Winchester High School - Aberjona Yearbook (Winchester, MA)

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needed by an excellent teacher—patience, sincerity, perseverance and sympathy. What more can be said? Dana M. Cotton. Mr. Cotton is the man whose list of friendships includes the entire student body, whose classes are most interesting, whose leadership of the Traffic Squad is most efficient, whose fairness is unexcelled. His varied interests make for his remarkable and notorious ability to discuss any question. The Maine woods lose an excellent fisherman and hunter, when Mr. Cotton is teaching- in the WHS. A keen sense of humor and a ready smile—these are characteristic of the Mr. Cotton whom Ave all know and like so well. Vinal Good. “Tie’s Taylor, Gable, and Power all rolled into one,” raA T e the Freshmen girls. “Aw nuts!” say the boys, “lie’s just one swell fellow.” So Ave gather that lie’s slightly terrific. Where Mr. Good gets all his energy we don’t know. All Ave do knoAV is that he spends the early part of the day getting over the mystery of Algebra to bewildered Freshmen and then tears down to the held to devote his time to grooming the young ’uns in the methods of blocking and tackling. As to his night life—that remains a deep, but not too dark, secret—not after you’ve caught a glimpse of that smile! Samuel M. Graves. A magnetic personality plus a decided passion for politics Avith a keen sense of humor thrown in for good measure could equal no one but Mr. Graves. Everyone has his Aveakness and we hear, from a very reliable source, that our political plutocrat’s (don’t be worried—the latter is only for the sake of euphony) is his little daughter, Virginia. Can’t you just see the Avay he stoops to “be” conquered? Well—to come back to school. Through, a fascinating and picturesque use of slang, he can make a Mussolini out of Julius Caesar and Dietrich out of Cleopatra. Who would doubt his popularity ? Verne Hall. Small but brilliant, sweet but firm—these adjectives we think describe Miss Hall to a T. Although this is only her second year with us, already she has won her way into the hearts of both students and teachers. Probably the outstanding reasons for this are her glowing personality and Avillingness to aid in any enterprise. Wherever advice is needed, Miss Hall is ahvays ready to help you. She is a great reader, a bicycling enthusiast extra¬ ordinary, and an all-round good sport. Raymond V. Hayward. No one would ever dream that the trim figure that lightly sAvings through the halls, humming a tune under his breath, sup¬ ports the greater half of the burden of the school’s activities on his seemingly carefree shoulders. The casual observer labels him: “Just another English teacher.” Ilis pupils think of him in terms of a soft, strangely pleasing voice, and a rare New England humor. The bright-eyed “savants” of the school know him to be the little man behind the big Vau-Devil Show, the brain trust of the A. A., the ping-pong ace, the billards shark, the generalissimo of the neAv Handbook staff, and a thoroughly good scout—“the one, the only, the original ‘ ‘ Professor Hayward! ’ ’ Joan Iacona. Friendliness, capability and industry—all identify but one person, Miss Iacona, knoAvn to some of us as simply Joan. Not so long ago she charmed us at the Vaudeville Shows with her singing. Now, however, we meet her in a different setting-—the office. There, her diligence and sympathetic understanding have won for her the respect of the whole school. Robert M. Keeney. With astounding swiftness his fist comes down on the shoulder of some poor boy sitting near him. With a steady rhythmic beat- on the martyr’s shoulder, J . Keeney clearly and “forcibly” drives home his point. Fear not, those of you who read this paragraph, Mr. Keeney is not the monster so- far portrayed but really just a good-natured English teacher avIio loves his pipe. With equal alacrity he can give out immense assignments, quote

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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

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lines from Shakespeare, and tell you the day’s baseball scores. His favorite pastime, however, seems to be getting people “on a spot.’ Krr—mp, Julius Keeney. Inez Keller. Miss Keller is that able teacher who instructs Winchester High School students in Arts and (’rafts. Of all courses this is probably the most well-liked in the school. In it such articles as hand-tooled leather purses, dainty buttons, beautiful plaques, and gayly painted boxes are fashioned by the students which they may either keep for themselves or use as gifts. The classes are very informal and it is largely because of Miss Keller ' s pleasing personality that they have become so popular. IIazel Kingsley. Known only to the more talented students in the school, our artists, Miss Kingsley is the very competent young woman who presides not only over our art room but over all the art classes in the Winchester schools as well. Although we don’t get a chance to see her actually painting, we understand she is especially proficient in the field of water color. Her patient and helpful guidance is most beneficial to her aspiring pupils. Ethel Knowlton. The cheeriest, the happiest, the gayest teacher in the school—that’s Miss Knowlton. Her young French aspirants not only overflow with knowledge but bubble over with laughter. Her classes are the pleasant¬ est, the most delightful we know of. And all because of that little lady with the flashing smile and laughing eyes. However, Miss Knowlton has her serious side, too, and shows her ability in the efficient manner in wh ich she manages the sale of tickets for the Class Play and the Vaudeville Show. W. II. S. couldn’t be without her. George Lauer. Mr. Lauer came to our school last fall with the very hard task ahead of him of taking the place of Mr. Mansfield, our very popular coach, who left to coach at Springfield College. Mr. Lauer has succeeded in this task in a way that would be expected by anyone who knows him. The football and basketball teams have gone to glory under his popular yet firm guidance. Carrying out with great success the school ' s athletic customs as well as starting many of his own, he has come to be a part of our school life, and a very popular member of our faculty. Amy Lawson. “Please may we go to 30, Miss Lawson?” “Oh dear, Miss Lawson, I can’t open my locker!” “May we have the locker-room key?” “Could you please tell me—?” So the steady tire of tales of woe, passionate pleadings, and questions that would thwart Professor Quiz is aimed at this pleasant young secretary. Yet through all the raging barrage her cheery smile never wavers. She is every “ready, willing, and able” to assist poor, struggling students. She is the Bureau of Information and a miracle-worker rolled into one. In truth, if there is any hand that keeps the great machinery of the Winchester High School running smoothly, it is Miss Lawson’s! Otis Leary. Seen in the high school much less frequently than we would like him to be, Mr. Leary spends most of his time at the Junior High where he has much better facilities for his work. Little did we realize, until we had seen their exhibition, the wonderful work that our students who take mechani¬ cal drawing and woodworking were callable of doing. Mr. Leary is surely to be admired and respected for this and we know that all his efforts have been appreciated. Mary Mackedon. “Taisez-vous, taisez-vous et asseyez-vous!” After the murmurs subside and the students resume their seats, one can perceive a jocund and rotund face beaming above the class. As she shuffles her little white cards, this pleasingly plump .Miss bubbles over in the French language. Just as she carries on her classes with efficiency and cleverness, so, under her direction, “L’Alliance Francaise” has become one of the popular organizations in the