Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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a month. I bought a paper and on the front page I found an article in which Alice Scott was mentioned as chairman of the peace commission. Heavens! Alice was always such a scrapper. I could im- agine how much peace there’d be. And down a little farther I found that Theo Boylan was a special detective and in- spector for the Washington Police De- partment and had been put in charge of ' the .murder of Henry Ford, alleged have been slain for flooding the market. Now for Ipswich and home. I didn’t have time to visit Lillian Brown but I know that she broke the typewriting rec- ord and is now private secretary to the president of the New York-California Ae- ro Bus Company My long looked for trip is now ended and I shall settle down to work with glad remembrances of my classmates of 1924. VERA BLAISDELL. CLASS WILL Be it remembered that we, the class of 1924 of Manning High School, in the town of Ipswich, County of Essex, aand Com- monwealth of (Massachusetts, being of sound mind and memory but knowing the uncertainity of this life do make this our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by us at anytime hereto- fore made. After the payment of our just debts and funeral charges, we bequeath and devise as follows: TO THE SUB-FRESHMEN Item: A set of more drastic and severe rules. It will do them good — although it would never have done us any good. Item: New school hours, in order to gain some of the knowledge of the present Freshmen. We suggest 7 A. M. to 6 P. M. Item: To each a lolley-pop and a baby rattler. TO THE FRESHMEN Item: The right to sit in Room V pro- vided they agree to renounce all frivolity and return in the fall with more evidence of serious purpose than they have shown previously. Item: By request, we leave them some of the mathematical knowledge that the present junior class possesses. Item: A large pail and two sponges with which to wash Miss Forrest’s blackboards. Item: Sole management of initiations whereby important freshmen are made to appear less so. TO THE SOPHOMORES Item The right to call themselves “up- per classmen.” Item: The pleasure of engineering a junior prom and dividing the profits, if any, equally. Item: The opportunity of choosing class rings, hoping they accomplish the task as harmoniously as did the present juniors. Item : The pleasure of decorating the town hall for the senior class at gradua- ting and of transforming the Manning Hall stage into a leafy bower for the class day play. Item: To the girls a summer course in politics so that they may defeat the boys’ candidate for president and elect their own as successfully as did the class pre- ceding them. TO THE JUNIORS Item: A new Star Spangled Banner or ink eradicator to take the ink spots off the old one. Item: A keen appreciation of poetry de- veloped by conscientious study of Milton, Wordsworth, Keaths, and Shelley. Item: The advice of Jack Callahan in selecting a suitable menu for their class banquet. His aid has been invaluable to us. We trust it will be the same to them. ftem: The distinction of being the first to leave chapel and the last to be dismissed at noon time. Item: The honor of having two of their members conduct the musical part of the program at the Chapel exercises. (We re- commend Reedy and Ewing.) Item: To those possessing dramatic ability, the honor of taking part in the senior play. 29

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solar plexus reminded me that it was time to eat. I walked on for about ten min- utes until I came to a most attractive looking tea room. I entered, walked up to the desk where a plump middle aged lady in horn rimmed spectacles, whose blond hair was beginning to show silver threads among the gold, reigned supreme. I stared a moment, rubbed my eyes, and then burst out “Madeline Chase!” for it was she who was the successful proprietor of this charming place. We had hardly spoken together for five minutes when a prosperous looking business man walked up to us, who had also been attracted by the beauty and chami of the eating house. There w ' as something familiar about his stride and, when he began to talk with us, about his vocabulary, — just the kind to insure his success as a drum- mer, for Charlie Denningham was sole agent in South America and Australia for the Milwaukee Men’s Ankle Watch Company. He was well trained for this work all right as his first experience in drumming had begun back in high school days. It had been a pleasant hour, but time was flying and I ought to be too. I walked back to the suburb of Buenos Aires where my plane had been parked, and in less time than it takes to tell it had made my next stop a little farther up the coast at Rio De Janeiro. I managed to land in a field -where hundreds of horses were grazing without hitting any of them. It was funny, but when I got out I noticed that everyone of those hors- es had some kind of bandage over a part of his anatomy. Some of them were evi- dently suffering from headaches, others had one or two sore eyes, others still were lame in one or more legs and were having difficulties in getting around on the others. I decided to investigate and under a pretense