Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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Macdonald medals For Scholarship, Character and Good Influence in the School. Russell Parker Hermione Stoumbelis Themis Stoumbelis CLASS HISTORIAN Marion Jenkins GRADUATION ADDRESS Robert Towse Preliminary Honor Group (B average or Barbara Alves Marion Jenkins Helen Kettell Marion MacDonald Donald Monson Dorothy Olson CLASS PROPHECY .... CLASS WILL The following awards and prizes will • for four years) Russell Parker C. Norman Peacor Hermione Stoumbelis Themis Stoumbelis Robert Towse Joanna Waite . . Lloyd Martin, William Hanna Margaret Thompson. Frank Martin be announced at graduation exercises : History Medals Mathematics and Science Medal . Grange Art Prize Grange Music Prize American Legion Medal . . . . Carrie S. Ireland Citizenship Award Parent-Teacher Scholarships . . Teachers’ Club Scholarship . . . . Blue and White Scholarship . . . GRADUATION COMMITTEE Barbara Alves William Hanna Marion MacDonald Donald Monson Norman Peacor Hermione Stoumbelis Themis Stoumbelis Robert Towse George Trueman Ioanna Waite SENIOR HONORS

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MALCOLM E. WASHBURN KATHRYN WHITE Mac is a perpetually good-natured lad. His dependability has been shown by his work as manager of basketball, and his wit has enlivened many a classroom. Blue and White, 2, 3; Yearbook Staff; Manager of Basketball. IRENE WERRE I, with her dry sense of humor, has added many joyful moments at all our school games. Basketball, 1; Blue and White, 1, 3; Dramatic Club, 1, 2, 3; Horseback Riding, 1; A. A. Show, 1; Bowling Club, 1. Full of life is our athletic Kay. Her humor and spontaneity have made her a vital member of our class. Basketball, 1, 2, 3; Field Hockey, 1, 2; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3; Blue and White, 3; Winter Carnival, 3; Usher at Graduation. GEORGE WILKINS George is the dreamer of our class. May his dreams bring him good fortune in the years to come. Blue and White, 3. Spring Sowing As our days in school are ending Wistfully we linger here At the crossroads to our future, Wondering what is waiting near. Wistfully, ah yes, for precious Seems each swiftly passing day. Friends are just a little dearer; Parting words so hard to say. Some of us will take the high road ; Some of us will take the low. All of us will make our future By the kind of seeds we sow. May we sow the seeds we’ve gathered Through the golden hours of youth — Seeds of love and seeds of beauty, Seeds of kindness, grace, and truth. All along the pathway flowering May they mark the way we’ve trod, Bringing pleasure and a blessing To our high school and our God. MARGARET THOMPSON

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Graduation Address WE FACE THE FUTURE As far back as history has recorded men’s thoughts, each generation has said, “The peak of scientific development has been reached ; man ' s ingenuity has spent itself. So it was when the automobile sped over rough roads at the alarming speed of fifteen miles per hour; and again when the airplane proved that it could resist the pull of gravity in a Bight from coast to coast. Even more hopeless has been the attitude toward problems growing out of human relation- ships. Newspaper clippings telling of the irresponsibility of youth, of the moral degener- ation of the age, can be read with the same sad shaking of heads today as when they were first printed in an earlier century. How convincingly history has proved the skeptics wrong. Man’s inventiveness is spurred to greater achievement as the needs become im- perative, especially when there is a war to be won. The suffering in total war reaches out over the globe, but so does the sympathy for those whose lives are caught in the maelstrom. We today are likely to see only the dark and unpromising side of our future. Yet with prob- lems of war come unprecedented opportunities. Let us consider several areas in which lie challenges great enough to demand all the courage and idealism we possess. At the outbreak of hostilities diplomatic re- lations between many countries were broken and representatives were called home. All diplomatic relationships must be resumed as progress of the war permits. To safeguard itself each nation may well consider by what principles these re- turning diplomats will be guided. Can there be peace if every nation seeks its own self interest? Can there be peace if diplomats stoop to deceit and shady bargaining? Can there be peace if nations, blind to their own faults, insist that they have found the right way and force that way upon others? Those who represent us in international con- ferences will have it in their power to shape the course of events. Controversial issues will be many ; such as, access to natural resources, national and international defense, trade, air bases, and the control of aggressors. If all sides of these issues are studied with the objective candor of the scientist and with the will to find fair solutions, open conflict can be held in check. Perhaps no one of vour class will serve as a foreign ambassador, but we will all be among the citizens for whom they will speak and we can influence the thinking of our time. We must send to the conference tables men of intelligence, in- tegrity, and tolerance. They must be students of the historv and culture of those nations whose problems are common with ours. They must see beyond the present. More than half the world today is hungry; just how hungry, we in American cannot appre- ciate. These people should be fed and quickly. As one of the leading food producing countries, we can provide immediate and temporary relief. We can help them to help themselves by pro- viding them with modern implements and by teaching improved methods of farming. As Doctor Carver taught the people of his race to make a living from the peanut, so others devoted to research can discover secrets for wresting from the soil livelihoods for crowded nations. Of those who fear that our generosity is too costly we ask if it is not less costly than further wars growing from seeds of hatred in the souls of hungry people who feel themselves forgotten. The devastating accuracy of our air forces and the thoroughness of the destruction by armies have actually wiped out many towns and cities. These must be rebuilt and herein lies another opportunity to restore hope in tired people. We may provide materials, tools, and even trained men. We may expect to be paid so long as our price be fair; exploitation of people who have suffered so terribly could only result in smolder- ing hatred to threaten us later. More than the landscape has been changed. The Dutch friend of Edgar Mower, correspond- ent for the Globe has said, “Hitler has revolu- tionized this continent from the bottom, x ' enewed its outlook, confounded its traditions, scrambled its peoples.” Europe cannot become again what it was, and there are many evidences that it does not want to. In many men is growing a de- termination to live peaceably with their neigh- bors. Hopeful indeed are all attempts at inter- national cooperation : the food conference of forty- three nations, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the Inter- national Commission on Education and the plans of the International Labor Organization. Know- ing that isolation can no longer protect any nation from the spreading infection of discontent, ignorance, and actual want, leaders in these movements seek the best judgment of many countries in the solving of common problems. It is the less hopeful side, however, that most challenges our ingenuity. A generation in coun- tries in Europe have learned to cheat and to steal, and even to kill in order that they may exist. While many have learned to hate Facism, others have been steeped in its doctrines. How can the thinking of this generation be changed ? It is not likely that great numbers of foreigners and foreign ideas will be enthusiastically welcomed