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L iterary S tafi"
FEBRUARY,193 I
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Dav id h-Ieaney r.
Dorothy Ay ers
Bus in es s S taf f
m m m m . 5Bu iness Alanaver
Adi ertising hlanager
Circula ting l lanagerAm ertis in f f \ Ianag er
Faculty A dvis ors
Joy L . Nevens Ruth .\ I . Gile E thel C . Crocket tCatherine I . wel sh Les l ie C . hlillarci
Entered as second- class matter June 26, 1 928, at the post ofi ce at Boston,Mass .
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under the Aer of Nlarch 3,1 879
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Golden
Rod
F . Bu rton ll'
hitman
hlargueriteHoake
M a ry di B artolomeoKathleen Hoiiertjr
Aleli‘in Thornerl Iuriel Cos:
Rol and CooperCat‘nerine Erickson
L ITERARYSkippy
’s LamentN atu re’s MoodsThe Futu reEverybody ’8 TalkingLaunching at Fore R iver
.
ShipyardWoman HatersJuneThe I s le of MyDes i reGloomy GrangeBy Candle L ightWhy Boys Leave HomeThe SparksTheFog .
My Fi rst SweetheartCapta in Norton’s Automobile.
ED ITOR IALSOur School MagazineBe Yoursel fSolici ting R idesGolden RodThe Radio
N EWS
ALUM N I EXCH AN GE
ATH LETICS
JOKE S
ART CONTR IBUTORSGertrude Borne, June 193 1Ani ta Ca rrera, june, 1930Cather ine E rickson
,Feb rua ry,
F red George, Feb ruary , 193 1Watson Lei tch
,June
,19 3 1
Robert N orton,June
,193 1
Signe Siitonen,February
,19 36
Dorothy NI . AyersDorothy Anderson
Helen SoudenHelene Johnson
Helen PeckDorothy AmbleaWill iam LordWill i am LordDorothy Squi reEdith DondeRobert Owens
Marj orie Mitchel lMa rj orie Mitchel l
. Helen SweetserHoll i s Burton Engley
THE GOLDEN—ROD 7
”
SKIPPY ’
S"
LAMENT EVERYBODY’S TALKING
DOROTHY M . AYERS , June, 1930Ev’ryone
’
s always langhin’ at me,They say I
’
m as funny as funny can be;But I
’
m not ; N0, I’
m not,
I’
m just being Me.
NATURE’
S MOODSDOROTHY ANDERSON , June, 1932
Again the soft and fluffy flakes did fal l ;They came so very fast they formed a squal l .
They fel l so soft and were a downy white,The earth spread o’er with covering so light .
Then suddenly the wind began to blow;It seemed as if it never had blown so.
At once the rain in torrents did come down,
It washed the streeté so clean all through the town.
The clouds soon parted, and the sun broke through,And heaven’s own skies shone forth in azure blue.
THE FUTURE"
HELEN SOUDEN
The future looms before meSO great and yet so smal l ;I stand without life’s portal s,Outside the future’s hal l .My vision tries to enterIts sacred door of gold,But
,as they seek, a curtain
Fal l s dimly in soft fold ;It covers up the futureWith mists of hope and doubt ;The door is Open; voices cal l ,Yet still I stand without .I try to leave fate’s hal lwayWith mysteries that it brings ,When from within the templeA clear bel l faintly rings .It summons back my footsteps ,Commands my listening ears
,
Then whispers through the curtainThe secret Of my y ears .But yet I do not hear it .
For ’tween the bell andme Sincerely yours ?There hangs that silent image, Wel l
,folks
,how did you like that one?
Like floating ghosts set free. Pretty good, eh? Let’s see
,here’s another .
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tigg
pastLooks l ike a youngster
’
s handwriting, and
And on the unknown future you Should see the spel ling ! But I knowGrey,veiling shadows cast . you’l l enj oy it. Here It i s :
HELEN E JOH N SON
Good evening, folks Of the radio audience ! Once more we b ring you the pro
gram Of Amos ’
n’Andy
,but before we
meet them tonight, we have somethingspecia l for you . Tonight, through the
courtesy of the station to which you are
l i stening, we wi l l present a longerp rogram .
For some time we have been receivingletters
,in the form of bouquets and brick
bats,one might say, but mostly bouquets ,
I am gl ad to announce, in rega rd to thesetwo pals Of the a i r . SO this evening I
’
am
going to read you a few of these letters ,and I t rust you wi l l not grow impatient .Some Of them are very amus ing. Here
goes for the first :Dea r l\Ir. Announcer :
I cannot al lay my ecstasy any longer ;I must tel l you what I think Of you r fineb roadcasts . Amos ’
n’Andy are
,to me
,
two of the most real people I have heardover the radio for quite a while
,especi a lly
Amos . He c ries and moans a round thattaxicab Office so reali s tical ly that I cannothelp but feel s orry for him . I can sym
pathize with him,too
,at hi s los s Of Ruby
Taylor,for hi s case i s s imil a r to mine.
My own gi rl friend has gone home to
vi s i t her parents , and, bel ieve me,each
minute seems l ike a year .
But I can l augh . Look at the way theboys twi s t and murder the King
’s Engl i sh .
” I don’t see how anyone could helpenj oying them .
8 THE GOLDEN—ROD
Dea r Mr . Announcer :Dea r Sir
,
I hope you’l l excuse my writing,
’cau seI ’m only small . but I got somethin
’
to tel lyou . I l i sten toAmos ’n’
Andy every night,and they ’re swell .
_
But l ast night I almostcried ’
cause I jus t lost my dog, too, and
I can’t find him nowhere, and when that
“man came to take the dorg away fromAmos , I fel t sorry for him,
Amos I mean,
’
cau se I no how I felt when I lost mydorg, but I hope I
’l l find him but don’tforget to tel l those fel lows I l ike ’
emawfully and I wouldn’t mi s s l i stening to
them for nothing.
Sincerely you rs very truly
JOE .
There, folks , I knew you’d l ike i t . Ah‘
,
but not every letter i s l ike the two you
have j us t heard . Here i s one postma rkedwel l, I can
’t read the s tamp, but maybewe
’l l find out in the letter itself :t Dea r Mr . AnnouncerI hope you wi l l pardon me if I may
seem a bit rude,but I must tel l you what
I think Of your program . It i s fa i rlygood, but the way in which the cha racterstalk i s atrociou s . Shocking ! Why mustthey talk that way ? I am a teacher of
Engl i sh in the H igh School here, and Imust s ay that my cl a s ses are becomings imply dreadfu l . Why, with everyones aying,
“Uh
,Oh
,Ah
’
s regusted !” i t’s
enough to drive one crazy Can’t some
thing be done to change the vocabula ryof those two men ? I am su re i t 18 hav inga l asting destructive effect on the l anguageof the boy s and gi rl s of thi s H igh School .
Very truly you rs,
I can’t say a s I blame thi s l ady much.
folks,but you know the old saying,
“A
l i ttle humor now and then i s rel i shed bythe best Of men. But so much for theletters
,folks .
Tonight we have a su rpri se in s tore foryou . Ah ! I can see you all s itting forwa rd 1n y ou r chai rs and pi icking up you rea rs . Well you may, for let me tel l you,
folks,thi s i s some su rpri se.
Ruby Tayl or has retu rned from Chi
cago and of course the boys , plus MadamQueen
,Kingfiesh, and the Battle Axe
,are
pl anning a party in her honor . We findthe boys in the taxicab ofi‘ice now
,ta lking
it all over. Here they are !
LAUNCHING AT FORE RIVERSHIPYARD
HELEN PEAK,Februa ry
,1932
And see; she stirs !She starts , —she moves .—~ she seems to feelThe thrill Of life along her keel .And, spurning with her foot the ground.With one exulting joyous boundShe leaps into the ocean
’s joyous arms .
The principles of getting a ves sel intothe water haven’t changed s ince ves sel swere first launched
,but science has so
regul ated and improved upon these principles that the element Of chance i sreduced to a minimum .
The l aunching of a modern ship i s soprepa red that the builders can tel l precisely how she i s going to act . If she wasbuil t with an incl ination of eleven- s ixteenths of an inch to the foot
,the launch
ing ways are given the s ame incl ination.
I f the weight Of the ves sel i s abouttons
, the pres su re upon the ways i s aboutthree tons to the squa re foot . A mini atu re l aunching i s held the day before
,
making su re of the true figu res . I f thetest l aunching proves a succes s, you maybe su re the real l aunching wi l l be.
At noon all work in the yards i s sus
pended . and only the employees gettingthe ship into the water are busy . Usu allyat the chri stening pa rty ascends astand buil t at the ves sel ’s bow. Friendsof the ship
’s owner and Officers Of the
shipbu ilding company compri se the pa rty .
During the next fifteen minutes the
workmen loosen the s tays with thei r mallets . Fi rs t there i s a quiver
,then a more
violent tremor,and the space between the
hull and the stand becomes a noticeablegap. The workmen scuttle from underthe ship.
Just a s the bottle Of champagne i ssmashed acros s the bow,
wi th a dignifiedmotion and an i r resi s tible momentum the
boat sweeps on i ts way . Longfel low de!
scribes thi s d ramatic instant :
THE GOLDEN—ROD
She swims s teadily outwa rd,driving
before her a tidal wave whi ch breaks onthe Downer Landing shore, and beachesall the small boats there. Then the hugeanchors are dropped . What a lovely s ightshe i s , a ship majestically floating, festoomed from bow to stern with b rightlycolored pennants and flags , a credit to theci ty in which she was des igned, con
structed,and l aunched .
Many wel l—known ships,including the
seven—masted schooner Thomas W. Law
ron,the ai rship ca rr ier Lexington, and the
cruiser N orthamp-tofn
,have been l aunched
here. Quincy i s indeed proud Of her
important industry .
WOMAN HATERS
DOROTHY AM BLER,June
,1930
“Drive all women from our door,
For we are the‘shun them four
,
’
TO a party we go stagAnd a femme we never drag !Rah! Rah! Rah!
The Woman Haters ’ Club !”
The fou r members of the aforementroned club chanted thei r l ittle ditty asthey strode down the campus walk
,a rm
in arm .
The fame Of thei r club had travel ledfa r, and today— the firs t day Of the Cam
pus Ca rnival— nearly every gi rl who wasfortunate enough to have been invitedwas looking forward to meet the fou rWoman Haters Of Redwood College.
As the boys app roached the dormitory,
a hai l greeted them.
Wel l,and where are the
‘prides of our
fa i r college’
going?”
Bruce Beldon,the tall
,dark- hai red
football captain,s al aamed deeply .
“TO the dining hall , my dea r Charl ie.
We crave food .
”
“And plenty Of i t !” chimed in Bobby
Galbra ith,the chubby
,blonde hockey
sta r"“And how !
” Ken Waring excl a imed,
smiling in anticipation.
“You bet !” Bill Travers added .
“And
where might the'
Honorable Cha rles begoing ?
”
3 7
TO meet my fai r cous in,s i r . I sup
pose there’s no use in trying to persuadeyou kind gentlemen to give one danceeach to the lady
,i s there? —You see
,
”he
went on,seriously
,
“she
’
s_
a sub—deb. and
has just fini s hed ‘p rep ’ school . I thoughtVou fou r might help me out . She’s beenlooking forward eagerly to the Prom,
and
I don’t want her to be di sappointed . Willyou help out
?”
The fou r Woman Haters looked at eachother in su rpri se, then all g l anced s imultaneously at thei r chum,
Charles Kent .“Aw— Charl ie
,
” Bruce began,
“
you
know we haven’t any use for gi rl s .“But ju st thi s once
, gang . She’s a
peach , real ly ! Awfully good- looking !I ’l l give you my word for that .B ruce frowned .
“N othing doing, he answered solemn
ly .
“VVe’re not having anything to do“
with any woman— p retty or otherwi se !”
“Don’t be a Chump, Bruce. Gee ! I ’ddo it for you— any time.
Bob-by frowned .
“Aw ! I don’t see why gi rls have to
come here,anyway . This i s a man’s col
lege, not a fini s hing school for youngl adies !”
“She’l l only be here fou r days , and you
won’t have to meet her til l Saturdaynight . Aw— come on
, gang !”
Ken puckered hi s tan forehead . Afterall
,Cha rl ie was thei r fraterni ty b rother .
They owed something to him .
“I f we should do thi s— kindly noticethe
‘if
’— ii we do, wi l l you solemnly
promise that you won’t shove her on us
for the rest of the night ?”
Cha rl ie breathed rel ievedly .
“Sure
,I ’l l p romise. Gee
,you ’re good
scouts ! I can take her to the teas and
dinners . but I can’t dance wi th her al lnight . It wouldn
’t be right .”“No,
Bobby admitted,i t wouldn t .
As Charl ie nodded and,smi l ing cheer
ful ly,continued o-n hi s way
,Bill tu rned
excitedly towards Ken.
“Now—look What you ’ve got us into !
You poor,soft- hearted boob !” Thi s las t
in accents of withering scorn.
10 THE GOLDEN—ROD
Ken nodded,mutely
,then brightened .
“Wel l,fel lows
,
”he repl ied,
“i t wil l onlybe for one night . Not til l Satu rday, andthi s i s only W’
ednesday . A lot can happen in fou r days .
”
Hewas r ight . A lot can happen in fou rdays .
A sudden hu sh fel l over the room as the"
Shun- them—fou r entered the tea room .
Pretty gi rl s nodded at each other,as
they real ized that here,before them
,were
the famous fou r woman haters of Red
wood College.
The fou r fel lows,as if ignorant of the
quickened heart- beats thei r coming causedamong the feminine occupants , cros sedthe floor fou r ab reast
,and came to a hal t
at the table where tea was being served .
“Aren’t they wonderful ! ’ one gi rl
gasped , and instantly all eyes werefocused on her. She blu shed and em
deavored to hide her discomfiture.
The fou r . however,seemed deaf to the
remark . Then,a voice behind them :
“Fellows,j u s t a minute.
”
They turned around and confrontedCharl ie. With him was a very attractiveh/Iiss
,wi th cu rly golden hai r
“
and l argeblue eyes .
“Thi s i s my cou s in,1\ Iiss Sta r . Diane,
meet the fou r Shylocks . They stay shyof golden l ocks a s wel l a s other femininetres ses .
0
The fou r club members bowed graveand whi spered a suitable rej oinder .
Ken was devoutly praying that she
wasn’t one of those gi rl s who halting];l i sp baby - talk . Bruce s incerely hoped she
wasn’t one of those gushing women he’d
read so much about . Bobby hoped she
didn’t have a squeaky voice. Bil l wass i lently praying, but he didn
’t know why .
Then she spoke, in a soft . musical voice.
“How do you do ?”
Fou r s ighs of rel1ef were heaved in
uni son. Fou r faces were wreathed in
smiles .They chatted merrily for a few mm
utes . Then Bruce recal led an importantengagement .
“I ’m sorry,lVIiss Star
,but I ’m afraid
I ’l l have to leave. I ’d be thri lled, however
,if you ’l l pl ay a set of tenni s with me
th i s afternoon. Could you ?”
The gi rl hes itated, gl ancing at Cha rl ie.
Charl ie retu rned the gl ance wi thout afl i cker of hi s eyel ids .
“I ’l l be del ighted, Mr . Beldon.
“It’s a go, then. At four .Ken bowed gravely, and announced his
immediate depa rtu re.
“How about a swim
,lVIiss Sta r ? In
the outdoor pool at seven ?”
“Thank you ,Mr . Waring. I ’l l love i t .
‘And could you have dinner wi th me
at eight ?”
Diane smiled at Bobby .
“Yes
,
”she repl ied . her eyes dancmg,
I could .
“And how about a walk with me at
nine ?” Bil l u rged .
“I ’l l be thril led !” she promised .
Outs ide, the fou r woman haters looked
at each other.“A knockout !” Bruce excla imed . And
the other th ree agreed .
Congratulations , Miss Sta r . vou’re a
fine pl ayer .”
“N O
,NIr. Beldon
,I ’m not at all . But
you are a good sport . Letting mewinBruce flushed .
“Now
,Miss Sta r
,I didn’t let you win.
You simply outpl ayed me.
”
Diane smiled, knowingly .
“Anyway
,Mr . Beldon,
I l ike you verymuch. And vou are a skil led tenni s
pl ayer .He smiled at the small , uptu rned face,
and the s l im a rms swinging the racquet .“I wi sh you ’d call me— B ruce
,
”he ven
tured,daringly .
The blue eyes smiled at him .
“Oh,
how did you know that I wantedto? she cried . I love the name Bruce,don’t you ?”
Bruce kicked at a small pebble.
THE GOLDEN—ROD
I never did— before,he whispered ;
but when you say it, Diane. it soundsdiff erent
,homehow !
”
“Does i t,Bruce?” and the golden head
was bent . Her voice seemed vibrant withemotion
,though Bruce couldn
’t see the
twinkle in her eyes .
“I ’m gl ad, B ruce,so gl ad .
Gosh,Diane
,you ’re a ni fty swimmer .
I never thought a girl could swim sowel l .” His tone impl ied that he hadn’tthought gi r l s could do anything.
Ken andDiane spl a shed with thei r feetas they sat on the edge of the pool .
“You swim wel l
,too
,Ken
,
” Dianewhi spered .
‘D : you real'
v think so ? Ken asked ,
eagerly .
I certa inly do,Ken
,and do you know,
I think there’s something awfully patriei an about you .
”
“Really ?”
Yes,really
,.and Ken felt an absu rd
des i re to ki s s that golden hai r,’
gl i s teningin the sunl ight .
‘Mn ! That was del i ciou s , Mr . Galbraith.
”
Bobby'
smiled acros s at the goldenhai red gi r l
_
“Let
’
s forget the'
conventions and use
Chri sti an names .”“Let’s
,Bobby . How’s that ?”
Great,Diane. You know
,I think
Diane i s a beautifu l name.
'
Diane Sta r,he mused .
“The name was made for
you .
