Farmington High School - Laurel Yearbook (Farmington, ME)

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THE LAUREL GAMMON, BARBARA Barb General COlll'SC Motto: lt 's a great life if you don't week-end. Ambition: To be a long distance operator. Sophomore Hallowe'en Committee, CZ: Subscription Contest, 33 Fair Committee, Zig Exchange Editor, 35 Chairman of Junior Prom. Committee, 3: Debating Club, 3, 45 School Play, 4g Chairman of Fair, 4. Barbara uses a small light, only one lfVatt , and she has a further interest in electricity now, refrigerators in particular. We didn't have Barb the Freshman year but the school that did certainly was lucky. GROVER, THELMA Thel Commercial Course Motto: Ulmitate the Sphinx. Ambition: To take Gloria Swanson's place in Zaza. School Fair Committee, Zig Refreshment Committee of Masquerade Dance, 3 Thelma can type more words in a minute than any other girl in the class and it can also be observed that her handwriting is about the only one that Miss Hueston doesn't go in convulsions over and that is saying something! lVhich one do you practice on Karl, Thelma? HARRIS, IKATHRYN Kat General Course Motto: All 's well that ends well. Ambition: Never to gain no more. Senior Reception Committee, lg Orchestra, 1, 23 Fair Com- mittee, ls Sophomore Hallowe'en Committee, 2: Glee Club, 2g Masquerade Dance Committee, 35 School Play, 3, 45 Freshman Reception Committee, 45 Debating Club, 3, 4. Katherine of Freshman days was nothing like Kathryn of Senior days. If you clon't believe it look at the Freshman pic- ture and tl1en gaze at the picture on the left. It 's too bad for the Senior girls to pick on little red-headed Sophomores Cespecially innocent onesl when there are plenty of Juniors about. HODGKINS, NORMAN Prof General Course Motto: Early to bed and early to rise makes one healthy, wealthy and wise. Ambition: Stated below. Class Oratorg Debating Club, 3, 43 Debating Team, 3, 4: School Play, 35 Alumni Editor, 4. The ambition of Norman's life is to be a woman-hater, if ap- pearances aren't deceiving in the corridors. The only reason Norman wasn't fullback on the team this year was because he didn't go out for it. Q Norman is going to Normal School next year and if good work and faithful industry will get anyone anywhere he is sure to succeed.

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T H E L A U R E L Backus, EVELYN LOUISE Evie ' Commercial Course Motto: Be good and you will be happy. Ambition: To be matron at Abbott. Fair Committee, 3, 43 Halloween Committee, 23 School Play, 3, -lg Girls' Glee Club, 2, -lg Assistant .Editor LAUREL, 4. Evie, we are sorry to hear you have a radio because we hate to have you start in staying up nights. BURNS, Ro1sr:R'r Bob General Course Motto: Lives pure, speaks true, rights wrong, but stubborn as a mule. Ambition: Not to bc a poet. Track, 3, 4: Captain of Nvinter Sports Team, 43 Football, 3, 4: School Play, 3, :L Bob like many other great people was educated in a red schoolhouse. The way Bob assists the fair sex up the stairs be- tween classes would make Chesterfield himself look like a coal ieaver. - W'e can overlook any faults you may have Bob, which are sure to come with human frailty, for your loyalty in serving any- thing you have been in, has been in keeping with your illustrious name. FL1N'r, JAMES Jim General Course Motto: Man is the merriest species of the creation, all above and below hnu are serious. Ambition: To have a teacher believe he is in earnest. Class l.'rcsident, 1, 2, 3, 4, Orchestra, lg Basketball, 25 Baseball, 22, 33 Captain ot' Baseball, 4: School Play, 3. For four years the class of '26 has realized that Jim pos- sesses one great weakness. That weakness is an hilarious laugh which may burst forth at any time. VVhat the teachers think of it is immaterial to us, jim, for it has brightened so many dull classes Cthere is malice toward none in that statemeutj that its value cannot be overestimated. Jim says the night is all right but the Day has its compen- satiou. FRENCH, Rtrrn Rufus General Course Motto: I wish I had someone to love me, l'm tired of living alone. Ambition: To be a seco11d Madame Nordica. Class Secretary, 1, 2, 3, 43 Orchestra, 15 Fair Committee, 15 Senior Reception Committee, 19 Glee Club, 1, 2, 33 Sophomore Hallowe'en Party, 25 School Play, 3, 4: Junior Prom., 3, Fraeshman Reception Committee, 4-5 Debating Club, 4: Masque- ra e, 4. Ruth is very domestic. That's right, Ruth, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. We would hardly know her this year. She has foresworn all social pleasures to delve in the deep realm of erudition.

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THE LAUREL KNAPP, HELEN Helen Commercial Course Motto: United we stand, divided we fall. Ambition: To be a Senorital' It can be well said of Helen: l cannot check my girlish blush, My color comes and goes. But it's almost always there. It's a long walk to West Farmington, n'cst-ce-pas Alplwnzo? At last we see what love will do. lVIA1.i.1s'1'r, Riemann Dick, Don Ricardo Malle College Course Motto: 1' am Sir Oracle and when l opc my lips let no dog bark. Ambition: VVe always used to think Dick wanted to be a congressman but lately we have come to believe his secret ambi- tion is to be a bull-lighter-or a movie actor. Orchestra, l, 2, 3, -lg School Plays, 3, 4g Debating Club, 3, 4: Debating Team, 3, 4, Basketball, 2, Baseball, 2, 3, 45 Sub- scription Contest Chairman, 33 Vice-President Class, 1, 2, 3, 4: President Debating Club, 4, Athletic Editor, 2: Alumni Editor, 3. Apparently Dick changed his name when he began to be such a sheik among the Normals. Don't keep your mother and father up nights this spring, Dick, or hog all the cross roads, especially that one above the red bridge-the Normals have to be in by ten, you know. MERCHANT, GIERALDINE jerry General Course Motto: I am captain of my fate. Ambition: To be another Carrie Nation. Alunmi Editor of the LAUREL. Geraldine is the most conscientious member of the class, especially when it comes to questions about her rank. Of course we realize that Jim has been demoralizing her during English class but that is excusable as others have fallen before. Jerry spends her time studying and we wonder why she finds a certain Freshman so attractive. Wholly cousinly, we suppose. MILLS, VIRGLNIA jinny College Course Motto: She moves a goddess, she looks a queen. Ambition: To sleep and sleep and sleep, etc. Sophomore l-Iallowe'en Dance Committee, 2: Junior Prom. Committee, 33 School Play, 3, 4g Masquerade Committee, 3: Debating Club, 3, LAUREL Board, 4: Class Essay, 4. We would like to say something about Virginia's trip to Bos- ton but she is rather reticent about it and as you value your life don't mention it. U Welcould scarcely expect a nun like Virginia to take any interest in a man with a name like Brother Dominique but then does he always come to see Brother William?