Mount Ida School - Ye Idler Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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e1sqE al D LEQ 43 ATHLETICS NOW let us turn our attention to that ever-popular battleground- Athletics. The year began with the choosing of teams: Sara Moss Phillips was elected leader of the W'h1'te Team, Elizabeth Hurd of the Green. As soon as they knew their teams, the sprightlier girls Hed eagerly to the hockey Held. An excited umpire yells tif one may be permitted the word- it is most expressivelj Ground-stick! Ground-stick. ' Sticks flash, and eyes flash, and bare, banged legs flash. Then breathless girls Hing themselves into their rooms and gently explore their various ecchymoses fl-l'mlj and staunch the swift-flowing blood with mystic mercurochrome symbols. But regularly, battle-scarred though they be, they appear on the Held at each performance. Those hardy souls were: Dorothy App Nancy Jane Cassaday Georganna Clement Leslie Friend Shirley Mahl Kathryn Parshall Sara Moss Phillips Margaret Pick Jean Reiner Rosalind Raulston Alice Tippett Aurelie Tremaine Lea Wilkins Gretchen Zimmerman While this was going on, other hardy souls coaxed little white pellets from one end of a grassy slope to another-they were playing golf. The kind instructor, Mr. Blank, disturbed the soft breezes with naughty words- those girls always looked up just as the club was on the downward swing, they always swayed their hips like professional hula-dancers, their wrists were so weak! But those girls continued to chase the elusive ball in a state of blissful unconcern. On turning to the basketball We find that it has been sadly idle-has indeed, grown thin and saggy from misuse. 1Oh, well! Blame it on the roseslj U31

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2lDLER ppg, , .5 S So we pass on to the swimming-pool and find in its cool green depths, the strong-stroked, proud-chested Senior and Junior Life Savers, the boastful splashing Hin-betweens ' and, always, the various lesser fish who were just beginning to flip their fins. The Swimming Meet was the outstanding water attraction of the year and all enjoyed it in spite of splashed stockings and dresses. The events and their winners are as follows: sidestroke Qfor formj-Leslie Friend, first place, Virginia Worthen, second: underwater race-Eleanor Lydeckerg breast stroke-Betty Lewis and Theodora Leonard, first place, Edith Angevine and Virginia Worthen, second: relay race Cone length of poolj-Edith Angevine, Hazel Harris, Elizabeth Hurd, Kathryn Parshallg surface-dive--Leslie Friend, first place, Virginia Bickford, secondg relay race Ctwo lengths of poolj-Elizabeth Hurd, Margaret Huyck, Theo- dora Leonard, Kathryn Parshall: candle race-Aurelie Tremainel obstacle race-Betty Lewis, Florence Lucas and Marjorie Wills. With winter came winter sports-the toboggan slide was put up in back of Jewett Hall and was, at times, quite usable: skiis, likewise became quite popular: and long treks to the distant skating rink, with short intervals of skating in between, were undertaken by those fortunate ones who possessed skates and the price of a hot dog. Much credit is due Miss Early for the excellent training which she gave our enthusiastic equestriansg with persuading and leading they ventured forth upon the road-the fearsome road-and once some even went as far as the Charles River Country Club where they met Miss Allen with a group of hikers, and all had tea. Towards the end of the year the girls, and like- wise the horses, showed their skill and versatility in our proud exhibition- the Horse Show. A class in tap-dancing was begun this year and the girls took to it like ducks to water. Then, to develop the butterfly instinct in young woman- hood, Miss Allen established an interpretive dancing classg on certain Thurs- day afternoons one might see coy danseuses in close-fitting pink and green and blue fleshings, Hitting hither and yon, chasing bubbles, or being chased by waves, or rocking dolly byelowl Tennis and archery received but little attention and no Helen Willses or Robin Hoodses were produced: however, both sports survived, though they gasped for breath in doing so. Must I mention gym--violent jerks -as the English call them-with Miss Allen torturing our bones to the utmost, and stretching our muscles l79l