”
“I ’m gl ad you likeg it, she whispered,huskily, as she bent her head .
“I l ike you ,too .
” '
I t was spoken softly,
ea rnestly,and the gi rl
’s fai r skin was
tinged wi th pink .
“Oh
,I ’m so gl ad, for, you see
,I l ike
you,toof
’
1 1
“I ’m fall ing in love with someone, s omeone gi rl
“Oh. Mr . Travers
,I didn’t know you
could s ing l ike that . You sing wonderfu lly .
“I don’t— usually— but, you see
,I h ave
an inspi ration now.
”
(C
Oh!77
Yes, you see
,I’ve hitched my wagon
to a star,and a golden sta r at that .
”
The gi rl hung her golden head .
“You know,s ometimes i t’s dangerous
to hitch you r wagon to a sta r .
Sometimes another wagon’s hitched
there firs t .”
Bil l frowned .
“You know
,you ’re pretty, Diane.
So I’
ve been told .
I l ike you .
”
And I l ike you .
Oh, gee !
”
Brown eyes smiled at blue.
VI I
I tel l you,Charl ie
, you have to !”
Su re you do, Cha rl ie. Gee ! i t’s notfa i r to give a fel low only one dance.
”
“Gosh,no ! Aw,
come on,Charl ie
,be
a sport !”
“I tel l you, boys , i t’s imposs ible ex
claimed Charl ie.
“All her dances are
takenf’
“Aw ! yesterday you sa idThat
‘
was yesterday,
”Charl ie repl ied .
s ignificantly .
“The fellows hadn’t seen
her then . I gave you fel lows fi rst chance,
and you had to .be coaxed to take evenone dance. Now you ’re left
,and who’s
to blame?”“You are !
” retorted fou r voices .Well
,of al l the nerve !”
You certa inly are !” Bruce cried . I f
you ’d showed us her pictu re,or told us
about her,or
“Well,I ’ll be jiggered !
”
Then,to the fou r i rate boys ’ su rpri se,
Cha rlie sa t down and rocked withlaughter .
I”
12 THE GOLDEN—ROD
VI II
I t was the night of the Prom . The
gym had been trans formed into a verit
able fa i ryland . The running track abovei t presented a s ta rtl ing pictu re, with itssoft
-
s i lk draperies and glowing lanterns .A mysterious del ightfulnes s su rroundedthe gym.
The fou r boys had each received hisappointed dance, and were
,at present,
gl a ring at Di ane’s partner, who was
proudly whi rl ing her a round the room .
“Gee !
” Ken s a id,
“I wi sh they’d let afellow cut in !”
“Huh!
” Bobby snorted .
“What do youthink thi s i s— the Cl a s s Rush?
“The next i s the final dance,i sn’t it
Bruce?”“Yes
,and she’s dancing i t wi th Char
The l ights were lowered as the orchestra began the final waltz .
Fou r boys,
flattened agains t the wal l .were immersed in thei r thoughts .At l ast the l ights went up.
“Gee !
” Bill cried .
“Here she comes .
wi th Charl ie !”
The fou r boys smiled . Diane smiledback .
“\Ve y e decided
,Charl ie and I
,she
s aid,shyly
,
“that you ’re j u st the ones foru shers .
’
U shers for what ? B ruce asked .
“Why,for ou r wedding. Cha rl ie and
I are engaged . We’re going to be mar
ried in June.
The fou r boys stared,stupefied. Thei r
faces paled perceptibly . Four tannedforeheads were puckered, frowningly .
Then,s lowly
,thei r faces changed color .
Flushing painfully, they looked fi rst ateach other
,then at the smil ing boy and
g i rl before them .
Bruce sta rted to speak , gulped , s tammered and stopped .
Ken recovered fi rst .“\Vhy didn’t vou tel l u s
,Charl ie?
Shouldn’t have secrets in the‘frat
,
’ youknow. Anyway , I suppose congratulations are in order .
I t—it ju st happened, the bride- to-bewhi spered . as she bent her golden head .
IX
Four boys came down the campu s, a rmin a rm . Happily, they chanted thei rditty :
“Drive all women from our doorFor we are the
‘shun them four,
To a party we go stagAnd a femme we never drag.
Rah! Rah! Rah!
The -Woman Haters’ Club !”
And the fou r cl asped hands .
The surface of its vast lagoonIs of brightest burnished gold,And underneath. its glimmerThere is scattered wealth untold ;SO, is it any wonderThat I long to hear the thunderOf the curling. crested breakersOn that far-off southern shore?
GLOOMY GRANGE
DOROTH Y SQU IRE , June, 1930
On the Hey ton Road , set well backnea r the cemetery ,
there stil l stands the
JUNE
WILL IAM LORD,June 1932
Cat birds in the thickets ,Robins in the trees ;All the flowers nodding,Shiv’ring in the breeze;Loads of bees are hu stling,Winging to and fro,Gathering up sweet honeyFrom bright meadows as they go ;
Birds are singing everywhere,Summer’s at its crest,Trees are at their greenest,Nature’s at her best .
THE ISLE OF MY DES IREWILL IAM LORD
,June
,1932
There is magic in the moonlightOn that palm—fringed silver shore,Where the waves are rol ling, ever onward,To break and crash and roar;There are rainbows in the spray that’s'flungFrom the jagged coral reef,And the perf umes, fruits , and birds of jungleNowhere else one-half so sweet .
THE GOLDEN—ROD.
red brick house which,when my story
begins , was rightfully nicknamed,
“Gloomy Grange.
”
One swel tering Sunday afternoon, ins ide that house, a ca reworn woman wasdrows i ly rocking hersel f .
She started, and half rose as Bes s ie, thehousemaid
,tapped and then entered .
The interruption b rought an annoyedfrown to her face.
“Wel l ?” she asked cu rtly .
Vi s i tor,ma ’am . Lady from the
chu rch,I think
,ma’am .
”
“Tel l her I can’t see her,and for pi ty
’ss ake
,leave me alone.
”
Yes,ma ’am .
”
And Bes s ie !”
Yes,ma ’am ?
Tel l them all that . There’l l be morehere before lunch—time.
“Aw right, ma
’am .
”
With the frown sti ll there, the womanbegan to think over the events of the day .
That morning she had driven to the village chu rch in her Old—fashioned carri age,as she had done a s regul a rly as a clockfor the past forty yea rs . There wasnothing unusual in that . She had walkedslowly through the chu rch yard
,as was
her custom,and there she had found not
a bl ade Of gras s out of pl ace. NO, there
was nothing unusual in the church ya rd .
Then she had entered the chu rch as reverently as u sual , and tu rned to enter thecorner pew that had been ma rked “Mon
roe”for several decades . But suddenly
she had rigidly drawn hersel f up , and
gazed with blazing eyes into the mutelyappea l ing eyes of two urchins ensconcedin her seat. Although they cowed underthi s look
,it wa s evident that they were
expecting s omeone or something. Bristl ing with indignation and obl ivious of theamazed congregation, she had swept outof the chu rch, to her maid
’
s perplexity .
Speechles s , she had driven home and,s ince
,she had seen and spoken to no one
but Bes s ie.
Now,she ruminated thus : Maybe I
should have seen i t out to save the gos sip.
13
But the nerve of anyone da ring tos it in my pew,
which has been in the
Monroe family s ince before I was born.
And when I always pay my pew rent soregularly ! What on ea rth was Gibbonsthinking of to let that kind of child ren in
,
anyway ?” And the woman rocked the
chai r vicious ly,wi th anger, ti l l the dog
at her feet howled in sympathy wi th thechai r’s creaks . She stooped and pi ckedup the dog, s troking i t ca res s ingly .
Molly Nlonroe was a s trange mixtu re.
All human love and gentlenes s had goneout of her l i fe ten years ago, when the
idol of her l ife,her only son
,Robert
,had
run away with the vill age bel le, a“coa rse
hu ssy,
” as Molly thought . Since thenshe had gradually grown more embittered to the world
,secretly bestowing
worlds c f affection on thi s dog, who wasa descendant of R uff
,the only pers onal
pos ses s ion left by Robert in hi s hastydeparture. In her fifties
,Molly Monroe
was a p rematu rely old woman. NO one
understood her except the housemaid,
Bes s ie, who valued herpos ition too highlyto Show outwa rd sympathy
,although she
deeply loved and pitied her mistres s .Sam Monroe had deserted hiS 'wife onlys ix months after Robert’s b i rth
,and she
had grieved sorely . Now she forced herself to conquer lOve, and never showedanyone a trace of kindly feel ing.
Somebody tapped, and Molly gu ilti lydropped the dog as Bes s ie entered again.
“Wel l , what’s up now? Did’nt I tel l
you to leave me alone?”“Beg pa rdon. ma ’am
, pleaded Bes s ie,but there i s two of the beauti ful les t chi ld ren at the door
,and they have a letter
for you, ma’am, all prop’ly addressed,
andbeg pardon, ma’am
,but I asked them
to step in, and
“You what ?” shrilled Molly
,whose
face had been pu rpl ing du ring thi sspeech . She thought in exclamationpoints .
“Two children ! in the Monroehou se -in i t — and Bes s ie of all people !What next ? Bes s ie,” she cr ied when she
had recovered speech,
“Turn them out,
thi s minute !”
14 THE GOLDEN—ROD
But,ma’am
,remonstrated the maid
calmly,
“here i s thei r letter, and they saythei r name’s M
“I don’t ca re what thei r name i s , and
throw that letter in the fire, and leaveme alone! ” screeched the i rate woman.
Bes s ie quietly left,and a minute l ater
a di stant door banged loudly .
Left alone wi th her thoughts , lVIollysettled hersel f in her chai r . Anyway .
what could two chi ldren want wi th her?
Wh en her fit of anger had pas sed, she
was somewhat cu riou s . She knew so
l i ttle about children. hlany tender mem
ories of her own son’s chi ldhood rushedthrough her brain,
but she avoided them .
Painful ly,drows i ly
, she rocked hersel f .How hot i t was ! How could peo
ple bustle so ? Subconsciou s ly, she couldhea r a wordy battle raging in the kitchen
and cries Of children and motors
pas s ing How hot it was ! Ah !
She knew no more ti l l“Oh
, p’
itty l ady, p
’
ease wake up.
P’
itty l ady, are you died l ike my papaand my mama ? My mama say she goin
’
to heaven. P’
itty l ady, don’t go dead .
You go heaven, too, p’aps . The roundestand bluest of baby eyes were gazing beseechingly into hers .Chi ld ren ! Dimly she thought she was
doomed to see children today .
“You tel l
,Sylvia ,
” u rged the boy and,
nothing loath, the chi ld began and toldthei r piti fu l story in a sweet, babyi shvoice.
“Wel l,my p
’
itty'mama and my papa
went dead wi th a nasty s icknes s .”
“Fever, put in the boy .
Yeth, feber,”nodded Sylvi a knowing
ly,"‘an
’any penny
any more, an’
our house was all horrid ,an
’we had nothin’
for breakfus’
, or fordinner . or for tea . An
’ my papa say ,‘Sylbia, you r papa hasn
’t got any pennyany more, but I give some moneys to Boban
’ you go Likkle Heyton,an
’
you go
Granny ’s chu rch an’ Granny see you ,
an’
give you home, an’
you be happy .
’ That’
swhat my papa say
’fore he went dead .
An’he g ived Bob letter for you, to
On the Heyton Road . set wel l back,
there s ti l l s tands a red brick house,whi ch
i s no longer rightfully named “GloomyGrange,
” for now there echo the merryvoi ces and dancing feet Of l ight—heartedchi ld ren.
BY CANDLE LIGHT
’
spl a in u s . An’we nab come
,an
’we are
happy, aren’t we, Bob ?”Then i t was Bes s ie who took up the
s tory . They had been to the church,and
then there had fol lowed that unfortunatescene. They had come tearfully to thehou se, and when the unfeel ing mistres srefused them entrance
,the kind hearted
maid hea rd thei r tale and took them intoher own room
,hoping for a chance of
reconci l i ation ; she had sent the chi ldreninto the
'
room while Molly was as leep.
She had saved the letter which Molly hadordered her to bu rn
,and now she pro
duced i t .For the second time that day
, poorlVIolly had received a shock . From the
chi ld ’s di s connected story she had gathered that they were her son’s children
,
and in the letter i t was unquesti onablyproved : her own son had recently died offever in a squalid London tenement house.
The children impl i citly bel ieved that herhome was Open to them .
When the s tory was perfectly clear,
Molly’s wall of reserve had fallen,her
hea rt had melted,and the chi ldren had
crept into it .as as as as as as
ED ITH DON DE,June
,1930
Wewas settin’ round the tablewatchin’
the eandle l ight, howit pl ayed on Grandma ’s wrinkled cheek and made a halo‘round her s i lvery hai r— makes her looksorta ethereal , l ike the pictu res 0
’the
angel s in the hymn book . We all feelkinda qu iet- l ike and sombre a—settin’
in
the candle l ight . Seems ’most as if ’twaschu rch
,we all settin’ sorta reverent
a—watchin’the flickerin
’ l ight . Don’
tcha
sorta l ike the candle l i ght when all the
TH E GOLDEN - ROD
pl ates are clea red away,
an’ all you r
chores are done?
It”s then I seems to see my faults and
wi sh that I_
had followed the“Golden
Rule” and minded m'
y'
mom ’n’
pop. Anddo ya know
,I even wish't . I hadn’t s tolen
the apples from outer Deacon C rabtree’sorcha rd on that night so long ago, thoughhe was so downright mean. Ef I hadbeen settin’ in the candle l ight al l thetime
,I ’d never have s a s sed my mom ’
n’
pop or left my chores undone. Bet I’
d
have been the model that they were al
ways talkin’ about . Ef I had been as
good as that, mom would think I ’dketched somethin
,
’an
’
gimme a dose 0’
su lphu r an’
put me to bed:
Jest the s ame, I l ike to be a- settin’
in
the candle l ight a-
_
watchin’
the shaders
pl ay round the kitchen an’ makin’ a halo
a ro,n’
Grandma ’s silv’
ry hai r .
WHY BOYS LEAVE HOME
ROBERT OWEN S,Februa ry
,193 1
On the first warm,sunny day of the
yea r the natu ral tendency Of youths wi thnothing to do
_and all day to do it in is
to go somewhere beyond thei r u sualhaunts . Accordingly, three of the repre
sentatives of the ri s ing generation adorning the doorway of the
'
Quincy Y .M C .A.
decided to sol ici t rides , as the Master ofYouthful Des tinies at Quincy H igh call sthe wel l—known practice of bumming
”
rides . The fi rst car ca rried the three toWeymouth
,where they were picked up
by a cons table from Cape Cod, homewa rdbound after carrying a pri soner from his
native heath to the Charlestown PrisOnand who was therefore not pa rticul a r a sto whom he rode wi th .
Lea rning that thei r host Was going allthe way to Hyanni s , the travelers decidedthat it wouldn’t be a bad idea to spendthe night at the Quincy “Y” camp in
_
Sandwich .
They Stopped at,
the vi llage of Sand;
wich to buy food out of thei r combinedfinances
,which amounted - to a doll a r and
s ix'ty- two cents . The camp was found
15
after tramping seven miles over muddyroads through now pitch dark woods .The wayfarers decided not to go right
in, however, s ince there Were three dogs
in front, apparently very la rge and fierce,
and all p rotesting l oudly and determinedly at the approach of strangers . Theboys s topped, but the dogs didn
’t,so the
former went ha sti ly up the nea rest tree,
suppl ies and all . After a time,s ome um
known personage called off the receptioncommittee
,and the uninvited guests
cl ambered down the tree and through an
unlocked window of the deserted house.
There i s something about a very dark,l a rge, empty and unknown pl ace that Offsets the usual non-chalanee of anyone whoenters i t wi th only matches for l ight . Thu si t was very close together that the th reeprowled around the whole house, explor
ing every nook and corner for things thatmight come in handy du ring the cominglong night .Among the things found were l amps ,
fi rewood,old mattres ses and a blanket .
di shes,baseball bats
,a hunting kni fe and
an axe; the l a st th ree objects were to beused in case the pl ace was stormed in the
middle of the night by bandi ts , bootleggers , . cutthroats
,or demons .
After the whole pl ace had been lookedover
,ou r heroes prepared and ate thei r
supper, which cons i s ted of beans, bread,pineapple, and oranges .The night, one of the longest nights onrecord
,was spent in lying, but not s leep
ing, on mattres ses spread out in front ofthe firepl ace, with one small bl anket ,
‘ abu rl ap cu rtain, and one another for cover1n s .In the middle of the night the fire went
out so the three, all being wide- awakeand cold
, got up, bu ilt a new fire,and
pl ayed football . While the fire wa s s til lbu rning brightly, they sought the coversagain and remained under them unti lmorning .
The wanderers rose at the crack of
dawn and ate the remaining food, afterwhich they cleaned up the pl ace wherethey had slept and eaten. About seven
14 THE'
GOLDEN—ROD
But,ma ’am
,remonstra ted the maid
calmly,
“here i s their letter,and they s ay
thei r name’s M“I don’t ca re what thei r name i s
,and
throw that letter in the fire, and leaveme a l one! ” screeched the i r ate woman.
Bes s ie qu ietly left,and a minute l ater
a di stant door banged loudly .
Left alone wi th her thoughts , Mol lysettled herself in her cha i r . Anyway .
what could two children want wi th her?”
When her fit of anger had pas sed, she
was somewhat cu riou s . She knew so
l i ttle about children. Many tender mem
ories of her own son’s chi ldhood rushedthrough her bra in,
but she avoided them .
Painfully,drowsily
,she rocked hersel f .
How hot it wa s ! How could peo
ple bu stle so ? Subconsciou s ly, she couldhea r a wordy battle raging in the kitchen
and c ries of children and motors
pas s ing How hot i t was ! Ah !
She knew no more ti l l“Oh
, p’
itty l ady,p ’ease wake up.
