Hamden Hall Country Day School - Perennial Pine Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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To next year's Freshman Class: A manual with the answers to all their questions. To Lewis Rashmir: Pete Wastrom leaves his homemade permanent wave set. To Barbara Miller: A place for her fencing medals. To Beatrice Brodner: The privilege of giving all next year's assemblies. To Bill Duffy: The Senior Girls' appreciation that the age of chivalry is not dead. To Jimmie Howard: A biography of Casanova. To Harriett Mack: jean McCurdy's history notes, with the knowledge that they are as complete as Muzzey. To Hudas Schwartz: The power of relaxation. To Howard Nielson, Charlie Berlepsch, and Lewis Rashmir: Henry Hastings, Pete Wastrom, and jack Rasch leave their position as utility men. To The Junior Class: The Senior Class bulletin, filled with worldly wisdom. To Betsy North: A service stripe for each of her eleven years' presence at Hamden Hall. To the Behres: A new type of unbreakable fencing foil. To Betty Christensen: Helen Pierpont leaves her front seat highchair. To Mr. Heller: An additional seat for his bicycle, just in case! To Miss Andrews: Our thanks for typing our way to college. To Mr. Tileston: A book on progressive education. To Mr. Dowd: A package of chewing gum, and our sincerest wish that his next year's senior class will arrive a Pheure. And Hnally, to the Junior Class, so budget-wise, we leave the deficits contracted in our regime, the bags under our eyes, and a piece of gum to each member so that Mr. Dowd won't have to share his. In witness whereof, we, the Class of 1942 of the Hamden Hall Country Day School, have hereunto set our hands and seals at Hamden, in the County of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, this first day of May, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-two. CLASS or 1942 H. H. C. D. S. By ELEANOR STBFFEN Page Seventeen a

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CLASS WILL Since, the fact that time does pass has at last become salient, we, the Class of Nine- teen Hundred and Forty-two of the Hamden Hall Country Day School, do concede our- selves to be moribund. Therefore, having had bestowed upon us for the past four years numerous and miscellaneous gratuities, which we have found expedient to our existence, we do hereby in turn allocate our worldly possessions to our classmeng and thereby do divulge the formula of our success. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Forty-two, being of sound memory, disposing mind, and free from duress, do hereby voluntarily declare the proceeding docu- ment to be our last will and testament, irrevocable, and long enduring. We do bequeath: To Lewis Rashmir: An extra desk for his books, which have been crowded out by his electrical equipment. To Fred Colburn: Irene Larson donates her accumulation of bus transfers. To Phyllis Bellin: The duty of checking off next year's school days. To Bettie Barnes: Martha May leaves her childhood dream of becoming a ballet dancer. ' To Charlie Berlepsch: The Senior closet to clean out, which will keep him busy all year. To David Miller: Our vote for Hamden's Man-about-town. To Virginia Benton: A conservatory in which to grow Howers for her hair. To Bob Neumann: A copy of Esquire. To David Steffen: His sister's Willkie buttons. To Arnold Behre: Dorothy Bobbe bequeaths her skill in photography. To Rosamond Hammer: Irene Larson bequeaths her blonde hair formula as we hear gentlemen prefer blondes. To George Fouser: Betty Judd wills her appreciation of the profound principles of Boogie-Woogie. To Peggy Wilson: Frank Reynolds leaves his third floor studio including paints, brushes, etc. To Betty Christensen and Carolyn Bushell: jack Rasch and Pete Wastrom leave their favorite seats on the Waterbury bus. To the Girls' Locker Room: A light fixture that works. To Whomever will accept it: Rosalie Thalheimer leaves her position of manager along with a bottle of aspirin. To Howard Lackman: Frank Reynolds leaves his modish assortment of neckties. To Beth Duncan: Dorothy Bobbe leaves her long red fingernails. To Whomever may get the Chem. Lab. as home roorn: Their choice of ventilating system, incense, or clothespins. Page Sixteen

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Page Eighteen JUNIOR CLASS SOPHOMORE CLASS FRESHMAN CLASS