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

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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

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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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scientious workers, Coutside of making up French in the sunimerj. But her success is not only in her studies. She is also one of our musicians and her name has already become renowned forever, by her masterly skill on the piano. She was 'one of the favored few who were banished from Drury, and has not until late possessed a desk at Drury. So her sweet morning nap has necessarily been abandoned, and poor Bess may often be seen rushing up Drury Hill, her hat askew, hairpins flying in all directions, hastily devouring the last remnant of her breakfast, a luscious peach Cher favorite fruit by the wayj and pantingly gaining her seat at the last moment. She intends entering Vassar College this fall. Dorothy Elizabeth Davies DOROTHY ELIZABETH DAVIES, alias Doe is '98's star poetess, but due to the young 1ady's reluctance to bring her- self into public notice, her talent lies hidden. Once in a great while, however, her poetical genius bursts forth into rythmical verses, entitled Characters at the last dance, etc. Dorothy has an affectionate and loving nature, but is easily misled, for who will forget her hurried exit from chemistry on April I, 1898, on receiving the intelligence that someone wished to talk with her at the telephone. She had evidently for- gotten the old adage, haste makes waste. After graduation, Dorothy may go to Boston Tech but it is more probable that she will apply for a situation as porter on the New York Central from Fitchburg to Yellow Springs, Ohio. Winfield Haynes Dennett OUR friend Dennett's rambling and promiscuously indefinable career will not bear microscopic scrutiny, so we will go aloft to the galleries and take a bird's eye view. Born in Lewiston, Me., he came to town in time to join the procession with the '98 banner. Today he is standard bearer. These natal affiliations by the way account for Winnie's ideas of Heroes and Hero Worship in the persons of Reed, Frye, Dingley and others. To this source we can trace the reason for his using Maine indiscriminately for another work having the same phonetic signification but meaning quite a different 24