Duxbury High School - Partridge Yearbook (Duxbury, MA)

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Richard Prince, Norma MacKenney, Frederick Harrington, Martha Nickerson, Clarence Walker, Irvina Jones, Arthur Bradford, Doris Prince, Kendall Blanchard Nancy O'Neil, Earla Chandler. The rest of the class members gave much time to committees to make the production of the play possible. On November 19 the baskeba.l season began. Dick Verge and Mac Mosher, were co-captains during this thrilling championship year and Clinton Sampson was manager. 'il.e boys won the South Shore League Championship on February 25. The girls didn't get the cup but deserved it as much as the team which did. This year's captain was Edith Peterson who had Doris Prine., Irvina Jones, Earla Chandler, and Martha Nickerson, Manager, on the team from the senior ciiss The end of the school voyage is here. The tides of our av-erages hav-3 continued to ebb and fiowg examination questions have tried to overwhelm us, but not many have succeeded. These twenty-two remaining have been able to procure the necessary passport at the entrance of each s.1cceedQng sea, and have paid the pric-e for the passage in hard work. We look ahead to a greater ocean. We shall go on writing new logs of greater adventure, for while the Voyag-e of Duxbury High School Life is at an end for the Class of 1911, the voyage of real life is just at its Cori- mencement. NORMA MACKENNEY E301

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We made plans early for our sports dance which was held November 3, and we were fully rewarded, for it was a complete success. The decora- tions were a great credit to us. Everyone remarked about the college ban- ners and the efligy of a football player which stood staunchly near the or- chestra on the stage. We can also boast of many athletes during our school career. The boys who were on the basketball team during our junior year were: Dick Verge, Mac Mosher, Clint Sampson, Assistant-Manager and Horace Walker, Manager. The girls who were on the team were: Doris Prince, Edith Peterson, Earla Chandler, Helen Mosher, Martha Nickerson, Assist- ant-Manager, and Irvina Jones, Manager. After the basketball season ended many of us were busy practicing for the operetta Star Flower which was given in May and later repeated for the Parent Teachers' Association. We barely had time to settle ourselves again into the routine life on ship-board when we were told that we would have to make plans for the Reception to be given to the Seniors on June 20. Everyone in the class gave a helping hand in decorating the Dall room with the senior class colors, maroon and white, and flowers. 'ihe seniors were both pleased and sur- prised to find that the juniors had so much ability. We just .et them marvel and didn't tell them that we made some delicious punch but had forgotten to buy any paper cups with which to serve it. The Reception was our last junior activity and after two months' rest we gathered together at the Senior Pier for one more year of companion- ship. There were twenty-three names written in the ship's log. When ex- amining it closely we noticed that Irving Whitney and Helen Mosher were among the missing. Bud took passage on the junior boat again, and Helen was evidently tired of boat rides, so went ashore. The name of a newcomer, Warren King, was erased from the list the second week of school before we had a cn1nce to know him. and Jack Donahue asked to be let off at a port during November. Counting all the additions and subtractions, we now number twenty-two who are docking at the Commencement Wharf. A few days after our voyage on the Senior Sea began, our ship's Cap- tain, Mr. Leroy MacKenney, advised us to elect our Senior Ship ofiicers. They are : President . . Edith Peterson Vice-president Martha Nickerson Secretary . . Norma MacKenney Treasurer . . . . Irvina Jones Student Council Members ..... Doris Prince 5 Norma MacKenney i Arthur Verge Ann Peterson was the President of the Student Council this year. Our Senior Dance, held on October 11, 1940, was anxiously awaited by the girls who were wondering whether some of the boys had learned to dance through the summer months. No one had. At least, none of us girls saw them. We were the first class to start the custom of decorating the lunch room cafeteria on the first deck. It proved to be a worthwhile under- taking, financially and socially. For many nights through October and November eleven members of the class practiced for our Senior Play, Nothing But the Truth , under the direction of Miss Nancy Horton. We shook all our fears away the night of December 6. and before we knew it the play was spoken of in the past tense. Those in the play were: l 29 l

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CLASS PROPHECY Edith P.- You know Nancy, it's been a long time since we've graduated, and I've been wondering what every one is doing now: so I sent for the copy of Whois Who for the year of 1960. I just know they'll all be in there. Here. take one, and .etis look them over. Edith P.- Look, here under the B's is Arthur Bradford. He's a real success, for it says here, 'the inventor of the first airplane that could carry a trailer along with it !' Nancy O.- Here's one of our old classmates, Pete. Martha Nickerson, a well-known band-leader. It sounds good. That Rippy-tippy Martzy Ellicgerson and her band, now playing at the ritzy Muskrat and Beaver u . Edith P.- And look here! It seems that Evelyn Edwards and Irvina Jones are still together. Irvina is running for the ofiice of Constable for Mounce City, and poor little Evelyn is wearing herself out working for her. She has taken it upon herself to make a three hour soap box speech on every corner in Mounce city. It says their slogan is 'For Security and Protection, vote for Honest, Upright. Dependable J ones.' Nancy 0.-- And here's Mac Mosher and Dickie Verge. They've found fame together as comedians. A twosome whose names are plastered all over Broadway-the second Charlie MacCarthy and Edgar Bergen. Edith P.-I think I'll look in the back of the book for a while. Here's Walker, Clarence Walker. You know, he was the all star pitcher on our baseball t8..1.l. Well, he nas linnliy worked himself up to the position of manager for the Boston Bee's. Nancy O.- Morton, Barbara Morton, the baby of our class. It says she's the principal of a girls' private school. It seems she started it herself and the ambition of thousands of girls all over the continent is to go there. Edith P.- Oh and Ann Peterson! Listen to this! She has written a book, 'How to Win Friends and Please People'. I guess if anyone were to write a book like that, sh-e'd be the best qualified. Nancy O.- And here's Freddie Harrington. He is now the Postmaster- General of the United States. He must have lost his shyness to work him- self up to that position. Edith P.- A-B-Burns, Frances Burns. You remember her. She was that extra bright girl in our class. It says here she is head dean of Welles- ley College where she teaches Psychology, Anthropology, Phrenology, and Ethnologyf' Nancy O.- I see where that spirited soul of Dick Prince's has settled down to something more than plucking the heartstrings of beautiful young ladies. He is now in the Bombo Bombo Jungle in the heart of Africa hunting rare specimens. I 31 l