Southington High School - Chronicle Yearbook (Southington, CT)

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Marion, Conn.-Abraham Raskin has left to attend the 22nd conference of the Poultry Dealers' Association in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Raskin is one of Connecticut's leading poultry dealers. ,Meriden, Conn.-An exclusive dress shop has recently been opened in Meri- den. Clara Heinrich is the proprietor. Southington, Conn. -- Josephine Dzwill has accepted a position as teacher of commercial subjects at Lewis High School. Allentown, Penn.-The Allentown Prep football team is looking forward to a very successful football season. The new line coach is Frank Longo. Bar Harbor, Me.-Verna Parkin is employed as a hostess at a summer resort in Bar Harbor. New Haven, Conn.-Lawyer Morris Dodson was guest speaker at the Lawyers' Banquet. Mr. Dodson proved his ability as a lawyer in the recent Smythe Murder case. Forest Hills, L. I.-Lorraine Nagle won the Junior championship tennis title this afternoon at Forest Hills. Southington, Conn.-The new Y.W. C. A. building was designed by Alex- ander Drozd, famous architect. Sarasota, Fla.-Thomas Shanahan, well-known animal trainer is em- ployed by the Ringling Brothers 81 Barnum, Bailey circus owners. Southington, Conn. - Southington's own figure skater, Ruth Cockayne, is spending a few weeks at the home of her parents before leaving for Lake Placid. Albany, N. Y.-The country's fastest miler , Dwight Atwater, plans to race with Glenn Cunningham some- time this summer. Let's all hope that Dwight outruns him. S Page T wenty-four -of CHRONICLE F' Marion, Conn.-A patent has been issued for an automatic fly swatter to Charles Upson. Washingon, D. C.-President Ger- ald Mitchell has chosen Ruth Ludecke as his secretary. Mount Ranier, Wash.-Due to the quick thinking of Forest Ranger James Mongillo, Mt. Ranier was saved from destruction by a fire. Hartford, Conn. -Another nurse from the class of '36 has found a good job. julia Gale is working in the office of a well-known doctor of Hartford. New York City-Macy's Depart- ment Store has given employment to Alonzo Micoski as head bookkeeper. Plainville, Conn.-Elizabeth Pat- terson has opened her new beauty salon in Plainville, New Haven, Conn.-The New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Co. has employed Francis Mahan as engineer. Southington, Conn.-Earle Ander- son, lover of beauty, has one of the largest green houses in Southington. Hartford, Conn.-Because of her pleasant voice, Station WDRC has employed Stella Oszkandy as an an- nouncer. She is one of the few woman announcers. New 'York City-Edward Snow is stage manager for the new show open- ing on Broadway this week. Mr. Snow has had much experience on this line when at high school. This brings our radio program to a close. -Your announcer is Evelyn F rate.

