Brattleboro Union High School - Colonel Yearbook (Brattleboro, VT)

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CLASS WILL WE, the class of nineteen hundred and thirty-six A.D., of the Brattleboro High School, of the borough of Brattleboro, of the county of Windham, of the State of Vermont, tributary to the United States of North America, do solemnly swear that two and two make five and that black and white are redg that whosoever may dispute us is outside our good graces, and shall be hanged by his left hind third toe nail until he states that he has a fairy godmother. We do bequeath the following to the following fand may you follow, alsoj. To Clarence Tarzan Barber we leave three sprightly hairs from the massive chest of Primo Grgzel-Grcz- fyou pronounce itlj to be grafted onto Tarzan's chest by Miss Ruth Tiddledewiddle Helyar, on the twenty- sixth of June, nineteen thirty-six, in the vain hope that Clarence may become a man. To Beverly Jennings we donate one streamlined boy friend, with the hope that she may gain a little speed. To the class of nineteen thirty-nine we give one cradle and three diamond-studded rattles. To the Solid Geometry class we leave the theme song, Prisms Is Our Business. To the class of nineteen thirty-seven we leave one R. C. A. Brain so that they may all have something in common. To Cora Terreri we deed Durward Chamberlain's gunboats so that she may sail at midnight. To Clyde Howard we donate Diogenes' lamp so that he may find his way among the hidden recesses of the basement. To Stanley Wilson we leave our senorial dignity and loftinessg may he wear this mantle forever. To Timothy Man Mountain Crane we give one com- plete set of Charles Atlas so that Timmy may see how he came by those bulging muscles which just ripple into every girl's heart. To Izzy Tupper we leave a few Francs with which she may buy a Taylor Shoppe in Paris. We dub Chocolate Soldier DeLottinville Generalis- simo Supremo P. D. Q. in the Vermont junior National Guard, as a result of his excellent direction of many town big shots during the flood era. To Evelyn She Who Slapsi' Tyler, we give Frankie Taylor's strong right arm to ward off all offending ad- mirers. Yes, fellows-Durward! George Lovey Dovey Hawkins and june COO-Coo Johnson are given complete possession of the left hand corner main room seats to be used by said couple as a love seat. To Merle Coombs we bequeath two permanent seats in the afternoon session room. One is to be used for his head and the other for his books. To Boogey Boogeyn Dutton we give the right to say kitchey-kitchey-koo to all the girls on the second floor. These words from Frankie's native tongue mean Want a ride on the handlebars ? May Primpy Primrose enjoy one leather bound vol- ume of Louise French's classic The Ways and Means of Men. l'Primpy says all men weigh little and mean nothing! For Eleanor Wren Weaver we build one cosy, in- destructible nest, where she may chirp and twitter to her heart's content tweet, tweet, Wrenny! To Merrill Barber, locally known as Little Lord Fauntleroyf' we leave the exclusive privilege of playing Matey More's immortal game tweek. To Leslie Warren we bequeath a foundation, so that he may thoroughly investigate the belief that Burton Gregg is the original missing link. To just call me Eddy Burton, we bequeath one home for penniless pigeons and homeless hounds, and also a mystery story entitled A Young Girl and a Brief Case. To Primo we give one big letter I. To Frank Wilson we leave three yards of surgical thread so that he may sew up his split infinitives. To Eddie Colt we leave the privilege of receiving one yellow pansy before the school play next year, said flower to be presented by Edouard Robert. To Beverly Filion we bequeath a fireman's ladder, not in the hope that she might fall off, but so that she may find out how tall Groucho', Stebbins really is. To ScuHle Carlson we leave one automatic head scratcher so that he may enliven his wits at all times. To Ben Cox we deed one acetylene torch so that he may weld up his dangling participles. To Night Hawk DeAngelis we leave one copy of that famous piece Three O'clock in the Morning, which she has again made famous. To Unfaithful Crawford we give one airplane, so that she may reach her devoted followers in Saxtons River each Friday night. We leave to George Hawkins the doubtful honor of executing this will. We feel that his indomitable courage and integrity will bent him in this capacity. We also feel that he will spend a long time within these haunted walls so that he will have plenty of time in which to complete our wishes. In witness whereof we hereby afflx our names and seals in the year of nineteen hundred and thirty-six A.D. BETSEY WHITE JACK EMERY Witnessed by: ELLEN RowLEY VERA PROUTY

