Petersham High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Petersham, MA)

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had been his father. Booth had formed quite a conspiracy against the North. In his mind he believed that he was doing the South a great favor. The South, contrary to his belief, couldn't arise and start fighting again as soon as he killed Lincoln. After a few days of refuge, he realized that the South was too badly beaten. His only hope was to get to Mexico where he could he free. He wrote several confessions of his crime explaining the reasons thoroughly. Because of his notion, he ruined the life of several other people, besides Lincoln, who were at the Theatre with him on that fateful night of April ldth, Robert Belden '47 Your Best Friend The Greatest friend a man can get, Is a loyal dog, whoill never fret. He goes with you, no matter where, And never has a worry or care. Every morning he greets you with happy eyes. With more of joy, than you realize. He plays with you when youfre alone, And talks with you in a style of his own. Some are large, others are small, But each will answer to his master's call. Some are skinny, old and blind, l But still the best friend you can find. Stuart Bryant '47 I 4........,.., ,......,-, ,

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1lF' THE BGG AND I Betty MacDonald In the mining town of Boulder, Colorado there was born to Irs. Darsie Bard, a red-haired daughter who was named Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard. nBetty'sN maternal ancestors were Dutch. Ten Eyck was their name, and they settled in New York in 1613. Her father's family name was Campbell. The Campbells cane to Virginia from Scotland. They were all well-bred people except for WGannyW who were her shoes on the wrong feet, and married a yellow-eyed gambler, Janes Bard of Bardstown, Kentucky. A few months after Betty was born, her mother received a wire from her father telling her to cone to Mexico City which she did. From Mexico they moved to Placerville, Idaho where Betty's brother, Sydney Cleveland, was born. Thence they moved to Butte,'Ebntana wiere they remained for four years. Durinj this time, Betty's sister Darsie was born. 1 In the summers, they sgent most of their time in the moun- tains , where they were taught by their mother and father to love danger and excitement. Their grandmother taught then to avoid danger and be constantly alert against it. nGannyW kept then inside the cabin and read such books as The Bible, Pilgrin's Progress, The Little Colonel, The Wizard of Oz, The Five Little T Peggers and all of the books of Zane Grey, Dickens, Thacheray, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling to then. . 4 When Betty was nine years, old they moved to Seattle, Wash- ington, where preparedness for the future began. Betty and her sisters were-given lessons in singing, piano, folk dancing, ballet, French, and dramatic arts. They also had to follow a strict health program. They ate no salt, never drank water with their nealsg chewed their food one hundred times, get ug at five o'clock in the norninjg and took cold baths. They exercised to nusic and played tennis. To keep their minds healthy they were not allowed to read funny papers or go to When Betty economy measure and ballet, and Betty went seventeen years the movies. was twelve years old her father died. As an they had to stop all their lessons except piano entered public school in the fall. through high school with honors. When she was old and a sophomore in college, her brother Cleve 1 brought home Bob MacDonald, for the weekend. Bob took Betty dancino and to the novies. The result was that Betty fell head -.J over heels in love with him. They were iarried when she was eighteen. Bob decided that he wanted to have a chicken farm. He bought one in the Olympic Mountains. Their home was originally a log cabin, but rooms were added to it, , Any' we +4.-4..,i