P’
itty l ady, are you died l ike my papaand my mama ? My mama say she goin
’
to heaven. P’
itty l ady, don’t go dead .
You go heaven, too, p’aps . The roundest
and bluest of baby eyes were gazing beseechingly into hers .Chi ldren ! Dimly she thought she was
doomed to see chi ld ren today .
“You tel l,Sylvia
,
” u rged the boy and,
nothing loath, the chi ld began and toldthei r piti fu l story in a sweet, babyi shvoice.
“Wel l,my p
’itty
’ mama and my papawent dead with a nasty s icknes s .”
“Fever,put in the boy .
Yeth, feber,”nodded Sylvia knowmg
ly,“an"
any pennyany more, an
’ ou r hou se was all horrid ,an
’
we had nothin’ for breakfus ’, or for
dinner . or for tea. An’ my papa s ay ,‘
Sylbia, you r papa hasn’t got any penny
any more, but I give some moneys to Boban
’ you go Likkle Heyton,an
’
you go’
Granny’s chu rch an’ Granny see you ,
an’
give you home, an’
you be happy .
’ That’
swhat my papa say
’fore he went dead .
An’he gived Bob letter for you, to
On the Heyton Road . set wel l b ack,
there stil l s tands a red brick hou se,which
i s no longer rightfully named “GloomyGrange,
” for now there echo the merryvoices and dancing feet Of l ight- hea rtedchi ld ren.
BY CANDLE LIGHT
’
spl a in us . An’
we hob come,an
’
we are
happy, a ren’t we
,Bob ?”
Then i t was Bes s ie who took up the
s tory . They had been to the chu rch,and
then there had followed that unfortunatescene. _ They had come tearfully to the
house, and when the unfeel ing mi s tressrefu sed them entrance
,the kind—hearted
maid hea rd thei r tale and took them intoher own room
,hoping for a chance of
reconci l i ation ; she had sent the chi ldreninto the
'
room while Molly was asleep.
She had saved the letter which Molly hadordered her to bu rn
,and now she pro
duced i t .For the second time that day
, poorMolly had received a shock . F rom the
chi ld ’s di s connected story she had gathered that they were her son’s chi ldren
,
and in the letter i t was unquestionablyproved : her own son had recently died offever in a squal id London tenement house.
The children impl i citly bel ieved that herhome was open to them .
When the Story was perfectly clear,
Molly’s wall of reserve had fallen,her
hea rt !had melted,and
“
the children had
crept into it .ale 916 9K 916 9K 9K:
ED ITH”DON DE ,
June,1930
TWewas asettin round the tablewatchin’
the candle light, howi t played'
on Grandmal s -iwr-i‘nk
’
led cheek and made a haloround her silvery hai r—makes her looksorta ethereal , l ike the pictu res 0
’the
angel s in the hymn book . We all feelkinda
"
quiet—l ike and sombre a- sett1n’
in
the candle l ight . Seems ’most as if ’twaschurch
,we all settin’ sorta reverent
a-watchin’
the flickerin’ l ight . Don’tcha
sorta l ike the candle l ight when all the
THE LGQLDEN—ROD
pl ates are clea red away,
an’ al l you r
chores are done?I t’s then I seems to see my faults andwi sh that I had fol lowed the
“GoldenRule” and minded my mom
’
n’
pop. Anddo ya know
,I even wisht I hadn’t s tolen
the apples from outer Deacon C rabtree’sorcha rd on that night so long ago, thoughhe was so downright mean. Ef I hadbeen settin’ in the candle l ight all thetime
,I ’d never have s a s sed my mom ’
n’
pop or left my chores undone. Bet I ’dhave been the model that they were al
ways talkin’ about . Ef I had been as
good as that, mom would think I’
d
ketched somethin,
’an
’
gimme a dose 0’
sulphu r an’
put me to bed'.Jest the s ame, I l ike to be
_
a- settin’
in
the candle l ight a-wat'
chin’
the shaders
pl ay round the kitchen an’ makin’ a halo
aroy-n’
Grandma ’s silv’ry hai r .
“
WHY BOYS LEAVE HOME
ROBERT OWEN S,Februa ry
,193 1
On the fi rst warm,
“
sunny day of the
yea r the natu ral tendency Of you ths wi thnothing to do
_and a ll day to do it in i s
to go somewhere beyond thei r u sualhaunts . Accordingly, three of the repre
sentatives of the ri s ing generation adorning the doorway of the Quincydecided to sol ici t r ides , as the Ma s ter ofYouthful Des tinies at Quincy H igh call sthe wel l—known p ractice of humming
”
rides . The fi rst ca r ca rried the three to
Weymouth,where they were pi cked up
by a constable from Cape Cod, homewa rdbound after carrying a pri soner from hisnative heath to the Charlestown PrisOnand who
_was therefore not pa rticul a r a sto whom he rode with .
Learning that thei r hos t Was going allthe way to Hyanni s , the travelers decidedthat it wouldn’t be a bad idea to spendthe night at the Quincy
“Y” camp in
Sandwich .
They Stopped at, the vi llage of Sandwich to buy food out Of thei r combinedfinances
,which
"
amounted to a dol lar and
s ixty- two cents . The camp was found
15
after tramping seven miles over muddyroads through now pi tch - dark woods .The wayfarers decided not to go right
in, however, s ince there were three dogs
in front, appa rently very la rge and fierce,
and all p rotesting l oudly and determinedly at the approach of s trangers . Theboys s topped, _but the dogs didn
’t,so the
former went hasti ly up the nearest tree,
suppl ies and all . After a time,s ome un
known personage called off the receptioncommittee
,and the uninv ited guests
cl ambered down the tree and th rough an
unlocked window of the deserted house.
There i s something about a very dark,l a rge, empty and unknown pl ace that Offsets the usual nonchal ance of anyone whoenters it wi th only matches for l ight . Thu si t was very close together that the th reeprowled around the whole house, explor
ing every nook and corner for things thatmight - come in handy du ring the cominglong night .Among the things found were l amps ,
fi rewood,old mattres ses and a blanket .
dishes,basebal l bats
,a hunting kni fe and
an axe; the l a st th ree objects were to beu sed in case the place was s tormed in the
middle of the night by bandi ts , bootleggers , cutthroats , or demons .After the whole place had been looked
over,our heroes prepa red and ate thei r
supper, which cons i s ted of beans , bread,pineapple, and oranges .The night, one of the longest nights onrecord
,was spent in lying, but not s leep
ing, on mattres ses spread out in front ofthe firepl ace, with one small blanket,
’
a
bu rl ap cu rtain, and one another for coverin s .In the middle of the night the fire went
out so the three, all being wide- awakeand cold, got up , bu i lt a new fire
,and
pl ayed football . While the fire was sti l lbu rning brightly, they sought the coversagain
'
and remained under them unti lmorning .
The wanderers rose at the crack of
dawn and ate the remaining food, afterwhich they cleaned up the pl ace wherethey had slept and eaten. About seven
16 THE GOLDEN—ROD
thi rty,they tipped a l l the bel l - hops , pa id
thei r b ill,and hit the trai l for home.
The fates smiled on them on the returntrip and
,in two hops
,they reached the
s ta rting point, none the _
worse for wear .Although sleep and the comforts of
home were consp icuous by thei r absence,the expedition was unanimous ly declareda succes s by al l concerned .
THE SPARKS
MARJORIE MITCHELL, February, 1933Embers in the fire’s heat ;Ashes all surround them;Logs are added to the coals ;New life starts around them.
From the embers fly the sparks,Singing, dancing, see them run !
Here’s a large one,there’s a smal l,
Laughing, prancing, having fun.
Here 3 a leader and his menMarching out to battle;Here 5 a farmer and his sheep;There’s a flock of cattle.
Here’s a dancer, twinkling toes ;There’s a staid school—master ;Up the chimney do they flyFaster, faster, fast -r.
Tho’
the sparks have passed away,
Yet the fire I S not dead ;For now we see agamst the smoke,The coal s
,stil l glowing red.
THE FOG
.\I .
-\RJORIE MI TCH ELL February ,
1933
Sinking slowly from the skyIt spreads on boatman’s sail ,Settling softly on the sea
Like a misty veil .Here the veil is lifting fast.Movmg from the sand ;See the sun shine forth once more.
Brightening the land .
MY FIRST SWEETHEART
HELEN SWE ETSER,JUN E
,1930
One day as I s at on my grandfather’s
knee l i s tening to one of hi s many stor1es ,
he noticed that I was not giving him myusual
,rapt attenti on.
“What is the matter with my l ittlegi rl ? he asked .
“N othing, grandpa, I answered .
Yes, there i s . Now don’t try to fool
an Old fool,because you can’t . Come now
,
what i s i t?”“Well,
” I s a id, gazing at the buttons on
hi s coat I -wi sh I had a sweetheart l ikeBarba ra 3 , one who would send meflowers and candy .
”
About a week l ater came Valentine’sDay bringing Barba ra a lovely bouquetOf violets . Of cou rse
,I admired them tre
mendously, wishing al l the time that Ihad been the fortunate one. I was so
absorbed in th inking about mysel f and
wi shing that I was eighteen instead Of
eight, that I s at in the l iving room fullyfive minutes before I noticed a large, red,heart—shaped box on the table. When Isaw i t
,I ru shed to the table and found on
a card— “To my sweethea rt
,Helen
,from
one who loves her.
”
How thrilled I was ! I took the box
and hurried to B arbara . I was so exci tedthat I nearly spi l led the contents on the
floor whi le showing it to her.
“I sn’t it l ovely,Barbara ?” I gasped,
watching her intently to see i f she thoughtso Who do you think sent i t ?”
Yes,dea r
,i t is lovely . I haven’t the
fa intest idea who sent it,'
but who ever
d id su rely had good taste.
Many times after that I was the
happy receiver of gi fts . But bes t of all
was at Eas ter, for on that day I receiveda beauti ful bouquet of sweet-peas , whichI wore to chu rch
,as I knew Barbara
would wea r flowers al so .
For two yea rs I was never forgotten
when it came to flowers and candy on
such specia l occas ions but then I was
forgotten Grandfather died, you see.
THE GOLDEN—ROD
CAPTAIN NO‘
RTON’S
AUTOMOBILE
HOLLI S BURTON ENGLEY, June, 1930NoTE z—The steering gear of a sailing vessel
is so arranged that when the wheel is turnedin one direction the vessel moves in the other .(Apologies to the true characters . )
Some years ago on Martha’s I s le,when auto cars
were few,
OldCaptain Norton had a car rigged “
up in mannernew.
Since he had not quite yet got used to driving on
the shore,
The steering gear embarras sed him yet ever moreand more.
By Godfrey’s Mighty !” swore old Jed, one sunnyday in June,
I ’l l have the wheel fixed on this craft by Sat’
d’
yafternoon !
When I steer port the consarn tub (unlike myboat May Padre)
TO starboard shifts and leaves me sittin’ shakin’in the breeze.
”
So on that morn, the fault repaired, the Captainsal lied forth.
The skies were blue, the waters, too, south, east,
and west, and north,
From Tisbury to Middletown,from there to Ed
gartown,
In blis sfu l peace he travel led ’round, up island and
then down
Ho, ho !” laughed Jed, in spirits high, at last
this craft does steerAs sensible as my own l Op I sa1led for many a
year.
17
NO longer on the vil lage roads must I so fearful lycreep,
Whegport I steer, to port I go, as I did on the
eep.
One night some low off—Is lander who wished to see
the landWithout expense to his own self
,Jed’s car did
take in hand .
Before his house the auto stood, all quietly it
started .
Down Beach Street f'olled the stolen car; pasthouses dark it darted .
W’
hen half—way down the low incline the engine
started running .
At Water Street it had perked up and splendidlywas humming .
Here was the wheel turned to the right—towardEastvil le it was steering;
The car,of course, upWater Street toward Union
went careering .
The thief was quite hard put to it to understandits action
,
But Union Street was reached- in time, a secondand a fraction.
SO'up this street he quickly turned, and down itwent like sin !
Right to the wharf where lights stil l shone, the
ticket—hou se within.
The squealing brakes brought out to view the con
stable and, too,
The wharfinger, who knew right wel l the car of
shining blue.
SO Off Was marched the ruefu l thief, who bettercould have done
Than Old Jed’s car with steering odd, to steal andtry to run !
18 THE GOLDEN—R OD
OUR SCHOOL MAGAZ INE
For yea rs our school magazine cameout wi th the same standardized cover,effective enough, good looking, but notreally ou r own. Now what a difference !How pleas ing to see i t dres sed in des ignsof ou r own creating. E ach edition i s tohave a different cover des ign, drawn byou r art pupi l s , who are busy much Of the
time, pl anning and drawing to thi s end.
Finally,the drawing i s sent to the Man
ual Arts depa rtment to be fitted on to ablock . A great deal of credit goes to thi sdepartment— for much accu racy and careful cutting are needed to insu re an
effectual cut. In des igning and producing ou r own cover, we al s o economize,bes ides b ringing to ou r magazine an
original i ty and individual ity it has neverbefore enj oyed.
We feel p roud of our school publ ication in its original dres s , and know we
have taken one step more towa rd the
goal of i ts perfection.
H . R . D .
BE YOURSELF
DO you follow the c rowd ju st a s Merl indid the gleam ? Or do you go your ownway? In other words
,are you you rsel f
or a counterpa rt of Tom, Dick or Ha rry ?Be an individual
,not a type. You won
der why some people stand out from the
crowd . The reason : they are differentfrom the mass which su rrounds them .
They have individual i ty .
A.03 7 ?
SOLICITING RIDES
Don’t you know a gi rl who goes to the
football games because it’s the thing todo, because everyone does it? She
can’t tel l a touchdown from a referee.
But, of course,to cheer at a football
game i s the thing to do.
Don’t blu r you r outstanding characteristics . As a succes sful novel i st of todaymust make his .cha racters vivid and individual, you must make yourself vivid and
individual .Develop your capacities . I f you have
talent in any di rection, foster it unti l itbecomes something that will make youdifferent from the rest. By talent we donot neces sa ri ly mean a talent for mus ic,wri ting, or
’
drawing, but a talent to do theevery day things and do them wel l
,a
talent to make other people glad,'
to
unders tand and invite thei r confidence,a
talent to do the s imple, homely thingsthat count .Be yourself ! Develop you r talents .
Then you wi l l be someone a l ittle different from your neighbor— an individual .
ED ITH DONDE,June
,1930.
The matter of hi tch—hiking by highschool gi rl s and boys to and from schoolhas j u st about reached a cri s i s . RecentlyMr . Col lins told us
,in the auditorium,
that the s chool committee had taken upthe matter of thumbing rides , betterknown as bumming. He warned us
that i f we were caught pa rticipating in
20 THE GOLDEN - ROD
ASSEMBLIES
JAN UARY 3,1930—The s tudent body
met for an athleti c a s sembly held for thepurpose of awarding wel l ea rned letters ,and
_
to boost the coming basketball season. Will i am H .
“Doc” Whiting, awardedthe 55 letters and 12 blue and whitesweaters to deserving athletes . Capt .“Bob” Mattson of the ba sketball team,
Basketball Coach George S. Cl ark,and
Cha rles Gabriel,an alumnu s and former
basketball sta r of Quincy H igh, addres sedthe as sembly . Head Cheer Leader “Joe
”
Nlinegan led several snappy cheers , and
the band added extra pep to the rally byits l ively selections . Those who receivedletters were : Soccer— Capta in RobertMui r
,John Milla r
,Will i am Jenson
,
Gera ld Desmond,John B rown
,John Mc
Gibbon,Fred Bonner
,Gerald Pitts
,
Harold Pimmental,Alex Mitchel son,
Ca rl Jehson,and Manager William,
Thompson. Al though soccer-wi ll remain
a minor sport, these boys received the
regula r maj or sport eight- inch block Q’
sfor thei r admirable performances .Football— Captain Lawrence Chri sten
sen,l\’lanager Aa ron Redcoy, Henry
Fisher,Michael Kurti s
,Andrew Lund
,
Bradford Rougvie, Chester Young, Will iam Haloran
,Will a rd Bailey
,Willi am
Sull ivan, James McKenna,N athan Kup
erman,Abe Cohen
,Eugene N attie
,
Arthur Ol into,Scalo Gehardi, Kenneth
Cahoon,and Theodore Ol sen.
Cl a s s Footbal l Champions — N athanEdwa rds
,John Smith
,Charles Ganzel,
OIGN E SNTON
Joseph Lucier,John Franklin
,George
M clVIann,John Iovannia
,James Foley
,
Gordon Donnon,John Morris
,John
Bradley,
“ Donald McMulkan,Will i am
VValder,Roy Leander
,Robert Gentry
,
andWalter B as sett .Cros s Country— Captain Kermit Kim
bal l,Vincent Morgan, Frank Bonomi ,
Stephen Follett, James Mulhall, Will i amSouthworth
,and Joseph Lepplar.
Tenni s Champions Captain SadieFlieshman
,Mary Mccarthy
,Evelyn
Chri s tie,Alma Burges s, Hazel Berry,
Jean Turnbull,Beatrice I rwin
,and Ruth
Koss .Field Hockey—Capta inAdel a ide Chap
man,Dorothy Sharkey
, Alma Reeves,
Dorothy Smith,Geraldine Batchelder
,
Dorothy Bedford,Chri s tine Mes senger,
Edna Pelto,Helen Poland
,Ruth Wyand
,
Helen Evans,I s abel Emslie
,Patricia
Cra ig, Ruth Murphy, and MurielHannah .
JAN UARY 8— All students of F renchas sembled to take a pictu re tou r throughF rance '
_Wlth Profes sor Raymond Talbot,
formerly of the French Dept . of BostonUnivers i ty, who spoke onFrenchLiteraryBackgrounds . Profes sor Talbot
,the
author of several textbooks and readers,
which are used in many high schools, oneof which i s u sed by French teachers ofou r school
,was introduced by .Miss
Victori a Zel ler,head of the Modern
Language Department, who a rranged theprogram .
