Newtown High School - Bugle Yearbook (Newtown, CT)

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tithe Bugle 7 CLASS HISTORY N SEPTEMBER 7, 1929, thirty-three wide-eyed, growing boys and girls were ushered into a new world. Smiles of joy were on their faces for now they were to be known as 'fFreshmen -no longer eighth graders. VVith shoulders erect, they bravely faced their harder tasks and even became ambitious, so ambitious that they called a class meeting early in September and elected the following officers: Edward Southwick, president, Mary V. Soltis, vice president, Clarence Naramore, treasurer, VVilliam Terrill, secretary. After a time, discussion arose in the group about a timely subject. The topic was money. How could we obtain some? Some one brightly suggested a cake and candy sale and the idea was applauded and approved. Notices were posted with amateur drawings, and in March we held the gala event, the iirst of its kind in our lives as Freshmen. After all the bluster and Hurry we had some money in the treasury, in fact, a great deal for a class of our age. From then on we ambitiously labored until June when we walked slowly out of school and called it a day. In September 1931 we were even happier, for we were entering Room Seven. We were thirty Sophomores and knew what was what. Our class looked down with the utmost scorn upon our inferiors, the Freshmen, but gazed with open-eyed awe at the always superior juniors. Could we ever at- tain their place? Soon the need was felt for class officers. After deliberation we selected Mary Soltis as president, Clarence Naramore, vice president, Louise 'Maye, treasurer, and VVilliam Terrill, secretary. Our group always ably supported the Honor Roll and baseball squadron. Again we secured the privilege of giving a candy sale. Although the looks cast at us by the Juniors were poisonous, the candy wasn't, and, freed from worry, our treas- ury again netted a neat little sum. In June we briskly walked out of school and many of us wondered whether we should go back or not. How quickly the summer passed! Here it was September! That cheery harbinger of school! Most of us, either coaxed by our parents or having nothing else to do, strolled into Room Eight, seemingly without a care in the world. However we were bothered for weren't we in the same room as the haughty Seniors? VVith great satisfaction we called a class meeting. This gave us the delightful task of telling the Seniors to kindly leave for the time of the meeting. The officers, chosen very slowly, as befitted our respon- sibility, were Walter Holcomb, president, Vincent Cummings, vice presi- dent, Louise Maye, treasurer, Everett Keating, secretary. On May thir- teenth we gloriously presented our class play, The Arrival of Kitty, under the direction of Mr. Hillis Idleman, teacher of English, which scored as great a hit as that of the honorable Seniors. May the twenty-seventh brought

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6 i i Aiwiwv CCLQ -WYCCEBB 'llgllgli SENIOR CIASS The Senior Class of IQEQE hegan its work early hy electing its otlicers the first Week of school. They were as follows: Vincent Cummings, Presi- dent, Laura Knapp, Vice President, Beulah Strashurger, Secretary, and Arthur Vining, Treasurer. Now, as graduation is slowly drawing near and we recall the past four years of our High School career, We regret that it is to end so soon. YVC sincerely hope that the coming Senior Class will appreciate the honor of being Seniors when we leave our places to them next year.

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8 the 'Bugle a gala event --the Junior and Senior Prom. This was picturesque with its grand slams and dancing and with the group of elite that it brought out. The remaining part of the year we burned the midnight oil extensively, and many suffered from sore eyes, for examinations were approaching. On the last day of school we joyfully exclaimed, Only one more year! Now in our last year, we have assumed a haughty and knowing air. Now we are the ones looked up to. Everything we do is done with ease and leisure. Late in September we calmly elected Vincent Cummings, president, Laura Knapp, vice president, Beulah Strasburger, secretary, and Arthur Vining, treasurer. 'With proud gazes we pass from room to room, intent only upon our books tg E il. Maiiy of us look dreamy and starry-eyed, but thatls natural. But forgive us, for we are all thinking of the day when we shall leave dear old Alma Mater.-iNIfz1'y Soltis, '33. , 0w -