North Shore Country Day School - Mirror Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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2HE CLASS WILL We the class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-seven, being sane in mind and sound in body, and about to be stricken from the register of this worthy institution, and desirous of establishing the permanency of our reputation and achievements for posterity, do hereby ordain and decree this our last will and testament. Collectively we make the following bequests; to wit: To the faculty: Item; our hedonism. To the Juniors: Item; -our worthy privileges, to be used with discretion. Item; our heirlooms in trust for future generations, such as signs, cuspidors, sandwich line, and freize. To the Sophomores: Item; our sense of responsibility. To the Freshmen: Item; our dignity and apparent conceit, if they should develop some cause for its use in future years. To Mr. Jones: Item; the boys ' curtains for the laboratory. Individually we make the following personal bequests; to wit: Knox, his mysogynism to Bill Sullivan. Larney, his voice to Herman Lackner. Tommy, his tremendous (?) organizing and executive ability, as manifested by the editorship of the Purple and White to Pardee. Alice, her joviality to Virginia Miller. Nancy, her size to Florence Watkins. Helen, her deep insight into the practical side of physics to Hughie. Jane, her mellifluence to Bob Gay. Heath, his verbosity to Dook Mandeville. Marianna, her conscientiousness to Billy Maxwell. Lois, her personality to Louis Kuppenheimer. Betty, her high geared laugh to Ames Smithers. Louise Fentress, her etherialism to Doris. Louise Conway, her reliability to Jane Martin. Kay, her athletic prowess to Gordon Adamson. Billy, his knowledge of parliamentary law to John Putnam. Elsie, her brilliance to Harry Smith (at the request of Mr. McEwen). Phil, his wave to Irene.

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Knox Booth Knoxy Yale Silence and solitude, the soul ' s best friends. North Shore 8 years. Department Head Toy Shop, ' 27; Football, ' 2S- ' 2 6; Exchange Editor, Purple and White, ' 27; Gondoliers, ' 25; Iolanthe, ' 26; Patience, ' 27; Study Hall Committee, ' 26- ' 27. Jane Sutherland Jane Pine Manor As calm as it was bright. North Shore 6 years. Pirates of Pen- zance, ' 26- ' 27; Gondoliers, ' 25; Iolan- the, ' 26; Patience. ' 27; Dramatic Club, ' 24- ' 2 5- ' 2 6- ' 2 7; Opera Club, ' 26-. ' 2 7; Hockey, ' 26; Department Head Toy Shop, ' 26; Study Hall Committee, ' 27. S O N N E T ( ?) We hope that when we graduate from this renowned institute Of fond and divers recollections friends will not be destitute; And so to help remember deeds historical and comical We lay the facts before your eyes in this ensuing chronicle. Page 15

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VINGT ANS APRES K. Booth went to Egypt at the end of school to beat the Sphinx at its own game. After twenty long years, the Sphinx burst into hysterics. Thomas U. Boal, because of his training in journalism at the North Shore Coun- try Day School, is publishing a newspaper with a circulation that runs into many zero ' s. Mr. Boal is not quite sure that any number precedes them. Philip Wyatt Moore, Jr., produces lighting and scenic effects for all the best theaters in Chicago and prints the programs himself. He says he does so enjoy his vocation. Larned W. Blatchford sings and talks away real estate for almost nothing. He is most popular. If people do not buy his houses, he knocks them out. If they do buy they get stuck. Oh how they get stucco. F. Heath Bowman has just completed his novel entitled Don ' t Shoot Mister. His delightful pen and ink sketches run all the way through the novel. Pierre Bouscaren — Alas, poor boy, he didn ' t know it was loaded! James Philip Young has at last printed a pamphlet Would You Marry a Woman Who Matched Pennies and it is full of the prolific writings. He has sold many copies of his work but forgot to get the money. He hopes that his gold mine will support the deficit. William K. McEwen went crazy after trying to keep the world from going to the dogs. He continually perches on the foot of his bed chirping merrily away. He thinks he is a dodo. He does so enjoy his little jokes. Miss Nan Wilder, a nurse, just saved several infants from getting cramps by giving them arsenic. She said it helped. Louise Fentress gave up interpretive dancing and is now a social service worker. Marianna Ruffner is an artistic advertiser of history books, all done by herself. She has made this pay by the policies — A fool born every minute and Every- thing is all right if you can get away with it. K. Leslie, the captain of the Pan-American Hockey Team, won the last game of the season. She was the only one standing at the end. Alice Thomas lends the humor to light opera; everybody just roars when she comes on the stage. J. Sutherland sings in French and sometimes in opera houses. Her diction is perfect, provided you don ' t know French. Elsie Watkins defeated her opponent by a score of 72 — 51. Although the score was close, everybody had a good time. Louise Conway became a cateress of note, making the neatest little cup-cakes into animal forms. Helen G. Bell gave up many secretarial jobs and is now starring in the master- piece Within the Spacious Firmament at Night written by the author of Don ' t Shoot Mister and other comedies. Lois Truesdale has been raising cats, and in return for her services to mankind she got a Maltese cross. B. Parker, the crystal gazer, amid raucous geehaws and geehaughs, told me most of the above. Page 17