Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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The 1925 Chameleon I EVELYN JOHNSON What’s the matter with Evelyn? She’s all right! (Try this over on your piano.) From the photo on the side you will probably notice Ev’s wavy hair and smile. Besides receiving good marks herself, she is a good “Samaritan” to less clever classmates. Though quiet at times and rather hard to become intimate with, she is very effervescent while in the company of her pals. KATHERINE JONES Katherine seems able to hold her own in any field. Basketball player, scholar and secretary to the Superin- tendent. Yet none of her outside activities keep her name from the honor roll. Many times has Katherine saved the day for her less gifted fellows by rising at an oppor- tune moment in English or History to render, with sound logic, her opinions on Burke or the Civil War. Katherine has surely adopted for her standby, Caesar’s motto — “Veni, vidi, vici.” HAROLD KELLEY If your smile isn’t just right in this year book, blame Harold, because he had charge of the photographs. When we inform you that the basketball team, which, accord- ing to tradition, selects a modern Apollo Belvedere to take care of its business, chose Harold as its manager, we need no further proof of the young man’s unusual good-looks. Will anyone forget that peaches and cream — some call it salmon pink; others, boiled lobster — blush of his? In- cidentally, “Skeeter’s” good-looks are surpassed only by his willingness to work. CARL KRUGER You are wrong, gentle reader, this is not H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, but simply a former Springfield Re- publican who recently decided to become a Belmont Citizen. The past few months have shown us that when Carl concentrates, Burke quails. Incidentally, Carl is a regular walking photograph gallery but, we must confess that, in spite of the elaborateness and singular beauty of his collection, there is absolutely no variety. Well, Carl, old man, we hope that you will remain as faithful to us although all sorts of honors are heaped upon you at B. U. 19

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Belmont High School MARGARET GAZAN Tall, slender Margaret, “Gazan” to her friends, wandered into our midst from Arlington almost two years ago. (She is the “big sister” of the other “Gazan” found somewhere near here.) As captain of the Senior Girls’ Basketball Team, she proved to be quite a whirl- wind. “Gazan,” with the aid of her ’ittle bruvver, affords us much amusement on many occasions. There seems to be a bit of good-natured rivalry between the “Gazanzes” as to who shall have the last word. MARTHA HANF Pause, my friends, you are now in the august presence of our salutatorian. Indeed! When we consider that Martha does everything ninety per cent perfect, we have reason to revere this unusually diligent young lady. In spite of the countless minutes that Martha spenc on Virgil, Burke and the like, she ably served in the capacity of “keeper of the pearly gates” at 307, — and woe betide the testudineous scholar! Set the pace for the other prodigies at Radcliffe, Martha. MARY HIGGINS Oh! the demure lass with the golden curls. Save your money, movie fans, and visit Belmont High, for our Mary has eclipsed the other Mary. She has smiled her way from Freshman to Senior and is still smiling. Some- times we wonder what fathomless depth lies behind that smile, but as yet, her classmates have diagnosed only ready wit, brains, happiness, ambition and ???????? DORIS HINCKLEY Doris is our interior decorator. With deft fingers she can quickly transform an ugly, bare room into an attrac- tive, cozy one. Although diminutive in stature, she possesses quite a charming personality. It was Doris who helped to make our barren gym into a woodland bower for the scene of the Senior Masquerade. 18

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Belmont High School HARRY LEON Behold, my friends! You are now gazing upon the noble visage of none other than Harry Leon, celebrated essayist and wit. Although this swain waited . until last fall to migrate to The Town of Homes, Belmont claims handsome Harry as her own. Mr. Leon’s favorite indoor sport is propounding baffling questions of a scientific nature to the honorable Mr. Grover C. Greenwood of South Sudbury fame. Ten years hence, don’t be surprised if you find in the Saturday Evening Transcript a treatise written by the aforesaid gentlemen relating to the effect of earthquakes on the batting averages of baseball players. MARGUERITE LETHERMAN She may be small, not a bit tall, but just the same she is there when you call. Who? Why, Margie — the win- some, diminutive, frail bit of dresden who danced her way into our hearts. If sympathy is wanted, one may be sure of a full measure of it from Marguerite. She pos- sesses the quality of a lyrical writer, in that she puis emotion into all her literary works. AUBIGNE LERMOND Our Minerva! The fact that Aubigne can handle al- lusions more skillfully than the rest of us, makes us in- clined to believe that she acquired this art from close as- sociation with the ancient deities and the Muses. She certainly makes a most dignified and efficient president of the Girls’ Literai ' y and Dramatic Society, as well as a leading Editor of the Chameleon. Unless we miss our guess, Aubigne will show Simmons a Belmont High School product at its best. ERIC LIFNER A voice like Eric’s emanating from such a bashfu, looking personage is startling in the extreme and defies explanation. Eric, from appearances, should be attrac- tive to the fair maidens of Belmont, but strange to say, he has never been known to choose friends outside his own sex. Perhaps this unwonted exemption has been due to his school work; at least, it seems that this plan is effi- cient, for good marks have an annoying habit of appear- ing, with great frequency, upon Eric’s report card. 20