Crosby High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Waterbury, CT)

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Page Twenty-Tyo CLASS HISTORY Who said that Crosby's class of 1927 doesn't hold an important place in the annals of Crosby history? We may review our eventful past and its many red letter days with a feeling of pleas- ure and pride. Clubs, athletics, contests, and of course the good old daily plugging-oh yes, we have accomplished some mighty fine things. If one could read the diary of a 1927 graduate, it might go something like this. 1 923-1 924 Fall-September, 1923! He who has forgot- ten that date is, in soothe, a forgetter. Girls in starchly ginghamed dresses with rosy cheeks were in great prominence on that memorable day, and boys in their freshly-pressed, first long trousers were not absent. Out on the sidewalk, we, the future class of 1927, stood warming our- selves under an autumn sun, waiting for the fatal summons which was expected at eleven o'clock. At last a scholarly looking person en- tered the picture and ushered us into the cool sanctum of formidable looking halls. Crosby meant only a huge, yellow building to us then. The only great tragedy of our Freshman year occurred on the first day, when we were kindly