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

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THE EXPONENT 13 tory of Mankind and his Habits,” and that Hele?i Thurston and Dorothy Wait each have had their poems accepted by the New York Tribune. Wagner—My! that’s fine. I saw in the American Magazine an article on “John Woodlock, the World’s Greatest Living Scientist.” (Enter office boy) Office boy—Miss Tanner to see you, sir. Boss—Show her in, Varley. (Enter Alice Tanner) Alice—Hello, Waddy, how are you? Well, I de¬ clare! Elizabeth White and Ethel Parker and Wil¬ lard Wagner. And Alfred Varley, too! Doesn’t this make you think of High School? Boss—It sure d-oes. Sometimes I can almost ima¬ gine I’m back in G. H. S. when I see all these class¬ mates around me. Alice—Speaking of G. H. S. did you realize that two of our class are teaching there already? Boss—No. Who are they? Alice-—Jessie Dwyer is teaching Sales and Ad¬ vertising, and Ralph Haskins is successor to Miss Hamilton in the History department. Boss—Well, I never would have thought it. Oh, you remember Bernice Crane? She’s the most popu¬ lar girl in the Follies now—and her manager— you’d never guess who—is Willett Forbes. Alice—Really? We’ve got two movie stars in our class besides, Madeline Morris and Margaret Hawkes. Boss—Yes, they’re pretty good. And do you remember— (Enter office boy) Office Boy—Telegram, sir. (Exit) Boss—(Reads it, laughs)—Well, of all things! —another one in our class. This is from Professor Wilton Dean, Etymology department, Cambridge university. He wants a pilot for his plane. Let me see—I know just the one for him. Here, Wagner, write to Richard Campbell and tell him there’s his job. Alice—Doesn’t it seem strange to think that our class is now scattered almost all over the world. Leo Burke is in Africa. They say he’s hit upon a plan to change the climate there. And Frank Her¬ ron is up in Alaska doing almost the same thing. Boss—I know it! And Gotthold Faust is the Edi¬ son of uur day. He’s actually discovered something to make high school students study. Alice—That’s surely a miracle! Did you know that Gertrude Murphy is telling radio bedtime stories every night now? Boss—No, I hadn’t heard her. Have you listened tq any of the Gunn-Hall debates? Alice—The which? Boss—Gunn-Hall debates? Didn’t you know that George Gunn and Robert Hall are running for Pres¬ ident and are giving a series of debates in their country-wide campaign? Alice—No, I hadn’t known of it. But they aren’t the only ones of national fame. Robert Harris is now Secretary of Agriculture, and Arthur Kelley is on the Supreme Court bench. Boss—Not Art Kelley—on the Supreme Court bench! Is he big enough yet for his feet to reach the floor? Alice—I hardly think so. Say, did you know who originated the latest dance step—it’s got everything else beat. Boss—No—who started it? Alice—John Murphy! And quite a few of the latest popular songs have been written by May Kilburn. Boss—I didn’t suppose we had so much talent in our class, did you? And that makes me think. You remember Ramona Brown, don’t you? The class of ’43 is making a class gift of one of her paint¬ ings to the high school. Alice—Ramona an artist? I never would have dreamed it. Have you heard what Marguerite Cowan is doing? Boss—Yes. I got a letter from her the other day. She and Mabel Erhart are running a dairy farm in Vermont. (Enter office boy) Office Boy—Radio message, sir. (Hands it to Wadsworth. Exit) Boss—What’s this? Why, Mary Fitzgerald, Presi¬ dent of the Chicago National Bank, wants a trust¬ worthy stenographer. Oh—I have it—Margaret Murphy will fill that job all right. Alice—I never did suppose Mary would be a bank president, but then, “y-ou never can tell.” Boss—I should say not! Did you know that Rus¬ sell Jones is writing “Side Whispers to Girls,” in the Ladies’ Home Journal, under the name of Cou¬ sin Emma? Alice—No! But did you know that Blanche Avery has joined the artillery? You remember she always did know how to handle a “Gunn.” Boss—She sure did! But have you any idea what Malcolm Cameron is doing? Alice—Yes, indeed. He’s running a passenger plane daily from. New York to Paris. I’m going over on it in the morning to watch Jocelyn Harris play for the world-championship in tennis. Boss—Oh! I see. (Picks up book on desk) Say have you read this, “Woman’s Supreme Reign,” written by Lillian Dew and Hazel Bellows? Alice—Yes. It’s quite clever. Speaking of writ¬ ing, did you know that Donald Brown is the author of a series of essays the most famous of which is, “The Value of Speed?”

