Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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The QAUIJETH YS T g g g Pf1UfI7g we Norton showed us around the grounds and we didn't get away until midnight. and the next morning I left for I-long-Kong, where I met Paul Butler, working as a British policeman. He told me that a missionary had wired to him for some yeast cakes. I asked him how come a missionary should give an yeast cake order to a policeman, but Paul wouldn't tell me. I smelled a rat somewhere, so I set off for the Mission that night. In three hour's time I had landed and gone to the mission house. I then saw Paul's secret. in fact, it was a sizeable secret-nearly six feet in height, with yellow hair, a long pleasant face, all of which was attached to the name- 'l'uddy Oakes. Tuddy a missionary! It took me an hour to recover and in that time I learned a great deal. Tuddy has been in the missionary work since he got his sheepskin at college. I-Ie is working out a new plan-teaching women and no men, and he claims that once the women are educated the men will follow as a matter of course. I-Ie always was a politician. IrIe has a very eliicient teaching staff headed by Beulah Tebbetts. Some old men of the village told me confidentially that they con- sidered Miss 'Febbetts the best teacher of Latin since Confucius- although he had never taught it. Tuddy has a monopoly on our classmates, Raymond Abraham- son plays the organ. I never before heard such line jazz,-he plays Crazy XVords marvelously and at an evening service he played NVhere'd You Get Those Eyes? lt was exquisite-and Tuddy's sermon-I nearly bawled. I-le said he was planning to hire Rile IYilson for a football coach if he could get him. Rile is teaching the liskimos the g'a1ne in Green- land, and the last Tuddy heard of him he was having a lawsuit with another coach over a football that had been punctured by some ice that the opposing team had th1'own. Katherine Libby is in charge of the gym and you ought to the classes go through their stuff, I watched them and really I pitied them,-every time they would bend down, all I could think about was Joy Johnson waggling my poor spine. Raymond was a very fountain of news. He was in Africa last summer and while poking around among the monkeys and natives he bumped up against an African Chief who had a basketball team which was captained by Morrill Mace. He said Mace was a shadow of his former self, as the chief threatened to cut his head off if he missed a basket. Morrill was so scared that he would hit a basket in his sleep. There was a great deal more, Snookums, but I can't remember the rest very accurately so I won't bother to write it. Au revoir, Anonymous, '2S. P. S-I forgot about Charles Abbott. Thomas claims that Charlie has collected so many French Colonial stamps that the French govern- ment is suing him for defrauding the mails. l'. S. No. 72.-Ruth Faxson, Virginia lfbberson. Leonard Fray. and Daniel Honan have been sent by the Dancing Commission of New York to Purgatory, Me. Purgatory has gone wild with admiration over some intricate dance steps demonstrated one night by a French- man from the border. They call the new dance The French Bottom. 'sf -J, 1 i .xx - y 'x .Je X ...R of J X oft-4 X W. 1'Pm-air D ii, f' NET N v., Ei . ff N. i , . f . Wm , 1 al-:W .T 'I' 2 l if l. 'Hill i .. 1, 'wb' .v, . 1 i wiliv f ,-4 .' -.vat f. L w - in ' l 2+-., T xml, ' WM ,-7 fill i ..,V J . fe. z' ,jay wv.s ai-1 fy iii if 'VV l f'-1 I '.. rf, 11. .As 5, ' 2 ,, cs . J Q -ff ff 4 - P Y ,sl M- -fx K .V -,af--.. '-f Q - ,- .. -.-,- --- ...Q . ,. -2- ,. - ' ' '- I' .-51s--.,, ' 'N 221- V- 4 , fe A ,,-.--. ,-.sf A Li-'-' rw, Ag XA M fx? ,.I-:- Y , L, ,,,. 1 v -' iw- ,as ,I T L- A 1 . ,. J - -' , f I - -f I gr,f,fc1E, .L as- g.,.f was-4, L-2, 61,1 ., -25131-. ',,- 5 . QLYA M rK...A -4.55: f L X L.:-P ,-E., affix ,,,-- elseif 'rs-' ,ac- V if-.L Y.,-1574- - - 1 .rl ...- L11-, - NL .. Q 1, .,-:.,f- In .-s.,,,,i4.1fA SV A wget, CRW-V -., ,-:iA,,,-N- Ai VS. VLA, ' 222- 4 --eff -- es- '--' J 'ag if I --fe ai- ' L .Aa-Q--,sv ' rr - W -- I, --. e-1-:Q-CA.. ,,- ,: -, K -' -.Ll-V ' J-L nv -5? 1-1,-f---s , -Aire 1-X Ls...-1-Q, - fs., - - -- -f' if -F

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