Norwich High School - Archive Yearbook (Norwich, NY)

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Yo squad l would suggest the following for the tirst team: lfrederick McMullen, Captaing I'ete Anderson, Mutt Yarrington, Lester Burchard, Carp Rowe, Ralph Browning, Lena Irving, and Lillian Fuller, and as substitutes the rising young lovers, Grant llacon and Mar- jorie lloyd. Witli this line-up you should at least win the third prize. Snap out of it, all you unconscious Undnrgracls! llonlt give up, have a little pity for Norwich Hi. Vyhenever you feel down and out, as you often do, just Lie a Little String Around Your lfinger So You'll Remember .the Senior Class of 1931 I lf you follow this advice of the senior class, we guarantee that you will be successful. VINCENT SMITH Undergraduates Reply After four years of bedlam and disorder, this school will soon be back to normal. As soon as the class of 1931 has graduated, the efficient undergraduates will strive to right the mistakes and follies that the class of l93l has committed. Norwich High School is emerging from a period of ignorance and disorder to one of knowledge and success. WU: shall be able to accomplish many great things when the study halls are quiet. This term we have been constantly disturbed by the foolish antics of such prominent Seniors as Mar- garet Russell, Hayes Steinhauser and Robert Rafferty. Seniors cannot even bear the members of their own class. Ask Vincent Smith why he doesn't stop into the house next door any more on his way to school. Wlhy even john llyrne picks his girls from the undergraduates. Jean Paquette knows quite a bit about john. lfVe undergraduates usually choose our friends from our own group but occasionally a Senior such as Red Rourke succeeds in leading astray a light-headed Sophomore. W'e constantly hear that Rosemary Griliin, Mary Byrne and liac Simmons are trying to cast their spell over certain Colgate boys but so far they have not met with a great meas- ure of success. VVe would suggest that when any Senior contemplates making a journey to the NENV KENMORE in Albany, as two Seniors did, that they make their date with local boys. And now to the perfect lovers, Ron and Margaret. If this 11ew cream gives you the skin you love to touch, then that accounts for Ron being seen up on North Broad Street at such late hours. From a well-known authority on Piano Street it is learned that Cliff 1-5 doing as well as can be expected of a broken down athlete of the Senior class. We under-- stand that lletty Williams and Ed Gabler are trying to double for Greta Garbo and john Gilbert. Joe lloughtery has Dunne some-thing that most boys haven't. Some of the Seniors have tried to ensnare a prominent Sophomore, namely, Betsy Hartigan, with their charms but let us undergraduates give you a tip, lletsy reserves her-- self solely for postgraduates. Janet certainly is in a tix. She doesn't know whether to be or not to be. 'llhat is, Whether to be Cookie's girl or not to be. Hut then perhaps some of the Oneonta girls might have something to say about that, eh! Larry. Rumor has it that unless Marian steps on it a ce1'tain lane of the Juniors will have her star of the baseball team. XYe hope that Mary Hartigan gets her Lily from Fulton this summer and Kay 'l'hompson learns to write poetry about Spring.

