Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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THE ENFIELD ECHO 13 One and there during the latter-part of nineteen twenty-four and till June ’25 made history. Room One is a spacious classroom, seat- ing a large number of pupils. The front of the room is occupied by a teacher, a bookcase, and some Juniors. Adorning the walls are numerous busts of great men to inspire the Juniors to study and to fix their motionless gaze on the ceiling. Nothing more will be said concerning the Juniors. The Senior Prom was a grand af- fair. People of note were heard commenting on the great beauty of the feminine members of the class present at this occasion. The fellows at school know how it’s done, of course. Vanity cases were in evidence about the classroom. They add to the appearance of a bare desk. The girls seemed to think so any how. Eight were taken from Slanetz, at once, one day. One play was staged during the Senior year netting the Dramatic association about four hun- dred dollars. The greater part of this will be spent on athletic equipment. In this play, “Come Out of the Kitchen,” held at the Franklin theater Seniors starred as might be expected. The acting of Freda Kessner and Wilbur Bromage was superb. Mr. Bromage actually stopped the show during the afternoon performance. Some time after the play a prize speaking contest was held and the three highest awards were made to Seniors. The management of the Echo was left almost entirely to the Seniors, and anyone who has read the stories written by Seniors, will concede the superiority of the class of twenty-five over the rest of the classes which have passed through Enfield High. In the future the members of the class of twenty-five will undoubtedly succeed as they have, in the four eventful years just recorded, at Enfield High. CLASS PROPHECY By Anna O’Connor, Edna Woodbury, William Chestnut, and Austin Reilly AN AFTERNOON TEA (Stage set with tea tables and chairs.) Hostesses: Anna O’Connor, Edna Woodbury Hosts: Austin Reilly, William Chestnut Anna—Your special delivery reached us just in time as we were starting on a vacation trip this morning; but we came here instead, taking the first train. Edna—Aren’t you tired from the long ride? Reilly—Oh no! I’ll tell you how we amused ourselves. After watching the scenery for awhile, we began to talk about our class- mates and wonder what would become of us all by 1935. Anna—Let’s read our futures in our tea cups this afternoon. Chestnut—Fine. We will. Here they come now! (Class

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12 THE ENFIELD ECHO students on, was felt and obeyed by all. The same call, even to this day undoubtedly, stirs many students, who first felt the sacred fire as Freshmen in Enfield High. The real charm of study was learned during that modulating first year, or in some cases the deplorable fact was apparent that study was boresome. These classmates, upon whom the seed had fallen as on barren ground, took their way in life quite in advance of those who now leave the old institution of learning with a wish that the course might have included more than the four short years. Of course in addition to the above virtuous traits, most of the class of twenty-five acquired the habit of speaking without permission and the habit, at that time undesirable, of observing the floor when in the presence of their inferiors, the Seniors. The students in the class of twenty- five have noted strict observance of this in the present underclass- men, so this evens matters. It might be well to add that the wrest- ling championship of the school was held by the class of twenty- five during the Freshman year. As Sophomores, the class of twenty-five entered upon a period of great accomplishments. Several of the students made wonder- ful contributions to the school paper, the Enfield Echo. In the line of sports, especially football, the physical powers of the students were shown when they carried before them the pick of the other classes and captured the football championship of the school. In the two eventful years that were to follow, the class of twenty-five was to make school history. Unquestionably the fine instructions supplied by the faculty were bringing results. Respected reader, if you have been a Junior at Enfield High you will no doubt realize the high position of the nineteen twenty- five Junior as after ascending many flights of stairs, he entered the classroom, where the tops of houses and trees might be ob- served, if his thoughts wandered from the problems of American history or the members of the weaker sex applying their odorous pigments with an ease almost equal that acquired during the Senior year. During this eventful year the class of twenty-five showed the rest of the school how to conduct a real Junior Prom. It was a great social success. The class, also, contributed a staff of bus- iness managers to the Echo, and the work done by them under the direction of Mr. Goldstein was remarkable. It was their task to attend to the financial part of the paper, a most responsible task requiring much ability. The Junior issue of the Echo was a re- markable achievement, better than any that ever appeared before, or after. In the line of dramatics the Juniors supplied an actor to the play, “Fanny and Her Servant Problem.” During the year the work of the Seniors was observed by the Juniors with a determina- tion to surpass them in the following year. The class of twenty-five established itself in the rear of Room

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14 THE ENFIELD ECHO comes on stage from R and L. The girls pour and pass the tea.) Edna—Drink your tea, Anna, and I’ll read yours first. (As the cups are drained the dregs are interpreted.) Edna—Anna, your popularity and wonderful dancing must have followed you from your High School days, for I see that you have rejected many brilliant offers in marriage. Evidently you prefer independence. Next, Sylvia Burbank, you have been studying Biology. Here you are teaching in a young man’s college in London but your chief work seems to be cutting up hearts. You always were rather good at that. Reilly—What can this be? It looks like an ivy-colored school building. Who is this dignified young professor? Well, Chestnut, such a change in the last few years. The most mischievous boy in the class now the President of Cum-an-learn University. Anna—Here we are in California. A number of representa- tives of the Paramount Co. have made a great many offers to you, Edna, to take Mary Pickford’s part in “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.” We aren’t surprised at this for you always won everyone with your cute ways. Chestnut—Who is this? Well if it isn’t our old friends Reilly and Rosenberger. Reilly is chief contender for the heavy weight title, and has scored 20 consecutive knockouts. Rosenberger is his manager and he picks some hard fights. Edna—Now, Grace Slattery. Why, you have taken up chem- istry. I believe that it is you who have discovered that new gas around the sun that all chemists have been working on since the total eclipse. Fine, Grace, I always knew that you would do some- thing big in Chem. Reilly—This is a domestic science kitchen at the Capitol in Hartford. Celia Parsons, you have risen high in the political world for here you are in charge, keeping the Congressmen well fed. Yours next, Billings. I see a large river crowded with boats of all kinds. The Commissioner of Navigation on the Scantic River —no other than yourself, James—is shaking hands with the pres- ident who seems greatly pleased at the way you have handled this problem of congestion. Chestnut—Here is a cupful of Victrola Records. Each one is a set of exercises for those people who are interested in reducing. O’Brien is advertising his records and giving demonstrations with each one he sells. Anna—Well, Landry, you’re next. Still living up to the old saying, “Be Prepared.” Here you have developed a splendid train- ing camp for young men and it is rumored that you will be a Gen- eral in the next World War. Where can this be? East Side, New York. Here you are,