Maynard High School - Screech Owl Yearbook (Maynard, MA)

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THE SCREECH OWL 25 THE WISE OLD OWL WOULD LIKE TO KNOW: Why Walker and Glickman like dramatics ? What the Post Office is for? Where “Zip” Hearon learned to sprint ? Why George Weaving likes West Concord ? If Ellsworth Dearborn and A. Young are going to be aviators or traveling salesmen? Who will get the extra dish of ice cream at the senior banquet? What college “Steamer” is going to, and if he is going to be a history teacher ? Who broke the photographer’s camera ? If Ralph Smith takes “Home Eco- nomics” or takes home girls? When Swartz will make another hole-in-one ? Who took the key to the type- writer ? When the Academic students are going looking for work? Why Mosher makes so much noise ? Why Mary Kane keeps so quiet ? Who asked the color of the purple mountains ? Who read “Romeo and Juliet?” Why Foster picked his right wrist to break, and why he picked the month of June to do it in? What happened to the tonic left over from the Junior Social? If Joe Sczerzen likes to write poetry ? Why Howard King is taking a P.G. Course ? 1. Which Junior boy read “Beau Geste?” 2. Who is in favor of final exams, and why? 3. Why the Freshman class color isn’t green? 4. What time the Seniors will get home from the Reception? 5. If Pie Brayden’s car is ever seen parked in the vicinity of Puffer’s Pond? 6. If Wooldridge and King have made any more chlorine gas? 7. How the Seniors were able to tell their own pictures? 8. If amateur athletes should be allowed to play summer baseball for pay? 9. Whose party Walker attended during the week of the Prom vaca- tion? 10. Where Burt Gruber got the reputation of being a fierce batter, and how? 11. Where “Joe” Sczerzen and “Red” Lanigan” got their white pants ? 12. Why Walker didn’t enter the 6 % mile run ? He said he did Hudson and back one day. 13. Where all the Junior girls go Sunday night in whose green car? 14. Why “Ty” Brayden stays near home Sunday night? 15. When “Pie” Brayden is going to get a new car?

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THE WISE OLD OWL OBSERVES THAT: The M. H. S. girls are wearing sus- penders. Hence the appearance of father’s Christmas presents of a few years back. The Biology students are all ex- cited over finding specimens of the pine tree blossom. Perhaps that ac- counts for their being “stuck up” lately. The appearance of our new school mate, Gilbert Garland, has caused quite a furor among the girls. They have originated a new guessing game as to which suit Gilbert will wear next. “Pie” Brayden has been taking up golf lately. I wonder if this advertise- ment in the Acton paper had any- thing to do with him. “Five dollars reward for informa- tion as to the cause of so many broken windows at Fletcher Corner.” Easy way to make five dollars. Ss-h-h Pie!! The Decorations of the Junior Class were quite original, — but the Old Owl would like to know what Junior posed for the silhouettes. “Scotty” and “Marje” Murphy were typical farmerettes at the Com- petition. Who was having a sale on overalls as we all want some now. Enlighten us, Scotty! The Senior Class has quite a menagerie, with roosters and rats and what not. The Old Owl offers a suitable reward for the first person who can make that rooster cackle. Perhaps he had stage fright ! Normie Walker had quite an outfit in the Junior Play, but Normie, “where did ya get the hat, where, oh where, oh where” Sirkka seems quite lonesome 6th study period. I wonder where “Si” is? “Katie” Bariteau was out with somebody special on the holiday. Per- haps that accounts for her high spirits Friday morning. We can’t imagine: — Walker without a girl. “Pie” without Tyyne. Melville Mosher on time. “Al” Connors without his wave. Miss Thompson forgetting to make an assignment. Mary Kane not talking. John Hearon a baseball star. Joe Sczerzen without his suspenders. Gilbert wearing the same suit. Miss Thompson advocating the Bos- ton American. Senior Class reading the “Mentor” or the “Forum.” The Dancing School pupils without their partners. A school without exams. Jane Boicourt getting an F.

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Irate parent (6.00 A. M.) : What do you mean by bringing my daughter home at this hour? Youth: Well, I gotta be at work at 7. “You naughty child. Do you know where little boys go who don’t put their money in the collection plate?” “Yes Mam. To the movies.” Class photographer: Your son ordered these photographs from me. Senior’s father: They certainly are very much like him. Has he paid for them yet? Class photographer: No, Sir. Senior’s father: That is still more like him. Mary: What is your object in kiss- ing so much? Chuck T.: You. Shop girl : “So you are shopping for an adding machine?” M. H. S. pupil’s mother: “Yes, poor Junior has been having so much trouble with his arithmetic lessons.” The paths of glory lead but to a cigarette test. Sandy: Aye, Jack, I read a fine story in a magazine th’ ither day about — Jack: So ye’ve been visiting the dentist too, hae ye, Sandy. Remember when this used to be a dirty crack? “With a voice like yours, you ought to be in the movies.” Horse : Did you see this item about a hen adopting a litter of pigs ? Bertie: Well, there’s nothing un- natural in the association of ham and eggs. “Still engaged to that telephone girl?” “No, it’s a case of ring off.” She: (cryly) If you had to marry before the clock struck midnight, what would you do? He: Stop the clock. Julia: But, Red, you swore that you’d never look at her again. “Red”: And I didn’t. I met her when it was pitch dark.