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

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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

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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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Edwin Vincent Guinan EDWIN VINCENT GUINAN, of metropolitan birth and rural domestication was born at New York city and moved to North Adams when quite young. He, has grown with the suburb in which he lives until now he can claim the respectful atten- tion of the people of the borough. For a small man, broadly speaking, Ted', is a remarkably active man, Qpresto changol now you see him, now you don't. He is a prodigious worker carrying a few books home every noon and bringing them all the way back again. A good student, a practical observer and a wielder of the rhetorical weapon Hd1'g'IH7lE7ZfZ477l ad lzomirzem, l' Ted is sure to wedge his way to a commanding position. It has been observed, however, that Ted is not much of an astrologer as he does not know when the moon is full. He intends to enter Williams in the fall. Charles Bertram Hollis CHARLES BERTRAM HOLLIS was born at Hudson, Mass. At an early age he moved from his native town to Marlboro, Mass. Here he attended the public schools, and having passed through the grammar grades, entered the High School. He left this institution in eighteen hundred and ninety-five and came to North Adams entering the class of l98 in its freshman year. Through his course at Drury he has been a diligent student, showing especial aptness in mathematics. His conduct is never other than scholarly C?j and his attitude toward teachers and students alike, is that of a friend. Although quiet and somewhat reserved he has a good deal of school spirit and can be depended upon to show it even if it involves doing a little work. Bertie has made many friends since his arrival in North Adams, especially among the gentler sex. Edward Francis I-Iourahan EDWARD FRANCIS HOURAHAN, commonly called Ed is a native of North Adams. Is a great lover of beautiful scenery and often walks into the country to feast his eyes upon the magnificent beauty of the hills. Last winter he went with a party to Greylock but did not feel recompensed for the long tedious tramp and does not intend to repeat the ex- periment unless there is a larger crowd, thus improving the spirits of the company. Moreover he prefers the scenery upon 26