Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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TUI ] QUIVER 2i ’82—Mrs. Harriet May (White) Blake, for twenty-two years a teacher in the Providence high schools, died June 16, 1916. 97—John L. Maroney died December 17, 1916. Ex ’or-Waldo Lyon has been made Assistant Professor at M. I T. '01—John R. Higgins is one of our Representatives in the General Assembly for its 1917 session. '03—Grace A. Buxton is a teacher in the High School of Commerce. Worcester, Mass. ’03—Joshua Farron has been appointed assistant chemist to Stephen De M. Gage. State chemist and sanitary engineer, connected with the State Board of Health. ’04—Captain John J. Long, professor of civil engineering at the University of Cincinnati, has passed an examination for a position in the United States Engineers’ Reserve Corps. He has been sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianajxjlis and is detailed to combatant troops which will be sent to France. ’05—Joseph C. Emidy was elected a Representative to the General Assembly for the present year. 08—Albert K. Tabor, formerly connected with the Nyanza mills, has accepted a position with the Harding-Tilton firm in Boston. ’08—George E. Donnell, University of Michigan, ’15, is engaged in the insurance business in Ann Arbor. Mich. ’09—Constance Martin is a private nurse in Edgewood, R. I. ’09—Albert Bradley is transportation instructor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. ’ 11—Howard W. Green is a sanitary engineer in the Canal Zone. ’12—Esther C. Cook was graduated from Brown University with honors in Biology. She has pursued a further course in hygienics at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, and is now a field worker in hygienics in New York City.

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28 THE QUIVER were given by members of the class: Louise Feely, German Folk Lore and the Nibelungen-lied; Harry Levinson, Hebrew Literature; Cyril i cville. Celtic Poetry; Mary Bryden, Homeric Epics; Louis Forcier, French Poetry. Besides these, many topics connected with classical literature, astronomy, and current events were discussed. In May, the 11 A English division dramatized scenes from “Silas Mainer” and presented them before Miss McFee’s declamation class. Two weeks later, the declamation class presented a pantomime before the English class. A book, entitled “Alcohol: How It Effects the Individual, the Community, and the Race,” has been presented to the library by the W. C. T. U. On Memorial Day, Edward Brennan of the declamation class gave the “Gettysburg Address” at the G. A. R. exercises held at Monument Square. In May, the ib English class made and exhibited on the bulletin board in Room II “A Little Book of Freshman Rhymes.” The Junior English classes have held two old-fashioned spelling matches, resulting in victory for Edward Hummel of the 3a division and Genevieve Padden of 3b. On Arbor Day, Mr. Louis Webster of Blackstone, Mass., addressed the school on the subject of practical gardening. Mr. Spratt and Mr. Mowry also gave short talks. In May. Mr. H. J. Pcttingill appealed to the school to do all it could to promote interest in Y. M. C. A. work for the army. In May, the comic opera. “H. M. S. Pinafore,” was presented by pupils and alumni of the school. It was staged under the direction of Mr. Joseph Nichols and Miss Claik. Ruth Wardle assisted as pianist. The affa:r was a great success, due to the untiring work of all concerned. CHARACTERS Josephine, the Captain’s daughter .............................Leona Tetu Ralph Rackstraw, able seaman ..............................Byron Hudson Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B.. First Lord of the Admiralty..George Batchelor Captain Cocoran.....................................................Walter Emidy Litiie Buttercup, a Portsmouth “Bumboat Woman’...............Harriet Card Hebe, Sir Joseph’s first cousin........................... Ruth Hendrick Dick Deadeye, able seaman.......................................John Howe Boatswain . . . .................................................Frederic Brown Sir Joseph’s sisters and cousins and aunts—Althea Schlosser, Vera Norderstierna, Beatrice Woolley, Julia Rankin Madeleine Baxter, Kathryn Norris, Veronica Brennan, Madeline Dailey, Helen Thayer, Marion Graulich, Laura La Fond, “ Frances Ross, Ethel Anderson. Irene Barber, Edna Graulich. Able Seamen—Thomas McGill, Frank Battel, Oliver Fontaine, Arthur Gahan, John Murphy, Walter Flynn. Ray Condon. Raymond Cook, Ray . Gleason, Gaspard Savaria, Cyril Neville, Harry Levinson, Frederick Horton, George Rickard, Ferdinand Caya.

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Till: QUIVER ao 12—G. Emile Lussier is Pittsburgh representative of the Moody Engineering Co., Inc., of New York. ’13—Lloyd McFee died December 22, 1916. ’13—Ralph White has been appointed lieutenant in the Sixth Company. ’14—Harry Leon has been offered the Sheldon Traveling Fellowship of a thousand dollars at Harvard. ’15—Paul L. Smith has been elected to an executive office on the “Cynic.” a weekly paper published by the University of Vermont. T6—Helen Kelly won the Collateral President’s Premium of fifteen dollars. There were two hundred students, mostly boys, who took the examination, and Miss Kelly had the best results. T6—Nellie Woolley was one of seven out of one hundred and two who had honors in mathematics at Brown. Graduates studying elsewhere this year are as follows: Boston University Law—Ovila Lambert. ’15. Brown—Mae Jackson. '14, Helen Kelly, T6, Francis King, ’15. William King, ’15, Alice McCaffrey, ’13, Anna Mee. ’13. Elizabeth O’Donnell, 14, Nellie Woolley, T6, Rodney Cook, T6, Novella Eastman. ’15. Lorenzo Emidy, ’15, Rodolphe A. Gladue, ’13. Brown Graduate School—J. Russell Esty, To. Fordham—William Barry, T6. Bates—Stanley Spratt, ’14. University of Wisconsin—Joseph. Greenberg, ’15. University of Maine—David Gaskill, '13. Harvard—Harry Leon, ’14. Simon Norman, ’15. Harvard Graduate School—Harold Flynn, '12. Harvard Medighl School—James McCarthy, ’09. Massachusetts (institute of Technology—Eliot Bryant, ’15. New Yc k Medics —Hirrm Rorenficld, 14. Randolph-Mac6r.—Hazel Bethel, ’13. Rhode Island Fitate College—Earl Hope, ’12, Robert Kelly, ’15, Samuel McKee, T6,,James Murphy, ’13, Priscilla Smith, ’15, John Carroll. ’15,. Stanton Cook, 15, William Carnie, T6, Dorald Beasley, T6. Tufts Medical School—Joseph McDonnell, Ti. University of Vermont—Paul Smith, ’15. Vassar—Marjorie Childs, ’13. Wellesley—Susan Handy, ’14, Harriet Vose, ’14, Eleather Mowry, Y1. Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute—Raymond Richardson, Y6.