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12 THE EXPONENT 1923 CLASS PROPHECY First Stenographer . Ethel Parker Second Stenographer . Elizabeth White Private Secretary . Willard Wagner Office Boy . Alfred Varley The Boss . Wadsworth Crofc The Caller.Alice Tanner (Enter the two Stenographers) (Both fix hair and powder their noses) 1st Stenog.—Congratulate me, Lizzy, Pve been a successful stenographer here for two years. 2nd Stenog.—Oh! you don’t say! Pve been here for six. 1st Stenog.— (While typing)—Guess who I saw this morning? 2nd Stenog.—I couldn’t guess, unless it was— 1st Stenog.— (Interrupting) No it wasn’t. It was Grace Timmins. She just got a good job thru this office as housekeeper for a respectable family. 2nd Stenog.—Gee! Do you remember our old friend, Malcolm Stearns? He’s working in the G. T. D. office. 1st Stenog.—Really? Still that can’t compare with what Doris Whelpley is doing. She’s the head of a “Gentlemen’s School of Fancy Dancing.” 2nd Stenog.—Isn’t it funny, though, what changes a few years will make? Take our private secretary for instance, Willard Wagner. I always thought that he was cut out for the stage. But no, he sits in this office and pulls down a salary for listening to his employer talk. Take the “big boss,” too, he has office hours from 10 to 11 every morning and gets away with it. Sh,—here’s the “sec.” (Silence except for typewriters.) (Enter Wagner) Good morning, girls. Guess who I met this morn¬ ing. Bill O’Neil and Cy Thompson, that’s who. They tell me they) are at the head of that new Co¬ operative Bank that’s just started down street. (Enter office boy) Say, gang! Do you remember Willard Letour- neau? Wagner—I’ll say we do! What about him? Office Boy—Why, he and Ed. Sullivan are foot¬ ball coaches at Colgate college. Wagner—Go on! You can’t make me believe that! Office Boy—Say, that’s right. I read it in the New York World this morning and Maurice Porter and Norman Wanegar are running it and they ought to know. (Exit office boy) Wagner—Hum! Editors of the New York World. Ah! I have it, girls. Ed. Sheehan is sporting editor of the same paper, and Eddy Vickery is his chief assistant. 1st Stenog.—That’s news to me. But had you heard that Marion Hartwell, Mary Rogers and Evelyn Turner are at the head of “The Correspond¬ ence Course in Training the Intellect?” Wagner—No, but I got a cablegram from Tas¬ mania this morning saying that King Thomas Law¬ ler and his two advisers, Leo Burke and Leonard Simpson were being held captive by a band of can¬ nibals. (Enter Boss) Boss—(Goes to desk, sits down and begins to go thru some papers)—Wagner! Wagner—Yes, sir! Boss—Please read me my schedule for today. Wagner—(Goes to his desk, gets paper and reads)—Find positions as housekeepers for Cather¬ ine Noyes and Edna Parenteau. Mabelle Potter, Maxine Stark, Weino Riddell and Helen Rice want positions in “The Review of 1943.” Boss—All of G. H. S., class of ’23! That’s fine. Nothing like helping one’s old schoolmates. Miss White, please call up Charles Parker at the Capital Theatre and tell him that we have some fine actres¬ ses for him. Miss White—Yes, sir. Wagner—Warren Weir and Adrian Welch are both looking for jobs as mechanics on this new trans-Atlantic flying palace-de-luxe. Boss—Warren Weir a mechanic? Well, I’m not surprised. He and I took physics together under Mr. Lawrence. As I remember it, Weir used to be the shining light in that class. Wagner—Helen Weiner and Marian Weissbrod want you to get them positions as traveling com¬ panions to a small family going abroad. Miss Alice Tanner is coming this morning at