Oak Bluffs High School - Beacon Yearbook (Oak Bluffs, MA)

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THE BEACON 27 were i11 higl1 school, it would have taken five whole days to cross the ocean, and now it only takes a day! Amy-Don't forget We meet next year again! All-You bet! IMAGINE Eloise Webb, Personal Editor Crystell Luce, Assistant Editor Elizabeth VVebb-quitting the Gen- e1'al Science class. Gilbert Pachico-starting a song off on the correct pitch. Ruth Madeiras-having Kate Smith's build. Elinor McBride-making fudge that you can eat without a spoon. Herbert Combra-not sleeping in class. Gladys Heathman-not getting jump in basketball. Alice Southard-not walking home on rainy days. Alton Noyes-wearing the Nelson DeBet- tencourt's suit. Mary Golden-doing her Algebra alone. Ethel Stevenson-not Mary Golden. Nelson DeBettencourt--reaching the height of six feet. Ethel Edwards-being Howard Leonard-not male around on skates. VVinet'red Duart-volunteering to give a speech on Hymenoptera. Leon Souweine--not liking the Josephine Machado-not being a good little girl. sitting With boisterous. pulling a fe- girls. Genevieve Rogers-liking a teacher. YVillian1 Silvia-being serious. Fannie Tarvers-not worrying over her first aid man. Marjorie Bowman-not knowing her Biology lesson. Dorothy Rae-not drawing. Rose Terra-not riding to school. Clarence Herrmann-not making an attempt to imitate the Mills broth- ers. Guy Clements-giving up on an argu- ment to the other side. Helen Rose-liking Algebra. Marguerite Clements-not falling for every new boys she meets. Gertrude Studley - staying home nights. Wilf1'ed Lawrence-completing his shorthand home work on time. James Golden-not fooling with the girls. Margaret Gordon-not giving advice. Edna Stevenson-answering the teach- ers back. Ruth Purdy--being timid. George Hughes-not going with Stella. Eloise lVebb-not bellowing out loud in class. Amy Noyes-not giggling. Baron Denniston-not liking Chemis- try. Barbara Bowman-being an opera singer. Francis Madeiras-not talking about Basketball. Crystell Luce-Walking to school. Ida Gonsalves-being talkative. Alice LeVere-liking to be hit by snowballs. Leo Camara-being sorry when school closes. Kathleen Alley-wearing and a half shoe. Mr. Merrill-making nut cups for the St. Patrick's Tea. Miss McDermott-liking grade study period. Miss Alley-not giving course in English literature. a size three the seventh a detailed Mr. Downs-not teasing Barbara Bow- man. Mr. Dorr-with long fingernails.

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26 pp -H H In BEACON girls Won the Island Championship, and Eloise and Amy were on the regu- lar team. Leo-Wasn't Amy sort of sophisti- cated when Miss Arenovski presented her with the trophy at the Lions Club Dance? Amy-I was not! Francis-You weren't, either, when you hurt your knee practicing for track in your senior year and couldn't be in the track meet. Amy-Well, what difference did that make? The girls won the shield and Kathleen, a member of the team, was a Senior. But in our Junior year both Kathleen and I were on the team. George-The boys managed to take third place. Baron-Fine! Kathleen-Baron, why didn't you go out for the baseball team that year? You know, you did the year before. Baron-Well, I believe I needed to recuperate from the speaking contest and do a little hard thinking. Ida-By the way, Who was in the Speaking Contest that year? Eloise-As usual, Barbara and Bar- on. Baron won first prize. George- Time marched on. What else did we do in our Junior year? Oh yeh, I know: Who was in the Spanish Onionml Francis-I'm sure I Wouldn't want to be. Barbara-The joke's on you because you were. George and I were in the cast also. Amy-Don't forget the Prom we put on at the Country Club for the Seniors. George-Well, I guess that closes our Junior year at High School. Baron-Since Amy was our secre- tary in that year we ought to let her tell us what we accomplished. Amy-We had our first meeting in September and elected officers. George was elected president and Eloise vice- president. We also held a food sale in September. Then a bean supper and a food sale, in March we had a benefit basketball game and a St. Patrick's tea. Barbara-It was very obliging of Mrs. Hughes to let us use her house, wasn't it? George-As president I now pro- nounce a word of thanks to her con- tribution in making our tea a success. Amy-In May, we held the annual school play. It was Dying to Live. I don't remember the play cast. Eloise-My memory pictures the cast as: Barbara being Olivia Win-V lock, George being Samson Winlfmekg Leo, Chick Breeng Kathleen, Naomi Estelle, Crystell, Estelle Gay, Baron, Savoldi Yutaka, Amy, Mina Royston, and I was Melva Jones the maid of all work, who was never known a duty to shirk. That's that! Amy-In June, through the cour- tesy of Mr. Willis Hughes we held . food sale at the Beatrice House Bak- ery. Leo-And that's that for the social news! Baron-She's still as long winded as ever. Amy-What of it? Ida-Ctrying to change the subjeetl That year Baron and George won first and second prizes, respectively at the speaking contest. Ida-And Eloise won third prize for the girls and Barbara received honor- able mention. Francis--Don't forget that the boys won the Basketball Trophy. Eloise--Well, the girls won their Trophy, too, and the shield for track, don't forget, so that duplicates the boys' feat. Kathleen-Come on, letis get our bags. There's the Statue of Liberty. We 'll dock at New York soon. Baron-And just think if we had taken a trip like this before, when we

