Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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fb nlIIullllllllllllulllllllllml lnm null InIIlllllIlllllllullululll llllllllllllll nlllllllll THE AMETHYST VELMA RUSSELL rr Velv X Course : General-College Activities: Yearbook Board. Hobby: Reading. Ambition: To be a schoolteacher. We couldnit possibly find anything wrong with Velma although we tried right ug to the last minute before the book went to print. She always knows er lessons and yet she isn't a grind or a prig: she doesn't need to ask help herself and yet she is willing to give help. She is prettygrshe is neat: She is everything that's sweet. CHARLOTTE RYDER Course : College College: Wheaton. Did you ever see our Charlotte with her shining golden hair, That s always soft and fluffy to frame her face so fair? For if ou've ever been so lucky as to see this dainty lass, You'll know just why we call her the darling of the class. The boys cal her Ikey, and Amy's side-car, too, And think up ways to tease her, as boys so often do, I But Charlotte alw-ays joins right in and lets them have their fun: She bites at every single joke and laughs at every pun. STERLING RYDER Course : Classical Activities: Cadets 3, 45 Glee Club 4: Student Service 3. Hobbies: Music and athletics. College: Bowdoin. When-and if-Sterling Ryder grows up, he will probably be an absent-minded professor, but professor o fwhat, we do not know, unless it is absent-mindedness-surely not French, for all the world, including Miss Briggs, knows that Sterling hasn't a drop of French blood in his veins. If he should l-and in Paris with a million dollars in his pocket l1e'd starve to death because he couldn't ask the way to a restaurant. LOUISE SCANNELL f:Fatu Course: Commercial and Art Activities: Glee Club 2, 35 Art Club 4: Yearbook Board 4. Hobbies: Spending summers at Old Orchard. Ambition: To become successful in business. Hark! Do you hear those silvery notes soaring among the clouds? That's Louise pouring out her heart in one of her amorous selections. Someone hinted a while ago that if you wished to hear a pleasing story, ask Louise about the umbrella episode. However, we can add another: just ask Fat about the day she walked into school with her kitchen apron on. DOROTHY SCRIBNER Scribby, Scribble or Dot'i Course: General Activities: Glee Club 3, 4. Q Hobby: C-amp and all the things connected with it, tennis, Adancing, swimming, riding, etc. Ambition: To be able to talk with more ease. Goldie Locks had nothing on Scribby for blond hair, because here is the fairest we have ever seen. We have noticed that she prefers Sterling to all other metals, and that her favorite pastime is to Grant favors. Perhaps we shou1dn't say these things about Scribby, but surely we can say this with immunity: If there is anything about camping you would like to know, this is all the information we shall give you. Ask Scribby.

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muunummmm mmummmmimmumu ummm unmmmrnmmmmmmii DEERING HIGH SCHOOL CLIFFORD PLUMMER, , tIje,,7,3!JJ A iff!! W - Course: Classical-Commercial Activities: Freshman Orchestra 15 Quartet 43 Student Service 43 Nominating Committee 1: Secretary 3. Hobby: Drumming Club, Ambition: Successful businessman. School: Portland University. Here's the class poet! When youlre sending your best girl albox of Haven's, or maybe some Howers, get Jerry to compose one of his little masterpieces for you to enclose. Only be SURE not to tell her who wrote it, because Ierry's poetry is irresistible! He adorns all his cune ning little class pictures with works of poetic 'art-and now we fear for Milton's supremacy. VIRGINIA POOLE Gi1mia Course: General Hobby: Dancing. Ambition: To get rich quick. School: Gorham Normal. Now, don't crowd, everybody! This is not Mary Pickford. It's Virginia Poole. But we asure you she's just as sweet and winsome and smiling as the popular actress she resembles. And her disposition is just as sunny as her curls. She didn't compete for the honor of being Miss Portland, but Ive'd take a chance on her being Miss Deering High, and th'at'S twice as good. FRANCIS PUTMAN ffPutJJ Course: Scientihc Activities: Cadets 13 Band 1, 3, 49 Cadet Band 2, 3. Hobbies: Music and Chemistry. Stop! Look! Listen! Here's a boy who is sedate, silent, steady, and studious! It's a rare combination, we admit, but it's true. You're all right, Put, even if you do like to putt-putt-putt down the harbor in pursuit of fish and sunburn. AMY RANKIN Course: College ' Activities: Executive Committee 1, 25 Student Service 35 Yearbook 45 Editor-in-Chief: Washington Club, Treasurer, 4: Class Play 4. Hobby: Writing Grinds. Ambition: To be a professional accompanist. College: Gray's Business College. Throughout her whole four years at Deering Amy has been more or less of a shining star, but it took a sophomore class picnic really to bring her into prominence. Remember that, Amy? She has had a most versatile career, having done everything from posing as a Malay to editing this, our Amethyst, which latter position she has filled admirably. In spite of her participation in so many activities, however, Amy has managed to complete her high school course with an honor rlzlnlg besides a host of friends, who wish her every possible success in t e uture. CORA RICKER HC-Uv Course : College Hobby: Making candy. Ambition: To be a piano accompanist. College: Earlham. Cora has two prominent characteristics: her curls and her giggles. In the middle of a recitation, especially Latin, one is quite apt to hear her vainly trying to smother a giggle. Cora for some reason quite un- known to us, has a great fondness for South Portland. Who is it, Co? Next year she plans to attend E-arlham. We donyt need to wish you success, Corag we know you'll have it.

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, ...m...m A A A DEERING HIGH SCHOOL BESSIE SMALL HIBGSSU Course : Commercial Activities: Basketball 49 Yearbook Typist 4. Hobby: Sports. Ambition: To teach. School: Gorham Normal. Bessie is a real typist, not one of your lip-stick, gum-chewing variety, but the honest-to-goodness, old-fashioned kind. She censors the news- pafpers, too. If you want all the news fit for you to know and desire in ormation two hours before there is any news, ask Bessie: she and Gertrude Ham edit the Bulletin Board. I HARRY SPURLING Cranberry Course: Art Activities: Art Club: Cadets. Hobby: Playing checkers. Ambition: To become a great artist. Art is long: life, short. If you should happen to look over Harry's shoulder some time and see a pair of big ears like yours or a pug nose like somebody e1se's, you can guess that Harry has been doing a little drawing. He shakes a wicked lead. It has been secretly rumored that he has even gone so far as to get a prize now and then for his beloved work. We'1l take off our hats, too, to Harry's energy and ambition. How many of us could work our way through school? ELIZABETH STEVENS Betty Course: College Activities: Orchestra 2, 3 4g Art Club 3: Basketball 4: Exec. Com- mittee 4g National Honor Society: Student Service Club 4: Hockey 2. College: Bates. Smiling B lue-eyed Talkative Eager Enthusiastic True Versatile Tenacious Earnest Youthful Natural . Sen sible EVELYN STEVENS Course : Commercial Evelyn Stevens is her name, A very jolly and friendly dame: Among her friends she makes ra hit, And always endeavors to do her bitg A right good kid is what they call her, A right good kid and a right good scholar. MILTON F. STOUGHTON Course: Scientific Activities: Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 45 Band 1, 25 Breccia 39 Student Service 4g Winter Sports 3, 4. Hobbies: Music and swimming. Ambition: To be of service to the world. College: University of Michigan. Given: A person by the' name of Milton F. Stoughton, who wields a wicked fiddle and is said to be rather serious-minded. He has the perseverance to work one of Miss Cheney's most difficult log ex- amples to the bitter end, and the ability to pass an exam on M1lton's Minor Poems. To Find: What will he do after leaving school? Solution: Anything he wishes.