Arms Academy - Student Yearbook (Shelburne Falls, MA)

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The Freshmen 19 3 0 Class History In the fall of 1926, the elass of 1930 entered Arms with sixty-eight members. This number was deereased to fifty-seven by those whose interest was taken up by some outside infiuenee. We ehose as class oflieers the following: Floyd Burnap, pres- identg Helen Soper, viee-presidentg lfllizabeth LaCroix, seeretaryg John Hoyt, treasurer. At Greenfield Traek Meet our boys took aetive part, speeial recognition being gained by Herman Herzig, John Tomasini, and Floyd Burnap. The Faeulty Soeial, where we were intro- dueed into the soeial life of Arms, was an absolute sueeess although we were some- what bashful. Of eourse we had no business to be, but freshmen seem to be thus inelined. Our basketball team gained reeognition by defeating the sophomores three times in sueeession, eaeh time by a large margin. Un the night of February fifteen the elass went, on a sleigh ride, or rather a bus ride, to Greenfield to wateh a game between Arms and Greenfield. The ride was a laugghing sueeess and everybody enjoyed it immensely. We are very proud of Emily Brown who reeeived honorable mention in the liineoln Essay eontest, The prize speakers ehosen to represent our elass were George Mayberry and Margaret Temple. The year has sped hy very rapidly and in the three sueeeeding we hope to eon- tribute more to the school than we have this first year. G. M., '30. A Story That Grand-Dad Told One night grand-d:ul eame for a visit and he told us this story while we were seated around the tire-plaee. VVhen l was sixteen I went into the wilderness of Kentueky and beeame a trapper just like my dad. We stayed in the wilderness about three months when we diseovered that the Indians were eomingr in for their spring trapping. Believe me, we moved out and let them have the whole

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v i fff:1-q ,I ,., ,W ,W . . . . I I -A-Y, I I I l L . W-. , , i ' -.: QL...,., 4. I I I I 3 Y I c I lr' I I I 1'-J.f.i.::rliIi?..2 - ' ' I I ' ' I ,.Ee.fg..eilmle meraieeiie ihifilreif-2-irhmeirl E3 5 , IV'-i'f T,?T:I-:Q-:ATi,-in . 1 ,W ,m,?. ,-,.I,,?...g, l I ' 1 I lie Arms Student E2-3 Fl: I I must be so for I heard over the telephone, swore he'd have the law on them for keep- I lg, I Lucy Jones herself telling Mrs. Brown, this lng such .a treacherous animal, so Mrs. i :Q Ill'-Ig' I very morning. You know I just went to Brown said Mrs. McG1nty told her. I Gi I ' the phone and heard them talking. It U , , I lil I :III sounded interesting so I Stayedjf Well, I never, such things as people will III: II: gossip about on the telephone. I never I :Q I Well, thanks for the news, Maria. I OOUIO hhdeletflhd Why PeOPle eeh,t Thlhd I Fill? , should think those people would fix their hhelf OWU hUS1heSS- Well, Mefyi, I Just 'Eg-I 'I farm and buildings up first before they buy mush 80, Oh ,end hI11Sh my. heklhg- I Q-,I qi a car, and especially a big expensive one Stepped flght U1 the mlddle Of lt to tell YO? G: B: , like that. Oh, yes, I knew there was some- the news- GOOd'hYei MHEY- C211 me UP 1 l :H :UV thing I was going tontell you: I called Nirs. YOU hear ehy There heWS- 1 D: EI: I Smith up early this morning to get er HG d b M , I ,H H M O ,29 :U l I-A recipe for pineapple cake and she said that OO ' Ye, aflei W1 - - -i - EQ. the Johnsons were building an addition to -E-J: :J their house for thear son agd wigs. Of B: W: course it may not etrue ut rs. arson told Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Jones told Mrs. i E I Carson, and Mrs. Long told Mrs. Jones I Li!! that she heard J ohnson's hired man telling , 'fl' their hired many, A Village Seen in The Distance I ig.- I V11 il . Ik:-I My goodness, I declare. I'll bet that :ii I Ii ll that young scoundrel isn't paying for it or . 