Cambridge High School - Yearling Yearbook (Cambridge, MD)

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THE HGTTENTOT Page Seven Class History Though the future looms before us, a shining pathway to our dreams come true, it is to the past our thoughts return and we review with a smile and a sigh the happy, carefree schooldays that are so nearly a part of our memories. Never before has school seemed so dear and hard to leave and never have the events of our school life stood out so very clearly. Who, who has ever been a senior can forget the days when he was a freshman? On that September morning in '34 the bell at Cam- bridge High rang in some of the most frightened specimens of young Americans ever to behold an institution of learning. In fact, we were so frightened we all crept in the back doors. Those majestic columns in the front seemed to be sentincls guarding the front door and seniors alone could brave their hauteur. Soon enough, however, that timidity gave way to curiosity and the freshies had their noses in everything trying to find out just why it was there. Entering with us that year were several alumni, coming back as teachers. Miss Mabel Wright re- turned as a teacher of English and dramatics, and also in the English department was Miss Helen Doen- ges. New members of the mathe- matics department were Miss Ellen Byrn and Mr. James Busick. Lat- er in the year Miss Estelle Leonard was with us in the place of Miss Dorothy Noble, and Mr. Theodore Boston in the place left by Miss Rosabelle Gould. The entire freshman class had learned to love Miss Mills, our li- brarian and teacher, not only as an instructor, but as a friend. She seemed to care about each and every one of her pupils as a per- son, and endeared herself to the freshmen who were so anxious to be considered as important person- alities. Her death, in the spring of that year was one of the saddest events in our school life. So, our freshman year passed, with its sad moments and also its gloriously happy ones. We had made some impression on the school in both the scholastic and athletic fields, but our greatest vic- tories were to come in the follow- ing years. Vacation days were nearly overg as sophomores we were prepared to accomplish things. And then one morning the fire siren rang, clear and long. It was our high school building. In a few minutes our books, equipment, and building were a mass of charred coals. In three days school was scheduled to start. Where would we have class- es? That was the question upper- most in everyone's mind. After much deliberation, it was decided that the walls of Seminary could be stretched to house us. From attic to basement we swarined from 8.30 until 5.30. That year every class in high school and every class in the Seminary proved just how well it could adjust itself to any situa- tion. Though we were cramped for space, perhaps the very experi- ence made us realize the value of our new school building. As sophomores we felt we really had an active part in the doings we had watched from the bleachers last year. Every one of us tried to make our second year worthwhile. Many took part in all athletic and scholastic events on our limited cal- endar. - Again the faculty had changed and we found Mr. Raymond Sim- mons, Mr. Edward Walter, Miss Ella Barkley, Mrs. Eleanor Willis Fox, and later Mrs. Bonnie Harmon among our teachers. It was only through excellent co- operation between the teachers and pupils that the school year of 1935- 36 was a success. We romped through another va- cation, hoping fervently that our new school building would be ready to open in September. It wasn't quite finished but we entered, now full-fledged upper-classmen. How proud we were of our new school with its new slippery Hoors, its in- direct lighting, and its loudspeaker system. How diligently we twisted to get into our lockers, improved with combination locks. Though our first few weeks of classes were spent in a pell-mell of hammering and banging, we were rewarded for our earstrain when Mr. Crom- well complimented the student body upon its cooperation with the work- men in the building. Last year, a new system of lunch- ing was put into the schedule at Cambridge High. Instead of al- lowing the whole school to eat at twelve o'clock, as in previous years, only those who happened to be on the first iioor went to lunch at twelve. The other poor mortals dragged their steps upward to wait another hour. Scholastic records were made in our junior year. A new honor roll system was installed and many jun- iors' names were listed Some very few even attained the heights of all A's. Many juniors took part