Thomaston High School - Owl Yearbook (Thomaston, CT)

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Ol)£ Owl Published by the Students of the Thomaston High School EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief............................Gilbert Nase Business Manager .... Charles Eggleston Literary Editor Helen Scott Circulation Manager .... William OBrien Art Editors........................................Carol Turner Esther York BUSINESS STAFF Edward Mattoon Alfred Pratt Minerva Mattoon Scott Weed Agnes O’Brien CIRCULATION STAFF Helen Morton George Parker Bernice Hurlburt Leverett Tanner Charlotte Sangster REPORTERS Edith Monahan (Head) Helen Shearer Catherine Woodward Edward O’Brien Christabel Lampshire Faculty Advisor .... Mrs. Marion Bailey From the press of the Thomaston Printing Company —15—

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THE FACULTY E. Stephens Mapes, A.B., A.M., Principal Alfred College, Cornell University History Jennie M. Buck, A.B. ... Latin Colby College and History Enos M. Drumm, A.B. .... Bates College Science M. Bernice Rhoda, A.B. - University of Maine History Mary Etta Knapp - Barnard College English Marion R. Mapes, A.B., M.S. Alfred College, Simmons College English Virginia M. Bean, A.B. - - Colby College Mathematics Edith C. Lindell Bay Path Institute Commercial Dorothy Shearer, B.S., Geography and Physical Education University of New Hampshire Maud T. Bailey, B. S. Boston University Mathematics Marion R. Bailey, A.B. - Smith College English Miriam R. Clark - Art and Music Cincinnati College of Music, Norwich Art Schbol Evelyn A. Goodwin, A.B. - - French and History Smith College, Tulane University —14—

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THE STUDENT COUNCIL Charles Eggleston ........ President Charles Tibbals ....... Vice President Lauretta Warrenburger ....... .Treasurer Margaret Donovan......................................Secretary William O’Brien Ray Bradley Lucia Dewell Doris Lamb Helen Shearer Ada Seabourne PUBLIC SPEAKING IN HIGH SCHOOL Public speaking could be stressed a great deal more in the English courses of our high school; for, after graduation, a student, whether or not he seeks higher education, finds that he must do some speaking in public. What is more embarrassing than an attempt at a speech, even a prepared speech, if one has no practice in this sort of thing? One becomes nervous, stammers, shifts from one foot to the other, and finally sits down after saying half of what he had intended. The practical training which such a course in high school should provide would 60 much to improve such a situation. Perhaps it would increase his confidence so that he could say at least three-quarters of what he had planned. Thomaston High School has never had a course of this kind. We have our daily recitations and also our oral reports for English, but these do not amount to anything. We get up before the class look around, start giggling, and, with much clearing of our throats and a great amount of hesitation, deliver a very short speech—in many cases learned by heart. Even those students who are leaders ;n scholarship and class politics find that speaking in public is vastly different from speaking to a group of schoolmates whom they ha e known for at least eight years. However, it is never too late to reform. Thomaston High School c uld equip its graduates with very efficient tools with which to carve their names in the world by devoting a part of the senior high school English course to training in public speaking. —1G—