Central High School - Aglaia Yearbook (Manchester, NH)

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mmf 1 BROWN, BUT NOT DULL Picture a Sunday School Class of uneasy twelve year old girls being taught by an aristocratic elderly lady. It forms the setting for my first meeting with Brown. While Ioseph was interpreting the Pharoh's dream, Brown was narrating in a loud stage whisper, the exciting experience of hopping a street car. Soon everyone's at- tention was directed to her. The Sunday School teacher was rudely stranded in the following discussion of that wonderful movie and the party last night. It happened, not because Brown was especially rude, but because she was so full of life and energy that sitting still, even for five minutes, was excruciating torture. Most of my other early remembrances of her had the church as a setting, for we sel- dom met elsewhere. There was the time of the annual supper. Brown and I happened to be among those serving. Under her able leadership, we smuggled two pies upstairs into the churdh auditorium, performed a mock wedding ceremony with some of the boys who had poured coffee, ate the pies and left the plates on one of the pews, and in general, a good time was had by all . I suppose it was all rather sacrilegious, but we argued effectively with our consciences and soothed things out. At a later date in high school I was lucky enough to see quite a bit of Brown. Nfl. L E TJIIY Like wine, she got better with age and proved to be a lady and a scholar. She had a remarkable system for study. I can't ever remember her coming to class unprepared, and, strangely enough, she was prepared well. Ninety-eights and ninety-fives were de- finite evidence when marks came out. If Brown was called upon to do any- thing for someone else, she did it at once. And because she did work this way, she en- joyed her play, providing a happy companion for anyone fortunate enough to know her. I've often tried to do the same thing, but I fail everytime and go on letting work pile up, worrying about it, and then spending three or four precious hours doing it. To get back to Brown. She never should have had that for a name. When you think of brown, you think of a drab, uninteresting color. When I think of Brown, I think of a person sparkling with health and filled with a zest and a love for life. She reads good books and likes good music. She has an uncommon pleasing per- sonality. Shels not an intimate friend, for shels wise enough not to let that happen. Instead she is an understanding one. To those of you whom I am talking I give this challenge. Look around you for some Browns. Try to find the sparkle of friendship beneath a dull exterior finish. BARBARA BURNS

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CONTENTS DEDICATION ..x.... LITERARY .,............,.....,.............,,................... Brown, But Not Dull-Bm'Iu11'a Burns ..,.... . The Tenth Man-Ronrzld E. Stillnmn .....,.,.......... To Listen or Not To Listen-Meruirz Loxton ...,.... Iazz And The Spirit Of The Day-Ruth Brown ....... Feet-Prixcilla Lajlamme ........ ...... ,,...... . Rendezvous-Barbara Burns .............. ,..,... . ' Thar Dreadcd Moment-Sophie Pinslqa .... ,. ' A Tight Game-Donald E. Sfillman ....,.. Is It Worth It-Carl Osberg .............. ' The Farm-Ella Mae Hamilion .. Overnight Hike-Margaret Smith ....... Why Not Hockey?-Ray Paquin ..,,.. I-Iunt-Donnla' Craft ...... ,.,..,,,... GFHSS'-Fftllllfff O'SuIliz-'nn ....,......,..,,.. Speckled Monarch-Ioscph Kell:-her ........ . How To Find Things-William Sprigg ..,.... Travel-Phyllis C. Brown ,......,.........,.......... Ficldler's Coin--Helen Monlgomcry ..... . Country Pageant-Betty Bnrpee .,...... The Hero-Doroihy Lang ..,....,. Room 300-Alice Kyragalqi: ,.... South Sea Saga-Virginia Fuller ,.......,.,...... . Let's Play Aladdin-Victoria GI'll5ZC'Ib':'lQd ...., Melancholy Disturbed-Florenrc Fletcher ,... . Vanishecl Friends-Alexnfzflei' Wislqup .,,,,... Recollection-Richard Hitrhcock ..........,.. Knowledge Plus by Rua'olph's ....., THE CLASS OF 1938B, Beginning ...... EDITORIAL . ...,.,.....,....................,... EXCHANGES .... ALUMNI ..,,.. LOG .,........... BOOK TALK .,... HUMOR ............ AUTOGRAPH ................,......,.....,..,..,..,...,,,...... FASHION NOTES FOR HER AND HIM ,,.... ADVERTISING SECTION ....... ,....... .

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4 , WZ, ,, 8 JANUARY AGLAIA or THE ORACLE THE TENTH MAN As summer comes to start the fire Of baseball's annual show, As placid humans choke with ire And feel their senses go, I drink a toast to the man in blue, The umpire, if you please- He's just a guy like you or you And not a hunk of cheese. In know you think he's dumb and blind, ' But before you raise a howl, Consider your state of mind- Perhaps that was a foul. And if you still would climb his frame And claw him into bits, Remember that the ump is game And handy with his mitts. RONALD E. STILLMAN TO LISTEN OR NOT TO LISTEN Have you ever taken a casual glance at the members of a congregation in a small rural church during even the most interest- ing services? If you have, you have probably noticed that a goodly number have found diversions other than listening to the minis- ter. As the sermon starts about ten members take off their glasses and begin to remove imaginary dirt. Having made sure that his are clean, the church treasurer begins to count the collection and catch up on the church records, while a young Sunday School teacher makes out papers for her class. Mean- while, the choir director is picking out the music for the next week and two male mem- bers of the choir are fighting it out to see who is the checker champion. The rest of the choir is reading or passing notes as is a goodly number of the congregation. A stately looking gentleman near the back of the church scans the choir and scowls. Having succeeded, he changes his position, puts his head against the back of the hard seat, and in a few minutes does not know what is happening around him. He is rudely awakened shortly, however, as a bevy of damsels seated in back of him giggle at a picture which they have just drawn. Sudden- ly the gaze of everybody turns toward a late comer as he tip-toes down the aisle to a front pew, and later, toward an usher who is struggling to open the window. The 'whole of the attention is then turned toward the minister as he finishes his sermon, and then, as if on signal, everyone clears his throat. As the service ends, all the inattentive mem- bers rush to the door to be the first to con- gratulate the minister. I wonder if it would not be better if all of them took the hint of the anonymous Writer who says: The Worst wheel of the cart makes the most noisef' MERVIN LOXTON IAZZ AND THE SPIRIT OF THE DAY Your hit parade is on the air! Are you a faithful follower of this weekly radio pro- gram? Do you write the names of the three most popular songs of the week on a penny post card and send them to station WBL? You, too, may be another jazz-lover, but have you ever wondered what inspired musicians to create this gay, frivolous rythm? Well, my theory is contained in the fact that popular songs are inspired by the spirit of the day. Truly, we find from time to time vocal outbursts which have a real signifi- cance in reflecting the spirit, customs, man- ners, and moral ideals of the times. We might take for our overture the song Smiles, written in 1917, followed by My God How The Money Rolls In. Both songs had a direct and intended relation to the times- but with the panic of 1929 their exuberant popularity ended with a crashing finality. Regardless of this disaster, jazz continued with the universally familiar Brother, Can