East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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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

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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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32 Pawtucket High School Class Book—1918. rest of the class. She loves to give her uninitiated friends dissertations on potassium chlorate, sodium bicarbonate, etc. etc. She is very fond of both football, and baseball, but she likes tennis best of all. and considers a game of doubles much more interesting than singles (especially when.she has a partner who can loft and play “net etc. wonderfully.) Dot is very patriotic and helped make '18 famous by the stupendous sacrifice of abolishing the class supper. Another side of her patriotism is shown by the way she plays the Star Spangled Banner for the school in the hall. She has made a fine class pianist and had the honor of playing a solo at graduation. So many out side activities have made demands on Dot’s time, we wonder how she has been able to swing everything and yet do so well in school. Next year she will go to that fine woman’s college just across the river from Amherst! Never mind. Dot, we know you'll give P. H. S. a good name at Mount Holyoke. Angela Patricia Collins. You may think that Angela is an angel simply because her name has an angelic sound to it but you've got the wrong number. We tearfully admit that there is no relation whatever between Angela and the heavenly sisters, and also—brazenly perhaps—that we're glad of it. It may not be generally known but we received a tip that certain males of the senior class are “wild, simply wild over curly hair. Another year may find Angela helping make some man's life (of course we refer to business) smoother, and we’re unanimous in assurance of her success in that line. Catherine Helena Corden. Catherine is a studious young miss, we should judge by her recitations and marks; but this doesn't keep her from having a good time. Catherine always sees the funny side of things. She cannot be accused of too much talking and she is well liked by all who know her. We arc sure she will shine at Normal School next year. Eugene Roscoe Conary. Officer of Lyceum. '17. 18. Class Historian. “Gene floated to us on the wings of the Rhode Island Company one “Sophomoric” morning from the wilds of Providence, but despite his unfortunate past, we treated him like a brother, even copying his algebra and borrowing his money. He is the only pump that has kept the Lyceum from going under both this year and last, and has been an important and valuable Gleaner man. A deep thinker and hard worker, he is the joy of his teachers and has done much for the school during his stay, but always in a quiet, unobtrusive and sacrificing way. His classmates showed their