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

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8 THE EXPONENT Pulaski, Prest and Ray Demeo helped to win the banner, too. St. Anne: Here we have the first quarter Honor Roll with Marjorie Church, Bernice Sargent, and Russell Nims as maximum nines. Father : The names of the athletes appear again—Jack Desmond, Ray Demeo and Ed Cowan were the stars of the football team. Right after the close of the season Ray Demeo left school to get married. St. Anne: My, the school was pro¬ gressing. A Student Council was or¬ ganized with Condraski, Anne Crow¬ ley, Marguerite Brown, Rachel At¬ wood, Lamb and Witty representing the class of 1926. Father: Now comes the baseball season with Miller, Welcome, and Desmond playing on the regular team. The interclass tournament was won by 1926. St. Anne: The next page is blot¬ ted. What happened? Father: Oh yes, Midyears. Enough said. But here’s the Honor Roll again. Listen to this—Clarence White, Max, 9— St. Anne: Father Time! There must be a mistake. There were no maximum nines in the Junior Class at Midyears. ’ Father: Pardon me—how did I happen to make such a blunder. I say, wasn’t it splendid of the P. T. A. to help in giving those afternoon dances? St. Anne: Weren’t those new gym classes amusing as well as benefi¬ cial? Father: These were some new en¬ trees to the class this year—Mar¬ garet Leith, Russell Nims and Alma Taylor. St. ' Anne: In the Junior-Senior debate 1926 made a valiant attempt to win but the Seniors proved supe¬ rior. Father: Then came the Junior Prize Speaking Contest. Bernice Sargent and Chester Osgood won first prize while Anne Crowley and Edward Pulaski were given honor¬ able -mention. St. ' Anne: Desmond, Miller and Welcome joined the baseball squad and needless to say made good. Father: In June after much prep¬ aration the ' class of 1926 gave the first Junior Prom to be held in the gym. It was a sweltering success. St. Anne: Graduation came short¬ ly after that and the Juniors were promoted to the rank of Seniors and received their well earned reward of a vacation. Father: Now we come to the last page in the book—the Senior year— when this class takes its place as dignified men and women. St. Anne: Greenfield won the track meet again with Desmond and Pulaski representing the Seniors. Father: The following class of¬ ficers were elected: Lester Hodgen . President Anne Crowley ...... Vice President Rachel Atwood . Secretary Chester Osgood . Treasurer Bernice Sargent, Assistant Treasurer St. Anne: Hodgen, Anne Crowley, Rachel Atwood, Edwin Lamb, Kath¬ ryn Knight, and Witty represented the class on the Student Council. It was voted to award letters to the Senior cheer-leaders—Anne Crowley, Hosea Wheeler and Lester Hodgen. Father: It says that this year saw the best football season that G. H. S. has had. Annette was at every game rooting for Capt. Jack Desmond. Welcome, Miller, and Condraski re¬ ceived their share of the honors, too. St. Anne: I see Desmond, Wel¬ come and Miller played again on the basketball team. The girls also had a team which had three seniors play¬ ing on it—Dot Crosby, Anne Crow¬ ley and Agnes Wait. The Senior Girls also won the Volley Ball tour¬ nament. Father: The Exponent was suc¬ cessful as usual. Rachel Atwood and Harriet Salway acted capably as Editors in Chief. St. Anne: At Midyears there were none on the maximum nine list, but Gertrude Chamberlin was the honor pupil for the 3rd quarter. Father: The Seniors covered themselves with glory when under the direction of Miss Merrill and Miss Atherton they presented “Bach¬ elor Hall”, a very amusing com¬ edy. Ed. Pulaski with his kiltie shirt and moustache made a striking looking detective. St. Anne: The class was also de¬ lighted to see Mr. Smith and the teachers perform in the faculty play.

