Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - Mohawk Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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22 THE AXIS Corner reviewing a parade of Masons. Before we reached the Empire, however, we met Sade Murphy who was home for the occasion. She is now on the stage, dancing, but is to retire next January. She told us that Ruth Graham only taught a year after graduating, for after that big fire in North Adams of 1923, she found that she would make an excellent nurse for any brave hearted fireman. You see, that many of the girls have branched ofl' into oc- cupations other than teaching but they are all successful thanks to the good training of their Alma Mater. I have told you all I could about my work and that of the girls near here. Do tell me what you've been doing these years. Clara is right, said Jule, here you've found out all about us but haven't told us a thing about yourself. Oh, I answered easily, there isn't much to tell but, if you'll remember, Marjorie Sauter always had a goodly list of adjectives and occupations to apply to me. Per- haps she can tell you what I've been doing. Loretta Tobin '22 llilropbecp on the llorophet NEW YORK with all its bustle and noise! How this reminded me of the trip our Senior Class at Normal had taken to Boston. I wondered vaguely whether I should get lost in New York as Lorrie Tobin had in Boston. Then my thoughts wandered on and I tried to think where she was now. I had not seen her for ten years, but it did seem as if her name had been in the papers recently. Chancing to glance at a rose in a shop window as I was walking along Fifth Avenue, I decided that it was just what I needed for my new dress so I promptly entered the store. Such an exquisite little shop I had never before visited. As I gazed around in rapture, I wondered who could have been the wonderful designer. Just at that moment I thought I recognized a familiar face. It couldn't be-but it was none other than Lorrie Tobin. Upon being told that she was the proprietor of the shop and also the designer of the decorations I couldn't help feeling that after all Lorrie had made good use of the talent which she had manifested at Normal School although I always knew Lorrie would be successful some day. Marjorie S. Sauter 4.112155 will I, Sadie Murphy, in the name of the class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-two of the North Adams Nor- mal School, located in this, the city of North Adams, the county of Berkshire and the state of Massachusetts, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, but calling to mind the uncertainty of life and the surety of death, and being desirous to dispose of our entire earthly estate, while I have strength and capacity, do make, publish and declare this our last will and testament. CPlease do not be cruel enough to suggest we are leaving them because we cannot take them with us.i We do give and bequeath as follows: To Mr. Smith, our sincere thanks and appreciation for his unfailing kindness to us. Also peaceful nights and rest from the petitions of '22. These were many but brilliant, showing the resourccfulness of our minds. To Mrs. Couch, our undying love and affection for all she has given us. We hope she may stay with our girls for a long time to come. To Miss Baright, a new class just like '22. Our aptitude in placing our tongues at the correct angle in articulating is unusual and has been a keen pleasure to our instruc- tor. To Miss Pearson, a group which will appreciate the aesthetic -also the view from the windows. We dare not state which we studied most. To Miss Skeele, a copy of a perfect plan to be used by future seniors. May they acquire the use of all the gym wands and rackets, balls and nets. To Miss Searle, some new copies of music, for Glee Club. We wish the new members would handle them carefully, otherwise they may fall apart. To Miss Lamphier, a new book of deficiency slips and a large camphor bag in which to store carefully her cape when she is thru wearing it. To Miss Sholes, many students of Household Arts in com- ing classes, also great joy in viewing the next array of buttonholes and pastry. They will be good but not equal to ours. To Mr. Eldridge, the hope that the Juniors will enjoy his trips as we did. Also a knowledge that 12 o'clock means lunch to us and the end of class periods. To Mr. Cummings, our everlasting friendship. He did not always appreciate our singing, but we learned a lot from him. To the Training Teachers, the next Senior class to criticize and to teach the writing of lesson plans. To the Junior Class, all the traditions of our school. Cher- ish them carefully as a sacred trust. They will always be a safeguard for you. To Rita Agan, Lil Kent's voice, while Bess Barberleads the Glee Club. To Ruth Clarke, Mildred Boyle's many sweaters. Of course they are not all red but she will like them just the same. To Genevieve Coffey, some extra drawing lessons. She is fond of Art . To Madeline Tracey, Dot Reynolds' job as class president. She will need to work hard to lead as well as our chief has. To Leila Robinson, Dot Chapin's job in the workroom. This includes the books 'I Dot reads. To Jessie Scott and Marg Kennedy, Jul Salametry's Williamstown calls. To Anne Larkin, many shades of crimson in her work. We hope the class colors will suit her. To Jo Mooney and Geneva O'Brien, the view of the moon now enjoyed in the dorm, by f'Kate and Dot . To Helen 0'Neil and Florence Mack, Eileen Sheehan's quiet manners. We feel it will aid them especially in the gymnasium. To Edith and Kathleen McCann, Babe O'Connor's comb. They can use it to best advantage. Lil Douglas and Peg Dunfrey can have her unused yellow slips, to be used in case the car is late. To Olive Iles and Ruth Reynolds, Sadie Murphy's powder case. They have used it all year and will not feel strange with it. To Ruth Potter, Mary Knowles and Margaret Lawrie, the Senior table in the lunch room. Perhaps the ghosts of those gone will arouse an answering spirit in them. To Louise McDonough, Mr. Smith's long planned trip to Mars. We know she is interested in aviation. To Mabel Medbury and Helen McCarty, two assign- ments to Bishop. The walk will aid them.

