Merchantville High School - Record Yearbook (Merchantville, NJ)

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- NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE Hansel and Gretel Ia la I933 Class Night Committee MARJOIUE APPLEGATE, Chairman ELIZABETH D. ARMSTRONG, Adviser Mildred Ackerman Wynnefred Armstrong Richard Ballinger Kenneth Howard Elizabeth johnson Elinor Keeley Eleanor Leib Thomas Young CHAPTER I Well, said Hansel, we've 'finally escaped from that wicked old witch, so don't you worry any more. I'm not worrying, replied Gretel, but I do wish we could get out of this horrid forest. Look over there! What do you see? Ooh, Gretel, I see a beautiful palace garden. And there's a lovely queen sitting on a throne right in the middle of it with her handmaidens all around her. The Court Orchestra is playing for her. I do believe that 'tonight is Class Night, and she is Merchantville High School's Queen 1933. Let's stay right here and see what happens. Listen now, her Majesty and her ladiesfinfwaiting are discussing the Senior Class History. This ought to be interesting! Hush, Hansel, I want to hear every word they say, Look, the Queen has sent for the royal entertainers, and here they come to perform for her. I bet those gypsies who just entered the palace grounds are those subjects of Queen 1933 who have been out wandering over the world. I'm sure they're asking her if they may camp on her grounds for tonight. Evidently by their pleased looks the Queen and her wisemen have decided to grant them permission to stay. I feel hungry, stated matterfofffact Hansel. Shall we go over to them and ask if we may share their camp just for tonight? Yes, let's, assented Gretel. CHAPTER II Doesn't the forest look nice at night, Hansel, with the stars twinkling down through the trees and with the Gypsy campffires making the clearing almost as light as day? Yes, Gretel, but what I like best is to hear the Gypsies singing and playing around their fires. Look. Here comes the Queen now with some of her ladiesfinfwaiting. They are tipftoeing toward the camp. This will be a great surprise for the Gypsies! '29

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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

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MERCHANTVILLE H. S. RECORD Hush, cautioned Gretel, thc Quccn is going to speak. We felt sad tonight, Chief, so we thought that you might he able to entertain us and cheer us up. Your Majesty, we are greatly honored. Come, Gypsies, strike up the music and dance for your Queen. Did you hear that song, Gretel? That is the Senior's Class Song, the music of which was written by the Queen's chief musician, Catherine Booth. We have certainly enjoyed your entertainment, and, now we wish to know what each of our subjects will be doing ten years from now. Do not forget that you Gypsies are also my subjects. Your Majesty, I shall carry out your request immediately. As I reveal the future of your subjects, they will appear in that bright spot of light which I am now conjuringf' I also want to know what you and I will be doing ten years from now, added the Queen. Well, now we've heard everyone's prophecy, sighed Gretel, I wish we could only know if they will come true. The Queen looks very well pleased. Listen, she is inviting the Gypsies to be present in full court dress on her last court day which is tomorrow. CHAPTER III See, Gretel, I told you it would be beautiful. The palace grounds have been very extrafspecially decorated because Queen 1933 is holding court on them today for the last time. Here come the wisemen. What are they going to do, Hansel? On the last court day of every year a very special ceremony takes place. After the Queen's farewell address, the wisest of the wisemen reads the Class Will before the entire court. The highlight of this last day, however, is the presentation of a gift to each of her loyal subjects by her Majesty. She in turn is presented with a gift by her court. After this ceremony, the Queen and her courtiers will sing several songs. The singing of the Class Song and the Alma Mater marks the end of her reign. They've finished singing them, Hansel. Now what happens? Why, look! The Queen with her wisemen, subjects, and palace have all vanished in a puff of smoke! 30