Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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THE STONEHAM HIGH SCHOOL AUTHENTIC Five short years have rolled by much faster than we ever expected. Very few take a look back into the past but some of us are subject to this weakness. We think back to Friday the thirteenth of June in the year of nineteen hundred and twenty-four when we were to be made alumni and world-conquerors. We were kings for the day. On Saturday the fourteenth we expected the world to turn over and stare at us, we who were to make the world hum. Yet in a day we forgot those things and returned to normal, as most human beings do. To work, to play, to school we departed and a new life was born for us. There was little wavering or sidestepping, but much thinking. We had to shift a bit for ourselves, take a few knocks and perhaps look ahead a bit more than was our custom herebefore. And now the world has marked five years more to our credit and our view of life has changed, some radically, some not so much. A few of us like to look back and think while the great majority must be stirred up to do so. However, prophecies are less, while facts are more established, and we wish to here relate what has happened to mem- bers of the Class of 1924 in five years of world-conquering. Perhaps a bit of explanation is neces- sary. A questionnaire was sent to ev- eryone of the fifty-nine of us who grad- uated on that historic date. Fifty per cent answered the roll, the others had to be urged. Another urge was sent out and about fifty per cent of them re- plied. The last quarter of the class has not responded, expectedly so. However, it is our desire to record everyone of our classmates here so we take from rumor that last twenty-five per cent and record their names here with only what we have heard and not what they themselves have told us. Marie Young, still residing at home, 54 Marble Street, is a private secretary, a good one we should say. Marion Wallace, also living at home, 11 Lincoln Street, is now working for the Edward Caldwell Company on Franklin Street. She’s been with John Hancock Life Insurance Company for three years and one year with the Atlas Plywood Corporation. She’s engaged to our other classmate, Henry Earl Leavitt. Eric Williams is as faithful as ever. He traipses daily to work in the ship- ping department of E. L. Patch Com- panj and back home at 23 Surnmerhill Street. For a time he was engaged with the Heywood-Wakefield Company. “Glad to hear from you, classmate of ’24”, he says. “Those were the happy days — little did we realize it. How- ever, we shall always remember them, though we live to 2024.” That ' s pretty good! Then there is Ruth Massey who is at home, 34 Lincoln Street, and spending the summer at Harwichport, Mass., Box 345 address. She tried two years of Mount Holyoke College but went no further. We were thinking of reunions and perhaps this will give an idea to other classes w’ho think of it too. She hits the nail on the head when she says, “I think reunions are apt to be disil- lusioning and therefore disappointing to those who are interested enough to spend time and thought in planning them.” So very true. Leon White, 8 Pine Street, went to work at the Pacific Mills, Lawrence, af- ter leaving high school, to finish the Avork Miss McPherson started him upon, that of learning chemistry. He has specialized in chemistry of dyestuffs and is still at it. Florence Thompson, now Mrs. Frank W. Jackson, is a housewife at 24 Pleas- ant Street. She was employed by the Boston and Maine for a year and a half after graduation and then married one of our class who could not finish because of the death of his father. They are happily blessed with two sons, Frank W., Jr., aged 3 years and a half, and