ten-thirty by appointment. Boss—She sure is. You remember her, Wagner. I saw her yesterday and she said that she had just received a letter from Juliette Papillon. She is run¬ ning a summer camp for girls down in Maine, and writes that she has two able assistants in Esther Smead and Cecile Thayer. Wagner—You don’t say! (laugh) Merrill Parten- heimer called me up last night and invited me down to Harvard over the week-end. He’s a profes¬ sor of Spanish you know. (Telephone rings. Wagner answers.) Hello! Who? Eleanor Pratt? Why, hello Eleanor. How are you? What’s that? You want a good housekeeper? Yes, we can get you one. Re¬ member your old classmate, Eleanor Sullivan? She wants just that kind of a job. All right. Good I Goodbye. Boss—In looking over the “Evening Star,” our local paper, I read that Mildred Toomey and Eva Verville have just written a book called “The His-

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14 THE EXPONENT Boss—Yes. He always was an authority on that subject. Say—remember Hiney? Alice—Yes. What’s he up to? Boss—He is called Watson Hindes now, and sings for Victor records. Alice—I can’t imagine it. And say—Irene and Luceyle Griesbach, Genevieve Feyrer, Pearl Hast¬ ings and Hilda Guiney are all running either hotels or tea-rooms and each is making a wonderful suc¬ cess. (Looks at paper.) Whose picture is that? Ro¬ land Mather, of all people! Why, he’s just been the judge in a famous beauty contest. Boss—(laughs)—I can imagine him. What is Margaret Mather doing now? Alice—She’s the head of the English depart¬ ment in a mid-western college and is famous for her lectures on “Morals and Manners.” Boss—Well, I always knew that she’d be a shin¬ ing light somewhere. Did you know that Mary Ma¬ rini is giving elocution lessons in Pekin, China, and that Hazel Atcherson is band director? Alice—You don’t say! Remember Eustace Mer¬ rill? He’s president of a woman’s college in New Jersey. Louise Hunter is dean there, and Doris Hood and Fedora Lamoreau are her assistants. Boss—No, I hadn’t heard of that. But you know Ken. Lyman and Art Merz are ambassadors to some country or other; and Jack Cavanaugh and Babe Carroll, some of our old football stars, are police¬ men in New York. Alice—You remember Arline Manning? She’s dietitian in Lee, Massachusetts. They say the name holds quite an attraction for her. Boss—I imagine it would. Have you heard what Annie Carroll is doing? Alice—No, what? Boss—She’s been writing plays and made a won¬ derful success. Some people sure do have the brains, don’t they? And I guess quite a number in the good old class of ’23 have. Alice—Well, will you look at the time. Here I came to see you at 10.30 and we’ve been talking all this time. Now I came to see you about a job for— Boss—Say, let’s go to lunch now and ta!k it over. We’ve sure had a peach of a time finding out what all our classmates are doing. WADSWORTH CROFT, ’23 ALICE TANNER, ’23 PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT We, as seniors, are perhaps the last graduating class to leave the portals of this building after such exercises as we have participated in this morn¬ ing. Oncoming graduates will have their class day ceremonies in the new and larger school now in construction. But we desire that this old High School shall not be forgotten by the future pupils of the new. Therefore at this time I am honored to be privileged to put this link of memory in the chain of remembrance between this building and the new one. May this gift of $250 be placed in the form of reference books at the disposal of oncom¬ ing classes. ROBERT S. HALL, ’23