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I6 THE DIAL Rachel Fisher, Betsey White, Betty Stevens, and Paul Burnham. Make way, Hollywood, for the stars of the future! The Home Economics Club, under Peg Douglas as President, sailed successfully through the year with the aid of Alice Martin, Publicity Agent, and Dorothy Friz- zell, Chairman of the social committee. Dana Chase was elected by popular vote for the office of President of the Literary Club. The class members were not in the least backward about coming forward into the sports limelight either. just listen to this! George Sprague was captain of the football team, and backing him were Bob Moore, Stan Iuscen, Pepper Martin, Harold Blodgett, Pud,' Burnham, Vern,' Vernott, Henry Merrill, and Ronnie,' Clark. What a thrill to see them plow through the op- posing lines! If you dicln't hear about the basketball team, you cer- tainly missed important news, for with the help of Beanie Tudor, Bill Lindsey, Stan juscen, and Fred Nims, the boys managed to bring home the bacon, as the saying goes, only it was in the form of a cup, awarded to the Southeastern Vermont champions. In the Southeast- ern Tournament, Bernard Tudor was chosen as a second team center, and later was also picked for the same posi- tion at the Vermont State Tournament. What a man! Bill Lindsey didn't do too badly for himself, either. He was chosen at the Southeastern State Tournament as second team guard. Nice going, fellows! Our hockey playing class members, those brave boys who dared jack Frost and King Snow to bring home more honors to B. H. S., were Bob Moore, George Sprague, Edu Dunklee, Vern'I Vernott, Dana Chase, Henry Merrill, Harold Blodgett, and Bill Holden. In the spring sports we were well represented with Bob Moore, Harold Blodgett, Stanley juscen, Bill Lindsey, and strutting their stuff on the baseball diamond. How the boys did show up those other teams! As for track-our boys were well ahead and above the other teams. With Burt Martin, Ronnie Clark, Bill Holden, Paul Burnham, and against them, the other teams didnlt have a ghost of a chance. The girls didn't do too badly in sports, either. Their little basketball team, with the aid of Peg', Douglas as captain and Lillian Bennett, Harriette Wilbur, Dorothy Frizzell, and Sylvia Brockington, managed to accumulate several victories in the name of good old B. H. Sfat least, they got in their two cents' worth. Under the guidance of President Stan Juscen, and with the aid of seniors Kermit Baker, Helen Berry, Betsey Hall, Betsey White, Fred Nims, and john Heald, the Student Council laid down the laws to the school and maintained decorum to a certain degree. At recess time one may have wondered to what degree, but for the most part, violators found that crime doesn't pay. The drama Double Door,'! chosen for the annual school play, was enacted by a very efhcient cast. Peg Douglas played the difficult role of the rich old spinster Victoria Van Bret, who tried, without success, to direct the fate of all who came in contact with her. Bettie Tasker gave excellent support as her younger sister, Caroline, and Edouard Roberts mastered the difficult part of their younger brother. Other senior class members taking part were john Heald, as the stately and dignified butler, Carter Jones, as the perplexed family advisor, Francis Shaw, as Dr. Sully, a friend of Rip, and Harold Barry, who portrayed the tough city detective, hired by Vickie to keep tabs on Rip's young wife. We are justly proud of the Editors on TI-IIE DIAL board for the honors which they helped to bring home from the various contests for school magazines. The judges of the National Scholastic Press Association recommended the cuts done by Harriette Wilbur as representing the best linoleum cutwork in school magazines. To say that we are proud would be putting it mildly! In the Columbia Scholastic Press Association contest, THE DIAL took second place. Our magazine was one of four in its class to win the highest honors of All-American rating in the National Scholastic Press Association Contest. Grace Weaver, an associate editor, was awarded first place in the Scholastic Poetry contest conducted by the University of Vermont and will receive a 35150 scholarship. The win- ning poem was Winter Sunset. Another member of our class, Dorothy Swan, though not a DIAL board editor, took second place in the State Essay contest with her Good Old Days. She is entitled to a 513100 scholar- ship. For the final frivolities of the year, committees were appointed to handle the details of the Class Frolic and of the Picnic under the chairmanship of the class president. Burt Martin, Coy Shaw, Peg Douglas, Helen Mulroney, and Betsey Hall took care of the plans for the Frolic. Arrangements for the Picnic were left to Harold Barry, Fred Nims, Ajlill Augustson, Dorothy Anderson, and Sylvia Brockington. Besides our dramatic talent and the athletes among us, we have three prize-winning orators. At the Sherman Prize Speaking Contest, Edouard Roberts won the first prize of 3525. Peg Douglas took second place and re- ceived SSI5, and Bettie Tasker the third prize of 3510. Our class song was written by Bettie Tasker, and the Ivy Ode by Doris Heyer. At the Class Day exercises, john Heald will undertake the Ivy Oration, Grace Weaver the Class Essay, Fred Nims the Class Oration, and Ines Lausi the Ivy Essay. Then, with a few more cere- monies, we shall be just another class of graduates facing the world. For the most part, the days spent in the old brick building have been happy, but we are looking forward to even greater happiness and success. -Sylvia Bra CkiI1gl0lZ

