Colebrook Academy - Clipper Yearbook (Colebrook, NH)

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Parker told me that he and Daniel were the original owners of the Whoopee Burlesque Shows, but when Parker decided to run for congress he was forced to sell out his share of the business. I left him very reluctantly and continued down Broadway. To my surprise, there was the Bungy Courthouse! Someone was going up the front steps, so I thought I'd go over and find out if I knew him. As I entered the court room, I looked at the two people who were just taking their seats. It was Arlene Forbes and Robert Cross. I hardly recognized Robert, or Pegleg Pete, as they now called him. He'd lost one of his legs, had a black patch over one eye, and the top of his head was smooth enough and slippery enough to be used for an ice skating rink. He took the stand, and the trial began. It seems he and Arlene had been married shortly after they left high school. They had never been able to agree on what color suit went best with Robert's complexion. As I watched Robert in the witness box, I noticed that he lad a hen-peeked look, and that he shivered every time Arlene gave him one of her withering glares. Judge Annis wore a very sympathetic look as he questioned him. Probably Richard had been married,too.in his younger days. After Arlene testified, the judge gave his decision. Robert was to be able to buy the color suit he wantedg moreover, he was to pick it out alone without any of Arlene's help. After the court session was over, I went up to speak to Judge Annis. Imagine my surprise to find, when he stood up, that he was over six feet tall. He really didn't have time to grow in high schoolg he was too busy developing his feet, We talked until the next case came ing then, as I didn't know the person involved, I continued on my way. The Old Maid's Home was just across the street, so I went over. who should open the door but Barbara Barnett! She wasn't really an old maid, but after her sixth husband had died she invested her fortune in 'he Old Maid's Home. Barbara said that business was pretty good. More and more women had decided that it was too much trouble to take on a husband to support. The men seemed to think since the war had been finished that it was the women's place to work and let them tend the dome. It was very much easier for the women to stay single than get married. I stayed to dinner with Barbara, and afterwards we went to the opera. The star at the opera that night was Gloria Arno. She appeared o the stage, following her accompanist. Gloria was very thin and had an hour-glass figure. She had discovered that if you eat the honey out of the honey-suckle flower it will make you thin--in all the right places. It is said that she had spent almost her entire future in the culti- vation of honeysuckles. As I passed by one of the public buildings, I noticed a sign say- ing nvote for Jean Walker for pres1dent.U I asked a passer-by what ticket she was running on? nwhy, the meal tickct,W he answered. He also said she was all out for out-lawing the men from presidency. Men never did run the country very well. They were too sympathet- ic. what the country needed was a strong-minded woman in there to clean up the mess the men had made of it. m50-

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Santa Claus came and went but we carried on the same as usual. With the coming of spring came the task of sponsoring the Junior Prom, but our through had had down to for our brave regiment undertook the work at double-time step and came with fifty dollars added to the treasury. when June came we three years of training and were good soldiers. We marched Pinckney's picnic grounds and had a little chow before we asked summer furlough. . The fall of l942 found a very small but tough and rugged regiment entering the academy and settling in Room 4 under the command of Cap- tain Avery. We had lost eleven cadets since the previous spring when we all had received advancements. There were Leis Cass, Myrtle Corlise, Louise Covell, and Josephine Grant, who had married, Dewey Burleson, Jean Draper, Gloria Mullavey, and Barbara Pearson, who were transported to other posts, Dean Howard, who failed to return from his furlough, and Fred Lay, who dropped back into another squad. This left just 16 of us, a very small unit. Our officers were First and Second Lieutenants, Parker Hicks and Jean Walker: Secretary, Jeannette Bunnellg and Treasurer, Bernard Frizzell. In December we were sorry to hear that Dean Reed had left our ranks and joined Uncle Sam's forces. This lowered the number of our already dwindled regiment te its present size of fifteen cadets. This June finds us at the end of our fourth year. We are leaving the Academy for the last time. Although we don't all know what we will do when we get out, we will always remember the four good years of training that we spent in Colebrook Academy. Bernard Frizzell '45 CLASS PKOPHECY when I was asked to write the prophecy for my class, I didn't have the slightest idea where I would find my classmates in the future. Then it dawned on me. A special group of human beings, such as the graduates of n45n would be found in a special place. They'd be in doaven, of courseg at least, most of them would be there. After a Little awkward delay, I charted a SupereDuper Heaven Special and was disembarked at my destination at 8:00 o'clock on June 8, As many of my old classmates would be in Heaven to greet me Thinking over what had happened in high school, I feared 1999. I wondered hor when I arrivec a few would be I walked up the Golden Stairs to the Pearly Gate carrying pitch-forks instead of wands.' Arriving at the entrance, I ceuldn't believe my eyes. There was Hr. Parker Alba Hicks, Jr., tending the gate. He looked very angelic in his long white robe and glowing halo. I asked Parker where St. Petez was. I had always understood that St. Peter guarded the gate to HGGVGH. nWell,n Parker answered, USt. Peter was setting too high standards for admission, and Heaven was almost empty, so God decided he ought to have someone with more liberal ideas tending the gate.n -4Q-

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I had always known Jean was a Nchampion of never dreamed that she would one day sit in the head many when A test I . the women,n but I had White House. The next day I visited the city hospital. nurse. She said that her famous laugh had a difficult situation. Of course, she had Q Gildersleve came in for an operation, but he had given up t e con- after he heard her. Everdean Bean was the carried her through had a little com etitidn ..As I passed one of the hospital rooms, I noticed Sherb Heath. He told me that he was better known as Bulldog Drumond II. He was the one who discovered why the Nazis stuck out their hands when they said, nHef Hitler.n He said that they were afraid some one was going to strike them, and they had their hands up ready to ward off the blow. . ,Next I saw Bernadine Davis, who told me that she was Parker's iecretary. They decided between them who would be admitted to heaven ' and who wouldnft. She said she didn't know where Hitler and Tojo went, for neither Heaven nor the other place down the hill would let them in. -I As the next day was Sunday, I went to church. Rev. Bernard Prizzell preached a very lovely sermon, nwhat Not To Do in School.n He dertainly had enough practice in high school. After the sermon I asked him where Nathalie, now , fQ '-NOn the corner Frizzy, and all the little Frizzells were living of Broad and Steel Strect,N he said: but all I found at home were Willimina, Uinifred, William, Warren, Walter, and Wesley. They said their mother was out shopping for weenies. . On my way back way to her office. They do a wonderful her all-male office As I was going to the gate I met Edith Fellows. She was on her Edith is head of the Fellows Automatic Typewriters. business. All the schools on Earth have Edith and staff print their school papers. out the gate, I remembered that I hadn't seen Daniel anywhere around. I asked Parker where he was, and Parker said that as he and Daniel had been walking up the road to Heaven, the Devil 'mme out with his shotgun and lured Daniel away. Parker hadn't seen ide nor hair of Daniel since, but he suspected very strongly that daniel was tending the gate over the hill. y At last I decided that it was time to come down to Earth, so I oede the gate keeper goodbye and started home. But first I walked over the hill to see if I could see Daniel and say, WHe1loP to him before I left, but it got so 'he heat very much. .On arriving at buying my ticket to hot I had to turn back. I wondered if Dan minded the airport, I didn't have so much difficulty in Earth as I'd had in getting one to Heaven. What a let-down it was to return, after having spent a week up there! Jeannette Bunnell '45 F. Landry: Certain kinds of foods help prevent crickets and beri beri. Q51-