Profes sor Talbot sta rted hi s talk wi th ageneral description of the French i s landof Cors ica
,and then continued to
THE GOLDEN—ROD 21
‘Southern France and the scene ofD audet
’
s stories,fu rthering hi s tou r to
Northeastern France, the birthplace ofJeanne d’Arc . Next
,Pari s was treated
with a b rief explah ation and a few
pictu res , and then Briton of the westerncoast of F rance. He ended his ta lk wi th astory Of the region about Mount Blanc .JAN UARY 8— About three hundredstudents from the cooking and busines sorganization c l a s ses gathered in the auditorium to hea r a talk on bus ines s organization
, given by Miss Jul i a Leamy,former head of the school cafeteri a , whoi s now manager Of a restaurant in QuincySqua re.
JAN UARY '23—The mus ic appreciationand harmony pupi l s gathered to hea r aspecia l Chopin recital , given by Mis sN ancy FOllett
,wel l known local ly for her
abil ity at the piano . The program ,
a rranged by Miss Marga ret Tuthil l, headof the music department, includedMazur/ea in A Minor, Waltz. in C SharpMinor
,Nocturne in F Major, Marche
Funehre Berceure and Impromptu in A
FlatM ajor.
FEBRUARY 24—Starting the school p rogram after a week
’s vacation, an as sembly was held the fi rst period for the purpose oi announcing the pl ans Of the
Student Advisory Council for improvingthe cafeteri a and traffic problems . Afterthe reading of a pas s age from the Bibleby Mr . Coll ins, followed by an Amen bymembers of the Boys’ and Girls ’ GleeClubs
,Arthu r Ol into, pres ident of the
Student Advisory Council, gave an ex
cellent speech, u rging us to be more con
s iderate of others in the cafeteria . He
announced the new senior traffi c . squad,and asked the students to co—operate withthem to make the traffic more orderly .
MARCH S—The gi rl s of the”
“ collegep reparatory and normal school divi s ionsof the Junior and Senior cl a s ses had the
pleasu re of hea ring a talk by Mis s Pope,dean of the gi rl s of B ridgewater NormalSchool . Miss Pope was introduced byMiss Katherine Phi ll ips
,Pres ident of the
Quincy B ridgewater Club , which spon
sored thi s a s sembly . An explanation Of
the requi rements for entering Bridgewater
,a brief account of the activities of
the school was del ightfully given. Afterthis helpful talk, the gi rl s were invitedto speak with Mis s Pope individually, i fthey so des i red .
SPRING CO-NCLAVE
ALL—NEW ENGLAND H . S .
ORCHESTRA
CH IMFS OF NORMANDYRehears als for the Chimes of N or
mana’
y, to be given by the Glee Clubs l atein May
,are in fu ll swing now
,with two
meetings a week for the whole cast, andnumerous other rehea rs al s with groups ofprincipals .
Work on the numbers to be played bythe band and orchestra at the annualInstrumenta l Concl ave has been going on
for several weeks . This yea r the orchestra wil l pl ay Country Dance
,
” byBeethoven
,the contest number for al l
orchestras Of its cl a s s ; and“Finandia
,
by Sibel iu s,as i ts choicepiece. The band
wil l play“Song of the Marching
'
Men,
by Hadley, the contest piece for al l bands
Of its cl as s and D own South,by Ardt
,as
its choice number.
Several members Of the orchestra havereceived notices the pa st week of thei racceptance as members of the All New
Engl and H igh School Orchestra . Theyare : Herbert Hanson
, our concert ma ster ;Edith Luftman
,L i l l i an Pierce
,Phill ip
Simmons,Franci s Tatro
,viol ins ; Dann
Wyman,viol a ; R icha rd R ice
,clarinet ;
Daniel Keeler,bas soon ; Walter Smith,
Robert Graham,trumpets ; Gilbert Neal ,
James Laing, horns ; Wa lter Lehto, trombone; Stanley Johnson,
sousaphone.
BOWDOIN MUSICAL CLUB
The members of theHigh School musicdepartment, orchestra s, glee clubs , band,harmony
,and appreciation cl a s ses are
22 THE'
GOLDEN—ROD
presenting the Bowdoin lVlusical Club s ina concert and dance onWednesday, Apri l2,1930
,at the H igh School . The p ro
ceeds of these college concert s in the pasthave been used to help defray the ex
penses Of the band and orchestra at theSpring Concl ave. Thi s year
,however,
the depa rtment i s hoping to clea r enoughto give a scholarship to some one Of itsmembers to the band and orches tra summer camp, which i s to be held in Ma ine,probably on one Of the Belgrade Lakes .The bu sines s manager of this concert
and dance i s Walter Smith, Jr. ; Kenneth
Ryder i s in cha rge of publ ici ty, and asub—committee
,cons i s ting of Sam Hussey,
Al ice h'
lalone,
and Stanley Johnson,as s i s ted by Miss Harri son
,our dean
,i s
working on pl ans for the dance.
THE STUDENT ADVISORYCOUNCIL
Af ter almost six months of ceaseles sthe members of the Student Ad
v i sory Counci l d i s tributed on January 30three hundred copies of the firs t handbook i s sued in the hi story of the schoolamong the entering sophomores . Copieswere l ater sold to the members of the
upper cl a s ses . The committee in cha rgeof thi s succes s ful project was : JohnWal sh
,chai rman ; John Pinkham,
and
Dorothy E l liott .Under the leadership of Ruth Koss , the
new student counci l lost and found de
partment i s now functioning. She i sas s i sted by Alma Reeves
,Arthur Peel,
John W’al sh,Dav id Kinghorn,
and
D orothy E ll iott . Room 300 i s beingused as the department’s headqua rters .At the recent meeting
,Pres ident Arthu r
Ol into appointed Arthu r Peel , Ferror DiBona.
Dorothy E l l iott,Geraldine Sull i
van, Alma Reeves , and Aa ron Redcay tomake pl ans for outdoor activities du ring lunch period .
SENIOR RECEPTION
The cla s s of Februa ry ,1930
, gatheredin the ca feteri a . Friday evening, Janua ry
THE BIG SISTER CLUB
17, or thei r clas s day exerci ses which were
in the form of a banquet . After the banquet, which was served by members ofthe Big Si s ter Club and Thal i a Club , thecl as s will
,written by John Pinkham
’
and
John Walsh,was read by N athan Kuper
man, the cl as s orator .Following thi s was the presentation of
va riou s gi fts by the cl as s pres ident, AlphPetersen. He presented to Mr . Coll ins
,
for the school,from the cl a s s
,a pictu re
of the interior of the Rheims Cathedral .Everyone then adj ou rned to the gym
nasium,which was decorated in rainbow
colors , where dancing was enj oyed untiltwelve o’cl ock .
Junior H igh Day, Observed each semester by the Big Si ster Club , was held on
January 20,under the chai rmanship of
Bernadette hc eeny . The enteringSophomore gi rls from the fou r JuniorH igh Schools of Quincy were invited .
The fi rst speaker, Abiga il N orris ,former pres ident Of the club welcomed theg i rl s
,and then introduced Jean Turnbull
,
the new pres ident of the club . Miss Har
ri son,the club advi sor, spoke to the
gi rl s .The group was then entertained by
Beatrice I rwin,who s ang Elly Bill, and
Barba ra Gowa rd,who pl ayed the St.
Louis Blue; on the piano. The next selection on the program was a solo byEthel Johnson
,I talian Street Song , which
w as fol lowed by a tap dance by HarrietWhite and Emmel ine Patten. GraceGarland then sang two songs , Can
’
t WeBe Friend; and Sue. Ha rriet \Vhite gavea speci alty dance, and Barba ra Gowa rdrendered a cl a ss ical selection upon the
piano . Then followed a talk to the
sophomores by Mr . Col l ins .
After the enterta inment, the membersof the Big Si ster Club showed the SOpho
mores about the bu ilding .
Members and friends gathered in the
school libraiy on Thu rsday evening,
THE GOLDEN—ROD
Februa ry 27, to witnes s the insta l lation ofofficers of the Big Si ster Club . Thoseinstalled were :Presidt nt .Jean Turnbu l lVice—President Grace LuceSecretary. Dorothy Ayres2reasurer Et
'
rie Huovmen
Exet lltl'u f Committee
Virginia Fair, Mary McCarthy, MarieJohnson,
Dorothy Barr, Edith Hayden,
Dorothy Elliott,
and Dorothy ThomasDecorating Committee Jane GladingRefreshment Committee Geraldine BurnsSic/e Girl Committee Edith DondeNew Girl Committee Virginia Cochrane
E ach Officer wore a red carnation.
Flowers were presented to Abiga il Norris ,the reti ring pres ident .After the impressive ceremony, Ethel
Johnson enterta ined the group by twoSoprano solos . She was accompanied on
the pi ano by Barba ra Goward . E speci allyenj oyed was Mis s Victori a Zel ler
’s talk onher trip through Guatemala .
Mr . Coll ins then gave a brief talk,after which refreshments were served,and an informal gathering enj oyed .
A Mixer Party was given on March 17to the gi rl s of the February,
’3 3
,clas s by
the Big Si s ter Club . The gi rl s in charge
were : Dorothy E ll iott and Dorothy Barr .The pantomimes
,Young Lochinvar, read
by Vi rgini a Fai r, . and The Lamp! Went
Out,read by Dorothy Ba rr, were acted
by the members of the club . Followingthe entertainment, refreshments and
dancing in the gymnas ium were enj oyed .
DEBATING SOCIETY
On Janua ry 17, a number of the mem
bers were the guests of the Men’ s Club
of the VVollaston Congregational Churchat a supper and debate on the D eath
Penalty, given by two of the offici als ofthe s tate prisOn.
At one of the regul ar meetings of thesociety
,ta lks were given, depa rting from
the usual customs of holding debates .These proved rather interesting and are
to be used to vary the meetings in the
futu re.
23
The Baumer'
Habitual Ofiender Lawand The Right of the U. S . to Interfere inSouth American Dirputer, were amongthe ques tions recently debated .
At the meeting on March 4th,the fol
lowing offi cers were elected to fi l lvacancies cau sed by gradu ation .
Prerilent Charles Bakerl’
ice—Preri:lent George MurphySeeretary .David Meaney
Wendel l May wi l l continue as Treasurer.
THE Q. B. CLUB
On Februa ry 1 1,ten members were
initi ated into the Quincy B ridgewaterClub . Games
,dancing, and refreshments
were enj oyed . The committee in cha rgewas Katherine Phi l l ips , pres ident ; SylviaB ianchi
,Marie Johnson
,Edith Hayden
,
Vi rgini a Fai r, Ani ta Ca rrera , and MaryDi B artholomeo .
On March 5,a luncheon was served in
honor of Mis s E l izabeth Pope,dean of
gi rl s at B ridgewater N ormal School, atwhich Mis s Vi rgini a Wakeman, Mis sMildred Har ri son
,and the officers of the
club were present .
HERE AND THERE
The'
June,’
30,GOLDEN ROD Staff en
tertained the Feb rua ry,
’3 1
,Staff On
March 5 . After a luncheon in the cafeteri a
,they adj ou rned to the l ib ra ry
,
where a round—table discu s s ion was held .
A new traffic squad has been organizedwi th only members of the'
June,’30
,cl as s
a s Officers .On Friday
,Febru a ry 28
,after the in
terclass basketba ll game, the studentsenjoyed an hou r and a half of dancing, anew feature which i s hoped wil l continue.
Motion pi ctu res of the Quincy-
.Beverlyand the Quincy—B rockton footbal l gameswere s hown on March 5 by Mr . HaroldLyon. The pictu res were taken by Ha rrison Fiske
,a graduate of ou r s chool .
Between 40 and 50Quincy Seni or H ighSchool science students trouped intoM . I . T . recently to hea r Prof . John W .
Bunker speak on“From Molecule to
lVlan.
”
24 THE GOLDEN—ROD
Radio p rograms are being receiveddu ring the lunch periods, in the as semblyhall, as an experiment for the rel ief Ofcongested conditions in the cafeteria .A new electri c automatic bookkeeping
and bi l l ing machine has been installed inthe commerci a l depa rtment.Herbert Hanson of the June
,
’
30,clas s
has succeeded Donald Fai rfield,who
gradu ated in the Februa ry,
’30
,cl as s
,as
concert master of the fi rs t orchestra . He
has taken les sons on the violin for sevenyea rs .
HON OR ROLL FOR TH E QUARTER EN D IN GJAN UARY 24
,1930
FEBRUARY,1930
Highest Honors
Ruth KossPauline PavanJohn PinkhamEdith SilvermanJohn Walsh
Honors
Esther LindbergSy lvia LockeI sabel MacBurnieAlbert ShermanMary SimmonsBernice SmithRobert SternesIrene StoneIoneWell sMorion Wil liams
JUNE,1930
Highest Honors
Hilja MalstromVera MattsonAvice MortonKenneth RyderDorothy Squire
Honors
Edward KirklandDagmar LindbergCatherine LongEdith Luomala
McCarthyBernadette Mc\VeeneyAliceLil lian PearceAlice RahkoAaron RedcayJosephine SalvucciEvelyn SavardDoris SherriffRuth Spear
JUNE,1930
Highes t Honors
Vel lamo VVilander
Honors
Helen SweetserJean Turnbul l Linwood Young
FEBRUARY,1930
Highest Honors
Helen PolandHarold Slate
Honors
Janet HemingwayEugene N attieDoris RizzeWarren Sil lenEdna SkinnerWarren Sundstrom
JUNE,193 1
Highest Honors
Elizabeth Cornish Bessie MacAulayFlora DiBona Dorothy PrattHelen Lahey
JUNE,1932
Highest Honors
Arthur PeelRobert PutnamHelmi SaariSadye Stein
Honors
Lilla MignaultIrj a Pul lmanDoris RobertsHelen Russel lSarah SargentElizabeth ShieldsRose SilvermanJohn SissonJanet ThompsonDoris Van Bibber
FlorenceWhittemore
Honors
Lois Absalom Florence HameyCarl Anderson Betty KenileyEthel Asnes Sidney KurtzmanMarie Bailey Roger MccormickCarrie Bohlken Marion McSorleyBernice Brown Theodore PoutreeClare Collagan Eleanor RappaportEl len Fagerlund Barbara SomersAnna Fruth Mary VarneyThelma Goode Virginia Wheeler
FEBRUARY,1932
Highest Honors
Helen PeakMartha SchwartzVirginia SpencerBarbara Wal shDorothy Wyman
Honors
Doris LaporteAnna SwensonMabel \Val sh
THE GOLDEN—ROD
June,1902
Herbert Arnold_ i s a profes sor at
Columbi a Univers ity .
Will i am Ca rey i s manager Of the Con
tinental Store, Boston.
Mary Ferguson i s an instructor ofGymnastics at Perkins Institute for the
Blind .
John _Smith i s an attorney- at—law in
Quincy .
June, l9 16
Mr . James H i lton Marr, after havingspent a yea r ab road, studying musicunder Mons ieu r Phil ipp, has resumed hisduties as mus ical di rector and teacher atSaint Mark’s School, Southboro, Mas sachusetts .
Helen Rogers was marrled to Will iamRockfort in November .
June,19 17
'
Mr . and Mrs . Webster W. Pierceannounced the birth of a daughter, bornJanuary 22, 19 30, in N ew York .
June,19 19
Ma rj orie Cole, as s i s tant in I llu s trationand Costume Des ign to C . HowardWalker at the School of Fine Arts and
Crafts, Boston, of which she i s a gradu ate
,i s al so doing free- l ance adverti s ing
drawingJune
,1920
Mr . J . H . Bartlett graduated withhonor from N ortheastern Univers ity in
1924. He was awa rded the degree ofB achelor Of C ivi l Engineering. Subse
quently he regi stered in the School of Artsand Sciences of Harvard Univers ity,where he was awarded the Master of
C Erickson
25
Arts degree two yea rs ago. He studiedin Germany on the Parker Fel lowshipfrom Harva rd
,and at present i s at Oxford
Univers ity,Cambridge, Engl and . Upon
his retu rn he wi l l be a candidate atHa rva rd for the Ph. D . degree.
June, l921
Reginald Hanson graduated from Dartmouth
,1926. He i s working with the
N ew England Telephone and TelegraphCompany, in the Traffic Department.He married Mis s Ethel Wins low of
Lowel l,Mas sachusetts
,Februa ry 22
,
1930.
Dorothy Prout i s married to Mr .Daniel Ford
, J r .Heslys
- Southerl and and GladysFletcher were married in November .
June,1922
Geraldine Hans on graduated from the
Keene N orma l School, New Hampshire,
and i s now teaching grammar school inHartford
,Connecticut .
Leon Prior i s p res ident Of the YoungPeople’s Fellowship
,Chri st Chu rch .
June, l923
Bernice Fredett announced her engagement to Robert Crooks , Brookline. Ashower was recently tendered her by herfriends of Atlantic . She will l ive in
Seattle.
Al i ce Goodhue i s mu s ic instructor atSouth Junior H igh School .
February; 1924
E leanor Poulin was married to HaroldStoddard in January .
June,1924
Chri stine Lints i s head of the Ci rcul a
26 THE GOLDEN—ROD
tion Bookkeeping Depa rtment of the
Quincy Evening N ews .
Phyll i s Mosman teaches the pianoand plays the organ in the Union Congregational Chu rch .
Agnes Cunningham,working for the
Western E lectric Company, New York,announced her engagement to Jack Floodof R ichmond H i l l
,N ew York .
Dorothy Hall was married to EverettKinghorn, an employee of the Grani teTrust Bank
,Quincy .
Mildred Wood graduated from Forsythe Dental School and i s working as adental hygieni s t for a Boston dentis t .
Februa ry,1925
l\4rs . Lester Coffin (E l izabeth Mor ri s ) ,wi th her husband and baby daughter,Ruth
,has recently moved to Quincy from
N antucket I sl and,where she has l ived
s ince thei r marri age.