3: I I anything. He'll be the destruction of that AS I look down OH the Village below me in ZILI family. I hear they have their farm mort- the houses Temllhd me Of Small White hee' .r-' IILI.-LF: gaged now. It's a shame! hives placed in the center of an immense fill- I .55 1 green field. This field is in a fertile valley ij' I be I And fiid YOU khOWi Meri? -' Oh, dear, surrounded by a range of mountains. Near ii 3: I Eli I Why een I' fplks keep Off the hge when any' this village is a small stream which joins a :U l .r body s talking. I never lntentlonally listen 1 t f th d th H WJ: 'Gg like some folks do. Well, as I was saying, arger S Team ar er Own e Va ey' :Q I ef Maria, I s'pose I ought not to say this on Th b hi Q I H th 3 5 l H23 the telephone. There's always somebody eSe ee 1VeS as ee em ere I-QL I listening in trying to hear all they can. II divided into two rows by a path Cas it looks I ESE W1-J don't s'pose it ought to be repeated. You' f h 1 t d' I Th' th ' , ' be careful about repeating it won't youf- rggiywaeiiadaing aigoggithis iiepiinani I P' I Q13 II well, they say thatl Clark's youngest girl IS k. b th f h b - fl engaged to be married this summer to that Wor Hfg eesf e armers W O are usy I J- IIIIQQII sailor that was visiting her brother. He gahheflhg hhell' he1'VeStS- There are Some Q3- III looked like a bad one all right. I heard drones, little boys, playing near the hive. .r- I , this Oh gh? Be1ePhOh3 53153 ilglghff SO Yeuid They are playing a game called football. I gill: I U I e er no e anyon , r . I I Be . . s :II -p Q, I yond these hlves IS an apple orchard I 1. QUII I ,ifAllrighf,MQ1'5f,?I wonlttell anyqne, but which looks like e field filled with clumps I if I Itfl it S ff Shame, Isnt lt' She S Such a mee gui 1' of red clover ffor some apples are still on I 1.1: I I Ig, I 00' these treesl. In some of these clumps there i I, Hgh, just ai minute, Maria, 1 Smell my are the workers who are busy picking out irq' flg-fl? U cookies burning! the pollen from the clover in order to make Q-GJ: Hello, Maria. I just thought of some- honey' Ip T1 tlling else, too. Brown's pet billy goat went - - :Q after old grouchy Johnson and bunted him bei? lilifgwgggsgsrlihzgiwlggirmgjt ffm? LT. I 'way across the road. I guess lt d1dn't hurt ' , I :fl it I anything except the Old marfs feglingsl descend from this tower from which I have JE I But you know what a temper he has. He watched the bees. M. C., '29. ifl-s i-f,,1F,'i' I LF' ,...,.giT '...i1W 'L:,:' J -fll L- TA ' If w--, ' W 1-Qf 'i'I 'W m ' J-L lilj-.1,fli'II'E2Wlf:-IT-fl E-3 I 1-Tl! -I O' ' f5 ?IEiil' li I, elseealfilliirleliilehi ieiirlsr-2 LW Liv Lrlwcelweil W9 LTI tie fTfi1WT'f'LTf' '-WQE53 llifl' 24 '

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51' 'FT' 1 e ' The tennis Student In E.63dJ'1'1TJ WJ Lvl Url WJ LTVJL I i inf-itirflirihwritwrltw rf E531 ' 13: y il is Eel ,s 'VW' ri E :fl place, because dad said he hated them I took notice of everything, for I had deter- R Lt worse than poison, mined to escape. The village was hemmed :fl :U 1rAfter this I made ten Successful trips' in on two sides by mountains, and ahsmall D: D: but the ear I was thirty-five was the first river 'ran through one' side of the village. Q Y N ll h - h : -El time I had much of any trouble with the hotlelng e t eSe t Inger I Sew that 3 5 Indians. This time my dad and I had gone 9 ence for escape was .Shm' I was taken :Cl h f h 1 o1 lo d D: into the wilderness for more furs. We had Into t e Center 0 t e YI lege an onn to D: it Ab f o1 1 :G :U not been there more than two weeks, when e Ste' e' , out two rn1nnteS e terwer S e' l hi I discovered e arty of Seven Indians going the lnhabitants of the village came to get a DI P :U :U north. 