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GRADUATION NUMBER Cunningham 3b Concord ab bh po 3 0 1 Stoneham, 6 to 3 A ninth inning rally by the Wakefield High baseball team beat the Stoneham High nine in the opening game of the season at the Pomeworth Street grounds, 6 to 3. Both teams were staging a nip and tuck battle until the ninth frame when Wakefield pushed three runs across the plate to win the ball game. Almost every inning Stoneham had men on the sacks but failed to hit in the pinches while Wakefield bunched their hits for all its runs. With the score tied three all at the beginning of the ninth inning, Hubbard, the first Wakefield batter, was passed, Lewis sent him along with a bunt and Cotter sin- gled. Doyle beat out a slow roller and Ball doubled to score three runs and win the ball game. Dearborn relieved Theroux in the box for Stoneham in the sixth inning and was not as effective as the latter. Mar- Heylinger If 3 0 1 0 ston and Adzigian were the outstanding Jagling ss 4 1 1 2 sluggers of the game while the fielding Farrar c 3 2 8 3 of Peterson and Kent featured. Todd lb 4 0 12 3 The summary: Westby p 4 1 0 4 Wakefield Bartolomo rf 3 2 0 0 ab bh po a Prescott 2b 4 0 3 3 Cotter ss 5 1 1 0 Mara cf 4 0 1 0 LeBlanc 2b 4 0 1 0 — — — — Doyle 2b 1 0 1 0 Totals 32 6 27 13 Spaulding rf 2 0 1 0 Stoneham Walsh rf 2 0 0 0 ab bh po a Ball lb 4 2 6 0 Widell 3b 5 0 3 2 Gersnovitch cf 3 0 1 0 Corcoran If 2 0 1 0 Sullis 3b 3 1 2 0 Kent lb 4 0 9 1 Hubbard If 4 2 1 1 Marston cf 4 0 4 0 Rogers c 4 0 13 0 Adzigian ss 3 0 0 1 Brown p 3 0 0 1 Lundregan rf 2 1 0 0 Lewis p 2 0 0 6 L. Dushane c 4 3 4 3 — — — — Hughes 2b 3 0 3 3 Totals 37 6 27 14 Theroux p 2 0 0 2 Stoneham — — — — ab bh po a Totals 29 4 24 12 Peterson 3b 4 0 2 1 The summary: Widell 2b 2 0 2 2 Runs by Heylinger, Jagling, Farrar 2, Hughes 2b 2 0 0 1 Westby, Bartolomo, Todd, Marston, Corcoran rf 4 0 1 0 Lundregan 2, Adzigian; errors, Farrar, Marston cf 4 3 2 0 Todd, Bartolomo, Prescott , Widell, Ad- Adzigian ss 3 2 1 2 zigian 2, Hughes 2; two base hit. West- Dushane c 3 0 9 1 by; sacrifice hits. Heylinger, Jagling, Kent lb 3 1 10 0 Todd, Corcoran, Hughes, Kent; base on Houston If 2 0 0 0 balls, by Westby 7, by Theroux 5; Lundregan If 2 1 0 0 struck out, by Westby 6, by Theroux 4; Theroux p 2 0 0 4 passed ball, Farrar; double play, Adzig- Dearborn p 1 0 0 1 ian to Kent to Widell; stolen bases. Doherty p 0 0 0 1 Lundregan 2, Bartolomo, Farrar. Um- Chase 1 - 0 0 0 pire. Cull. Time, 2 Wakefield’s Ninth hours. 12 minutes. — — — — Inning Rally Beats Totals 33 7 27 13 Batted for Peterson in ninth. Runs by Cotter, Hubbard, Spaulding, Gersnovitch, Lewis, Marston 2, Adzig- ian ; two base hits, Marston, Adzigian, Ball; errors, Widell, Kent, Dushane, Houston; sacrifice hits, Kent, Doyle, Cotter; stolen bases, Widell, Adzigian, Marston, Hubbard; hit by pitched ball, by Brown (Adzigian, Theroux) ; struck out, by Brown 5, by Lewis 5, by The- roux 6, by Dearborn 1; base on balls, by Brown 2, by Lewis 1, by Theroux 1, by Dearborn 1, by Doherty 1; double play, Dushane to Peterson to Corcoran. Umpire, Collins. Air Lieutenant: How would you like to have a hop in my airplane? Steward: No, Suh, ah stays on terrah firmah, and de more firmah, de less terrah. [ 23 ]

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GRADUATION NUMBER Richard Earle, a year and a half old. Ruth Rayner, 111 Spring Street, start- ed working at the E. L. Patch Company in October, 1924, and is now a secretary there. She seems to like it as she’s neither engaged or married. Geraldine E, Drew of 20 Oak Street is a private secretary. She did one year in Fisher Business College, then tried three years with Rumford Baking Pow- der Company of Providence and settled into her present position January 1st of this year. She is in an attorney’s office and the work is so interesting she hopes to take up law next year. Randall Moulton tried clerking it for a year with Brown Durrell Company then switched over to bookkeeping for the First National Bank of Boston for three years. But he always liked his outdoor work so he’s