Drury High School - Class Book Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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ease showing that he has had a wide acquaintance with the fair sex. He is a devout OD worker and earnest supporter of the Y. M. C. A. Bunting after a course at Williams will take up medicine as a profession. ' His best study is studying the time table ofthe H. V. R. C. Ken Elisha Burrows U 'PUBH enjoys the high distinction of being the shortest fellow in the class. Has spent much time and energy in the attempt to raise a moustache but with indifferent success. Patience, and a continued use of invigorators will, we believe, bring the reward merited by such heroic efforts. Ken has shown his ability as a ball player by covering third base in a creditable manner for the last three seasons. As an orator, Ken made a great hit when he delivered his Defence for Ireland, and some have predicted that We have an equal of Gladstone amongst our number. XVe regret that he has left school and a rumor has been circulated that he has gone to war with his bonny lass who has recently joined the Red Cross Society. Grace Mae Clark G-RACE, alias Pete is a shy, timid, little maiden with golden hair and blue eyes. Throughout her course at Drury she has been very successful in her studies, doing well in each branch. But she seems particularly fond of Chemistry and Botany and never tires of watching with jealous eyes the growth of the little pollywogs, which are kept in the laboratory. She is one of our social lights, and completely outshines herself and all others at the school hops, and especially at all impromptu dances. She is generally light hearted and gay, but of late, at the departure of her dearest hope from '98, her songs have become hushed, and her classmates greatly sympathize with her in her great affliction. - Grace intends going to housekeeping after graduation, and it is needless to say she will not do so alone. 22

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. One of her chief misdeeds has been the extremely bad habit of tempting her classmates by a large bag of doughnuts after the last signal has been sounded, and so has occasionally been severely reprimanded by the Doctor. Brownie has always been a great reader. Formerly she pursued with great diligence the ancient writers, enjoying above all else Hozfzer, but of late her happiest moments are spent in reading Spezzfer. She has not yet decided as to'her future career, but her classmates join in wishing her all success. Felicia Hemans Brown FELICIA HEMANS BROVVN has won many laurels for the class of '99 She has a beautiful voice which she is ever ready to use for the pleasure and benent of her classmates. She is also one of the best if not the most pleasing speaker in the class, which was certainly proved at the Kappa Phi Alpha prize speaking contest where she won the first prize. It is 11ot only her splendid delivery which attracts attention but the beauty and clearness of her writings. One of the prominent boys in our class, in whom we have placed much mlyidmzfe C?J has recognized Felicia's merits and takes every means of showing his appreciation. Strange to say they sat side by side in Latin until the Doctor perceiving their intimacy which drew their attention from unhappy Dido and Aeneas to pleasanter thoughts, separated them, which caused much sorrow and sympathy among their friends. Felicia has not yet decided what her future course will be but we hope she will enter college to continue along the lines where she has shown so much ability. Alfred Edward Bunting ALFRED EDVVARD BUNTING, otherwise known as Baby Bunting, although a member of the Class of '95 only since last September, has during the short period that he has been witl1 us, endeared himself to all l1is classmates. He is an earnest student, giving to his studies his strictest attention, and his delight seems to be in quoting from the leading statesmen, poets and authors. Alfred is a very genial fellow and is a great favorite with the young ladies in whose company he seems perfectly at 2I

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Elizabeth Mary Costello ELIZABETH MARY COSTELLO is one of the most pleasing girls in the class of '98. She is popular with her class- mates and teachers and is one of the students l' of the class. Elizabeth has great talent as an elocutionist and has often appeared in various roles before the public and many times has delighted the members of '98 with her recitations. She has very winning ways and a pleasing manner and will surely make friends wherever she goes. After leaving Drury Elizabeth intends taking a course at the Normal. It is also said that she will go on the stage and would doubtless make a hit in such a career. Dennis Eugene Coughlin DENNIS EUGENE COUGHLIN, ex-football captain, amateur athlete and all-round good fellow was born at North Adams, attended public schools and entered Drury High School with class of '98. Of course Gene remembers his first lively experience in the freshman year when the '97 class gave him the gentle twirl. Tnat sleighride party, too, which held forth one memorable night at Paradise's with frolic galore must be refreshingly recalled. Gene's l' school life would have lost all charm but for the absorbing interest he displayed in fistic encounters, which, with him, are the outward expressions of the game we call football. Gene's predilection for scrap. conjoined with that all sweeping temper of which apparently he never seems to unmask enough makes him appear as a veritable Phil Sheridan tuitj carrying everything before him. He is an apt hand at spinning a yarn, but sometimes loses his thread. His conduct toward the girls has ever been suasive and pleasing, which consideration has, in the eyes of the boys, rendered him the lion in sheep's clothing. It is hoped he won't prove another Rip Van Winkle. Elizabeth Scovel Cutting SOMEHOW, we never have found a very appropriate nickname for this fair member of '98, but to many of her friends she is simply Bess. However she is a jolly, good girl, one of the most popular in her class, and 0116 of our most con- 23