Girls Vocational School - Sun Dial Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

Page 12 text:

THE TRADE TACKLER l5.i .1L1. HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1935 fContinuedj Lost Children, was presented by the Dramatic Club. Every one said the players did very well. The remainder of that winter went very fast. Ann had taken home to her mother a letter about the newly-organized Parent-Teacher Association. Mrs. Bauernschmidt was to address the January meeting. Many a P.-T. A. letter have I brought home since then, Ann remarked as she turned a page. Remember? The meetings used to be held in Mrs. Colbe'rt's old room in the Washington Street Building. It seems so long ago! Then at last, that long-waited-for day arrived-the term had ended and each student was holding and eagerly examining a report. In February, the Art Club made a visit to the Art Museum and a Senior Dance was held in the gymnasium of School No. 27. Then an exciting day for the members of the Glee Club-they were on the air broadcasting over Station WCAO. Ann had listened in and felt that they had done honor to our school with their worthy efforts. April 13 was a very special date. Charles had been warned far in advance to be sure to reserve it for the operetta. As they sat through' the performance of In Old Vienna, they decided that success is not a good enough word to describe it. It was much better than that. The biggest Parent-Teacher meeting of the year was on May 22. Girls in nearly every class in the school took part in a fashion show for the parents' entertainment. Some of us modeled hats, dresses, suits or pajamas, while others showed various styles in hairdressing. The Business Senior Class that year gave a Tea Dance for the purpose of raising funds for a gift for the school. This pleasant affair was also in May. The month of June was filled with events that always precede Commencement. Most of them were Senior activities, in which we Juniors were not expected to partici- pate. However, we looked on from afar, as it were, feeling a deep interest in every- thing that happened. Ann had made notes about the Senior Prom, held at Schwaab's Hall on June 1, the picnic at Paradise Beach on June 5, Field Day at Jackson Place on June 8, and, finally, Commencement at Polytechnic Auditorium on June 20. The entries made during the summer looked very interesting but we skimmed over them and found September 6, the date on which our Senior year began. How dif- ferent everything seems V' Ann had Written, All classes are now in one building, some of the teachers are newg and I confess I don't feel quite at home. But I am sure I shall like it when we get settled in our new surroundings. In a few days, the school was running according to schedule and the routine was established so thoroughly that nothing unusual occurred for some weeks. Ann was pleased to have her mother taking an active interest in school affairs. She re- corded dates of P.-T. A. meetings and one of Dr. Weglein's regional meetings at Poly. The event that made the deepest impression on Ann during October was Dorothy Dow's visit to Girls Vocational School. If I ever learn to type as Miss Dow does, she had written, I hope some typewriter company will take me on a world tour. November was a month of elections. Ursula O'Connell, fC0ngimwd on next payed 10

Page 11 text:

THE TRADE TACKLER 1- . HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1935 Bly Frieda Younghans RECENTLY I spent an afternoon with one of my classmates whom I had never visited before. She had many interesting things to show me, but the one that I most enjoyed seeing was just a little book. We had been talking, as school girls often do, about les- sons and teachers and graduation. Then our thoughts wandered back over the events of the past two years and soon I began to feel that we two girls had so much in com- mon that we should not let Commencement Day separate us from each other. Ann must have felt that same warmth of friendship, for suddenly she reached for a little blue book and said, Frieda, I'm going to let you read my diary. You'll find some of my deepest secrets in itg but I don't mind. I want you to see some of the things I've written about G. V. S. since the day we began our junior year. The hour that followed was like the rolling back of a lovely velvet curtain. The fioodlights of memory revealed picture after picture of days at G. V. S. as we read through the pages of the little blue diary. On September 8, 1933, a new fall term had started. We were then only beginners in a strange and different school. Am I going to like it? Ann had written, Time will tell. Soon there appeared almost daily entries about an oratorical contest on The Merits of the N. R. A. There was a preliminary contest in assembly one dayg and Doris Purdy was selected to represent G. V. S. in the inter-school contest at Polytechnic. On November 8, at night, the school was to hold an open house session. Ann was very excited because her mother and her boy friend were coming. What will my teacher say to Mother? And what will Charles think of the way I work in sc-hool?', we read. Next came the Student Council election, with its lively campaigning and the pep assembly. After election day, Ann had made this entry: I like every girl that was elected to office. Imogene Wain is president, Fannie Clark is vice-president, and Mary Rhoads is secretary and treasurer. I'm glad I did my part to help them win. There was a note for November 27 about a supper which the Associate Alumnae of G. V. S. had in the Corner Cupboard Tea Room. Ann was there to help sell copies of The Trade Tackler and she was wondering how it would seem after she had gradu- ated to come back to Alumnae meetings. In December there were numerous entries about thc annual bazaar. Ann ani Charles had spent the whole evening there--most of it in the dance hall. There was mention of a senior class meeting-the first time the Class of '34 had met. Even the juniors were interested in what had probably taken place and Ann had lregun to wonder who would make a good president when the Class of '35 should organize. Christmas was creeping up through the pages of the diary, and on December 21 Ann had written about the carol assembly with lantern slides and tableaux, which had taken place that day at School No. 27, where all G. V. S. assemblies and gym. classes were held in those days. On December 22, the play, fCon.timaed on uecvt pagel 9

