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

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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.

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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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10 0 THE SOUTHERN BELL Miss Small Presents Colorful Greek Pageant N May 28, members of the World Friendship Club and the Art Club gave in the school auditorium a presentation of tales and adventures from ancient Greece which was certainly a novelty enjoyed by all. , The World Friendship Club directed by Miss Mann has studied Greece this year at the suggestion of Mr. Bingham, chairman of the Interna- tional Relations Committee of the Somerville Rotary Club, which had selected Greece for their study this year. The pageant opened as the presi- dent of the World Friendship Club appealed to Father Time to turn back his Book of Years to the days of Ancient Greece in order that South- ern boys and girls might see for one short hour something .of life among gods and heroes on Olympus in the mythical days of old. Father Time called his messenger, Hermes, and commanded him to summon the gods to come forth. As the gods assembled, Clio, muse of history, announced them as they appeared for council. Among them we saw Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, and others robed in the colorful costumes which were dyed, designed and made by Miss Small, di- rector of the Art Club. Miss Small wrote the pageant, and has given much time to the making of the large amount of equipment and decoration needed in the production. While the gods were in council, Apollo, god of beauty and music, played on his lyre, and Pan, the piper for King Midas, played a lively tune on his pipes. The gods were asked to judge the musicians and all except Midas voted for Apollo. He haughtily left the assembly, but soon returned with a pair of donkey's ears which he placed on the head of Midas, greatly to the amusement of the gods. Ganymede, cup-bearer of Zeus, presented a cup of wine to the father of all the gods, which he drank with relish. During the council, the or- chestra played the graceful, dignified Pomp and Circumstancef' One of the most beautiful and im- pressive presentations was where the sculptor Pygmalion became so enrap- tured with his statue of Galatea that she came to life. Victor Herbert's Sweet Mystery of Life seemed to voice the sculptor's feelings perfectly. Niobe was well represented as she pleaded for the life of her remaining daughter after thirteen other children had been put to death by jealous gods. Grieg's music, The Death of Asa, helped us to feel her grief. When Pandora and Epimetheus en- tered their new home, Schubert's Serenade seemed to 'sing their hap- piness. But when Pandora's curiosity made her open the box, and all the troubles escaped, we heard their hum- ming as the violin and piano played Franz Schubert's The Bee. Finally Hope was liberated from the chest to help us bear' all the troubles, and joy reigned supreme in Mendelssohn's Spring Song. Everyone enjoys the purity and fragrance of the delicate spring flower, narcissus. The story of its origin was impressively told as the youth, Narcissus, saw his redection in a pool and, while gazing enraptured, pined away. The gods, however, changed him to the beautiful flower we love so well. All through this scene Ethelbert Nevin's Narcissus was played by the orchestra. These are only a few of the delight- ful episodes presented in the pageant. Each was impressive and pleasing because of the dignity and grace of the actors and the charmingly ap- propriate music furnished by the or- chestra. O I Pageant Orchestra First violin, Ralph Manning, sec- ond violin, Patsy Capobiancb, cello, Pasquale Ficarra, accompanist, Jose- phine Annarelli, leader, John Masone. CAST OF CHARACTERS In the Order of Their Appearance. Father Time, William O'Neil, at- tendants, Alton Savage and John Loring, student, Doris King, Hermes, messenger of the gods, Alfred Hart, Clio, muse of history, Vivian Mag- nusson, Zeus, father of the gods, Francis Haugen, Hera, queen of heaven, Beverly Bent, Apollo, god of music and poetry, George Roder- ick, Artemis, goddess of moon and chase, Artemis Christenakis, Posei- don, god of waters, James Fogarty. Hephaestus, god of fire, Walter Morrissey, Athena, goddess of wis- dom, Ethel Nickerson, Ares, god of war, John Picardi, Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, Linda Costa, Eros, god of love, Robert Estey, Pan, flutist for Midas, Malcolm Colgate, Ganymede, cup-bearer of Zeus, Bessie Lingos, Midas, king of Lydia, Arthur Amos, Greek boy, Paul Eade, Pygmalion, sculptor, Rigas Rigopou- los, Galatea, Nymph in marble, Thelma Simmons, Niobe, mother of seven sons and seven daughters, Elizabeth Ames, Niobe's daughter, Akrivia Zois, Pandora, first woman, Josephine Lingos, Epimetheus, after- thought, Carl Knowlton, Troubles, Mary Macera, Ruth Des Champs, Barbara Ferguson, Ethel Naimon. Hope, Josephine Mathews, dancers, Charlotte Brenner, Anna Didris, Jose- phine Capone, Gladys Hiltz, Helen Squizzero, Audrey Gullage, Hebe, goddess of youth, Sophie Slubenuck, Eris, goddess of discord, Mary Di Ciaccio, Paris, shepherd, Spirio Chik- lakis, Narcissus, Grecian youth, Dorothy Davenport, Thetis, a sea nymph, Mary Kacoyanis, Jason, a Greek hero, Werner Sacks, Medea, a sorceress, Elaine Jex, Dragon, Henry Dunn, Penelope, model Greek woman, Bertha Silva, Seven maidens of the Frieze of the Parthenon, Greek dan- cers and Grace Lane, Piccolo for Pan's pipes, Thomas Figeira, Guitar for Apollo's lyre, Angelo Struzziero. Book Houses By Annie Fellows Johnston I always think the cover of A book is like a door, Which opens into someone's house Where I've not been before. A pirate or a fairy queen May lift the latch for me, I always wonder when I knock What welcome there will be. And when I find a house that's dull I do not often stay. But when I find one full of friends Pm apt to spend the day. I never know what sort of folks Will be within, you see, And that's why reading always is So interesting to me.