Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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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

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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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MARCIHI II ll IIQALQ CAN YOU ADD ANYTHING Mlss Margaret MCGIII eval and modern hrstory class desprte the warnmgs ot Mrss Adams Alack' Alas' came a test now Pedro has sold hrs horse and hrs trends of thought co1nc1de w1th those ot the teacher No one would rntroduce me to Uncle Sam Whenever l asked anyone all he dld was to stare drsbelrevrngly at me Someone m my Unrted States hrstory class told me he was probably VISIUHQ hrs g1rl frrend the Statue of Llberty' Sensmg that l was the v1ct1m ol a loke by the laughter of those who were near by l hastened to Mr Fxtzpatrrck to fmd my error He told me the legend of Uncle Sam and explamed rts meanrng to the ff C,,4f64-df average Unrted States c1t1zen As the year progressed and l learned the hrs tory of Los Estados Unrdos hls Words took on hte and greater meanmg For although my amrgos you make your great government the butt of many lokes lt 15 the same government that you are now frghtmg for and wrll always hght to preserve THATS ALMOST RlGHT BUT Mr Ralph FIIZPHIFICK I . 7 , . ' ' .. . H . A L I . , 1 ' 1 . . . . - K , . - . . . l . . . Q , . - f ,x f f f ' - . ' X fill 1 f f If 1 ' 'O ' ' If F f , 1 f ' ' .. - 1