Ruth Johnson i s teaching in the F rancisPa rker School
,Woll aston.
Gunna r Geolotte, Harva rd, 1929,i s
now l iv ing in N ew York,Where he i s
employed by the N ational Ani l ine Chemical Company, lea rning the bu s ines s ofForeign Trade.
.Myrtle Campbell i s working at the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation .
Henry Ru ssel l i s a Senior at Tu ftsCollege.
Wil l iam Tarlox,lVl . I . T.
,1929 , i s em
ployed at Fore R iver as a draftsman inN ava l Archi tectu re.
Alexander Souden,M .
-I . T.
,1929
,
received a graduation schol arship in
E lectro Chemical Engineering, and ex
peets to receive his M . A. degree in June.
June, l925
Chandler Ryder i s in hi s Junior yea rat Univers ity of N ew Hampshi re.
Ruth Sawtel le was married to Gilberth/lason Loth rop, Feb ruary 6, 1930. Mis sSawtelle was a Chu rch News editor ofthe Patriot Ledger, and i s to continue herwork on that paper . Late in January hers i ster
,Helen
,also of June
,1925
,married
F red Mason, and i s l iving in Connecti cut .
Vi rgini a Ca rvil le,who received her
A . B . degree from Radcl iff e l ast June,i s
now studying at the graduate" school Ofthe Univers ity of Wiscons in.
Mary Da rrah i s a teacher at the JohnHancock School, Quincy .
John Hofferty i s enrolled in the gradu ate
_ school of Boston Univers ity,after
receiving hi s A. B . degree from there.
Anna May Kimball,a graduate of the
Forsythe Dental School, Boston, i s an
as s i s tant to Doctor Dempsey .
Vera Persion i s working for her A. M .
degree at Columbi a graduate school .Ca rmel Deady i s teaching at the Wil
lard School .John Fai rbanks
, Jr.
,i s a Senior at
Annapoli s .Evelyn Hanson i s wi th the Bos ton
Consol idated Gas Company, QuincyB ranch .
Cl a rence J . Mattson subcessfully pas sed
government examinations,received hi s
l icense for Radio Operator, and now hastaken up hi s duties at N atucket .
February,1927
Sylvia Carl son and Mildred Johnson
g raduated from Bridgewater N ormalSchooL
R . I . Raynor, a member of the AlphaSigma Phi fraterni ty, i s on the Dean’sLi s t at Middlebury Col lege, Middlebu ry,Vermont .
June,1927
JohnMartin i s attending theUnivers ityof Pennsylvani a .
Ruth L ints i s studying dancing at theNed Wayburn Stud io, Broadway, New
York .
l ’aul Reardon received an appointmentfor theH arva rd Debating Team .
Viola El’Hatton,now at Pos sen N i s sen,
i s a member of the Basketball team .
Lucille Cook wi l l graduate in Junefrom the Lesley School in Cambridge,Mas sachusetts, completing a three yearKinderga rten Training Cou rse.
Dick Reynolds i s at Boston College.
Edmund C arey i s a Junior at BostonCollege.
28 THE GOLDEN- ROD
Jean Mitchel l i s tra ining to be a nurseat the Quincy Ci ty Hospi tal .Frances Raymond i s attending Sim
mons College.
Marga ret Quinn i s enrolled at theHyanni s N ormal School .Hazel Ramsey i s s tudying at the
Framingham N ormal School .Ruth Gilma rtin i s a F reshman atBu rdett’s Col lege, and Art editor of theschool magazine.
June,1929
J ames h/lurphy i s wi th Kennedy’s of
Quincy .
Mauri ce Hughes i s at the Quincy Savings Bank .
Helen Bostrom,Hazel Coll ins
,Phyll i s
E . Countway, and Mildred Tinney are
attending Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial School
,Boston.
Helen Malcolm ranks fi rst in the Freshman Cl a s s at Oberlin College.
Donald Fos s i s working for Willi amFilene Company, Boston.
Chester Dahl i s working for Lee, Higginson Company, Boston.
John Ca rey is a F reshman at BostonCollege.
Will iam Paterson i s attending N ortheastern.
E l izabeth Shaw and Fanny Stenborgare at Bu rdett Bus ines s College, Boston.
Veronica McGillicudy i s in tra ining atthe Carney Hospital .
Feb ru a ry,1930
Dorothy Melendy is at the ColbySchool . for Gi rl s
,N ew London
,New
Hampshi re.
Merriel Kimball i s attending school inManchester, New H ampshi re, before en
tering Smith College.
Alph Peterson has gone to SouthAmerica .
John Pinkham i s travel l ing in Eu ropefor two months .Loui se Locke
,
’27; JeanMitchell, F.
’29 ;
Vi rginia Peck, J.
’28; Helen Hodgekinson,
F.
’
30,andWinefred Van Raalte recently
put on the sketch,And the Lamp Went
Ou t,
” at the Stunt night of Woll astonAs sembly
,Order of the Rainbow .
Beatrice I rwin i s entering Massachusetts General Hospital, Bos ton, in September .Ba rba ra Goward i s taking a speci al
P . G . cou rse for entrance into the Con
servatory of Mus ic, Boston.
Walter Smith i s al so taking a speci alP . G . cou rse for entrance into the Conservatory of Music, at Utica, New York .
Will i am Bartlett,Ruth Bigoness, Evan
geline Bryon,Alma Burges s, Gertrude
Cl ancy,Catherine Coch rane
, Ab rahamCohen
,Catherine Di Panfilo
,Emily
Dixon,Anne Dunlavy
,E l izabeth Dun
l avy,Grace Garl and
,Mary Harcou rt
,
Helen Johnson,Kermit Kimball
,Ruth
Koss,Walter N i sul a
,Merlyn R ichardson
,
Signe Siitonen,John Walsh
,I rene Wei se
,
Iona Well s,Dann Wyman
,and Irving
York are taking Post Graduate Cou rses .
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AS OTHERS SEE US
TH E SCREECH OWL”—Maynard H ighSchool, Maynard, Mas s .You r paper i s so superior that it i sdifficu lt to extract any pa rticu la r featurefor commendation. You r cuts are cer
tainly a big attraction.
“GAZETTE”— Lynn Cl as s ical H igh School,Lynn Mass .
The Cafeteri a Addres s, modeled on
L incoln’s Gettysbu rg Addres s , i s veryclever . We enj oyed A Singula r Interlude
,
”a story which required an intense
imaginati on to write.
“TH E MI RRo-R”
-Waltham H igh School ,Waltham
,Mass .
The poems,
“The Tale of the Cafeteria” and
“A Summer Sunset,
” were ex
cellent,as
,indeed, we found the enti re
magazine. We were pleased to find thatyou r conception of the “Ideal Teacher
”
corresponds wi th ou r views . The headings of you r j okes department were veryunique. Your Alumni section al so deserves much credit .“TH E JABBERWOCK —Gi rl s ’ Latin School ,Boston
,Ma s s .
The arrangement of you r magazine i sgood . The school notes are wel l handled .
You seem to have some outs ide interestfor nea rly everybody . We were disappointed in the meagre l itera ry department. A Singular “Interlude” i s unusualand somewhat wei rd . Its author musthave a rather wi ld imaginati on. Youhave a very l a rge humor departmentwi th a good number of amus ing j okes .You r athletic department i s al so wel lhandled .
TH E OU -I LL Kingston H igh School ,Kingston,
Mass .The
“GOLDEN ROD of Qumcy 1s a very
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dis tinctive magazine. The poem,A
Summer Sunset,”
lS especi ally beauti fu l .Thi s magazine has a good Exchange
“
,and
numerous,exceptionally clever j okes .
“TH E DEER F IELD ARROW”— Deerfield
H igh School , South Deerfield,Mas s .
A very interes ting paper . You r alumnisection i s strikingly good . Congratul ations to the author of “Misfortunes of aQofa Sheik .
”
TH E MAGN ET Leominster H ighSchool
,Leomins ter
,Mass .
The GOLDEN ROD” of Quincy H igh
School shows the school Spi rit and activityof the s tudents in every depa rtment . Thes chool news section especi al ly revea l s theinteres t taken in many activities . Theeditori als are timely and thoughtful , andthe poetry, too, i s good . I t i s one of thel ivel iest magazines I have read .
“TH E TR IPOD” Thornton Academy,
Saco,Maine.
We uphold the GOLDEN ROD as an
example of what a school magazine shouldbe. E ach Of your numerous departments i s well a rranged, and highly developed . We bel ieve
,however
,that photos
of you r va rious school bu ild ings wouldadd to you r magazine’s attractivenes s .Al s o
,we have reason to bel ieve that a
hi story of you r school would be an interes ting subject to include in a futu republication.
TH E RED AN D WH ITE —Rochester H ighSchool, Rochester, N ew Hampshi re.
Congratulations to the writer Of theunique story
,
“A Singul a r Interlude, in
your June i s sue. We found you r Cl a s sCensu s andMemories extremely interesting, even though its graduates were un
known to us . The pictures and cartoonsadd greatly to you r paper, but we advi semore l itera ry work and poetry .
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TH E ABIS —Abington H igh School,North Abington,
Mass .Your cover des ign i s excel lent . You r
l i tera ry depa rtment 18 good, but couldn’t
you give les s space to soci al activities andthe Alumni department and more to the
l itera ry materi a l produced by you rstudents ? Could you have a speci a l departmental heading for poetry ? If youcannot
,would it not be a good idea to put
i t al l together at the end of the l iterarydepa rtment ?
The School N ews depa rtment gives u sa very fine idea of you r school activities .I s there no way in which you could use
the extra space at the end of the department ?
You r Alumni department i s conci se,you r Sport department interesting, and
you r jokes aie spi cy . Your magazine i sal ready a highly succes s ful one.
AS WE SEE OTHERS
SH UTTLE —H igh School of PracticalArts
,Boston
,Ma s s .
Vou r cuts are excel lent . We suggestan Alumni Column and more originalj okes . The poem entitled
,
“The Lexing
ton Goes Out,
” shows real talent .HARPOON
” —Dartmouth H igh School,
N ew Bedford,1\
’
las s .A well edited l ittle magazine. Your
poetry depa rtment seems to be rather aone man
'
affa i r . Vv’e suggest confiningall y our adverti sements to one section.
“QU ILL”— Kingston H igh School,King
ston,M as s .
You r magazine i s most enj oyable. We
certa inly admi re your poets . A more ex
tens ive Joke Depa rtment would be an
improvement .“CON Y CU E
” —Cony H igh School, Augusta
,M aine.
Thi s Maine magazine i s j us t bubblingover wi th school spi rit . Votre Depa rtment F ranca is est tré s inté resant . We
l ike your cuts .“HOM E S PUN ” Senior H igh School ,Greensboro
,North Ca rol ina .
We have nothing but prai se for you .
You r skil l ful ly a rranged pages portrayunusual talent .
-W€St BorOn h H igh School ,\Vestboro,
Mass .
A wel l organized magazine. Yourdepa rtment headings are clever . Whynot enl a rge you r Exchange Department?“JABBERWOCK” Girls ’ Latin School
,
Boston,Mass .
Your L i tera ry Department i s well_
de
veloped. Why not indulge in more j okes ,and add a la rger Exchange?“PAD AN D PEN C IL —Chandler Secretari alSchool
,Boston
,Ma s s .
Another fine publ ication from Chandlers . The author of the poem,
“Things ILove
,
” i s to be congratulated . You r veryoriginal j okes were much appreci ated .
“BROWN AN D GOLD”—Haverh il l H ighSchool, Haverhill, Mas s .Your ini tia l effort i s a pra i seworthy
one. In time,we expect you will have a
L i tera ry Column. Arewe right ? DO you
pl an to have an Exchange?“SCREECH OWL
” —Mayna rd H igh School,Mayna rd
,Mass .
From front to back yel low cover you rfootball number was most enj oyable.
Your story writers understand the a rt,
and you r “Pickings”are indeed choice.
“K1LLON IAN ” —Killingly H igh School ,Daniel son
,Connecticut .
We think more s tories and poems1
'
ould improve you r magazine. Where i syou r Exchange.
HERM IAD” — H ingham H igh School,
H ingham,lVlass .
You r departments are rather meager.We suggest more editoria l s . The addingof Exchange and Alumni Departmentswould help.
“lVH ITTI ER TOWN—SEN TIN EL —AmesburyH igh School, Amesbury, Mass .What a lot of fine materi al i s contained
in the fou r pages of you r alert“Sentinel .
“Va riety i s the spice of l ife, as your
paper proves . Why not add a story ortwo ?“SEM APH ORE — Stoughton H igh School ,Stoughton, Mass .You rs i s a very original magazine. The
Li tera ry Depa rtment could be enl arged toadvantage. We advi se a more extens iveExchange.
“SPAULD IN G SENTIN EL — Spaulding H ighSchool
,Barre
,Vermont.
You r publ ication was most enterta in
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ing. You r l iterary Department deservesspec1al ment1on.
“TATTLER” N ashua H igh School,
N ashua,Mas s
You r stories have distinction,but
where, Oh where are your poets ? YourExchanges are wel l written.
“RED AN D BLACK” —Dorchester H ighSchool for Boys
,Dorchester
,Mass .
The news wri te—ups show that youhave very competent editors . Why not
put some of“those arti s ts” to work mak
ing cuts for your magazine?We looked invain for Exchange and A lumni Depa rtments .“AER IAL —J. M . Atherton H igh Schoolfor Gi rl s
,Loui svil le
,Kentucky .
You r bi-weekly paper is excel lent, considering its frequent publication. We en
joyed every one of your clever stories .“B . C . S. Bishop
’s College School ,Lennoxvi lle
,Quebec .
F rom Quebec comes thi s l ively PrepSchool” magazine. We were immedi atelyimpres sed by its s ize. And on reading i t,we received many more pleas ant su r
pri ses . Your pictu res and cuts are at
tractive,and you r poems original . It i s
one of the most profes s ional magazineswhich we receive.
“HUNTIN GTON RECORD HuntingtonSchool
,Boston
,Mass .
A newsy bi—weekly paper . Why not
comment on some of you r long l i st ofexchanges ? Your j okes are spi cy .
“GAZETTE” —Lynn Cl as s ical H igh School,Lynn
,Mass .
As fine a p1ece of humor a s one couldhope for ! We especi ally appreci atedNumber 9999 or Sus ie Ann Goes Skating.
”Every depa rtment in thi s wel l
a r ranged magazine was enj oyable.
“TH E COUR IER” Hyde Park HighSchool
,Hyde Park
,Mass .
Some original depa rtment heading cutswould be a great improvement to yourpubl-icationu We suggest an Exchange !NODDLER
i i
f EaSt Boston H igh School,
E ast Boston,Mass .
Your publication i s one of the best thatwe have received thi s time. The L i teraryDepartment fai rly took our b reath away .
3 1
Frank Bonzagni’
s sense of humor wasmuch apprecIated. You r cuts are the“l a st word .
”
ITEM ” —Dorchester H igh School for
Girl s,Dorchester
,Mass .
We l ike your magazine, especi al ly the
s tories . Your “personal s are exceedingly original . I sn
’t you r Exchange D e
partment rather meager ?DEERFIELD A
'
RROuW” — Deerfield H igh
School,South Deerfield
,Mass .
A few pi ctu res and original cuts wouldimprove your otherwise splendid magazine. Why not comment on more of you rlong l i s t of Exchanges ?“ENTERPRISE” Keene H igh School
,
Keene,New Hampshi re.
We await with impatience the next instal lment of your continued story . Yourcuts
,are attractive.
“SWAM P SCOTTA
”Swampscott High
School,Swampscott, Mass .
We found many interesting things inth i s number . Your very unique L itera ryDepartment was most attractive.
“TR IPOD” Thornton Academy,Saco,
Maine.
Yours i s a fine magazine. We especi
ally l ike you r poetry and you r wideawake editorial s . Keep up the goodwork !“MAGN ET —Leominster H igh School
,
Leominster,Mass .
We congra tul ate the competent staff ofthi s magazine. You r L itera ry Offeringsare commendable
,and your editoria l s wel l
done. We were interested in you r pictu res and cuts .“M H . S. ORACLE —Manchester H ighSchool
,Manchester
,
'Mass .
We almost feel a s though we have j u stbeen abroad, after reading you r splendida rticles on so many countries of the
world . We l ike your Book Notes . You rcuts are original and add much to yourfine magazine.
We wi sh to acknowledge the fol lowing :
TH E OGDEN SBU RG ACADEM Y”
Ogdensburg Academy, Ogdensbu rg, N . Y .
TH E HEBRON ITE”—Hebron
,Nebra ska .
TH E RIN DGE REGISTER” —Rindge Technical School
,Cambridge, Mas s .
32 THE GOLDEN—ROD
Please excuse us fornaming Super Mui r abasketbal l captain in
place of Bob Mattson.
But these two are suchclose companions ! It wasa regrettable mistake.
Capt. Gordon Donnan attributes hi ssucces s a s a track man to the fact thathe i s a woman hater . Some of you fai rdamsel s may not agree with me, but j u stask “Moonbeam” about the week he
Spent at Ba rnstable. Shame on you,“Moonbeam
,
” treating the ladies so .
Will someone please make a donation !There i s a movement on foot to buy a“
pony for Mike Kurti s to go with hisnew POLO SHIRT . Maybe Mike got
some ins ide information from “Doc”
Whiting about starting a Polo team,and
has been practicing on that saw horsethat has been seen in hi s back ya rd .
Some cl a s s to the Blue and White re
lay team ! They broke the cl as s B recordof 3 minutes and 1 second for miles
,
by second . The order of the rel aymen was : Ed. Galvin, Cushman, NormieSipple, and Stan Marland .
We expect to see Ea rl Lantery out forthe b road jump thi s sp ring. Hope he
does a s wel l in the j ump as in cros scountry two yea rs ago.
Jimmy LeCain s ays thebes t exerci se,anywhere
,any time, for conditioning, i s
running . COME OUT FOR TRACK,
YOU FELLOWS !Donnan andConolly ought to go strongfor the pole- vault as wel l a s the jumpthi s spring .
