Mansfield High School - Hornet / Green Years Yearbook (Mansfield, MA)

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“One of the world’s champion typists is Alice Burr, a winner of many medals, and sole proprietor of the Kentucky Wonder Chickery in Cuba. “Raymond Buck is right near-by in France, the president of the Trans-Oceanic Air Lines, connecting Europe and America. Herbert Dunbar has also become interested in aviation, and with Buck is planning a flying trip, in their two seated Curtiss plane, to the moon.” “Yes, but surely some of our former classmates have become success- ful at home?” I interrupted. “Oh, certainly,” John replied. ‘Rose Roman now heads a large dancing ballet troupe, that is playing before crowded halls along Broadway. “A bill has just been introduced into Congress by John Cody, now a prosperous West Mansfield farmer, asking for an increase of three cents in the tariff on Argentine turnips. “George Pritchard and Marshall Shepardson have become world famous as the alternate leaders of the Sargent Brass Band, now touring the tates on funds raised by popular subscription. “Olympia DePrizio, a great lover of Latin, as you know, is teaching at Wheaton College. Olympia intends, in the near future, to put on the market her book The How’s and Why's of Teaching Latin “The Sears Roebuck Stores of Boston boast the management of Miss Madeleine Morse, the winner of the title ‘The World’s Most Accurate Steno- grapher,’ which is given every year by the O-Hook Short-hand Company of Frovidence. “Frank Griswold, commonly known as Punk, has established a bus service between West Mansfield and Mansfield. His motto is ‘Service! When you want it and while you want it.’ “The title of Chief Usher at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston Sa been conferred upon Harriet Ball. Her favorite occupation is the making of seating plans for banquets. ¥ “Nicholas Pazsit, a graduate of the Bentley School of ECoRAT tat has just become a certified public accountant and is opening a suite of offices cn Tremont Street, in Boston. “Ethel Cruser, Alice Forbes, Doris Griffin, and Ruby Aiken are tour- ing the United States in the interest of the J. A. Whitney Co., instructing and pointing out to an unbelieving world, the advantages of its bookkeeping system. “And, of course, you remember Marie Leary. Well, she is now editor of the ‘Foxboro Gazette.’ Her success, she says, was acquired through the rough experiences cf editing the ‘Green Parrot’ in 1929.” “But John,” I interrupted, “what has happened to Marion Cooney and Charlotte Greany ?” “Oh! Marion is an experienced aviatrix, a holder of the women’s endurance record, a stunt flyer of some fame, and noted for her nerve. She intends this summer to try a non-stop flight around the world in her : ‘ six motored plane. “Charlotte is a teacher of Latin in the John Green I .ormal School, [29 ] $+ .f bhi Ay . a!

