Southern Junior High School - Bell Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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1 8 0 0 O O O C 0 O 0 O O O O THE SOUTHERN BELL Miss Blackwell, our School Librarian, for her generous, daily help to all of the pupils of the school. The Library Staff also merits the gratitude of the school for work performed, daily, in checking books in and out of the library, sacrilicing many hours of their spare time, and assisting in every way the library movement. We wish to thank the teachers who have donated books and magazines, and who have co-operated in any way with our ef- forts to make the School Library a daily joy to a Southern pupil. Here welcome waits for him, Here friends abide, Peace to the Reader! The door stands wide. Every noble life leaves the fibre of it iufcrwotlfn fore-z'cr in H10 work of the world.-Ruskin. I O Books ' Nancy Byrd Turner A travel-book's a good ship With sail unfurled. We go aboard with willing hearts And sail around the world,- To this port and that port, And sail back when journey's done With treasure in our hold. A story-book's a castle, It has a secret stair, From room to room we wander, And every one is fair. A lesson-book's a meadow Where grain is planted deep, A rich and golden harvest That anyone may reap. A poetry-book's a garden With a lovely gate set wide, With shady walks, and fountains, And flowers on every side. You pluck a violet, I take a rose- They last through the long years, As everybody knows. This book and that book,- We're richer than a mint. Blessings on the good men Who first learned to print! o 0 And, having flzosen our course, let us rmicw our trust in God and go forward wiflzout fear. Duties of a Library Staff Member Edward Baskewicz and Joseph Costa, Library Staff The School Library is one of the greatest activities in our school. We are writing these suggestions for the those interested in the work of Library Staff members, all ninth year pupils. Staff duties consist of the following: First-At the Entrance, books are inspected at the Return Desk, where before school books are returned and checked by members of the Girls' Library Staff. Second- At diHerent stations in the Library are members of the Staff who can be recognized by their L. S. arm bands, who assist the pupils in any Way they can, suggesting books, recreational reading, looking up biographies of authors, or showing how to use the encyclopedias. At the centre is the Repair Desk, where new cards and date slips are issued. Here repairs are made, torn pages mended and glued. At the Exit is the Charge Desk, usually in charge of the Boys' Staff. Here pupils fill out cards and date slips, while Staff members stamp the cards. As the pupils leave the Library, Staff inspectors, at the door, check on dates to make sure that books are charged and in good con- dition. Extra assistance is oHered by use of the Picture File, where pupils find pictures which have been cut from the old magazines by Staff Members, classiiied, and filed by subject, to be given to pupils to illustrate papers on assigned topics. o o Ollening a New Book By Abbie Farwell Brown Here's an adventure! What awaits Beyond these closed, mysterious gates? Whom shall I meet, where shall I go? Beyond the lovely land I know? Above the sky, across the sea? What shall I learn and feel and be? Open, strange doors, to good or ill, I hold my breath a moment still Before the magic of your book, What will you do to me, O Book ? I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. -Lord Macaulay. From Thanks to Books By Theodore W. Koch You leisure hours, carrying us away from the tumult of the day , you books, truest and most silent com- panions, how can we thank you for your ever present readiness, for this eternal lifting infiuence of your pres- ence? What have you not been in the darkest days of the soul's soli- tude, in military hospitals and army camps, in prisons and on beds of pain! You have always been on the watch, have given dreams to men, and a bit of tranquillity in moments of unrest and torture. God's gentle magnet, you have always been able to draw out the soul into its own sphere after it had become lost in everyday routine. You have always in all periods of gloom widened the inner heaven within us to something greater. Little fragments of eternity, quietly ranged along the plain wall, you stand there unpretentiously in our home. Yet when the hand frees you, when the heart touches you, you break through prosy surroundings, your words lead us as in a fiery char- iot up from pettiness into the eternal. O O Books By Richard De Bury Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without anger, without bread or money. If you ap- proach them they are not asleep, if you seek them they do not hide, if you blunder, they do not scold, if you are you. ignorant, they do not laugh at Books Horace Mann A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children with- out surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the pres- ence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of' passions and vices.

