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

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THE EXPONENT 13 that Bill would go in for something strong.” S: “Frank Bryant is president of the Power River Grain Co.” T: “He is? I always thought he looked rather seedy. Polly, I receiv¬ ed a notice the other day to join the ‘American’ or ‘Know Nothing Party’ and can you imagine who their presidential candidate is?” S: “I can’t possibly guess. Tell me. Who is?” T: “Gardner Davis! Earl Mills and Paul Woodlock are his support¬ ers.” S: “Guess I’ll have to change my political party now. Have you heard that Dudley Woodard has had many ups and downs in his short life.” T: “How’s that?” S: “He is an elevator boy in Don Jackson’s building in Hoboken.” T: “Poor Woodard! I saw in the Moving Picture Magazine that Hoot Gibson and Lucy Chevalier have completed their latest picture at Hollywood. Helen Lynch is the auth¬ or of the scenario; ‘Better Late Than Never.’ ” S: “She must have got her in¬ spiration for that picture from her past habits in G. H. S. Our class can boast of a real intellectual light— for Leonard Sargent is a professor of etymolygy at the Muddy River School for Girls—he is a big success.” T: “Some of our classmates are in real freaky occupations—I visited a parrot shop this morning—and im¬ agine my surprise when I called for the owner and Bill Corsiglia appear¬ ed. He used to be such a quiet boy, but now he has to talk all the time, to train hi? parrots into successful chatterers—or conversationalists.” S: “You remember Gertrude New¬ ton? She has tried every known brand and flavor of chewing gum. None of them were exactly to her liking so she makes her own now. Although it is not on the market, the people who have chewed it, say it is very delicious.” T: “Well, she is rather exclusive in her tastes, I should say. I thought she and Russell Hosmer would be set¬ tled peaceably in matrimony by this time. Remember how well Russell used to ski? He has taken skiing as a profession and has given exhibi¬ tions at all the winter carnivals.” S: “Yes, I saw one of his skiing exhibitions at the North Pole Carni¬ val last winter. Did you know Green¬ field has become a city—Gale Flint was elected as the first mayor. Leop¬ old Rucci was his attorney. Much to their disgust the Board of Aider- men consisted of alderwomen. Louise Rice was chairman, and Hulda Schu¬ ler, Florence Newhall, and Nellie Fairbanks, the other members.” T: “That explains why Flint had his office built on top of a tower— 37 feet high—he evidently wanted to work in peace! I heard that Hattie Hartwell and Muriel Hall went abroad to the Olympics with the intention of capturing the tennis cup, but they met two young men and ran away the day before the event was to take place. Rather hard on the Tennis Club that sent them over.” S: “You never can tell what will happen next in this generation. Hannah Shor has achieved the great distinction of being private secre¬ tary to the Prince of Wales. Hannah was secretary for James Thurston and of course wrote the invitations inviting the Prince to a house party at Thurston’s Long Island Estate. The Prince admired her unique pen¬ manship and at once secured her to answer his personal love letters. The Prince was surely clever, for the ladies will never be able to under¬ stand his letters. He will be able to keep them always wondering.—” T: “Francis Dunnigan is another who has achieved distinction. He is now THE Dunnigan of the Ginter- Dunnigan stores.” S: “I think Herbert Osgood has brought the Class of 1925 great honor. He a Judge in the supreme court of the United States. Think of having that honor only ten years after graduation.” T: “Three cheers for Herbie. I have just finished reading Stew Ward’s latest novel, ‘Love is beaut- ful but food is more nourishing.’ ” S: “Oh! I must read it—the title sounds interesting. Have you heard the snappy orchestia that Marion Batchelor is directing. They play in the Town Hall in Bernardston every Friday night. Earl Emerson, Bill Zschau, Roberta Beers and LeRoy Jones are her assisting artists.” T: “I heard they rivalled Boston Symphony orchestra. You remember Kenneth Bicknell, the would-be- sheik of our class? Well, he came into my store the other day and wanted me to give him an order for the hair tonic he is selling. He said it was guaranteed to grow hair on pool balls. I told him seeing was believing.” S: “Kenneth always showed the symptoms of a genius. Judy Meir and Whitman Strecker are touring the country addressing thousands of people on the “Value of Eating” and the “Advantages of Being Tall”. They have been so successful in the West that Westerners are having their portraits painted for the Art Galleries in all the Western Cities.” T: “Our class president Mike Flynn and his helper Amiee Lockhart have gone on an expedition to Africa to find the ‘Lost Chord.’ Thus far they haven’t been very successful.” S: “That’s too bad. I’m afraid they will have a long hunt. You ought to see Beatrice Holman. She has become an expert horse-woman. She drives the famous twenty mule borax team and is touring the entire country exhibiting her horseman¬ ship.” T: “I went to see Dorothy Johnson fence the other night.” S: “To see Dorothy Johnson fence!” T: “Yes, she is the most agile fencer known and Alma Jones is her manager. Last Christmas she won the championship from Evelyn Kriouac.” S: “Remarkable! You remember Grace Farr and how well she assist¬ ed in the cafeteria? Now she is the manager of a large restaurant in Greenfield and caters to firemen only.” T: “Thomas Edison met Irene Avery and became very much inter¬ ested in her scientific ability. She is now one of the foremost women in¬ ventors, having just completed an in¬ vention which will render dark eyes less coquettish, taking her own for an example.” S: “Dot Clough has become head nurse at a city hospital and finds the company of the young doctors quite congenial.” T: “Remember Sybil Davis? She is internationally known as a music conductor. She has succeeded her father.” S: “We have one man in our class who has become a millionaire. He lives very simply and saves all his money.” T: “I can guess who it is!” S: “Who?” T: “Elliot Wangar. He always was very economical.” S: “Hazel Mowry is a farmerette and especially interested in attempt¬ ing to grow corn as tall as she is.” T: “I visited Mildred Zimmerman’s

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12 THE EXPONENT is with the same company. She is the snake-charmer.” T: “I don’t believe they need a great amount of training, do you? Remember the valedictorian of our class, Everett Durkee? What a woman hater he used to be! I haven’t heard anything about him since the year we graduated.” S: “Well, he went to Egypt on re¬ search work and was so much at¬ tracted by the women of that famous land, that he gave up his work and established a harem.” (Minott enters with the drinks. Places them on the table.) T: “Durkee and his Harem! Well, well, what next? Dick, what is the name of this drink?” M: “That is called Lynchade; it is manufactured by Arthur Lynch and has a very large sale. Have you seen any of the latest shows?” S: “No, I just arrived last night.” M: “Well, it would be a regular reunion if you and Tim would be my guests at the opera to-night. I’m the chief detective for the city and can get passes to any show at any time— I’ll go out and see what seats I can get for to-night.” (Exit). T: “Oh, say, Polly, have you heard about the champion automobile racer? This famous woman has taken all the prizes in the cross country races; she is the most reckless and dare-devil driver known.” S: “Who is she?” T: “She is Evelyn Benson.” S: “Pm not surprised. Evelyn was always quite a speed devil. And her sister Mildred, do you know any¬ thing about her?” T: “Oh yes, she is superintendent of a very successful matrimonial bureau, and can you imagine who came in looking for a wife the other day?” S: “No, I haven’t any idea.” T: “Kenneth Clark. He claims that the necktie he wears each day has a great influence over the way his business affairs progress, and at the boarding house where he now is, the maid is always misplacing the tie he wants for that day. So he decided that the only safe and sane solution would be a wife, who would take care of his neck-ties. He con¬ sulted Mildred’s matrimonial buieau and Myra Sanderson became Mrs. Kenneth Clark—Keeper of Neckties.’ S: “That reminds me that J ' e Dudley always wore fancy neckti in our school days. Remember vh- great talent he exhibited in wri ' ur poetry. He is now giving formal readings in Greenwich Village, and is being lionized by all the debutantes of the season.” T: “Guess I’ll call on Joe before I leave for the wilds—did you know our class treasurer, LeRoy Wheeler, is a draft clerk in the First National Bank?” S: “Is that so? Splendid—What does he do?” T: “Oh, he opens and shuts the door.” S: “How wonderful—Oh! Toomey —Esther Claghorn has introduced a new dance, ‘The Shadow.’ It may be danced only by persons weighing ninety pounds or less. Dugald Mac¬ Intyre is the proprietor of the cab¬ aret where she dances and he wears the same type of clothes he wore in the Senior play.” T: “I saw Milia Ballou, Grace Facey, Reita Bitzer and Charlie Walsh the other day. They were selling a new kind of henna rinse, called ‘A Rose Between Three Thorns’ and for a guarantee they ex¬ hibited their own crops as specimens of the wonders it would do.” S: “Guess who came to see me, selling freckle removing cream?” T: “Haven’t any idea—who was it?” S: “Ellen Fiske. Ellen is generous as well as famous. When you buy a pound jar of freckle cream, you re¬ ceive a ticket to one performance of her play. This play has for its theme the wonderful results accom¬ plished after you use the freckle cream and behold,—Norman Howe is her leading man. It is a clever sketch of love and freckles—more love and less freckles. T: “Guess I’ll buy a jar. He must make a fine leading man. I re ad a corking write up of Norman’s ability in dramatics, in Bingville Bugle which is edited by J. Howard Cooper. That paper has a very extensive cal¬ culation now and the Curtis Publish¬ ing Company has the Bugle as an active rival.” S: “Lucille Erhart and Christine Fortin have founded a college of interpretative laughing.” T: “Well, they were stars in it during our high school days. They ••urht to 1 ■■ successful. I heard that Elizabeth ' berti has a position as director of Bachelor Actors. She cv is the leading ladies f- r ih. i ■ eli-i tors in the fomou Bo 1 f ' She also de- S: “What a surprise—I expected Elizabeth to be an artist or a school- mum. Remember Lois Barnes? She is down in Gardnerstown supervis¬ ing a Sanitarium for ' overworked students from G. H. S., and would you believe it, the pla ce is filled. T: “Wait a minute—that is a ter¬ rible shock to my mental system— poor G. H. S.—what could be worse! By the way, where did Texas Warner go after he left school?” S: “From the latest reports Law¬ rence is the commander of a naval station in Zulu and he spends most of his time telling the natives about his mad romances in Greenfield.” T: “Warner was always a fine nar¬ rator of events. I heard a wonder¬ ful lecture last night—another class¬ mate has become famous. Chester Burnham graduated from the Kala¬ mazoo School of Science, you know, and now he is touring the country, lecturing on the Darwinian Theory, offering William Parmenter and him¬ self as sexamples of the ‘Missing Link.’ ” S: “How wonderful! Did you know that Doris Clapp has broken innumerable records.” T: “Why no. How’s that?” S: “Oh, she works in a music store.” T: “Mary Lawler has been telling bed time stories over the radio from station S. A. S. for the last two years. Haven’t you ever tuned in on S. A. S.?” S: “No—but I’ll surely do so. Oh did you know what original interpre¬ tative w T ork Ruth Griswold, Elizabeth Streeter, Avis Graves, and Marjorie Studer have chosen? They are fog horns in the lighthouse scene of the opera, ‘No Matter How Fast a Fish Swims He Never Sweats.’ ” T: “I always did say that those girls would become famous as singers some day. Who wrote that play?” S: “Margaret Coogan, the little bespectacled miss from Millers Falls, wrote it and she had Dick Kiley help her.” T: “Paul Reynolds has written someth’ng also; a series of short articles entitled ‘Confessions’ which anpear monthly i i the Ladies’ Home Journal.” S: “I wonder if he writes from ex¬ perience only or if he has consulted others of our famous class. William Merriam purchased a rge farm down in Whateley J , raising ' dorless onions.” T: “That’s fine. I always kr A

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14 THE EXPONENT five thousand acre dairy farm. It is such a picturesque one! She insists that all the cows be black and that all the employees wear suits of bright red—it is a dangerous look¬ ing crew.” S: “I’m glad some one in our class is artistic. Dorothy Young, although a musician of unusual talent, has given up her music to teach book¬ keeping.” T: “Stella Prusick has bought out the Lawler Brothers, and Anna Kre- sick is there every day trying to prove to her that musical comedies would be more profitable than the pictures she is now showing.” S: “Remember the unusually bril¬ liant commercial student, Miriam Summers? She became head of the office force at the G. T. D. Earlene Dalrymple and Alice Ethier run a beauty parlor for men only.” T: “Mary Steinmacher is assist¬ ing Dorothy Bonneville to run Cor- siglia’s store on the corner of Main street. Since Mary has been helping her the business bas increased noticeably.” S: “Remember how loquacious Louise Root was?” T: “Yes, I don’t believe I heard her say more than five or six words during our whole high school course.” S: “Well, she