New Haven High School - Elm Tree Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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lied sky ves, ork ing, ore alls -uld hen rith ard, one lee, 1nd and irts v of any NEW HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS BOOK. 9 championship honors, but our team played some good games under the leadership of Captain Rungee. Qur hockey team was handicapped very much by poor weather for skating, but in spite of all obstacles we turned out a good team. Our own class teams in football, basketball and baseball did not prove successful in IQO6 on account of the lack of class spirit. While the boys were working hard with their athletics, the girls were busy with their custo-mary teas: the Alpha Alpha, B. T.-, and Kappa Mu Sigma. In the meanwhile the School Circle had been working industriously and under their auspices the Freshman Class gave a successful entertainment in the Auditorium before the Christmas vacation. Now for the time being we poor members of the class of 1908 were forgotten, for all that was heard was the Junior Fair, and our girls whispering under their breath that they would outrival them next year. Then the Senior Class IQO6 surprised the school with the clever presentation of Dickens' Cricket of the Hearth, on January 19, at the Foy Auditorium, and with such stars as Tfaul Shipley, Tom Means, Holloway Kilborn, Billy McAfee and Marcella Quinn the play could not be any- thing but a success. The Radiator then gave their annual en- tertainment and dance. Likewise the Crescent. The Radiator presented My Friend X, and the Crescent Too Much of a Good Thing? Then the Theta Sigma gave their successful minstrel show. 'A Spring brought with it the baseball fever. Captain Hen Torgerson proved his ability as an able leader by bringing forth a championship team and winning the Trinity cup. On the championship team of 1906, IQO8 had three men, Art 0'Con- nell, Squire Blakeslee and HI-Ten Falsey as general utility man. Spring now loomed up, bringing with it the ebb of the tide, and New Haven High School cast forth upon the Hoods her protegesg some to leave never to return, while others to come back with the rising tide in September. Sophomore year was thus ended and with it went our irretrievable joys and sorrows. But we were all oin one more step toward our goal of learn- . g 3 ' , . . ing, and contentment was king for the time being. Amos Townsend Pafgter.

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NEW HAVEN HIGH. ScHooL CLASS Booiqf II the girls were working like busyubees in preparation for 11116 annual Junior- Fair, and on December 8 everyone wasiinvited to 'af.Motlie-r,Goose Reunion iii thei Libraryf The affair was 'a great success and the proceeds Qiiaoj vyerei handed Over to .the Gymnasium fund. NVe consideiiit to be the best junior Fair ever given, butprobably each .class thinks. the samexof theirs, so we will not saytoo much in our Own'pi9aiSef if A t A T if i VVe-.- must not overlook the regular teas which were given by the girls' societies, to which only girls were invited, the boys being barred' out of these delightfulaffairs. ' As Juniors we were all looking forward to the greatest event in our ,third year, that was the temporary class elections of our class. There was great enthusiasmamong the class when it assembled for its first classrneeting, and it is needless to say how proud we were of our honored president and the other officers. It was a memorable day for us when we first wore our 'class spins with Ioo8 on them. D . We have been taking long strides but we must not forget the large dances and entertainments of the year. The Theta Sigma dance was the first one given at Music Hall. There was a little farce and musical entertainment followed by a dance. At the close of the school term at Christmas, several mem- bers of the school under the direction of the School Circle gave a farceentitled go Minutes for Refreshments. The members ,of the Octette and those of the Boys' 'Glee Club rendered sev- eral selections, and were much applauded by the school. February I5 found a large crowd of people at Music Hall again. It was the regular Radiator Entertainment and Dance, which was one of the largest dances of the season, and was votedibyall who attended to be a great SUCCCSS- The last big dance of the year excepting the Se11iO1' Class Dance, to which only a favored few were invited, was the Crescent Entertainment and Dance held at Music Hall, April 27. The Apollo Glee and Mandolin Club rendered a delightful programme and this was followed by a farce entitled 'fChums. Later a programme of sixteen dances was enjoyed by all. The term was nearing its close and that which inter6fS'CffCl U5