in the annual spelling contest sponsored by Goldey College, and the team en- tered by Cambridge High was for- tunate enough to win first honors. For the first time, the juniors really blossomed in the athletic events. Several juniors were mem- bers of our shore championship soccer and basket-ball teams. Cam- bridge High placed first in the an- nual Dorchester County field meet, and also in the field meet held at Salisbury. Juniors were the proud possessors of many new records. With spring came commence- ment, the last commencement we would witness before we were the actors in the pageant. Just three short months and we had returned as seniors, fully prepared to do jus- tice to our dignified position. For the third time the faculty had changed. New faces in the teachers' gallery were Miss Paul- ine Hirst, our new art teacher, Miss Lucille Hurley, in the music department, and Miss C l eon a Brinsfield to fill the vacancy left by Mrs. Fox. As in former years, the seniors had the advantages in school. Ours were the choicest seats in the audi- torium. We published the school paper and led the way for the other classes. We entered our senior year realizing that, though we were seniors and had senior privileges, we had much to learn. Strangely enough we also remembered we had once been freshies and did not worry this year's group too much. When the athletic season opened with soccer, the senior boys turned out strong. Though their team was not the most victorious the school has ever knovsm, it will be remembered for its sportsmanship. Not satisfied with athletic: prow- ess alone, the seniors tried as never before to get their names on the honor roll for scholastic ability. The fall passed away into winter and the New Year was here. We were beginning to worry about mid-year exams, when a voice from heaven, Mr. Cromwell's to be exact, announced -that there would be none. Never was a happier mes- sage brought to our ears, but we wondered why he waited until we were seniors to begin the good work. With exams so easily disposed of we could more readily enjoy the peak of the basketball season. Game after game was tossed off by our boys and girls and they were crowned Eastern Shore Champs. Then for Cumberland, and alas, for defeat. But it was a glorious de- feat. Our boys showed their good sportsmanship by presenting the opposing team with some of the largest fish their landlubber eyes had ever beheld. In the meantime, though, Cam- bridge High had changed princi- pals. Mr. Cromwell had been ap- pointed State Supervisor of Educa- tional Guidance, a new department in Maryland's educational field. In his place stepped our vice-principal and the boys' peppery coach, Mr. Emmett Andrews. Though the whole school regretted to see Mr. Cromwell leave, we gave Mr. An- drews a big hand as our new prin- cipal and sincerely admired the smoothness with which he ran our school. He no longer could fill his duties as coach and biology teach- er, so Mr. Walter and Mr. Busick became coaches and Mr. Robert Vincent came as the teacher of sophomore biology. Spring slipped upon us, and found us unaware of the fact that autumn had passed. Soon we were posing for our senior pictures, and attending our senior play. June week was here and over in a twink- ling and we found ourselves pos- sessors of a diploma, neatly tied with white ribbon. Though that diploma may show to the world that its owner has acquired four years of knowledge within the walls of Cambridge High School, it cannot show the world our memories of those four years. Those memories. more than our diplomas will keep fresh in our hearts our high school days. May our futures be as glor- iously worthwhile and happy as our four short years at Cambridge High. Eleanor Shorter, Class Historian, '38. CLASS SONG By Willis Conover, Jr. fTune: Thanks for the Memories J Thanks for the memories Of cokes we sipped at Ted's, Tennis courts and Keds, And evenings when at half ten We tucked into our beds- How lovely it was! Thanks for the memories Of homework left undone, Movies by the ton, And cigarettes we smoked on bets And startled everyone- How lovely it was! You never bothered to question How I'd get additional money, But, really, dear, it wasn't funny. You took my dough, And let it fiow, But thanks for the memories Of dances at the school- I acted like a fool, And even now I wonder how You managed to keep cool. Yes, thank you so much. past

