Milford School - Typhoon Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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f GB 0 sf' 'bw it THE PRGM AY feminine laughter, a soft shui-lling of many feet, the riotous sounds of jazz music, punctuated by sounds of applause, turned Milford topsy-turvy on Friday, April 23rd. If the ghosts of good Parson Peter Prudden and his colonial followers, whose names are inscribed upon the Memorial Bridge as among the iirst settlers in Milford, had roused themselves from their graveyard haunts across the railroad tracks and had wandered toward the gulf to learn the cause of this unusual disturbance of their peace, their curiosity would have been fully satisfied and their Puritanical minds would have been frightfully shocked. Girls! At an institution of learning for young men? And a dance? Sad! Sad! Gathering their white shrouds about them, and shaking their silver locks in doubt, the worthy spectres of our forefathers would have stalked their melancholy way back to their more peaceful homes in the graveyard. But, however sad these worthies may have been, it is certain that in departing they carried the School's entire reserve supply of melancholy with them. In fact, this occasion, the First Annual Prom. of The Milford School, was particularly distinguished by the banishment by everyone of even the slight- est unpleasant thoughts or feelings. No one was even heard to mention that impending conflict, the June examinations, and even the rain could not dampen the spirits of the students or their guests. It is true that the weather on Friday was not all it might have been, greeting the arrival of the guests with showers and causing tl1e cancellation of a baseball game. But the committee, prepared for the emergency, arranged for a tea-dance in the dining room, which served very effectively as a start to the festivities. Excellent music was furnished by Wittstein's Orchestra of New Haven, and this occasion afforded an opportunity for that getting acquainted which made up so large a part of the success of the evening dance. , At dinner, which was served in the dining room, each guest found at her place a corsage bouquet of violets. At the conclusion of the meal a large fleet of taxis conveyed the company to the Milford 86 ' I