Manchester High School - Somanhis Yearbook (Manchester, CT)

Text from Pages 1 - 14 of the 1918 volume:

Samanhis évuruts 6 OMANHIS EVENTS STAFF 1918-19 The staff appointments for 1918-19 are as follows: Riditor-iteChieh £4. ci pasa cvarnsis wiawsersince aie vivtkcaacniaiviyre Hannah Moriarty, 1919 AnsiGtant sedi tite mis neninaei ney dae waiter cae aiid Anne Brookings, 1920 PERG ATE GEOR ys evn row as nie ayeiets tn ciphers aret Porter, 1920 PREAYSRIOS) cote rice mmcessdinatalea brs oleae igarald afereimeme 0 iet Be a Paul Balsieper, 1919 A fu) SF SUENG NT ot ¢: oR PENCE Wea Yop Dorothy Carr, 1919; Luther Browning, 1919 AUtmind BAitOr Pare cvmjoasiae wesiatton sare wey aceite as Francis Strickland, 1920 SSC POL AN ORES! in catwale aise en cia ge Piamievavanintiesacalaiperatninens Helen Kelleher, 1920 Bisinesa Manag ES aioe « 0:5 s0 a enteral dereees Namie Cone Raymond Bowers, 1919 Alumnr Subscription Manager’ s.5cs cw ce ves sinsrweaane sos James Burke, 1918 8. M. H. Se FACULTY 1917-72 SOMANHIS EVENTS 31 Harold Krause, Post-graduate. John Lamenzo, Pratt Institute. Margaret Larson, Clerical Work. Anna Lindberg, Clerical Work. Harry Lindberg, Trade School. Barbara Lord, Uncertain. Irene Lydall, S, M. H. S. Rose Mallon, Clerical Work. Hannah Moriarty, Uncertain. Anna McGuire, College. Robert McKay, Winchester’s. George McKinney, Uncertain. Mabel Noren, Stenographer. ent's Gym. School. s Wheelock’s Kindergarten School, Annie Osborne. Mae Pfunder, SENIOR BASKETBALL TEAM. SOMANHIS EVENTS 19 Somewhere in France, April 10, 1918. To S. M. H. S. Class of 1918: Having a little spare time while we are resting up in a little town behind the firing lines, I thought a very good way to spend some of it would be to write. I want to tell you and the rest of S. M. H. S. scholars who have anything to do with Somanhis Events how much the book cheered me up on my recent trip to and from the trenches. It was sent me by my mother and it was the December issue. I don’t know what possessed me to carry it with me but I carried it in my little kit bag all the way. I threw away many a thing to lighten my load on my back but still I hung on to Somanhis. Many a night when we were lying in our dugout, we would begin to think of home, as you know any fellow will, I would have Somanhis and would put off my loneliness by reading the jokes and other stories written by some of my old schoolmates whom I knew well, When we are in the first line trench, we don't get any papers and only once in a while do we get our first class mail. ‘Times when I have been reading Somanhis, | would suddenly hear the most hated word there is, Gas ! Everything goes flying then and everyone hurries to get masks on. Oftentimes I would find Somanhis five or six feet away from me, because when we hear that word we think of nothing but get- ting that mask on. And that little book has been out around No Man's Land with me. I happened to be on a patrol one night that had to go out to look for informa- tion, I didn’t know it, but the book Somanhis was in my coat pockets all the time. If we had met a Boche patrol that night there would have been some- thing doing. It is no joke to be out and have anything from a little thing the size of a bean to a House Hale building flying over your head. One never knows when one is coming over with your name neatly engraved on it. They will be landing in back and on all sides; down in front will be the little machine guns going a mile a minute. It certainly is a great game and the chances are pretty slim sometimes. I have slept in mud and water and even on concrete floors. The rats have played tag with me. I have been covered from head to foot with mud. I have gone to sleep soaking wet from being out around the trenches on guard, and such things, but the book has come through unharmed, And I, while up in those trenches, made up my mind the first chance I got to write and tell you all about it. Sometimes IT have considered Somanhis as a good luck token. I think that with it I could go through the worst and come out without a scratch. In the book, I read letters from some of the boys at Camp Devens. But I think that Somanhis has seen more with me than what it has up in Devens. Not only I, but a great many other fellows, have spent happy hours reading it. So now as we can’t write as much as we want to, as the censor officer would get after us, I will close. I will end my letter as | end them all lately, not knowing when we will be able to write another. We