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Address to the Undergraduates At the death of Knute Rockne, world famous football coach, a great misfortune be- fell the athletic world. At the death of Nicholas Longworth, late speaker of the House. the legislative world was shocked. And now comes another heart rending casualty. Norwich High is going dead as a result of the graduation of the class of '3l. lt is with sincere regret in all our hearts, that we are leaving, because in leaving, we foresee a dis- gusting state of affairs which will terminate in a sad misfortune-RUTN. This ruin is in- evitable, since the destiny of Norwich Hi rests in the hands of a group of mentally dee ticient and incapable children such as joseph Sanford, Larry Cook, Flora Stager, and the rest of 'em. including Jane Babcock. There's Joe Sanford, for instance. Wheiievei' anyone gives him a compliment it goes to his head. Ever since .Toe saw the late movie, Trader Horn, and learned that baboons were fierce fighters, he has been going around high-hatting everyone. Larry Cook, tin-horn shiek of the Junior class, is determined that he will be a success in life. Already he has attached himself to something rather largeg not a mountain just a Hill. The junior Class has indeed been a very disorderly class, but there are two cases which stand out above the rest, those of Miss Flora Stager and Jane Babcock. Their con- duct at l-lubbard's has been very disgusting. They have not the slightest regard for the Eighteenth Amendment, they are always trying to get Fullerf' All during our four successful year at Norwich Hi. we have at all times obeyed the rules and regulations, as you probably have noticed. After we are gone, our sympathy will be with Mr. Hogue and those other poor teachers into whose hands will fall the almost impossible task of training a pack of numskulls how to pass to and from assemblies and tire drills. The thought of our graduation has caused a panic in the ranks of the undergraduates. There were a few rather serious consequences caused by this panic. l will state a few of the most serious instances. - Frederick Fahy, leader of the Junior class, must have lost some of that strange power over women, better known as Sex Appeal. Ask Ruth if he hasn't. Carlos Wlhitneyls hair turned curley over night. We wonder if this strange occurence was caused by worrying? 'lack Wilson Cone reason why teachers' hair turn grayj has been trying to get Tanner all winter. lt really is absurd. VVe have noticed that the undergrad- uates about the school have been incessantly humming that well-known song, Anyone Can See How Happy l Woiilfl Re VVith a SENIOR Ry My Side. Cheer up, Juniors, there will be a few Seniors who will come back and endeavor to keep the study halls in peace and quiet as they have been during the past four years, thanks to us. Dick Lyons has kind-- ly consented to come back next year and lead the 1931-1932 basketball team to victory. What a break for the Juniors. , The junior class is an extremely backward class. ln the contest at l-lubbards, they were in the same class with the Freshmen. They are unable to raise any money for their classg but never say die, juniors, l have a plan which l think will help you. 'We have no- ticed that the Juniors have become a victim of that newly-invented, children's toy, the Yo- Yo. Since this is the only way that you spend your spare time, why not make use of your talent. l would suggest that you form a Yo-Yo squad and the next time there is an Ama- teur Night at the Fox Theatre enter this squad of special-talented Yo-Yoers. On this Yo-

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Hut after all, Seniors, you are so dumb. if all of you come back and take a postgrad- uate course you may acquire half of the knowledge that we already possess. Once in a while you get down to work and accomplish something. After you graduate, if you work hard you may become efficient ditch-diggers or mill-workers. But you have all our good wishes for success and shall always have our help. May you win fortune and fame, Class of '31, you deserve it. TOML lVQRY Who's Who in 1941 According to the will of Fate, the Class of 1931 is destined to become one of the most remarkable ones in the history of Norwich High. Below are the names of those who have acquired niches in the Hall of Fame. Misses Hill, Case, Simmons and Thompson are running the Pancake Palace for Palpitating Palates. Eva Barnes is owner of a chain of Soda-fountains which are scattered throughout the country. Clifford Lawton, author of the best seller, Advantages of Being Single, is resting as comfortably as can be expected after the attack made on him by his wife. formerly Elean- or Stager. Charles Lyons is Tanner in the E. J. Shoe Factory. Annabell Brennan owns a beauty shop in New York. She recently invented a face- lifter. guaranteed to lift any map on the market. Joseph lJougherty's rubber bullets are used extensively in gang warfare. He was re- cently awarded a medal by the Prevention of Cruelty to Dumb Gangsters Society. A Margaret Kelly and Alura Holliday have started a tea-room. lt is called Ve Squirm- ing Lizard. Marian Rourke is successfully running a kangaroo farm in Australia. Clifton Sabin owns a correspondence school. The most recent addition to the course is ' How to W'in Your Wraman in 10 Lessons Needless to say Mr. Sabin is author of the course. e Maurice Lanfair is in the Movies. He is the man behind the lion's roar in comedies. Wiilliam Clark is also living in Hollywood. He is under-study to Joe E. Brown, famous comedian. Marian Redmond and Mary llrooks are telling of their thrilling encounter with a bar- racuda. lt seems that when they were attacked Mary stalled the monster by trying to per- suade him that he should buy on the installment plan. VVhen he was nearly worn out by Mary's oratory, Marian Redmond came gallantly to the rescue and strangled the vicious brute with her silky locks. Honorable George Godfrey, prominent Reno judge. recently granted the first divorce