Haverhill High School - Thinker Yearbook (Haverhill, MA)

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I sald Yvonne Provost have devoted my llfe to haylng a good tlme When I see Dorothy Pendleton and Gladys Qmlth practlcally fmdmg out a peaceful hermlt age ln order to gam knowledge unmolested I am perfectly contented wxth my own cholce Isn t It great that ohn Plerce IS commg to Haverh1ll3 exclaimed another They say he rs better than Caruso and I shall certalnly go to hear hlm Do you remember how he used to cut a few mlnutes off our French recltatxon by hrs solos ln Chapel3 I-Irs brother Llncoln IS now a doctor Have you heard about Bunker3 He made such a hut wlth the gurls ln the lower classes that everv tlme he goes out he has to be surrounded bv police to protect hlmself from thelr advances Good for Macdougall broke ln a volce whlch I knew to be George ohnsons He let Sherman Kxmball off for the mght Seelng my perplexxty George kmdly elucldated Sherm IS a warden or somethmg llke that at the qtate PYISOD and Macdougall the Progressxve governor of Massachusetts allowed hlm to come to mght as a speclal favor They are talkmg over old tlmes now By the wav My ron Morse IS comedian at Kelth s I am l1v1ng on a new plan sald Elsle Robbms I slmply let everythlng sllde When I heard that Etta Smart was sojournmg ln a samtarlum because she had studled too consclentxously I lmmedlately reformed mv ways Thls from the studlous Elslel Dld you know that Mlldred Emerson had gone to France3 asked PTISCIIIH Thayer She IS Engllsh Instructor IH a convent there and her youthful ways qulte shock the Stald slsters Harold Drew IS m France too for smce the Phllomathlan exhlbltlon he has consldered hlmself a tvplcal Frenchman You know he never was shy about expresslng h1s good op1n1on of hlmself If Klbby had been all he thought hlms lf he would indeed be llttle lower than the angels' He says he IS enyoylng hlmself nearly as much as when he used to try to bluff thru an Engllsh recltatron I prefer Germany and lntend to stop there for a long v1s1t next year Seemg that Rats Colby was modestly endeavormg to attract attentron to hlmself I turned to h1m and sald Well Rats' as happy as when vou were the hlt of the school as the Egyptlan mummy3 Rats blushed and whlspered nervously Please don t mentlon those awful thlngs At present I er I am a mlssxonary FIVE mlnutes later I recovered A grave and prosperous lookmg gentleman appeared who proved to be the ex dntor of the Eltrurlan Of cours you are an edltor Lyman3 I asked What magazme3 Llterary Drgest Popular M chan1cs3 None of those replled Van d r Pyl the Gazette I devote an entlre column to school notes every mght The Alumm department of the Eltrurlan IS remarkably good now Last month I read lt and learned that Celia Carter IS a teacher nn New York drawxng an immense salary because she has attamed more knowledge than any other mortal The Carleton gurls are stlll rustlcatmg ln Rosemont and are ladies of lelsure altho both are accomplished m all the ICITIIFIIDC graces Alxce Cunnmgham IS a stenographer and her engagement to her employer has been announced I -sus.-Q.ts.-s..s..s..s..s..s.-s..,.-5.-sus..s..s..s.-Q.-sux..s..,..,. ,,,.,..,. .s.-Q.-Q.-shsus.-S.. s 4 1 1 - 4 4 . . . Q , . - - , . . , 5.1 ' 7 ' I . , . . . 1 ' 1 Y C I Y ' 'I ' ' ' n 9 V I I K 1 Q I ' ' 9 9 I6 I 1 . - - . u 65 5 1 ' ' ' 7 V . . C S . 1 u Q v 1 u 1 . V , . H . . . . www - v v 1 9 y - V Y V ' . . Y , - . . y Q . , , . . , , . . . 4 , . . . , . . . . . . , , . . . , M . . U . . - , . . 4. . . . . . . v ' 5 7 Q . C , ' 9 - - s u 7 . . , , . v Q - , . - Q - A L 9 - - , . - - 1 Y Y, , 7 ,Q C . C I I V l 6 I ' ' D C , . . . . , . , , o , ., . ll 9 9 ' ' D . . W , e , . 1 . v V 1 - v , . ! 9 , . Q--sus.-gas-vs--5.asus--1.vs-asus-as-vs--Q.-Q.-sux-ns.-sus-usnga-unsung.-Q.-sus.-sux-use sus-