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P81rcSix THE l-IOTTENTOT HO'l l'ENTOT STAFF OF '38 From left to right, seated: Winilred Smith, Mary Wright, Margaret Slacum, Betty Mae Wright, Betty Stewart, Ellis Orr tllanaging Editcrj, Edward Peters fEditor-in-chiefl, Helen Shenton tBusiness Managerl, Dorothy Weedon, Fred Thomas, Norma Warner, Margaret Mowbray. Second row: Margaret Pink, Blondy Murphy, Pauline Pike, Eleanor Shorter, Olive Brannock, Robert Melvin, Everett Creighton, Russell Mills, Russell Messick, Archie Brooks Marie Seward, Shirley Dill. Third row: Veach Hurley, Bill Blades. Fourth row: Seward Gray, Sewell Matthews, Brice Creighton, John Paul Jones, Mace Harper, Anna Ruth Jones. I'red Newcomb and Winfield Dean are absent. THE EDITOIFS I AREWEI.l. TO HIS PAPER Two years is a long time for us to be together, but now our union cemes to a close. We have worked hard to make something of our- selves, haven't we? XVe succeeded though and that is all that really matters. You are in second class now. old pal. No more third class for you. Keep your chin up though or else our labors won't come to much. It isn't so much the fight itself that counts, it's the training and the building-up before that real- ly matters. My time is up. you know that. You've seen others come and go before this, but your job lasts on anvl your time is not limited. It's been fun working with you. old pal, but it's been work, too. You are a hard master and a fine teacher. Some one else IS coming in to take my place now and you start with an entirely new crew. They're all hardy sailors, old ship, and you'll ride through all kinds of weather. but if your course is care- fully charted you need have no fear and with a fast farewell and best wishes. an editor says Good- bye to his paper. EDWARD PETERS, Editor of the Hottentot. HOTT ENTOT BANQU ET When there are to be bigger and better banquets and dances, the Hottentot staff will sponsor them. On the night that all exams were over, Friday, May 20, members of the two staffs, Junior and Senior, were treated to a hard earned treat. For an entire year the promise of a banquet had loomed over us, sometimes as a threat, sometimes a promise,-a promise of a dinner and dance if we wo1'ked hard, a threat that we would not have one, if we shirked. VVe had it! As usual, Essie's cooking was enjoyed, and by about seventy-five members, sponsors and guests. Even the menu was a lit- tle different this year for we were treated to baked chicken and all the necessary fixings. At the close of the meal Edward Peters, editor-in-chief, charmingly 'fdid himself proud as he congrat- ulated the staH:s and passed on some necessary tools to next year's editor, George Orr. There follow- ed George's acceptance and a few other timely remarks made by ad- visors and staff workers. The surprise of the evening came when some members of the Junior staff satirized the graduating members in three scenes-a meet- ing of the staff before the paper went to press, a meeting preparing for the banquet, and the banquet itself. The Seniors and advisors took it all in fun and laughed with and at themselves, as portrayed by Jean Brotemarkle, Virginia Hobbs. Eleanor Moore, Bertha Keplinger, George Orr, Billy Evans, Wallace Willey and Irwin Feldman. Having' had much too much to eat fhow about it Edward?J and plenty of fun, everyone moved up to the auditorium or dashed out af- ter their partners for the dance. Then instead of having to dance to the tune of canned music, there was real swing as played for us by Hal Marquess' orchestra. A big' event? One of the biggest and best in our whole school calen- dar. Vive la Hottentotl i Q.T fi EXCHANGE As exchange editor of the Hot- tentot Staff, I wish to thank those papers who have exchanged with us during this school year. All papers received were interesting and helpful to us. Next year we hope to still see you on our list. EVERETTE CREIGHTON, Exchange Editor. very l'RONl A BIG Sllt'f'ESS Dad may I have the car? But I just gotta' have it to go to the Prom. Those were familiar words heard on the eve' of the year's biggest event, the Junior- Senior Prom, held on the night of June 3. Blue and gold, class colors fschool colors alsoj almost made us believe that we were spending June week at the Naval Academy. This gay festooning had all been decoratively arranged under the supervision of Bill Robbins and his faithful followers. Lights were dim but fiattering to the pretty co-eds who waltzed or trucked between the portals of old C. H. S. Nor were the admir- ing partners to be outdone, for they were also attired in all their finery of white fiannels and palm beach suits. The fioor was a kaleidoscope of color, pastel blues, pinks, yellows, and greens. So the seniors had an evening of swing and sway , not Sammy Kaye but one of the Eastern Sh0re's best-Hal Marquess and his popular orchestra.

