Westfield State University - Tekoa Yearbook (Westfield, MA)

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1.909 WESTFIELD NORJIAL. 13 Louise Bush had gone to Porto Rico for the purpose of teaching, but the life' and customs were too slow for her, Cas she was, as everyone knows, accustomed to swift actions,D so she be- came an auctioneer in a second-hand bookstore, where her quick speech and knowledge of books were important factors in bring- ing about her quick success. But Mary Cronin was a basket weaver. Think of it! First she wanted to become a. music teacher, then she took a course to become a school teacher, and she was now at the North Pole weav- ing ffpeaeh baskets to protect the natives' heads from the ex- treme heat. Even at school, Mary showed her love for weaving When' she exclaimed, If baskets are made in heaven. I refuse to go there, but evidently she was not looking forward to a very warm future, when she sought to acclimate herself to the North Pole where the fashions and seasons had preceded her. Olive Starkweather and Eva Moynihan had started a teach- ers' agency for the purpose of aiding the graduates of XVesttield Normal. They would accept other graduates but paid special at- tention to our girls and now many of them are dispersed through- out Becket. Chester, Feeding Hills, Tatam and NVoronoeo. thus sending throughout the universe the broad methods of teaching in which they excelled. Contrary to all our expectations, Ruth Taylor, having be- come so interested in mathematics while at NVesttield Xormal School was devoting her entire life to geometry, and had sue- ceeded in giving to the public another new proof for the theorem of Pathogoras. Her demonstration was so si111ple that it imme- diately displaced all those which heretofore had been used. The foundation for her proof as all must be interested to know-lay in the word Guess Dora Powers who was always ready to lend a helping hand whenever she could. had kept up the good work after putting school duties aside by forming a club known as the Helpers wherein information on every conceivable subject was easily and quickly obtained. There is no need to say that the fame of the club spread with great rapidity and finally embraced the whole nation. Miss Alice Johnston had founded an orphan asylum where she could tell stories to her heart content. and it must follow

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12 TVESTFIELD NORMAL. 190.9 her had so grown that she had finally set up a restaurant, where the girls might have luncheons at any time. This, of course, served the girls to a very great extent after the new rule of Get down to the dining room ten minutes after the gong, or go with- out your meal was established. r And what had become of Tessie Tucker, the girl of so many whims and fancies '? Strange enough, she was in Paris, reveling in the art of painting, though never with extreme success, for al- though slie was now free to give vent to her sentiments with the brush, yet she had so many ideas constantly seeking for an out- let, that she did not have the time to see to the completion of any one, as she would have liked to in her own quaint way. As this was a well known trait in Tessie's character, we were not at all taken back with her fortune. Charlotte Richardson had invented a new soap which ex- celled Bon Ami, for from chemistry experiments, she had found the harm of adulteratious, and so eliminated them. Charlotte was always bright, so no wonder the soap had the quality of brightness. Marcella Carmody had gone XVest to Montana. where she was enjoying herself immensely, teaching the little rustics and play- ing the part of a Shy Anne in her life on a fine ranch which she now possessed. Then we learned that Ottilie Ludwig had become a. poetess shortly after finishing her course at Xvestfield Normal School. Ottilie was always fond of romance and spent many happy hours in 'tdreamland surrounded by her countless fairies, but the strange fact about her now, was that she had suddenly turned to adventure and was always composing blood-curdling tales. Our attention was next called to Clara Harrington, who had done so well while at school that we all expected great things of her. But Clara had after a few years' teaching given it up as something too hard, for she never liked anything but easy work, so was content to remain at home in idleness, dreaming ever of what might have been. ' And Dollie Allaire,-why Dollie was a 'demonstrator and American, Ladies were her specialty. Dollie was always good in this line, and her gestures and fantastic movements aroused great interest and admiration in all her audiences.

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If WESTFIELD NOIUIAL. 190.0 that she is never lacking a large and appreciative audience of children. Pearl Smith had become a manufacturer of dyes and was herself the chief werkman in the house and though she had taken a trip to England. and an earl there had tried to establish her in that country, his efforts were futile, for Pearl loved this side of the water too much and came back for good to her dye- ing and her fIyrrs. Tryphena Bickfcrd had become a dealer in fraternity pins, and now mine could believe that she had all the forms and makes she spoke of. She had also since her school days written a book which rivalled that of Paul Leicester Ford's 'Wkianted a Chap- erone as 'l'ryphena's had the title, 'tThe Chaperone lflimi- natedf' It is needless-to say that the book won great favor with the younger set. But. oh! horrors! we gasped when we found that Anna May Stockwell was still at NYesttield Normal. Then 1 asked, 'WVhat has she been doing there all this time, and the old man replied that when she left the '09 Class she went abroad, being so greatly inspired by what one of our kind teachers was always requesting us to see if we should get the opportunity to go abroad that she could not resist, and spent the rest of her money in travel, with the exception of the sum that was to give the finishing touches to her course. Anna was always slow, but she got there just the same. Last, but not least, came the story of our class president, Stella. Vitty, better known as Mandy. NVe all knew that after graduation Stella' went to Englewood, N. J., to teach, but we did not know that she had gone there for the express purpose of tak- ing lessons in Normal training in New York, so that in a few months she might become instructor in that line at Dartmouth. But the trustees of the college did not allow her to remain very long in this pleasing position, for Stella did nothing but Nick everything with which she came in contact, and finally the place had become quite degenerated and all classes were forsaken but that of manual training. Poor Stella! She was obliged to leave, and in sorrow went out to Kalamazoo, Mich., where .she became the HSf!I:'l'H matron of an old maids' home, where never a word of sarcasm was to he heard. and where Stella reigned supreme.