never know when one is coming with our name on it. So goodbye everybody ; and to the class of 1918 IT wish you all luck after you leave the good old S. M. H. S., next June. . As ever, Tut Martin, (An old member of '18). SOMANHAIS @EVENTS “ EARL THOMAS TROTTER IRENE ISABEL CROCKETT “What a voice is here now!” “T ought to have my own way in every- thing, And what’s more I will, too.” SOMANHIS EVEN MILDRED ANDERSON “Her charm lies in the fact that she, At need can gay or serious be.” LILLIAN MAY CRAWFORD “How sweet and fair she seems to be.” ANNIE LAVINNIA ARMSTRONG “An angel? Well, perhaps!” MARTHA EVELYN CROCKETT “Bless my Soul” but you're good- natured, “Sister Martha.” JAMES DONAHUE BURKE “Of thoughts political, And, Oh—how critical!” URSULA JOSEPHINE EDGAR «pg wicked, I is. I's mighty wicked; Anyhow I can't help it.” HELEN FRANCES CARR “She seems so near and yet so far.” MARY CHRISTINA FARR “T'll not budge an inch.” MARGARET CLARE COUGHLIN “Short but sweet.” ETHEL MAUDE FAULKNER “Oh how she loves to sing and play And laugh and laugh the live-long day.” SOMANHIS -EVENTS ANNA MARIE GERARD “Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,” SHERWOOD T. ARTHUR GRIMES “It seemes to me that you are in some brown study. EDWIN VICTOR GORDON “Here you may see Benedict, the married man.” HELEN LOUISE HAYES “Quiet are her thoughts But happy are her smiles.” LAURA CAROLYN GOTBRRG Scholar, author, patriot, JOHN ALEXANDER HERR “He can wisely tell what hour o° the day The clock does strike, by algebra,” ELEANOR RUTH GRAHAM No sweeter voice was ever heard, WALTER HILLS HIBBARD oy men may come and men may go But I rave on forever.” on LILLIAN GERTRUDE GRANT “She does the duty that is nearest her, That first, and that well.” RALPHA MAY HILLS “When I frown, I frown And when I smile, I smile.” SOMANHITIS EVENTS ROBERT CLARK HOWES “Wisely and slow; They stumble that run fast.” CLAUDINE VALENTINE KEENEY “Of all those acts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief master-piece is writ- ing well.” JOSEPHINE CLARA JARVIS “A soft, patient, tranquil spir ARTHUR AUGUST KNOFLA “He'll never grow up no matter how he tries.” EVA MAGNHILD JOHNSON “The fairest garden in her looks And in her mind the wisest books.” HAROLD LEON KRAUSE ‘Ah! Why should life all labor be?” ROBERT JAMES MeKAY “The best of men have ever loved repose,” JOHN BAPTIST LAMENZO “Lord! What fools these mortals be.” FRANCIS JOSEPH KEATING “Shall I call thee bird Or but a wandering voice?” MARGARET LOUISE LARSON “And she is as good as she is fair.” SOMANHIS EVENTS ANNA CHARLOTTE LINDBERG “Whilst others loitered and took their pleasure: She was constantly at her book.” ROSE EVELYN MALLON “A cheerful countenance betokens a good heart.” HARRY BROR LINDBERG ‘Rich in saving common sense.” GEORGE STURGEON McKINNEY “One still, strong man in a blatant land.” BARBARA PERRY LORD “And then she has a witching art ‘To wile all sadness from the heart.” HANNA ENDA MORIARTY “A gentle voice is most admired in a Woman.” AMERETTE IRENE LYDALL “We lov sings. her best whene’er she MABEL ELIZABETH NOREN “She’s a winsome wee thing.” ANNA BLIZABETH McGUIRE “I speak in a monstrous littie voice.” ANNIE ELLIOTT OSBORNE “Her laugh, her smile, her winning way Wiles the little boys’ hearts away.” MAE CAROLINE PFUNDER ‘Woman is various and most mutable.” ALICE ADELINE SCHULTZ “Checked for silence, but never taxed for speech.” MARY IMELDA QUINN “No better than you should be.” MERTON HORATIO STRICKLAND. “We don't want him any longer, He's long enough.” WINSLOW TRACY RICHMOND “Were man bul constant, he were perfect.” MARTHA BE. STOUGHTON ‘Tranquillity, thou better name Than all the family of Fame.” MARGARET LOWD ROBSHAW “In truth she is a light and lovely thing, Fair as the opening flower of early Spring.” CHARLES WALTER STRANT “And I took him very merry, play- ing at cards, And much company with him.” MARTIN GEORGE SCHUETZ “The way to his heart is through his stomach.” MARIAN FRANCES SULLIVAN “Always in trouble, this young ot trouble to her—it's 13 FLORA ELLEN TEETER “Of a meek and quiet spirit.” MILDRED AUNTELOO WALKER “Blythe, blythe, and merry is she.’ FLORENCE JONES TRACY “Quietly she came and went On her work her mind content.” ERNEST PAUL WILLIAMS ‘The ater man, the greater courtesy.” MERLE OLIVE TUTTLE “T know a maiden fair to see. Take care!” JOHN FRANCIS TYNAN “Happy and care-free he goes.” EDNA MARY WADDELL “To be merry best becomes you, for out of question you were born in a merry hour.”