East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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30 I’.wvrrcKKT High School Class Book—1918. She has an ever-increasing appetite if one judges from the number of sandwiches she consumes down in the lunch room. At times is has been known to exceed a half dozen. She hardly has time to finish during recess but very often takes up part of the fifth period in so doing. Hortense is very fond of movies. This fondness has often caused her grief, especially when it lias prevented her from learning her English. We do not know just what Hortense will do next year. Nathaniel Borden Chase. ' Gleaner. '17. '18. This is that very popular fellow with the cherubic countenance and tape-measure proportions, who lends his “Jerry Cruncher” pompadour to grace historic 29. He tried parting it once (Freak Day), but the resuit was a bad match for his eyes, (and officestanding) so he now dispenses with that bother. “Xate is perhaps the best known among us for his activities among the girls, and for the facility and frequency with which he acquires and disposes of fair maidens, it is no doubt due to this natural tendency (the faithless flirt ) that he has so well managed the “Exchanges on the “Gleaner for two years. His wit is criminal. He can catch more fish (including teachers) on the same bait than any other fellow we know, and his bait-inventing genius is positively diabolical. “Texas is a most loyal Uam supporter and good sport, and never is tired of showing his school spirit by providing material to keep the Tatler in business. As for his studies. Miss Holt will vouch that he is one of the most “prominent members of her “Classe fran- •caise . His only regret is that the co-eds do not recite with the Brown fellows. After keeping Brown on the map for four years, he will abandon it to its fate, and attend a textile school. Then he fears he will have to work a little while, 'till he dazzles some beautiful heiress with his charms, and becomes rich for life. Constance Carpenter Capron. Here is Constance, that little, black haired damsel who used to come running into Room 29 at half past eight or at ten o'clock. Conny liked to spend her recesses on the school steps and amuse her friends by bringing kodak pictures to school, and passing them around during School periods. Conny hasn't decided about next year yet. Amos Roland Card. Premier draftsman of the school, that's he, finishing up a year’s work in a little more than a term! In his other studies, however, he takes it easy, and uses all four terms to get his string of 5’s. He is a very bashful boy. A very quiet fellow, he doesn't have much to say except in recitations, when he

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Pawtucket High School Class Book—1918. 29 Mildred Taylor Bray. Mildred is one of our well known classmates whom we always know will appreciate a good joke. She is full of fun and is the president of a lively group of girls known as the “Wah Wah 'Pay See Girls” and she is also ? member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mildred has shown much talent in applied art. and is a fine player on the piano. She is very fond of swimming and other athletic sports. She has not decided what she will do after leaving P. II. S., hut we think that she will enter some finishing school. Elsie Whittemore Brown. Here’s one of our class sharks in the line of typewriting, stenography, etc. Elsie is “right there with the goods” when it come to knowing her lessons, but she also knows how to have a mighty good time. I ler chief diversion is sharpening pencils in that famous corner basket in 29. Another of her favorite occupations is kicking at the way the Athletic Association robs the school. However, Elsie always “sends as good as she gets. so we’d better look out. The wide, wide business world claims this shining light of T8 and fortunate will be the firm which employs Elsie next year. Sarah Elizabeth Browning. Do you know Sadie? Of course you do. She is that short little miss with the dark hair and large black eyes. Her ever ready smile makes friends for her wherever she goes. Is she accomodating ? Well, I guess. Her motto must be the same as a certain body of people we know so well, Do one good turn each day.” She will gain favor with her business friends through her speed in typewriting and her well-arranged letters. I am afraid that we shall not see our little friend long in the business world for something points in other directions. Any Sunday evening you can find her at the close of evening service, among a group of friends. Among these friends, there is one. Who is he? Elsie Hortense Caldwell. Hortense! Just see how her round smiling face beams with joy. And say did you hear that musical giggle resounding through the corridors? That belongs to Hortense also.

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Pawti ckkt High School Class Book—1918 31 makes up for lost opportunities, lie's a fine clarinetist, too. but he doesn't like to play in the orchestra because of the girls. He doesn't know what he will do after graduation, but he has certainly accomplished what he came to school to accomplish, and he is the kind of a fellow 1 . II. S. will always be proud to claim. Thomas Gardiner Corcoran. Captain Debating Team, '17, T8. Class President. Gleaner Board, T8. Football. '17. Debating, T5. 17, '18. Lyceum President, T8. Treasurer Dramatic Society, '18. In the four years that Gardiner has been with us he has received almost everything that the school could give him. He started in his Freshman year by making the school debating team and he has been going ever since. He surprised us a little by making the football team this year. Theoretically Gardiner is an anti-suffragist and woman hater but when he learned that he couldn’t have the write-up for a certain fair member of the class, he nearly broke up the meeting. In dramatics Gardiner always had hard luck by getting the rich old uncle parts. This cut him out of the final close up in which the hero embraces his future wife. He usually made up for the misfortune behind the scenes. Next year Gardiner will wear a little brown cap with a white button. Bertha Helene Cote. There's a black-eyed maid in 29, And she is wondrous wise: 8he fools the teacher when she can. And when she can't, she tries. (Apologies to Mother Hubbard.) That is not exactly fair to Bertha, who almost always knows her lessons perfectly. On the morning that she dosen't. however, she is always called upon for the hardest questions, and it is in memory of those times that the above verse (?) was,written. She has also shown great aptitude for debating, and could certainly have made the first squad. That talent, seconded by real business ability and a most happy disposition, will be of great value to her in negotiating for a raise in the business world. Dorothy Louise Cheek. Class Pianist, '17, '18. Gleaner Board, '17, '18. “Hello, Dottie! Coming home?” No I'm going up to lab This is Dot at one P. M. any day. “Chem is her hobby and she usually has her experiments done before all the