Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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IFIEIPSRLIIARY 3, IIQ, IIQAIQ Miss Adams' classroom door. I peeked in to see who it might be and I discovered my American friend studying his Latin adjectives and entoying himself immensely I-Ie told me that Latin was very exciting and the stories of Rome very adventurous and besides that Latin is a romance and here he paused for I had been suddenly transported into another world which is connected with word ROMANCE but as suddenly as I got into the new world I was Jarred out of my trance twice as fast with the final word of his sentence language Leaving Miss Adams with an invitation to come again soon we walked along the corridor until we came to Miss Dorringtons room and finding her sitting at her desk we went in bent on increasing our knowledge of Caesar whose words Veni Vidi Vici are famous LANGUAGE H E TALKS Mr E Condon Buenos dias senor E Como esta usted? DY' It sounded good to hear my native tongue again after all these months The occasion was during a visit to one of Mr Condon s first year Spanish classes As the familiar Good day Sir and How are you? rolled off the tongues of these students of th Castillian language I found myself longing for home and my friends there The teacher began to talk about the character ISIICS and customs of South America which made me think of the tlme when I will tell my friends In HERE IS ROME Mr Benjamm Me sere South America about the dos and don ts f the United States of America Whats that Spanish? No but its almost like t I opened the door and stepped into Mr Mes sere s Italian class The pupils in this particular class were in their second year of Italian and we had a grand time trying to find the differences between Spanish and Italian Then the bell rang for the next class and I rushed to Enghsh where I found myself Writing a theme in English using Italian articles and Span ish nouns IT WILL RISE AGAIN Mass Francoise Valcourt

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IANLIIAIRY 6 8 IIQAIQ SHALL I SAY TWICE Mass Marne Lavlolette francals Flrst comes French grammar the pr1n ctpal parts of the verb and then lecture Before we real1ze 1t the rec1tat1on IS over My favor1te study perlod IS 1n Room I5 Mtss Ialberts room where she teaches French Whlle she IS teachmg I often recall some of my French verbs and rules whxch I have learned prevlously Now I shall proceed to do my homework and pay attent1on to my work rather than the class Then one day wh1le takmg a not1ce to the THE MacARTHUR OF HIS DAY Mnss Julla A Dorrlngton 18 R rrrnng' HERE goes the bell Im late agatn for French Whlle Mlss Lavrolette IS wr1t1ng I t1ptoe quletly to my seat Suddenly I hear a vo1ce call out Pedro f1fteen mlnutes after school for belng late' How unfortunate I am but I dont mlnd 1t for thls does not happen often Flnally when the attendance IS taken and the unfortunate ones lncludmg me are recorded W begln Meanwhlle the French students learn the1r verbs and do thelr homework I pretend to look stud1ous for fear of belng called upon to reclte MISS Lav1olette our land capable and wtllmg French teacher QIVSS us our advance asslgnments Then class beglns All IS wrxtten and reclted 454 Wqn! X NOW YOU TRANSLATE Miss Harriet Jalbert var1ous rooms I dlscovered that Rooms 5 and 303 were on my l1st When I found Room 303 I met Mtss Valcourt who was teachmg her class how to apply the numerous French verbs m conversatlon MISS Val courts pleaslng smlle and d1spos1t1on seemed to enl1ghten the sp1r1t of her eager class As I entered Room 5 I saw Mr Guyette wr1t mg several French phrases on the board After watch1ng h1m for a few mlnutes and llstemng to hls explanatlons I found out that they were French ldtoms Who wouldnt understand after ltstenmg to Mr Guyette? Someone has eaten too much was my thought as a h1c haec hoc sound was heard as I passed 9 9 lfi. - - I - - - - - - . , , II - I . ,, , . I I . ,, , - , , . , , , 9 , 1 . en W. 'I ' I 'G .I nf: 'i' I p I -f in-1 f I ' -.tivo - -' zu-w .4 I 0 . ' ' 1 ' . ll ' ' ht . 1 ' wr' . .,- wp . 'fu I ' 1 5-3,- I ' A- X ' I w...Z , . . 1 , , , . . . . . 1 - ' I I . I s 4 I I I

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MIXXRCIHI II II IIQALQ WAS THAT TWENTV OR THIRTY Mr Joseph Dowlmg AVF you ever been haunted? It vou havent youve never been m a hrstorf class Mtss McG1ll nezzar Cyaxares and a host of others durmg a v1s1t to her anclent h1story class She asked me lf ld llke to learn more about them I told her Id be glad to PREPARE THE FOLLOWING Mnss Muruam Adams but would she hrst teach me to spell thetr names' One day m Mr Dowlmgs Enghsh her volumlnous sklrts she waltzed down the a1sle to meet me Then 1ust as she was about to knlght me the teachers volce satd Pedro W1ll you lom us or do you prefer to sleep all th1s penod and report after school? Ah kn1ghts and queens kmgs and armor charges and shlelds' More than once I aalloped away on a horse thke Gene Autryl to rescue a lovely prmcess 1n the clutches ot a cad durmg my medt 9 -lf... introduced me to Rameses, Nebuchad- history class I met Queen Elizabeth. In