Bellows Falls High School - Sampler Yearbook (Bellows Falls, VT)

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THE SAMPLER 15 SALUTATORY Parents, friends, teachers, and fellow class- mates. We, the class of 1936, are glad to welcome you all to share with us the final observance of our school days. The past twelve years have been a happy mixture of sunshine and shower. We hope they have prepared us somewhat for the future which stretches before us. We realize that our parents and teachers have played a great part in guiding us until this time. They deserve our sincerest thanks. We are now about to enter the world where we must learn to take bumps and bangs ourselves. The new life will be more complex, but we face it with confidence and courage. As we look back, we find that one thing is always of supreme importance—-health. We hope you will bear with us while we discuss it at some length. HEALTH Because health is of such great importance to every human being, we propose to discuss it in its various phases and help more people understand its value. Good health is one of the greatest aids to success. “One should always keep in mind that health and person- ality are not separate entities or qualities. Good health is as much a part of a good per- sonality as the right hand is a part of the body.” We shall try to convince you all just how important it is to preserve the great gift of good health. Still, “health is not so much a gift as an achievement.” A baby whose health is perfect at birth may become almost an invalid through neglect. “Heath is never the same from day to day or even from hour to hour; it is ever changing.” It takes constant care to be in the best of phy- sical condition. A person’s good health is one of his surest guarantees of popularity and success. E. Lee Vincent stated that “people now understand physical health to mean posses- sion of vital physical energy in such measure that the person can meet whatever demands of energy the day’s work places on him and can still have left enough energy for play and recreation as well as for emergency demands.” A healthy person is one who can take it. He is never too tired for fun and pleasure. He is not a dead weight at socials or anywhere else. Because he never has to think about hpw he feels, he can devote his whole mind to what he is doing—be it work or play. When busy, his body becomes a machine obeying his every command. The old saying “A sound mind in a sound body” seems to hit the nail squarely on the head. With this standard all of us would be more nearly perfect. A perfectly sound body is of little use to one with a weak mind. On the other hand, if one’s body is not well, a fine mind cannot be used to the best advan- tage. People in school realize as much as anyone else that good health is very important to efficiency. We know that when we arrive at school writh a headache, no lessons go well we are unable to concentrate. Also, we seem to be on poor terms with the teachers, nothing goes right. The human mechanism is so delicate that a slight upset may cause a great deal of trouble. A ma- chine must be in the best condition to operate perfectly. So the human machine must be in even better condition, in comparison, to work to the best advantage. Many people do not appreciate their good health until they become sick and lose it. They see people whose health is poor, and pity them. Still they neglect their own until, like the one boss shay, it breaks down en- tirely. Then, they wish they had been more careful. The old adage that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” still holds good. We should protect and increase whatever good health is given to us. It seems that more people are beginning to realize this than ever before. Still the ma- jority of laboratory workers are working on cures. If they spend as much energy work- ing on preventives of known diseases, more may yet be accomplished. Some things indicate that we are becoming more conscious of this possibility. Babies are vaccinated and inoculated before they have a chance to con- tract disease. New serums for inoculation are constantly being discovered. People predicted that the depression would do much damage to health. This prophecy just hasn’t worked out. “Six years of hard times have left no discernible physical scars upon us as a people.” It is reported that 1985 continued the trend to better health, lower death rates, and longer life.” People now can look forward to a life span of well over sixty years, while in 1900 forty-five was the average limit. In just the past six years, the death rate from tuberculosis has de- clined one-third. The rate now is about fifty per hundred thousand as compared with about two hundred at the close of the nine- teenth century. The reports of our mental state of health are much the same. Although there have been more entries in mental hos- pitals, it is greatly because of financial in- ability to care for the patients at home. At the beginning of 1936 we have a favor- able report of the nation’s state of health.

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H THE S A M P L E It orable comment. “Honor Bright” was the Senior Play, in which Eddie Kane was the hero and Tony Garrett the heroine. All the actors participating did excellent work, and it was through their efforts and those of the ticket sellers that the receipts were so large. The first five honors were announced in As- sembly, the Tuesday following Easter vaca- tion, and consisted of Clifford Holmes, Bea- trice Parker, Claire Robinson, Laura Fenn, and Nancy Faris. And now approaches o ir happy yet sad week of Commencement. Before we take our leave, we wish to thank the faculty for all their efforts in helping to shape our lives and to prepare us for the future. The officers of the Senior Class are Presi- dent, Edward Kane; Vice-President, James Ferguson; Secretary, Margaret Porter; and Treasurer, Margaret Macarthy. SENIOR CLASS INVENTORY For a singer we have........................ For a movie comedian we have................ For a tap dancer we have.................... For a Prime Minister we have................ For a worker in metals we have.............. For a help for cripples we have............. For a servant we have....................... For a rifle we have......................... For a great king we have.............. For a school we have.. . :.................. For a movie actress......................... For a way of cooking we have................ For a prophet we have....................... For building monuments we have.............. For a Major League Baseball Player we have For a working man we have................... For batteries we have....................... For a place of residence we have............ For a coffee company we have................ For a leader of a country we have........... For cigars we have.......................... For winter weather we have.................. For relief we have.......................... For erasers we have......................... For flowers we have......................... For part of a house we have................. For fruit we have........................... For comfort we have......................... For a president we have..................... For Maple Sugar we have..................... For a food shop we have..................... For a band leader we have................... For a football coach we have................ For a “meanie” we have...................... Our activities are.......................... For chewing gum we have..................... After the banquet we are.................... For roofing we have......................... For a coffee shop we have................... For a drink we have......................... For breakfast we have....................... For canned foods we have.................... For a caress we have a...................... MORTON DOWNING LLOYD ROBINSON MAC DONALD SMITH KANE PORTER WINCHESTER ALEXANDER STEARNS PARKEH FREY ELIAS STONE HADLEY MINER WILLARD HOLMES SANBORN KING DEXTER SNOW DOLE BRADLEY GARLAND GARRETT (L) ORANGE ROBE(Y) ADAMS OAR(E) Y EDWARDS WARDING HARLOW MEANLY WAR YAS CLARK . FULLAM .BARRETT CRAY (CO) . WOYN (AR) “EGGS” “PICKLES” . KISS (EL)

