Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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To the Class of 1939 A T the request of the Crimson and Gray staff I am taking the opportunity, through its columns, of ex- tending a word of greeting to the Class of 1939. Each and every faculty member will join with me in expressing the hope that the years which you spend in this building may be happy and profitable to you and to all of us. In this period of time which lies ahead you will be building your foundations for life. Whether or not these will be shifting or firm will depend, in large measure, upon your own efforts. Guide posts — the spoken words of your instructors, and the written words of brilliant minds brought you through text and refer- ence books — can only point the way. Possibly I can emphasize this personal responsibility by bringing to your mind again the lines in Henley ' s Invictus: J am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. '

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Business Manager Lawrence Freeman THE STAFF Treasurer • Edmond Bastek Subscription Manager Marv Misiaszek Business Staff George Constantine George Downer Robert Michon Robert Reynolds Leonard Sansoucy George AVatson Editors Alumni — Marjorie Hong Athletic — Bernard Hefner Club — June Barr Exchange — Grace Arick Local — Janet Kozyra Art I J Prattle Mavis Kinney ames Monaco Evelyn Fay Lionel Proulx Reporters Class Frank Locki ' 36 Edna Buckley ' 37 Martha Nichols ' 38 Phyllis Whiteoak ' 39 General Edward Mageau Vivian Vantura Thomas Earls Ethel Martin Mildred LaCroix Faculty Adviser Thecla Fitzgerald Subscription Staff Theresa Hetu Theodore Kwarciak Yvonne Lescarbeau Kathleen Tully Secretary Rita Gregoire Typists Doris Renaud Yvonne Belanger Herbert Lavoie Eleanor Evans Helen McCann TABLE OF CONTENTS STAFF .... EDITORIALS .... Walter Howard ' 36 Lionel Proulx ' 36 Dwight Webster ' 36 LITERATURE . . 5 anc 123 Kathleen Tully ' 37 Stanley Blackmer ' 36 Harry Dyer Gilman ' 36 June Barr ' 37 Olivia Story ' 38 Rose Prendergast 37 Evelyn Fay ' 37 W. Rockwood ' 37 FRESHMAN PAGE . . 9 Phyllis Whiteoak ' 39 Nina Hobson ' 39 BOOK REVIEWS . 11 Edward Hobson ' 36 Frank Locki ' 36 LOCALS . 13 CLUBS . 15 ALUMNI . . 16 ATHLETICS . . 18 PRATTLE , M 21

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OCTOBER 1935 — EDITORIALS A SYMBOL OF OUR IDEALS Walter Howard ' 36 Outlined against the ivy covered school, a tall, silver shaft shoots upward from the green carpet of grass, toward the blue sky. Two uniformed men, one ready to raise the flag, the other — our bugler for over twenty years — to sound taps, stand at attention; two pupils, one a boy, one a girl, representing the student body, hold the flag. A scout, the last to make up this picture, stands at attention also. Wells High ' s newly erected flag pole is about to be dedicated. Major Goodell steps forward, attaches the flag, pulls the cord, and the red, white, and blue banner given to the school by Miss Coombs unfurls in the breeze out of the arms of Sophie Constantine and Gerald Peloquin; Sergeant Girard raises the bugle to his lips and the dignified notes of taps echo across the hill. Jack Burnham, Senior Patrol Leader of the Boy Scouts, raises his arm to salute, the signal for the student body to salute the symbol of freedom. What a warm feeling must have arisen in Major Goodell ' s and Sergeant Girard ' s hearts when they saw the Stars and Stripes stream from the top of the newly dedicated flag pole! We pupils who stood out in the street with heads uplifted, watching the flag unfurl in the wind did not realize what those soldiers who helped dedicate the new pole had gone through. We still do not realize what it means to them and may we never learn through fight- ing, the respect they have for their country and flag. The newly dedicated pole, tall and straight, stands for our government, a tall and straight one. The flag up there, flying high in the breeze, stands for liberty and love. Our ideals should be based on these two symbols. They should be just as tall and straight and should be just as loving. THE NEW PENS K. T. ' 37 An evolution seems to have taken place in Mary E. Wells High School over night. Gone forever, we hope, are the dull and stubby pens; now we have long graceful ones instead. But that ' s not all — the black morose color has also fled, and this year the pens which glide over scores of pieces of composition paper are red, yellow, and blue! Freshmen are no more pleased over this small matter than Seniors, for one member of the highest class said proudly the other day, We can pick the color we like best in our home room. Perhaps it only proves the amount of child- ishness in the most dignified of us all, but in any case, we are grateful to the person re- sponsible for adding this zest, however small, to the life of the hardworking high school pupils. ON THE SUBJECT OF HOMEWORK Lionel Proulx ' 36 Homework is one of the decayed traditions which some people still regard as beneficial.