Hartridge School - Tempora et Mores Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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Will and Testament We, the class of l943, having had our ego deflated, our talents belittled, and our questionable superiority utterly ignored by our tar from humbled underclassmen, resist the temptation to cut off this disrespectful following to declare this our last will and testament. Article I. Edith Goddard leaves to Marian her carefully acquired talent for maneuvering obstacles in tri-colored tweeds. Article ll. Midge leaves Norma her black satin slip, knowing Norma will do justice by it. Article Ill. Libby, lacking suitable possessions for Mary Alice, instead thanks her for her enlightening and obviously highly practised technique demonstrated for Hans. Article IV. A definitely bewildered senior class leaves Iohonet a much discussed copy of How to differentiate betwieen Toscanini and Koussevitsky in the ninth passage of the fourth movement of the tenth symphony by Beethoven by Hallford Roger, with confidence that she can decipher it better than we and pump the author for further details. Article V. Mary leaves to Ioann those convenient Wednesday afternoon dentist appointments knowing that loann will find that even going to the dentist has its compensations. Article VI. Copp leaves Brownie her silent-ringing bedside telephone that will be frightfully convenient for conveying sweet nothings from the wilds of ta New Iersey town more fascinating than Plainfield. PAGE TWENTY

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CLASS PROPI-IECY Here, Hancock, Dix, Kilmer, Edwards. Four purring paragons of Per- sian magnificence pad into the glistening red and white kitchen. A flurry of long ruifly apron bows bustles in, plunks down four pans of luke-warm milk, and swishes from the room to hail the bus for the monthly executive meeting of the Philanthropical Fellowship for Faultless Felines of which she, the Mrs. Fort Iay, is secretary-treasurer. A hasty caution to junior not to tease little sister, a warning to both not to touch those tempting swirly sandwiches laid out for four o'clock tea, and the former Edith Copp dashes out the French doors. Pk Pk Pl! FK Right away, Dr, Brown. The official tone carefully inserted into the well modulated voice oi the hospital switchboard operator vanishes as she yanks out the ' Dr. Brown plug and launches again into her animated gossip with the third-floor attendant. Yeah, Maizie, no kiddin', I got it straight from Iamey. I always knew she wasn't all starch and crackle. But gee, a superin- tendent of nurses gettin' married, l'll never get over callin' her Miss Gray. Oh, oh. Speak of the devil. There she goes. H'm. Say, that disinfectant around here smells strangely of gardenia.-As I was sayin', my sister, lesse- she's the hat checker at the roof garden-says the super was there with him last night. She knows her on account of her appendix last year. Oh, oh. There's Dr. Brown again. l'll call you later, Maizief' Ik Pk Sk PF On the linoleum floor of the laboratory-nursery, Midge sprawls on her stomach, feet waving gracefully in the air, delightedly engrossed in the test tubes of the bright new Chemocraft number twenty-five, purchased for little Duguise's third birthday. Duguise's first reflection upon her juvenile dis- comforts was that her gingiva was irritated due to the eruption of the- gum tissue permitting the protrusion of her four incisors. Her first complete sen- tence was an opinion on the shortcomings of Darwin's theory of evolution, Possibly her mother's chairmanship of the Women for the Presidency or Else League originated with the prospect of this potential political dynamite for future campaigns. P14 PIC Pk ak The Citadel. a sleek white yawl, dipped its way into the East Blue Hill Harbor after a three months' cruise along the east coast. Iust as much at home at the tiller as on one of her famous horses, reigned the former Eliza- beth Rausch, mother of the little twin fishermen whose gleaming red hair is easily recognized by yachtsmen from Sea Island to Bar Harbor. Now that this trip is completed, will she hop right off again to the tenth reunion flight of the Smith Flying Club in South America, or will she satisfy her anxious public by perhaps publishing a supplement to her world-famed treatise Matchmaking, 101 Tried cmd Approved Methods? Anyway, she cer- tainly has retained her old habit of keeping everyone guessing. III IIIIIIIIIIII llIIllIlllllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIII IIllllIlllIlllIIllllIlIIIllIllIIllIIIIlIIIlIIIllIIllIlllIIIllIIlllIlllIlllIlllIllllIllIIlllllllllllIIllIIllIIIIIIIllIIllIIllIIIIIIllllllllIlllIllllllllllllllllllllllll PAGE NINETEEN

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Will and Testament milllllll I IIIIllllllllIlllIlllIIllIllllIIllIlllIIIlllllllllllIlllIllllIIllllllIIllllIIIIIllIIIIIIIlllIlllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Article VII. E. A. offers Marcia ten easy driving lessons on back roads, certain that the instruction will be mutual. Article VIII. Barbara leaves Mel her old sailboat, certain she can pick up an experienced, uniformed crew. Article IX. To Stu, Midge leaves a package of Whitman's Cigarettes knowing that she will understand. Article X. An elephant as quoted from Webster, is any of certain thickset, mostly huge, nearly hairless mammals . . Having studied this definition, the individuals of the senior class, considering themselves well qualified, will Nannie their publicized profiles as models for future master- pieces. Article XI. Mary Quarles, after her sojourn in the post office, has se- cured for Iacquie three hundred three-cent stamps. Please, lacquie, make them last at least a week. Article XII. Anne wills Beverly her well-tried, effective method for en- tertaining service men at dinner and thereafter. Article XIII. Pitying lake for having to miss those last minutes of Thurs- day afternoons, Libby leaves Radiant to her, believing that lake will accept this one horsepower in preference to the proffered hundred twenty horse- power and a chauffeur. PAGE TWENTY-ONE