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

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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

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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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thing. Gossip has it that Winnie is to be a soldier. His speed development down in the back yard will go a great ways toward making our embryo warrior a successful campaigner. Besides being a good runner VVinnie has serviceable acquaintance with shelling and bombarding as the Normal School end of Church Street testifies. His subtilty is occasion- ally productive but once in particular it was adversely so. Never mind, Winnie, April Fool's day will come again. His record as a seatoccupant almost equals his spells of distraction. But his accomplishmexfs as a lady charmer are abnormal. QNit.D 'WVinnie,' says that if a two-hour labor law were operative in Drury, school life would be more to his liking. He forgets the injunction Whats0ever thy hand iindeth to do, do it with all thy might. In exams Dennett has a predilection for Brown paper. Alice Rebecca Dyson 51ALLIE, as her friends call her, entered the High School in the fall of '94 with the Class of '98, During the first two years of her career in the High School she took the classical course, but on her return in the Senior Middle year she substituted this for the literary course, which she is at present carrying. Alice is of a retiring disposition and has not taken much interest in the social doings of the class but this does not lessen the large circle of friends which she has both in and out of the High School. She has not as yet made any plans for the future and is undecided as to what she shall pursue when she leaves Old Drury, It is rumored that she will join the Red Cross Society. Grace Gertrude Faulkner GRACE GERTRUDE FAULKNER has always been one of the most active members of the Class of '98. Grace devotes all of her spare time to her studies, her favorite study being English Literature, Grace is a great favorite with her classmates and is especially liked by her teachers. She has great dramatic powers and has often appeared before the public. Sophomore year she entered the Kappa Phi Alpha contest and was successful in winning first prize. She is a very lively person and is of an athletic turn of mind so when basket ball was proposed as a sport for the Drury girls she was one of its warmest enthusiasts. Grace is very fond of nature and line scenery and thinks Williamstown the most picturesque place in Berkshire. 25