Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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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.