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Mr. Robinson announced that twenty-one of our class had earned membership in the Pro Merito Society. That is the largest membership in the history of the society in Mansfield High School. Those who were admitted to membership were Ruby Aiken, Harriet Ball, Alice Burr, Ethel Cruser, Alice Forbes, Charlotte Greany, Doris Griffin, John Houghton, Gretchen Knight, Marie Leary, Christine Martin, Albert McGoldrick, Made- leine Morse, Mildred Nordberg, Dorothy O Connor, Nicholas Pazsit, Ruth Rankin, Rose Roman, Marion Valente, Thelma Williams, and Eleanor Ames. The Pro Merito Socicty chose these officers: Alice Burr, President; Eleanor Ames, Vice President; and Harriet Ball, Secretary-Treasurer. Athletics must be mentioned ¢s one of the most successful activities of our senior year. Our basketball team won the championship of the Hockamock Bas- ketball League, and also first place in Class B of the basketball tournament held in Brockton. Mansfield High School was so proud of the boys that we gave a reception and dance in their honor at the Town Hall. The players received gold basketballs, and the school received a silver cup. The seniors who played on the team were Captain Irving Green, Manager John Hough- ton, Henry Houghton, and Bernard Jalbert. In football Captain H. Hough- ton, Manager Cody, Jalbert, Dunbar, and Sehron received letters. The baseball seeson will soon be ended, and Captain Jalbert, H. Houghton, and Sehron will receive letters. The girls on the basketball team who received class numerals were Dorothy O’Connor, Thelma Williams, Marie Leary, Marion Valente, Rose Roman, and Carol MacRae. The following girls also received the school letter: Captain Irene Morse, Manager Thelma Williams, Dorothy O’Connor, Marion Valente, and Carol MacRae. Tonight we begin the last chapter of our class history. We are looking forward to graduation night as the one goal for which we have worked during our high school life. As each starts out to write his own history on the pages of Life, may success and honor crown his efforts. Prophecy of the Class of 1929 By ALBERT E. McGOLDRICK It was the evening of June 18, 1940, a foggy dark day in London. As I was finding my way along Fleet Street after a hard day in my labor- atory, a man coming along, evidently in a great hurry, crashed into me. In surprise and indignation I looked at him. Could I believe my eyes? It was my old friend Johnny Holmes, who, I later found out, was on a week- end trip to Wales in the interest of the Mansfield Cucumber Growers’ Association. I rushed him into a nearby inn and we sat down. “Well, John, this is a great pleasure,’ I said. “It is eleven years since I last saw you. Tell me, how are things at home?” “Oh, things have changed a lot. Our class is all broken up; its members are scattered all over the world. “Edward Sehron is now in India, the proprietor of a huge dictionary factory. It is said that he is starting a new dictionary, entitled Barney’s Revised Pronounciations. [ 28 J

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where she is seeking to drive home to a somewhat doubtful class the principles of conjugating Latin verbs. “Mr. Henry Houghton, a graduate of Technology, who back in our school days expressed great admiration for the deeds of Columbus, Amund- sen, and DeSoto, has decided, along with Mr. Harry Cain, who is represent- ing the National Geographic Society, to put himself on the pages of history by conducting an exploration trip through the wilds of the Amazon River, in search of the long missing white squaws, who, Houghton declares, have been seen by some white men who have been in this district. “Bernard Jalbert has become very successful as an athlete. Brownie is now pitching for the New York Yankees, and fast rising to fame and fortune. “Nancy Treen and Ruth Ring have started a tea room in West Mansfield, which has become very prosperous through the trade of friends in their own large home town. “Eleanor Graham has a good position on the information staff of the ‘Brockton Times.’ ; “The position of head bookkeeper in the Foxboro Company is filled by Gretchen Knight. “Irving Green was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1934, and at present is District Attorney of Chicago. Through his untiring and ceaseless prosecution, he has made the city a safe place for the general public. “Jennie Fiske and Esther Anderson are working for the Collect All Debt Co., of Attleboro. Through their cunning and winning ways they have ewained the title of Attleboro’s best and fastest collectors of debts of all kinds. “Jessica Martin is employed as a private stenographer for the Young Women’s Christian Association in Boston. “Kenneth Rooney, the inventor of the Rooney noiseless airplane motor, recently made public a statement to the effect that he would soon let loose upon the unsuspecting world his latest and best invention, the Ken Powderless shotgun. “Christine Martin is now the advertising agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and is also the editor of the ‘Atlanta Weekly’.”’ “Well John,” I interrupted, “that is certainly great, but what has happened to Eleanor Ames ?”’ “Bleanor Ames? Oh, yes. Well, Eleanor, who has often said she loved the acting of fine deep parts, is very successfully assuming the role of Eliza in her race across the ice floes, in Pastime’s latest picture, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ “Carol MacRae, who, you know, was always a lover of basketball, is now an instructor in this sport at the Great Oak Prep School, in Mary- land. “Thelma Williams is head waitress at Thompson’s Spa, in Boston. She recently upheld her title as Boston’s best looking waitress by winning the title over fifteen other contestants from Boston’s leading hotels. [ 30 J