Greenwich Central High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Greenwich, NY)

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1935 THE GREENWITCH 1935 Junior Class 20

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1935 THE GREENWITCH 1935 After a lovely ride on the New York Central Railroad from Rochester to Albany, I went, first, to the State Office Building to do some research work for my employer. I took a bus to the State Office Building. The driver looked familiar and as I stepped into' the bus he spoke to me. I looked at him very closely the second time and rec- ognized him as Olof Nelson. Olof told me that, if I would go to the information de- partment in the State Building, I would find the facts. I thanked him and upon reach- ing the information department, I was greeted by a familiar face. It was none other than Veronica Conlee. She had been promoted from a secretary to the head of the information department. She told me that the twins were working in the State, too. I asked her who the twins were and she told me that Alice Petteys was a secre- tary in one of the main offices and Alvin Petteys carried the degree, C.P.A., around with him. He always wanted to be a Certified Public Accountant. Veronica also told me that Ralph Briggs was managing the Briggs Machinery Co. in Troy. Well, at last, I reached Greenwich, my old home town. My first visit was to the big brick building on Gray Avenue. I was very much surprised to see Percy Morsc sitting in the little office where I left Mr. Herrington. Percy had taken Mr. Her- rington's place when he retired. He told me that there were several of our old class- mates back. I held my breath because I thought he meant they were still studying but he assured me that they weren't. Doris Bain succeeded Miss Johnston as the Latin teacher: Gertrude Connor, Miss Wondergem as Kindergarten teacher, Helen Crosier, Mr. Pfleeger as Mathematics teacherg and Lena Eddy, Miss Queern as gym teacher. James Flynn was head of the commercial department and Lawrence DuFrain.was coach. Percy also told me that Robert MacNeil was professor of Latin at Williams College. I was glad to see all these people teaching in GHS. It wasn't such an un- pleasant place a ter all. I went down street and called on Rita Majury. She had changed her name and was living in a pretty house on Main Street. She told me that Marjorie Roberson was-a County 4-H Club Agent in Washington County, that Nelson Petteys was an electrical engineer in Greenwich and Kenneth Barber was a prosperous baker. I visited Dorothy Petteys and found to my surprise that she, too, had changed her name. She and Sprague Wilbur were living on a large farm just outside of Greenwich. From Dorothy I learned that Phyllis Dawley was an interior decorator and Lena Barber was teaching in Middle Falls School, also that Margaret Hutchen was a Registered Nurse in town. I stayed for supper at Dorothy's. After supper we drove into town to the movies. On the way we passed a very prosperous looking farm. Sprague told me it belonged to Lionel Clough, also that James Duane an Edward Campbell were very successful farmers. The movie was a comedy with Harold Johnson as leading man. He has taken Robert Montgomery's place in Hollywood. A sports Short showed Leo Flynn as the great pitcher for the Giant's baseball team which was practicing in Florida. The next day I was strolling along the street and saw a sign which bore the words Flynn Undertaking Parlors. I stopped to see if it was Harold and as I live and breathe that's who it was. He has a secretary, too. Who? Irene Sheridan! Then I proceeded down the street. Another sign caught my eye: A 8x P, E. Roberson, Mgr. Yes, it was Edgar. That night in my apartment in the hotel I was listening to the radio. I heard a beautiful violin solo. At the end the announcer said it was Raymond Ackner, the accomplished violinist. Next was a piano solo by Raymond's accompanist and a great pianist. Rvta McNeil. A little later in the evening a lecture came over the air bv Hazel Barber. Her topic was Does it pay to be beautiful? Hazel was always will- ing to give us advice on beauty questions in school. Well, that ended my vacation and I hurried back to my job in New York. It cer- tainly was a delightful trip and just think-I met and visited with several of my old classmates and heard about the others whom I didn't see. -Marjorie J. Liddell. 19

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1935 THE GREENWITCH 1935 junior class history o the life we juniors lead is a busy life indeed exclamation we are the best society and we offer variety from the usual high school class not only singly but en masse period our activities are numerous and sometimes rather humorous such as the twin turkeys we bought to raffle and exchange for nought but a lucky number period every fortnight our tea dance has given each and all a chance to learn the ballroom arts dash and how many broken hearts resulted from our junior prom question mark in relation to the diet dash we sold candv comma did you trv it question mark we had a food sale too this spring which much profit to us did bring period did you see the girl of your dreams at our movie question mark and it surely seems you must have bought tags on tag day which came toward the end of May period hard work we've had the whole year through dash the contest at mealeys and too planning the year book took great pains and ouarterly tests have taxed our brains continually period it takes pride comma school spirit comma and pep to earn one half so good a ren as ours but we are blessed you see with vim comma vigor comma and vitality exclamation point -harriet sprague 21