Merchantville High School - Record Yearbook (Merchantville, NJ)

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NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE When '33 Was Very Young NCE upon a time, on a n-ice sunshiny day in September, sixtyftwo mothers polished sixtyftwo little faces and sent their owners off to a great, big building called MERCHANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. Here the sixtyrtwo little girls and boys were put into a class room and given a name. Their name was THE CLASS OF '33. This room was next door to a place called the HLABH, where other little boys and girls mixed up things called chemicals which did not have a nice smell. One of their dear teachers, MR. BISHOP, thought it would be fun for the CLASS OF '33 to write 1,000 word compositions. All the teachers considered the one on BOYS very interesting. When finally June came, all the little boys and girls, thankful that their FRESHMAN YEAR was over, went on their summer vacations. When the SOPHOMORE YEAR began, the CLASS OF '33 was much bigger than it had been before, because a lot more little girls and boys joined it from PENNSAUKEN JUNIOR HIGH. There was a great deal of hustle and bustle at first, but at last every' thing was straightened Out. Some of the little boys and girls had a glorious time because they had FOUR different English teachers before it was all settled. They learned a lot of ENGLISH! Before the end of the SOPHOMORB YEAR, the GLEE CLUB gave an operetta called NTHE BELLE OF BAGDADI' Anne Casper was the BELLE, And then the CLASS OF '33 started to grow up. The little boys and girls were now JUNIORS. The boys began by winning the INTERfCI.Ass BASKETBALL CHAM' PIONSHIP. At the JUNIOR SUPPER the little boys and girls tried to find out who could break the most dishes. Richard Ballinger and Hobart Hankins, with a few teachers in close competition, broke the record. The class made 886.65 profit on this SUPPER. The next thing it did was to have a MOVIE BENEFIT. Everyone enjoyed joe Carson and Dick Haage's announcements of it. This benefit brought the CLASS 582.30 profit. During BOYS' WEEK, Martynette Firth and Marjorie Applegate were COUNCILMEN and had a free ride on a FIREfENGINE. Sad to say, MR. BISHOP, that same dear teacher, was arrested for shoplifting and sentenced to LKSIX MONTHS IN JAIL. The FRENCH CLASS read an interesting play called LE VOYAGE DE M. PERRICI-iON.H While they were dramatizing it, a little boy called JOE CARSON, kissed a little girl called CATHERINE BOOTH. FRENCH also had a queer effect on Elizabeth Johnson, for she walked into class with a paper crown on and called herself HTHB QUEEN OF THE NUTS. In the NLIPSTICK FROLICH the boys very kindly let the time run Over so that they might win a bet. Then came the SENIOR YEAR, and the sixtyfseven little girls and boys who were SENIORS felt quite grown'up. At first they were unhappy because their little friends were in different HOMEfROOMS, but they soon began to have a good time. Thomas Clydesdale tried to join the SR. TRIfHI Qby mistake?j Bob Johnson came from Conf necticut and thought Evaline Smyth an interesting little girl. Also, he paraded through the halls in his NIGHT'SHIRT during practice for UPEG O' MY HEART. This play 27

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jp! MTW' :rV ' I f J MJ' -jf 7' X ,tr MERCHANTVILLE H. S. RECORD ' HOWARD THOMAS Happy' Entered from Hinchman School, '29 Peg 0' My Heart Com., 4, Boys' Games Gate keeper, 4. What a naughty boy was that, To try to drown poor pussy cat! Little Happy's just the same, We all know where he got his name. FRANK TUCKER Entered Merchantville Schools, '22 Entered from Pennsaulqen jr. High, '30 Class Night Com., 4g Class VicefPresident, 4g Class Sec retary, 3g Orchestra, 2, 3, 4g Student Council President, 4 Football Squad, 2, Varsity, 3g Captain, 4, Basketball Squad 2, Varsity, 3, C0'Captain, 4g Baseball Squad, 1, 2, Var sity, 3, 4. Torn, Tom the piper's son, N Played the pipe when he was young. In spite of 'making that awful noise, He's our favorite of all the boys. Ex '33 JAMES REYNOLDS, Transferred in june, 1932. EMMA HYER, Left in October, 1932. RUTH NICHOLS, Left in November, 1952. GEORGE WARREN, Transferred in November, 1932. ELVINA EBELING, Left in February, 1933. I 26 Class Treasurer, 2, Student Council, 2g Peg o' My Heart Com., 45 Boys' Week Official, 35 Monitor, 4. There was a boy of our town, And he was wondrous wise, When it came to doing lessons, He ran off with every prize, THOMAS YOUNG Pasquclla'

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MERCHANTVILLE H. S. RECORD filled the auditorium for two nights, and the proht from it was nearly 35350. The class also sold 325 boxes of Christmas cards to raise money for its WASHINGTON TRIP. One day Bob Deacon and Bob Hopkins began to CLEAN UP the cafeteria, but in some way got into a MOP FIGHT. Bob Deacon, assisted by Donald Sleeth fa very cute little hoyj, also helped a pretty little girl, Eleanor Leib, fall from her chair and then pulled it on top of her. The whole school was startled by VIRGINIA BURTIS, fingernails. The little girls and boys thought that it was now high time to look back and see what useful things they had done while at MERCHANTVILLE HIGH. They found that Martynette Firth had won the P. T. A. scholarship awards for the freshman and sophomore years, Frank Tucker, for the freshman and junior years, Evaline Smyth, for the junior year, and Jim Reynolds fthe whole class was sorry he leftj, for the sophof more year. The class artists, Edith Heritage and Irma McAfoos, were given honorable mention in Aunt Charlotte's Poster Contest. Edith Heritage also received honorable mention and the first prize in two Book Week Contests. Ruth Matthews was given honorable mention in the Book Week Essay Contest in the freshman year. In the standard composition tests which the school took, Ruth Matthews was highest in the junior year, and Evaline Smyth in the senior year. Olga Bermes received honorable mention in the George Washington Essay Contest. The most outstanding musician of the CLASS, Catherine Booth, was a member of the New Jersey State Orchestra in her sophomore year, and earned membership in the Philadelphia Women's Symphony Orchestra in her junior year. Wynnefred Armstrong and Daisy Jensen were the two most outstanding girl athletes. Both of them won four letters in hockey and three in basketball. Elizabeth johnson, Betty Deacon, and Marjorie Applegate, were on the hockey team for three years. Hobart Hankins, besides being a threefletter man in basketball, was also on the allfstar TrifCounty League first team. Tom Young won two letters in basketball and three in football and baseball. That made him a threefletter, threefsport man. Twenty boys and thirteen girls of the CLASS were on teams at some time or other during their last three years. The CLASS also made a very fine scholastic record, for sixteen of the sixtyfseven little girls and boys earned an HONOR ROLL average for their entire HIGH SCHOOL career. Ten of them attained an average of from eightyffive to eighty'nine point nine, nine, nine, and six of them had averages above ninety. The honor students were: Dorothy Myers, Valedictorian, with an average of 91.5, Evaline Smyth, Salutatorian, with an average of 91.45, Elizabeth Johnson, winner of third honors, with an average of 91.41, and Frank Tucker, highest boy, with an average of 90.93. All the little girls and boys agreed that the CLASS OF '33 had worked hard and well. Therefore, when June came, their teachers decided that the sixty'seven little boys and girls ought to be rewarded. So they held a meeting and said, Let's give them a nice surprise. Let's give each one of them a nice, new DIPLOMA.l' When every last little boy and girl had received a diploma, the CLASS OF '33 bade farewell to the SCHOOL and set off joyfully into the great big world where each little girl and boy lived happily ever after. Q 28