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THE AXIS of my unusual introduction to you, I feel that I should like to tell you that it was with no small feeling of pride that I have watched Louise Palmer's career from a Mass- achusetts school teacher up to the White House as first woman President and from there to the presidency of this University. You who know President Palmer inti- mately, will, no doubt, agree with me that it was surely her persistanee, along with her argumentative powers, that made her a success. This evening, however, I come to you with startling scientific facts but, first, I wish to state briefly .... Enough, enough, cried Jule, when Dorothy Chapin begins to state scientific things briefly there is something wrong somewhere. Please disconnect that thing. So that is why the ship was named the 'Sarah Louise,' but I say, as long as you have a radio why not send our regrets to the Alumni Association, of dear old Normal. It is having its reunion tomorrow. Let's ask the girls to wire at once telling us what each is doing. So we talked of former meetings and good times 'till we drifted on to plans for the morrow. We summarized these plans before retiring. First, we would rise at six, breakfast, then run out to the Arthur Studios in Kalamazo where Lil Kent was still making an intensive study of the tints and shades of Red. At noon we'd send the message to our Alma Mater then we'd insist that Lil accompany us to Mrs. MacMasters' home. The latter has lately moved West to be nearer her factories, for she has a big business manufacturing a patent medicine which she called Grouch Cure. The next day was a rare gift of the gods, so the setting sun found us making ourselves at home on Mrs. MacMasters' veranda. We were chatting serenely when our hostess ordered us to get ready for we were to hear the Metropolitan Opera Company that evening. A little later as we sat in the theatre waiting for the curiain to ri-ae, we found that we were to hear Elizabeth Jane who had created such a sensation for the past three years. We had no time for comments for, as the curtain slowly rose, the prelude fairly danced from the instruments in that Introduction of Carmen then gradually softened as a strong contralto voice filled the house with the sweetest of notes. We raised our opera glasses with one accord and saw--Jane Kerr. Well, my land sakes alive! We surely are discovering our Classmates! They seem to be as numerous as the lilies in the field and as easy to find if we only look around for them. we did not stop to answer Mrs. MacMasters for our eyes were fixed on Elizabeth Jane. After the opera we had very little difficulty in adding our own Jane to our ranks and as we flew home in Mrs. Mac's plane she gave us one bit of news after another. She was still getting the Axis . It was now being edited by Dorothy Hurd '43. It is one of the leading school papers now for Miss Mildred Boyle insists that all her poems be first published in that paper. Jane added that in the Alumni Notes she had read that Babe O'Connor had at last found the right Williams Student so was travel- ling in Europe while Kate Morrissey had renounced the world to live in a cloister. This last bit of news created quite a sensation for we all agreed that it was the very last thing in the world we should have expected from her. Soon our talk drifted to the East. Lil remembered that the last time she was in Boston exhibiting her choicest Red. she wandered down to the Italian section. Imagine her surprise when she heard that Anne Curtin was the foremost settlement worker in that district! One of the greatest im- provements she had made was to run a mono-railed elevated twhich by the way, was invented by Grace Boydenl from the Italian district into Arlington. Of course Lil did not see Anne for that little person was busy proving to the Bostonians that she was the elevated's best customer. No sooner had we arrived home than we heard the radio signal. We rushed to the instrument adjusted it and in no time we heard- North Adams Normal-Mrs. Doty speaking: Your message came too late for the Alumni meeting because of the difference between Eastern and Western tinie 'f how stupid of us not to have remembered that!,e so I am sending you what information I can. We celebrated the forty-fifth anniversary fittingly at the reunion. Miss Barrows, Miss Carpenter and myself didn't have far to come this time as we are still teaching in Mark Ilopkins. W4-'ve been there eightten years now. Alexina Caisse was telliig Mrs. Hurd and myself of her ambitions. She has tritd various things since she left Normal School but at present is clerk of the Connecticut Senate. She likes her new posi- tion for she meets so many 'intelligent married mcn.' Marjorie Sauter was also back She has just published a book 'Uses of Sauerkroutf She is backed in her work by her husband, Doctor Wilhelm Van Iiornig. Well, I wired the girls who were on their way ti New York so they will probably get in touch with you. They will tell you what I cannot. So with a few personal remarks, M rs. Doty's message ended. How does that report satisfy you? I asked as I laid down the receiver. Everyone commented on the amazing facts we had heard, but all agreed that the message was typically Mrs. Doty's for it was colrpleted to the point Speaking of teaching, broke in Jule who had been quiet for a surprisingly long while, thc last liufc I heard from