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PaH9EiEht THE I-IOTTENTOT Class Prophecy The White House, June 10, 1962. Dear John Paul: I certainly was pleased to hear that you got the job of building the New York Monument. I also hear that the Electrical Engineer of your Contracting firm is Ellis Orr, our old Prof. Moo. I am very glad that he turned out to be some- thing. Do you remember the President of our class? Well, Millsy is run- ning you a little competition in the Engineering world. He has just received a contract to build a dam across the mouth of the Chop- tank River. to harness power for the new Dill pickle factory opening up in Oxford soon. I was down town this morning and got the surprise of my life when I looked into Messick's Book Store Window. I saw a book writ- ten by Bill Langrall, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion, entitled Where is the Crimin- al? You know, since that guy has been the head of the FBI the prisons have been full, and the crime rate has decreased rapidly according to Warden Burton of Sing Sing. Another book was Around the World on Wheels by Albert Cook, the great Arctic Ex- plorer and writer. It is a book on his travels around the world in a truck, via the North Pole. I went down to Meyer's Casino the other night and saw the floor show which featured Bettye Stew- art and her Royal Dancers. Also featured was Dukeo Williso, the great magician, not a thing could hold him. He is better known as Duck , Among the notable per- sonages there, whom I knew were: Anna Ruth Jones, the New York Socialite and wife of the million- aire playboy Count Looeyg Fred Pritchett and Lloyd Robbins, the owners of the We-Gyp-Ya Insur- ance Companyg and Annette Rob- bins, the mother of the lovelorn. One swell picture you don't want to miss if it comes to New York is Eldridge's new picture You're Mine , with Betty Bloom as the leading lady and Mary Wright, the comedian. Have you heard the new Gore Ra- dio Theatre on WWNN? It just started last week and it is some- thing like the Lux Theatre we used to hear when we were in High School. The Chase 8x Catch Coffee Variety Show, on the same station, is good now, too. It features Au- gusta Merrick, the famous singer, George Eckert, comedian, Goldy Tall and his orchestra and people who talk on various vocations. This week Brice Creighton is to talk on the subject of Accounting. Brice and Carl opened an accounting school when they graduated from night school and now have a very successful business. Talking about schools, it seems that quite a few of our old class- mates opened up schools for their various trades, for instance: the Pike-Thomas School of Art, the Robinson-Patterson School of Dancing, the Higgs Secretarial School. All of these schools are very successful. I bought a Fuller Brush last week and I bet you don't know who from. Fred Newcomb. He likes to travel and he is some salesman, too. I saw George Todd's Baseball Team play the other day, and they are what you would call cool jobs . George certainly did progress after joining the Cambridge Cardinals in 1941. I met Mace Harper on the street yesterday and he's just as red as ever. He's working as private sec- retary to Mr. I. Spark, the Radio magnate. He says that he saw Jack Twyman and Jack Evans last month and that they are still work- ing in Twyman's Refinery. I read where Willis Conover is to take over the announcing job of WWNN next week to become the best head announcer of the Nation- al Broadcasting System. I went back to Cambridge last month to visit Raymond Marshall. Raymond is now the president of the Marshall Dog Food Factory. I also saw Milton Malkus, the head of the Malkus Sugar Refinery and his private secretary, Martha Con- way. Cambridge has certainly grown since Edward Peters has been Mayor, he has made things hum around, down there. Do you remember Virginia Bran- nock? She has taken over the High Spot and has remodeled it. It takes up the whole block now and it has a flat roof for dancing at night under the stars. She calls it Jinny's Casino . Some place! You know, old Vernon Robbins has himself a job at the Continal Can Co. as private secretary to the old boss, himself? Curly certain- ly has gone up the ladder of fame, or has he? His business has fall- en off, though, since the Brooks Co. has been putting food up in pill form. Archie got the idea when trying to make hot food without cooking it. These Mills girls