Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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Til K QU1VEU U) Our school is now the proud possessor of a stereopticon. A curtain on which to throw pictures has been hung on the stage of the Assembly iiall, so that in the future speakers may entertain us with lantern slides. Wo all sincerely hope that next year there will be an athletic field djoining the school. 1 his field, the granolithic walks surrounding and 1 ading up to the building, and the lawn, which is being made, will all combine to aid our school in rivalling the appearance of any other in the state. 1 iie past year has been a successful one in many ways. Our entertainments, such as the Junior and Sophomore dances, have been plea.'ant affairs. Our athletic teams have won many games. The chief reason I or our victories was the splendid team work of our boys. It would be well for us to make these two words, team work, our motto tor every one of our school interests. So long as we “pull together”— ii our work as well as in our play—Woonsocket High School will stand for success. Since most people know of the fame Woonsocket High School has made fur herself in athletics, it may not be amiss to tell them about the spLndi 1 name she is acquiring in the various colleges through her graduates. She has representatives in practically every well-known college, . nd t' e reports of the good work done by these students are both interesting and gratifying to the present pupils of W. H. S. as well as to the teachers. During his three years at Harvard, Harry Leon has won schokir-ships amounting to $1100; this year he received the $tooo Sheldon I raveling Fellowship, which, if he accepts it, will mean that he must graduate in June and study for a year in any other university he may choose. Hour boys entered the State College at Kingston last fall. Samuel AlcKee and Dorald Beasley did so well that they were excused from all examinations at the end of the first semester. The four received 19 A’s, j4 B s, 8 C’s, and no D’s, although D is a passing mark. McKee took eleven courses and received eleven A’s. Two girls are upholding very well the honor of Woonsocket High at Brown University. Helen Kelley received the President’s collateral premium for the highest rank in a Latin examination given one month after the opening of college; she not only received a higher mark than any other girl, but one higher than any man in the Freshman class. Nellie Woolley is one of seven out of one hundred and two, whose names are on the honor list in mathematics.

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18 THE QUIVER EDITORIALS EDITORIAL STAFF LOUISE FEELY, ’17, Editor-in-Chief. EDWARD HUMMEL, '18, Business Manager. ZITA COOK, ’17. LAURA LA FOND, ’is. HELEN THAYER, ’18. DOROTHY BEECHER, ’1'J. BUELL HUDSON, ’20. EDITORIALS One more year lias slipped by. One more class is going confidently forth to represent Woonsocket High in the outside world. We are constantly learning of the success of. our graduates, and vve hope and trust that the members or 1917 will uphold the reputation made for our school by our former students. In the past year there have been but few changes in the faculty and courses. Miss Cass of the Commercial Department has given up teaching on account of ill health. We feel her loss keenly because she lias been a leading factor in so many school activities. Many entertainments under her energetic management have brought credit to the school. Her position has been filled this term by Miss Norton. Trigonometry, taught by Mr. Carroll, has been added to the curriculum. Girls’ athletics have progressed under the supervision of Miss Gilbert. Another addition to the High School course is organized debating, in charge of Miss Corey. This class is open to all boys in the school. Debates have been held during the year, and the best debaters were selected to represent oonsocket in the contests of the Triangular Debating League, consisting of Cranston, East Providence, and Woonsocket high schools. A yearly debate is to be held during the spring, the affirmative side debating at home and the negative at one of the other schools.

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20 TilE QUIVER Harriet Vose, one of the class of 1914. was awarded the V Jlesley Scholarship during her Junior year at that college. The winner of this scholarship must have maintained a required percentage from the time of her entrance until the middle of her Junior year. Besides all these splendid records, the superintendent and principal frequently receive communications from the schools wh.re graduates of Woonsocket High are studying, telling of the very creditable work that is being done by them. W oonsocket High School is to be congratulated upon her alumni. AN APPRECIATION The members of the graduating class will miss, from among their member, Veronica Shea. She always took a great interest in her school work and had looked forward to the day when she would graduate. She was a very quiet girl, who held the esteem of all her classmates. Her death was a gmat shock to her many friends. She died on March •3th. the day before her eighteenth birthday. SARA L. SHEVI.IN. By the death of John Quinn, the Sophomore class lost a member hose character will cause him to he long remembered by his school-mat.s and by olh rs who were fortunate enough to know him. Ills one ambition was to make life enjoyable for his beloved mother, and his every effort had that aim in view. As a friend, to know him was to love him. He died August 7, 1916. JOSEPH McGEE. '19. MY TOAST Here's to our class—1917. Here’s to our school, the best ever seen, Here’s to our teachers, wise and kind, Here’s to our athletes, the best you can find, Here’s to our friends, loyal and line, Here’s to our underclassmen, we pledge them too, Here's to underclassmen, we pledge them too, Here’s to our classmates with records that shine, Here’s to good times, I’m glad they were mine; Then : Here’s to our school, the best ever seen, Here’s to our class—1917. HARRIET OLIVE CARD, ’17.