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I8 THE DIAL Television KC0nzin1zedfr0m page 101 One of our large corporations is said to have ready for release a highly satisfactory television receiver for the home. However, for two main reasons, this company is withholding its product from the market. The first rea- son is that the set will be high in price, under the present state of business, its sale would be severely limited. The other main reason is the dearth of television broadcasting stations in this country. Obviously, people are not going to spend several hundred of dollars for a set which can be of little use to them. It is interesting to note that the public is eager to buy, but the producers are loath to sell, or are unable to sell. The scarcity of sending stations in America is due to several reasons. The most important of these is the lack of standardization of sets. Some sets are made to re- ceive the 240-lines-to-an-inch television, while others ac- cept only 410 lines to an inch on their screens. A broad- cast which can be received by only one type of machine is of little advantage. One writer states that the blame for the dearth of sat- isfactory television transmitters may be laid directly at the door of the Federal Radio Commission. That body has ruled that advertising shall not be a part of any tele- vision program, and that the programs shall be for ex- perimental purposes only. This precaution may have a good effect in preventing a recurrence of the tremendous overdose of advertising which has so degraded present radio programs. But, on the other hand, this restriction prevents the operation of self-supporting television trans- mitters, and without them, television receivers become only curiosities, depending for programs on a few scat- tered stations operating but sparsely. Another problem which brought about difficulty was the question of wave bands. Had television been de- veloped ten years ago, all would have been well, for radio did not then occupy practically all the ether space, as it now does. However, television sets can operate on wave bands of seven meters. Since radio cannot easily work on such a low wave band, the problem seems to have been solved. There are unlimited possibilities for the practical usage of television, once it really is perfected. Thinking of television in its broadest sense, that is, including the transmission of pictures by wire, there are many oppor- tunities for television to improve present methods. For instance, when advertisements are to be duplicated in various cities, a telegraph message is not sufficient, but a televised picture can clearly show the exact form. When one wishes to send a message in some language which is not familiar to the telegraph operator, the advantage of being able to send a picture of the handwriting is appar- ent. As soon as the successful laboratory operations can be put into commercial practice, the tedious ticking off of individual letters for each word will appear as anti- quated as an oxcart alongside a powerful electric loco- motive. Then, too, a number of forms of entertainment are barred, or hindered by lack of television. This was demonstrated when one broadcasting station tried to send over the air a series of Broadway musical shows, direct from the stage. This attempt turned out a failure, for without the stage setting and the display of color and dancing, the show was lifeless. Television seems definitely on the road to become an educational instrument of practical value. The television station at the University of Iowa was the first sight sound broadcasting station for educational purposes in the en- tire country. The electrical engineering department con- ducted a series of teaching experiments whose results indicate that soon students who cannot go to schools or colleges for instruction can get it in their own homes. One news report stated that: The students will not only be able to hear the teacheris voice, but they will be able to see her chalking figures on the blackboard. They will even hear the squeak of the chalk. Experimental broad- casts have been made in language courses, music, art, journalism, science, rugmaking, basket weaving, short- hand, and mechanical drawing. There have also been lectures in astronomy, architecture, physics, and agricul- ture. Courses which involve much use of statistical charts and graphs lend themselves well to television methods. By radio alone a teacher would have to use 10,- 000 words to describe data which, registered in black and white for the eye to scan, could be grasped in a few sec- onds. The visual educators say that 83 per cent of learn- ing comes through the eye. Instruction by television will, therefore, combine both sight and sound methods. David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corporation of America, has announced that 31,000,000 will be spent in building a transmitting station in the New York metropolitan district, in constructing receivers, and in program service. In the beginning, transmission will be limited to a radius of about twenty-five miles, but the images are expected to show ten times the detail of the crude experimental pictures of a few years ago. One pessimistic Writer proclaims that television is still, like prosperity, just around the cornerf' He also points out that television will have the opposition of sports pro- moters, for who will pay to go to athletic events if he can stay at home and distinctly see the events? This may be true, but, obviously, the assets will out- weigh the liabilities, and television just cannot be denied. -john Heald