Cla sé A stor y The Class Night program was planned around the idea of a reunion of the class of °40 ten years from the time of graduation. After I had been asked to find out some of the things that members of our class said and did during our school days, I looked through the old annual, copies of the school paper, my scrapbook and diary, and various newspaper clippings. I talked to some of my classmates, too, and you’d be surprised at some of the things that they remembered. Let’s see—James McIver was the president of our class, and wasn’t he a good one? Even now in 1950 we can still remember our Secretary-Treasurer, Bill Catlin—always asking for money. In glancing through some of the old copies of The Otters Lookout, I was reminded of Harry Lockard, the efficient Editor-in-Chief. He certainly did work hard trying to get that paper cut on time. In one of the papers there was an account of the party Dr. Lyle gave for the Seniors. At that party Elmer McKinney, one of the most dignified members of our class, surprised us by proving that he could drink the milk out of a baby’s bottle the fastest. There’s one mystery about Beauregard Parks that has never yet been solved to my satisfaction. Why did Beauregard always have asthma during fishing season, but never have it on the day of a football game? Here’s a mystery, however, that was solved. One day Nancy Teass just had to get a newspaper before school. None of us knew why until we discovered that Phelps Walker’s picture was in it. Bob Lowry certainly used to have a time with his ancient Ford. Even though it was old enough to have come over on the Mayflower, Bob thought so much of it that every time it even looked like rain he got out of class to go cover it up. We remember that Gladys Driscoll, when interested in something, was never dis- turbed even by the bell. One morning she was talking to a friend in front of the school when the bell rang, but she kept right on talking until all the Freshmen in Room 31 yelled in unison. When we were “rats,” we were quite meek, and we fairly worshiped the exalted Seniors. Most of us were models of behavior, but I do have a foggy recollection of Mr. Partlow’s grabbing James Gregg by the seat of his pants and soundly spanking him. I wonder if the pupils of B. H. S. today get their tongues twisted as much as we did. Billy Merriken even tried to improve on Shakespeare when he gave.the quotation: “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it” as ‘Look like the snake, but be the flower.” In the fourth grade Bill Catlin insisted that General “Cornstalk” surren- dered at Yorktown. Anne Miller, believing that variety is the spice of life, answered to her name in roll call with “Hello”! Virginia McClintock looked at the word speed- ometer twice and then read speed-o-meter. I found a newspaper clipping telling about the Senior Play. Didn’t the girls who ushered look pretty all dressed up in evening dresses? They were Frances and Helen
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