Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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MVW II, IIQQIQ THE MODERN WAY WHAT T7 Miss Ruth Parsons M s Seren-1 Jones XTALLEV' WHAT D0 YOU MEAN? Miss Mary McNally 26 Y BRAIN lntorms me today that It has declded to hke Enghsh Sounds how you say corny doesnt lt? As to the reason for thrs sud den aIlect1on I can only conclude that rt rs caused by the many lrne under standlng teachers Not that Ive had them all ot course but when I speak ot f1ne understandmg teachers I lust have to lnclucle everyone of them Sympatheuc Mrss Parsons energetlc M1ss Ione terestlng MISS Lmton thorough MISS Gould patlent MISS McNally and enter tamlng Mrss Bartley all contrrloute to make the study of Enghsh emoyable Although almost any subject IS llkely to come up ln an Engllsh dlscusslon there are actually two malor d1v1s1ons Grammar and L1terature Of these two I found the former most necessary and the latter most engagmg r J 1.'k - mx, W ES I . is . X ,-X 0 Y I 1 .,- 1 4 1 , . . 1 ,f I - , . 1 xx I I - 1 1 F! , S, IHA I . ' I I Y 1 1

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FWRIIIL QII, IIQAIQ F yes thats rr those are the letters whrch mak up the home row of keys on a typewrtter and I rn sure Ill never forget them even though I drdnt have typewrtttng as one of my subtects I guess Ill remember too how the stu dents warted tn suspense to hear the ttck of the clock and to hear Mtss Maher fam1l1ar Go to start the1r speed tests nt hear yourself talk for the1r ftnger tust seemed to fly over those keys and back to the home row of keys agatn D1d you know that no matter what keys you strtke your frnaers always go back to the home row And gee whtz' how we Nere remlnded by Mrss Dytak to center our tvpewnters at the end of the penod lrn sure there would have been many twpewrtters broken rf Mtss Dytak hadnt been so pattent and remtnded us ever perrod Its surprtstng how much one can learn just from ltstentna for thats X ha I was dotna behrnd Mtss Whtpples re tall sellrna class Retarl selltng was new to me Just as 1t was to the students of Woonsocket Hrgh School a year ago Now rf any one should ask me what retatl sellrna 15 I can tell them tt IS a course whtch pre pares students for later ltfe espectallx tn ARE YOU READY? Mnss Florence Genenoux the salesmanshtp fteld The htghltght taught rn th1s course are the methods of selltng goods knowledge of the goods to be sold color ltne destgn textrles and store organtzatton Isnt tt funny how you sometrmes never realtze ho much your personalrty can mean to mu? It has an effect on everyone you meet therefore a salesman must have an out gotng personalrty or a aood person altty whlch stmply IS a must for suc cess tn sellrng Well I feel a ltttle erfpertenced nor so who knofvs maybe Ill fnd rn elf worktng as a salesman A FRIENDLY SMILE HELPS Mlss Dorothy Whupple S D I K Lg , ' 'ght, , , ' S . . ' . ' ' vlf and when they dtdf ffwell you just could- . , ' ' ' - A X ' 2 . . .v . .Y +

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MAY lt, H9-QLQ Word derivation, punctuation and a study ol the parts ot a sentence are only three of the many sections covered in the three-year course. l found word deriva tion most absorbing because ol my na tive Castillian tongue. As for literature, Silas Marner Macauley's Lite of lohnsonf' and The Study ol the English Literature are among the many books covered Ol these l was able to read only the last during my senior year, but l plan to read the others outside of school. My accent has nearly disappeared now, and all I have to do is take a sup plementary course in slang, then l shall speak not only English but American also' HE THINKS HES FOOLING ME WHATS NEXT? Miss Adel ne Gould Mass Ruth Bartley' i ' I