Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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We are not to say anytliinpr abont Ethel, because it will Pufir(h)er uj). No one would think of taking I’rof. Hartwell seriously — not even the photographer. THE SPOT.. GROCERIES IS AT .. Walter A. Poore’s, WALLACE BLOCK. Grand Union Tea Co. Importers and Dealers in CHOICE TEAS, COFFEES AND SPICES. SPECIAL PRIZES WITH BAKING POWDER. HEADQUARTERS: 156 to 164 Water St., Brooklyn. 59 to 67 Pearl St., New York. FITCHBURG STORE, 220 MAIN ST. [9IIS!Slg] ESu amEsmi SI AGENCY FOR THE Krakaucr, Ballet Davis, etc. Prices and Terms Always Right. Tuning and Renting. 157 Main Street. TELEPHONE 46-2. EDWIN M. READ, Confectioner .. .. and Caterer, 370 Main Street, Fitchburg. •• CATERING •• FOR WEDDIKCyS, RECEPTIONS, PRIVATE PARTIES, Etc. HIGH GRADE GOODS A SFECIALTV. Orders filled for Ice Cream, Sherbets, Frozen Pud- ding, Fruit Ices, Spun Sugar, Croquettes, Pates, Fancy Cakes, Etc. Miss Field, ’99, says she “wouldn’t care if she awful wet at Whaloni.’’ The slang phrase, “talking through your hat,’’ only had to stay over night, but the water was can justly be applied to Mr. Nolen at times.

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Anna Maudk MCxMuLLiiN, IvrnHL Vhnora AIcMullhn, K A T 1 1 K R I N K A (; N liS M I L M ( ) R , (jRACK AnniE Montgomery, Annie Helena Mlerov, Hertiia May Neil, Lula Blanche Norton, Henry O’Keefe, Helene Fanny Peter, Ida Louise Poorf:, ILitiyl Winnifrei) Puffer, I ' rancf:s Margaret Purtill, Almeda Francf:s Reed, Helen Edith Rich, Paul Elgin Ridings, William Milton Rockwell, Mary Gertrudf: Ryan, Lucy Thaxter Scarborough, Bessie Catherinf: Schragle, Edward Searle, Theresa Agnes Shea, Timothy Bernard Sulliyan, Maud White Symonds, Richard Taft, Frankie Pearle Tilton, Merton Thompson Walker, Amy Nichols Wether dee, Elzo Margaret Wheelock, Stanley Nathan Whitney, Olive Gracf: Wiley, Perry Isaac Wilson, Harriet Lf: tna Wright, Ruth Monroe Wyman, Grace Belle Young. Specials Mabelle Sheddon, Ruth Tucker, Michael O’Connor. RETROSPECTION. W E WERE at home. As we entered the sehool the first year - the present building was used, we did not need an older pupil to take us under his wing and show us how to get around. The ways and means of the sehool were just as strange and eonfusing to the haughty senior, the patronizing junior, and overbear- ing sophomore, as they were to the eool and know-it-all freshman. We began at onee to show that the high sehool was our native cle- ment, by forming a football team during the first month of sehool. The other elasses were still trying to beeome aeeustomed to the building when we went to Leominster and defeated the elass of ’99 of the L. H. S. This paved the way for other athletie teams and in the spring a baseball team increased our list of victories (to say nothing of the de- feats). Our next year passed quietly along without any incidents to dis- turb the peaceful monotony of a high school class that is not organ- ized. Studies had our chief atten- tion, while we calmly waited for the long anticipated junior year. On the morn of Oct. 5, 1897, the celebrated three days convention ended, and we emerged from the

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])()litical arena with Ralph Ihallaii- tine as the happy seleetion tor presi- dent. The elass deeided that l)lne and white were their tVivorite eolors, and tbrget-ine-nots shonld be the elass (lower. Under the ])resident’s able administration we held the usual nninber of class parties with invar- iable success. The senior year opened with our elass read for a season of successes socially and intellectually. The elec- tion of Sept. 16 resulted in the choice of Fred Moore as president. He pro- ceeded to make himself popular at once by planning to hold four class ])arties. The elass was to put on a class play, while the girls were to conduct a minstrel performance. Active preparations were being made for these events when the interposi- tion of our beloved |)rincipal, as- sisted by the school committee, showed that it would be unwise to conduct anything more than three elass parties. Hut while the various entertain- ments that were ex])eeted to take place did not materialize, an unex- pected, and for that reason more enjoyable one did. The teachers of the school, after seeing us for almost four years without knowing who wc were, decided that it was about time that the future presidents, judges, professors, and business men and women should meet their instructors socially and exchange views on edu- cational and other subjects. The drawing hall of the school was transformed into a beautifully decor- ated reception room, under the magic influence of the teachers, and after keeping us in suspense as to the nature of the gathering, they invited us to partake of their hospitality on the evening of Dec. 16, 1898. The cordial and hearty welcome ex- tended to us on that occasion, and the pleasant acquaintances that we made, will long be treasured among the happiest recollections of the class of ’99. WHIMSICALITIES. Ballantine escorted Misses Healey and Darling to Boston and could not buy an apple the next day. “With eyes severe and beard of formal cut.’’ — Bingham. The great I am. — Maude Greene. Turner said it was worth a dollar to get the quarter Miss Fisher owed him. Miss Lacey keeps a list of the fel- lows that speak to her. One month she had as many as three. Miss Allard calls her literature class “rubbernecks.” “ Is that you, Jim ?” — Miss Doliber, ’99. Turner and Dillon feast after the reception.