Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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20 THE QUIVER The registration this year has been 378, a gain of 61 over last year, and a gain of 124 during the last three years. In all probability the registration next year will reach 420. During the fall term a reception was given to the parents of the High School pupils. Dr. Howard Edwards, President of the Rhode Island State College, gave an address, and selections were rendered by the school orchestra. Miss Mowry’s Senior English classes have used “The Independent” this year for class work instead of a rhetoric. Harold Howe was business manager and Ambrose Feely, treasurer. On October 15, a farewell dance was given in the gymnasium for Miss Jane Given. Albert Mailloux, President of the Senior class, presented Miss Given flowers and a leather purse in behalf of the students. Up to the time of the opening of the McFee Memorial Library, books were in charge of Florence Genereux and Hazel Ross. The lunch counter has continued this year under the successful management of Mrs. Quinn. Of the 126 teachers in the Woonsocket schools, 82 are graduates of the High School. Scott Crosbie designed the poster that was used by the ladies of the city in the Baby Week Campaign. The sixteen pupils with the best record in spelling are as follows: Leo Battel. Robert Brand, Buell Card, Catherine Fitzgerald, Anna Gilchrist, Edna Graulich, Helen Kelley, Irene Long, Margaret Padden, Dorothy Praray, Stephen Ray, Marion Salley, Ruth Schlivek, Alice Short, Lillian Starr, and Nellie Woolley. During the winter term, Miss Reed gave the girls of the Domestic Science department a poverty party in the Gymnasium. Games were played and prizes were awarded Miss Reed, Esther Cook, Florence Morin,, and Helen O’Donnell for the best costumes.

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TRACK CHAMPIONS OF R I. INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE 1916