Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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ATHEMIRRORKQ I1 had been playing basketball. Since the championship team of 1928 had graduated intact from junior room 4 to senior room 14, these boys became defending champions and retained their title in a long series of games. The girls played both league and class games at home and with neigh- boring cities. As the spring months rolled around, graduation seemed very near. Consequently, boys and girls .met and decided the question of what to wear. Ut is here noted that the boys' As- sembly to decide the momentous ques- tion lasted much longer than the girlsfj a Graduation music had been prac- ticed, pictures taken and re-taken, and the prophet, historian, and will- writer had already consulted old Mirrors and diaries, when the elec- tion of Stuart Deans as Senior Class Day chairman took place. Meanwhile, Leroy Phipps quickly made and completed plans for a senior social. Un Friday, May 24, in spite of the rain, many seniors -lg- came back to school prepared to en- joy the last social. At 10:45 a Wal- tham High cheer for Principal Burke followed by another for our own class of 1929, closed the party. Pmoger Walcott, baseball captain for 1929, led his team through a sea- son made successful by defeating Newton, 6 to 5, in one of the most interesting games ever played be- tween the two rival schools. On June 7, 1929, we attended the promenade given us by the class of 1930. The hours sped as we danced and laughed and talked, but all too soon the Dromenade was over leav- ing us only Class Day and Gradua- tion. 1 That is our past. Today we are holding our last exercises together here as a class. In less than a week we shall be graduated. But what- ever our future may be, let us some- times come back in memory to re-live the happy high school days of the class of 1929 whose record is honor- able and bright. LILLIAN SUNDIN e--1, VVHO'S VVHO, CLASS OF '29 Best Looking Girl, Jeanette Barrows Most Popular Girl, Gertrude MacDonald Best Natured Girl, Emily Gustavson Most Studious Girl, Margaret Seikel Most Obliging Girl, Evelyn O,Malley Wittiest Girl, Shirley Sweeney Most Athletic Girl, Ellen Childs Best Looking Boy, P Lawrence MacNamara Most Popular Boy, John McGurn Best Natured Boy, Philip Burke lVIost Studious Boy, Arthur lVIacNeill Most Obliging Boy, Frank White VVittiest Boy, Langley Morang Most Athletic Boy, Irad Hardy

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10 p THE MIRROR under a tall ladder to gain admis- sion to the dance floor. When the year was rapidly draw- ing to a close, the Junior Promenade, given in honor of the class of 1928, remained uppermost in our thoughts. Irad Hardy, the chairman, and his committee decorated Nuttings-on-the- Charles with banners of both classes and gay streamers. Girls in formal evening gowns and boys wearing white flannels and dark coats danced away the evening of May eighteenth. Then the eagerly awaited night was past. After the promenade we finished the year quietly, the seniors graduat- ed, and we were left the oldest class at high school virtually seniors. We returned again on September 7, l928, to the opening day of school. There we were constantly admonished as seniors to set a good example, and with this in mind, the first day passed uneventfully. We soon discovered that a second addition had been made to the school circle and went to inspect the new portable which had been connected to its predecessor and the main build- ing by a covered alley-way. Fortu- nately those who come after us will not be obliged to run out in all kinds of weather to the annex. But won- ders did not cease there! For sever- al days electricians worked on the wiring and a junior's innocent re- quest of the previous year for lights was answered! From the opening of the football season in September until Thanks- giving, Waltham's football fever rose. '!Pile onto them. It's only Waltham's light team, was the bat- tle cry of each new-comerg yet eight teams finished the game sadder and wiser football players. Adding much to the enthusiasm of the fans and the fighting spirit of the team was the Waltham School Band making its first appearance in 1928. Early in the fall the senior class met to choose its officers who are: President, John McGurng Vice Pres- ident, Jeannette Barrowg Secretary, Gertrude lVIacDonaldg Treasurer, Arthur MacNeillg auditor, Irad Hardy. Several weeks later the class elect- ed Avery Steele chairman of the Se- nior Dance Committee, the major social event of the winter, which was conducted at Nuttings-on-the Charles. There on December l4, l928 friends and members of the class gathered to enjoy its last pub- lic dance. The social calendar of the winter and late spring was very full. Jean- nette Barrow announced the first so- cial on February 8, l929. A play was presented, and the remaining hours of the evening were devoted to dancing. How grown up we felt to be allowed to put off the last dance to a quarter to eleven! The weeks passed quickly. Our next task was to select the Senior Play chairman. The class, remem- bering with what great success he had planned the Senior Dance, immedi- ately chose Avery Steele as chairman. Nliss Chapman was again engaged as coach. Within a very short time March fifteenth and .sixteenth were announced for the presentation of The Show-Of. Once more the class of l929 scored a success, for the cast rose above all accidents to win mer- ited praise. A week later Arthur MacNeill was elected chairman of the Senior Class Picture committee. After samples had been submitted from va- rious studios, VVarren Kay was chos- en class photographer by an over- whelming majority vote. While the senior play had taken our attention, both boys and girls

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THE MIRROR RUTH STROUM lVVite1' Of Class Will, 1929