Winchester High School - Aberjona Yearbook (Winchester, MA)

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Our Instructors Wade L. Grindle. Few schools can have a more capable, understand¬ ing, and active principal than has W. II. 8. Besides guilding our school to high scholastic fame, he is an enthusiastic worker in many civic functions. lie is President of the Middlesex County Teachers’ Association, one of the larg¬ est teachers’ organizations in the country. Vice-president of the Massachusetts High School Principals’ Association. lie served for two years in France in the A. E. F. and was wounded in action at Chateau Thierry. He now holds the commission of Major in the Officers Reserve Corps in the United States Army. Major Grindle numbers among his hobbies; golf, mountain-climbing, fishing, and in fact is a devotee of outdoor life in general. It is a saying that no school can be better than its leaders, and one of the reasons for WIIS’s success is its principal. Bertram Albro. Mr. Albro is one of our faculty who has had much travel in his past, and Winchester High is lucky to be his landing place. Besides being a very popular and capable teacher in the Latin department which lie heads, he is equally popular in his other activities around the school. His attention-provoking remarks in his classes, which liven up an otherwise dead subject, will be long remembered by all who have studied under him. L)r. Otis E. Alley. -lust as America is the melting pot of nations, so our Cliem Lab is the melting pot of ideas. There, one is free to speak his mind, to have his own theories, to make his own investigations. But what would any experimental laboratory be without an expert? We have ours in Dr. Alley, who can inform us about anything from the extraction of a tooth to the tlier-

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modynamical law of heterogeneous solutions. He has a keen sense of humor, the ability to keep his students interested for hours at a time and is a true friend of all of us. Frances G. Allison. Miss Allison is the petite, or perhaps we should say pequinna, member of the faculty. She has traveled extensively in Spain, and her charming stories are the delight of her Spanish classes. She takes real interest in all of her pupils and this is much appreciated, in turn, by all of them. She is well-known to all of us as a helpful adviser and a true friend. In thanks for all she has done for us, we say, “Muchas gracias un millon”. Marion Bailey. Miss Bailey will always be remembered by our class as the lovely and conscientious director of the Dramatic Society. Her enthusiasm and intense interest have kept it one of the thriving activities of the school. When it comes to energy she is second only to Mr. Good. Who but she could travel all the way from Egypt (Mass.) every morning, teach six classes of Freshmen, and then drive all the way home each evening? We know the answer —nobody. A person of undeniable charm, she is one whom Winchester High School is proud to have as a member of its faculty. Edward Bartlett. Introducting that beaming, bashful, boyishly buxom beauty from Beverly—the ambition of all the girls. “Bart” not only knows his bookkeeping, but he also knows his sports, for he coaches a championship basketball team in “home-town” Beverly. It’s been said that lie has a great interest in Nebraska—looking for Indians, so be says—but we ' ve heard other¬ wise. His ambition is to become an athletic director in some university. With bis personality we know he will go far. Ruth Bennett. From Maine we have Miss Bennett, who teaches type¬ writing. She has taught at Chandler Secretarial School and Chandler’s loss is Winchester’s gain. Many a successful typist of the future will have Miss Bennett’s instruction to thank for her success. The ■Commercial Department has reason to be grateful for Miss Bennett’s work and no one who has taken her course will ever forget her smile and pretty blush. Helen Bronson. Probably the least appreciated of all the teachers in the school is Miss Bronson. As head of the Commercial Department, she has a very difficult position to fill. For hers is the responsibility of placing our graduates in positions in the business world. Hers is the responsibility of see¬ ing to it that these students have had enough office practice and enough train¬ ing in secretarial work to be efficient workers in the world of business. How¬ ever, she takes all this in stride and, still finds time to be one of the pleasantest and well-like members of our school faculty. Arthur E. Butters. Mr. Butters is the eminent mathematician of our faculty who at the slightest notice, we’d be willing to wager, could recite any and every proposition in the “beloved” geometry book without batting an eyelash. His afternoons are spent in straightening out puzzling originals for baffled sophomores and, although his hobby is golf, he is a loyal follower of all student athletics. With Mrs. Stacy he is faculty advisor for the Prom and his winning personality has done much toward making the latter a success each year. An all-round good fellow—that’s Mr. Butters. Gertrude Carmichael. What Miss Parker is to the Seniors, Miss Car¬ michael is to the Freshmen. Who could visualizze a Freshman class without the guiding influence of Miss Carmichael? We know we couldn’t. She has a sense of humor hard to equal and a personality that has won for her the admi¬ ration of all of her many friends. Estelle Coffin. Mrs. Coffin is that small, quiet lady with the lovely skin and laughing brown eyes. As a Freshman teacher, to her goes the work of preparing for the “Greenies” a suitable background for their later high school work. And this she does unusually well. For she has all the qualities