Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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CLASS OF 1924 13 GIA S iain) ll Gaye By HELEN FOSTER I stood before a fruit store in the good old city of Boston. It was a fine spring morning in the year 1935. My eye was attracted to a very large and luscious-looking watermelon in a lovely green coat. I paid a dollar for this delicacy and went home well pleased, but lit- tle did I realize how much I was getting for my money. Later I Siarpemed a knife and cut my melon in two, also extracting the seeds. Returning a few minutes later, I found the halves of my Iruit cull Of juice. No matter what any one says or thinks, I shall always believe that a fairy touched my watermelon and cast a spell Overt orlthere before my startled gaze I can see mirrored the members of the class of ’24 as they are on this pleasant spring day mites, “One by one I see my classmates, and a peculiar power comes over me whereby I can tell what they have been doing. The first I see in the juice of my watermelon is Norma Parker, whom I should know anywhere on account of her rather large nose. Norma is just the same now as'she ever was, although she stands in a department store window all day as a dress model. It must be a terribie strain to have to keep quiet all day. There’s Leonard Bees; to be sure he looks somewhat different, but he is a movie actor. What do you know about that? Personally, I thought. he had too long a neck, though; didn’t you? Speaking of long necks reminds me. Whatever became of Marjorie Elliot? Why, there she is now, and of course Anna Johnson is with her. Marjorie married a minis- ter, and Anna married the minister’s brother. I don’t know which to pity the more, the minister or Marjorie, Alice Parker, Helen Wright, and Dorothy Scully are staying at Palm Beach, where one Of the best sights is to see Alice Parker make a fancy swan dive. Mildred Lawrence is no w Mrs. Ray Quinn, but we all expected that, anyway. “AA new scene unfolds before my eyes. It is the big college known tOvevery One as Everdale. It seems to be a gala day, with every one in his best clothes. All the graduate students who could possibly get there are to be seen on the campus. There'is to be a huge parade of graduate students; so I was not surprised, as I looked, to see a crowd all dressed up in funny costumes. First comes the brass band. Then on a horse all dressed up in ribbons sits a smiling-faced young man known to all as Alden Hull. He has on! a mask which makes his face look like that of a monkey. Well, Alden always was up to monkey shines, anyway. There’s Waldo Putnam in the next row. I could See him easily for the reason that his body generally reminded one Of a corn stalk. Three whom I used to know are in clown costumes. These are Donald Geary, Francis Sweeney, and James Sullivan. I wonder whether their costumes were a little misleading or not, Ac-

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12) LEOMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL ment, with R bert Comiskey as Mayor and many other classmates holding important offices. In May came the Senior Play, “The Charm School,’ which was ranked with the other successful activities of cur Class. And now the history of the Class of 1924 is almost ended, and while we do not know what our histoiy will be in the future, we do know that with the knowledge gained in Leominster High School we have a very good chance of making our own histories as happy and interesting as that of the Class of 1924.

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14 LEOMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL cording to dress, Harold Lyon, Charles Porter, and Carlton Larrabee are sheiks. I always suspected Harold was a sheik, but I never thought that of Carlton; he has always been such a good little b y. I turn my eyes from the parade to the campus, where a lawn party is in progress. The female sex predominates, and here and there I can see girls I have known. In one group of girls are to be seen Norma Abbott and Omigene Fookes, who were chosen as brides- maids when the Prince of Wales married an American heiress. Doris Hunt has become a great huntress. She goes to Africa often and has caught two tigers already. I recognized Laiti Thompson among those present. She seems to be as popular with the sterner sex aS she was in her High School days. She has obtained two di- vorces so far. I womder if Mr. Porter’s teaching has influenced her much. Arline Kivlan is now a famous pantomime actress, and Eliza- beth Kenney is her colleague. They are talking together, and this is what is said:— “By the way, Elizabeth, I was back in our old home town the other day, and can you guess whom I met? Well, I met Clara Healey. She has risen to the heights in the art of writing essays, but in stat- ure it is sadly otherwise. I hear Jean Meekham is a model Sunday School teacher and is actually superintendent of a Sunday School. Elizabeth, you remember Alma Grimes and Ruth Chaser )iieyee local politicians and can pull the vote to suit themselves. I also met Dorothy Garland. She told me Celia Marquis, Dorothy McCann, and Margaret Conrad had moved away from the city and were traveling about lecturing on ‘Chimpanzees.’ Now whether these young ladies were ever well acquainted with monkeys except in a looking-glass I don’t know; but at any rate they give splendid lectures. Harcld Murley is a doctor, and one may see him any afternoon at a baby clinic. Elmer Fitzgerald and Stephen Maloney have been working for the last two years on a new translation of the Bible. Helen Wil- lard married a man two weeks after she first saw him. He was hand- some, but it was found out afterwards that he was mentally unbal- anlced. That is a lesson to us to look before we leap.” “Well, you had your little speech, Arline; now I want to say a word or two. I received a letter from Eleanor Meyer, who is living in New York’now. She and Mariel Boutelle are chorus girls and are up every night until the next morning. Eleanor Gorham and Doris Sargent are in New York too. They are police women. I fancy they would look nice wearing a shiny badge. Eleanor also said that Mary Mullen was an actress, but Clarence, her husband, put an end to her career by slipping a gold band on her left hand. Frank Pebhr- son married a chorus girl, and Frank says she can cook things which can actually be eaten. Gertrude Lambert, Marion Luce, and Eme- line Wood are said to be nurses of the first class. Ruth Young has learned the paper-hanging trade. She must need an extra tall lad- der. Hilda Allen and Florence Olson are detectives. Leo O’Donnell has become a priest, while Henry La Croix is a dealer in ladies’ silk