John Iovanna i s one of ou r bestpromises in wres tl ing. We expect to see
him as ou r full- back next fal l on the
gridi ron.
Toots Bowers i s showing abil ity in
wrestling as he did in basketb all .
Peewee Dunbar,ou r wres tler, has
vi s ions of tu rning pro. Here’s to hi smatch with the Strangler .Now that bus ses are running in
Squantum,Chet wi l l get out Of tra ining
not having to run for the“Toonervi lle.
TSK! TSK!
Ed. Kirkland promises to be the fastestqua rter-miler Quincy has seen .
Cherro, fellows ! How are you ? Me?
Oh! I ’m fine. What did you think of
the past basketball season, huh ? Wasn’t
so bad,but the second team had a better
record than the fi rs t .The bugle and drum corps which the
N autical Training School b rought withthem were small
,but
,Oh! my ! what
noise they made. They were good, and
su rely drowned out ou r own band .
What wi ll Quincy High do next yea rwhen the basketball team wi l l be with
THE GOLDEN—ROD
out the services of Bob Mattson,
“Super
” Muir,Red Hal loran
,
“Toots”Bowers
,Bucky” McGuinness
,Art
Ol into,
Beema”Pollegrini, and Jim
Mckenna !I wonder i f the resu lts of any of the
games lost would have been different i fToots Bowers had pl ayed all season?Although “Toots was a bea r on the
defense in a ll the games, I bet he couldn’t
keep“Bi ll ie” Cl a rk covered . Why ?
Because he’d be admi ring her all the
time. (Pers onally, I wouldn’t blamehim . )Speaking of the gi rl s, I think some Of
them could havemade the va rs ity . How
would you l ike to see“Bil lie” Cl a rk and
“Happy
” Blowers forwards,
Chickie”
Reeves center,and Chri s Mes senger and
Cl a i re McDonald guards , go up againstthe Medford or Watertown va rs ity ?Wel l
,fel lows
,a wrestl ing team has
been s tarted here. Many Of the holdslearned will come in handy in the summer
,when a “young man
’s thoughts turnl ightly to love.
In the first wres tling meet, againstN eedham at Needham
,Quincy was the
victor, 50—25 . Not so awful for be
ginners , what?I f the gi rl s
"game had been a beauty
contest, which team would have won i fyou were the j udge? Thi s i s another onefor Solomon.
Although the Student Counci l wasthinking seriou sly Of having dancingevery Friday afternoon in the gym,
thi swon’t be s tarted unti l next year . Thi s i sdue to the late ending of Lent thi s Yea r .The s tudents enthu s i astically endorsedbasketball thi s yea r . Let’s do a s muchfor basebal l and track . Are you will ing ?
Medford, Watertown,N orwood
,and
Brockton al l conquered Quincy on thecou rt twice this yea r . (The vars ity, notthe seconds . )I f any of the gymnas ium apparatus i s
marked, defaced, or inju red, it will onlyserve to prove that the battery candidateshave been working out there.
“Doc
”Whiting has been A. W. O. L .
3 3
for some time. He i s seriou sly il l at hi shome in Abington. This l ittle man
, whouses all kinds of five syllable words
,i s
mi ssed a great deal .Art Ol into i s als o confined to hi s homebecause of s icknes s . Everyone knows Artand hi s smile. We hope he’l l retu rn toschool soon. Art i s j u st the type of fel
low who hates to stay away from school,
i f you can imagine such a person.
Did you l ike the dancing held in the
gym after the championship intercla s sbasketbal l contests ?Many of the fel lows trying out for
pi tcher are now s orry that they didn’ttake Jimmy LeCain’s advice to go ea syfor the fi rst few days . Every time theymove thei r a rms
,it hurts .
The mercurichrome bil l i s going to increase rapidly s ince wrestl ing has beenintroduced here. Every day a few fel lowsget bu rns , and I gues s they sting. Whydoesn’t some geniu s appear and invent as i lk—covered mat for these futu re Sonnenbergs ?In track practice, Calvin i s going out,
out, out, in the broad jump, and Donnarii s going up, up, up, in the pole vault .Quincy should have a p retty good trackseason
,for things look bright .
The traffic cops, Terry and Dave,
standing on the second floor su re do comeinto contact with a great many people.
Sometimes a l i ttle forcefully !The final school bell of the day means
P M . to some people but not topupi l s in Miss Gallaher
’s home room .
We haven’t had a fire dril l for sometime, have we? I think we should havetherrimore Often
,ju st to keep 1n trim .
Figu res of despai r, members of the
Golden Rod staff writing up al l thei rmaterial two days before it i s due.
Las t yea r Quincy H igh won two basebal l games . We all hope for a betterseason thi s yea r, and I know we’re going to have it.
I f you think Art Shi res i s fu ll ofegoti sm, you should hea r one or twofel lows who attend thi s school . One i sal ready first- s tring qua rterback on nextyea r’s football team (according to him
34 THE GOLDEN—ROD
sel f) , while the other greets you withthi s riddle : “Wh o i s the best basketballpl ayer in Quincy H igh, and why am I ?”
I sn’t it a wonderful sens ation to s itdreamily in a cla s s room and think of thesummer vacation coming nearer e veryday ? But when the teacher s ays “
Now
Somebody, you may reci te the nexttheorem
,
”
you forget the vacation.
Did you see the Springfield Col lege
gym team perform here? If so,what
did y ou think of them ? Didn’t al l themen on it have marvel ou s phys iques ?Speaking of physiques , I
’d l ike to
pos ses s the one that belongs to Bil l Sull ivan. What a build !I f you are reading these things in you r
neighbor’s Golden Rod
,kindly give i t
back to him and buy one of you r own. Idon’t wi sh to be s a rcas tic
,but if you
pupi l s wi sh to have a school magazine,you must support it .Gee
,fel lers
,what do you think some of
these teachers would do to u s if theyfound out thei r ni cknames ? I gues smany more pupil s would flunk, anyway .
Have you ever noticed that al l thewi se—cracking teachers are s cience teachers
,or vice vers a ?
See you next i s sue,huh? Adios .
SPORTETTTE
Evidently sp ring i s here, and wi thspring not only flowers but track appea rs .“Oui
,mons ieur . Girl ’s track ! “Why !”
Of cou rse not . Wewea r ou r regular gymuni forms .” “It’s respectable.
”
We expect many flou ri shing candidatesto come out for thi s sport . Try it, anyway. H idden powers may be found inba shful l i ttle you (sometimes they are
very hidden) . One word,
-when youcome out, run as if you were runningfrom a “timid” bul l
,and when you jump,
jump a s if the neighbor’s dog had caught
you borrowing apples . Al s o,L ittle
Ones,don’t be bashfu l . Close your eyes
and no one wi l l see you . Bes ides run
ning, there are shot put (4 pounds ) ,broad j ump (yes , gi rl s j ump) , baseball
throw,basketbal l th row
,etc . (lots Of
etc. )Bye the bye, did you notice the
technique in basketball of the soon- to—beseniors
,and the high and haughty low
seniors ? “We wonder if they broketra ining. Keep i t up, gi rl s , we want tosee more of you . You ’l l have to admit,boys
,that they were pretty good . Pretty
s oon they’l l be pl aying the B—B—B- B rockton Girls . Please excuse the stutter ing.
The “Lucky” gi rl s wil l receive thei r
coveted letters (not thei r boy friend’s
letters ) . Be seriou s . We were sorry tosay that
,j udging by emotions di s
pl ayed after the game, the Seniors tookit hard . It was dampweather inside thatafternoon. Don’t feel badly
, gi rl s .The Bowl ing Team was a howl ing succes s . So would you be, i f you got hit byone of those miss i les . The conquerorswere the H igh Seniors .Why aren’t these bowl ing matches
patronized ? They are held over at theY . M . C . A.
The Swimming Team ei ther got
drowned or doesn’t l ike to be all wetIt has enti rely di s appea red Evi
dently the gi rl s couldn’t brave the waters
of the Y . W . C . A.
Basebal l opens soon,too. Try this
al so. l\’1aybe we’ve got a new hidden
Babe Ruth or such, who knows
BASEBALL
Battery candidates have been workingout in the gymnas ium dai ly after schools ince March 3 . As soon as the weatherpermits , the infielders and outfielders wi l lbe called out . E ight veterans , headedby Capta in- elect Pellegrini , are returningfrom l a s t yea r’s squad . The schedule,which i s a rather ha rd one
, fol lows :April 29—Abington at Quincy .
May 2—Braintree at Quincy .
6—Open.
May 9—Milton at Quincy .
May l3—Brockton at Brockton.
May lo—Thayer Academy at Quincy .
.\lay 20—Abington at Abington.
May 23—Open.
Mav 27— llingham at Quincy .
36 THE GOLDEN—ROD
Offers a chance to every boy in the s chool .Coach MacDonald gave a summons forcandidates
,and about s ixty—five boys
s igned up. Not all of these showed upfor practice, however . Our coach hasa rranged meets on a home and homebas i s with Needham and Watertown
,
there being fou r matches altogether .
WE MEET NEEDHAM
The fi rst match in ou r hi story ofwrestling was held at Needham
,Friday
,
lVIarch 7. Quincy was victoriou s,win
ning ten of the fi fteen bouts . The finalscore was 50—25 . Time given wasseven minutes . The best bout of the
meet was won by Jenkins of Quincy infou r minutes with an a rm and body hold .
“Toots” Bowers was the cau se of the
fas test match,throwing Chamberla in of
Needham in fifteen seconds . Bowers alsoshowed upwel l in basketball thi s yea r .Lel and Anderson of Quincy acted asreferee
,while Phil Claxton and Frank E .
M acDonald were j udges .
RES UME OF MATCHES AT
NEEDHAMUnlimited Class—Volpe (Q. ) threw Hatch (N . )
with a body and arm hold . Time: Three minutes .165—Pound Class—Spark (N . ) threw Kurtis
(Q. ) with a crotch and half—Nel son. Time : Oneminute.
160- Pound C lass—Ivvanna (Q. ) threw Egan
(N . ) with a body and arm hold . Time : Threem1nutes.
lSS-Pound Clas s- Kimball (N . ) threw Hall(Q. ) with a body hold . Time : Four minutes .150-Pound Class—Lund (Q. ) threw Maloney
(N . ) with a body hold . Time : 15 seconds .ISO-Pound C lass—Starkweather (N . ) threw
Nattie (Q. ) with an arm and body hold . Time :
Five minutes .140-Pound Class -Walker (Q. ) threw Nulhern
(N . ) with an arm and body hold . Time : Twominutes .l35-Pound Class—Sprague (Q. ) threw West
(N . ) with an arm and body hold . Time : Oneminute. 30 seconds .135-Pound Clas s—Jenkins (Q. ) threw Hasenas
(N . ) with a half-Nel son and body hold . TimFour minutes . 30 seconds .lZS-Pound Class (N . ) threw Hil l
(Q. ) with an arm and body hold . Time : Fourminutes .llS- Pound Class—Patten (Q. ) threw Hal l (N . )
with an arm scissors . Time: Three minutes .1 15—Pound C lass—Adom (Q. ) threw Derderean
(N with a body hold . Time : Two minutes .100—Pound C lass—Di Christoferio (Q. ) threw
Gambil (N . ) with a half-Nel son and body hold .
Time : Two minutes,30 seconds .
lOO- Pound Class—L . Nuthem (N threw Dun
bar (Q. ) with an arm scissors . Time : Threeminutes .
(Q. ) threw Hagopian
WRESTLING
Quincy met Watertown in the Quincy
gym,Friday
, the 14th. The Watertownteam looked big, but ou r fea rs were s oondispel led when we found out that thi s i sa game of skil l rather than strength .
The Blue and White won i ts second vic
tory Of i ts ca reer, 22A to 17/2“Toots” Bowers gave a fine exhib ition
Of wrestl ing, al so a short one, the timebeing 48 seconds . Patten of Quincy also
portrayed skill in thi s old art .Mike Kurtis i s resorting to what he
lea rned in football— the flying tackle.
Iovanna,ourmost promis ing candidate,
defeated Pappas of Watertown after amost exci ting battle, both contestantsshowing skill in executing many holds .Iovanna won
,after a hard tus s le
,with a
crotch and body hold .
Quincy’s next meet i s wi th Needhamat Quincy
,F riday
,March 21 . Phil
Cl axton,former Quincy phys ica l instruc
tor,wil l have his wrestl ing team here for
the retu rn meet .The summary of the matchesUnlimited Class—Hegman (W. ) threw Volpe(Q. ) with a crotch and half—Nelson. Time : Fourminutes . 30 seconds .l65—Pouncl Clas s—Kurtis (Q. ) threw Egan (W. )
with a crotch and body hold . Time : Three minutes . 55 seconds .lSS—Pound Class—Iovanna (Q. ) threw Pappas
with a crotch and half-Nel son. Time : Twominutes . 38 seconds .145-Pound Class—Southworth (Q. ) threw :\Ic
Namara (W. ) with a half-Nel son and crotch.
Time : Three minutes , 10 seconds .“ 135-Pound Class—Kalafatis (W. ) threw Gheradi(Q. ) with a half—Nelson and body hold . Time :Four minutes
,10 seconds .
lZS—Pound Clas s—Bonom1
THE GOLDEN—ROD
—AND N ow COME S wrap,
H IGH scnooe W RE ST LJ N G
W lTH ASTON‘SHlNG RESULT S
(W. ) with a half-Nel son and crotch hold . Time :Three minutes, 47 seconds .105- Pound Clas s—Paulero (W ) threw Di Cris
tafero (Q. ) withs an arm scissors and body hold .
Time : Three minutes . 36 seconds .95-Pound C lass—Kel ly (Q. ) and Johnsondraw. Time: Five minutes .Coach M acDonald al so gave us the
pleasu re of seeing an exhib ition matchbetween two of Qu incy’s smallestwrestlers
,Peewee Dunbar and L ind
berg . Dunba r wonthe match .
Tommy Record of Weymouth refereed,
and“Stud” Johnson of Qu incy was time
keeper .
BASKETBALL
Quincy sta rted off on the right road byconquering Mass achusetts N a u t i c a 1School
,26— 15 . Quincy didn’t hit its
37
stride unti l the second hal f,but then it
was j u st too bad for those N autical boys .Next, Quincy j ou rneyed to Medford
,and
when the final whi stle blew our team wa son the short end Of a 26— 15 score.
Medford had a very tight defense. Nexton the schedule cameWeymouth . Mattson and Muir were kept out of thi s contes t for the fi rst ha l f
,du ring which our
boys rolled up a 9— 5 lead . Then camethe second half
,and both Bobs” were
inserted . Ere the smoke of the battleclea red away, -Mattson had scored 12
points andMui r 10points, Quincy emerging victorious, 37—15 . The second teamwas defeated
,12—9 .
At Watertown,we were defeated, 20
13,in a very rough game. In sharp con
tra st to thi s game was the game playedby the second teams . The Quincy teamwas running smoothly du ring the enti regame, and won
,17—5 . Johnny B radley
sta r red,scoring 10 points .
Milton H igh was the vi s1ting attractionhere on Tuesday
,Janua ry 21 . Milton
was defeated,33—13 . Strange to s ay,
Milton scored all of its 13 points by caging foul baskets . Fi sher and Halloranwere the big shots in the main game,while Young, Rougvie, and Bradleyscintil lated in the prel iminary game,which Quincy handily won, 24—5 .
Norwood beat Quincy, 22—19 . As thescore indicates
,it was a very close game,
and a heart- breaker for us to lose. Theseconds tu rned the tables
,though, and
vanqui shed Norwood seconds,10— 5 .
Next came B rockton. Oh! What wouldQuincy have given to trai l the Red and
Black in the dust ! But better years arecoming, and that’s no falsehood . It’ssufficient to quietly state that B rocktonwas the victor
,32— 16. Even our second
team lost,27—21 . Never mind
,we’ve
stil l got another chance on Washington’sbi rthday
,
”everybody was thinking. )
N ow,a fellow named “Toots” Bowers
bobbed up in the next game, that one
wi th Milton Academy . What a sweetpl ayer he tu rned out to be ! He played
38 THE GOLDEN - ROD
right guard, and netted 10 points , as didBob Matts on. Thi s was the fi rs t gamewon on an enemy ’s cou rt
,and al so the
fi rst contes t in which Fi sher,Chri stensen
,
and Cha se fa iled to appea r (due to
graduation) . They were . missed , butToots” makes up a lot for them . The
final score was 39— 5 . Milton Academydidn’t net a s ingle basket, scoring 5 fou l
goal s . Bowers also stood out as adefense man.
On Tuesday,Feb ruary 4
,Medford
was ou r guest, and did what no polite
guest would do by taking home a ll thebacon
, the fi rs t team winning, 20—6, andthe second team
,16— 1 1 . Spel lman
s ta rred for hiledford in the former game,whi le Pel legrini was the big shop forQuincy in the cu rtain—ra i ser .
On the following Friday, N orwood
pl ayed in ou r gym. AS happened atN orwood
,the teams b roke even
,ou r fi rst
los ing, 30—24, and the second winning,20—5 . N orwood ’s second team basketted5 fou ls . The big game was a ha rd one
to lose,the winner not being certain unti l
the very end of the game. Many timesthe count was knotted, but N orwoodforged ahead in the l as t few minutes andremained in the lead .
We again defeated hTilton H igh on
thei r cou rt,29— 26. The game was very
close throughout, and we were indeedfortunate to emerge victoriou s .
Lane and M cDermott of Watertownscored too many points to su it u s, so wewere beaten
,3 3—20. Red Halloran was
high scorer for Quincy . The seconds ,headed by Ch
'
et Young and Bud Rougvie,eas ily won
,23— 1 1 . That somewhat
ea sed the smarting caused by the defeatof our vars ity . Capt . Mattson didn
’
t
pa rticipate in thi s game because he
wasn’t feel ing wel l . Let’s hope he takes
pa rt in the next one, though .
