Southold High School - Snuffbox Yearbook (Southold, NY)

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THE SNUFF BOX To Frank Kane: A sea-faring car. To Adelle Payne: A class that will appreciate her efforts. To Marie Doherty: Order blanks in abundance for Senior Sweets.” To Kathleen Meredith: A box of dates” from Paul Minogue To Eileen Mahoney: Song, Down Among the Sugar Kane.” To Francis Thompson: A car of his own. To Leone Simon: A ten-cent fare for every passenger she carries. To Walter Williams: A large check book for the coming year To Jean Wells: A waste paper basket for Snuff Box material To George Tuthill: A larger bus” next year. To Mary Gagen: More cousins to attract her attention. To Robert Gagen: A few more school activities to manage. To Wesley Orlowski: A good science class in which he may surpass Horace. To Gerald Horton: More grade admirers. To Leta Ehrhardt: A pull with ths faculty. XXVII To Leonie Stacy: A few classes with Horace. XXVIII To Jennie Zaneski: Allen’s foot ease and more speed. XXIX To Pauline Albertson: A Battle Creek Health Builder. XXX To George Clark: An Ask Me Another” book. XXXI To Emory Tuthill: A blush extinguisher. XXXII To George Worth: A few rules on how best to remain in class for a period of forty minutes. We nominate and appoint Pauline Albertson and Kenneth Grath-wohl executrix and executor of this, our Last Will and Testament and IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto subscribed our names and affixed our seal at Southold, New York, in the year of our Lord, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, in the presence of Adelle Payne and Francis Thompson, whom we have requested to become attested witnesses hereunto. (Signed) THE SENIOR CLASS In Witness Whereof, we have here set our hand and seal Adelle Payne Francis Thompson XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI 31

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THE SNUFF BOX in Cutchogue slept, but they’ve been making up for it ever since. Author of the following best sellers “Ponzi at Bunkem Hill” “On Lake Erie with Perry-Goric” McKEON, IRENE BERGEN Lecturer Born, Southold. L. I., Nov. 20, 1909 Education. S. H. S„ N. Y. S. S. A. After leaving high school she went to Farmingdale where she overcame her fear of chickens. This difficulty made her lose her voice, so she forced herself into lecturing. Now one of the country's greatest orators. She made an intensive and extensive study of fowl and recently lectured on “Propagation of Wild Birds” We, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Nine of of Southold High School, being in our usual state of mind, do hereby authorize, publish, and declare this our Last Will and Testament. In manner and form following, we hereby give and bequeath:— I To the Junior Class: Smoother starts and quicker get-aways. II To the Sophomore Class: A place on the map. III To the Freshmen Class: General pardon for past offenses. IV To Mr. Blodgett: A few sweets for after hours. V To Miss Burr: A pair of sneaks.” VI To Miss Malone: Another trip in an aeroplane. VII To Miss Whalen: Another insipid” History C Class. VIII To Miss Hall: A better Physics Class next year. IX To Miss Fullerton: A commutation ticket to Southold. X To Miss Walker: A commutation ticket to Northport. XI To Horace Symonds: More hundreds on his report card. 30

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THE SNUFF BOX To me has been given the task of writing our Class History, and I assure you it will require much heavy thinking on my part to decide just what things should be included and which things were better— forgotten—at least in public! As I look back, we must have been very much like every other Freshman Class—meek, retiring and industriously engaged in our studies. We came out of our shell long enough to have a class meeting and from our twenty members we elected Helen Dickerson, president; Alice Downs, vice president; Evelyn Van Wyck, secretary; and Francis Thompson, treasurer (he had such taking ways). We also chose and purchased class pins, thereby completing our business worries of the year in our spurt of ambition. When June came we were still in a daze of decorum. Through our untiring efforts we ceased to be Freshmen and became Sophomores. As Sophomores we branched out a bit. A few ambitious classmates aspired to the limelight in athletics and drama, but the limelight was pretty well monopolized by bulky Juniors and Seniors. We covered ourselves with neither mud nor glory in either case. A few habits which were later to become characteristics of this class began to bud at the end of the year. We gave a picnic to the Seniors (with the kind help of the Juniors’ purses). It was entirely the Seniors’ fault if they hadn’t enough to eat, for we furnished plenty. In September, 1927, we continued our Education—as Juniors. Alice, Helen, Possum,” and Starry” played important parts in the Senior play, thereby winning a few laurels for our class. We chose our class colors and flower, and having discovered our extraordinarily good taste, two weeks later the Seniors calmly appropriated them. And we, being Juniors, were forced to choose new ones. In the annual track meet at Patchogue, the laurels for the school were won by three representatives, two of whom were Starry” and Ernie” from our class. Our inferiority complex was rapidly fading! Three more outstanding events occurred this year. First, we purchased our class rings; second, we had a food sale to earn the necessary 32