Marion Bcnce she was teaching English and pen- manshipinoneoftheI'ittstieldIligh Schools Iwondor. Well, we never found out what Jule was wondering for just then a vigorous I say mum interrupted the remark. lt was Norah, :hc cook. Sontehow I'vo always had a weakness for cooks by that nan c Shc handed nic a half dozen papers while she explained. These come while ye was gone, mum. I picked up the first ami read aloud: Pittsfield, Mais. Eleanor Whalen at present on way back to Columbia University where she is studying advanced cooking and sewing as a preparation to important event. Wyona and I are returning to our positions in the designing depart- ment of Pratt's Institute. We are teaching only a short way from Gwendolyn Purcell who owns a Music studio here. She is quite popular with everyone for she has that innate ability to make things hum. Love to all thc girls, Eileen Sheehan. The next one was from Coventry Lake, Conn It was from Clara Thurber. It read TIN' Ill'l'I'y Iioys Svlllml, .Iuuc 130, ISN? Ilcar Classmates: I ani delighted to think I can give sonic information about the girls of N. A. N. S '22 Yivinn Ilerry. ns you have heard, is thc Principal and owner of this school for th.- educalion of boys from fourteen lu twenty-one years ul age. She has mc lu-re as matron and I do love tltvwork, It is most interesting When I was back for thc ru-union I started down to the I':llllbll'1' 'I'lu-ntrc with I'1-g Iln-nnan who in still doing ftlllllllllllllj' work in llradstn-ct and imagine my surprise In we Rlildn-d Montague on Riu-'s 21

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THE AXIS To Celestine Davine and Blanche Olstead, 'Salome' Sauter's giggles. To be in perfect condition they must giggle often. To Grace Bunnell Alex Caisse's ability to talk. Take our advice, do not use it on all occasions. To Gladys Wemple, Ruth Graham's auto rides and fun. She need not publish them from the housetops in order to be happy. To Alice Smith and Gladys Hall, Marion Bence's dignity and talent in sewing. They have proven themselves as models for all kinds of apparel. To Alice Sheerin, Mil Montague's position as everyone's friend. To Gert Mazanec, Louise Palmer's position as the class man, We trust she will use it well. To Bernice Edwards and Margaret Dadson, Kate Morris- sey's ability to make folks laugh, particularly in class recitations. To Elizabeth Hurley, Anne Curtin's ability to speak on several subjects at once. Of course no one will under- stand what you mean but do not worry, Anne usually explains later. To Peg Shea, Grace Boyden's dramatic ability. It is really nice to know how to call for an absent lover. To Gert Tyer, the entire reception hall and rooms for the entertainment of out-of-town men. To Gert Boyle, Nell Whalen's reputation as a hospitable hostess. To Marion Woodard, Lorrie Tobin's desire to tease when the victim wishes to study. To Kay Drennan, Jane Kerr's quickness of movement and speech. May she use them often! To Kate McMahon, Ruth Carpenter's seat in the rear of the study hall. Juniors always admire the back rows! To Carrie Finck, the automatic giggle stopper used this year by Viv Berry. It should be experimented with during study hour at the dorm. T0 Beth Cooke, Peg Brennan's pep. We feel she needs it. To Catherine McCarthy, Gwen Purcell's dancing shoes. We trust she will use them often. To Irene Messier and Ruth Nesbit, all solos and duets to be given in next year's Glee Club. The seniors usually sing them. Lastly: We nominate and appoint Mr. Cummings to he Executor of this our last will and testament, knowing that he will carry out our request nobly. In witness whereof, I have to this, our last will, subscribed my name and aflixed the class seal, this twenty-second day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. Sadie Murphy Signed and published by the said Sadie Murphy in our presence, who, in her presence, have, at her request hereto signed our names as witnesses. Anne Curtin Julia Salametry presentation of QUHSB Gift S we, the army of '22 stand on the edgc of lift-'s stir- ring battle-field, we pause to survey our Iwo tlt-I-ting years spent here and to gather happy rerninisct-mars of events that have taken place. llow clearly they come back to us! How we hesitate to lay llIl'll'l aside and lu undertake a more gigantic task that in calling to I-at-li and everyone of us! Yet, we must heed the call. Before we go we wish to pay a tribute to our school. to our efficient leader and his excellently selected ofiicers. who have never faltered in their untiring efforts to instill within us high ideals and that something we call tact, Now we must bid adieu to our Alma Mater. Words fail us on this occasion, therefore we take utmost pleasure and pride in presenting to the school, this picture. In selecting it, we hoped that it would express our sentiments as a class and that when you gazed upon it you would not forget the profound feeling under-lying it. Julia A. Stilumrfry CHESS 5ItlIi5IiC5 MARION Bl-ZNCE ...... VIVIAN BERRY. , . . GRACE BOYDEN . . . . . MILDRED Boi'LE. .. . , .. MARGARET BRENNAN. . . ....,.,... .,...,.,. B lost ladylike .. . .Most willing . . . . Best friend . . . Most dignified A , , . Most popular RUTH CARPENTER .... ALEXINA CAIssE ..,. DOROTHY CHAPIN. . . . ANNE CURTIN ...... RUTH GRAHAM .,.. VILLIAN KENT .... .IANE KERR.. .... ... . OLIVE LEWIS ,....... 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