On Feb rua ry 1, ou r teams j ou rneyed toWeymouth , both of them coming out on
top,the fi rst 42— 23 and the second 41
20. Both games were more hotly con
S occer
Fa g ba“
tested than the score indicates . TootsBowers and Red Halloran were the leading scorers in the big encounter
,while
Bil l Sull ivan and Pel legrini shone in the
game between the second teams .Now
, folks , l as t but not least, comesthi s game with Brockton on Febru ary 22
,
the second meeting between these teams .As you remember, Brockton ran awaywi th both games before. They camequite close to repeating thi s , too . TheB rockton vars ity won
,28— 23 . Myer and
Baker were high scorers for B rockton,and Bowers and Mattson were the s amefor Quincy . The contest between the
second teams was a wow. At half timethe s core was 2—2
,and when the game
was three—quarters over,Quincy was
leading, 7—6. Then Hurwi tz entered thegame, repl acing Pileski, who had scoredfou r points . (Haven
’t I heard that namePileski before?) Hu rwi tz l ikewi se man
ufactured four points , to put Brockton inthe lead
,10— 9 . With but a few seconds
to go, Bill Sull ivan and Bucky McGuinnes s nonchalantly stepped up to the
foul l ine,in the order named
,and each
sunk hi s attempt . N ext came the whistle.
Final score i s Qu incy seconds , 1 1 ; B rockton seconds
,10. Boy
,what a happy
ending !'
Bud Rougvie basketted four
points in the l atter game, and they cer
tainly were neces s a ry .
Fol lowing i s the summary Of the gamespl ayed :
342 —308Games played, 14: won, 6 ; lost, 8.
Points—For, 342; against, 308.
Here i s the record Of the SecondTeam :
Quincy Seconds 32 2 Mass . Nautical SecondsQuincy Seconds 17 23 Medford SecondsQuincy Seconds 9 12Weymouth SecondsQuincy Seconds 17 5 Watertown SecondsQuincy Seconds 24 5 Milton SecondsQuincy Seconds 15 5 Norwood SecondsQuincy Seconds 21 27 Brockton SecondsQuincy Seconds 1 1 16 Medford SecondsQuincy Seconds 20 5 Norwood SecondsQuincy Seconds 23 1 1 Watertown SecondsQuincy Seconds 41 20Weymouth SecondsQuincy Seconds 11 10 Brockton Seconds
236 —141Games played , 12: won,
8; lost, 4.
Points—For,236; against, 141 .
SCORE RECORDBelow i s l i s ted the number of points
scored by each member of the First andSecond B asketba l l Teams
F IRST TEAMFieldGoals Fouls Points
28 19 7527 7 61
24 1 1 59
15 14 44
“ M . “ 15 6 36
7 7 21
8 3 19
6 2 14
4 0 8
1 1 3
1 0 2
THE GOLDEN—ROD
“ a m m o -m —om m
-. Q O_ - Q~
JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALLThe Quincy H igh Jay-Vees have com
pleted a good season, winning s ix of theeight games pl ayed . Here are the scoresof each contest :Quincy J V . 21 12 Milton Academy SecondsQuincy J . V . 13 18 Milton High Seconds
J . V . 16 8 Vlilton High SecondsJ . V . 26 16 Rockland High SecondsJ . V . 29 19 Central Junior HighQuincy J . V . 1 1 10 Quincy Point Junior HighJ . V . 13 1 1 Braintree High SecondsJ . V . 21 23 Braintree High Seconds
The following boys played on the
team : McMahon,M cArthur
,Schultz,
Petrie,Morgan, Sprague, Hackett, Carter,
N ightingale, D . Moberg, H aynes, and
Sas s .
INTERCLASS BASKETBALL
The June,193 1
,clas s certa inly showed
its superiority when both the gi rl s’and
the boys ’ teams “copped” the intercl as stitles . The June
,193 1, gi rl s subdued the
Febru ary,193 1
, gi rl s , 23— 5 . The gamewas featu red by the sha rpshooting of“Bil lie” Cl a rk
,who gathered 20 points
for her team . What an eye for the
b asket B ill ie has ! Chris Mes sengerand Cl ai re M cDonald, the guards of thevictors
,kept Dot Sharkey and Ethel
Halloran to 5 points,3 of which were
fOuls . The l ineups of each team were:June
,193 1 . Captain
“Happy” Blowers , “Bil lieC lark, ‘Chickie Reeves, Chris Messenger, ClaireMcDonald, Ruth Murphy, Adelaide Chapman,
and I sabel Emslie.
February, 19 3 1 . Captain Dot Sharkey,Dot
McCarthy,Ethel Hal loran. Ruby Dakers
,Pat
Craig. Dot Bedford , Helen Poland, Janet Hemingway. and Iris Gladwin.
Coach WilsonTrack
Doc” Whiting George ClarkBasketbal l Coach
Kindnes s of the News"
CoachFlemingSoccer
42 THE GOLDEN—ROD
The June,193 1
,boys
,as wel l a s the
Feb rua ry,1932
,team
,survived the el im
imation tou rnament. These two teamsplayed for the championship of the boys ’
divi s ion. The game wa s entirely J.
’
3 1,and ended with that team in the van
,
28— 1 1 . Winship and _ Petrie were the
high scorers for the victors , and Haynesportrayed the s ame role for the l osers .The l ineups were as followsJune, 193 1 . Schutlz, McMahon, Smith, Petrie,W’
inship, Hu ssey, andWalker .February, 1932. Jepson. W
'
ickham,Haines ,
Keene,Odom Pyne Anderson. Black, and
Peterson.
Though the‘boys’
gamewas more hotlycontested
,the gi rls
’ teams were muchbetter looking . If “al l’s well that endswel l
,
”the June, 193 1, class must be en
tirely s ati sfied .
ROWING ON THE CHARLES
BERT MACLEOD,June
,
’27
The NI . I . T. boat house i s a good mileand a ha l f up the Charles River from the
Mass achusetts Ins titu te Of Technology .
Its two outstretched floats are easi ly seen
from the Cottage Farm Bridge.
Two yea rs ago nine fellows from all
pa rts of the country were made into afreshman va rs ity crew. Not one Of thesenine fel lows had ever been in a shel lbefore in his l ife
,and over hal f of them
had never seen a crew race. All Of theseboys showed up when freshman crewcandidates were cal led out to see what“crew was a l l about.” Interested in the
novel ty of rowing, thi s very green crewmateri al entered into the competition and
conscientiou sly tried to learn the rowinggame.
Now,rowing i s not as easy a s i t looks .
A rae1ng shel l i s s ixty feet long, and onlya foot and a ha lf wide. A craft of suchextremely long l ines i s very ha rd to
balance, especi al ly when each fellow i s
s itting above thewater l ine. Anyonewhohas had any experience with a
' canoereal izes the uns teadines s of the craftwhen one s its in any pl ace but in the verybottom of the boat . A racing shel l i s fivetimes longer and not one b it wider. E ightgreen oa rsmen and a green coxswain hada fine time trying to manage a fourteenfoot oar in a wiggley, wobbley boat”Yet these totally inexperienced rowing
enthus ias ts worked at it pers i stently andmade their freshman vars ity boat . The
fi rst trip was to Princeton to row a mileand—five- s ixteenths- race (rowing’s shortest race) , which at the l as t minute turnedout to be a two mile aff ai r, a total lydifferent p ropos ition, infinitely more
g ruel l ing . The time tri a l at Princeton,two days before the fi rs t race, was a trialnever to be forgotten by nine parti cularfell ows . For the first time in thei r livesthey rowed for more than a mile and ahalf at a racing s troke. The race itselfwas l os t by a la rge margin, over eightlengths . Each and every man in thatfreshman vars ity boat, with the exceptionof the
“cox
,
” swore that he would neveragain go out for crew,
once this yearwasover . A highly dejected crowd boardedthe home going tra in on a very wet and
dismal evening.
Nevertheles s , four of these boys madethei r vars ity boat the very next year.
The rowing bug had taken hold . Theyhad learned to row,
—at least, to someextent
,— and the gruel l ing time tria l at
Princeton was never again to be wit
nessed. Races are won by smoothness,rhythm,
and collective power . The indiv idual
,untrained “s lugging
” i s what tiresyou out and gets you nowhere !The crew man uses every muscle in hisbody at every stroke. The row boat styleof rowing on a fixed seat must be enti relyput out Of mind . The oarsman i s fixedonly at hi s feet ; he s its on a roll ing seat
44 THE GOLDEN—ROD
DISAPPEARING ACT
Spaulding (reading) Hark to the
calm horn— balm horn—Ps alm hornMiss Dawes : “Fade away with it .ACCIDENTS DO HAPPEN
On Engl i sh paper : Queen Victoriahad nine children
,and every one of the
nine knew hermother wel l .”
SPEAKING“
FROM EXPERIENCE .
It takes great mora l b ravery to commitsu icide. I f you ’d ever tried it you rsel fyou ’d know.
BURN ING UP !
Sentence : The house i s burning ; Sha llI call the fire department?”Miss R . :
“Would you use a period ora semi—colon in that case?”Quinn : “I ’d use a bucket of water .
THAT’
S SERVICE
A letter written by a Quincy H ighSchool student to the ci ty hal l readz
‘
Dear Sir,Please send a copy of the
bi rth- certificate of Mary B rown,born on
Nov. 1,19 12
,at 16Mayflower Ave.
,New
York City,N . Y.
,by retu rn mail .”
SECOND CHILDHOOD ?
Hea rd in Engl i sh Cl a s s :“At the age of
fou r,hi s grandfather died .
ODD SIGHTSDot S : I wouldn’t touch him wi th a
ten foot pole.
”
Anna J :“Why not ? What’s thematter
wi th him?Dot S : Oh nothing ; only it would
look so s i l ly .
a c annenn
POST MORTEM
There was a time in Quincy HighWhen thumbing was the rage.
But Mr. Col lins ’ voice is heard :He turns another page.
Now ev’ry lad when going homeMu st walk the weary way ;Who said the ladies are the onesWho always have to pay?Though shoes are wearing more and more
,
The edicts stil l remain,
And o’
er the hard,rough, rocky road
The fal len arches pain.
The time wil l come when soles well worn,
The homeward trooping bandsWil l all invert their walking modesAnd stagger on their hands .
Or el se they ’l l carry rol ler—skatesAnd break each traffic rule;But f
or the nonce. they’l l thumb no more
When comm" home from school .EMME TEE , F.3 1 .
HOW SHOCKING !
Did you hea r about our soph thatcracked so many nuts Chri stmas that hegot shel l shocked ?
ROOM 302
Chem . Prof : “You three boys report inthi s room after school and—B rown, Ithink you ’d better j oin them .
”
One of the Happy Trio :“Hooray, now
we’l l have a b ridge fou rsome.
”
EMPLOY A SLICING MACHINE
Miss Wal sh (critici s ing a Christmasdrawing ) : and I ’d reduce thosesnowball s to snowflakes i f I were you .
”
THE GOLDEN—ROD 45
CRASH !
Cooper (to boy who i s ruefu lly regarding the remains of hi s test tube on the
floor ) :“What happened ? Did you drOp
it) ”
SEEN ON A HISTORY TEST PAPER“Upon the tragi c death of Macbeth ,
Roosevelt became pres ident.”
REVENGE IN REVERSE
Revengeful : I hope you r children are
al l football pl ayers and run the wrongway.
”
”it sCmmkt : How woo l-l youreacha ble.
“Hans: S ente nce .
Cu lle l t he dos-lA’d T/tc
—Pdacehrgn
Look edAround.
t he. 000 17,-omTLg PO II'
eUmw.
THIS MEANS YOU , SOPH !
You ’l l find yourself Kicked out” ofH igh School i f1 . You wind you r Big Ben in a studyhall when students are trying to
s leep.
2. You car ry b rief cases a round bumping into people’s legs and noses goingup and down stai rs .
3 . You cough when a Senior i s speaking.
4. You refu se to help an upper clas smanout with hi s homework .
5 . You don’t laugh hearti ly when asenior tell s a j oke. What i f you don’tsee th rough it ! Laugh !
T . N .
HELEN OFTROY ?Seni or : “Where are you going?
”
SOph:“I’ve got to meet a guy near the
wooden horse.
wE DIDN ’T -KNOWHE WORE ’EM !
Miss Nevens (pointing to spindle on
desk ) :“McPhail
, did you put your s l ipon?
”
COMICAL CONCLUSIONS
In Engl i sh Cl a s s : I read a story abouta boxer that had a funny ending.
”
DEAD TALK
Bob : Say, Bud ; do you know howmany people are dead in the Mt . Wollas
ton cemetery ?”
Bud :“NO ; I
’ll bite. How many ?”Bob : Why
,you sap, they’re all dead .
FOREIGN ANTICS
Teacher :in a sentence.
John : ‘You ’re up’ to your old tri cksaga 1n, always calling on me.
”
UN IQUE
Lost SOph:“What kind of Algebra i s
th is ?”
Mr . B ridges :
John,use the word ‘Europe’
Swedi sh .
A WISE CRACKER
Article in Ledger:“The program will
al so include mus ic by the cracked QuincyH igh band .
”
OO
\I
You studyflmore than six hours at
home.
You speak above a yel l in the l ib rary .
You want cla s s ical mus ic on the radioin the Auditorium when there’s good“Jazz .
You don’t contribute j okes to the
10.
GOLDEN ROD .
You don’t subscribe to the GOLDENROD .
46 THE GOLDEN—ROD
OH , FOR AN ESCALATOR I
TEDDY NYEWeary students plod upstairs ;As they do they say their prayers ;In every heart, every mindA certain thought their feelings bind .
Oh for an escalator,A great gliding escalator ;Oh for an escalatorTo carry us upstairs .
To step upon an escalator,A long, winding escalator ;To step upon an escalatorAnd go from floor to floor.
On and upward, step by step,
Lacking more and more in pep,Thinking—dreaming of the dayWhen they
’l l go up another way .
WHY NOT?
Miss Dawes : “Fini sh the sentence If
you l ike to be useful , you’l l be happy
Pupi l :‘You’l l be happy in heaven.
Mis s Dawes :“Yes
,but I didn’t expect
you to come out in heaven.
PICTURE IT !
Teacher : What i s guerri l l a warfa re?”
Soph : “War in which men ride gorill a s .”
CHOP ’EM UP
Junior : Gee ! I wi sh I went to a barbercollege.
”
Senior : “Why ?”
Junior : “So I could cut all my clas ses .
VARIETY
hlr. Wilson (to Student ) : What ! l ate,as u sual ?”
Stude : No,l ater.
WHAT DO THE PLAYERS EAT,
THEN ?
One of ou r sophs wants to know iffootbal l i s known as the pigskin gamebecause i t ha s so many rooters .
phone)“Who —Oh
,no !
any of that kind here !”
TATOOED LADY ?
On Engl i sh paper : She got her ideafrom an account her s i s ter wrote on
Jeanne of Arc.
”
Miss Galleher (answer ing room teleWe haven’t
ONE LONG HOP
Miss Crockett : Dorothy Ba r r i s very
anxioas to get
‘Around theWorld on One
Cg .
’ a
SEEN ON HISTORY TEST PAPER
Longfel low I s Speaker of the House ofRepresenta tives .
SURE, BRING BROTHER FAIL
Mr . Thomas (to boys who are commun1cat1ng ) :
“Report in thi s room at
one- th1rty w1thout fa il .The Boys : “Who i s Fai l ?”
HELP,HELP !
Mis s Thompson (reading 6th period“Lost
,a black Parker Safety
in.
” i
so TH IS IS JAPAN !
6th period notice : All pupi ls who takeFrench are to go to the hal l today at thebeginning of the 5th period, occupyingseats on the floor .
USE YOUR IMAGINATION
Red: I s my face di rty,or i s it my
imagination ?”
Sully : “Well,you r face i s clean.
THE GOLDEN—ROD 47
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
TEDDY NYE
1 . One of our most prominent basketbal l sta rs u ses perfume.
2. Mis s Dawes has at l a st submitted toa heated cl as s room .
3 . One (at least ) of ou r teachers blu shesvery p rofu sely .
4. Mr . Ganley i s not as dumb as helooks . (His own words . )
5 .We
’re going to beat B rockton in football next yea r.
6. Sul ly Sul l ivan’s chest has almoststopped expanding.
7. Mr . Milla rd’s fou rth period law clas sha s
,with his permis s ion, formed a
lei su re club . They elected officers,pres ident, vice—pres ident, etc. Itsmotto
,
“Never do homework .
”
8. A di sh was b roken in the cafeteria,du ring a thi rd period lunch, withoutany cheering afterwa rd .
9 . Miss Gal leher excu sed a dumbFrench pupi l from afternoon ses s iononce.
10. Mr . Ganley forgot hi s ers and ahs
one day .
1 1 .JerryGherardi talked to a pretty gi rlfor only two minutes .
NO EXCEPTIONS
McKenna : DO you serve crabs here?”
Waiter : “Yes,S ir; we serve everybody ;
s i t right down’
Z’~
NOT SO APPETIZING
Waiter : We have most everything on
ou r menu,s 1r .”
Mr . MacDonald : So I see. Suppose
you bring me a clean one.
I’
S REGUSTED
Teacher (call ing the role) : Smith?”Smith : “
Check and double check .
Teacher : “Why double check ?”
Smith : “I was absent yesterday .
WHERE ’
S EVE ?
Miss R (call ing role) : Adams ?”
Mis s W :“Who—Apple?”
SHORTHAND EXPERT !
Hea rd in Cl a s sroom : 1 got a run in
my stockmg today and sewed it up inshorthand .
”
SOME GAG !
Mrs . Jabber: Doctor,my husband
talks in hi s sleep. What can I do to helphim ?”
Doctor : Try letting him talk a littlein the day time.
