Lincoln School - Lambre Quin Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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MEMOIRS OF ALICE PREFACE We the Seniors of Lincoln School, present the story of our past years at Lincoln. Let us follow Alice down the rabbit hole as she reviews our younger days. Sandy and Dru, the original members of our class, are the first to honor the nursery school with their pres- ence. They do not retain this privilege long for within a year they are joined by three more eager Lincolnites. Hand in hand these five girls go through kindergarten anticipating the day they will graduate and become full-fledged first graders. CHAPTER 1 We survive the firrl grade without too many incon- veniences. Of course those ten spelling words a week make some of us wonder what this world is coming tog but it seems we all manage to survive. Wfe meet the complications of the .remud grade with much less skepticism than the first. Our minds at this period of school are centered on the production of our magnificent play, The Queen of Hearn. In spite of the math problems and the problems of trad- ing cards during recess, we graduate into the superior realm of the third grade. Third grade presents problems of higher mathematics including. the addition and subtraction of three col- umns of figures. We continue in the realm of artistic expression by gaily cutting and pasting pictures. Re- gardless of our lack of athletic ability most of us manage to go the full length of the parallel bars on the playground. Whitney finds she has trouble dis- tinguishing between june and Peggy. We conclude our year by proudly marching up the stairs to the room which is to house us during fourth grade. CHAPTER 2 Fourth grade. The four new faces Whom we greet soon become ardent supporters of our class. Madame Bert- home patiently introduces us to French and encourages us by assigning pages of pictures to be colored in Premier Lirre. Rest periods are shorter, class hours more definitely divided until we feel that we too can enjoy the new prestige of sharing the upper floor with fifth and sixth graders. As fizfer we extend our fascination for bunny rabbits to include live ones. Mr. Claflin brings us a white rabbit which each of us is allowed to pet while the bunny sits rather nervously on our desks. Africa, the land of intrigue, soon became a place of curiosity to us. We learn of her curious shape by making huge maps, the best of which are proudly displayed on the bulletin board. In the .rixfb grade we continue our geography by studying South America. Each of us reports about one country and illustrates her report with projects repre- senting imports, exports, and crops. History takes us to the Middle Ages. Having studied our Magna Charta, and learned of the feudal system, we visit the Childrens Museum in Boston. Included in our afternoon's entertainment is a movie on the feudal system of the Middle Ages. Feeling very wise with all the knowledge we have acquired during our first six years, we feel prepared for our final and more difficult six years. CHAPTER 3 We start Jeventb grade with another trip-Mrs. Gris- ley's tour of Concord and Lexington including the Wayside Inn, the Alcott home, and the Little Red Schoolhouse. Most of our spare time is spent on the playground with Mrs. Buivid, 'vhile Sandy W. excels in scrapbooks and map-making. I'!e have ou. .rst taste of the Big Stage when we present The Five Liffle Peppers with Frankie as mother. Our versatility is revealed when the former Scrooge of the Christ- mas Play turns into Polly. Our year ends with closing exercises, a program of folk songs. After a summer that is all too short we find ourselves back in school again-this time eighth gmderr-the aristocrats of junior High. We miss Lorraine who has given up Lincoln for boarding school. Miss Eddy takes us on a trip to visit the State Houseg the legis- lature has no business but manufactures some to show the Lincoln visitors what goes on on Capitol Hill. Miss Collins tries, in vain, to teach us to make out income tax forms. We just are not interested in in- comes-yet. Once again we all become Helen Hayeses when we give Madame Berthome's play, La Belle Au

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Bair Dormmzl 177141 Sleeping Beaulyj, complete with tears and romance. We say goodbye to Madame sadly as she leaves Lmoln after twenty-nine years. Each girl has a brief and timid interview with Miss Cole to decide her courses for her first year in high school, then we put on our daisies and are prepared for Upper School. CHAPTER 4 Freibmezz at last!!! We shyly meet our big sisters who give us a fast and confusing tour of hundreds of huge roomsg from then on we are expected to remember where to go-and zcbeiz. We miss Gail Underdown's fudge and playful scoldings, but we gain half a dozen new friends and members of our class. Our big trial has begung laden with books we struggle through our Freshman year with time out only for our first tea dance Qwhere romance beginsj and for Freshman Plays Cwhere Free Speech steals the showlj. Halfway through january our history teacher, Miss Laggis, be- comes our favorite when we learn she has become Mrs. Haus. We are thrilled to be able to adopt Mrs. G. as our class advisor. Poor Mrs. G.! Forty-six children suddenly belonging to her must be quite perplexing. Eagerly we line up at the doors to the gym and watch our big sisters graduate as we partici- pate in our first commencement. The second year of our trial begins as Alice steps into her Sophomore year. Nancy Garden, our class actress, is chosen for the Moses Brown plays and we must say she does a superb job. The coming of spring brings much mystery and whispering among the Sopho- mores. The mystery is soon to unfold as we intro- duce to the cafe society our Sophomore Spring Swing. With the passing of spring and the coming of summer vacation everyone is anticipating our class party. This day is well remembered by the girls who walked to Jamestown and back and by those who made the brave attempt and failed. Our party is complete when our hostess serves us a large cake with 1956 written on it. Another year has gone byg another page is complete. junior year. The bookstore is well supplied, posters are displayed and the books are being bought. We welcome the chance to be a part of the senior sanda wich sale and as always it is a big success. Again spring creeps up on us and our annual field day is held. The awards are given out, and we find to our surprise that the junior class receives the class plaque for winning ALL the games in hockey. Our gloating continues right up until Step-singing when, naturally, we give just the facts, ma'am. The last event of the year is the Senior and junior Prom to which we all look forward with an air of excitement. Senior year. Now we come to the last key before col- lege doors will be opening to us. As the year begins we start to prepare for our Cnext to Broadwayj pro- duction of Mm. MrTlJiz1g. After the parts are assigned we find that Carolyn Sharp has suddenly become Mimi, a dear little white rose. After we have made Miss Shea hoarse and caused her to die a thousand deaths, we finally present our production. No sooner do we recover from the -play when we find that it is time to begin to prepare for our sandwich sale. Shortly after thersale the Community Service members give a Christmas party. The admission is a toy for the Lend- ing Library. Santa Claus is there and gives us candy canes and later on we sing Christmas carols. It might be said and with a great deal of pride that our class has produced a History Queen. We raise our hats to Nancy Smith who without a doubt re- ceives the most hoped for mark in a mid-year exam- an A. Congratulations! Because we have no Freshman initiation we continue the precedent of the class of 1955 and bedeck every Freshman's desk with a big red lollipop for Valen- tine's Day. The year has passed too quickly, and we now find Alice on the last page of the book which is almost complete. There is still Stepsinging, the Mother and Daughter Banquet, Graduation and-of course-the Prom. The History is written, the pages in order. And now it is time for us to close because we have come tof THE END