Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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DEDHAM H. S. Class Song - Farewell Words hy IIODNEY C. LA1:mQ'oM, JR Musie hy AIARJUIIII-I lhxmimi fllrs. Gordon Larcoml lflassiiiates. we must break the tie And sav goodbye To Detlhaiu Higrli. VVe will e'e-1' devoted he And we will cherish you iii our 1l1f?1I1UI'y. XVe'll always think ot' you with great happinessg These tliougrhts will lead us to success In the future, Deflhani, now we bring' to thee Our faith and Loyalty. Dedham. in our school so dear VVQ love to sing Your praises clear. VVe have speut long' years with you, XVhich as we roam will serve us our whole life through Glory and honor with your fair name will vie- May we uphold, dear Dedham High, 7 Thy fame forever. But now we must hirl adieu, Dear Dedham High, To YOU. l932 24

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YEARIMNHC John S. Sullivan is selling a pipe polish which eats away the pipes. When leaks appear, so does Glaser, and they split. Two enterprising members are Ili-len and Elizabeth Volk, who have a goat farm in Riverdale. hVlli'Il t'arlo Vardoni attempted to make friends with the goats, the ungrateful animals broke his skull and seven ribs. Lesley Clancey was so attached to her alma mater that she has been taking P.G.'s ever since. At present she is leading a movement for overstuffed chairs in all rooms. tSits.D Prof.: That was fairly decent, Zileh, l think that now we can hear from you, Miss Throttlebottom. Miss Throttlebottom: Eleanor Rohde is in ,jail awaiting trial for charges of having shot, stabbed, poisoned, drowned, and killed Paul Mulkern. and having attempted to get Mary Tierney, the undertaker, to dispose secretly of the scanty remains. Jean Ambrose has challenged her rival in the hairdressing industry in Dedham, Eleanor lllcflann, to make public her method of producing red hair. That you can still fool some of the people all the time is shown by the ease of Kathleen Close and Lois Nay ws. Elizabeth McDonough. Close and Nay, Inc., inveigled Miss McDonough to invest her small fortune in a buggy factory. They were last seen in China. Elizabeth Riley is a teacher of diction at one of the important motion picture studios. She teaches the stars to polish Ott' elegant phrases. Doris Taylor and Dorothy NViggin are making toasted ice cream which is causing a sensation in the D. H. S. lunchroom, where it is a feature. Margaret Morrison and Ruth Hamilton are operating a big time potato hug circus with three hundred potato bugs performing complicated maneuvers to the strains of martial music provided by Miss Morrison. who can imitate Bing Crosby, Pryor 's Band. and the Four Mills Brothers at the same time. Anna-Betty Clark who showed great promise in high school days, and was the joy of her teachers' lives, has recently brought out her own edition of NVash- ington's Farewell Address, printed in invisible ink. Gordon Anderson has been tripping across the stages of the country now for a year in his sparkling role of Peter Pan. Some of the members of the class recently clashed in a bitter struggle in the court of Judge Robert Henderson. Judge Henderson sentenced Charles Kuss- maul to 20 years at hard labor and to pay 310,000 to each of the three plaintitfs, Jean Perry VVithington, Patricia Devereaux, and Constance Babcock, who all were suing Kussmaul for breach of promise. Prof.: Your themes were much better than usual, and I will give you credit for them when l include them in my forthcoming work, t'The Futility of Edu- cation. CURTAIN. Paul Illulhern, Rodney Larcom, Nils Olzman, Barbara Schimalz, Ann White. l932 23

