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

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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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6 O O O I O O I O O O O O O THE SOUTHERN BELL The World Friendship Club MISS MANN, Director The Aims of Our World Friend- ship Club Are: 1. To acquaint us with the history, art, and literature of many for- eign countries. 2. To help us to appreciate the con- tributions of all nations to the advancement of civilization. 3. To prepare us to obtain greater pleasure and benefit from read- ing and travel. 4. To encourage us to overcome par- tisan, sectarian, and national prejudices. 5. To promote friendship, justice, and good will among the nations of the world. O C World Friendship Verse for America May all the nations share, Lord God, Thy gracious care, Thy name adore. Praise to the Prince of Peace, His kingdom still increase, Till wrong and wars shall cease Forever more. -Courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor. o 0 The Athenian Boys' Oath We will never bring disgrace to this, our city, by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suf- fering comrades in the ranks. We will work for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many, we will revere and obey the city's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence above us who are prone to in those annul or set them at naught, we will strive unceasingly to quicken the pub- lic's sense of duty. Thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this city not only not less, but greater than it was transmitted to us. o o World Friendship David Lloyd George has said, The supreme task of the rising genera- tion is the abolition of war. Let us hope that there are many men and women in every country as wise as this English statesman, and that they will use their influence to help in- crease the number of World Friend- ship Clubs in the schools of all na- tions. There is no doubt about friendly relations with other coun- tries in the future if the boys and girls in our schools are learning to know and understand something of the lives and character of young people in far-of lands. Someone has said, We live in a world as well as in a city, a country, a state, and a nation. We have only to think of the far-reaching inHuence of the telephone, telegraph, radio, aviation and various other agencies to realize that a nation cannot live by itself alone. We are, indeed, so dependent upon the people of other countries for articles of food and clothing that We should consider them friendly neighbors and sympathetic human beings. If nations as well as individuals would, in case of misun- derstandings, put themselves in the other felloW's place, there would be few, if any, causes for war. Peace on earth, good will toward men should be our untiring aim. If, as has been said, The World Friend- meet with ship Club molds the youth to the problems of tomorrow squareness, breadth of mind, and fair- ness, with the view that peace may henceforth reign uninterrupted, then time may We hope for that happy when all difliculties between nations may be settled peacefully. No Gold Star Mothers will then mourn the loss of their sons on bloody battle fields of the future. L. E. M. I I World Friendship Song Tune-- Funicula. Some think the world was made for one race only, And that race theirs, and that race theirs, Some think it well to be down right exclusive In all aifairs, in all aiairs. But we, we love to spend our time learning Of many arts, in foreign parts. To set the earth with friendship bravely ringing VVe give our hearts, we give our hearts. Joyous welcome, no race will we ever bar. Hearty greetings, welcome from afar From North or South or East or West just so you're not from Mars. Friendship everywhere as universal as the stars. The Story of Echo Akrivia Zois, II-4 Long, long ago the Greeks believed that all the hills and streams and groves were peopled by beautiful young girls whom they called nymphs. These nymphs lived a very carefree, joyous life. Of them all, Echo had the fairest face and the sweetest voice, and in the dance she was the merriest and the Heetest of foot. Echo also had the gift of words. She could tell such enchanting stories that her listeners forgot all else while she wove her magic spell of words. But there came a day when Echo displeased the mighty Juno who was the queen of all the goddesses. She had kept Juno so much amused with one of her clever stories that the queen forgot to watch the other nymphs, and they played mischievous pranks. When Juno found out how she had been tricked, her wrath blazed forth. Rising from her throne and towering above the shrinking nymph, she cried out in angry tones, No longer shall you have the power of speech. From this time forth, you shall be dumb, except when someone speaks to you, and then you shall have power to repeat only the last Words spoken. Alas! Alas! sighed all the other nymphs, gazing sadly at their once merry playmate. i'Alas! Alas! cried Echo after them and could say no more, although she stretched out her arms to Juno and strove to ask forgiveness. Poor Echo roamed the hills and woods, hiding behind the rocks and trees, unheard except when someone called. Day by day she grew thinner and paler until at last nothing was left but her sweet voice. That Voice you may still hear among the hills, answering you with mocking words whenever you call.

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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.