Connecticut Froebel Normal School - Yearbook (Bridgeport, CT)

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Co-nncciiczct Froebcl Normal 7 Here as Seniors we doubled our number of recruits. Now for these un- fortunate people to carry our long earned name we had to initiate them. Seine had to scrub the deck with their noses by pushing peanuts across it, others had to eat onions, give demonstrations of a scrambled egg in order to ser-ure a good cook, but what we were most interested about was who was going to be our star folk dancer. Therefore we had several exhibition dances. Everyone had a lovely time and dancing followed. The annual reception of the Seniors was given late in October which proved to be a big affair. Here we as Seniors, elected officers: President, Flavian Brennang Secretary, 1Iil1'1011 Kingg Treasurer, Marion VVeed. Here again we gave another feast and dance at the Tea Roomg who doesn't remember this? Later in the year we found among our new recruits such wonderful cooks that we decided to give a cake sale. The treasurer reported a wonderful rise in the treasury as a result of it. Time began to fall heavy on our erew's hands so we decided to publish a book for them to read. NVe elected Elsie Flark Editor-in-ffhiefg Business Manager, Flavian Brennan: Art Editor, Elsie Fflark. Before reaching the Promised Land we gave a Prom. The Juniors reported it- was the finest and biggest affair they had ever attended. As our boat was nea.ringAThe Promised Land, Graduation, we found a great concourse of people assembled to watch us take our last step. And now the two years have passed Rllld we have had many experiences dur- ing our voyage of which the enjoyable ones far outweigh the important ones. As the Seniors scan the horizon from the stepingstone of Graduation they see many conquests to be made, a11d they believe that in the future as in the past, they will show themselves ready for any test that may be put before them. .NU .L li, 705' 30- - I K - at iota arg..

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6' Your B001-' HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1922 N the year 1921, early in October, there set sail over the Sea. of Knowledge, a in magnificent fleet. This fleet was headed for a far distant land called the Land of Graduation, to us an unknown sea.. There were two isles to be thoroughly explored before reaching this promised land-Junior and Senior or the Land of the Owls. XVc had on board recruits from several minor isles as Naugatuck, South Norwalk, Bridgeport, Stamford, New Haven, Ansonia, and other parts. There were 35 voyagers called Juniors and Seniors, each firmly resolved to succeed or go down with the ship. The first port we reached was Junior Isle. Here we inet Miss Mary who we learned was to act as our iilot. alias sn erintendent during our long and . ' . 7 Pi , perllous voyage to the isles. Many of us were so enchanted by the charms in and about Junior Isle that we were loath to depart and even took no heed of the fleet when it finally sailed away. So those so enchanted had to be left behind to be picked up by some other fleet at the cost of arriving at the Promised Land, a year later. NVe thought it- expedient to appoint officers to take charge of the affairs of our great expedition. 'We elected Jeanne Pierce. President, Mabel XValsh, Vice-President., Flavian Brennan, Seeretaryg and Marion VVeed, Treasurer. They performed their duties with the utmost fidelity. Upon Junior Isle we inet with a strange people called Seniors who had wan- dered from their homes and we were looked upon as objects of great curiosity by these aliens. Our first social event was the annual reunion of the Seniors and Juniors with the alumni as invited guests. This aff'a.ir proved to be a huge success. NVQ told wise teachers of the island all about the things we had learned in the Sea of Knowledge and these said wise Teachers took it. upon themselves to teach us the mysteries of History of Education, Mother Play, Gifts and other as yet unknown subjects. I might say, we found ourselves to be the brightest Juniors C. F. N. ever saw. and to prove this, our pilot, Miss Mary, gave the Juniors and Seniors a Heart Party in February. Y Easter vacation separated us for a week but we all longed to get back at work again. The Seniors, a good sort of folk, gave a Prom at Black Rock County Plub and invited the Juniors as Honorary members. The dancing and refreshments were enjoyed by all present, though many of the Juniors who were not brave enough to stand the buffets received at the will of the older and more experienced Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castles, were content to be onlookers. After this enjoyable year we took our departure for the next port. The Isle of Owls. As we nea1'ed this port we felt our heads begin to swell and thought ourselves very wise, in fact much wiser than those who were Seniors before. Everything now was quite different from Junior Isle. Part of our food was changed, we now had Education of Man instead of History of Education, Ad- vanced Gifts beside many other re-arrangements of the menug though most of our number relished the change, a few were heard to lament for the more easily digested fare of Junior Isle.

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Year Book MARION KING, Salufafor'ian StZlI'llfO1'd, Conn. Just once moore, is the Dev-il's last argu- me-nt. FLAVIAN BRENNAN, Valedictorian Naugatuck, Conn. Her voice was over soft, geuflo, and low, an excellent Ihing in a -woman. ELIZABETH COUGHLIN, Bridgeport, Conn. What sho knows she is u'z'lZi'ng fo share with those less fortzmaio fhan sho in brains. ' '