is living up to her reputation by managing a home for the deaf and dumb.” T: “Marion Hebert gives clarinet lessons to the pupils of the Greenfield public schools. Oh, here comes Dick—.” M: “I’m sorry to be late but I had to combine business with pleasure— I’ve been following a clue on the latest murder case.” S: “Oh, what did you find?” M: “This hat. It has your name in it too, Toomey.” T: “My name? Say, I lost that h at when we won the game from Turners Falls in basketball in 1925.” S: “We have been talking over the past ten years and they have been successful years too, of the class of 1925. When we said good¬ bye in that year, little did we real¬ ize what the future held for us. But tell me Dick—what luck did you have about the tickets?” M: “Luck—Say, I’m the luckiest person in New York. I have three orchestra tickets for the greatest masterpiece of dramatic art of the twentieth century. The ope a— ‘When E. B. Smith Was King.’ ” T: “Here’s to old G. H. S. and the class of 1925.” PAULINE SEAVEY, ’25. TIMOTHY TOOMEY, ’25. BON VOYAGE Our Senior year is at an end; We can but drown our sorrow Beneath the fact that God may send As bright and fair tomorrow. We all must plan! ’Tis time to say Good bye to one another; We all must now select our way, Some, one, and some, another. We cannot hope to stay intact As we have in the past; We might as well just face the fact That our paths part at last. We’re free to work; we’re free to play We’re free to plan our lives, But ’fore we part let’s not forget We’re all just “’25’s”. This isn’t meant to go to tune Despite the tricky rhyme; It’s sentiment mixed with the thought That friendship lasts through time. NORMAN M. HOWE, ’25. HONORS Members of the Pro Merito Society Greenfield High School Class of 1925 Elizabeth Alberti, Milia Elizabeth Ballou, Mildred Leone Benson, Reita Evelyn Bitzer, Esther Randall Clag- horn, Earlene Mildred Dalrymple, Francis Gardner Davis, Ralph Everett Durkee, Jr., Gale Evans Flint, Chris¬ tine Olive Fortin, Harriet Margaret Hartwell, Mary Margaret Lawler, Helen Margaret MacGowan, Louise Trask Rice, Leonard Fessenden Ev¬ erett Sargent, Miriam Louise Sum¬ mers, Charles Mathew Walsh, Mil¬ dred Mary Zimmerman. CLASS 1925 College Preparatory Course Elizabeth Alberti, Irene Johnson Avery, Evelyn Florence Benson, Mil¬ dred Leone Benson, Ralph Everett Durkee, Jr., Nellie Mae Fairbanks, Ellen Myrabel Fiske, Christine Olive Fortin, Ruth Urania Griswold, Mary Margaret Lawler, Aimee Gertrude Lockhart, Helen Margaret MacGow¬ an, Hazel Belle Mowry, Leonard Fes¬ senden Everett Sargent, Hannah Ruth Shor, Charles Mathew Walsh. Technical Preparatory Course Chester Foskett Burnham, Francis Gardner Davis, Earle Everett Emer¬ son, Gale Evans Flint, Leroy Osgood Jones, Arthur Thomas Lynch, Julius Conrade Meier, Harvey Williams Sev- rens, Edward Whitman Strecker, Stuart Houghton Ward, Lawrence Scott Warner. Commercial Course Milia Elizabeth Ballou, Marion Shirley Batchelor, Reita Evelyn Bit¬ zer, Dorothy Marie Bonneville, Lucy Beatrice Chevalier, Esther Randall Claghorn, Doris Elsie Clapp, Ken¬ neth Merton Clark, Margaret Mary Coogan, Helen Josephine Cornilovich, Earlene Mildred Dalrymple Alice Clara Ethier, Grace Evelyn Facey, Avis Marble Graves, Muriel Angel Hall, Harriet Margaret Hartwell, Marion Alice Hebert, Richard Vin¬ cent Kiley Evelyn Irene Kirouac, Anna Catherine Kresick, Gertrude May Newton, Stella Prusick, Mary Cecilia Steinmacher, Elizabeth La- villa Streeter. Miriam Louise Sum¬ mers, LeRoy Richard Wheeler, Dor¬ othy Elizabeth Young, Mildred Mary Zimmerman. General Course Lois Archer Barnes, Roberta Helen Beers, William Kenneth Bicknell, Frank Ruddy Bryant, Dorothy Alice Clough, John Howard Cooper, Wil¬ liam Joseph Corsiglia, Ruth Elizabeth Cummings, Sybil Grant Davis, Joseph Charles Dudley, Francis Aloysius Dunnigan, Lucille Frances Erhart, Grace Laura Farr, Francis Richard Flynn, Laurance Edward Gibson, Lora Beatrice Holman, Russell Walk¬ er Hosmer, Norman Manwaring Howe, Helen Marie Hurlburt, Don¬ ald Russell Jackson, Dorothy Teresa Johnson, Alma Elizabeth Jones, Helen Holden Lynch, Dugald Wright Macintyre, William Asa Merriam, Earle Currier Mills, Richard Genung Minott, Florence Ellen Newhall, Her¬ bert Edward Osgood, Jr., William Stetson Parmeter, Paul Norton Rey¬ nolds, Louise Trask Rice, Louise Ev¬ elyn Root, Leopold Louis Rucci, My¬ ra Elizabeth Sanderson, Huldah Schuler, Pauline June Seavey, Mai’- jorie Ella Studer, James Thurston, Timothy James Toomey, Hermon Russell Walker, Elliot Albert Wane- gar, Dudley Blakeslee Woodard, Paul Bulman Woodlock, William Henrj Zschau.