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

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VOLUME IV Pratt, Miss Casson and others of the Faculty. A committee consisting of Mary Ballantine, Irene Berry, Lucille Flagg, Katherine Royce and Jeanette Abbe was in charge of the candy booth. As the end of the year drew near preparations were made for the last two social events of our High School career, Prom and Class Day. john Fer- guson was elected chairman of the Class Day Committee, and Robert King chairman of the Prom Committee. Class Day exercises were a success in every way, and judging by the present plans the Prom will be no less a credit to our Class. And now as the days go on and the time approaches when we are to separate and to go our several ways, let us hope that whatever our course, our history as individuals will still remain as fair and glorious as when we were associated together as the CLASS OF 1910. SQWW f u ,iid - YY:-'-v I . .R rj , s R . 7?-, t i sy if Ny? Page 121

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THE TDNALKA Some time after the elections the girls of the class showed their good sense by agreeing to wear but one inexpensive dress to the three social events of the class, namely, Class Day, Graduation and the Prom. Soon afterwards a pledge was circulated among the boys to the effect that no neckties should be worn at any of the above events, but the requisite number of signatures was lacking, so the idea was abandoned. It was rumored at the time that Bob Nye had planned to wear a particularly brilliant creation at the Prom and was chiefly responsible for the turning down of the pledge. However, we shall see. The Senior dance, which was held early in the year, was a success in every way, and reflected great credit on the management. The committee in charge was Robert Arnold, Wallace Brymner and Mae George. At the advice of Mr. Orr and the Faculty, a series of Shakespearean recitals by Marshall Darrach of Boston was substituted for the Pageant as a means of paying graduation expenses. The class elected Robert Nye to run the recitals. They were well worth the price, a course ticket for 351 admitting to all three recitals, but for some reason they did not prove popular with the school, and the audiences were not worthy of a man of Darrach's reputation. About 325, the proceeds of the candy booth, under the direction of Miss Mae George, with Katharine Royce, Dorothy Birchard and Gladys McGregory as assistants, was realized from the recitals. Again three members of our class, Bennitt, Thayer and Withe, won places on the debating team, and Schenectady, for the first time, was sent down to a defeat on the evening of April 1. About this time an unexpected change took place in the leadership of the school. Mr. Orr was called to fields of larger responsibility, and Carlos B. Ellis, at one time assistant principal of the school, was installed as principal in his stead. We, the Senior Class, especially felt the loss of the warm and sympathetic friend we had found in Mr. Orr during the four years we had passed under his guidance, but under the firm hand of Mr. Ellis we were kept straight to the plow, and soon he, too, held a large share of our affections. Vol. IV. of the PNALKA was published by us in our Senior year, with Philip W. Thayer, Editor-in-Chief and Stanley F. Withe, Business Manager. In every way the book was an unqualified success, and was the first one in the history of the school to place money in the class treasury. Its ability to do so was no doubt due in part to the Pnalka Vaudeville Show, a new departure in High School activities. The show was given on the evenings of the Sth and 9th of April to large audiences. That the entertainment was a success may be attributed to the assistance rendered by Dr. Law, Miss Page 20

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T' H E 73 N A L K A Class Prophecy BY MARY F. BALLANTINE, JOHN L. FERGUSON. FAY W. WILLIAMS NE day in the early twenties, as I was sitting in my New York office, on the 47th story of the New Superior Building fwhich, by the way, was built by an old 1910 man, Albert Gagnierj, I received an invitation to a ball to be held that evening in the home of Mrs. Vanderhuysen, nee Lucile Flagg. I was delighted to go, for Mrs. Vanderhuysen was accustomed to provide the most excellent singing to be heard in private circles. So, closing up my office and dismissing my stenographers, the Misses Cadwell, Cronin and Craig, now experts on the typewriter, I took the elevator to the street. On the way down I fell in with the proprietor,Gagnier, and talk naturally turned to this new 128-story building. Noticing the curious lighting effects on the landing, I asked him who was the cause. He replied that Kenneth Collins had had general supervision of the matter. Thus learning that Kenneth was in town, I at once repaired to his office. Here I found him sitting at his ease, feet plainly evident. I sat down and we talked long on many subjects, but particularly on our old class. During the conversation I asked him if he had heard the fate of jack Holmes. He denied. So I told him how Jack had tried his goldbrick game on a man apparently from New York, but who was an East Longmeadow detective in disguise. Jack was now in jail. Kenneth told about a few friends, and then I left because of the late hour. I arrived safely at my hotel, and finding that my valet was on one of his customary absences, I attired unassisted, and after dinner proceeded to the reception. I was at once brought up and introduced to the singer of the evening, Fraulein Parker. I was somewhat astonished to find her success so assured, although she had earlier in life showed great promise. lnquiring after my old classmates, she replied that Frances Daly had joined Jennie Ferguson and Helen Flynn in starting a school for education by the lip-reading or noiseless method, also that her old friend, Miles Purcell, had, together with Alan Buckley, Theron Pierce and jim Healy, joined the Knights of the Road, or in other words were full-fledged hoboes, and that Guy Fuller, an enter- prising reporter for The Hourly Buzz-Saw, had lately seen them hopping a freight for Canada. Page 22