Clinton High School - Memorabilia Yearbook (Clinton, MA)

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“Witty, jolly and carefree, always jolly as can be.” HELEN RITA DURKIN “Ellie” “Durk” Hiking Club; Junior Dance; Interclass, 1; Senior Play, IV Commercial Course Birthday: July 12. Favorite occupation: Singing. Favorite expression: “Oh! be a sport.” Favorite drink: Sarsaparilla Soda. Favorite song: “Louisville Lou.” Helen R. Durkin, or Ellie as most of us know her, is the wittiest girl in the class, and well she deserves that name. She was always the delight of the hiking club. She kept the rest of the girls in the best of spirits when their feet began to feel the miles they had walked, and their hand s, the cold. She was usually picked to cheer up the teacher who was acting as chaperone for no one could do it half as well as she. Her favorite occupation is singing. She was always ready to render a solo up in the assembly hall while the rest of the girls were still struggling with their bookkeeping which she had some- how managed to finish in record time. Helen’s greatest desire is to be a teacher, and she has decided against the business world, and is to enter Fitchburg Normal in the fall. But she remained in the bookkeeping and stenography classes to the great delight of the commercial pupils and teachers. 26

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“ The gravity and stillness of your youth, the world has noted.” LILLIAN DOROTHY DONNELLY “Lill” “Don” Commercial Course Birthday: March 28. Favorite occupation: Hiking. Favorite expression: Oh, it’s the berries! Favorite drink: H 2 S 04 . Favorite song: “A Smile Will Go a Long, Long Way.” We surmise that “Lill” likes to take trips on foot to some of our surrounding towns, — the unexplored regions of forts, caves, for instance. You’re right. She does, with the “bunch.” We have also seen her out strolling — but that’s another story. “Lill” was an interested spectator at all the girl’s basketball games, where she surely helped Anna score that extra point or two. Then was the time that she used her voice a trifle more than she was accustomed to in the classroom. But, with the “bunch” “Don” certainly enjoyed herself, as the teachers will testify. Just what she could see to laugh at, we haven’t yet been able to puzzle out, but it must have been good. Just a little uncertainty surrounds “Don’s” plans for the future, but somehow or other we think she would make a good teacher. Anyway, good luck, “Don.” 25

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“ Glib of tongue and light of heart ALICE FRANCES DC VARNEY “Al” “Red” President of Hiking Club, 3; Junior Dance Committee; Junior Prom Committee Birthday: October 8. Favorite occupation: Eating! Favorite expression: “How odd!” Favorite drink : Chocolate frappe. Favor- ite song: “In the Evening.” We are proud to include in our ranks, a certain blushing young maiden who has an especially “bright” head. Now, they say that people of this type usually have a dubious disposition. But we are inclined to shake our heads in the negative. To back our assertion, we have but to tell you to gaze gently at the above likeness of our “Al.” She is all that we could wish a school pal to be, always gay and joyous and smiling a plenty. “Al” is a staunch supporter of class activities, and never adopted the art of quibbling in her studies, which accounts for her good standing in scholarship. Al was president of the girls’ hiking club. You know, she and “the girls” were extremely fond of hik- ing: at least, hiking in the form of strolling up yonder over the hill, up over that long and winding road which leads towards Sterl- ing! Now the cat’s out of the bag; guess we’d better get that animal by the ears and pull him back. And that’s that! Alice intends to study faithfully in the next two or three years to fit herself for that renowned profession of teaching. And if Al doesn’t ' persevere through the dark stages of the ABC’s and come out on top, no one else will. 27