Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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YEAR l500K e saw a little inousv friskiiig about on the seeoiul floor and the lirave girl flasliecl back to Mr. Cowan with the exciting 111-ws. t'11stome1': I hope they clicl11't inalu- any ll10l'l5 personal 2llJIN'2ll'?lIl0t'S. Artist: Oh, yes, one last one for good luck. A hold mouse niaile Pl visit to :LD steiiograpliy class wliere it was given a very XV2ll'lIl rect-ptioii. I have it port1'ayed lu-re. llelen Volk is g1'I't'l'llllQ' it with very entliusiaslic cries and zittenlpting to swing from the ceiling lights. Customer: Coe, I wish I had been tliere. Artist: Thatls what a lot ol' other hoys wished, too. 'l'oo had I! l'usto111e1': This is getting iiiterestiiig. Got any more pictures like the last one? Artist: Sorry, tl1at's the last, I tl1i11k. l hope I haven 't bored you. f'ustomer: Not at all. In fact I've enjoyed it iinmensely. Are a11y of these scenes for sale? Artist: NVell, they will he after the exhibition. Just which one are you interested in? Customer: As a matter of fact I think the last scene is thc masterpiece. I'll have that, if you don 't mind. CURTAIN. CHARLES KUssMAUL, IIIARY DEBENEDICTIS, ROBERT HENDERsoN The Wzll of 1932 THE CAST CLERK OF THE COURT ............... Thomas Brooks ATTORNEY SOHULTZ ..... ...Donald MacMillan ATTORNE1' L1vERwURsT .... ..... C lhester Parker Miss IIIALICIOUS ENVY. . . . .Evelyn Jordan Miss 1933 ............ ..Barbara Miller THE JUDGE .............. . .. ..... Olan Drake CThe stage represents a courtroom. The judge's bench is at the right, turned sidewise to the audience. O Facing are table and two chairs for the attor- neys: behind these are two more chairs for the witnesses. In the back center is a table for the clerk of the court, and to tl1e judge 's left is a chair for the Wit- nesses to testify in. As the curtain goes up the clerk is seated at his table. He rises impressively.j Clerk: Oyez, Oyez! This court is now in session. All ye who have business draw nigh .... Cliike all the clerk's speeches this is spoken rapidly and i11- coherentlyj CThe two attorneys, Miss Malicious Envy, and Miss 1933 enter left. The judge enters right. lVhen all are seated, the clerk reads from an enormous ro1l.j Clerk: The case of Malicious Envy against the estate of the class of 1932. Liverwurst Crising and coming forward toward the benchj : Your honor, my client is a deeply wronged woman. She is the victim of the grossest and blackest injustice. The late 1932, who owed her everlasting gratitude, who was indebted to her in a thousand and one ways which I need not enlarge upon- the Class of 1932, your honor, left my client in his will-nothing! Now, your honor knows and I know and we all know that however grievously his will wrongs my client she has no legal redress if-IF--he made the will when he l952 15

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IEDHAMILS. - Artist: Do ll' llc sent Kussinaul, when he had him in English, on an inspection tour of the study halls. t'ustonier: Did he find out anything? Artist: Yeah! Ile found out that you can fool in some study halls some of the time, but you can't tool in all the study halls all of the time. Customer: I have heard that they held the much-talked-of Junior Prom that year. Artist: Yes, Jean Withington got her start then as an interior decorator. lt was one of the big events of the year. Everyone was on his best behavior. The boys were very stitf and formal in their tuxes, afraid to move for fear of cracking. The girls certainly showed what style and looks were like at Dedham High. The ice cream was so hard that someone suggested bouncing it on the pavement to soften it. t'ustoiner: l've heard that the senior year was the year of the greatest activity. XVas that true? Artist: lt certainly was! The town figured that, now the Class of '32 would soon be grzuluating. it would be safe to build an addition to the school and there were plenty ol' workmen and noise to keep the students company. Vustonier: l imagine that they didn't care very much for that. Didn't it interfere with their class work? It must have been very annoying to the stu dents to have their studies interrupted so Artist: Uh, yes indeed. They would postively turn blue in the face when the mortar mixer drowned out the voices of their teachers. But some of the students seemed anxious to learn bricklaying. They would hang out the win- dows, doing their best to watch the process, and even their studies were eclipsed by their interest in the art of this craft. f'ustomer: I suppose there were a great many changes in the classes on account of the work on the building. Artist: The assembly hall was torn down, to the everlasting indignation of the seniors, and the gym was no more, when the workmen were through with it. The