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melody day and night whlle L na Allen held the important pOSltlOn of post mistress rn the Bradford post OfI'.lC6 Ellzabeth True was an artlst s mcdel and rumor had lt that smce that partlcular artlst began pamtmg Betty he had made mlllrons could sell hrs plctures whether they had real artlstrc value or not Llkewlse Marxan Rogers about whose profile people used to rave Katherme Baxter and Ollve I'Noel were stlll together runnmg a qualnt book store on Washmgton Street where one mlght find Mary Curtm Kathleen Fennessey Harold Kennev and George Leavltt ponng oy er the volumes ln characterrstlc studlous fashron When I was just longlng for a new source of mformatlon Aus Turner fell mto the chalr next mme wlth her customarv grace I asked the usual questlon What are vou do1ng3 Same thrng sard Aus as cheerful as eyer takmg care of chrldren my own now There s Ruth Emerson She cast aside all mundane pleasures and devoted all her trme and bralns to poetry wlth such marvelous success that the works of Mrlton and Tennyson have been dropped from the school courses as mere doggerel Hazel McKee with twentleth century contempt for femlmne tasks has enlisted ln the suffragette army and was recently promoted to the rank of lleutenant Anme WllIl3mS3 Oh she couldn t exist ID thls wlcked world long she IS leadlng a lone existence on an Island ln mld ocean surrounded only by books Ethelyn Ramsdell and Ellzabeth Caswell horrlfied by the lncreasmg frlvollty of llfe ln Haverhlll are devotlng thelr young llves to mrsslonary work 1n Indla and lt IS sand that they have had unusual success every natlve IS at ihelr feet IH adoration What IS Ralph Buttrxck do1ng3 I asked He used to get truly remarkable marks ln Engllsh He IS wrltmg a book on H H S as I Have Found It It seems Buttrlck learned 1rony as well as other thlngs ln 2l2 and rt knocks some of us rather hard But he lsn t the only author nn our Class Bub Byard has just published a pamphlet entltled How to Run Everythmg Clrls Included George Smlth wrote an lnterestmg essay on auto moblles whlle he was detalned rn the lower conflnes of the Clty Hall for speedmg That rs a wonderful creatlon adormng Marlon MacGregor s head I interrupted Yes lt came from the Laskey Mllllnery Store Etta and Sadie own a hugh prlced store on Merrxmack Street and every one trades there even Marlon Bryden who moves ln the hlghest crrcles of New York soclety Notxce the gown Catherme Donahue IS wearmg That came from Daphne Dean s establlshment nt IS one of the least complr cated of her creatrons which are the most darrng and orlgmal ln all New York Gage as Master of Ceremonles now announced that we must go up to the balcony as the floor was to be cleared for dancing I stopped to lnqulre for Fred s welfare and havlng learned that after falling as Creek professor at Harvard he was teachlng astronomy 1n Bradford Academy I mounted the clrcular starr way and found a seat rn the balcony Here I found a group of glrls dxscusslng everybody wlth old time famlllarlty and klndness 3 I heard them talkxng about a languld young lady gowned ln the very latest Pans model It was Pauline Prescott who had been on the stage smce she made such a hat IH Nephew or Uncle -54114-Q.-snxuss.Q.-Q.1s.-s-1s.1x.-susan--sus.-Q.-snsnsns.-Q-ss41snQ-1s.1so1Q-vsus. 'unsus- f I 9 - , ., . . , . . . s , V - 1 . . V . . . - 1 U , 1 1 1 , 1 1 ' - . . . . , 5 - . ' ' -1 . 1 , , , . . , . . , 4 . . 1 1 1 ' 1 - ' - 1 1 1 - , V 1 - s , 1 . . . . 1 . . , 1 ' v - 1 . W y - 1 - - 1 1 s A - ' - v v 4 4 - - 1 1 H . . . , , . . . . . . 1 , . . . . . 4 . . , . . . . . . . . . , , u - - - - 1 1 1 - , . . 5 , . . . . . . ' .- , . v 1 1 . 1 . . . . . , - . . . . . . , , 1 . 1 1 1 . . . , - 1 1 1 1 ' 1 v - c' D 1 ' 1 - - ss 11 1-S01--susnsns.as-vs.-1-'sus-1snsns.-s.1s-1s.-sns--snsusnsnsnsa-s--s.11--s-1sns--Qnxusug -5

