Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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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

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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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NQPMEMBIER 7 IIQALII NOW YOU CAN BREATH AGAIN MR RICHARD OCONNOR OUAY va excephon ally pleasant for observance ot Armlstrce Day an assembly program wh1ch l shall long remember was presented at school After rntroducrng our guests Past Commander Wrl mander Raymond E Lona of the Amerrcan Leg1on Mr Don lon asked that we ob erve a one m1nute stlence ln trlbute to the memory of a former Woonsocket Hlgh School stu dent Realnald Godfrey who was recently lost on hrs wav overseas to serve England rn pre ervtng the cause ol de mocracy Gettmg Ready for the Footllghts The program was contmued wrth the presentatton ot a ttmely play under the drrectron ot Mrs Frumson TMISS Eva ls raell The cast rncluded lames Maher Leonard Maher Nrcholas Genacou Ev elyn Bregman Dorothy Ioseph Erleen Naradowv and Robert Landry The plot revolved around a Germar re ua e who after comma to the Untted States contmued to remam under the rllusron that the Amencan pol1ce were tc be teared as were the German Gestapo l-le was hnally made to reahze that l1b erty rs one of the great ldeals upon whrch Amerrcan democracy IS based Accompamed at the prano by Robert Garrepy Irene Polrkotf sang a lew appro prrate songs tor the occasron Although a natrve of South Amerrca l left the audrtonum wrth a strong feelmg of patr1ot1c devotron to the Urnted States where I am a most proud and happy guest Scenes From Ever Smce Eve' 9 -if Qkmfffxsa t - if F . Jiyfff - ' Q o ' ' , , in . KJ' A ' V liam P. Shunney and Com- , . , I I S s . G s l I . 'l ll' ll s V I I - fr e , ' ' T ' ' ' '