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

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GEORGE WILLIAM WINNING, 2 A X--George, while not a hard character, is a hard character to describe. He is all things to all men. He comes from Houghtonville with a reputation as a great dancer. He has taken the business course with great honor and covered his card with gore, He greatly enjoys the pleasures of life and is said to he a shark at Whist. A ladies' man,-he is not efferninate. A pitcher with a disinclination to practiceg a student of the worlclg a man of tomorrowg a good fellow after a pattern all his own. During the next few years we ex- pect to hear startling reports of him from the Chandler School of Sten- ography, where he will continue his business education.

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LYLE WHITNEY, GJ A CID, D, -Lyle is one of the quieter boys of the class, and yet he is all there. He made his D last winter in bas- ketball, and has been out for football and track. Often do We raise our heads humbly when crossing the street to see Lyle go riding past in a swell carriage. He has not yet decided on his course for next year, but we feel sure that wherever he goes his unassuming manner will win him many friends. FRED ALVAH WINDOVER, 2 A X-Fred, the learned one, the digni- fied one, the scientific one, the philosophi- cal one, is about to leave the halls of old Drury. What such a loss will mean can only be told by the future ages when the name of Windover shall be handed down to posterity, coupled with that of Plato or Socrates. ' He has been a Worker throughout his course, filling the offices of Assistant Editor of the Academe, President of the Debating Society, and Secretary of the D. A. A. He is a good Writer and can make a ' 'spiel almost equal to one of Mulcare's. In the farces he had a part Well suited to his abili- ties, which he performed in a manner beyond criticism. Next year he ex- pects to paralize the faculty of Clark College With his superhuman Wisdom.

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CLASS HISTORY 92 A long time ago. so long that we can hardly remember it, in the fall of 1901, we were routed out of bed in the wee, sma' hours one morning and told to hu1'ry, as school novv began at eight o'clock tand we have been hurrying ever since to get there on timej. '05 was an especially noted class whenit entered because of its size, or should we say sizes. We ranged from Baker's mountainous heightdown to Johnny Burn's few inches, but in spite of the variety, who can say that a better class ever entered?, Early in our iirst year, one of our class members gallantly called a class meeting for the purpose of electing class officers, but some of the haughty Juniors. claiming that the meeting was not carried on under parliamentary 1'ules twith Windover in the class too,j insisted on another, and then Harold Braman was elected our first president. The boys formed a class football team with George Chase as captain, and for the first time held up '05's reputation by defeating a Freeman School team with the score of 5 to 0. During ou1' Erst winter as High School pupils, who can fo1'get the fun we had, the numerous sur- prise t?j parties, the grand long slides down the banisters, and the excitement of our first exams. It doesn't seem possible that we ever asked such questions as Do we have to come up on the days when we don't have exams? But then we were young and foolish. In the spring a tennis club was started and many of '05's members joined. What fun there was then on the campus tas Mr. Hawley would sayj on pleasant afternoons, the tournaments and chasing balls over the bank among the poison ivy. The Spirit of Old Nate Drury, tired of waiting for the city fathers to decree that we should have a new building, and insulted by the old one, made an attempt to destroy Drury in our Freshman year by sending the plaster tumbling down, but it was in vain, for the fathers simply had it put back to tumble down again some time. When June came, bringing the graduation of '02, we Freshmen had the extreme pleasure of gracing the top row of the wonderful bleachers built for the occasion. That summer, some of us found out for the first time that a summer school existed and that we might improve our minds as