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And Frna Dow ns3 I asked She rs rn socr ty and entertarnrng Dorothy Tyler at present Dot marrred a forergn count wrth a name as unpronounceable as I-Irc VI hrtmore s mrddle one Frances Page and I-Iortense Prerce have opened a tea room but rt wrll soon be closed because both farr damsels have all they can do to keep the fellows away Grace Sanders Laura Southwrck and Hazel ones are bookkeepers stenographers etc at Frank Trayers n w factory Frank also employs Frank Small and Clrnton Smrth as foremen Here Marron Taylor rnterrupted as usual and asked rf I had heard about Katherrne Weston She rs runnrng for suffragette presrdent of the bnrted States crred Marlon gleefully and I am her prrvate secretary Then she unfurled a banner bearrng the d vrce Votes for Women and hung rt upon the gvm wall This created a general drsturbance among the men and Bralnerd emerged from hrs usual quretude long enough to protest vrolently agamst the proceedrng But Marlon brandrshed an umbrella whrch she carrled for such emergencres and once more peace prevarled Only for a moment however for Cranvrlle began a famrllar drssertatron upon hrs great popularrty at Hrgh whrch Moore promptly disputed Nora Lane settled the matter by saymg that smce both had been so modest durmg therr respectrve careers rn l9l4 no on could justly say wnrch had exerted the most rnfluence on the rest of the Class Tho Maurrce was a lawyer and Fred a judge of the Supreme Court where even a lrfe s nt nce sound d pleasant when grven rn hrs melodrous ton s both voted Nora a comp tent Judge Drd you s the Olymprc gam s last year3 asked Elmer Whrttrer wno had become proprretor of a large hardware concern The Amerrcan team rncluded such stars as Frtzgerald S gal Malcolm and Chrrstran so we had to wrn They made such a hrt over there that they have kept them there and we never expect to see our heroes agarn The orchestra wrth ones at the prano now began a popular prece just about as classrc as rn the days of the Senror socrals and the floor was rmmedrately thronged wrth dancers Over rn a corner I saw Myrna Ray and Bertha Stoleskr frantrcallv endeavorrng to lnstruct therr partn rs Bolan and Caswell rn the art of the latest dance rn whrch knowledge they wer prtrfully lackrng There was osephme Hanscom dancrng as madly as when she used to shock the Faculty almost to paralysrs and was the envy of tnose who could trrp rt less fantastrcally After the first dance Katherrn Sheppard whose gown was even worse than the fabled blue skrrt ga we up m desparr and came to srt besrde me I trred domestrc lrfe sard Kate confldentrally but rt was too much for my rntellect So I came back to the socral yn orld and spend all my trme chaperonrng A D S and Unrt affarrs It rs very pleasant I lmagrned that rt would be Tell me I sard what drd they do for a pramst when ones graduated3 Oh they frnally packed the plano away rn cotton battmg and the Senrors now march down the arsle accompanied by the whrstlmg of the lower classmen ones rs drrector of some brg orchestra she concluded rndefrmtelv There s Margaret Svlvester What s Peggy s latest3 -s.1Q.,s.1111s.'s1.Q.-sus.1s-fs.1Q41Q.1Qns11s11s1.s.1s.1Q.1s.1Q.-s- vxnsn-s11s.1s11snQ-1s. -sus.-Q11Q if ' ' .4 . . , , . . . . . - P , . . A N' .1 ' - V l . . . I . 1 . 1 il ' 1 . 1 1 , . . Q 1 V ., 1, f . 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 , , . . . W . , . . . - 1 1 L l ' 9 V ' r , . . H , , . . P C , i . 1 , . 1 1 r , . 1 Q r V . 1 1 1 Q Q 1 a ., 1, 1. 1. , Q as - - 1 1 - - 1 no Q V .1 .. . , . , , . . ' 1: 1 V I 9 9 ' . 1 1 , . 1 ,I 1 1 1 1:1 V S 9 I Q 1. . , 1 I . . . V o V 7 1 . , , . . . , . . . 4 4 . 1 1 1 1 - , . . . . . . . 1 . . . 1 1 1 1 . , , . . . - 1 . .I 1 7 ' H . . . . 1 1 Y KI . . , , . . 1 1 ,, ' A1 1 1 1 1 1 J . . 1s11Q11s11Q.1s.1s1aux.-s11511x1.sux-1s1-s.1s.1Q1-11-11 1Q.-sus. 1s.1s1-s.-s1-s.1s- -51-sus.-Q-1s11s11s 4 I