Bancroft School - Blue Moon Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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SENIORS As THEY WERE 1QSee page 95 for namesj

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TI-IE BLUE MOON 23 CLASS PROPHECY June 10th. Best trip yet. Shall soon be home in Paris. Nancy John- son is on board with Thayer Hunter's ex-husband, that notorious gangster, Oscar Zilch. He sends Nan orchids ever day, so she says. Suppose she is after another divorce in Gay Pareef' Must dress for dinner. Later. Most extraordinary luck-sat at the Captain's table, and his wife was no other than June Haviland. She's so skinny! June is the reducing expert on the ship. I'll have to go and see her in the morning. June Ilth. When I was down in the gym, June was tying an obese person into knots, who I soon realized was Betty Gardner. Betty's going to make a debut at the Berlin Opera House! What a funny person she is - fat and temperamental - and she has that same nervous laugh trickling down the scale. Betty says that Leslie is a blues singer in a popular New York night club -Hot-Cha! Nice that her talent is recognized! June 12th. Went to a movie and saw Looloo Lyseth in Mz'n and Bill, taking Marie Dressler's pwart. Was she funny! In one of the hilarious scenes I heard a hoarse laugh behind me, and there was Brenda Baxter! She was with a man who looked like an artist, only more so - probably her husband. Pathe News was the nerts. It showed Mary Gardner winning the world's slot-golf championship. She had an awful time getting the balls up after she had put in her last nickel. June 14th. Funny that I have seen so many classmates. Ran into Betty Wood this morning. She was organizing a deck tennis tournament and obstacle race. Betty and her husband, a famous musician, dined with my husband and me. Betty is a trustee of the Bancroft School and has a daughter there. She says that they have worked out a wonderful system of self- government. I think I shall send my daughters to Gray Gables in a few years. French schools aren't strict enough, and self-government is such an excellent method. Betty's on her way to a peace conference at Geneva to represent the women of America, and she's going to visit us at the consulship in Paris on her return from Geneva. Flossie's the head of a chicken farm in Nova Scotia, the largest one in the world, Betty told me, and Alice Goff is chief librarian in the Worcester library. Good for Alice! Asked Betty about Thayer, and discovered that Thayer is having a struggle to support her five children since her divorce from her cruel husband. June 15th. Thought I would try out the mechanical horse in the gym to see if it thrilled me as much as on my Hrst trip. Couldn't get a chance. Who but Jeanne Daniels was riding it all morning. I didn't really mind because it didn't seem so inviting after all, and Jeanne has to keep in trim. She's going to England for the hunting season, where she will ride after the hounds with Lord Zilch. X kj XIQ, IX!! :I l

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THE BLUE MOON 25 June 16th. Went to a fashion show last night. Bought some lovely frocks for the little girls. To my surprise, Dottie Elias was the manager of the show and is on her way to Paris to buy some models for B. Altman. She certainly wears the most stunning clothes, and still has that school-girl com- plexion and those archy eye-brows. June 17th. Last day out. Class luncheon and such a jolly good time. Fancy eight out of the class being on the ship at the same time! Perfect voyage. - Later. Ruthie Brown suddenly appeared from nowhere. She has been sick the whole trip. Poor Ruthie- she surely made up for lost time when she did recover. She confided to me that three men on board had proposed to her already, but she didn't want to be tied to 'any man. Ruthie is a permanent waver and many people have taken up her fluffy bob. BARBARA PIERPONT tin collaboration withj CHRISTINE NYE HAVILAND SENIOR WILL WE, the Class of 1932 of the Bancroft School, in the County of Worcester. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, knowing the uncertainty of this life. and wishing to dispose of our Worldly goods while of a sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking all other last wills by us at any time heretofore made. We give, devise, and bequeath as follows: To the l933 Seniors we commit our seats and positions of respect in the Upper School, to be held by them in solemn trust for succeeding Senior classes. To the faculty we bequeath the patience they have exercised on us, to be invested in all I. Q.'s now on file in Miss Fowler's oflice, and any more which shall be added from year to year. To the Sophomore Class we leave Leslie Baer's concentration, to be used fully and constantly. To Nancy Brown we devise Dorothy Elias' Ford, on condition that she dispose of her bicycle. To Amy Runo we leave Barbara Pierpont's blushes. To Mary Woodworth we give Mary C1ardner's long CU hair, and a box of black dye.