Norwalk High School - Reminiscentiae Yearbook (Norwalk, CT)

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W IHWMIIMIHHIIIWI mmummmImImuuuummumntImmmmmmuImuuImnuumunumummIummmummmnmmuu ummmu mummmmmmmuuuImummummmnunnmmmmm Kl Wlllllllllmlllilllllllllllllllllllll'; - . lllllll'llll'liIllliiltllilll'llll I5 323'lllilllllllllllliIMHHHHMNIIW 3g. cf: 5. T ,, 73; TFN - lt': a .: 3;sz r . .. m ?MJHW r. ,. .:.3 A..- ngX- lllli t v-e, x3; l llllllllllllillllIlllllllllllllllllllllllll of our class should be as high as theirs. Now we faced our Senior year which was to prove the fullest year we had yet experienced. Athletics were taken up with new enthusiasm. They had, in late years, been falling off. But now they took on a new life. Football was again intro- duced. On November 2, two affairs of great importance occurred. We won our first football game; and Mr. Harding was elected President of the United States. Games of all sorts interested us. Baseball and basketball held their share in our interests. Both were well attended and applauded. The girls, whose athletics had almost entirely fallen off, now had a basketball team. While making no great name in athletics, we certainly advanced an appreciable amount. TWe are justly proud and cannot say too much for those who played on our teams. Their strenuous efforts to ltput things over the topH deserve the highest credit. A word of praise must also be given our coaches, Mr. Clavell and Miss McMahon whose aid and work helped to put our teams where they were. There were many things for our class to attend to; much business lay before us. We instantly began to attack it. The daily battlefield was the : assembly hall. Many a brave struggle went on in this room, many a matter was proposed, debated, and rejected or passed. Through all the storm and strife of various battles, we managed to accomplish our purpose. Our first step was to choose our class officers. Then various committees were appointed. Now our real business was begun. We chose for our class colors, Green and Gold; for our class motto, ITVincit qui se vincitf tllele conquers who ccnqners himself? Let us hope that every one of us carries this through life. Each year the Dramatic Club has presented a big play. In all the preceding years this presentation has made quite a success. This year the Dramatic Club production surpassed those of all past years. The play, tlIt Pays to Advertisef was presented in the Regent Theatre on April 8. Under Miss McMahons able coaching the play was successful and very much praised. Our Senior Class Play was a musical play, ltSpringtimeW We followed the example of other classes in having a musical play, which proved to be very suc- cessful. This play was presented in May, Friday the thirteenth. The super- stitious ones of us were rather dismayed. However, optimism won the day. Friday was blue Friday for part of the class each week. For the other lllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllll part, it was more or less relief. For then were given out the pieces for the weekly assembly. To those that received the pieces, the day was blue. The rest of us delighted in their dismay and assured them that aside from a hollow feeling, trembling of the knees, and a feverishness of the brow. reciting in the assembly was the most pleasant indoor sport ever heard of. After reading other class histories, I am glad to say that my class has never fallen below that standard of activity, progress. and quality which was set down by former classes as the true and only standard. In respect to our studies, not unlike all classes, we certainly have had our tloff-daysf, as it were, days when one or two of our teachers could not help but considering ns tlthe worst class : : a - .- .- .- -. .- 2 a a a. a a S a :. 5 W a a a a. a a a a .N a a ' a a - a a E a a a a W a - a K E : c: .. : 5 : - : E E 2. z - -. .- ... a .- .1: .- a .- .- :1 1: :- z W : .. ' s : ...., :2 :- .. .- E W E a a W Q T Ium: 9G! t IJKT'f: . HIHIIUWIIHMILWIIIJWNIMIM -;1 I t w ' T l b all vj : $ Ml IlIUTlll :nli lf.rTT l f iWEA IL A'- Sixty-seven

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.'- he: , W, ,2 I MilmllmllhII'IHHIHHIIIII IW .- .. Ly vll qzx- 1.3 I . QWHlllllllllllllilllllllIllllllllllE'f III; ' lllllllllllllllllllllllll Hmmmmllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli: Although we may forget all about the fire at Norwalk High, soon after we graduate, nevertheless while we were in school, we thought that fire very impor- tantefor there was no school for two days. 07Ve wontt forget thatl Well, ,twas a dreary, rainy night in the month of February; to be exact, ttwas about six olclock in the evening of the fourth mm. All was quiet in the town of Norwalk, even more so around that part which borders the High School. Suddenly the people, eating their supper after a hard days work, were aroused by the clang-clang of an approaching lire-trnck. W'ithin live minutes the firemen were at work at theeeyes, it was the High School. It took only another five minutes before a crowd of High School students came running from all directions. Smoke was pouring out from all the windows; broken;ebut alas, hthe building stood! The firemen kept up their good work until after nine o'clock. Most of the High School members of the crowd went away satislied that their books had been pretty thoroughly damaged. sNo such luckewe were given only a two-day vacation! As to the cause of the fire, this was generally conceded to be spontaneous combustion. The tire seemed to have started in the coal bin; it worked its way across to the engine room but did no serious harm there, the greatest damage being done where the flames worked up to the Hoor above. Wires were burned as the fire quickly reached the ceiling and ate its way through the hoor of Room 18. This room stood the brunt of the attack; the floors and walls were not only eaten by the flames, and soaked by the stream of water, but also hacked with axes ; the desks and chairs were ripped up. Except for minor damages, nothing else was injuredethanks to ttDocfl Fisher. KtDocfl was coming down the hill past the high school when he saw an unusual volume of smoke rising from the chimney. ttMethinksF said ttDoefl to himself, ttthat such a density of smoke is a bad omen. And therewith he ran to the basement door, unlocked it, entered:- there before him wasemore smoke. ltAhaf, said ttDoe. TI am right? Then he tried to go upstairs to phone the fn'e station but the smoke was so thick that he was forced to go back. Nearly stiffled, but retaining his calmness, tlDocfy rolled downstairs. Then he ran across the way to a neighboring house and sent in an alarm. lllmllllmlllllmlllllllllllllllllmllllImlllWilli lllllllllllllllllmlllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllll l l iIllllillllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllll HllllllllllllllllllllllllllulllIII !!!lllllllllmll HM! llllllllllllllmlllllillllllllllllllllllllllhlllllllllllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll tLast paragraph taken from Mr. Fishers OZE'IL accountJ When we returned Wednesday, we found that there were just two dith- culties as a result of the fire. The first was that Room 18 could not be used, Instead Room 21 was used. Besides this, the electric bells were out of order. IIIllllllllllHill !llIllllllllllmllllfllmm mumlllllmmIIIIIIIIIlIlellmll yrIllllllllllllllllllllllILIlIllllllllllllll idly. III 1 III. II, Lew .- humans, ,4: rIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Sixty-nine flll 11,1 lllllll'llll'lillll iltllillllllll'tmf M