Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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BASEBALL CHAMPIONS OF R. I. INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE 1916

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THE QUIVER 21 During the winter term, Miss Eleanor S. Upton of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae of Rhode Island talked to the girls on the value of a college training. On Lincoln Day, in addition to the exercises by the students, Mr. Matthew Marty, Mr. Henry L. Cooke, Mr. Horatio Valentine, and Mr. I homas Prior, veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, gave interesting talks. A dance was given in the Gymnasium, February 17, by the Juniors in honor of the Senior class. The committee comprised Avery Davis, Joseph Grimes, George Roberts, John Howe, Ruth Hendrick, Marion Orr, and Irma Willey. On Temperance Day, Mr. A. B. Cristy of Providence gave an address on temperance. On March 25, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae entertained a party of Junior and Senior girls and their mothers at the Rhode Island School of Design. The party, in charge of Miss Whittaker and Miss Mowry, was invited to inspect the School of Design, the Pendleton House, and the Textile School. On April 7, an inter-school speaking contest was held in the High School Hall. Students from the High Schools of Mansfield, Franklin, Plainville, Foxboro, and Woonsocket competed. William Barry, ’16, and Dor:s Poole, ’19, won the two first prizes, and secured for Woonsocket High School the privilege of keeping the Singleton trophy, a handsome shield, for this year. Elizabeth Howard of Franklin and James Doyle of Foxboro were awarded the second prizes. The judges were Miss Rhoda Nually, School of Expression; Otto Selzer, Leland Powers School; and Miss Margaret Penick, Emerson College of Oratory. This is the first time the contest has been held in Woonsocket, and the audience showed great interest and enthusiasm. On April 17, Mr. Barron, Tufts ’15, and Mr. Courchene talked to the boys about track work. On April 27, Miss Alice Hunt, Secretary of the Consumers’ League of Rhode Island, gave a short address on the work of the league. She urged that Woonsocket be represented in the essay contest which the league conducts. Much interest has been added to the literature study in Miss Mowry’s Sophomore classes by the recitations held in the hall. The members of the class have read and acted the parts in two of Shakespeare’s plays, “The Merchant of Venice” and “Julius Caesar.” The division which read the best was allowed to invite Mr. Wendell A. Mowry, Superintendent of Schools, to be present at the final reading.