Stoughton High School - Stotonian / Semaphore Yearbook (Stoughton, MA)

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cA(3o j ews The Year in News The first important event on the year ' s calendar was the election of class officers. As a result of strenuous campaigning the following students were elected. SENIOR CLASS President Kenneth Leahy Vice President Irene Tirelis Secretary Mary Rivella Treasurer Peter Mears JUNIOR CLASS President Leo McDermott Vice President Blanche Rowland Secretary Elizabeth Staples Treasurer Paul Kennedy SOPHOMORE CLASS President Edward DeLuca Vice President Dorothy Kell Secretary Helen acoulis Treasurer Robert Smale The next event to hold the spotlight was the annual Sophomore Hallowe ' en Dance, a very successful affair that spoke well for the members of the class. Each class was well-represented upon the football gridiron and hockey field where all who participated in these sports proved their mettle by going through successful seasons. The Junior Class lost two promising and popular members in Edith Marshall and Clarence White, the former moving to Dorchester and the latter going to Maine lo study to become one of those big, strong, handsome guides. This class received a promising asset to its membership when Eileen McLeod entered its ranks. Senior Commercial girls formed a club of their own and proceeded to obtain much enjoyment and instruction from their organization. Page Fourteen

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After High School - Wlmt? Each year the Stoughton High School turns out a fresh crop of graduates, young and eager men and women looking forward to . . . what? Now, as one man amply put it — that is the question. If you are one of the ver) few favored ones who have the means and ability to go to college, all well and good. You have four more years in which to prepare your- self for service, and may they be four pleasant years as well as profitable ones. But if you belong to the majority, you will have to seek your way in the world. Not being especially trained or talented, you will probably follow a path leading to one of our local accredited institutions — in short, factory work. But this is all fact, and consequently dull and uninteresting. The point of these two hundred odd words is that whatever way you choose, or whatever path is chosen for you, there is always ambition. Ambition may be dulled in the daily grind of factory labor or lost in the social gaiety of college, but its only limitations are within oneself. There are no heights that cannot be scaled b) ambition plus determination. One, however, must know the requirements and be prepared to fulfill them. Money helps more than a great deal. However it is the things within oneself that make for success. This sounds terribly preachy, but think it over and you will realize its truth. The Texas Tragedy Hundreds of mounds of heaped-up dirt on a lonely Texas plain. That is all that now remains of the youthful population of New London High School. A trag- edy too grim and too tragic to be interpreted by the printed word. The younger generation of New London has gone back to God and left behind a void too deep to ever be refilled on this earth. Ihis disaster was worse than war. Horrible in its swift devastation. Yet for one brief instarit it united the people of this nation. Their common bond was sympathy. But, here at Stoughton High School we claim a bond that is twofold -both of sympathy and of youth. Sympathy, like sorrow, however deep, heals with age. Youth knows no age and is inconsolable. To this heart-broken Texan community, goes our deepest and sincerest sympathy together with the expressed wish that we could in some way, aid that portion of our rank that has gone before us. Page Thirteen

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School News (Continued) The Dramatic Club ' s annual Christmas play proved to be a great success from all angles. We were pleased to see all of our favorite actors and actresses back on the stage and more than pleased to note the many new faces behind the footlight. Sports again invaded the calendar, with girls ' and boys ' basketball holding the throne. Each class had its representatives on the floor, all proving worthy of the tiust placed upon them. The girls enjoyed an excellent season and the boys, a fair one. The magnificence of the Junior Prom eclipsed all other activities, and was an outstanding social success of the year. The memters of the Junior Class deserve much credit for the results of their labor to make this affair the greatest of their year ' s accomplishments. Drama, in the form of the Senior Play, again invaded the calendar, with a cast of Senior actors and actresses presenting a rip-roaring three act comedy, Growing Pains, in the local theater. Ably supported by the entire Senior Class, the large cast did themselves proud in the presentation of this play. The last and greatest event of the school year, graduation, approaches rapidly. With the members of the Senior Class engrossed in their preparations for this crown- ing achievement and the other classes looking forward to the time when they will be upper classmen, the year draws to a successful close. My only wish for the years to come is that they may be as full as this one has been. ROBERT SMITH ' 37 Ode to a Stoic A Stoic is a person who Never laughs, nor smiles at you. He never has a joke or song. But just goes grudgingly along; Never knows a moment gay, Or sees the good of a sunny day, But just allows the time to go And never gives a smile a show. A 71 Afte rth 0 ugh t The Stoic certainly won great fame At a recent donkey basketball game. He looked like one, you must agree — Gee! I hope he doesn ' t take offense at me. ALMA BURKE ' 39 Page Fifteen