Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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'B 0 THE AMETHYST O VVILLIS BALLARD N Course: Scientific Activities: Radio Club 3, 4 CSec.-Treas. 45: Yearbook 45 Class Play CElectricianJ. Hobby: ffinkering with anything electrical. Ambition: To be an electrician or draughtsman. Mebbe you think Willy ain't got a temper! One time when'Willy was mixing the wires up for the class play-you know he's the 'lectri- cian-well, he gets a shock. He wuz so mad that he jest hauls 0E and kicks the bulbs an' things an awful welt and says, Yuh will shock me, will yuh? -he says. O JULIA M. BENNER ' Jewel Course: General Activities: Geology Club 4. Hobby: Sitting up with her radio. . Our lulia is a Jewel,,' it really must be so: - A Little Fellow told us, who surely ought to know. LEO N BLACKWELL Brick Course: Commercial Activities: Class Treas. lg Pres. Radio Club 3, 49 Cheer Leader 4: Subscription Mgr. of Amethyst 45 Cadets 1, 2, 3, 4. Hobby: Radio. Ambition: Ain't no such animalf' When the Blackwell Dock-Ash-Grate-0verhead-Valve-Radio Set finally comes on the market, Leon will stop making stump speeches every morning, and will take a night off and make up a little sleep. Every night by the pale moonlight he is curling his brick-red hair or playing with his radio set. Sometimes he gets China and sometimes Chile, but he is all the time getting Experience. THATCHER BLANCHARD Course: College Activities: Football 35 Track 95 Student Service 3. Hobby: Golf. College: Bowdoin. Lay on, MacDuPf, and- well, th-at is Thatcher's war-cry. He manipulates a destructive paw, you know. Moreover, he is fleet of foot and proficient in following up balls, whether golf, base, foot, or basket, a man of determination and upright character. ' Y x x ii RALPH BLOOD QJ J Course: Scientific Activities: Amethyst Mgr.: Cadets 1, 23 Debating Club 3, 4: Breccia 43 Electrician for Christmas Bazaarg Junior-Sophomore Debate 3: Coach of Sophomore Debating Team 43 Debating Play: Hass Play Mgr. 45 Student Service 3, 45 Band 3: uBl'ECC1B.,, Dance gr. Ambition: To be a John Drew or John D. College: Columbia. Now I want to say just a word about the Yearbook. Hold on, boys! Ripe iruit is all right, but we shall have to draw the line on eggs! Perhaps you have been singing the same little ditty rather often this year, Ralph, but there aren't words enough in our voc-abulary to acpxgsi our appreciation for all the work you have done for the class o 1 .