now tied up with the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, Plant Quarantine and Control. He walks the woods wherever he happens to be stationed and is fast becoming an expert in this work. His permanent mail address is 22 Pond Street, but he’s wandering anyv here be- tween the Canadian Border and the Na- tional Capitol as far as we can find out. Margaret Patch, after four years of Mt. Holyoke and a year of Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School, besides spend- ing her summer as nature councilor at Pine Knoll Camp, Conway, N. H., is now assured of a position with the physio- logical department of Harvard. She is now recuperating from her hard work at home, 47 Lindenwood Road. Our classmate, Elizabeth Johnson, is now Mrs. Mason, married March 2, 1927, to Walter Plummer Mason, and residing at 4 Parkway She spent two years at Framingham ? ormal taking the House- hold Arts Course, one year at home and two married years. Two children oc- cupy most of Elizabeth’s time, Pauline Elizabeth, aged 14 months, and Dorothy Florence, about two months now. Henry Leavitt is living up to all ex- pectations by following out his pre- meditated course of action, that of be- coming a doctor. He is located at 2041 Green Street, Philadelphia, although his exams over, Stoneham has called him hither for the summer. You will re- member he’s engaged to Marian Wallace. He worked for the Lovell-Hall Company of Cambridge, 1924-25, then went to Lunenberg, Vermont, for a year on the farm. Next he took a year of Massa- chusetts Osteopathic College, followed by a year in the local office of the Ed- ison Electric Illuminatiiig Company; but now he’s sta- ' .ted his four year course at the Philadelphia College of Osteop- athy. He expects to take up post grad- uate W ' oik in surgery and obstetrics at Johns Hopkins University and then come back to good old Massachusetts and s ' ttle downi. Good for you, Henry! Hollis Goode’s home is now in Win- I Chester, 14 Cross Street. He tried a I year o?i a boat after graduation but I finally wandered back to New Hamp- j shire and wall graduate this June with I a B. S. degree in Chemistry. He has ac- cepted a position in South America. It does our hearts good to see the hard- working football player make good like this. Camille DeAngelis resides at 16 Man- ! ison Street. She is an artiste reception- ist with Yantine’s Studio, 160 Boylston { Street, Boston. She has studied Span- ish and Italian with Dr. Antonio Del Compo of Spain who is with the Har- vard School of Public Health. She ' hopes to study photographic studio work in Rome, Italy, with an American pho- , tographer, although the future is uncer- tain with her as with so many of us. Rajmiond Buck is happily married to 1 Ethel M. Cogan, the ceremonies taking ! place June 16, 1928. He is a filling sta- I tion proprietor, the station being lo- j cated on the Stoneham-Reading road. He lives at 18 Hersam Street and has one child, Ruth Marie Buck, aged three months. He tried two years wdth Soco- ny as service station employee, then a year with the American Mutual as Claim ‘ Examiner before he assumed his present I position I Blanche Wilkins is now Mrs. Lyman I H. Morris of 79 Prospect Street, Man- j Chester, N. H. Married the thirtieth of j aSIarch this year after working with the ' Edison Electric for two years and a half I and then with Dr. C. W. McPherson of I Medford a year and a half, she has now I settled down to a happy married life. I Little Pasquale DeMartino of 72 I Franklin Street has been timekeeper, I laundry worker and in the cutting room of the shoe shop but his ambition is to j be a Certified Public Accountant. Here’s I wishing him luck. I John Martin Devlin, 62 Maple Street, ! as briefly as ever, removes the cigar for I a moment to say, “I’m a plumber from I the School of Hard Knocks” And he : drives off in his new Ford roadster to take care of a job. But rumor has told [ 25 ]