”
EXTRACTS FROM SONG HITS
AND SHOWS
In a mad fury she pass IOnately bu rstout that she would B reak Away
,never
more to see her Vagabond Lover”
aga in. Her reasons were few,but she
sa id that she’d “FOllow ’Through.
” “NO
,
NO,N annette
,hecried. Please don’t let
thi s be the “Ropes End. I ’l l treat you
to“Hot Chocol ates” and what not.
“Honey
,
” at least you wil l give me somerea sons for this sudden
,rash idea to
“Carry On
,
”butbefore you begin to ex
pl a in I’l l “Tu rn on the Heat
,
” becauseI ’m ter ribly cold and then we’l l haveTea for Two. She s a id that eventhough i t was “Little by L i ttle
,that he
understood her,it would be a ll r ight as
long as everytfiing was clea r in the end.
So she expl ai‘n
'
ed .
Even though you are N aughty butN i ce
,
”
you don’t have to be
“Mean to
Me.
” I ’m not one of the “Gold Diggersof B roadway
,
” but sti ll I can’t always becontented with you r Chanting “I Can’tGive You Anything but Love. Sometimes when we‘were “
Ou‘ts ide” and Iu sed
“
to tell you to “Do,DO Something,
you wouldn’t even Tip Toe Through theTulips with Me.
”After each quarrel
,I
48 THE GOLDEN—ROD
used to be Painting the Clouds withSunshine
,thinking that it would be
Sunny Side Up” once more
,but it was
useles s . N ights when we went out I kepttel l ing you I wasn
’t “Sati sfied” with “One
Sweet Kis s .” On the way home we’dhave to “
Cheer Each Other with the
Pagan Love Song.
”After you had
brought me home,you ’d stay unti l I had
to tel l you to“Get Out and Get Under
the Moon,
”and then you a sk me “
Am IB lue?” No wonder “I ’m Moanin
’Low.
After she fini shed talking he s a id in amost vib rant voice
,
“Wel l,it’s up to you
to decide because as you wel l know,
‘MyFate I s In You r Hands . ’ Anyway
,
‘IMay Be Wrong But I Think You
’re
Wonderful ’ and no matter what happens‘Some Sweet Day I ’l l Ca l l you Sweethea rt .’ I f you will only point to me and
s ay,
‘My Man,
’ I am sure I ’d then be‘Singing in the Rain
,
’ ‘Singing in the
Bathtub,
’or for that matter any place at
all . We ought to stroll the land ‘Together
’
and‘Kiss and Make Up,
’so
‘Divine Lady’ ‘Can’tWe Be Friends ’“Wel l
,
‘Oh Kay’
,she sa id, “
Eventhough I have ‘Big City Blues,’ I knownow
‘I ’l l Always Be in Love Wi th You,’‘My Sweeter Than Sweet. ’When looking upwa rds , he excla imed,Love Your Magi c Spel l is Everywhere.
”
KATH LEEN HOFFER’
I‘Y, P .
’3 I .
FOILED
The other day, entering a study rooml ate
,and very unusual it was for him,
too,Cooper heard the teacher say,
“Betty,I bel ieve you have a poem to read
to the cl a ss .” The gi rl, only a sophomore,took her paper and began to read . Tel ling me about it afterward, Cooper s aid,“The minute I heard her read the poem,
I knew I had made a find. It was beautifu l— s imple, it i s true, but yet beautifu lin i ts s impl i city . I s aw mysel f congratul ated by critics the nation over for uncovering a child p rodigy . I ru shed up to herimmediately after the bel l rang and s a id,
DEAD LINES
Here lies beside this little brookThe bones of Shelby Sharp.
He dozed while holding a Latin book,And woke up holding a harp.
Dear, friends, when pas sing by this graveYour tears shou ld drop in bunches,For this poor Soph thought he was braveWhen he took all three lunches .
This poor fel low starved to death;He had third lunch, I ’m told ;And when his turn in line had come,All of the food was sold .
When you pass by here, heave a sighFor Sophomore Philip Bost.On his first day in Quincy HighThe darling boy was lost .
Here lie the remains of another Soph,In name Henry El Beero;His best girl said he had to beA gal lant footbal l hero.
Of mourners there are quite a few
For Sophomore Bil ly McSnook;After his outside reading was due,He started to look for a book .
This Sophomore did not last long,His diet was far from right ;He should have lived on “
food for thought,But instead had “dates” each night .
“LON G TOM ,
”
J’
32.
mastering my excitement,That’s a
p retty good poem for a soph . Would youca re to submit it to theGOLDEN ROD ?
”
“Oh ! I ’d love to
,
”she repl ied gladly .
Of cou rse’ you know I didn’t write it,Amy Lowell did .
It took a quart of formaldemaldehydrine to b ring Cooper to.
‘
HOPELESS STUBBS
Our dum’est Junior i s a gi rl who thinks
that when a fel low goes out on a stagpa rty
,he
’
s out shooting deer .Our most Bril l iant Soph thinks a
Southern Planter i s an undertaker.
Another B right one thinks Zane Grayis a new color.And one of our Seniors thinks that atrack meet i s good to eat !
TO BE SEEN AROUND
QUINCX H IGHG s RT RUDE. BORN E
wu u ; 1 5 one orTHOSE
WALLY GLUT'TON- THE ONE l un e SOPHS
"
AND 15 61017 5
wnoewes THE LASTSAN-D SENv E ABOUT 1T, ssnme
A RIST 1? N 00N M ! OVER roua SHOULDER
B LY A YB Y
m THE CAFETER lA REMWDS HWI or 1T.
MARY,MINme
,A ND
To PARADE UP AN D DOWN THE LENGTH orTHE( AEEVER1A
,COMPEL1 1NG moss wno WANT To
GET BY to wALR
PERUYAL ALGERNON JR
STARTEII THE FAD OFCULT!
Fross 1r,0 u 1re Awwmous “Ru n e vanmeat !“
varnvo DOWNY MOUSTACHES-veuN e THING G ETS A GREAT GROW
?M N “
. AND 15 N OT ATALL DAUNTEDu TRAP IQ O F F ICEKICK 011 1 or sxn’rme CLASSES,
M me‘s m um-
0 15BY THE FACTms BM R \5
(Except was“ REPORTS em f‘
At s o A GREAT
HELP IN A |D \N fi'
Hrr‘l To-GET HOMEAFTER 14 19 STRENu ou s DAY ATSCHOOL .
11 15 115 15 9 11 13 5 15 5M1rn,wno
we HAVE 1 11 5 PU WFUL Btt L, ALWAYS DOES HER HOME~
THE FIRST To RMSI' THE HGWL WH EN
e y a p GOTTLBWORK AND FEEL-5 ANYTH ING
some on D o s A M ILK 1
we CA F ETER IA . STR’
ANGELY smooc h BUT RES PECT FOR THe
15 "OT A C HEER Lenora .
wno nowT
50 THE GOLDEN—ROD
WHEN TO BE NONCHALANT
1 . After dropping a p late,milk bottle,
etc ., in the cafeteria.
2. When you’re caught trying to qu ietly
lreturn an overnight book two daysate.
3 . When M iss Mccarthy sees you sittingin the same seat with a member of theopposite sex.
4. When, in comp lying with the essentialsof school spirit
, you drop a fifty -cent
piece in the wastebasket along with theM i lkyWay wrapper.
Breathless,with eyes d ilating
,he
rushes up the broad, qu iet stairs . An
orderly gives him a reproving stare, but
he is too tense even to not ice it. He
hurries along the deep corridor to the
door of a large room. On the wal l besidethe door are the latest bul letins and te
ports . These the young man gives a
swift,
cursory glance, but not findingwhat 18 of paramount interest he turns
again to the door, pacing up and downbefore it worriedly, torn.
with anxiety,fraught with fear. He mutters d istractedly to himself . At irregular intervals
,
young girls, looking l ike anything butnurses
,pass him by, glancing at him com
passionately. Long years spent here haveinured them to this . From inside the
room low pitched,grave voices are heard
murmuring . And then suddenly a qu ickshril l laugh with an hysterical qual ity,suppressed
,and fol lowed by more low
words . The ensu ing qu iet is oppressivein its heavy stillness .
Unable to stand it any longer,the
young man moves as though to open the
door. Then,abashed by his own au
dacity, turns back . At this juncture the
door swings open from the ins ide,closes
again,and a woman of perhaps thirty
five,spotless in attire, stands in the cor
ridor,looking at him with that inscrut
able expression pecul iar to the profess ion.
The man is bes ide himself with angu ish .
I s there— 1s there any hope?” he gasps .
Don’
t look l ike that,please. Say there
is,speak say something !”The woman shakes her head slowly.
“I’
m sorry. We can do nothing . Youknow that l ibrary sl ips must be takenbefore school .”
PU S H ING TO THE FRONT”
S’
A HABIT
Teacher (to student who has been lateoften) : “When were you born?”
'Stude : “The second of April .”Teacher: “Late again.
COLD FACTSTeacher: “
I s Detroit the third city of
the U.
Pupi l : “Do
,id
’
s da Ford cidy .
OPIN IONSPupi l : M iss D
,what do you think of
this theme? Give me your honestOpinion.
”
M iss D ' “It isn’t worth anything.
Pupil : I know,but tell me anyway.
MEAN IN ’ P
Soph : A fool can ask more questionsthan a Wlse man can answer. I sn
’t that
so ?”
Senior: I cannot answer you .
A STAR IDEA
Senior: “Did you hear about the
Scotchman who wanted to kil l himselfwith a gun
?”
Junior: “Tell us about it ,Senior: He took all the bul lets out of
the gun and hit.himself “ over the head
with it .
"
B R Y A N T 8 g S T R A T T O NCOMME RCIAL SCHOOL
F A G—rs
LOCATION at the Arlington Street Station of the Subway, cor. of Boylstonand Arlington Streets, Opposite Public Gardens . Easily and safely accessible fromall points either by Surface or Subway.
BUILD ING erected especially for this School, and with the exception of the
ground floor, used exclusively by the School. Unsurpassed in convenient con
struction and equipment for the purposes of Commercial Training .
COURSES which fit both High School and College Graduates to meet thedemands of Modern Business ; opening the way for rapid advancement to ExecutivePositions .
FACULTY of capable and experienced Ins tructors , who by individual attentionand interest enable students to attain Satisfactory Results in their studies .
STUDENT BODY of exceptionally high grade as the result of constant recommendation that High School students should complete their courses . Nearly one
hundred per cent High School, Academy or Seminary graduates , with seventynine Universities and Colleges represented during the past year.
“IND IVIDUAL ADVANCEMENT enables students to secure the completesttraining in the shortest time and at the lowest cost.
EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT with nearly fifty years of successful serviceis constantly placing graduates in promising and desirable positions .
NO SOLICITORS OR AGENTS employed by this School to annoy students or
their parents by high pressure sales tactics in their anxiety to secure commissionsor enrollments .
In order that you may VISUALIZE THESE ADVANTAGES, a cordial invitation isextended to you to visit the School and thus be enabled to MAKE YOUR OWNCHOICE OF A SCHOOL . Full information sent by mail upon reques t .
3 34 Boylston Street Telephone L. 0 . White,BOSTON , MASS. KENmore 67 89 Principal.
C ompliments o f a Friend
Baseball Equ ipment
Made to professiona l specifications yet sold at prices that
are sure to please you . Cal l for Spring Catalog .
William Westland 8 Co.
Tennis- Goli—‘l‘rack15 5 5 H ancock S treet QU IN CY, MASS .
Compliments of Compliments of
Elie (lbuimg Climbing(Ilumpung
auntinental flaking The Army Store
ampang23 School Street
,Quincy
Makers of
HOSTE SS CAKE S
and
WON D E R BRE AD
C ompliments o f a Friend
Solid Gold, Signet andBirthstone
R I N G Sto
WM. A . LAMB, Jeweler1 5 9 2- 9 4 Hancock Street, Quincy
Tel. Granite 069 7
“Alb an organization Of me'
n whoknow their
in a plant of mobem equipment~we are enabled to Offer
you an ef ficient service armthe highest qua lity Of‘
PfiOTO ~€NORAVINGmmne nm -cr
’
one -on conon
DONOVAN a s antenatal enonszwmo CO.
25 5 267~ CONGRCSS STRCGT BOSTON MASS .
PlymouthRock Ice Cream“It
’s Good for the Children
Used Exc lusively m the Quincy Schools
Donald F. Leach School
Cornet, Trumpet and Brass
Instruments
Quincy Studios
The Shaw Bld’
g , 2Wash’n St.
Wednesday P. M .
Thursday P . M .
Saturday
lowerElsie M . Patterson,
Prop .
l lurint aahBernratnr
1259 H ancock Street
Quincy,Mass .
Bea le S treet Wol laston
C . F. Carlson
Tourist Agency
Steamship Ticketsg
Toursat Published Tariff Rates
Granite 005 2
Opp. Quincy DepotQuincy,
Mass .
SAXOPHONE and
CLARINET
Thorough yet interesting privateinstruction preparing young men
andwomen for all kinds of bandand orchestra playing .
SmOphones and Clarinets
repaired and overhauled.
HARRY L. LITTLEFIELD1 45 8 Hancock St. Room 3 08 Quincy
Opp. Kresge’s
E R E’
Work called for anddelivered
A Service that Servesand Saves
Phone Granite 8774
Hats Cleaned and Re-blocked
UNION BARBER SHOP
9 Granite St . Quincy Center
CLAS S R INGS
AND P IN S
Vance E . Buker
j eweler
1241 Hancock St.
N ew Munroe Building
Quincy
THE CHANDL ER S CHOOLProfessional Training forYoung Women
Secretarial Department Normal Department
gives thorough training for desirable gives thorough training for commer
secretarial positions . cial teaching positions. CurriculumCourses includes thirteen pedagogical and cul
tural sub'ects.
One year Stenograph ic J
TWO year Secretarial Courses
Three year Executive Secretarial Three yearN ormalFourth year “
Chandler Plan” Fourth year Chandler PlanG raduates of the Quincy High School, regardless of the courses completed, are admitted withoutexamination.
Special emphasis on character and personality development. Social at tivitiee . Athletics, in
co- operation with the Y . W. C . A . Guidance for eachpupil.
Placement Bureau with services always available without charge to Chandler girls.
ChandlerGraduates are always in demand
Forcatalog giving complete information,address
ALAN W. FURBER, B.
- S., DirectorTHE CHANDLER SCHOOL
Tel. KENmore 6774 or 25 70 1 6 1 Massachusetts Ave , Boston, Mas s .
ATTENTION ! M O R gE)
. 8Get Acquainted
for GraduationWith, Sam
Bring your shoes toSILVER KID1
aidingFSERI‘f n
'
c
”SILVER BROCADE
y‘ WH ITE KID(Opposite Freight D epot) WH ITE SATIN S
H e wil l REBU ILD them care
BLACK SAT INS
fu l ly . Tel l him all about your
Shoe Troubles and he wil l help S/zaer Dyed to
you . matchyear gawtz.
Previou sly located at 25 7 Friend Street,Boston
,for fourteen years
Morse Shoe Stores Corp.
Leave ’Em A.M. Get
’Em RM. 1429 Hancock Street
BICYCLES
Guaranteed WristWatches for
the Boy or Girl pupilto
Bracelets , Cuff L inks , Fountain Pen and
Penc il Sets , Costume Jev‘
velry,Compacts, etc .
At Most Reasonable Price
’
s C. E. CROUTPettengfl] S Quincy
r
rrast opposi.. u.
Established 1 3 76 1 1 Cottage Avenue , Quincy1462 H ancock Quincy Tel Granite 1759
Typew rite rs HARRY G'MARCH
Bought—Sold Ren ted R adio E xc lu s rvely
Only agent in Quincy fu r the AuthorizedDealersRemington Portable Typewriter m
SONA] C d R 1 P b, STROMBE RG - CARL
so ororaggwrirgyjorta e
ATWATE R KE N TRAD IOLAMoore
—Waterman—Parkeringersoll VICTOR
Fountain Pens VICTOR RE CORD S
Dennison’
s Goods School Supplie s
MCKENZIE’S 1 5 90 Hancock Street, Quincy
Tel. Granite 5 13 1 3 Temple Street Granite 4240 Open Evenings
SYLVESTER CARSON
DEALERS IN
HiiiDSON GENERAL ELECTRIC
REFRIGERATORSCars
68 Washington Street, Quincy
Columbia New EnglandIver Johnson'
Harley Davidson and Indian
Motorcycles
Cash or Time
Bring in your carriage wheels . We te- tire
them while you waitWHEEL GOODS
SHOP AT
Blue Serge Suitsfor Graduation
to
TALBUT MBY llicBeale St. Wol las ton
1 3 87 Hancock Street N ext Door to Wollaston Theatre
ASK YOU R GROCE R FOR
The P erf ected L oaf
MAD E BY
WARD BAKING COMPANY
V I.“
Prep Suits with Two PairLong Trousers
Robust young America demands
sturdiness in c lothes and gets it
in a great selection we offer this
Spring .
The N ew
Collegiate Models
in the new Spring shades of Grey ,
Tan , Brown and other fancy mixtures .
Specially PricedwithTwo PairTrou sers
$ 1 8 .50 .5 0Value 16 and 19 Value
Others With Two Trousers
1 2
Blue Serge and Blue Cheviot PrepFAST COLOR—WITH TWO TROUSER
FINE ALL WOOL
and
Boy’
sTwuPantsGulf Suits Buys’
BlueSerge8.cheviotSuitsSPECIAL! AllWool—Fast Color
and $ 1 5 ValueValue
Others Others and
M UNTWOLLA STONBA NKE s tab lish ed 18 5 3
Savings Department
Interes t b egins the First Dayo f each Month
Sa fe D epo s it Vau lts
Box es rent for
and up per y ear
Inves tment D epartment thru our
C orrespondent
The First N ational O ld Colony C orporation
We Bu y and Se ll Bo nd s(D. Inv e s tment Sec u ritie s
OP E N SATURDAY EVEN‘
INGS 74:
Member of Federal Reserve Bank