Bellows Free Academy - Alpha Omega Yearbook (St Albans, VT)

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V l THE MERCURY Senior epartment Class Poem of 1932 We are ready, Captain, Waiting for your command. We are armed with youth and courage, Weapons the War of Life demands. The battle front is veiled with mist, So dim and yet so near. Our knowledge of the battle then ls only what we hear. We are clamoring to rush ahead To face the enemy's fire, To fill the places left by the dead Midst smoke and shell and wire. We have been training hard for this At last the hour is near. Above the din these words are sent For the new recruits to hear: Fight fairly and squarely and man for Whether you have a low rank or high. Fall not on your sword, a coward! Be a hero, and with a hero's spirit die. event, man, !7 MARJORIE MCKENNEY '32, Class Poet

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THE MERCURY Next 'Yeafs Staff The present stafi has chosen, With the approval of the faculty ad- visers, the following to carry on the work of THE MERCURY next year: EDITORIAL STAFF EDITOR ............ ............... . . ROBERT MOORE ,33 MANAGING EDITOR . . . . . . VIRGINIA NORRIS ,313 LITERARY EDITOR .... BARBARA FOGG ,33 FRENCH EDITOR .. . ..... ELLA BOISVERT '33 NEWS EDITOR ..... . . MARGARET CORLISS ,34 ALUMNI EDITOR .... . . . SHIRLEY RALSTON '33 ATHLETICS EDITOR CLAYTON CARROLL ,34 EXCHANGE EDITOR . . . MIRIAM WISE '34 BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER .................... HAROLD HUNT '33 CIRCULATION MANAGER ........... . . . EUNICE MCCLEERY ,33 ASSISTANT CIRCULATION MANAGER . . . .... MABEL START '34 ADVERTISING MANAGER ........... .... R OGER CHASE '33 ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER .. ...... RICHARD RAYMOND ,34 Hk Pk lk lk Dk THE MERCURY Wishes to thank the proof-readers, Agnes Jennings '32 and Barbara Fogg '33g the Typing department of Bellows Free Academy, the Messenger Company staff, the faculty advisersg and the contributors, for their splendid cooperation and interest. ff Pk :sf :se af The Literary editor Wishes to extend her thanks to Elizabeth Dewart ,32, who typed the material for the Literary department. Pk lk :sf ak wk THE MERCURY extends to Adele and Marguerite Laselle, of the Class of ,32, its sincere sympathy in the loss Of their father.

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THE MERCURY 7 Senior Class History The story that I am about to tell is one that will remain for years un- finished--the history of the Class of '32, We have, it is true, completed our career at B. F. A., but we shall go on, though in diverse paths, always making history for B. F. A. and ,32. Our carefree high school days, fel- low classmates, are over, and it is now time that we turn to the more serious side of life. Let us, for a few short moments, recall the events of our high school days, that they may always dwell in our memory. We look back on our first day of high school almost as though it were a nightmare, still I believe the majority of us wish we might live that day over again. During that memorable day and even the first weeks that followed, everything ran along smoothly for the older students, but as for us, poor freshmen that we were, it seemed im- possible for us to do anything without getting ourselves into difficulties. The first big event in our high school life was a Freshman Class meeting held for the purpose of electing officers that could safely lead us through our first year of high school. This meeting re- sembled a menagerie when all the animals are let loose, more than it did a group of sane boys and girls. After much discussion, the following officers were finally elected: Stephen Brouillette ....... President Edith Daily ......... Vice-president Kathryn Touchette ........ Secretary John Larry ............. Treasurer These officers did their best to make the freshmen seem more like high school students than like children, but there was one thing that couldn't be accomplished and that was to collect the class dues. That was an impossible undertaking. Considering that the sophomores looked upon us almost as though we were scoundrels, it was really a sur- prise to us when we were invited to at- tend a reception in the City Hall. It is very evident that the majority of our classmates thought the sophomores were playing a practical joke on them, because only three freshmen couples attended the reception. This reception ended, for the year, our activities as a class. We spent the remainder of that semester and the next in preparing for those horrible mid- year and final exams. The next September, we gathered back at the old high school with only a few of our number left behind. It may seem a trifle unusual, but it was the general opinion that we held the same sentiment toward the fresh- men as the class ahead had had toward us. Since we were now sophomores, wise and sure of our own opinions, it was not so hard for us to decide on our class officers. ln only one much more orderly assembly than that of the pre- vious year we elected Ernest Warren for President, Persis Start for Vice-president, Aldine Miller for Secretary, and Robert Cunningham for Treasurer. This year it was our privilege to give the freshmen a reception. We had one food sale to help, but our efforts were hardly necessary. We had an excep- tionally large class, and everyone, it seemed, was willing to pay his dues.