Iris 1907 Bristol High School Yearbook Notes Col Samuel Colt Tribute
The 1907 Iris yearbook honors Col Samuel Pomeroy Colt and lists editors and staff including A Griswold Herreshoff as editor in thief, Catherine Levere May Hackett Emma Collins as literary editors, Harold Peckham Albert Earle as local editors, Irving McCaughey athletic editor, William Tobin business manager, William Archer assistant. It recalls prize declamation winners Gertrude Bunn and William Archer, remarks on crowded quarters at Byfield School, anticipation of Colt High School, cover art by Marguerite Sprague Gooding and Mary Reynolds, and notes on staff changes, a senior class supper, sleigh rides, a broken window joke, and snippets on student writings and pranks.
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Samuel Pomeroy Colt
Bristol
Iris
Griswold Herreshoff
Catherine W Levere
May T. Hackett
Emma C Collins
Harold C. Peckham
Albert O Earle
Irving V McCaughey
William J Tobin
William Archer
Byfield School
Colt
Colt High School
Marguerite Sprague Gooding
Miss Gooding
Mary Reynolds
Alice S Carroll
Providence
Nathaniel G. Herreshoff Jr
Millie E Church
Grand Army Hall
Belvedere
Warren
John C. Davis
Warrenr Glaziers
Sidney Herreshoff
Oyster Bay
Catherine Severe
Gooding Farm
W Wall
Longfellow
Hiawatha
S. Dew. H
Local Views On Natl Ed Week by Edward J Fitzgerald
Edward J Fitzgerald argues during American Education Week for strong public support of schooling. He outlines rising pupil numbers, teacher shortages, aging facilities, curriculum demands, and rising costs. He explains Rhode Island Chapter 3419 equalization aims to balance local and state funding with expected state aid increases in 1957 58 and calls for federal aid.
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America
Devas
Rhode Island
General Assembly
Stat
Taft School to be shared by CD and VFW
Taft School will be shared by Civil Defense and the Anthony Almeida Post VFW after the school committee granted permission. The CD will occupy the second floor and the Veterans post the first floor with a lease to be drawn up by a special committee.
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Taft School
Civil Defense
Anthony Almeida
VFW
Veterans Post
Almeida
Augustine C Mello
Chester W Williams
R. I Veterans’ Home
Nelson Beals
School
T Thomas Butvin
Edward J Fitzgerald
Schouls
Frank L. Martin
Beals
Rockwell House
Andrews Pym
Anthony Pereira
Russell S Bray
Alfred Rego
Fitzgerald
Chaiman
Viveueam
Hairman
Education Week Observed Nationwide Event Next Week
Articles on this page and the next mark National Education Week observed locally and across the country from November 11 to 17. The items highlight schools, programs, and education milestones for the annual observance.
Shellfish beds to open off Barrington Nov 13
Barrington Beach shellfish grounds will open to handrakers on November 13 after a months long closure to clean up from the Providence River pollution. John I. Rego cites thorough cleaning with 21 000 bushels moved and announces a public hearing for November 19 at 2 pm in Room 313 of the State Treasury.
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Barrington Beach
John I. Rego
Agriculture and Conservation
Providente
Rego
Rtone
General Assembly
Beloved Town Official Dies In 77th Year
John W. Church Bristol town clerk for 37 years dies at Jane Brown Memorial Hospital at age 77. A Republican noted for nonpartisan service, he retired briefly before illness. Survived by wife Ida, a son and daughter, three grandchildren, and siblings. Funeral Monday at First Congregational Church. visiting hours set at Connery Funeral Home.
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John W. Church
Bristol
Mr Church
Ida D. Coggeshall
Pappasquash
John W. Church Jr
Sea Chiff
Long Island
Leonard C Plaster
Manhasset
Winfred Church
California
E. Frances Tarberry
Boston
First Congregational Church
Charles M. Connery
Bur~ton Street
Mass At Vets' Home Monday Mass At Vets' Home Monday
A special Armistice Day Mass will be held Monday at 10 am in the Rhode Island Veterans' Home Chapel under the Veterans' Council. John J Sylvia said all veterans and civic groups are invited. Rev Clyde Jo Walsh will celebrate, with Henry Serbst as organist, as organizing members listed.
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Rhode Island
Veterans’ Home
Veterans’ Council
John J Sylvia
Clyde Jo Walsh
St Marys Church
Henry Serbst
Councl 43
Frank Centazzo
Fred Ricci
Albert P Russe
Sylvan
Work On Armory Dock To Begin Week Of Nov.19
The state armory dock project will start the week of November 19 after contracts were awarded. Seaboard Construction Co of Providence Tok awarded the $5,400 job to convert the National Guard property into a state pier. Thirty six piles will be driven around the granite pier and extend three and a half feet above the dock top.
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State Armory
National Guard
Battery C
Veterans’ Home Seaboard Contraction Co
Providence
Libel suit filed in Superior Court over Phoenix article
Anthony A Balzano, by attorney Ros Thomas, filed a libel declaration in Superior Court seeking $20,000 in damages. The suit names defendants represented by attorney William H Edwards and centers on a Phoenix article about a letter to the Zoning Bond relating to the vestry conduct of land near the foot of a rap station, with damaged claims described in the filing.
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Anthony A Balzano
Ros
Thomas
Superior Court
the Phoenix
William H Edwards
This Is The Way It Was Bristol Education Back On Back
Reflections on American Education Week recall Bristol Ao Tircall school days praising the town’s solid elementary core of reading writing and arithmetic as the foundation for later learning amid a note on modern trends in schooling.
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Bristol Education
Bristol Ao Tircall
Scanlon's Career Reflections On Law and Education
John M Scanlon has served 28 years with the U S Department of Justice and now works as Administration Attorney in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General He lists bar admissions to the Supreme Court of the United States and federal courts and notes active membership in the American Bar Association and American Legion He reflects on education, lifelong learning, and the role of knowledge in government service and competitive society.
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Burnside Memorial
Mr. Church
Edward Parid Fantile
Morse) Church
Bath
Maine
Providence & Newport & Fall River Steamboat Company
United States Rubber Company
Bristol
Staples Coal Company
John M Scanlon
United States Department of Justice
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
United States District Court For
American Bar Association
Kearney Post
No 6
The
American Legion
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Edward Jo Fitzgerald
Esther Vitek
Edward J. Fitzgerald
Town Council
National Education
Academy
C.D
John Church
Barrington
Division of Lists and Game
Kepp
Potter Cove
Church
Bristol Y M. C. A
St. Alban's Lodge
Hope € Tapter
Webb Council
R &S M
Armory
John M. Scanlon
Ward
Boss T
Alaska
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