Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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p un THE AMETHYST ROBERT L. GETCHELL Course : General If the shade of the late Mr. Hoegg could come to earth and wander about that portion of Portland known as Woodfords, he would make friends with Mr. Robert Getchell, that debonair dandy who devotes his days Cand nightsb to the su port of the multiple industries enshrined in Hoegg Hall. As far as Robert is concerned, Omnes Deering in tres partes divisa est : the dance hall, the pool room and the high school, and the greatest of these is-Oh, Robert, are you sure you didn't study too hard to pass that Algebra four years ago? CHARLES H. GUPTILL ,ff frGuppyu ELL ' Course: Classical Activities: Cadets lg Sophomore-Junior Debate 2: Varsity Debating 3, 4g Pres. Debating Assn. 43 Latin Play 4: French Play 45 Breccia Board 4: Prize Speaking 43 Lyford Prize Speaking: Cumberland County Prize Speakingg Class Play, National Honor Society. Hobby: Talking. Ambition: To talk. College: Bates. Hail to our Salutatorian and cherubic, silver-tongued boy orator! If there's one thing Guppy can do, it's talk. Nature didn't make him very big, but she did give him a tongue, and we'll say he knows how to Wag it. He is noted for his humorous sarcasm: it is even said that not Arad himself can surpass the boy when it comes to making wise cracks. Sometime in his high school career Charles acquired the gentle art of blushing a little trick which has made him the envy of all the senior girls. As to why he should blush-well-are you really sure you can tell them apart, Guppy? GERTRUDE HAM Course: Commercial Activities: Basketball 49 Hiking Club 2 3: Track 25 Winter Carni- val 3: Student Service: Asst. Mgr. Class Play 4. Hobby: Outdoor sports. Ambition: To be a nurse. Sift together a quart of unseliishness, a spoonful of generosity and a dash of wit. Add a cup of friendliness, a piece of helpfulness the size of a basketball, flavor with a smile. Just before serving cover the whole with a generous sprinkling of sunny disposition-and the result will be Gertrude. MARIAN HAMMOND Dimples Course: General Actixiifiesa Student Service 45 Geology 45 Dramatic Club 43 Class ay . Ambition: To be a high school teacher. Marian is one of our best-informed geologists. Those who went on the Bar,Harbor trip know what an enthusiastic mountain climber she is--provided, ofcourse, she has someone to carry her burdens. D Though Marian convincingly acted the part of a spinster in the charming little comedy, All on Valentine's Day,'f we seriously doubt her intention of ever becoming one,-the evidence is all against her. WALTER HANSON Course: Scientific Activities: Track 43 French Play 4. Hobby: Gunning or swimming. Ambition: Civil engineer. College: Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Walter is a young man.of many eccentricities, the most notable of which is his unusual originality in translating French. He will long be .remembered asgthat member of.the French class who sent. the reci- tation into convulsions. While taking the hero's part in the climax of a thrilling and romantic French .play, he ardently informed the heroine that he loved her, adored her, and VENQEERED her. But French is not the only study in which Walter shines: he is a math. shark, a public speaker, and,.as he? demonstrated in the French plays, a come- dian of .no mean ability. For one with such varied faculties as these we predict an illustrious future.

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Xi I DEERING HIGH SCHOOL ANNETTE EVELETH Course : General Activities: Basketball 1, 23 Hiking Club 1, Glee Club. Hobby: Gymnastics. Ambition: To be a physical director. School: Normal School of Physical Education. Annette's a tall young ladyg she holds her head up high: She scorns the use of powder that modern girls apply. She never uses lip-stick, or rouges like a clollg You'd never call her fast, except in basketball. ' WILLIAM FILES Course: General Activities: Cadets 1, 2, 3, 4, Geology Club 45 Glee Club 2. Hobby: Football. Ambition: Automobile salesman. When Bill first came to school he didn't like to study, but now he just loves it. He has been doing very well lately, especially in Earth Science field trips. Bill went to Cadet Camp in 1922 and learned to be a good soldier, He learned lots of other things, too! EVELYN FOSTER Blondie Course 1 College Activities: Glee Club 2, 33 Hiking Club 2: Student Service 4. Hobby: Dancing. Ambition: To be a kindergarten teacher. College: Gorham Normal or Wheelock's Kindergarten Training. Let's wish success to Evelyn, and all kinds of good luck, For she's a Jolly friend to have, and has just heaps of pluck. We know not what hear fame for speed in other sports has been, But if we had a talking race, weire sure that she would win! NORRIS FRANK Course: Classical Hobby: Football. Ambition: To be a miner. College: Yale. We seniors all like Norrie: We like his pleasant way.: We like his tact-he always knows the perfect thing to say. He never gets excited, he's too much sense, by far: We hear he takes his sleigh rides right on the trolley car! JULIA FURBUSI-I njudyn Course: Art Activities: Art Club 23 Glee Club 3. Hobby: Dancing. For the past two years Julia has been somewhat Cross and sometimes we can't help thinking that in the future she may be Cross-er still. Julia has always shone in art. She may be a world-renowned artist some day. Who knows?

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EKQ Ig DEERING HIGH SCHOOL JOHN I-IAVILAND Course: Classical Activities: Debating Club 1, 2, 3, 4, First Lieut. of Band 1, 2, 33 Orchestra 1, 25 Cadets 1, 2: Breccia Board 4. Hobby: Hunting. College: Cornell. This, gentle readers, is John Haviland, a six-foot disciple of John Burroughs and Artemus Ward. He knows where the flies go in September, why a bunny has long ears, and can imitate the melodious spring song of the crow. Trapper, hunter, taxidermist, photographer, mechanic farmer,-and humorist, but, like Artemus, he sometimes leaves you wondering whether he lacks a sense of humor or you do. GORDON HODGKINS Course: Scientific Activities: Cadets 1, 2. Hobby :. All forms of outdoor sports. Ambition: To be an electrical engineer. College: B. U. or Renssalaer Polytechnic. Behold the original of the Arrow Collar ads ! Between sittiws Gordon h-as to do a little something, so he specializes in history. e can see him with long gray beard and specs bending over a pon- derous tome-we can not! He isn't made for that kind of life, not hel He's a pretty smooth article, ladies and gentlemen, smooth like his hair. WINFIELD HODGKINS W in Soak Course : General Activities: Football 45 Geology Club, D Club 4. Ambition: To be a painter. Sock is a quiet little boy when he's in school, but outside-oh, well, that's different. He used to go up to Westbrook Seminary evenings last fall, but he got over that, too. Sock is a good football player even if he does throw an awful line. P. S. Winfield is now following his fatheris footsteps, Hgreasing houses -to quote verbatim. MARIETTA HOWLAND Course: General Activities: Art Club 33 Glee Club 3, 43 Junior Club 43 Debating Club 33 Yearbook Board 4, Class Play 4. Hobbies: Dancing and swimming. Ambition: To become famous. College or School: Pratt School of Fine Arts. Is that Barney Google? No, it's Marietta Howland dressed up. Who is the crabbed old maid in the Class Play? Marietta Howland, girls! Isn,t she great? Give her a piano or a violin or a ukelele or just let her giggle, and she'll make the prettiest music you ever heard. ETHEL JORDAN 'Y X Course: General . ' Activities: Student Service. Hobby: Dancing. Ambition: To beateacher. School: Gorham Normal. She is modest, she is-shy, But there's mischief in her eye. If we'were to write a grind according to Ethel's size, it would be very petite indeed. That such a little person is planning to become a teacher seems laughable, but Ethel has a chance, as Great oaks from little acorns grow. '