1 to1d dad ond he said that wo 10014 Mme- B: I? would follow them up andlwipe Out the At nightl was given some supper. Then :Q :Q Whole seven. Hiding our things IH a eave being bound securely, I was put into a LE: h nearby, we started to follow the IIid1aI1S. tepee guarded by two Strong robust, '.L,-'rl :il Late in the afternoon wo sighted them Indlans- I learned from my guards that U: -of making their way toward a 'riverfa mile ef noteo rneolerne ehref WeS expected ln :lf-l -1 away. Here on the bank they made camp oernh that nrght- After that they World tp Lb for the night, thinking that they would decide what to do with me. About mid- :IQ :Cl cross the river in the morning' Crossing night he arrived, and of all the war Whoops :U -D? the river, We made camp behind a rock, any one ever heard! My! new the eelo 1... TE where we could pick off the Indians easily. Sh1VerS ren up ,and down my hack bone- gh' ..r After eating a supper of dried meat, pa lay The next rnornlng after breakfast I Wes 1- -L down and went to sleep while I kept watch. egeln bound to the Stake- Then Came the fg- -P? About mid-night I Woke him up, and he pow-wow ofthe chiefs. It lasted till about -11: 'CE Stood guard While I Slept' About half past noon when dinner was eaten. After dinner :q if fem., pa aroused me and Said that the Ialearned that I was to undergo several J1: E Indians were astir. Eating a hurried break- onrerent tortoreS- fl Q. fast, we prepared for the massacre. But to f'FolloWing the pow-wow heaps of brush J- D: our disappointment, they did not er0SS. were gathered and piled about my stake. feud :Lf Keeping on the other side, they continued Offering up a Short, prayer to God 1 waited J- -DJ? up stream. for them to begin their horrible task. I Eo- 'IQ After crossing the river we followed red not long to Welt- Jost as they were J- P:-' them on ml nightfau. Then'We Went back about to set the brush on fire, an Indain :hi :ll ' dashed through the crowd and up to me. into the woods a Way and made camp. I , :cj LE ' He was Just in time to save me. He told ri... ....r kept guard the first half of the night, and , , , -D2 pa the other half. About an hour after the other Indlahs if they burned me they Ql- -J. having gone off duty We were attacked by would have to burn him, because when he 1. . -L ' ' was still a young warrior I had saved his J- D: the Indians. I was taken captive and pa , , ,IQ :Q was tomahawked in a struggle for freedom. hte end,noW he Would Seve nnne- He had 'fi' ht I Wes marched he the camp fire, Seeurely a great influence over the tribe, because he ifj -V bound, and laid between two warriors for We'S at rneolelne mans eonSeooent1y they 11: F: the remainder of the night. Of course, were eonn1oeheo,to let rne, go- He eseorted ill :tr Pa's death was a sad blow to me, but the me out of the Vihegtelhglvrngtrne e lliorh arid -LGF G: only way I could think of it was that he Sorne erroWS- e , me o ma e he e Q had been too hasty for Indian blood and heeenee the Others hhght Capture me egam' -LJ: E? new they had taken his. The next Believe me, I did make haste, securing my lj- ,DE morning, after burying my pa, We een, mealsdwihh the bohf ind aiirow. Fihallyg ih- tinued on to the village for I learned be- Hfflvff ornev an ere am Se e an L. LF 7 7 77 --1. cause I understood their lingo, that was Sohho' F E , where they were going. Hiking. all that I should hate to have been in your The-1 'Lg l dayh stopping only ht noon for Iihnnef, We place, said Willie when Grand-dad was 3:1- .r ma e camp on anot er river. ere was through. -, 'L l bound again and laid between two warriors , , J .DH so I could not escape. This kept up about 'Welt hhatfwas the only tight place I WG'- -L e Week. have been in in my life. Sometime later I if -li-J? HE 1 . will tell you some more stories. 1- .1 ar ynone afternoon It noticed we were J- Pj: approaching the Indian village. Of course W. H. T. '30, El .r ' J, fr ig .my --- Meng- ---mr--of to '- v- ' o-- Wo- - I - V I I I EQ'LTLTLTLWLWJLWJLWJLTJLTJLinLWJLWJLTJLTJLTJLTJLTJLTJLWJgTJL'fJL'ff1iff? 3 ri I