Southington High School - Chronicle Yearbook (Southington, CT)

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-lvl CHRONICLE J0- radaazfion Program The Graduation Exercises Of The Fifty-Ninth Class Of The Lewis High School fPrior to 1882 the school was called the Sally Lewis Academyl. POCESSIONAL OF CLASS INVOCATION SALUTATORY ADDRESS ADDRESS VALEDICTORY Reverend Arthur I. Tedcastle Michael Joseph Ingelido Mr. Albert Prince State Board of Education Clarence Brooks Strickland PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Mr. Benjamin H. Mc Gar, Chairman of Town School Com. ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZE WINNERS SCHOOL SONG Salutatory . Mr. Chairman, Member.: of the Board of Education, Mr. Superintendent, Mr. Prin- cipal, Members of the Facully, Parents, and Friends: In behalf of the Class of 1933, I wish to welcome each one of you to this, our graduation night. I also wish to thank you for your help and cooperation in securing for us this opportunity to educate and train ourselves so that we may be better fitted for our 1ife's work. We are graduating at a time when a new era of progress and prosperity seems imminent. Looking into the future we see that one oi the outstand- ing and progressive industries will be aviation, even as it is today. History shows that the upward course of civilization corresponds to the pace of progress in transportation. Until the development of the railroad in the nineteenth century, civilization's progress was as slow as man's advance in the field of transportation. But with the development of the railroad, the automobile, the Steamship, and the airplane, the slow pace of progress speeded up, and there was an unher- alded rush of inventions which culmi- nated in an industrial revolution. Standing on the threshold of a new era of progress which enthusiasts claim will revolutionize the aeronautical in- dustry, it seems certain that new in- dustries will be created and old ones Page Twenty-five

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-wif CHRONICLE 10- lass S tatzlv1fz'cs Number who entered 161g number graduating 72g age of oldest girl, 203 age of oldest boy 195 age of youngest girl 165 age of youngest boy 16g tall- est boy 6 feet, 3 inches, tallest girl 5 feet, 7 inches, shortest boy 5 feet, 4M inches, shortest girl 5 feet, 0 in- chesg heaviest girl 151 lbs.g heaviest boy 215 lbs.g lightest girl 86lbs. g light- est boy 110 lbs. Thirty-four are called by their right- ful namesg twenty-two have nick- names, while sixteen are just heyl We have in this honorable class, thirty Democrats, twenty-eight Repub- licans, twelve Socialists, one Nazi, and one be-whiskered and spitball throw- ing Bolsheviki. Thirty-five are Catho- lics, thirtyuare Protestants and we find two girls who are members of that ancient cult known as the Rudy Val- lee-ites, and the rest of the class con- fess to limiting their praying to just before exams Of the girls, two wish to become nurses, seven desire to become teach- ers, twenty are working hard attempt- ing to procure office jobs, and the re- maining seven exhibit a desire to become gold-diggers, because as one of them has misquoted that classic phrase, Thar's gold in them thar sugar-daddies l Among the boys we find doctors, lawyers, engineers, farmers, sailors fwho hope to find themselves a girl in every portj, secretaries, one gigolo, and the traditional traveling salesman still holds forth in all his glory. Twenty-two are pro-Garbo, and fif- ty are anti-Garbog thirty-six fgirlsj are for Vallee, and thirty fboysj are anti-Valleeg twenty-eight read Bally- hoo and the remaining fourty-four peek over their shouldersg we find ten bridge players, and sixty-two kibit- zersg and, to top it off, we find that the most popular person in the class is gallant Sir Michael Rodent, other- wise known as Mickey Mouse. th letic ozfes Baseball Lewis 5 Y. M. C. A. 3 6 Thomaston 9 9 Morse College 12 13 Simsbury 2 2 N. B. High 11 5 Thomaston 9 7 Simsbury 5 3 Collinsville 4 Madison 15 N. B. Trade 1 4' Kingswood 10 Lyman Hall 9 f' Plainville 7 ff 11 s 2 KI 1 3 Track Lewis 51M Simsbury 50X-5 Page Twenty-four 68y3 Lyman Hall 761, 42 Plainville 53 39 Naugatuck 65 Interclass Meet Sophomores 41 Freshmen 18 juniors 33 Seniors 16 Golf Lewis 102 Morse College 16M 2 Manchester 10 1 Meriden 5 17 Simsbury 1 0 Hillhouse 6 9 Weaver 9 0 Hillhouse 6 ll Farmington 102

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stimulated, thus bringing about pro- gress and prosperity in other fields. Since 1903, when the Wright bro- thers fulfilled the centuries-old dream of man to fly like a bird, aviation has pressed forward in spectacular fashion. From that humble beginning of thirty years ago, when the Wrights flew for fifty-nine seconds, aviation has pro- gressed to the point where duration flights of over six hundred hours have been made. Oceans and continents have been spanned, the Poles have been crossed, and the world itself has been encircled in eight days. Magellan, on his historic voyage, took three years to encircle the globe. And yet, the greatest progress lies ahead. By the use of improved meth- ods and designs of construction, safer and more comfortable planes with greater speeds may be expected. Im- provements i'n airports and the per- fection of illuminated airways which employ the use of radio, give promise of safer and more rapid airlines which will keep punctual schedules. Even fog, hitherto the greatest enemy of all types of air travel, has been overcome by the use of the radio beam. Rocket planes and stratosphere airliners will operate at altitudes of about ten miles at tentatively estimated speeds of from five hundred to one thousand miles per hour. But the tremendous speed and cruis- ing range of airplanes and dirigibles would be of no avail if they did not serve some definite purposes for man- kind. With their great speed, the fu- ture airliners will draw countries -'bf CHRONICLE 10- closer together and will serve to cement bonds of good-will and better understanding between the nations. Trans-Atlantic service will soon bring the old world within a few hours of the new. Another side of aviation which will hold great interest for all of us in the near future is the development of the light-plane. With traffic congested as it is today, and progress in the light- plane field surging forward at an ever increasing pace, it will not be surpris- ing if the light-plane takes its place as a rapid and inexpensive means of transportation, especially for commut- ing and light delivery service between cities. The development of the autogyro in the last few years removes the neces- sity of having large flying fields for take-offs or landings. Progress has been made in developing a cheap, fool-proof light-plane and motor. Die- sel and steam engines, both of which use fuel oil and are very inexpensive to operate, have been successfully used in small planes. If the popularity of the light-plane increases as rapidly as it has thus far, it may not be long before Mrs. Jones of New York will drop over in her new sport-model autogyro to Mrs. Brown's in Boston for a few rubbers of bridge before luncheon. The invention of the airplane and the dirigible, along with their progress and their effect on civilization will un- questionably form one of the most ad- venturous and intriguing chapters in the history of the world. MMM Page 'Twenty-six