have started a restaurant and have a very' good business. They have the select so- ciety as patrons but anyone can go in if he won't feel embarrassed. Reba, Naomi and Virginia are the featured singers in the floor show there each week. Arnold Nichols is giving a concert at the Lyric next week with Ruth Dashiell at the piano. That team has certainly reached the peak of concert fame. Also at the Lyric this week is the Quartet we used to hear back in Cambridge, you'll remember them, Patricia White, Mary Louise Willey, Eliza- beth Trice and Margaret Richard- son. Edwin Dayton has opened a de- partment store down town next to Melvin's Sport Shop. He certainly has a big time for his opening day. Elizabeth LeCompte's B e a u t y Shoppe is right down the street, too. I hear that Marie Hurst has the position of head Nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She certainly went places fast. And so did Rosemary Byrn, she's now the national head of the Girl Scouts of America. William Hogan and Veach Hur- ley joined hands right after they graduated from college and started an airplane business. They make gliders. Bill Blades is their test pilot, and some daredevil, too! Albert Atkinson has at last a business of his own. He owns the Atkinson Meat Market down in Cambridge. Bernard Mackell has started a canning house in Madison and is putting up canned corned beef. He has quite a business. Vlliniield Dean has a transporta- tion company down in Cambridge. He calls it the Dean Transferey and hauls anything from an inch to a mile. A few of our old classmates went right into the teaching career. They were Margaret Mowbray, who is teaching Physical Education to the girls, Marie Seward, who is teach- ing Typing, Margaret Slacum who is teaching P. O. D., Edward Asp- len, who is teaching Agriculture and Gykes Creighton, the princi- pal of Cambridge High. He re- ceived his position through ac- quaintance with the Governor, John Capone, brother of Al. Helen Shenton and Norma War- ner went right into secretarial work when they graduated. Helen is working as private secretary to Radcliffe Roberson, the president of the Goodpoor Rubber Co. and Norma is working as private sec- retary to Norman Smith, Assistant Secretary of the Navyg both are doing very well. Do you remember old Sewey Mathews, who used to run the 440 and win with such ease? Well, he is now the promoter of athletic events at Madison Circle Garden and is doing very well, too. He promoted the fight between Edgar Brannock and Muggsy. Edgar won, of course, and is now light heavyweight champion of Cam- bridge. Carlton Spedden and John Trav- ers have opened themselves a din- er on the outskirts of Cambridge and have a very good business there. Seward Gray turned out to be a nature lover after all. He has opened up a camp on the Choptank and has quite a crowd there each summer. Leroy Seward and Vernon Cooke opened a dude Ranch as soon as they graduated from college. That's where you ought to spend your va- cation this summer. The Wilson sisters, Lauraetta and Rosabelle, opened a stationery shop on High Street where the old Banner Office used to be. The Ban- ner moved, you know, after Jimmy Marshall and Fred Mowbray took it over. flt had to.J Dot Weedon and Winny Smith are secretaries to the law firm of Gordy and Neild. Irving and Bayne became famous when they discovered the documents giv- ing Roslyn Wheeler the entire es- tate of her uncle. Roslyn worked a while as a waitress, but I guess she's through work now. We had four classmates to go di- rectly to the stage, they were Vir- ginia Wright, Dramatistg Bettye Mae Wright, Make-up artist: Olive Brannock, Dramatistg and Marga- ret Seward, singer. Eleanor Shorter and Margaret Pink are touring the country to- gether giving lectures about spell- ing and shorthand, respectively. Marguerite Schaffner, Olive Vinton, and Wilsie Willey have been doing very well at their jobs of reporting for the New York Times. Marguerite and Wilsie are sports reporters while Olive writes an Etiquette column. You ought to read it, it'll do you good. June Jones and Geraldine Le- Compte have opened their chain of beauty parlors over the eastern part of the U. S. KI must remem- ber to have my hair set.J Those who did not go out into the world but settled down and married are Ruth Faulkner, Eliza- beth Greer, Pearl Hargett, Hilda Hubbard and Lillian Peterson. lThey were bright.D fContinued to page 9, Col. 2J