girls had to take long walks in place of their regular exercises. Miss Tobin can tell you all about her difficulties in keeping her charges from blocking traffic and, above all, from getting lost. She had to hold up whole classes while she searched for missing members who had accidentally wandered off. l'ustomer: I recollect that the popular Mr. Botto1nley's problems classes were taken over by Mr. Peltier. Artist: Yes, there were plenty of tears shed over that, but the mourners were finally resigned to their awful fate and in time even grew to like it. t'ustomer: By the way, how did their play Tons of Money turn out? IVas it a success? Artist: It was a wow! Eleanor Rhode's realistic sobbing and Tay Hersey's love making were the outstanding features of the show. They brought down the house. l'ustomer: I've read all about the undefeated D.H.S. girls' hockey team. What a talented class. Artist: Undefeatcd! Say, they lost every game-but just the same A. Brown and C. Babcock landed positions on the Boston All-Star Hockey Team. Customer: XVhat about their other exploits? Artist: Vtfell, their exclusive Senior Prom was held at the Capen School and all the dignified seniors tu1'ned out for the big event dressed to kill. Customer: I heard a lot of gossip about stray mice wandering around the building. I hope they didn 't do any mischief. Artist: None to speak of. Just frightened some of the girls, that's all. According to the reports I've heard, one of them terrified Carmela D'eFalco. Mr. Cowan had sent her to do an errand on the third floor. On the Way she l932 M

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S- DEDHAM H. S. was of a sound mind. But, your honor, I will show conclusively that the late class of 1932 suffered from dementia praecox, paranoia, hypochondria, manic- depi-essive psychoses, and various and sundry unhealthy complexes. .ludgez In less technical language, was he slightly balmy? liiverwurst: In less technical language he was completely cookoo! I will prove this, your honor, by the testimony of my client and by the more devas- tating evidence of the very will itself, First, I shall ask my client, Miss Mali- cious Envy. to take the stand, l'lerk: Miss Malicious Envy! IShe rises and comes before him.j Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Envy: I do. tShe goes to the witness chair and sits down.l Iiiverwurst: Miss Envy, how long had you known the deceased? Envy: For four years. Iiiverwurst: Did you ever notice anything unusual about him? Envy: IVhy, yes. You know he always did everything differently and against custom and convention. Iiiverwurst: t'ouId you give the court some examples of this? Envy: IVell, to begin with in 1929 he gave a freshman party. Only those who had paid their dues were supposed to attend, but Vernon Gill and Taylor Hersey came anyway. Schultz tsprings to the feetl : I object .I udge: Objection overruled Iiiverwurst: Go on. please, Miss Envy. Envy: There were twice as many girls as boys, which made the party entirely unbalanced. Very few of the boys could dance, so games were played. It was a ef'ry queer party. Iiiverwurst: Van you recall any other odd acts of the deceased? Envy: XVell, in 151230 Ann XVhite caused a catastrophe at the lunch counter when she whipped a quart of cream to butter tive minutes before recess. It was a pretty queer thing to do. And then Mr. IIeaphy used to plead and beg and even yell in assemblies, trying to persuade 1932 to pay athletic dues and to attend games and give the teams some support. but it never did any good. The class never paid dues. liiverwurst: Did the class go to the games? Envy: No, never. Iiiverwurst: I thank you. Miss Envy. That will be all. lSits.l Judge: Mr. Schultz, do you wish to cross-examine the witness? Schultz trising and glowering at Envyj: Your honor, yes, I do. Miss Envy. during the four years you knew the deceased were you what you would call a friend of his? Envy: Yes, I was always a close friend of his. Schultz: And do you think your testimony is the sort that would come from a frienrlf Doesn't it rather show the selfish, unscrupulous, dishonest qual- ities that make you- Liverwurst Cwildlyl: I object! Judge: Objection sustained. CTO clerkl Strike that out. Go ahead, Mr. Schultz, and please confine your questions to the case at hand, Schultz: Miss Envy, wasn't the party you described so patronizingly sim- ilar to any party given by children thirteen or fourteen years old? Envy: IVhy, yes, I guess so. I never went to any other party. Schultz: Oh, so you never went to any other party! I'll bet I know Why. CHis sarcasm is a dreadful thing.D So you have nothing on which to base your judgment ? You have no way of comparing that party to any other party. You have no reason for saying it was queer, have you? Envy Cquite wiltedj : VVhy, er-er-no-0-o-o. l932: 16