Hamilton High School - Hamiltonian Yearbook (South Hamilton, MA)

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4 The Hamiltonian of the State Board of Education. “Miss MacRae will be conducting classes in the Hamilton Commercial School with all up-to-date equipment. “Miss Burns will be in charge of an advisory committee on Commer- cial Law in the State House.” Here the Sibyl said, “Lo, remember this!” Then she closed her mouth in a firm line. I made her the cus- tomary offering and returned home, surprised yet greatly amused at the revelations, and determined to in- form my fellow pupils and teachers of the future that awaited them in the next twenty-five years. — OoNA Ryan, ’28. The Last Will and Testament of the Class of 1928 the most pious members of the Senior Class of H. H. S. in the year of Our Lord, one thou- sand nine hundred and twenty-eight, being in a state of alleged sanity, do will the following items of vast im- portance — viz. to wit namely: “To the whole high school a new bell which, always being of the same tone month in and month out, will be easier to interpret. “To our much harassed and patient home-room teacher. Miss McRae, we bequeath with many doubts; never- theless, the hope that her future classes will be more of quality rather than quantity. “To Mrs. Boyd we extend the wish that she may long remember our very industrious and brilliant scholarship. “To Miss Hayward we express the hope that some day she may have a class that is original in excuses and does not always use the same one : ‘We have so much History and Eng- lish to do that - - -’ “To Miss Burns we bequeath the important position of preparing juniors to be seniors. “To Mr. Cottle we give a marvel- ously equipped laboratory — the best in the state. “To Mrs. Whipple we give an as- sistant to attend to the candy man. “To Mr. Whittier we bequeath an office far, far away from the raucous noises of the senior room. “To the junior class as a whole we bequeath the noble and dignified posi- tion of seniors, and hope that they will “bend the oar” as well as we have (?). “To each illustrious individual the very magnanimous seniors extend tnese their valuables: “Kathryn Lamson, the child prod- igy of the Latin class, bequeaths to Sarah Ayres the notes. “Evelyn Grant, the youngest mem- ber of the senior class, bequeaths to Anna Baron, the youngest member of the junior class, her many childish fancies. “Mildred Baldwin gives her very dignified position as class boss to Babe Mason. “Oona Ryan, gives, with her best intentions, her advice (gained by ex- perience) on petting to Wilhelmenia Ready. “Margaret Donlon and Helen Har- aden bequeath their rule for perpetu- al and loving companionship to Jeanne Cullity and Marguerite Ma- son. “Anna Thompson bequeaths her very exceptional advice on social eti- quette to Helen Foster.

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The Hamiltonian 3 Class Prophecy XTOT having the gift of prophecy myself, and being told to reveal the future of my classmates, I found myself in dire straits. Finally the shade of Aeneas came to me as I lay in troubled sleep, and told me to seek the counsel of the Cumaean Sibyl. Arising, I accompanied Aeneas to the cave of the Sibyl. She was loathe to disclose the secrets but at last she consented to speak. This is what she said : “Twenty-five years from now, Wil- liam Allen will be chauffeuring one of the dignitaries of the town of Hamilton in one of Henry Ford’s latest creations. “Rena McEwen will be Mayoress of Rockport. “Eunice Dodge will be editor of the HAMILTON ITEM. “Doris Honeysett will be teaching artists in the embryo how to draw a straight line. “Josephine Laski will be leading soprano for the Metropolitan Opera Company. “Caroline Alexander will be in charge of the Child Welfare Associa- tion of Hamilton and Wenham. “Dorothy Hatt will be end-girl in Ziegfeld’s chorus. “Mary Peterson will be editor of a column entitled Mary’s Manners in the Sunday papers. “Robert Robertson will be chair- man of the moving picture censor- board of Boston and will feel all the dignity of his position. “Anna Thompson will be known as the WORLD’S GREATEST TAMER OF WILD DOGS in a popular vaude- ville circuit. “Evelyn Grant will be a headliner as a second Sara Bernhardt and a lionized leading-lady at the leading theatre of Essex County, namely, the EMPIRE. “Mary Corcoran will be directress of Hamilton’s Tourist Agency. “Alma Mitchell will be giving a correspondence course in Stage-danc- ing; diploma guaranteed. “Oona Ryan will be pricking butterflies for a learned scientist. “Kathryn Lamson will be dissect- ing the Iliad and Macbeth for the struggling seniors of Hamilton High. She will be justly proud of being able to get a little more work from her classes than she gave to Mrs. Boyd’s. “Mildred Baldwin will be a popu- lar member of the Futuristic Art Colony of New York. “Helen Haraden and Margaret Donlon will be custodians of the key to Hamilton Center. “Jenny Maione will be teaching the value of a sunny disposition to those afflicted otherwise.” Here the Sibyl sighed and said, “The faculty of Hamilton High will be ... ” “Will be?” I prompted. She glared at me and said, “If you can’t come in here without chattering, stay out !” “How like ...” “Mrs. Boyd,” said the Sibyl, “will be Professor of Mythology at her alma mater, but her classes will be open only to those who can control that organ of their anatomy which is about the smallest, yet the most ram- bunctious, the tongue. “Miss Hayward will be settled in Peabody with a promising Girls’ Preparatory School under her able guidance. “Mr. Cottle will be superintendent of the Hamilton schools, taking Mr. Whittier’s place who will be chairman

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The Hamiltonian 5 “Mary Corcoran hands on her abil- ity to keep quiet her many loves to. Carolyn South-wick. “Alma Mitchell gives Bessie Dunn her advice on keeping up the ‘ruling passion.’ “Caroline Alexander extends a helping hand to any junior who is troubled with nerves. “Dorothy Hatt leaves her place as ‘short-hand demon’ to Isabelle Cav- erly. “Mary Peterson gives her place, as the only senior to do her Latin faith- fully, to Menia Ready and hopes ‘it’s not the part she couldn’t do’ ! “Robert Robertson, 3rd, bequeaths his official position as senior fly catcher to Al. Malone. (Mr. Malone can only escape this by closing his mouth.) “William Allen gives the sweet bliss of finding ‘the girl from Rock- port’ in Washington to Peter Pappas. “Rena MacEwen bequeaths her po- sition of chaperon of the senior class while in Washington, to Muriel Pentz and hopes she will be as cap- able. “Eunice Dodge gives her un- obtrusive ways to Lillian Hatt. “Doris Honeysett bequeaths to Mary MacDonald her athletic prow- ess and hopes that she may find some opening in H. H. S. to show it. “Josephine Laski bequeaths her position as the champion speedy read- er of the senior class to Grace Me- lanson. “Being exceptionally valuable property, the senior class feels that it cannot part with the former un- less the juniors do consent with this oath: ‘We cross our hearts and hope to die’ that they will adopt, with no quarreling and argumentation, the great motto, which we have ever held before us, ‘Nihil Sine Lahore.’ “If this condition is not faithfully adhered to, our very valuable prop- erty shall be transferred to a fund for the building of a home for afflict- ed seniors. “To the people of Hamilton, and any others who have helped us to se- cure funds, we extend our hearty thanks and best wishes. “And now having disposed of our most valuable property, we sincerely hope that all who have been named are satisfied and will remember us long for our many and great virtues and not for our multitudinous and much greater faults. We extend our gratitude and best wishes to every- one and hope that sometime in the dim future we shall all meet again. “To this, our last will and testa- ment, we set our hand and seal in the town of Hamilton, Mass., on this the twenty-eighth day of June, Anno Domini, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight. “THE CLASS OF 1928. “Witnesses : “General Burbeck “Professor Relyea.”