Manchester High School - Somanhis Yearbook (Manchester, CT)

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GEORGE BANTLEY KRAUSE “BENNY” “Great talkers are little doers.” Address of welcome—Class Day; Casts of “Little Women”, “Saturday Morning in an Office’, “The Silver Lining”, “The Ghost Story”; Chair- man Prom. Committee; Debating Club ’25-’26; Triangular Debate ’25 ’26; Hi-Y ’25-’26; Honor Roll-3; Ivy Ora- tion; President Senior Class; Rifle Club ’25-26; Somanhis Staff ’24-’26; Sock and Buskin ’25-26; Student Council ’23-’24; Track Team ’24-’26. SOMANHIS EVENTS NORMA ESTHER BEATRICE SODERBERG “Punctuality is the politeness of kings but it cannot be that of travel- lers.” Cast of “Saturday Morning in an Office”; Class Treasurer ’22-’23; Glee Club ’22-26; Honor Roll-3; Student Council ’23-'25; Vice President Senior Class; Washington Trip Committee. CLASS MOTTO ‘Non sibi sed omnibus”’

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SOMAN BilSmE VE NGS = 5 Thus once a task has been assigned to you do it to the best of you ability whether or not you believe you are receiving enough money for, ¢ time expended. To be able to say you have done your best is the gres Ve we Gd ee 7 Ss » » » Ss. Ps recompense there i OY, John Dwyer 2a THE WRONG PROFESSION To let circumstances press one into a profession in which one has little interest is a waste of talent and energy. It is a tragedy; for tragedy lies in unused talent and in long years of mechanically doing uninteresting work. I do not mean that all the work one does in which one is not interested is gone for nothing. There are a great many men and women who are success- ful at work which does not interest them greatly. If they could be success- ful at uninteresting work with the same amount of energy combined with interest and talent at another work how much greater would be their suc- cess; how much better the work they would turn out; and how much pleasure they would have in their years of work and in their success. Right now is the time for us, who are graduating, to choose the right profession. We must not, if there is any way out, and there usually is, if one looks hard enough, settle down to a long term of years at uninteresting work. We must find the work which interests us most and not waste our talents in that work by doing the first thing that turns up. Martha Blatter ’20 A CHALLENGE TO YOUTH The doors of South Manchester High School are opening to allow the class of 1926 to march through, never to return again as students. Ah, who can tell us what is waiting across that threshold? The world is facing us with a challenge. We stand on the threshold with the hope of youth in our hearts and a smile on our lips, to go out and face that challenge to the best of our ability. The world will not have challenged us in vain if we pass through the doorway with the thought in our hearts expressed in the poem by Howard Arnold Walter— I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer ; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all—the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; IT would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift. Evelyn Clarke ’26

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SOMANHIS EVENTS EVERETT ALLEN “RED” “He had a face like a benediction.” Student Council ’25-’26; Track Team ’24-’26. ADA EVELYN AN RSON “How doth the busy littke bee improve eaeh shining hour.” 2 Art Committee-Graduation; Debating Club 25- 26; Glee Club ’25-26; History Committee-Grad- uation; Honor Roll-11. ALVA E. ANDERSON “AL” “ANDY” “In every deed of mischief she has a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.” Art Committee-Graduation; Debating Club ’25-26; Honor Roll-7; Leader’s Class; Prophecy Committee; Sock and Buskin ’24-’26; Cast of “Green Stockings”; Student Council ’22-’23, ’25-’26. HELEN ANDERSON “The blush is beautiful but it is sometimes incon- venient.” Class Secretary °25-'26; Washington Trip Committee. Glee Club ’23-’26; JOHN ANDERSON “ABOTSO” “What think you, sirs, of killing time?” Glee Club ’22-25; Music Committee, Class Day. ALBERT SHERWOOD ANDERSON “PETE” “SOUSE” “Oh what a rogue and pleasant slave of fashion am 1” Athletic Editor Somanhis Events ’25-’26; Chairman Senior Social; Glee Club ’22-’26; President Boys’ Glee Club ’25-26; Hi-Y; Junior Response Ivy Oration; Honor Roll-9; Music Committee, Class Day; Manager of Football ’25- 26; President Junior Class; Prom Committee; Rifle Club ’25-’26; Student Council ’24-25; Vice- President Student Council ’24-25; Washington Trip Committee. WALTER ALFRED ANDERSON “SCOTTY” “Hold the fort! I am coming!” Glee Club ’22-’25; Rifle Club ’24-’25. ARTHUR SAMUEL BARRABEE “ARCHIE” “KIKE” “If thou dost play with him at any game thou art sure to lose.” Debating Club-’25-’26; Honor Roll-5; Rifle Club 24-26; Will Committee, Class Day.