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16 T H E S A M P I. E R We are proud to think that this results ‘rom much effort on our part. During the past thirty years, many health organizations have been built up. During our depression, they did a great deal of work. Everyone knows the Red Cross which works faithfully and well. Social workers visit families. These workers play a great part in health educa- tion. They teach mothers how to utilize milk, vegetables, and other essential foods. Education for health is one of the greatest steps forward. If people know how to feed, clothe, and care for the body, they will do so with more success. It is because of ignorance that many people are sickly. The financial depression has not succeeded in causing a health depression as well. In fact, it has taught many how to use their knowledge to the best advantage. “Good health in the face of adversity doesn’t just happen. Only by prodigious effort have we as a people been able to achieve the remark- able record now reported.” The other speakers will discuss health nearer home, health in its closer relationship to you all. Beatrice Parker. CLASS PROPHECY OF 1936 It is cold and damp even on this mid-June evening. But here before me as I sit in my big arm chair is a cheery blazing fire. As the fire leaps higher and higher, I seem to see figures there and hear strange noises, but I scoff as I remember my childhood illusions about fairies inhabiting the fire. But no, now I can see and hear more plainly and as I watch I see a picture of Room 11 with its large Senior Class and underneath printed the figures 1936. This burns brightly for a moment, then gradually dims and rises up the chimnev in smoke. Next come a succession of numbers—1940, 1946, 1950, and than 1956. As these in turn go up in smoke, I see now in the flames the pictures of a vast metropolis- but how changed! Most buildings are tall, slender sky scrapers, the houses are all metal, the airplanes are flying thickly over the city, and the automobiles are quite changed in appearance. Oh, there is a familiar figure coming out of that house. Why! it is Mar- garet Macarthy,looking like the model busi- ness woman with her brief case. There in the doorway stands her husband, Bert Roby, with an apron tied around his waist. Bert is putting to practical use his knowledge gained in Home Ec. Class, while Margaret is presi- dent of the Easy Chew Co., manufacturers of The inconspicuouly chewed and easily swallowed gum for school children. The women have certainly come to their own now while the men are becoming more domesti- cated. As we look down the street we see two large shoe factories which are in strong competition. In the president’s office of one sits Helen Waysville and in that of the other, Stella Woynar. Because of their mutual de- sire to own Ilarbro, each has had to set up a factory of her own. Slowly my picture of the city goes up in the smoke and an entirely new scene glows in the flames. It is Africa and there are the hea- thens, but all properly and modestly dressed! And there is a group of children conjugating Latin verbs. Oh, now we have the solution, for there in the background appears Martha Wyman. My fire, dark and gloomy now, has a sinsker look, suggestive of death A hearse bearing the name John Hennessey appears in view. In the hearse lies the body of Francis “Pick- les” Barbieri. The deceased died from a fatality obtained in a poo! game. His old friend, John, has out of generosity given him a free ride thus satisfying his ambition to bury “Pickles.” As the flames continue to die, we hear radioed the news that Ray McClary, sports cartoonist devoid of ideas, has finally fulfilled his threat to do a Brody and has made a record leap from Brooklyn Bridge. Now the flames are turning brighter, a map of the world appears and a pointer points to France. There we see Bea Parker living in a chateau trying to bring up her seven children to be model Frenchmen by jabbering French at them all day long. The pointer swings to Arizona and on the dusty plains we find Caro- line Hildreth, an administering angel to sick cowboys. And now to Little America. There is a figure resembling Sherlock Holmes with his magnifying glass. But no, it is only Scotty MacDonald who, after years of trying to define molecules and atoms, has finally gone searching in hopes of finding one of these minute particles so that he may de- scribe it in his own way. Finally to Reno and we catch Viola Clough in the act of throwing her wedding ring into the Truckee River. Viola’s marriage has been broken up because of her incurable crush on Corliss Sanborn, the Leslie Howard of the day. Corliss’s lat- est production, “A Lady’s Man,” has simply slain the female population. As these scenes drift away in smoke, the city again comes into view. We find more large concerns such as that resulting from the recent merger of Hennessey, Ashcroft, and Winchester. Clara, as a nurse acts as stooge for the other two partners, getting information