Watertown High School - Annual Yearbook (Watertown, MA)

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THE ANNUAL 1937 CLASS HISTORY Tonight is the night of the class of 1937. We are all having a joyous time, and yet there is sadness mingled with the laughter. As I look around me and see all the familiar faces of my classmates I think of the grand times we have had during the last three years, and I wonder what the next few years will bring. Three years ago we were all juniors. Some of us attended classes in the morning, some in the afternoon. We elected our officers and the outcome was George Sexton, President, Mildred Farwell, Vice-President, Aileen Harlow, Secretary, Jean Taylor, Treasurer, Grayce Fitzgerald, Marion Carroll, and Dale Reitz, Executive Committee. We were a very enterprising class and did what hadn't been done for years-we pre- sented a play for assembly. The stars of the Pampered Darling were Doris john- son, Marion Carroll, Robert Ryan, George Sexton, and Maurice Healy. We spent the remainder of our Junior year uneventfully, except for our able scholars. The capable members of this class were apparently saving energy and brains to develop later into a class that would ever be famed in the annals of the Watertown High School. Two years ago we were all Middlers. This year we were just beginning to assume that superior attitude. Once again old faces gained prominence as well as new ones. We elected George Sexton, President, for the second time, Dale Reitz, Vice- President, Aileen Harlow, Secretary, Marion Carroll, Treasurer, and Doris Johnson, Bradford Sherlock, and Thomas Carney, members of the Executive Committee. Outstarring anything that had ever been produced, the play that year, Growing Pains , was a success beyond all expectations. The principal roles were taken by Mildred Farwell, Doris Johnson, Malcolm MacDonald, and Thomas Torri. It was at the end of this year that Mr. Whitehill retired. We were all exceedingly sorry to have him leave. This year, under the guidance of Mr. Archibald, our new head-master, has been a year filled to overflowing with exciting events and happy remembrances. For the first time in history, the class was led by a boy who for three years won the honor of President-George Sexton. Gannon MacDougall was chosen as Vice-President, Mildred Farwell as Secretary, Marion Carroll as Treasurer, and Barbara Ham, Richard Brooks, and Bradford Sherlock were chosen as our Executive Committee. The Junior Chamber of Commerce undertook and successfully organized a traffic system this year. We decided to change our ring to one with a gold background and the Watertown seal set in black onyx. Because the Class of 1937 had always been a prominent class, we presented a stirring drama entitled Barbara Frietchie in which Doris Johnson, Mildred Farwell, Stanley Hopkinson, and Richard Brooks led the players. The Senior Prom followed as the next affair. This was a delightful occasion for all enhanced by the soft music and dimly-lighted gym, decorated in purple and gold. In the annals of our class, I come to the event we are now celebrating. The Ivy Planting is over and the poem written by Anna Gegerias has been read. The An- nual , of which Elizabeth O'Brien is Editor-in-Chief, we unanimously agreed to dedicate to Miss Alice Hodge and Miss Carrie Tozier, who, after more than thirty- two years and seventeen years respectively, are retiring from teaching. We will hear the Prophecy, written by Eleanorjones and Richard Arnold, the Thumb Nail Sketches written by Jane Clark and William Fallon, and the Hall of Fame. I know we all will look back in the years to come and realize what a truly fine three years we have spent together. Leaving the Watertown High School is like parting from an old friend. MILDRED FARWELL, Secretary of Clair 0f1937 11

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1937 THE ANNUAL CLASS OFFICERS President . . . GEORGE SEXTON Vive-Prefident . GANNON MACDOUGALL Serretmjf . MILDRED FARWELL Treafzirer MARION CARROLL Executive Committee RICHARD BROOKS BARBARA HAM BRADFORD SHERLOCK 10 1

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'I937 TH CLASS POEM Fare thee well, dear Alma Mater, Parting hours are drawing nigh, Memories dear abide Within us, As we bid our last good-bye. May the ivy here embedded, Climbing toward a golden peak, E ANNUAL E'er bring memories of our classmates, Striving nobler lives to seek. Youthful years have fled and left us! Fruitful were they, blirhely sped, Let those memories spur us onward Toward the gleaming goal ahead. Many friends whom we have made he Happy hours of Work and play, Cherished scenes and honors gained, Dominate our minds for aye. Paths for us will be divided Each to roads of pain or flowers, Love and peace will e'er be with us, If aright we spend our hours. Teachers, we a debt do owe thee, Recompense is in our power: Loyal service to our country Pledge we now this parting hour. Let this ivy be our emblem, Climbing onward toward the sky, Take our humble gratitude, Alma Mater, dear, good-bye. FE' By ANNA G11GER1As 12