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28 THE BEACON CLASS PROPHECY Barbara Bowman Baron Denniston I was superintendent of nurses at the Frances Penney Memorial Hospi- tal in that great city of New York. I had been influential in founding this great institution. Une night I picked up the evening paper and to my great amusement I saw where some scien- tist-lop-minded I thought-had pre- dicted the end of the United Stat.: 1, through a great upheaval of the eartlt. Only one little island-Martha's Vine- yard-would not be affected. Well, I laughed, of course. Wasnlt some sci- entist predicting the end of the world every day? But suddenly my eyes saw something that startled me, for to whom should this prediction be cred- ited but my old classmate, Leo Ca- mara! Now, instead of laughing at the threatening fate of my country, I be- came concerned, for none of the prophecies of this noted scientist had ever failed to come to pass. For years down in tl1e very bowels of the earth. he had been conducting experiments Ile had built up a reputation for him- self, and l1is theories tilld predictions were facts! As I read this, thousands of others were doing the same. Manv of the readers scoffed and resume-1 their usual tasks, others, those who realized what Camara's name signed to an article meant, began to mal-ze preparations for the great catastrophe. Our President sprang into action. He realized that this prophecy was not an idle story. He named Martha 's Vineyard, which had been enlarged nearly double its original size by fill- ing in with ashes and sand the waters surrounding it, a hospital island, a refuge for those who were sure to be injured in the upheaval. Baron Den- niston, a noted surgeon, was placed in charge of this hospital base. Baron was another one of my old High School classmates. Much was done during the next twenty-three hours. The President had commissioned a flying corps to fly all wounded persons to the island hospi- tal. In charge of this flying corps was the noted flyer, George Hughes. llinally the hour came for the great upheaval. Suddenly a great roar was heard and the earth was lifted many feet into the air. Millions were killed and millions injured. Immediately the flying corps were flung into action. They carried victim after victim to the hospital, where Baron Denniston and I were in charge. The first victims brought in were the Congressmen and the Presidential family. NVashingtm had been harder struck than any other place. From that time on, there was a steady procession of injured people being flown to the hospital island. About ten o'clock the next morn- ing there was a lull. I went to the of- fice a11d ran over the list of pati.nts to see if there were any whom I kne-.. I saw several whom I recognized im- mediately. First, there was Georg.- IIughes. He had been injured when bringing in a victim. Then there was Francis Madeiras. He had fallen vic- tim immediately after pitching his champion baseball team to a twenty- five to nothing Victory over their ri- vals. Another name that I recognized was Ida Gonsalves, who had been deco- rating the home of the French Ambas- sador to Washington, when the earth upheaval had occurred. Another former classmate of mine, Eloise Webb, had been rather severely injured when she had used her body as a shield to protect the President, to whom she was private secretary, from certain death. Still another per- son I had known when I was ill High School was Amy Noyes. Amy had al-