Northrop Collegiate School - Tatler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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THE 1935 TATLER LIFE AMONG THE LOWBROWS THE class of 193 5 neared extinction almost before its origin when Sally Ross, who held the fort alone in the Neolithic age of Kindergarten days, disappeared entirely for a year. However, in the first grade the class grew in population from the invasion of a tribe of young terrors, namely Betty Williams Mary Lou, Harriet, Charlotte, Dicky, and Lizzie. In the second grade we snared a prisoner, generally supposed to have come from some wild, whooping, tom-tom beating barbarian race. Throughout all the years of the class’ prominence in civilization Rhoda has symbolized seven or eight of the more noisy tribes, now in oblivion. Around this time or possibly sometime A. D. (Age of Diapers) Lizzie invented a tribal call known as the giggle” which spread with rapid-increasing popularity through the Class” and still remains the national anthem. In the sixth year Shirley and Chan innocently and of their own free will joined the class, and in the middle of the same year—quite according to reported customs and ways—Tommy burst in. About this time a startling cultural revival took place which materialized in the form of interpretive dancing and drawing paper dolls. This, in the spring of the senior year reached a climax in the painting of wooden bowls. It was in the seventh grade that the delegation from Kenwood school arrived. With proper awe and more curiosity a class huddle” was formed (most easily explained by citing the British square as an example) and Toots, Spiffy, and Gicky received the oncc-over (less destructive than the British Volley”). They were finally accepted, in spite of their marked Kenwood habits; this was fortunate as it wouldn't have made any difference to them anyway. Cal joined the ranks from the little-known regions of Douglas. It is logical to assume that about this time Betty Williams invented the blouse pocket for caching gum and candy safe from the scav-enging neighbor tribe, the teechurs. Betty Vogtcl joined the Class” in the eighth form, during the age of horseback-riding. Also in the eighth grade Jinny introduced an artistic ability which lacked the usual accompanying temperament; this she manifested in the design for the class rings and pins. The first record of any ability to read or write —though not yet to spell—was discovered in a bi-weekly, The Scarlet Tanagcr,” published two or three times a year for the eighth year. Betty Smith, Leila, and Janet arrived just in time for the first Northrop dance. The ceremonial dress, which consisted of taffeta rutiles and shiny patent-leather Mary Jane’s, seems to have been—much to our horror—almost completely discarded by the succeeding classes. In the Sophomore year Humpy revived one of the littlc-indulgcd-in sports, Punning” and it is surprising that the whole class didn’t just degenerate right then. However, all was forgiven when she introduced scientific basketball playing. In the Senior year Chan after a brief respite of a year, and Harriet, who seemed to have escaped back in the end of the seventh grade returned quite hopefully to graduate. During this fall, knitting became the national vocation and many half-finished—a few completed—sweaters are to be found around. Now the Class of 193 5, relinquishing their old haunts of the senior room couch during study periods, the Tatlcr room during Chapel, and the art room after school, are about to migrate to the foreign climates of the Alumnae. Page 17

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THE 1935 T A T L E R Elizabeth Rittenhouse Williams Scene: Senior room any study period. (Betty peers in door, looking around cautiously.) Has anyone been looking for me? I’m supposed to be in the library, but I’m not supposed to study because of my eyes. Will it bother you if I just sit here?” (She settles herself on the couch. She’s hardly recognizable under her dark glasses and fuzzy Friday hair.) Does anyone have a car here? Oooo, squeak, squeak—” (tickling Jinny). Can’t nobody give wide home? (A shower of books submerges her, and no sign of her existence is apparent save for a last faint squeak.) Page 16

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THE 1935 TATLER STUDENTS OF NORTHROP SCHOOL, 1934-1935 Kindergarten David Bendell Skippy Carpenter Esther Crosby Florence Eggleston Russell Ives, Jr. Thbrza Jones Cynthia Knoblauch Ulrika Lemkl Margaret Louise Roberts Ruth Elizabeth Roberts Helen Tearse Joan Wurtele First Form Janet Fulton Charlotte Lyman Sally Wheeler Mary Wurtei.e Second Form Lucille Camp Patricia Coan Jean Dunn Betty Kennedy Patty Kennedy Ann McCahill Mary Nelson Martha Struthers Third Form Jeanne Carpenter Kendell Ankeny Dorothy Barnes Patsy Clifford Janet Hartwell Harriet Jaefray Gretchen Knoblauch Mary Martin Ann Wurtfii Katherine Neilson Betty Peterson Ruth Phelps Gail Stacy Barbara Swiri.es Lucia Tearse Fifth Form Patricia Aaberg Ginny Lou Dwinnei.l Mary Alice Eggleston Elizabeth Harper Katherine Henry Henrietta Hill Patty Hill Mary Kennedy Anne Leslie Elizabeth McMillan Joan Payne Sally Piper Betsey Stone Mary Sutherland Prudence Sutherland Katherine Vaughan Elizabeth Woodworm i Sixth Form Frances Atkinson Carol Lee Atwood Frances Barber Mary Clark Mary Davis Helen Harper Leslie Harrison Nancy Johnson Mary Moore Kitty Rand Ellen Rider Eva Rutherford Betty Ann Webster Seventh Form Fourth Form Olivia Coan Elizabeth Cooper Jessica Driscoll Dorothy Dunn Marilyn Eastman Mary Hill Madeline Jaffray Janet Miller Lois Bei.cher Barbara Bisseli Amy Camp Jane Dobson Joan Dobson Mary Jane Heffelfinger Martha Larkin Gloria Lee Anne Richards Nancy Wheeler