience she con- tributed to many committees. Other outside interests included active porticipoion in church work ond teaching in religious education classes, demonstrating her constont concern for nurturing of choracter in the young. During the leisure which is ohead, she will probably continue to give folks on her travels, illustrated by pictures taken on her visits to Alasko ond Hawaii. After school closes this year she will go to Europe with the wonderful advantoge of not having to hurry home in the foil unless she chooses to do so. MISS EVA M. PIERCY We could coll her Miss Mathematics, the teochcr of whom countless students hove enthusiosticolly soid, We were lucky to hove hod her in Moth. A graduotc of Thoyer Acadomy and of Tufts College with o Bachelor of Arts degree, she tought at Needham High School for five yeers before her appointment to SHS in 1927. Soon, her speed and efficiency become well-known, a stimu- lating challenge to the more gifted and a spur to all, fcard only by those who had not come to know first-hand her patience with the slow ond her concern for their ulti- mate understanding of the subject. A number of times college teaching ond industry beckoned, but, we conjecture, she stoyed on with us for the same reosons thot keep missionaries on the field. Next year she will be enjoying her new ranch-style house free from the drudgery of correcting papers ond the worry obout students making a good showing on their college boords.