Dover High School - Tiger Yearbook (Dover, NJ)

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CHRISTINE EGBERT “Christine” “Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. Christine is a good example of the above motto, whatever she does she does well, so even if she doesn’t do much, you see she is on the safe side. Perhaps this is due to the tact that she believes in Safety First.” The reason we know she believes in “safety first is because she always brings from eight to ten pencils to class meetings every time she knowns John Edge is going to speak in older to write down all the motions and emotions that he puts forth. She never bothers much with the boys; perhaps it is because she doesn’t have time, yet again perhaps it is because she doesn’t like them. In either case, she has the benefit of the doubt, so what can we poor Senior mortals do except to vainly guess at it? She took up the business course upon entering high school, and we suppose that she contemplates becoming a stenographer upon leaving school or marrying some rich old broker. If she does we hope she puts the poison in his tea instead of his coffee. PEARL ERICSON “Pearl” “ onl ) speal( right on. How well the above quotation applies to Pearl—how true and realistic it sounds—it fairly makes us gasp with its cold significance. In fact, to such a great extent that we wish it were true. No, kind reader, do not let us delude you. Pearl is not such a great talker as we make her out to be; to the contrary, she is as quiet as the stars that twinkle with majestic brilliance in the besprinkled heavens of a most eloquent night. Pearl has many friends, perhaps because she says so little. It seems to most of us that we would have more friends, too, if we could only keep our mouths shut. Well, Pearl, brave the errors of this vast world the best you can, and if you continue to be as silent and good as you are now, your chickens will come home to roost safely indeed. LUCY GIBBONS “Lucy” ”7 al(e notes on the spot, a note is worth a cartload of recollections. We may now behold the celebrated Miss Lucy. Gazing once more upon the noble features of one so highly revered we find embodied a happy union of mirth, dignity, seriousness and independence. A little description may be necessary. In height she is not many miles away from six feet. As to weight,—well, 200 more or less—most probably more. The memory of Lucy will perhaps linger long in the minds of those whom she so gladly helped out of difficulties. Especially should she be remembered by a certain person in the “Trig” class. For what would have become of him if she had not been nigh to assist him out of his deep and difficult mental struggles? Another hopeless year at Trig” would perhaps have been the result. 16

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JOSEPH DICK “Joe “Men of few words are the best men. Many a time and oft have we gone to any athletic game to hear the Cheer Gang yell at short intervals, “Ya Dick! ya Dick! ya Dick! In fact, we heard it so often that we began to investigate to see who this Dick was. We found him to be our own classmate, our own little Joe that sat so meekly and humbly in his seat. It amazed us to think that a boy so quiet would have so much noise made about him, but when we finally came to know what a really good athlete he was that wonderment banished. Joe is the all-around athlete of the school, having won a good many games in every line for us. He was captain of the football in 1916 and manager of the baseball team in 1917. So you perceive, dear reader, that Joe was no mean dependent, but rather he is a fellow that has marked his high school career with athletic successes. DOROTHY DRUMMER Dot “Thou smilesl and art still out-topping knowledge. And now, if you peep into the next alcove, you will see Dorothy Drummer, studying her Chemistry lesson perhaps. Dot is the brightest star in the firmament of the Class of 17, at leas! in scholarship. We can predict nothing less for her than the honor of valedictorian. There is but one thing that dims her brilliance, and that is her modesty. To speak with her. one would not think she was exceptionally bright, but when she recites the truth comes out from her hiding place, and asserts itself without any further aid. We do not know anything about her habits, but we do know that her favorite exercise is dancing. She does not take part in athletics, but is always a faithful rooter. (We must have an audience, you know.) Her chief pastimes are pinochle and jacks, two fitting exhibitions of her intellect. But even though she may never secure a position as basketball coach, she may, in some future year, be seen, (if she is not married in the meantime), teaching little children that two and two are six. JOHN EDGE Edgie “Then he will talk—, good gods! how he will talk! Occupying the next cape is the biggest animal by the name of Edge, in the captivity of the Senior Class. It is true that John is not as fat as he used to be, for all we have to do is Turn back the universe” a few years and see him in short trousers, supported by a pair of piano legs. Somehow or other, either through worry or a disappointed love affair, he has lost weight, but we think, and he knows that he is much better since. He is now engaged, during his leisure hours, in more reducing experiments, the Dover Guards being the “reducing agent, and we expect him to be a perfect thirty-six” by next September. John has a delightful propensity for being the leader, (delightful for him, but humiliating, to say the least, for others.) It is this, however, that has made a number of our affairs successful, and we advise John to continue being “boss,” as long as he can get away with it. 15

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BRUNSON GILBERT” “Brunce” A willing helper never wails until he is asl(ed.” Seeing Brunson Gilbert pacing along Sussex Street on his way to school brings one back to the recollection of Julius Caesar striding along the profile of a hill on a gusty day. He is a very agreeable companion, and surely a performer of the rock-aged proverb, “A friend in need is a friend indeed. Yet, this narrative has not yet spoken of his school spirit. Brunce has been a participant in all of the activities of this year’s graduating class, and has even laid aside his school work to tramp the streets in search of ads, helping in general, the Business Manager to wear out shoe-leather and choke ads out of the merchants in Dover. MARK GOLDSTEIN “Mark” “Enflamed with the study of learning.” The gong sounds, the curtain rises and we behold before us the Honorable Mark Goldstein. Mark is a studious character, always trying to get eight subjects in seven periods, more or less. This trait of character perhaps is due to the wavy attitude of his hair; of course he can't help this but it is a good means of winning many smiles from the lassies. We must glance into Mark’s German studies. Mark always knows a lot about this intensely interesting subject; he even knows what the Professor is going to say before he has a chance to think of it. If the rest of us wore glasses maybe we would be a little more far-sighted, too. But Mark is good natured; he takes victory and defeat with a smile, and never has a grouchy look. A few years from now we can picture Mark’s curly locks and ever grasping mind in the depths of Latin, Greek, Spanish, etc. Perhaps he will become an athlete. Who knows ? EUNICE GOLDSWORTHY “Eunice” “Silence is sweeter than speech.” Behold! And the Senior Class said, Let there be a business woman, and there was one. And here she is, too, with the same irresistible smile that gained all our advertisements, and made this book a financial success. All she had to do was: don her holiday attire, enter someone’s office, mention to him that she was soliciting ads,’ and before she could tell him anything further, he would ask how much she wanted. She was so irresistible that the business men wished to take her away from us. They did not succeed, however, because they could not offer the same salary that our financial status (?) made it possible for us to give. So, when we begin to thank the editors of this book for the help they gave, its financial success will be accredited to her. She went right into the lairs of the business men, and if she were to proclaim her own achievements, like Julius Caesar, she could say, “I came, I saw, I conquered. 17