Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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Lawrence High School and Gladys Robbins are the most industrious. Well, you two look it. Why there are so many lines in your face that I can’t count them. And Gladys, you and Edwin Brown are the quietest. I think you won’t have any trouble getting jobs in a library. I suppose, Gladys, that when you’re married your husband will find you very quiet, probably pleasing him very much. Of course, with Edwin the situation will be vice versa. Now, who do you think the best looking are? Well, Sophie Clark is one and Ralph Ingram is the other. I am inclined to think Ralph’s blonde and curly hair had some in- fluence on his vote for being good looking. Sophie might be the future “Moxie” or “Camel” girl because of her good looks. You know Sophie and George Swain are the best dressed. Sophie ought to be popular with the boys then, with her good looks and being the best dressed. Where is James Boyatt? Oh, there you are. Come here, Jimmie. Can you imagine It? Sophie and Jimmie were picked as the most sophisti- cated. Now you can see why Sophie isn’t so terribly popular. You know boys don ' t like to be shown up by the weaker sex. I didn’t know Jim- mie was so wordly wise, but I guess other people think differently. All right, you may go, Sophie, and I don’t expect to see you again on this graduation program. Will George Swain and Isabel Miller please come forth? Ladies and gentlemen, you now look upon the silliest pupils of our class and to double, check that silliest busi- ness, they are the worst drivers In our class. That doesn’t mean cattle drivers either. It means automobile drivers, so, when you see, if you get a chance, George and Isabel driv- ing down the road, take advice from me and get as far off it as you can. Now I have some good news for you. Walter Noyes, Arlene Manley, and Isabel Jenkins are the best , drivers. Now, when you see these people driving along t he road, you know you’re safe. The only ' way I can figure out Isabel and Arlene as being the best drivers is that one drives from the back seat while the other drives from the front, so they are rated equally, and probably Walter has a governor on his car. Now we come to the most inter- esting fact in our statistics. It is about the ones who sometimes have a hard time in life, especially if they marry somebody with the same capacity, that is being very talk- ative. Well, the most talkative ones in our class are Woodrow Dackson and Constance Abbott. Woody al- ways has a good line of sales talk so I wouldn’t be surprised if he might get a job with Fuller, you know, the brushman, or maybe as a ticket seller to one of the side shows in a circus. As for Connie, she isn’t only very, very talkative but she talks so fast that you can ' t catch more than a word here and there. You might not know it but Woody is standing right beside me. The fact that he is out on the high seas bound for Philadelphia, Nor- way, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Germany doesn’t prevent his being with us tonight in spirit. Hold on there, Woody, don’t be in a hurry. You and Jeanne Spooner are supposed to be the best dancers. Really, Woody, I don’t see how you can be so talkative and yet be such a good dancer. Probably Jeanjne

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will some day run her own dancing school. Jeanne I want you to stay here a little longer, while I get Bob Mc- Kenzie to step up here. These two were picked as the most popular. The attraction in Bob must be the Harvard haircut that he usually has. It looks as though Jeanne won’t have much trouble with her danc- ing school. Bob, you wait here. Will the other half of our most musical talent step up here, Connie Abbott. Connie can’t play the piano as fast as she can talk, so thank somebody for that, but as for her alto singing she sounds like — well, I can’t think of an appropriate simile. Bob plays the flute pretty well. He’s some fluter. And how! You know Connie and Thomas Larkin are the youngest in our class. Some babies, eh what? Just imagine these two graduating so young. I think Connie worked her way through by talking so much and Tommy, well you can tell his age by his baby remarks in English class; yet he has quite a lot to say about nothing. If you gave him any subject, he could write a book on it. But, oh, would I hate to try to read his papers on it when he fin- ished because he and Helen Hall are our worst writers? They usu- ally have to copy their work over two or three times before . any teacher will accept it and even then the teacher hesitates. It looks like a bunch of Chinese writing. Prob- ably the way Tommy learned his prophecy so well for tonight was because he had to copy it over four or five times. And Tommy, you and Evelyn Czepiel are the cutest ones. Prob- ably it’s Tommy’s age that puts him in the cute class, for I don’t see anything attractive such as daintiness or picturesqueness in his manners or appearance. In fact, he is a bit clumsy and as for Evelyn, well, I guess the definition of cute was taken from her. Evelyn, you and Ralph are the best writers. I’ll bet the teachers give a sigh of relief when they read your names on any papers which they are about to correct. Now, Ralph, if your face doesn’t get too red I will show off our best athletes, Ralph Ingram and Emma Erskine. I think the reason Emma is so good is because she is so small that she is hard to keep track of. Ralph’s ambition is to get a posi- tion in the big leagues. He hasn’t told me just what position. Water boy or bat boy, maybe. Ainslee Cameron and Jeanne Spooner are the best natured. I congratulate Ainslie. I guess you would if you knew what pests sat around him in school, and as for Jennie, well, she would have to be good natured to run a danc- ing school successfully. The oldest in our class are Louis Santos and Isabel Miller. They probably wanted to get their mon- ey’s worth from the town. Edward Gifford and Marie Perry are the laziest. No teacher would be surprised if he ever heard a little snoring and looked up and found one of these two asleep. The tallest and thinnest are Lloyd Nightingale and Dorothy McLane. I thought I was tall but when I stand between these two I feel like a derby between two stove pipe hats. They have an advantage any way. When they are standing in a crowd t u t 5 ■ £ . ir i ■ h i - •vsrrv