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YEARBUUK - Honor Essay lll7lIDIll'lS Far, fill' llOVVll the track, il speck IIIUYUS l'aster allld faster, till it lJf't'Ullll'S El black horse, talil Elllll 11121110 Sll'i'2ll1llllg, galloping lllilllly towalrds El lllll'fllC witll bars of fire. Rising with perfect gralee, he soalrs cleanly over the iililllllllfl' barrier Hllfl leisurely trots tl0Wl1 the course. Without any alpparellt li4'2ll', the horse haul jumped, lllll what long years oi' arduous training haul laid the iiflllllililliflll for that leap. During his D1'Cp2ll'?lil0l1, l1llll1lH I'lt'SN illll4'H he hald kicked Zlllfl ballked at any attempt to force llilll to jlllllll. At last the day Villlli' XVlll'll he not only obeyed, but gloried ill the sense of power. 'l'hen had 001110 the Sllpl'f'I1lP test of his skill ill clearing hurdles-to pass over tire. llut his previous l1'2lllllllgI ren- dered tllis obstacle Slll'lll0lll1f2llll1', tlllil witll a 13l'0llll spirit, he now l'lC'?ll'PCl the fiery bars. S0 have we, il1l'0lllQ'll the years that lie behind us, been Slllllllillllljl' to El Course of training to llltllll the respollsibilities of lite. ln the beginning, our llll1'f,llQS were so low we did not recognize tllelll as such. The first difficulty was speech, the necessity to express Olll' thoughts Elllfl desires. lVe learned uncon- sciously, as we heard the salllle words repealted over Zlllfl over again. Then, also, we had to master the intricacies of strings and buttons. How often, ill those early days, we lJCCHlllt' wilful Elllil angry, refusing to C0114lll6'I' those exasperating shoe strings. These childhood troubles had been overconle NVllQ1l we entered Q,'1'2llIllll?ll' school. A different phase of lite wals O13Oll6Cl to ns. lVe had to learn to adjust ourselves to strange Slll'1'Oll11Lllll2'N, new people, Zllltl lllillly rules. We discovered that our fl'6QClO1ll was Clll'l2lllCLl by a Tllillllltlll course which we had to follow. F1'f5ll1 enjoying a position of great l5l'OllllllQlN'P ill Olll' own ll01llCS, perhaps even that of 'Heyllosllre of llQif2,'lll701'lllQ' eyes, we found ourselves llllllfl'l0f.l witll dozens of our equals. Gradually, we lJPCZl1l1P adapted Zlllfl started to lQ2ll'Il to read alld write, to join XYllll otllers ill QZIIIIGS. XVe were lltllllff prepared for Junior High, so tllat lllill' 1ll0l'l' fUllllillUllS leap. though perceptible, was easy to take. Tllere were new lG?lCll0l'S, new subjects, Elllll the lllOVlllg' i3l'0I11 one P00111 to allotller. For two years we practiced these 1l101'Q advanced activities. But XVllCl1 we reached High School, we were C0llfl'0llll3Cl by a lllllCll higher hurdle. There we found that QYPII the traffic was Pllltlfl. Terrible llligllt be Hlll' Qll1lJ?l.1'l'ElSS11161ll lVl1Gll two oliicers stood before us, and we did not know whether to circle tllelll or pass between. There, too, we discovered that we had i.'Ql'l'2llll periods Dl3l'11lCf,l for study, but possible to use als we pleased. lt was up to us whether we profited by tllelll or wasted theln. Gradually, we learned how to illSil'ilDlllP our OXVII tillle wisely. Moreover, our studies llPC2llllP harder. Vie all had our lVaterloos. One llllgflli he algebra. Zllltlllltnl' orall topics, allotllel' history. Yet we were gentled along Illlfll we had l02ll'llCCl to lllalster wllat had SPClll0f.l hard and unattractive to us. ln additioll to tllese things, we ll0CHl1lf? all organ- ized elass. VVe were faced witll the necessity of elloosillg according to ability and welfare of the group, not by illdividllal prejudice or personal Favor. XVe learned good sportsmanship alld eo-operation lVllGll we lV91ll' out for the various teams. ,lVe knew lVllHlI it was Hto llleet with trilllllpll alld disaster, Hlltl ll'f'2l'E tllose two ilnposters just the SHlIlG.H Now, some of us will go to college to gaill further preparation for the problems of life and the world, but the majority of us face tllelll ilnnlediately. Before us lie great responsibilities. 'We are livillg in a dark and disillusioned age. There are a thousand more problems in the world of today than ill that of yesterday. Civilization was struck a staggering blow by the VVorld VVar, Zlllfl it is still tottering on the brink of destruction. Tllere are big social alld QLlllC?l- l952 25