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THE EXPONENT 7 you remember that Mr. Smith told them they were to go to school only in the afternoon. But I fail to re¬ member why. Father: Huh! The children prob¬ ably had to have their morning beau¬ ty sleep. St. Anne: Have you the freshman class officers there? Father: No, 1 don’t believte I have. I must have been writing about the freshman reception at that time. St. Anne: Well, here are their class officers: President, John Des¬ mond; Vice-President, Rachel At¬ wood; Secretary, Pauline Mills; Treasurer, Edwin Cowan; Assistant Treasurer, Blanche Morris. Right after these notes it says that Ray Demeo and Jack Desmond were prize-winners at the annual track meet held during the Franklin Coun¬ ty Fair. Father: The girls s hone too as I remember it. Marjorie Church and Bernice Sargent won prizes on their essays on “A Playground in Green¬ field.” St. Anne: Father, St. Peter’s notes, here, say that the freshman basketball team was the champion class team. How did that happen? Father: Well, you see the fresh¬ man were little but very enthusiastic young hopefuls. St. Anne: It is queer the notes concerning this class are lacking for the next few months. Father: Ha! Ha! The freshmen had reached a sort of transition pe¬ riod. They were busy putting on a veneer of superiority and casting aside that look of humility which all freshmen sooner or later acquire. Yes, they were about to become sophomores. St. Anne: Ha! ,Ha! Now St. Peter’s records say that John McCann and—What’s this? I can’t make it out. Something like a Wheel—H. Wheel, it is. Father: You mean Hosea Wheeler —Don’t you remember that bloom¬ ing-cheeked youngster from Bellows Falls, Vt.? Yes, those two boys made their class a little bit larger. St. Anne: Yes, it seems as if I have heard of them. Next it is writ¬ ten here that many of the sopho¬ mores had come into the public eye and even the names of some were added to that famous book—Who’s Who. Anna Crowley’s name is men¬ tioned here. Father: Yes, she was the famous Pat Crowley of the Deerfield Street Gang. My records are blurred again here. Will you go on? St. Anne: The class officers of the Sophomore year: President, Ed¬ ward Pulaski; Vice-President, Anna Crowley; Secretary, Pauline Mills; Treasurer, Andrew Murphy. At the foot of the page it states that Isabel Morgan and Bernice Sargent had re¬ ceived Maximum Nine for the year. Peter’s records now end. Father: Oh! There’s more than that. They followed past customs and gave a reception to the fresh¬ men. St. Anne: Why, I remember St. Peter speaking of that. He said that those lordly sophomores danced con¬ tinually with the freshmen girls. The poor freshmen boys were left all alone. Father: Well do I remember Ber¬ nard Miller, Edwin Cowan, John Desmond, and Ray Demeo as their leading athletes. Here again my rec¬ ords are rather incomplete. I can’t find the records for the next fall. St. Anne: You say you haven’t got the whole of the third year’s record? Well. I’ll read these and you can compare yours with them. I remember that at the beginning of September, 1924, the new High School was finished and they were very busy moving in. That is prob¬ ably where you got mixed u’ . Father: Yes, I remember. They didn’t start school until a week la ter than usual and then Pauline Mills was late the first day. St. Anne: It seems that their first public act was to elect class officers: Theles Condraski . President Anne Crowley.Vice President Pauline Mills . Secretary Earle Welcome . Treasurer Rachel Atwood, Assistant Treasurer Father: Didn’t they go to the Fair this year? St. Anne: Oh yes, and for the first time in the history of the school Greenfield won the cheering cup from Arms. Two of the cheer¬ leaders were from this class—Hosea Wheeler and Anne Crowley. Father: Yes; then Desmond,

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THE EXPONENT 9 Father: The Springtime Fete in which so many Seniors took part was a decided hit. St. Anne: They surely enjoyed the Junior Prom. Didn’t they? Father: The History of ’26 after four years of hard toil under the careful guidance of Mr. Smith and their teachers, now comes to a close at the last nage of my records. St. Anne: For all their light¬ heartedness and carefree spirits, they are sad today at the thought of leav¬ ing their beloved G. H. S. May their future history be so renowned that their names will again appear on other records of Father Time. Father: So I, St. Anne, and I, Father Time, to the class of, 1926 bid farewell. May your future be a happy climb. May your fame, the Future ages tell. ANNE CROWLEY, ’26. EDWARD PULASKI, ’26. CLASS ORATION LAUGH! WHY NOT? What really counts in life? Is happiness alone sought? Health alone? No. As Americans we ask for all. Life means to us—as it did to the Knights of the Round Table —to live pure, to speak true, to right wrong, to have faith, to be true to our country and our flag. What keeps true the ideals of life? There is but one answer—laughter —and its shadow—the smile. Among the many things which the modern world owes to the earlier civilization is a Greek definition which says—“Man is that animal that laughs.” Since that time many in¬ vestigations have been made to prove the truth or falsity of this ancient supposition. Mr. Curry, founder of the Morn¬ ing League of the School of Expres¬ sion, gives an account of the time when he tried to prove that the art of , laughter was the distinguishing characteristic between man and beast. He tells how he locked him¬ self into a cage with a monkey; then he tried his best to make that animal laugh. He made faces, laughed at it, and attempted to do all kinds of crazy antics before it, for all of which he received a few sly winks; but never the slightest trace of a laugh, grin, or smile from friend monkey. Thus far it has seemed to be im¬ possible to find an animal with a sense of humor, or at least one which expresses itself through the laugh. Therefore mankind should show his gratitude for this great gift and over¬ throw the theory held by many writ¬ ers that “most neople look as though they were thinking of all the terrors of the past and contemplating worse horrors in the future.” Some people may believe that we are men; let’s learn to laugh and remove all doubt. The laugh is more than a mark of distinction between man and beast, however. It helps us make fpiends; it assists in serving our fellowmen; it helps us to forget our worries; it is a good medicine and it pays big financial dividends. The world longs for the person with the true smile and the true laugh. Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was a man of this type. It has. been said of him by men who knew him well that “he was one animated smile from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet.” Would it not be well if we might leave some such impression upon eonle with whom we come in contact? Miss Ann Low says “In this world you will find that laughter will make you more friends than tears.” Two of the most serious thinkers of our time say that it is impossible to teach the world anything except through laughter. And their results prove this to be correct, for Gilbert Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw have done more to teach a moral to the world than any other men of letters, but their morals have always been hidden in gales of humor. Laugh with men and you will gain friends; smile a cheerful greeting and children will cluster about your knees. Live, love, suf¬ fer, when you must—all with laugh¬ ter—and the world will be finer and a happier place because you have lived in it. The laugh beautifies a person. You