Milford School - Typhoon Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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Town Hall for the Prom. This building is particularly Well adapted for use on such an occasion. The large central hall is flanked by roomy corridors in which comfortable settees and couches afforded tempting resting places to the momentarily weary. The interior of the building was tastefully decorated with evergreen boughs and with banners of leading preparatory schools and colleges. The arrange- ment of Navajo blankets and rugs in the corridors was especially pleasing. Of the dance itself little can be said. We may state that the music was by that champion of jazz- dom, Markel's Orchestra, and that intermissions were practically non-existant. With these facts as a basis we leave further description to the imagination or the recollection. One feature, however, must not be overlooked-the wonderful view of the waterfalls of the Wepowaug River to be gained from the porch which extended across the entire rear of the building. Certain it is that the members of the Prom. Committee whose earlier explorations had led them to select this place for their own use, when anxious for a little rest found the porch surprisingly popular and their own settees usually occupied. But the excellent music made dancing the principal interest of everyone and the spacious fioor was always filled. Half-past three and Home Sweet Home came all too soon and the ever present taxis conveyed a reluctant throng back to the school. Many of the more tireless ones proceeded at once to the Jigger Shop for further nourishment before retiring and the dawn was well advanced when the last good-nights were said. The exodus began on Saturday morning, many of the boys accompanying their guests on the return trip to New York and other points. By afternoon the school presented a deserted appearance, while here and there a small grou pof the revent revellers might be found describing the events and adventures of the day before to an unfortunate stag or two who at last might dare to emerge from their hiding places. ' And so the Prom. passed into history. A precedent has been established and we can only hope that future occasions of this sort may be equally well described as the 1920 Prom. by these words: Wonderful girls, wonderful music, and a wonderful time! 87

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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

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f' WIC 'SMOKGR W7 To show their appreciation of the wonderful work of the students, GIS a hitherto unheard of thing in the School, the Faculty on SMTW- o .? TFS gave a smoker. It was a wicked party. The School Jazz Band, having finished their afternoon engagement at one of the leading New York hotels, worked everyone to a high pitch of excitement by their irresistible syncopation, and the evening started in a shower of clam l .4 f 0 .gf 4 . .2 'H - 0, qi l . . ii' A shells. In the center of the gym a ring was built, and ten of the better known JF international puglists gave short exhibition bouts under the supervision of Charley Griiiin, the Australian Kangaroo. Although there was much heavy betting along the .' only fooling. rmgside no debts were collected, as the contestants afterwards admitted that they were In the interval followmg, Missouri Meerschaums and Miner's Delight were distributed qi W among those whose parents allow them to smoke. In the mysterious haze which resulted from the use of these implements, Sandiford, the Wizard, the seventh son of a seventh son, gave an exhibition of the powers of magic. His tricks were so numerous and so well executed that nobody real- ized at the moment how easy they were. Everyone was astounded and delighted by the remarkable harmonic symphony' produced by the Faculty Community Chorus. They sang a que er old folk ballad of Icelandic origin into which they introduced the names and escapades of some of the prominent members of the student body. Again and again they were encored, but finally quit on account of the coal shortage. The evening ended in a cloud of Miner's Delight and congratulations. It is well to note that all work for the next day was well prepared and only forty of the students received xis.