Hartford High School - Hartford Key Yearbook (White River Junction, VT)

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ulty,” a sketch which we can proudly say came in second as far as the judges were concerned. The sports followed up as usual! Several of our hoys went out for football but Harold Rising was the only one who made the first team. When winter came, basketball came. Not (|uite so many girls went out for it this year, although some did stay in training in hope that before long their baskets might be winning ones. Baseball found several of our boys on the field running, not for dear life, but for dear old Hartford High. In the winter of this year Miss Oakes chose certain students of the class to participate in the Fidac Contest. It was almost unbelievable and too good to be true when it was clearly announced that Cornelia Cushing was the second winner! At graduation a selected few ushered with great pomp and ceremony. The looked very dignified as they showed the parents and friends of the graduates the few waiting seats. Lake Morey again attracted our attention after graduation and all those who the year before had enjoyed themselves in this outdoor life repeated the trip with as much vigor and enthusiasm as before. With this expedition to the north our second year ended. JUNIOR YEAR In 1937 most of us returned to venture into the so-called hardest year. This time we found only one change among the teachers. Miss Winn, who had struggled to get some of us through “Caesar” was now replaced by Miss Van Deusen, a former teacher here. We were also pleased to admit into our class Claire Marshall from Lancaster; Ralph Wright from Lebanon; and Dorothy Moore, Lucille Wood, Helen Coffin and Kingston Packard from the Ouechee Junior High School. There were, however, those who did not return, among whom were Cornelia Cushing, Arthur Judd, Ralph Rose, Richard Rosenbeck, Fredrick Southwick, Lena Gallo, Marion Punt and Elizabeth Cone. During the course of the year Helen Hathorn, Lawrence Adams, and Doris Companion also left. On election day, under the supervision of Miss Kelleher and Miss Kingsbruv, we elected our officers even more carefully than before. Here it was our third year and what did we have to show for it! Not much. What we needed was more money in the treasury because the next year we knew wouldn’t leave much time for earning any; therefore, we needed someone who most certainly would be able to help us meet the rainy day. Leon Farnham seemed to us to be worthy of the leadership and as his backer and assistant, the vice-president, Harold Rising, seemed to meet the requirements. Francis Standish was voted secretary and Norma Parrott, treasurer. I am proud to be able to say (in fact we all should be proud to say) that these officers co-operated extremely well to make that year one not to be forgotten. Their work as leaders of a large class is to be commended. Next came the rumors of Stunt Night, that event which always seemed to appear when we didn't have any thoughts or ideas in our poor little heads. A bright hunch came, however, and we decided that we’d have a hospital scene. With Bernard Dwyer and Henry Lewis as the internes with their hammers and saws and with Norman Beliveau, Dorothy Moore, Lawrence Adams, and Geraldine Churchill as patients, and Caroline Cameron as a nurse, we managed to take away the first prize. From third to second to first we were improving! Mr. Allan, head of the music department, staged in December Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H. M. S. Pinafore.” We can picture now our Susan Wright with her lovely songs to Charlie Snow of '38. Caroline Cameron, Geraldine Churchill,

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to us, the babies of the school, the third prize for our rodeo with saw horses, our bull-fight, and our playlet. A very short time after this the class voted for a “social.” It was to be our first, and under the careful supervision of Miss Young and Mr. Smith several of us met at the practice house to enjoy ourselves with games and refreshments. Winkum seemed to be the favorite game enjoyed by mostofusthat night so long ago. Oh, there were so many things to learn about. In the fall there was football. Six or eight members of the freshman class joined the squad later to give a fine train. Winter came and so did basketball. Over half the girls in our class went out for this sport and so did several of the boys. But when spring came, all that the girls could do was to stand and cheer for our boys as they “whacked” the ball and sped around the bases. When baseball season was well at hand we knew that it would soon be time for school to close. However, final examinations had to take place liefore vacation. There is always something to spoil life, isn't there! Well, struggle we did and pass we did, and before we realized it, it was all over and we were enjoying happy hours together on a trip to Lake Morey. Camming, rowing and swimming brought a happy ending to a happy year. SOPHOMORE YEAR In the fall of '36 about seventy of us returned as sophomores. Pearl Cashman, Eleanor Coran, Catherine Farr, Dorothy Little, Arietta Newell, Rudolph Couter-marsh and Frank Connolly were no longer with us but we were pleased to welcome Roland LaBelle, from St. Albans; Clair Lovell, from Willaston Academy; Roy Plummer, from California. We found that Mr. Whitney Parker had resigned his positon as Principal, and had accepted a similar jxisiton in Littleton, N.H., and Mr. Holland, who had faithfully and skillfully drilled the various students in athletics, had succeeded Mr. Parker. Mr. Freitas from Boston University, joined the teaching staff and also took over the extra curricular activities which had previously l een done by Mr. Holland. He also had classes in history and physics. Miss Winn followed Mr. Smith as instructor in Latin and English 1, and Miss Leach came in to assist Miss Ainsboro in the Home Economics department and also as teacher of chemistry. The change in routine was ery great. An extra hour was added to the day’s program in order that each student might have an extra four in which to study not that we needed another hour for that! Nor was this all, for it was necessary to have a small, but very important white slip of paper entitled Basement Permit” in order togo to the lower regions where we had hitherto brought our books, etc., only to visit and while away the time. To In in a room to which you were not regularly’ assigned, it was also necessary to have a transfer signed by the teacher and also by someone in the office. There was still another magic slip which was equally important and which I l elieve received even more frequent usage than the others and that bore the woefully significant name of Detention Slip”. Thus with these varied changes we continued on our way trying hard to avoid in the midst of chaos the detention room. It was not long before election day arrived and this time we chose Bernard Dwyer as the head of the class. To assist him we elected Roland Hamel; for secretary, Elizabeth Cone; and for treasurer, Peggy Quinlan. Stunt night was soon upon us as before and we, under the directions of Caroline Cameron.(for it was her idea) produced in miniature form, The rac-

