Cranston High School - Cranstonian Yearbook (Cranston, RI)

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4A Bosrox, MAss.xeHUsE'rTs, March 1, 1934. DEAR J OHN D.: I received your letter several days ago and was very glad to hear that you have at last perfected your au- tomobile engine to run on diluted salt water. I shall be glad to get a letter in the near future, informing me that your idea about perpetual motion has bee11 accepted, and then the name of one graduate of Crans- ton High School will go down in his- tory. You asked if I knew anything about any members of our class of 1923. As a matter of fact, I didn't k110SV much, except that Thoresen, the wireless bug, had established an Electrical School here in Boston, which is growing very fast, and that Jimmie Greene was the best known Certified Accountant in the state, but the other day while stopping in Providence on some business, I hap- pened to notice an ad in a paper tell- ing the people to buy their dye-stuffs from a certain G. M. Neal. Looking up the company, I found Granny Neal in business for himself making dyes. You remember what a lot of noise he was always making in school, always talking, well, he hasn't changed a bit and in the few minutes I talked to him I learned the history of many of our old class. He surprised me by telling me that Reg Hayward and Harry Graves have gone into the Optical business as partners. This seemed a surprise for some unaccountable reason, but I guess they aren't any more sur- prising than SOIIIQ other people I Class know. Gould and Chic Udell are such well known salesmen that Neal told me to keep away from them if I didntt want to buy anything. He said that they could sell spectacles to blind men. They started their careers by selling Cranstonian ads. The Vallones, after graduating from three or four colleges, have settled down in Providence in an enterpris- ing chiropractor business. I learned that Keach and Mastrobono, the two Adonises of the class, had, after a brief attempt at vaudeville, bought out the Emery Brothers a11d the Rhodes Brothers, and were running practically all tl1e amusements in the city, and that Clifton Bagley, who starred in High School plays, is with the Albee Stock Company, and, according to Neal, is the bee's knees. I learned that Pauline Jones was teaching free-hand drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design, and that Billy Williams and Atlanta MacIntosh are teaching at old C. H. S. Can you beat that? When he told me that, I almost fell over. Mildred Miller is the head of a school for young women, and Madge Marcroft, who always seemed to have an air of authority about her, has recently been re-elected to the state senate from Cranston. I had to leave him then, but I promised to spend some week-end with him to learn about the rest of the crowd. Then I will write and tell you how some of the others of our class, of which I think we have a right to be proud, have made out. Your old school chum, Es I,Ef'IiHA1I

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DOROTHY LILLIAN AKEROYD Dotty, Dot Girls' Athletic Association 145 5 'Thyrsus Club 1-15. As merry as the day is Yong. Here is our Dotty. lShe left us in her lfreslnnan year, but she could not forget 'Cranston High and came back to graduate with the class of '23. Dot has not been here long: enough for all of ns to get thoroughly acquainted with her, but those of us who do know her find her to be as fun- loving and ready for a good time as a11y of us. She is a jolly companion and classmate, and a loyal supporter of the class treasury. In the fall, Dotty expects to go to Kingston. EMMA XVILKINSON A I.-MY Ulclllu Girls' Athletic Association 115 125 135 1-155 Thyrsus Club 115 125 135 145: Dramatic Division 135 1453 Library Connnittee 1-I5 g Assistant. Class '1'l'9flSlll'91' 145 g Execu- tive Connnittee 135. t'7'hcrc is sonicborly stuunelz and true Who is ulufuys urozmrl when tlL0rc's ufork to do. 'l'hat's our Ein. She is one of those girls who is always ready with a helping hand. Her great acconnnlishinent is niakingr punchesuch punch! It is the nectar of the gods. Another is collecting class dues. Anyone who has received one of her cleverly written 'toverdue noticcsu will testify that she is a good assistant trezlsurer. For the past two years she has ac-ted in lthe Uhristinas plays given by the Thyrsus Club. and she always has an important part in planning class activities. She will probably go to Kingston. GORDON PEMBROKE ANDREW t'Andy. Dewdrop Boys' Athletic Association 115 125 135 1453 President 135: Board of Control 135 145: Thyrsus Club 115 125 135 145 3 C. H. S. S. S. 115 1253 Good English League 1353 Minstrel Show 135 3 Manager Hockey Champion Teains 135 1453 Football 125 135 1453 Captain 1-153 Tennis 133 145- To be strong is to be happy. Anyone who has been at Cranston a week ought to know Andy. He has taken a very active part in athletics. as you can readily see. Not only is he prominent in football and hockey circles. but he is the power behind the throne in the Boys' Athletic Association. Andy sings very well, and as a ineinber of the Fresilnnan quarteftte he once entertained us in the hall. lle is not going to Penibroke, as his nanie niight suggest, but intends to enter Kingston, Where we know he will do as well and be just as well liked as at Cranston. 14