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, 1 GRADUATION NUMBER o o o o o 0 c o o o o 0 0 7 Library Staff First Row: Margaret Conway, Frances Chesnick, Dorothy Scappi, Clara Dratch, Miss Blackwell, Eleanor Porter, Ruth Cooke, Katharine Haratsis. Second Row: Shirley Smith, Vvilliam Mcliitchie, Arthur Abbood, Anthony Catanzano, George Alfonso, Helen Zakszewska. Third Row: Ralph Manning, Phyllis Lavelli, Elizabeth Kirkland, Dorothy Perry, Eunice Felton, Phyllis Thorpe, Mary Holden, Frances Capodanno, Violet lDiNitto. D I Fourth Row: XVilliam Carroll, Arthur Morrissey, Charles Ranaahan, Paul Niles, Edward Lucchini, Francis XVelch, W'illiam Venuti, Edward Baskewicz, Albert Edelstein, Joseph Costa. School Library Staff, 1935 EMBERS of the Boys' Staff are: Paul Niles, Charles Ranaghan, Albert Edelstein, Anthony Catanzano, Ralph Manning, William McRitchie, William Venuti, Arthur Morrissey, William Bolt, Fran- cis Welch, James Fogarty, Joseph Costa, Edward Baskewicz, Edward Luchini, George Alfonso, and William Carroll. The Girls' Staff consists of the fol- lowing: Elizabeth Kirkland, Phyllis Lavelli, Eunice Felton, Mary Holden, Dorothy Perry, Shirley Smith, Fran- ces Capodanno, Violet Di Nitto, Helen Zakszewska, Katherine Haratsis, Dorothy Scappi, Frances Chesnick, Phyllis Thorpe, Margaret Conway, Clara Dratch, Ruth Vaughan, and Eleanor Porter. o o Southern Library in 1935 Elizabeth Kirkland, Library Staff As We walk about our spacious Southern Library with its attractive decorations and its delightful rows of books, we wonder at those early years at Southern and ask how the pupils managed in those days when scanty shelves held so few books. Of course methods of teaching have changed. One textbook is no longer sufficient. We are told that in the past a collection of thirty books was sent to each room and the home-room teacher carried the responsibility of handling them. These books were changed twice or three times a year. How different from our beautiful School Library of today! No brows- ing along the shelves in those days! No chance to take one's time and select an interesting or helpful book! No arrangement of books for enjoy- ment or studies! No Stai to ask for suggestions as to books or help as to reference work! No shelves of beautiful poetry books for assign- ments of the English teacher! No books for the quarterly book reviews! No librarian-teacher to call on for help and suggestions! Ah, but now that is a thing of the past. All along the shelves are hun- dreds of interesting stories, reference books, and encyclopedias to help the pupil in his work. The old classics have been dressed in new covers, printed in large black type, and illus- trated with colored pictures, all of which helps to make the books more interesting. Sports, aviation, mys- tery, adventure stories, as well as holi- day and assembly programs, are yours for the taking. Three cheers for the Southern Library! We are grateful to all who have taken part in making it a suc- cess. o o Our School Library Albert Edelstein, Library Staif We, the members of the Southern Junior High School, wish to extend our sincere thanks to Mr. Shepherd for his constant and loyal support of our School Library. He not only helps to supply books for our Library, but also supports every feature of the work. Due credit must be given to fi!

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GRADUATION NUMBER 0 0 o o o o o o 0 v - 0 0 9 Miss FRENCH, Teacher. Section JOSEPHINE CAPONE, Prophet. 5 First Row: Francis Souza, Augustine Kiley, John Cochrane, Josephine Capone, Miss French, James Dooner, George Laurendeau, Ray Crimmins. Second Row: Thomas Gauthier, Barbara Estey, Josephine Annarelli, Kathleen Conley, Helen Squizzero, Eleanor Porter, Edward De Marco, Russell Smith. Third Row: John Mc-Mahon, Frederick Carnes, Thomas Marino, Gordon Lake, Donald Healey, Vincent Albanoi Edward Hynes, Robert Coughlan, Louis Drago. Fourth Row: Salvatore Ciccariellu, Francis Stanger, Arthur Albertelli, Edward Cody, George Doherty, Salva- tore Macero, Albert Sutkus, James Sharry, Ralph Moulton. CLASS PROPHECY As the day was exceedingly warm, I decided to take a rest beneath the leafy trees, near a babbling brook. Somehow, somewhere, I was lost! My first thought was to ask one of the two policemen who were standing nearby to help me. Before the first word had escaped me, I discovered that both of the men were my old schoolmates. Francis Souza and Fran- cis Stanger said that there was a col- lege a few streets away, where many of my friends were instructors. They both decided to accompany me there. As we stopped in front of Louis Drago's law office, we met Donald Healey, a traveling salesman, who said he was going over to the avia- tion field, where Ralph Moulton was supervisor of the airport and Edward DeMarco and Thomas Marino were his e-lfrief pilots. Continuing on our way, We were confronted by a detour, because a bridge was being built by the contractors, George Laurendeau and Fred Carnes, who had received a written statement from Barbara Estey, the secretary to the mayor of that city. James Dooner had given them permission to build there. While We were making the detour, the driver stopped the car because he saw two aldermen, Edward Hynes and Edward Cody, coming out of the State House. They told us that Salvatore Macero had just taken a Civil Service exam- ination, and made a very high aver- age. Leaving them, we passed by the city firehouse, where Ray Crim- inins, the chief of the fire department, told us that he had just received a radiogram from his friend, Robert Coughlin, Bishop of Manchester, tell- ing him that John McMahon had re- cently been appointed Cardinal Arch- bishop of Boston. A few buildings away from 'the firehouse, a large broadcasting station had been built by Albert Sutkus, and all the electrical work was done by George Doherty. A broadcast had just finished, and the performers started to move away from the microphone. They were celebrated guests, Helen Squizzero and Catherine Conley, the former hav- ing broadcasted on famous beauty hints from Paris, and the latter on Parisian fashions. The next person to go on the air was John Cochrane, dean of the college. Later, Arthur Albertelli, who was majoring in higher mathematics, and Josephine Annarelli, a teacher of music, were introduced. I was sorry to leave the building, but soon forgot about it when I saw that a National League baseball game was going on. The last home run had been made by James Sharry. Sitting on the bench was Augustine Kiley, the manager of the team. After the game, I met Vincent Albano and Thomas Gau- thier, who were respectively famous scientist and chemist. I returned to my car and started towards the college I had planned to visit. When I entered, I met Eleanor Porter, the dietitian of a hospital, and, as I looked into one of the classrooms, I noticed Professors Russell Smith and Gordon Lake giving a lecture on English. In the next room Salvatore Ciccariella was teaching history. Wonder of wonders! I was in the very college of which I was the dean. There was a loud noise and I awoke to find the brook merrily tripping along.