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Patricia Mock, Edith Rennie, Lora Lyman, Peggy Quinlan, Norma Parrott, Mary Byron, Dorothy Mock, Audrey Mace, Ruth Eaton, Cathleen Blanchard, Bill Smith, and Bernard Dwyer were others of the supporting cast. In March along came the annual Watson Prize Speaking Contest and since this was for the most part a Junior affair, a large number were invited to participate. Lora Lyman. Caroline Cameron, Helen Coffin, Robert Stockwell, and Bernard Dwyer made us proud of them, but it was Susan Wright with her yarn about “de bear” and “de alligators” who took the second prize. About this time there appeared, again, the Fidac Essay Contest of which Leon Earnham was the very fortunate winner, for he received not only the local recognition but the state as well. But all this was as nothing when honorable mention in the national contest came why, we were even known in W ashington! Leon’s essay on National Defense also came in second. How’s that for a magnanimous record!? It was about the time that these awards were presented when thoughts of a Junior Prom began to unfold. Surely so much work must be balanced yet such questions arose as: “Would we have one?” “Could we afford it?” These were only a few of the many questions which were brought before us. Then came the annual “W hat if we go in the hole?” But at last the night came and believe it or not there was a profit! a substantial one, too. The music furnished by the Barbarv Coast” Orchestra with its “Waltz You Saved for Me” and the jazzy “()ld Apple Tree” appeared to be a sensation. It was a successful Prom in spite of all our worry. 11 was in the early spring when the Sportman Show was held over in Kendall’s Oarage. We decided that perhaps we might make money again, this time in a refreshment booth. Again Dame Fortune smiled as Leon eagerly counted the dimes and nickels which meant just so much more for us and for our future. At last came the end of our third year. On the night of graduation we took our places soberly as we led the Seniors down the middle aisle. W hy were we sober? I doubt whether many asked, for we knew that in one year’s time, twelve flying months (if nothing happened , we would be following in their footsteps. Marie de Roche, the valedictorian of the graduating class, presented our president, Leon, with a cap and gown and a golden key. It wouldn't have been human to be unimpressed bv this ceremony which brought us at last to our Senior year. SENIOR YEAR This last fall when our footsteps led for the fourth consecutive year, to Hartford High, we found again a changing world. The seniors were given the old assembly hall for a home-room, a room rich in tradition, with its memories of many graduations, senior plays, and prize speaking contests. I he stage with its blue velvet curtains and wee ante-rooms lined with books beckoned us “home. Hartford had at last the ideal senior room. We also found that, to some extent, faculty changes had taken place. Miss Ainsboro was replaced by Miss Rowley and Mr. Allen was succeeded by Miss iken in the music. Mr. Allen was now the principal of the Quechee grammar and Junior High school. Mr. Freitas took charge of the history classes and Miss Young, the work in French; Mrs. Ryan, the English instructor in the Junior High, also had one of the sophomore classes. Miss Burmaster was the junior-high mathematics teacher and Mr. Witt, had mathematics and social science in both the Junior and Senior High. Much to our joy, we didn’t lose very many students this year. Helen ( offm and Helen Burnham, I believe, were the only girls and Lawrence Adams, the boy, who did not return. It was with enthusiasm that we greeted Marjorie Adams