Verona High School - Shadows Yearbook (Verona, NJ)

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RUTH WALKER Faithful to every trust, gentle, loyal, kind and just. Glee Club, 3, 4g Basketball, 2, 3, 4g Captain of Basketball teams, 3, 4g A. A., 35 Editor-in-chief of Shadows, 45 Operettas, 3, 4. MISS HELEN HOSP CLASS DEAN 14

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ALBERT SZKELEY He had a head to eontrive, a heart to resolve, and a band to execute. Reporter for Caldwell Progress, 45 Chairman of English III Debating Team, 4. CATHERINE TALCOTT The mildest manner and the gentlest heart. A. A., 1, 2, 3, 43 Glee Club, 3, 43 Orchestra, 43 Operettas, 3, 4, Kappa Phi, 1, 2, Basketball, 4. OLIVE TONER Pleasant Io listen to, pleasant 170 see And just as pleasing as one ean bef' H. S. Play, 45 Public Speaking Contest, 45 A. A., 4, Glee Club, 45 Operetta, 4g Editor of Green Owl, 4, Basketball Manager and Captain, 4. 13

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HISTORY OF T.HE CLASS 012 1928 On September 8, 1924, about forty students stood waiting for the new High School doors to open. We were not strangers to one another-incidentally, three of us had gone through school from the first grade together. It was a terrible come-down for us to be called Freshies and similar names when only three months before we were looked up to and respected because we were the graduating class of the Verona Grammar School. At last the doors were opened and we were glad to go to the room assigned to Freshmen because there were no upper classmen there. Our teacher, Miss Helen Hosp, was a Freshman to Verona High School that year also, and we were glad to have her as our representative on the faculty. Another new-comer was Miss Helen Maxon, our music director. She took the place of Miss Louise Lawrence. We worked diligently at our new and interesting tasks, but were interrupted by class elections. Donald White was elected President, Harmon Driscoll, vice-presidentg Isabel Nelson, secretary, and Dorothy Kientz, treasurer. During the year Donald White resigned and Harold Littleheld was elected President-thus personifying the long and short of it. ' The hike was the next big event. None of us had to be carried home although some required a little assistance. A few were taught how becoming black paint would be as make-up. We again started to study. Then came the senior Hallowe'en party at which we were entertained. After this dance we looked forward to the one we would give to the school later on. Before our dance, however, the High School plays were given. They were enacted by the Seniors, juniors and Sophomores under the direction of Miss Winifred Bostwick. The Freshman class helped to sell the tickets. Our exams came in january--our first in high school. The dances given by the Juniors and Sophomores were very successful. These parties gave us ideas and increased our anxiety for our own. At last came our party. It was held in April, 1925, and was attended by almost all of the members of the school. Class night and graduation were the last big events of the year. At these times we realized that in three more years we, too, would be getting our diplomas-if we passed our Freshman year. SOPHOMORE YEAR The beginning of our Sophomore year was just the opposite of our Freshman year, in that we, the Sophomores, made others fnamely, the Freshmenj feel small and did to them as had been done to us. After the opening of school and the beginning of work, class elections were held. Harold Littlefield was elected president, Louise Richter, vice-president, Miriam Lent, secretary, and Estelle Morgan, treasurer. This year Leona Hawkins entered our ranks. This year, too, Miss Winifred Bostwick left and Miss Grace Wilson became teacher of English and French. 15