Greenfield High School - Evergreen / Exponent Yearbook (Greenfield, MA)

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THE EXPONENT 21 pink-slip terror in the high-schools of the country. E. C.: Why, the glow of the crystal is fading. They must be all ac¬ counted for. Oh no!—There’s one more!! Harold Tjarnell, who has recently been appointed to the bench of the Conway district court, where he is meeting with wonderful suc¬ cess in his new line. EDNA CHRISTOPHER, ROBERT RIST. PRESENTATION OF THE CLASS GIFT As we, of the Class of 1921, are about to terminate our High School career, we realize fully, for the first time, how much benefit we have de¬ rived from our four years of study here, and just how much we are in debt. Such a debt can never be repaid, but as a slight token of our appre¬ ciation, we of the Senior Class, give, to Greenfield High School, fifty dol¬ lars to be expended for the purchase of books for the School Library, at the discretion of the Faculty. Thus do we hope to assist the oncoming classes in the carrying out of the last part of our school motto—name¬ ly, Scholarship. ELPHEAGE V. KIROUAC ’21. IVY SONG (Auld Lang Syne) 1 Oh little ivy of success, We plant you here with care; Your glossy tendrils of success Must be without compare. 2 Oh little ivy of success We beg you to grow high, Your leafy ladder of success Should reach up to the sky. 3 Oh little ivy of success You must climb very high; The standard of our Senior Class Must never, never die. MILDRED STILES.

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20 THE EXPONENT fruit and self-explaining algebra problems. R. R.: Well, well, what’s this? A bank? Yes, Elpheage Kirouac has •opened one in the town of Athol in company with a young lady of that town. They have elected Ralph Lockhart as draft clerk. He attends to the transoms. Now I get—Alice Scott. She has met with all the suc¬ cess that we wished her in the liter¬ ary world. Her essay on the “Bos¬ ton and Maine Railroad’’ has recent¬ ly been published in the Atlantic Monthly. E. C.: Over in this section I see Raymond Houghton, now. He’s all¬ round coach at Harvard. His Mis¬ sissippi marble team has held the silver cup for many years. Can you see Connie Lovell managing forty- five children in the kindergarten di¬ vision of the Helen Taft school in Dayton, Ohio? And Irene Horri- gan!—superintendent of the Con¬ necticut Valley Street Railway. R. R.: If here isn’t Nellie Johnson, an—an attendant at Memorial Hall, Old Deerfield, where she is in her prime surrounded by historic relics. Ruth Clarke appears now. She’s giving spiritualistic seances at the Hippodrome. A capacity house greets her at each performance. Ah! Celia Pease? No, Mrs. Morse now. With her husband she directs a large poi ' ry farm in New Hampshire. E C.: Have you seen Rebecca Eberlein yet? Surely Becky’s do¬ ing something big and noble. R. R.: Here she is now, acting as private secretary to Charlie Ballou, a great financier, whose every stir is watched with keen excitement on Wall and Bond Streets. Ed Chris¬ topher is president of one of the largest of the most important in¬ dustries in the United States—the “Hold ’Em Fast” Hairnet Corpora¬ tion. Now I’m going to try to find Grace Turner—Oh! At the head of the Aviation Corps of the San Fran¬ cisco Police Department. E. C.: Catherine Hamilton is here in her element—she’s talking, that is she’s teaching elocution at Vas- sar. Oh look at this group! It must be nearly half the class!!! R. R.: Yes, Ethel Brocklesby has found work in Holleywood as an artist. She is quite an authority in the art of making up the stars to suit the camera-man. E. C.: I can see Robert Rist on a long, hot, dusty road, breaking the speed record in a Ford. Mabel Sweeley, an interior decorator. Her latest noteworthy design is for the auditorium of the new High School which is at last nearing completion. Mayda Lamoureaux is lecturing in all the largest cities of the country on “How to Manage Men.” R. R.: Irma Winslow, who is a graduate of the Boston School of Domestic Arts, is practicing her chosen profession in a home of her own under the name of Mrs. Butler. On a darkened stage I see Hollis Billings who is now a great trage¬ dian, playing “King Lear.” He stars in such heavy roles as Macbeth and Hamlet. E. C.: Herbert Buckley is spend¬ ing a great deal of his time up around the St. Lawrence River. For some reason or other the name holds a certain charm for the boy. Here’s somebody else in an airplane! Oh! Ralph Clapp is running an airplane express between here and San Fran¬ cisco. Jo Marini, while at the height of his career as an opera star saw Emma in th audience with a rival. Since then he has never been able to reach high C. R. R.: When we’re out west we mustn’t forget to stop in and see Ruth Freshour, who is ably handling the money in a one-arm lunch out in the ranch country. Clarke Wood- row, after having been graduated from Norwich, accepted a position with the town Street Department. E. C.: I see Lucille Hunt supervis¬ ing a large greenhouse. She de¬ votes much time to the buds. Verne Lyman has joined a circus as their leading acrobat, and look at Sheila McCarthy working earnestly to at¬ tain her greatest desire, “Home Rule for Ireland.” R. R.: Mary Nims is teaching Latin to the Indians at the Tuskegee School in Oklahoma. Here are Bea and Nita, still together. They are energetic workers in a world-wide movement for the suppression of the

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22 THE EXPONENT SENIOR SKETCHES—CLASS OF 1921 ELPHEAGE VICTOR KIROUAC “I luff to be among the lassies” We all think “Pheage” is the cutest ever, but we aren’t the only ones, worse luck. “Pheage” is one of the valuables of che First National Bank, and as we realize that he is a treas- fare, he has been entrusted with all sorts of offices, among which he shone as Secretary, Business Manager, Treasurer, crafty card-player in the Senior play, and to cap the climax, president of our famous class in its last year of its diligent - study—at G. H. S. He also carefully managed the Seniors’ V ‘trip to Washington—it is reported he was very, very busy during this voyage. Dartmouth College is to be honored with “Pheage’s” presence sometime in the near future. EDNA CHRISTOPHER “How small a part of time they share. That are so wonderous sweet and fair.” When we asked “Ed.” what she had done for G. H. S. she said simply: “Oh, nothing much; just vice-president of the senior class, on the Junior Prom committee, a few unimport¬ ant dance committees, a member of the Pro-Merito society and one of the class prophets”. Of course “Ed.” was too shy to mention that she was an expert typist, never writing less than 25 words per minute. She expects to attend a business school later on. MADELEINE ELIZABETH FIELD “There is none like her, none.” “Fieldy” has long been the prop of the class, filling all the positions that no one else had. Although she can serve a wicked ball, “by chowder”, and handle the mandolin, bas¬ ket-ball, books, ’n everything, she has had a little spare time to spend on such trivial matters as winning the first prize in the Junior Speaking Contest, excelling in the “pigeon-toe” for “The Private Secretary”, and holding the offices of Senior director of the S. A. S., Captain of the Girls’ Basketball team, Editor-in-Chief of the “Exponent”, and many, many others. Oh yes—we forgot to mention that she is Valedictor¬ ian. We wish her lots of luck next year, and hope she doesn’t get lo t on her long voyage to Oberlin. i