Gouverneur High School - Deanonian Yearbook (Gouverneur, NY)

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More-blood-in-the-gutter Lane Dump-all Island April 28, 1945 We-try-to-hook-’em Company 1 66 Crooked Avenue Scapegoat, Arkhio • Dear Miss McCarthy: For sixteen long, dreary, tedious years I have worked on this island, located 60 miles from nowhere and halfway between, trying to make rubber from the pogus plant. During this length of time I have received from you no correspondence, not even an infinitesimal raise or promotion. It is quite obvious that you do not realize or have chosen to disregard the many hard- ships that I have had to endure. For ex- ample: Yesterday I was out for my daily promenade when who should clasp his hand over my throat but Larengitis LaVoie, king of the Moogle (You’re-an-ugly-piece-of- meat-but-I-can-down-you) cannibals. It looked as if I was to be the piece-de-resist- ance. If it hadn’t been for the timely ef- forts of Zarton Odie (Rubber-muscles) Needle, I no doubt would have found my- self filetted and flavored with Torrey’s red hot Russian dressing. I am down on my knees, raising my hands in supplication, voicing a silent pray- er, begging, wishing, washing, wanting to be transferred to elsewhere. Appealing yours, bcmald JlodeAi ne'' Fashion note: Among his majesty’s en- tourage was his wife, the island’s social leader, Goryia Dandrew, arrayed becom- ingly in a new grass skirt. ------------v------------ A Girl from the States Listen my children and you shall hear Thrilling adventures of Betty Bell-vedere. This little girl, so blithesome and gay. Once took a short trip down to Uruguay. Down there it happened, as it’s happened before, That she fell for a handsome and bold com- modore. Oh! his name, Oh! his name, Douglas Jemery, Always will remain in her memory. On a nice wide street near a shimmering sea, To her girlish heart, he captured the key. To each other forever their love they pledged, As they stood in a trance on the seashore’s edge. All the clouds in the sky were a very bright pink, 'Til away he sailed in the kitchen sink. Bravely she stood by the side of the bay. As from the port he sailed away. Sorrowfully drying her eyes of tears, Betty walked sadly away from the piers. Oh, where, oh where would she turn in her grief ? Where could she possibly seek relief? Oddly enough in the town this day. Appeared a marine from Mandalay. This was a horse of a quite different hue. His welcome advances, however, were few. She was a girl from the United States, He went by the name of Clifton Gates. This new romance, at its very start, Was utterly spoiled by Frances Hart. Now, though the time is but five years later. Our sweet Betty Bell is now a proud mater. For alas and alack, she did wed a peon. The terrible, wonderful, toreador, Elon. —John (Brother of the Mighty) Rouse ■UM| | i H Jltt Ufomoriam lartmt Major VanSIyke was killed by the last bullet of the war, fired just as he reached the front. He was ac- corded a funeral with full military honors, but, reluctant to leave his comfortable shell hole, let the fun- eral proceed without him until the coffin was being lowered. Then, combing his hair for the last time, the corpse sprang into place, face down, relieved that he would never have to rise again.

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MRS. HOLMES’ ROOM—Back Row (left to right)—Paige Collins, James Blance, Dorothy Bame, Bernard Bickford, Elaine Boscoe, William Scozzafava, George Constantikes, Mrs. Holmes. Second Row—Ceylon Johnson, Marjorie Call, Ethel Clement, Harriet Ruderman, Vivian Ames, Nancy Burns. Mary Davidson, Pauline Church, Ralph Day. First Row—Dorothy Cole, Marie Reddick, Leona Smith, Geraldine Blackburn, Jeannie Boughner, Dorothy Alexief, Eugenie Joudry, Alyce Bab cock. MR. WALRATH’S ROOM —Back Row (left to right)—Mr. Walrath, Keith Tyler, Donald Stammer, Marvin Wood ward, Douglas Raven, Floyd Popple, William Bowman, Robert Fullington. Second Row—Wallace Reynolds, Paul Gosselin, Roberta Wainwright, Esther Holinbrook, Thelma Taylor, Helen Gaddis, Richard Peck, William Lamar. First Row—Audrey Fleming, Alice Stevens, Patrycia Crowner, Zelema Venton, June Washburn, Marjorie Wilbur, Martha Young, Dbrothy Thomas Page Twenty