Central High School - Blue and White / Pnalka Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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EDU 1311128 31 junior mans history HAT SIR! You know nothing of our class? Your education has been sadly neglected. My time is valuable, very valuable, as we Juniors run the school, but if you will sit here on this umbrella rack with me while I keep my eye on young Ball I will enlighten you. First, sir, you must know that we are the only class in school that is up and doing. Even the Seniors have to bow to us. What's that? Basketball? Oh, you see we didn't have all the regular team, and, besides, we wished to encourage the Sophomores. Who are our greatest athletes? Well, first there's Bill. He holds the school record for the running long-talk-three days and five hours, sir-and he had a poor subject to talk on, too, sir, himself. Then there's Rhodes. He would have played good football if those shoes hadn't been too much for him. They were so light they kept his feet off the ground most of the time. You've heard he can run? I've heard so, too. There are less important ones, like Messer and Cunliffe, but -- have you ever seen Graves ride ? He used to be in '05 before the accident. You see he was riding his pony in Latin one day and he was so rattled he got thrown. George was so ashamed of his horseman- ship that he hid his glowing head in our ranks, seeking oblivion. We have the greatest aggregation of students that old S. H. S. has ever seen. Miss Chapin has never received anything less than an A, and Tifft refuses to accept a mark lower than E. In the literary line, also, we lead the bunch. Why, Medlicott, editor of our famous Recorder, has been known to - look at those girls playing tag with Billy. Oh, no, I don't mean him, Imean Billy Chapin. Yes, that's Ellis. We call him Farmer because he is the swiftest dealer in potatoes around these diggings. His only fault is that he likes the girls too well, 1-see, he's walking with Besse now. No, this isn't Kendrick's day to be awake. You'd like to see Miss Ladd ? You can find her in the library any time but recess. She is very studious. By the way, do you play hoity toity P No? well,

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32 UBC QBUCQN that's hardly surprising. Only a few bold spirits like Billy Smith - yes, he's the one with the walk. No, you can't stop him unless you can pull his head down. They say he can do a minute in two miles. Isn't he cunning? We've got him twice, his names are Lombard. Yes, they are both noted for many things, by Mr. Orr. Look! Quick! See the fellow with the cracked smile and the wavy thatch? That's Dunning, half owner of the Glee Club. The otner two-thirds is Pirnie, the frail little fellow playing marbles with Anderson. That's Ted Smith out there on the bar. Makes a good monkey-on-the-stick, doesn't he ? ' And talk about girls, we've got the other classes beat by two of Billy Smith's strides. There are three classes, much, mucher, and not so much, as Shack used to say. Mather belongs to the latter. We are originalg extremely original. Why, at class meeting, we never allow more than ten persons to talk at a time. We've done more for the school than all the rest put together. What have we done? Why, er-er--- Oh! There goes the bell. Good-bye. 4. g X f : 4 '