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MISS VIOLA JACKSON Not often do the right person ond the right position come to- gether. Miss Violo Jockson cchieved this hoppy situotion. As Heod of the French Deportment she brought not only o fine scholastic bockground (A.B. ond A.M. Rodcliffe) but on enthusi- astic support of oil school ond professional activities. Miss Jackson's keen ond discerning interest in Dramatics wos evidenced in her tireless work with the Ployers' Club for seventeen years ond her crcotion of the Hornet M. Bell Scholarship Fund. An ordent football, baseball, ond boskctboll fon, she knew her athletics, end her enthusiosm wos genuine. Many o Somerville boy in the Armed Forces of World War II wos cheered by the letters she somehow found time to write. Mony o sick person ot Boston City Hospitol and the Vctcron's Hospitol is grateful for her untiring services as o Nurse's Aide. Her love of trovel, (an honorary citizen of Nautico, Fronce) brought extro life end knowledge to her closses. Europe, Asio, ond the U. S. were fomilior hounts of the little lody of 141 . Yet, obove everything else. Violo Jockson wos first ond lost o teocher. Glodly did she learn ond glodly teach! The student body of S.H.S. end the foculty solute you! MISS HAZEL L. SMITH Miss Hozel L. Smith is o groduote of Somerville High School, where she wos president of her closs. She received her higher education ot Massachusetts College of Art, which she served later os President of the Alumni Association. Throughout her coreer she hos been ective in stotc ond notionol Art Education Associations. Miss Smith's superior tolcnt ond training hove been evident well beyond the confines of the classroom. Mony pupils trained in her closses hove mode art o life career. Projects expond from room 145 into local ond distont com- munities. She hos hod the gratification of watching skilled ond interested students progress in ond beyond Somerville High School ond achieve gools new to them. Within the school each graduating class for years has seen the Cinderella-like transformation of our plain utilitarian gymnasium into the fairyland setting of the Senior Prom. Actuolly no foiry- godmother's wond hos brought this obout. It is the result of horc work by many students under her competent direction Eoch of the students porticipofing in this final senior activity tokes out into his adult life the knowledge of how good planning ond orgonizotion bring the desired results. Every student ottending owes on additional thonk you to Miss Smith when he soys goodbye to her ond to Somerville High School. MR. JOSEPH B. WEENE In November of the post school year Mr. Joseph B. Weene resigned from the teaching profession offer thirty-two yeors of being o member of the History Deportment ot Somerville High. Mr. Weene himself wos o graduate of S.H.S. in the closs of 1925. In 1932 he graduated from Boston University with o B J. and went on to Tufts University to eom his M.Ed. in 1934. The previous year morked the beginning of his coreer ot Somerville High, ond now he begins o well-deserved retirement. We ot S.H.S. thonk ond congratulate Mr. Weene.
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MR. ROBERT F. BUCKLEY £ , eunnci 7 For more thon o third of o century, the holls ond ploying fields of Somerville High School hove been illuminated and warmed by the gcniol personality of Robert F. Buckley. A product of our own schools, he ployed on the athletic teams thot in his day brought fame ond renown to the fair name of Somerville. Together with the late much beloved Charlie Dicker- man, he moved on to Mt. St. Mary's College in Maryland where h; continued the successful coreer in othletics he had begun here. After his groduotion from college, hoving proved his competence m the field of cduc:tion, he returned to his Alma Motor to take up th: duties of a teocher of biology. Shortly thereafter, he added the onerous duties of Fo:ulty Manager of Athletics. Down through the years his gentle patience, his kindly humor, ond his devotion to his work for others have end:ored him to his fellow workers and to thousands of young people who hod the good fortune to come under his beneficent influence. The post of Avon tells us that parting is such sweet sorrow. The sorrow of his departure from our midst is sweetened only by the happiness we hove enjoyed in the grocc of his friendship ond the inspiration he hos engendered in us. You go, deor friend; but yet you stoy. For nothing, nor time, nor distance, nor change con remove you completely from our hearts. Ladies ond Gentlemen: I give you Robert, the Fearless One, Buckley. MISS MARY CANAVAN This June, 1966, marks the resignation of Miss Mary Conovan from the Faculty. A graduate of Emmanuel College, she was appointed to the High School in November, 1929. Three yeors lotcr she eorned her M A degree ot Boston College. Her thirty- seven years of tcoching hove been devoted to our Somerville High School students. It hos been o happy, successful career. Miss Ccnovan will be fondly remembered by her many former pupils and certainly will be greatly missed by her associates. As for us, the Class of 1966, we are especially pleased to welcome her os o member of our graduating class. MR. MELVIN T. CARVER Ending a tcoching and coaching career which began on October 1917, Mr. Melvin T. Corvcr retires os of June 1966. During his corccr mony boys and young men hove gone on to moke their names in sports. Some who were taught by Mel Corvcr the fundamentals of foir ploy ore not only numbered among the living but also omong the honored dcod of our country MR. PHILIP Philip L Holmes greduoted with Honor from Somerville High School in 1920. and Cum loude from Horvord University in 1924. He olso received his Moster's degree with honors from Harvard, and hos studied ot the Sorbonne in Paris, ond at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. Before joining the faculty of Somerville High School in Sept. 1933 he taught in the Deportment of German at Trinity College He inaugurated the French progrom in the evening classes at Northeostern University, and hos taught French, German, and To enumerate the mony achievements of this tcocher-cooch would fill volumes. Although he Icovcs the school system, he leaves with us a heritage of character and sportsmanship. We reflect the feelings of all those who knew him in wishing him mony years of happiness in his retirement. Mony of us ore much better men ond women for having known Mel and our lives arc much richer because he passed our woy. L. HOLMES Sponish ot Lincoln Preparatory School (a branch of Northeostern University). He has also been on the faculty of the Huntington Preparatory School for many summers. In the High School, before teaching Germon and French, he tought Spanish and Italian for ssverol yeors. Hoving traveled extensively in Europe, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Carribean Islands, he is looking forward to trips to other ports of the world in the future. 10
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