Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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Till-] QUIVER 21 The Interscholastic League football pennant for 1916 was carried oil by Woonsocket. 1 he first game with Technical was a scoreless tie. Woonsocket won all the oilier games of the regular schedule, being scored upon but once. . t the end of the season, Woonsocket and Technical ware tied for first place. In a post-season playoff at Clinton ()val, Woomockct came out victor with a score of 2 to 6. The work of the team as a whole was excellent, with Nichols, Savaria, and Davis as the sp.cial stars. At the Tech game, Woonsocket cheered lustily und r ;h direction of Frederick Drown. Some nights after the Tech game, a parade was held, followed by exercises at the Park Theatre, kin dy loaned for the occasion. The attendance at the games was good, .wry Davis, ‘17. was captain, and Fred Flynn, '17, was manager. Scores, 1916-17. Technical 0 0 East Providence 2 0 Kcpe 1!) 5 Cranston 44 n Pawtucket 20 0 Classical 2!) 0 Technical I‘J • 7 BASKETBALL WTonscyket’s basketball team also came out well, losing but one game, that with Rogers High of Newport, the members of which outweighed us nearly twenty pounds per man. The score of this game was 48 to 25. All the games except this and the game with Fitchburg, which was a close one, were won by large margins. Woonsocket has to its credit victories over such strong teams as Durfee High (Fall River). Reading High (twice), Fitchburg High, Foxboro High, and many others. Franklin was beaten at home and in Woonsocket, as was Uxbridge, this being the first time in several years that Woonsocket has beaten Uxbridge on the Uxbridge floor. Gaspard Savaria, '17, was

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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.

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22 THE QUIVER basketbr.il captain, and Walter Emidy, ’in. was manager The gym-liasium was well filled at all the home games. At the Rogers game there was an attendance of nearly 750. Alumni ................... 40 7 Worcester Classical ...... 61 21 Holliston ................ 83 0 Franklin ................. 24 0 Milford .................. 40 17 Du r fee ................. 45 23 Reading .................. 48 21 Franklin ................. 45 17 Uxliridgc ................ 45 22 Foxboro .................. 60 10 Reading .................. 2S 16 Fitchburg ................ 36 25 Uxbridge ................. 37 10 Rogers ................... 25 48 TRACK In the eighiecmh annual Rhode Island Intcrscholastic League track meet, Woonsocket was second, being tied with Pawtucket with a score of 31 1-3 points. Until the last event, the pole vault, »was finished, Woonsocket, Pawtucket, and Hope were tied for first. Hope won this event and first place. Clarence Daignault, 17, was first in the broad jump with 20 feet 9 1-4 inches, first in the 220 yard dash, and fourth in the ico yard dash. In a preliminary heat of the 100 yard dash he equaled the league record, 102-5 seconds. Chester Nichols, ’17, was second in the broad jump, second in the 100 yard dash, and fourth in the 220 yard dash. Frederick Brown, ’18, was first in the discus throw, second in the shot put, and tied for fourth in the pole vault. John Howe, ’17, was fourth in the discus throw and fourth in the high jump. Ellsworth Jillson, ’18. was fourth in the shot put. Considering the fact that Woonsocket was handicapped in many ways, we made a very creditable showing. This meet was held on May 19, 1917. In the Jun;or meet, cn May 26, Woonsocket was fifth with six points. Raymond Hudson, ’19, was third in the pole vault and fourth in the broad jump. Ambnch, ’20, was third in the high jump. Eugene Boucher, '19, was fourth in the pole vault. On February 24, the Woonsocket High School athletes defeated the Senior Woonsocket Y. M. C. A. team in a very close meet by the score of 26 to 24. The last event, the relay race, won the meet for Woonsocket. On March 17, in the inefoor track meet at the Providence Y. M. C. A., in which the schools of the Interscholastic League participated, Woonsocket was third with a score of 18 1-2 points.