Bancroft School - Blue Moon Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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THE BLUE MOON Walter Barnard Elizabeth Boyden Irving H. Chase Carol Churchman Sally Coe Dorothy Dean Henshaw Dewey Merle Higgins Priscilla Martin CLASS VIII Robert Messier Henry Pinny Alden Roys Joseph Sherer June Spencer Craig Stewart Thomas Stinson Gertrude Wells Ruth Windle CLASS VIII MYTHOLOGY Un the year 2000 A.D., Craig Stewart, seeking traces of his classmates re ceiues permission from Joue to uisit Hades. As the scene opens, he is standing on the bank of the Styx, looking for Charonj STEWART: Charon! CThe sound of oars is heard in the distance, and then Charon appears out of the darknessj STEWART: Will you take me across? CHARON: You are a mortal. What are you doing here? STEWART: I have Jove' permission to visit Hades. I am looking for the members of my graduating class at the Bancroft School. Do you know if they are here? CHARON: You came to the right place. Everyone comes here sooner or later. Do you want to see anyone in particular? STEWART: No. I want to find all of my classmates. CI-IARON: Fine! Suppose you give me their names, and I will tell you what I know about each of them. STEWART: All right. Now then, Irving Chase- CHARON: Oh, yes. He must have neglected his music on earth, because all he does now is fiddle. Pluto gave him a piece to play that has no ending. STEWART: How about Tommy Stinson? CHARON: He sits at a telephone and calls and calls, but he always gets the wrong number. ' STEWART: There was Gertrude Wells- CHARON: She and Carol Churchman spend their time reading dime novels. They are forming a library of the most bloody, hair-raising books that have been produced since 1932. STEWART: Is Walter Barnard here? CHARON: Yes. His ability to make weird sounds got him the job of teaching Pluto's frogs how to croak correctly. STEWART: Henry Pinny- CHARON: He is my treasure. He put this ferry business on a paying basis. He will collect your penny when we reach the other side.

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78 THE BLUE MOON STEWART: I'll bet he tries to get an extra fare out of me. What about Bob Messier? CHARON: The poor fellow is bound to eternal sleeplessness. He was always tired when he was on earth. STEWART: Alden Roys should be here. . CHARON: Indeed he is! You should hear him broadcast! He has founded a television radio station called H. D. S. Henshaw Dewey is great as a crooner. On the side he teaches Pluto's tormenters how to make ugly faces to scare poor souls. Ruth Windle used to work for the studio, but she vamped Pluto and he married her. June Spencer is quite an actress--over the radio. She plays old maids' parts. STEWART: I presume Betty Boyden is here? CHARON: She is,-and a very helpful person, too. She knits bandages for those whom the tormenters treat too roughly. Priscilla Martin is in the same department. She is the beauty specialist for the animal kingdom. Doro- thy Dean teaches dancing to the evil spirits. STEWART: Then there was Junior Sherer- CHARON: You will find him fishing in a well-stocked pool a short distance down the stream. STEWART: He must like that. He used to be quite a fisherman on earth. CI-IARON: Yes, but he used gang-hooks. Now he fishes with a hauser and a live-pound hook. STEWART: There were two more-Merle Higgins and Sally Coe. CHARON: Oh! They were too good for this place. Pluto sent them to Olympus. They are cup-bearers for the goddesses. Shall we be going? STEWART: All right. CAs they enter the boat, a huge wave rushes upon them and throws them back onto the shore.j STEWART: I don't think I care to trust myself on that river. I have found out all I want to know. I'll be going back to earth. QStarts away.j CHARON: Oh! They were too good for this place. Pluto sent them to be afraid of. That was only Henry Pinney going in for a swim. BoYs OF CLASS VIII THE FOREST FIRE I WAS sitting in school gazing out of the window and wishing I could be outside playing ball, when suddenly the door slammed open and in walked the principal. There is a forest fire in Bournedalef' said he, and I wonder how many boys will volunteer to help fight it? There are not enough firemen to stop the blaze. The whole room was immediately in a turmoil, with every boy clamoring to be taken. I cannot let you all go, he said, but I will let those who have a high average in their studies go. I happened to be one of the lucky ones, and as we went out the front door of the school, I could