of asking for a drink, I approached the little low farm house. Imagine my surprise when a tall olive complexioned lady admitted me. You have probably guessed by this time that it was Davida Perley H. D. (horse doctor) and that I had landed in the convalescent ward. Another blow was about to descend up- on me. Her farm, it seemed, adjoined another on which Violet Levesque was engaged in raising Billy goats and as walked and talked near the boundary, we could see the favorite Billy running and jumping at her beck and call. I didn’t want anything more sprung on me so suddenly. Therefore I decided to return at once to America which after all is the best country on earth. Having a little engine trouble, I land- ed at Miami, Florida to have the difficul- ty attended to. While they were working on the engine, I took a short walk just to see the country. I saw more than that, however, for on a hill overlooking the ocean I discovered a United States Wea- ther Bureau station in charge of George Bean. If you remember, it was always a trait of Bean’s to guess at anything he didn’t know. It had taken the weather bureau to recognize the latent power in this gift. My engine was soon repaired and al- though I intended to fly straight to Wash- ington, I didn’t like to misg a brief visit at Palm Beach. I landed on the beach, walked up where a group of people were standing. As I came nearer, I saw that they were evidently much moved at some- thing, for many were wringing their hands, weeping audibly, and divesting themselves of their jewelry and deposit- ing their valuable possessions in a pile on the beach. From the midst of the crowd came a familiar but eloquent voice. El- bowing my way through the people, I finally got near enough to convince my- self that Christo Karigeanes was mounted on a soap box and was expounding social- istic doctrines so eloquently that the Palm Beach population was completely under his control. I didn’t have much jewelry and what I had was dear to me; so I elbowed my way out of the crowd as unostentatiously as possible and slunk away. Washington at last! Although I had been gone only a day, I had seen and learned so much that it seemed more like 28

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Item: The privilege of not having to take exams the last quarter. Item: To Daniel Orfant, one jar of “Sli- kum.” To Isabelle Swasey, one pair of dum- bells to be taken from Room XL To Thomas Doyle, a first class wire- less license. To Robert Hills, a fire extinguisher. To George Christopher, the responsi- bility of upholding the reputation of the football team next fall. To Thomas Henly, one rocking horse and two guns. To Bertha Savoy and Alice Mullens, each a vanity case with orange rouge. To Bernard Phelan, an electric curling iron. To Shirley Hale, one dozen yeast cakes. To Edmund Witham, the position of class clown. To Mark Hayes, a pair of stilts. May they prove useful as a means of locomo- tion and also as a means of increasing his stature. To Mary Munroe, the seat of class vamp, recently occupied by Zella Zuoski. To Mildred Jedry, one peck of “red” onions to be secured from our agent Phil- ip Ewing. If you chop these onions youTi weep and grow thin. To Evelyn Allen and Jennie Janakount- zos, each a front seat in Room IV. To Harry Merson, a trig, book whereby he may study during the vacation and gain more knowledge in that subject. To Philip Ewing, several pairs of “Scottish hosiery” and “Boston Garters” for they have been proved so becoming. To Guy Reedy, the fleetness of foot which has made famous our honorable classmate, Charles Denningham. To Mildred Pickard, the sole privilege of breaking up the class meetings by offer- ing sensible suggestions. To Nathalie Brown, one bottle of hair tonic, so that soon she may again enjoy her long beautiful locks. To Ruth Mighill, a private jitney to en- courage more frequent attendance at school. To Robert Kimball, we give a baby rattle, for in acts, at least, he is the class infant. To Margaret Phelan, a megaphone that her recitations may be credited at their full value. To Kennard Damon, several pillows to increase his bulk. We have observed that he is not “stuffy” enough. To Edith Johnson and Mary Woleyko, each fifty cents to be used in payment for a Dutch clip. To Audrey Patterson, a maxim silen- cer. To Elsie Hull, the honor of being the Glee Club leader. We also leave her a baton to be used in keeping time or in chastising unruly members. To Beatrice Ricker, a new instruction book on chemistry lab. entitled “The Quickest Way to Do it.” To Angie Wile, the seat of class man hater. To George Greenberg, a self-explana- tory Latin book. In testimony whereof we hereunto set our hands and in presence of three wit- nesses declare this to be our last will and testament this 26th day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and twen- ty-four. Class of 1924 On this 24th day of June A. D. 1924 class of 1924 of Ipswich, Massachusetts, signed the foregoing instrument in our presence, declaring it to be their last will and thereafter as witness we three at their request, in their presence and in the presence of each other, hereto subscribe our names. Christos Karigeanes Jarvis Cartledge, President Edna Peabody, Vice President -30