Page 13 text:

THE TRADE TACKLER l-l1.. 11- -.. - --1 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1935 QContinuedj Elsie Jarvis, and Mary Madden became officers of the Senior Classg and after a fiery campaign, Catherine Felling, Dorothy Airey, and Priscilla Hurley were elected to the offices of the Student Council. Do you remember the speeches that were made in assembly to introduce the various candidates? Ann asked. I think when I am fifty years old, I shall still be able to repeat my speeches word for word, I answered. It was in November, too, that hats and capes for the City College band were made by our girls in the needlework trades. Those girls will long remember that job-and the game, too, I dare sayli' was Annis comment on the subject. A little farther on, we found this entry: Our Glee Club is really stepping out. They are to sing at Lehman Hall on Sunday afternoon. I think Cl1arles and I will go to hear them. December again came quickly upon us trying hard todo away with the old year. On the fourteenth, we had our bazaar, the first one to be held in our new home on Jackson Place. How we did work to make that bazaar a success! Ann's entry for that day was as follows: Everywhere I went I saw Seniors helping-in the Tea Room, in the Twin Shops, along the corridors, at nearly every booth, at the minstrel show. It was grand, but now that it is over, I am too tired to even write about it. Then just before Christmas, when the stores were doing a very heavy business, many of us were sent out for a few days of work. Ann was among those who worked in a 'department store. Isn't it splendid 3 she wrote at the end of her first day. I'm actually earning money, and I'll be able to get some extra things for Christmas. What a lot I do owe to Girls Vocational School! I shall probably miss the Christmas play and I am sorry about that because I know it will be good. The outstanding events in January, 1935, were a fashion show given in assembly by the Dressmaking and Millinery Departments and a Tea Dance given in the gymnasium by the Senior Class. February brought a new semester-the last one before graduation. On March 2, the Seniors had a dance at Schwaab's Hall. Events that took place in the spring of 1935 were so fresh in our minds that we scarcely needed the diary to help us recall them in their proper order. Our memory of those days is one long series of attendance charts, ticket-selling contests, safety posters and exhibits, fire drills and assemblies. But clearer and brighter than all, stands the memory of Friday evening, April 5, when our operetta, The Belle of Barcelona was presented before the largest audience that ever attended a' per- formance sponsored by Girls Vocational School. Among the last notes in Ann's diary was one about a photographer coming to school one afternoon to take pictures for the year-book. That makes me realize that graduation time is almost here, I remarkedg and as we gazed thoughtfully at the remaining pages of the little blue book, they seemed to lose their blankness and to show forth the rest of the story of the Class of Thirty-five. I was conscious of warm, yellow sunshine, the fragrance of honeysuckle and roses, and in the silence, I could hear the hum of bees. Then, through it all came the strains of our class song, and I could see girls in white sitting on a large stage before a vast audience. Ann was speaking, I think I'd like to live it all over again, she was saying. My dream was broken, but I knew that I had seen a vision that would come again and then remain for long years a memory of the past. 11