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cl-lRoNicLE 1+ Q .New York City--Our bicycle rider, George Simonik, will start tomorrow for a ride across the country on his bicycle. -1-1... There will now be a brief interruption for station identification . . . --Y our announcer is Richard Elliott. Philadelphia, Pa.-Leonard Dona- hue, former resident of Southington, Conn. has signed a contract to manage the Philadelphia Athletics for the next two years. Washington, D. C.--Senator Kop- plemann of Hartford, Conn. has appointed Anna Della Bitta as his new secretary. New York City--Aboard the ship Queen Mary Helen Santy left for London. Miss Santy is a renowned dress designer from the east. Southington, Conn. -- Mr. Richard Elliott has just been appointed presi- dent of the Real Estate Corporation of Southington. He is noted for his famous slogan If you lived here you'd be home now . Hartford, Conn.-Joseph Zajac has received a position with the Hartford Courant. He is employed as sport editor for the newspaper. Plantsville, Conn.-Alice Thompson, secretary to the owner of a lumber company in Plantsville, has resigned to marry her boss' son. New York, N. Y.-Nellie Zolandz, a newcomer to the Metropolitan will make her debut tonight. She will sing the lead in the opera Homewood . New Haven, Conn. - The Yale Athletic Commission has given a three year contract to joseph.Galiette, who has just finished coaching basketball for the season. Springfield, Ohio-Marion Walsh became one of the editors for the Crowell Publishing Company of Spring-Held early today. Southington, Conn. - A match factory has been organized in South- mgton. The president of the company is joseph Casale. Chicago, Ill. - The new social worker at the Hull House is none other than Lucille Murphy, a former student at Lewis High School. St. Louis, Mo.-Antony Astrologes has just signed a contract with the St. Louis Cardinals as pitcher. Dizzy Dean will now have some keen competition. New London, Conn.-The Dean of Connecticut College has appointed Betty johnson as her new secretary. Miss johnson is an alumna of the college. New York, N. Y.-A new enter- tainer has been added to the list for entertainment at the Rockefeller Center Music Hall. Armond Pasquale, noted musician, will play various in- struments for tonight's entertainment. Hollywood, Calif. - Miss Erma Rossetter, famous Interior Decorator of the East, left today for the lVest coast to design homes in the film colony . Boston, Mass.-Julius Kremski a promising interne at the Bostonian Hospital, has received a scholarship to study medicine at Oxford University, England. Southington, Conn.-The widely read book Good Points for a Secre- tary to remember is written by Eugenia Simons.. Detroit, Mich.-Mary Egan is em- ployed as a private secretary to the prominent Lady Cynthia of Detroit. Page Twenty-three

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CHRONICLE 1+ Sululutory Mr. Chairman, Members of the Board of Education, Mr. Superintendent, Mr. Principal, Members of the F aculty, Fellow Classmates, Parents and Friends: On behalf of the class of 1936, I welcome you here this evening to our graduation exercises. On this occasion to which we have looked forward for four years, it will be of interest to survey the years of our high school's history from its small beginning and reflect on the great changes which have come about since that early time. I have chosen the facts from our his- tory which I think will be of greatest interest to you. James Lewis, a nephew of Sally Lewis, who taught at West Point often spoke of a desire that his native town, Southington, might some day enjoy the benefits of a school of high grade. I-Iis enthusiasm is believed to have aroused that of his aunt, with the result that in 1828, Sally Lewis made a provision in her will for the promo- tion of public education in Southing- ton. The will in part, stated- and all the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personal, I give to my executors hereinafter named, whom I appoint Trustees to have my estate in trust with power to sell the same as they shall judge best, to hold the whole in trust and to apply the rent, interest or income thereof to assist in maintaining a school of the higher order within the limits of the First School District in Southington forever, that is, a school for the in- struction of youth in the Latin and Greek languages, Mathematics and Geography, and other branches of science higher than are taught in the common schools. In May 1842, 583,040.76 was turned over to the first trustees, who were Rey. E. C. jones, Romeo Lowrey, and Oliver Lewis. A suitable building was erected about on the site of the town hall-this was the old Sally Lewis Academy. Because the trustees allowed two years to pass without the interest of the money being used for the school, according to the terms of the will, the sum was forfeited to the Congrega- tional Society for the support of the gospel ministry. Addin Lewis, a cousin of Sally Lewis, was born in W'olcott, which was then a part of Southington. I-Ie entered Yale at nineteen and after graduation took a position as tutor in the University of Georgia and taught there for ten years. He, then, lived in Mobile for a number of years holding several important positions and earn- ing the title Father of Mobile. He spent his last years in New Haven. He left his money to his daughter who died soon after and according to a pro- vision made by Mr. Lewis fifteen thousand dollars went to the School Society of the town of Southington. Of this fifteen thousand dollars, the will stated that Five thousand dollars be used to erect a building suitable for the accommodation of an Academical Institution to be situated near the center of the town. The remaining ten thousand dollars with two thous- and which the School Society must raise was to be used as a fund for the school. This sum was obtained and a brick building known as Lewis Acad- emv was erected on Academy Hill in 1848 and pupils were admitted on De- cember fourth of that year. The build- ing faced west and contained a cloak room for the girls, one for the boys and a furnace room on the hrst lioorg two class rooms and an assembly hall Page Twenty-Hee