Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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WOONSOCKET ENIOR HIGH Physics HV v orth of a htgh school course mlst be Judged rn terms ot rts usefulness 1 the student There are many exc llent reasons Whf the arrls and especrally the boys of Woonsocket l-hgh School are studylng Phy srcs The elementary physrcs course blazes a path for further study ot all types l scrences vxhtle the advanced course IS ol practrcable use rn the present conllr t as 1ts prlmary emphasts IS placed on the elements ol aeronauttcs Our young men realrzed that there t a huge Job ahead of them an exac ma Job that requtre not only keen mmd and capable bodles but also the sp cr l lands of trammg such as thts vrtcl physrcs course under the capable gurd ance ot our own Mr Savarra attords When our boys come marchrng home they vvrll he ready to take therr plac tn an Amertca that has becom a na t1on on wtngs Chemistry Ever stnce the begmnmg ot the l9'h century the status ot the Amencan chenc 1st has clrmbed so raprdly that today hc IS one ot the most rmportant frgures at our t1me Because of hrs achtevement the era ID whtch We are lrvlng has rrght fully been labeled The Age of Chen rstry MR RAYMOND J BETAGH L W C A.. J' ' l 'Z X V ' l Y - Q., A , V A I A I A r ' ' V ' ' , '7 5 . o, . 7 . , , , .F , V , . . . 3 . A , vt: f K- W S 3 I 9 O , . . , . N V - . , . 1 ' . '35 . . 8 i D -1 . .G I LA . . . 3 ,, fx .1 . . . . ,, x . .

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Mathematics WOONSOCKET ENIOR HIGH Ill L DECEMBER ! l94l' PEARL HAP BOR BOMBED DE EMBER 8 l94l' UNllED STATES DECLARES WAR MISS ELIZABETH ODONNELL HESE are a fe 1 of the headlmes ht h greeted the Amerfcan publfc at the outbreak of thfs present Norld conflf t Person readmg between the headlfnes could read1ly have seen that wtth Jar mathematrcs 1mmed1ately would take promtnent place 1n the war effort Do you wonder why 1t became so 1m portant? Well tts really very stmpl because 1n every phase of avtatton rt 1 a regu1red subject For mstance let L, suppose the navfgator knew no mathe mat1cs then he could not calculate course ff the bombard1er d1d not ffau hfs peed w1ndage drrft and so fortfo He could not even h1t hrs target and most fmportant of all ff the p1lot kneff MR GEORGE GUYETTE no mathemancs he could not follow perscrfbed courses and could not even properly fly hfs atrplane ln war fndu tr1es 1f engfneers and rnachlrusts kne no mathernatfcs they could not turn out v1tal parts for afrplanes guns tanks arf shrps hfch are so v1tally 1mportant arsl upon w hlch the w1nn1ng or losfng of battle depends These are merely a few reasons Nh! mathematt s lS consfdered so tmporta t because v1thout ft Amen a arrnle ould not even begm to roll on tor ards the enemy and help on e and for all to tamp out dfctatorxal tdeas Woonsocket f-hgh School lS ver fc tunate rn hav1ng the apable tea hmct staff 1t has fn the persons of Mrss lvfurfef McEee Mtss Ellzabeth ODonr1ell ard Mr George Guyette who da1l str1ve to tea h such mathemau al subjects a alslebra plane geometry solfd aeom tr! and trtaonometrf to be mlderefzl students To paraphra e tht art1 le t sa on e more that the mo t lmportcrrt sub1ect fn these da, of trffe ts mathe matt and the mtportance of th1 uk 1ect can never really be over stre ed O , . r C Y xx r 1 -1 1 A 1 . . ' vi 'C ' ' ' ' 'c . s ' V . . , . . if , . A - r . 5 , A . r,, A . ' Q .2 ' , ' 'sf f 'A . , , , , .. , M F9 Q w A ' Q ' ' - r ' ' ' ,- s , , .. . . . .A I Y Y c zu f , c s ,s c c.. ' c ' ' -iv xx ' ' c c ' t 1 V c . c s r ' ' gv 1 ' .J ' .., v Q 1 4 . . , s c 13 o . y c - f . . ' nf- f. ' ' . .- . s ., . cs , , s rg I

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WOONSOCKET ENIOR HIGH COLONEL JAMES MURPHY Biology The study ot b1ology always has bee'1 and always w1ll be a ubject ot the ur most tasc1nat1on to the people of th world Wh! Becau e 1t IS the study ot l1v1na th1ng on earth lt 1S the QCISHCG of ltle In the land ot btology the mystertes ot all the l1v1ng thmgs of the untverse are unfolded The cheery btrd the da1nty flower and the lo Nly tnsects about 1t take on ne ff tmportance as we realtze througt b1ology that w1thout them all we could not ext t As a re ult of studylng btology we acautre an understandmg of ou selves and ot the Norld 1n wh1ch Ne l1ve Always the backbone of 1ndustr1al Amenca he 1 part1cularly 1nd1spensa ble 1n thts t1me ol war At present he 1 consc1ent1ously worktng to produce the mater1als necessary for a speedy v1ctory Thus ID h1s way he IS helplng to Keep the L1ght of Ltberty burmng Unassumlng seldom heard from and seldom vushlna to be heard he works 1n hts laboratory wtth but one passton absorbtng h1m and that IS to seek to truth Sendmg forth a tact here and a tact there the cherrnst has contnbuted greatly towards estabhshmg our pre ent c1v1l1zat1on And 1n h1s hands hes much of the clay from whtch the glo nous future of Amenca w1ll be molded Q MR GASPARD SAVARIA , , . r 1 ' . .. . . S- O 7 I A . ' s ' - . . Q . 1? s ' ' they themselves, along with all the other - . , . S I . V . A ' J? . I . 'Y I , I N Q' T . , 3 Y A - r . ' ' -- it Y , Q . X . 'V V. - x V