Burlington High School - Heirloom Yearbook (Burlington, NJ)

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P g 111 lv FACTA NON VERBA B- H4 S- IVIETA- Somebody certainly must have been disappointed, for we all survived, and here we are, none the worse for these abuses. P. S.-A'Say, I'm a poor' host. Here I have detained you and you must be very tired after your long trip. I am sorry, too, that I have some bad news for you. Your dates overlap with Palmyra's and I have no regular rooms for you. I can accommodate you for meals, we have plenty of ham fgroansj, but as for rooms, I have very meager accommodations. The sitting room has been turned into a dorm for the boys, and the girls may use the attic. H. N. fstarting for the doorj- Say no more, that reminds me of Wash- ingtonf' EUGENIA-Centeringj-'lPank, at what time did you say these guests fsees themj- Why, what is this, a reunion of the class of '26? I thought that we were expecting a vaudeville troop. P. S.-USO we were, but the vaudeville troop and the class of '26 are one and the same. VVor1't you show these girls to their rooms in the attic, while I take care of the boys ?l' E. H.- VVill I? I'll say I will. Come girls, and boys, if your ears burn, blame usf' JOE IVI.- To be sure they will. Isn't Alice Watson with you ? CExit girls.j CArthur Holzbaur has followed the girls.j N. R.-Say, Pank, don't I smell wood burning? PANK Qlooking through doorj- Noi Arthur has just gotten hot-headed again. Come fellows, let's follow the maidsf' BOYS-A'Lead on Macduff ! CExit boys.j QThe stage is vacant for a moment. A noise is heard off stage. Bet- ty Kane, dressed in sports costume, rushes on stage.j BETTY-'LOh, gee! I've had the most divine afternoon. I met three men. They're all wonderful looking, too. All of them wanted to play with me. I've got a date with one of them for to-night, if I can shake the rest of the gang. A DORE'1 l'A Centeringj-CBetty immediately changes her attitude and seems to be interested in something else, finally she turns., BETTY-f'Ch, hello Doretta. You back from the courts so soon ? DORI-:TTA- Yes, the crowd is coming, too. Say! before they arrive won't you tell me who the shieks were whom you vamped this afternoon ? BETTY-uThe shieks? Oh! you mean those three men? Just some old friends. DORETTA-l'Friends? I didn't know that you knew any one down here. BE'1 rY-'KGee, it's no use to try to hide anything from the people around here. Here comes the crowd. Wait until they all arrive and I'll tell you all about it. CEnter athletes. They seat themselves, some fanning, some wiping faces as if they were overheated from exercise.j HARRY A.- Come, Betty, out with it. Who were the gents ? BETTY- Wouldn't you like to know?

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B. H. s. FACTA NON VERBA P g r rv N. R. Cwho, up to the present, hasn't shown any sign of lifej- Do you mean that? Pd say when speaking of the Freshman Party 'put on the soft pedalf H. B.- All right, Nevin. But what about the Secret Garden ? J. M.- Speaking of our Freshman year, do you remember the day we beat Palmyra? That was the first time in six years that our team had defeated Palmyrafl M. -I.- Who could forget? VVhy, I can still see that snake dance when- A. H.- VVhool Meta. Careful what you recall. HELEN Qdreamilyj- Our Soph. year was rather slow wasn't it? But then most Sophs. are, only they don't know that they are. GLADH'S W.4'Yes, only two things of importance happened that year. Our play, 'Neighbors' and the masquerade party. H. N.-- But We made up for it in our Junior year. HELEN Call animationl- Do you remember the day we bought out the 5 and IO cent store. No wonder so many of us wear glasses now. The light from those jewels weakened our eyes. ALICE M.- What were the names of our Junior plays, I forget. L. H.- Why the 'Man Who Married a Dumb Wife' and the 'Maker of Dreams' l P. S.-f'Of course our Senior year was the best of all. The Summer cer- tainly did seem a short time for us to acquire the usual sophistication obvious in illustrious Seniors. CHARLES S.-f'We proved our superiority though, when we were the first to go over the top in the Lyceum drive. H. B.-'fYou must admit, though, that we did gain a childish reputation when we celebrated hair ribbon day. WVasn't lVIiss Ditzell a good sport on that day? Remember, she offered to aid the boys in adorning their abbreviated locks. EDNA VV.-f'Speaking of Miss Ditzell, do you remember the day she had her hair bobbed? Weren't we surprised, though P L. H.- All these events mean nothing when we compare them with our crowning success, the Senior Play, 'Come Out of the ,Kitchenf Never before did we realize that we had in our midst such proficient domes- tiques. H. B.- Yes, their wages made it possible for our dreamed-of trip to Washington to materialize. ARTHUR H.- Oh, boy-some memories. Do you remember the trip up the Washington bfonument ? A. O.-- I think that the less we say about VVashington the better. It was a 'ham-my' trip. Joe M.- Yes, but do you remember what stared us in the face when we returned? Four essays-Emerson has nothing on us. ' A. H.-f'Yes, then when they saw that we were still alive after finishing the essays, they tried to kill us off with exams.

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B. H. s. FACTA NON VERBA P g fh ry HARRY A.- No. ClVloves aWay.j GIRLS- Sure we Would. BETTY- They were men from the Department of Justice, whom we met when the class of '26 from B. H. S. went to Washington. NORMA-Qexcitedlyj- Betty, do you mean some of those chaps who hung out of the windows of the Department of Justice building and talked with us ? BETTYmf'The same, and maybe we didn't have some time discussing the happenings of those three days. HARRY L. Cdreamilyj- Washingtonl What scenes those words recall. ALEX. Z.- Say, do you remember the dance which the Roebling bunch tried to pull off the last night in VVashington? There was only one thing that kept it from being a successfl VVILLIAM S.-HW'hat was that? ALEX. Z.-f'The chaps. I never knew that two women could get along with so little sleep. FRANCIS M.- Do you remember the wise crack which one of those south- ern lads made? He asked the waiter if the ham was cured? fYes,' answered the waiter. 'Well,' said the lad, 'it must have had a re- lapse'. VV. R.- Change the subject. Even the thoughts of ham makes me sick. F. M.- VVho ever said that school days were one's best days certainly knew what he was talking about. l like to recall the things which we did. HUGH M.-f'Say, do you remember how we disposed of our possessions before we left school? I. A.-HDO you remember Mrs. lVIunson's Virgil Class? They willed their lockers to the Juniors to be used as stables to keep their pon- ies in. W. R.- Do you remember Bill Thomas? Wasn't he mad when we willed him a back as straight as Arthur Holzbaur's? H. A.- Have any of you heard anything from B. H. S. lately? I am wondering how that system of student government which we willed them worked out. Don't you remember we left it in charge of per- sons who thought they were proficient in all things-Marjorie Eaton, Betty Chew and Edmund Steele. ELLA BURR-f'What were some of the other things which we willed? I seem to have forgotten. BETTY K.- Oh, we willed Arthur Peterson's popularity to Warren Manny to Bill Rinker, all the troubles of a Senior president, and to Frank Cook, what was left of our old check books. To the faculty we willed our best wishes and sympathies. Poor things, they never understood us. DORETTA- Don't forget the Freshmen, Bettys to the Soph, we willed the privilege of showing the Freshmen how insignificant they really were. VVe hope they succeeded.