Natick High School - Sassamon Yearbook (Natick, MA)

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18 THE SASSAMON She has taken up a course in designing, and the winter months are spent in designing dresses for promising debutantes of the season. The golf instructor is Muriel Keniston. She is still very short, not having grown over two inches, but she surely has a wicked swing in her right arm. She says that golfing develops the muscles and is really a good thing for the pupils. She, too, is only employed in the summer time, but in the winter she is employed by a concern in Spain, to go around to the different castles and manors, showing styles of decorating. Elizabeth Putnam is the riding instructor. You know she used to spend her spare time riding all around West Natick, on her father's horse so I guess she is competent enough for the position. She has a great many pupils, and she must make it pleasant for them, because nearly everyone in the school finds horse-back riding a very pleasant subject. Isabelle Church is the singing teacher, and, of course, you know how well that suited her. Isabelle has a remarkable voice, having sung over the radio and at several exhibitions during our last year. She spends her spare time giving concerts, and has as a pianist, Alice Murphy. They give a great many over the radio, and have been the cause of lots of discussion. Alice graduated from Wellesley, after which she went abroad to study music. She is quite an accomplished musician, and, of course, Alice and Isabelle make a great pair, Lillian Hetherington teaches the pupils Latin, and she certainly makes Virgil and Cicero as easy as the comic feature in the Sunday paper. You know, Lill made the High School term in three years, and graduated Pro-Merito, so she must know a lot about the advanced subjects. Alicia Denny instructs the pupils in history, and I am sure that she makes a good teacher. She has overcome her apparent dislike for his- tory, and I suppose that she is a second Miss Coulter by now. This paper says that the Leach Twins, as usual, have both secured positions under government regulation. I wonder if their employer has as much trouble as we did in telling them apart, twenty years ago. They both took the Civil Service Examinations and as they are both brilliant in certain lines, they must have obtained fine situations. VVell, here is a new paper- The Town Tattlerf' I wonder where it came from! Oh, I see, it is edited by Lucile Nichols. I always knew that she would become something like that, because she proved her ability in this line when she was in Natick High. She was a member of the board for three years and the last year she was Editor-in-chief. Her special alumni column is a very interesting one, to say the least. Here is something that would interest any from our class: BELMONT HOTEL-Proprietress, IIelen McMahon. This doesn't exactly seem strange, because Helen was always noted for taking in rumors. Of course, this will require a great deal of talking and also it needs a good business head, but I guess Helen won't mind the former at all! Her

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YEAR Book, 1926 17 Alicia Denny-History Lillian Hetherington-Latin. With Mary as assistant dean I know that the college can do noth- ing else but prosper, because Mary's executive ability is very great. Thelma has always been particularly bright in French, and I know that she will equal Miss Dyer, after several years abroad. It was through the efforts of Thelma, Mary and Dot that this college was estab- lished. Because they thought that the modern girls needed more of an artistic training than heretofore, they are just having the principal things taught in their school, and I am sure they are succeeding quite well. Marjorie has always excelled in Algebra and Math., although she didn't seem to care for common arithmetic when we were in the gram- mar grades together! Dot immediately thought of Marjorie, when they started this school as the perfect teacher for her Algebra pupils. She cabled to Brazil, where Marjorie was staying with a wealthy aunt, and told her to come back to the U. S., as she had a very profitable position for her. I know that Marjorie's pupils enjoy her, in spite of her red hair, for she has always been the best sport ever. Violet Conn was a very quiet, unobtrusive little thing, when she first came to our school, but we found out that she had a brain that that fairly ate up all the English that was fed to it. She proved by the numerous stories that she wrote for our school paper, that English was her favorite subject. She certainly will make a fine teacher for this school. Margaret Stone was the class athlete in '26, She made her' points in everything that had to do with Gym. She has classes every morning, from 6:30 until 7:30, and if she does as well by them as she has done by herself her pupils all have perfect muscles. The only thing that might possibly trouble Peg is that the alarm clock does not ring loudly enough or long enough. She used to hate to get up early in the morning, and I suppose now that she is obliged to, she hates to more than ever. Hilda Smith has made a specialty of swimming, and as Dot wished to include a swimming course in her schedule, they knew that they could obtain no better a teacher than Hilda. She has always been able to swim QI don't imagine many have forgotten the heroine act of twenty years agol, and these last few years she has been around to all the famous beaches, exhibiting her fancy diving. Indeed, she has out-shone Aileen Riggin. The summer course offered by the school consists principally of Tennis, Golf and Horse-back riding. The tennis teacher is Dorothy Walcott, whose agility and fast running make her an expert. I heard not long ago, that she was going to have a match with Helen Wills, this summer-so you see that Dot has used her judgment in select- ing her for an instructor. She is employed only in the summer-time by the college, so that in the winter she is left to her own resources.

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YEAR BooK, 1926 19 head is a very capable one, as all her marks showed, so I think that she will be able to carry on her work without any trouble whatsoever. Why, here is an ad that looks as though I might know the owners of the advertised store! BUY MGRRIS DRESSES! YOU WILL FIND THAT THEY ARE MORE THAN SATISFACTORY IN QUALITY AND PRICE. Why, I believe that must be Nellie Morris. I never knew Nellie very well, because she was very quiet and exclusive. It says here that each dress is modeled and that a perfect fit is guaranteed. The model, Miss Mullen, also does any alteration work that may be desired. Why, the model must be Anna Mullen-at least she went around with Nellie, and I don't think that it could possibly be Louise. Why, surely enough, because down here it says that Miss Anna Mullen has taken a course in dress designing and is capable of making the most difficult alterations. Down here in the left-hand corner is an advertisement for girls to work in the Rafferty Candy Shop, There was a girl in my class by the name of Marguerite, and I wonder if it might not be the same one. As I remember, Marguerite had quite a sweet tooth, and she could always be depended upon to make candy for any of the school affairs. I hope that such a close contact with sweets Won't spoil her girlish figger, because I distinctly remember that she wasn't so terribly thin! It says here that Helen Richardson has taken in her thirty-fifth orphan! The Children's Home, of which she is the matron, seems to be doing a thriving business. Helen was always loving and kind, and I remem- ber that she used to push baby-carriages all around North Natick, in the afternoons, after school, so it is not at all surprising that she has taken this up for her life work. In the Town Talk column it says to be sure to listen over the radio, Tuesday evening, to the talk given by Myrtle Douglas, on How to Keep Your Hair Waved Perfectly. Myrtle's hair certainly was her crowning glory-and she always kept it waved. It says here that she has studied hair-dressing for eighteen years and that she has become a renowned specialist. Perhaps if I go to her she can tell me how to keep from getting bald. On the same night, the nurse, Myrtle Bolser, will give a lecture on The Feeding and Caring of Babies. Myrtle's secret desire for years was to become a nurse, and I see that she has achieved it. Here it says that Genevieve Brady has come home on a two-weeks' vacation. She is an assistant astronomer at Harvard Col- lege, and the hard work has caused her to have a nervous breakdown. Of course, we all realize that star-gazing has its difficulties and that she probably find its quite an object trying to teach the students the different constellations. I know that she should be adept at this, how- ever, because she used to do a great deal of it when she went to school! In another section of the paper it says that Marguerite Dawborn has been promoted from stenographer to the private secretary to Wil- liam Wrigley, the famous gum manufacturer. It will not be hard for