Haverhill High School - Thinker Yearbook (Haverhill, MA)

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sa:a:eLevgen:evsa:a:a:e.-vusnsavss:za:a:vs:vxa -sees. vzeazzevaeesaaaesalensaaxevxevaaeiaia as sais:- Qllass ilaistnrp freshman Pear To quote Shakspear A woodpecker lrt on a Freshmans head And then began to drnll He drilled all day and he dnlled all night And then he broke hrs bull ET us offer paeons of praxse that such hardness was not the state of the heads of the Class of 1914 when rt entered for the hrst time the Haverhill Hngh School The date of our entrance as set forth ln the annals of tlme was a pretty September morn to be exact the twenty slxth of September mneteen hundred and ten This date was two weeks after the usual openmg of school owmg to the fact that the new bulldlng was not ready Over three hundred pupils entered destmed to burden wlth an untold number of cares the teachers who taught Freshman subjects Some of us came wlth brllllant grammar school records Others had no records to speak of But desplte our records good bad or mdlfferent we certalnly were a green bunch Like the members of innumerable classes before us we were evidently taklng ln our knowledge of a new school llfe thru our mouths But from the very beglnmng we all took great prlde IH our new bulldlng ln which the teachers were to attempt to educate us for the next four years The upperclassmen were secretly as Interested as we but endeavored to hnde thelr interest under the blank and superclllous look so often assumed by them We were notified to march to the Assembly Hall and to It we trooped After a few mmutes of pandemonlum It was announced that the teachers would call the names of those scholars who were to s1t m thelr rooms Teacher after teacher came called a number of names most of which were unfamlllar to us and walked off leadmg her vlc tlms llke lambs to the slaughter We soon settled down to the grmd of llfe varied only ln our Freshman class rooms by the antlcs of Mose C-arbelmck smce fallen who dls covered dlvers and sundry methods for maklng laughs go round the class Hlck Whitmore and Bub Byard dlscovered that after the shop work perlods on Friday on coming mto the Algebra class lf a cloth were wrapped around a finger with a little red ink judncnously applied to slmulate gore expressions of sympathy could be evoked from the teacher wlth a permit to go and wash the fnnger Thus these two conspxrators lost many valuable mmutes The loss of these precious mmutes enabled these mgemous youths to stave off the fate of the unprepared but not for long however Football of course had Interest for a few of the members of our class To be sure school had opened two weeks late but football does not stop for such an unimportant trlfle as the opemng of school ln fact one game had been played before we came to I2 1 4 ' v 1 Y I ' ' I v . , ' , . 9 ' , Y , . ' ' ' ' I I Q U ' 9 1 v s ' . . . . Y , . Y - v 1 1 9 ' ' U I ' ' A A 1 v - - ' - Y V . , , . v v - , , , , . . - I 1 Y , . v Y V v . U Y ' f f ' Q us--sus-.Qs-s.-Q -suss-susns.-s- -s.-s.-s-.s.-sus.vs- -suze-as-sus, .:e.1us.:gns--sn1us- :anis

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1 I Ibnhnxntutnusutovtuse vsninQninQnx4 .QnQsvxnsugnQ4n5.,5,,,, ,qnQ--Q-a1nxuQnQ4vx-:Q-:Qc mformallty of those classes led to many playful pranks which made the study of French ln that room very delightful and enjoyable in the extreme The Debating Club was revived during this year and some few Sophomores were members of it A great many debates were held at its meetings in which the Sopho mores held up the class honor Candidates for the basketball teams were called for and Byard responded from l9l4 Sargent Hodsdon Page Byard Moore Read Downes and Laing won the champion ship of the school for the Class Girls never desire to be beaten or out classed by boys For this reason school suffragettes militant anti and otherwise planned and finally carried out a remarkable attraction One afternoon late in February the gymnasium was closed to the male observer and the girls held an inter class track meet of their own The l9l4 athletes finished third thru no fault of theirs Letters laurels and words of praise were extended to the participants To this day the boys firmly believe that the wonderful time reported for some of the runs was made because no boys were there with reliable stop watches Altho the Class of l9l3 may claim honor and pat itself on the back for having printed a new and up to date school paper all the journalists were by no means mem bers of that worthy and esteemed class Three Sophomore rooms 2l0 2l4 and 2l5 conceived executed offered to the public and finally buried three very Oflglflal and remarkable weekly school papers They were known to the prmters as The Sun Pro Bono Publico and The Daily Smile which by the way was printed weekly The names of their enterprising editors will be withheld for obvious reasons Baseball candidates were now called for Herrick Read and Byard responding from the Sophomore class The I W W as proposed by oseph Ettor descended into the lowliest place in the High School the basement Consternatlon relgned supreme one bright morning in May when it was brulted about that the waiters on the lunch counter had obeyed the mandates of the I Won t Workers or in this case I Want More Free Lunchers and had struck for more than fifty cents worth of lunch per week Even the Boston papers lunch counter after minute and scientific observations found that the strikers suffered not from being underfed but from being underwoiked Therefore they cruelly denied the strikers Sophomores mcluded the extra sustenance which wa demanded Thus ended the strike of the Long Lean Lanky Lunch room Lackeys Two Clee Clubs one for the boys and the other for the girls had been started under the guidance of Mr Keayes It vias decided by the tvso clubs to hold a Joint concert May I6 l9l2 At this affair Fred Moore gave promise of being another Marcel ournet by the deep and impressive way he used his bass voice a promise which by the way he has amply fulfilled by the wonderful solos he has rendered for the enjoyment of the school Soon came the end of school when we were to elect the officers who were to lead us for the next year The officers whom we selected were Hermann K Whitmore Presl dent Erna Downes Vice president Pauline Prescott Secretary and Edmund Sargent Treasurer -I Y , . , , . 1 9 v 1 9 9 , - . , Y Y 7 Y ' Y 5 Y Q , ' , ' 5. 11 ' 7 Y 7 V 1 ' 1 ' 9 if YY ' ' ' ' ff Y ,Y ' ' lf Y, U ' V ' - Q found this event important enough to place it on their pages. The proprietors of the ' ff YI ! l Y - ' . I . Y . . , 1 . , '- t . - . : . . V: 15lilIilliGl1lliCIi5lillHlli5lillilO?5'iii5:9137Lv57Lq52Qi'iG1i 5li6'ilKil'Lliillillhllililliiilihlliliil l