Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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THE ECHO 15 F I, xcnan We have received many good school papers which have showed great effort, thought and interest on the part of the students of the differ- ent high schools. The issuing of school papers has become a very active part of outside activities. The exchanging of these papers brings the different high schools into closer connection. We have received exchanges from the following schools. The Unquity Echo, Milton: You had fine school paper. Your headings were fine and you had a fine showing in almost every department. The Hermiad, Hingham : The cover design was very attractive and your paper contained everything essential. The Partridge, Duxbury : The headings were fine. The Periscope, Bridgewater: You had a very large showing in all your departments. The Chimes, Scituate: The cover design corresponded well with the name and was attractive. The Item, Dorchester: The paper showed much thought and interest on the part of the students as it was well filled out in all departments. The Broadcast, Jamaica Plain: You had a very up and coming paper. The Blue and Gold, Malden: It was a snappy paper. The Tauntonian, Taunton : There must be considerable interest back of your paper. The Student’s Pen, East Bridge- water: Your paper was fine. The Abhis, Abington: Your stories were surely fine. Your advertise- ment section shows you are well patronized. The Brocktonia, Brockton: You had some fine headings to your dif- ferent departments. The Wampatuck, Braintree: It was a well arranged paper and ypur literary department stands out. The High School Herald, Westfield : You have some good stories and poems. The Menotomy Beacon, Arlington: Your paper was excellent. The cover design was fine. I In Summer Time Oh, Summer, joyful Summer The best time of the year. When everyone is happy And all are full of cheer. The insects of the fields Are singing merrily. As they go about their duty, To feed their family. Because they are aware That Summer is not long. The birds that fly in air Sing out their joyful song. The animals that live near us Are seen on every hand. Flying under the trees. Listening to the breeze. The people seem contented, As day by day goes by. Until the months of winter. With cold come drawing nigh. WINFRED TAYLOR, ‘24.

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14 THE ECHO Members of the Association sold candy between the acts. After the drama, dancing was en- joyed, music being furnished by Leo Gallagher’s orchestra. Sophomore-Freshman Party The Sophomore-Freshman party was held at the High School, Decem- ber 14, the Sophomore class enter- taining the entering class. The Sopho- mores had tried to keep this a secret, but in vain. Freshmen on entering the door of the hall were greeted with an electric shock and other pranks. After all had entered the hall, games, singing, and a social hour was enjoyed. Refreshments were served by the Sophomore girls. At twelve, when the party got ready to leave, the young an unsophisticat- ed, but yet polite, freshmen, heartily thanked the Sophomores, and decid- ed they had become better acquaint- ed with their superiors. Senior Class Play On Thursday evening, June 10, the Senior Class presented the two act comedy, ' Tolly Wants a Cracker,” at the Town Hall, before a large and appreciative audience. The play was exceedingly well cast and was coach- ed by Miss Megley of the faculty. Story of the play : Jeffrey Wayne, a widower of sixty, married Marie Pratt, a widow of forty. Wayne has a daughter, Mary, who is in a private school, and Marie has a son, Tom, who is in college. Neither dares tell the other. Mary and Tom are in love. Mary agrees to become engage (to) if Tom can prove his ability to earn a living. Not knowing that Wayne is his mother’s husband, Tom applies for a position and is hired. On the same day Mary, who has a desire to see her stepmother, comes home in the make up (of a) for a part she is to take in a (play) school play. Lucerne Neville, an old friend of Marie’s, calls unexpectedly. While they are all together in the living room, the light is suddenly turned out and a valuable necklace disap- pears. Wayne calls the police in- spector and suspicion is directed to- wards Tom, Mary, Miss Neville and Nora, the housekeeper. In seeking the guilty party the identity of the young people iDecomes known and Marie and Wayne decide it is tit for tat. The older couple find themselves in a position where they are obli ged to look kindly upon the love affair of the young people. The necklace is found all ends happily. Characters : Jeffrey Wayne Aubrey Dana Tom Pratt George Levangie Doran Roger Zoebish Mary Wayne Muriel Wilde Lucerne Nevelle Helen Richards N ora Alice Stevens Marie Pratt Wayne. . . .Dora Coulter Scene — A living room in Jeffrey Wayne’s home. Act 1. — An afternoon in October. Act IL — The same — fifteen minutes later. After the play dancing was en- joyed until 12 o’clock. Music by Leo Gallagher’s orchestra. Heard on the Diamond Hammy: “Hasn’t Neal got a kind face?” Bunny: “Kind!” Hammy: “Yeh. Funny kind.” Roy evidently forgot it wasn’t Sat. when he tried to take a bath at Stoughton. You can always tell our Seniors but you can’t tell them much.

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16 T II E K G H O Detour The moon shone brightly overhead, the sky was studded with stars, while two figures, clothed in heavy motorists’ cloaks, for a heavy dew was falling, made their way to a secluded spot on the bluff where un- observed, they could w atch the high- way that wound in and out around the irregular shore. Two small boys, out in a row boat in search of adventure, heard the murmur of their voices floating out over the water. News had come to this tiny fron- tier village of the “bobbed haired bandit,” so naturally among the younger fry was the sense of pre- vailing danger, and possible adven- ture, in the nooks and crags of their rock bound coast. Stealthily manning their craft, they steered for one of the small in- lets overhung by trees and vines, that adventurous boys alone can And. Once here, they stopped, made fast their boat an d crept up the opposite side of the bluff. Upon reaching the top, the taller of the two nudged his companion, resulting in that person’s turning around and returning the compliment. A good whole hearted fist fight might have been the result, had not the wind shifted and brought the sound of voices once more to their ears. Friendship was once more restor- ed, and the two conspirators once more settled down to business. Ly- ing down, they wriggled snake-like toward the spot of their prey. When within two yards of the spot, they cried out simultaneously, for there, silhouetted against the back ground of rocks, resting on a man’s shoulder, was a bobbed head! Scarcely able to breathe with the excitement of it all, the boys lay face downward on the turf trying to still the wild beating of their hearts. The couple spoke in monosyllables, but enough for the boys to glean enough information to arouse their curiosity to a still greater extent. “They” would be coming soon. Who are “they?” The “sign” would stop them and “they” would get out, then we’d stop “them.” What sign, and again, who are “they”? Vir ue is always rewarded, and was in this case, for what is more virtuous in a boy than to keep per- fectly quiet for exactly three quar- ters of an hour, and what’s more, do ' ng it voluntarily. But as before stated they were re- warded. The “honk” of a car was heard coming through the village. The man and his companion rose, stretched their limbs, not at all ban- dit Lke and made their way toward the road. Unable to bear the sus- pense any longer the boys followed at a safe distance. Once in sight of the road, they learned what the “sign” for there over a pile of debris was a sign statmg that motorists must detour owing to a washout ahead. Hardly had they gotten over their amazement at this, for there was no washout, they heard the throb of a high powered engine as it neared them. Then, as the head lights were cast on the detour sign, the motor died down, the machine came to a stop, and a man jumped down with an ejaculation of disgust, followed by a small cry of dismay from within, accompanied by a giggle. Before anything more could be said or done, the air was thick with confetti, and two small boys were seen running toward their respective homes to ponder over the mysteries of fashionable weddings, while the bride and groom continued on their wedding journey wondering how their well guarded secret of escape had leaked out. LILLIAN LAKEWITZ, ’26. Most Exciting Adventure It was one evening, not very late, that I sat at the library table pre- paring my next day’s history lesson. Before me lay an open book, I was conscious of it but that was all, I was so tired that my eyes fairly closed after each word. I was reading about automobiles, the invention of the