Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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THE PENNELL WHIRLPOOL 13 IVindontan, Windham, Maine. Your photographs add much to your paper. Why not increase vour exchange department? The Madisonian, Madison, N. H. A very neat paper. but rather serious. We wish you success. Come again. The Red and [Vhite, Sanford, Maine. Interesting literary section. Where’s your joke department ? The elcademy Bell, Fryeburg, Maine. . fine Alumni department and a good list of exchanges, but your paper is lacking in jokes. EXCHANGE JOKES. X = The Young Lady. = The Young Man. Z = Chaperone. XN + Y -+- Z= Misery. N+ Y—Z= Dliss.—Breecia, D. H.S. Just A Siip, Tommy (saying his prayers sleepily): “Now | lay me down to sleep: 1 pray the Lord my soul to keep.” Mother (prompting): “If—” Tommy (almost asleep): “If he hollers, let him go, eeny, meeny, miny, mo! —Netop. Ancient History Teacher: “What makes the tower of Pisa lean?” Fat Girl: “If T knew, I’d take some.”—Breecia, D. FH. S. “When do leaves begin to turn? “The night before exams.”—Brececta, D. TH. S. ALUMNI NOTES. Class of 719, Mary E. McConkey is a bookkeeper for Wise and Cooper at Auburn, Maine. Class of ’20, Frances L. Cushing was elected first student director of musical organization at Wheaton College; Karl I. Libby, salesman at Portland, Maine: Marion I. Leach (Mrs. Charles Lord) lives at Newhall, Maine; Grace M. Small teaches at Cobb’s Bridge, New Gloucester, Maine; Willard M. Sweetser is a student at U. 5. Naval Academy.

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12 THE PENNELL WHIRLPOOL Miss Ellen Cole, ’24, will represent Pennell in the Y. M. C. A. County Contest at Portland, with the selection, “The Littlest Rebel.” The Chipman Prize for School Citizenship was awarded to Guy Prince, Class of 1922. SENIOR DRAMA. The Senior Class gave a drama on March 30, 1923, called the “Touchdown.” It consisted of four acts and was very cleverly staged. The characters were as follows: Granite blanidlengscce.cc. cite ernie recor ee tee eee eee se Kenneth Burns Robert ahlay.den, cissceriy same eos erent ere William Douglass Auliredy NWolleses).:.c ebesecs epi cgory ieee ee eter moka eee Percy Mitchell Genes Glatkec..5 SAA iis. sac cee Caer mere eee rece Irnest Leonard Junius Brooks gege.cscscr eee eee Iearl Stevens Professor Summer -seemeeeee rr. tee eerie George Kent Wratassamieaulkiner saeeeer yy. tc =, ernest Alva Strout Ren ayoliansn and gtescterc teeter... Sea eee rey sera Eleanor Dennis Levene (GANS sopnen ce SOmee ROD Conc abuToGUbeDt Lillian Hancock Demlicrawlwesten = soe nwts...... 5 aie rere re Esther Brackett Time ein SYA WESbeT ons ee sy ae. RAP Ae accion Eugenia Doughty MissoPriscillaglanmellicuaser.ac, . eine ee Marguerite Verrill Kenneth Burns, as the hero, and Percy Mitchell, as the villain, showed much dramatic ability. Eugenia Doughty was also very clever as the echo of her twin Dollie. Earl Stevens proved to be an excellent comedian; Alva Strout made an effective Indian girl. Lxchanges “Nothing, if not critical.” We have received several exchanges this year and are glad to reciprocate with this annual issue. School publications receive a hearty welcome at Pennell. Come often! The Tattler, Rangeley High School. We enjoyed every word of your paper. JExcellent literary department. Netop, Turner Falls High School. Your paper is running over with humor. We enjoyed your artistic covers and especially your Colonial number.

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— 14 THE PENNELL WHIRLPOOL Class of '21, Bertha C. Libby is living with her parents at Portland; Marguerite Merrill, student at Farmington Normal School; Alice W. Sweetser, student at N. It. Conservatory of Music. Class of ’22, Florence Brown, teacher at Bodge School, Windham, Maine; Francis J. Cole is studying music, and living at home at Ray- mond, Maine: Ilizabeth Douglass, working in the P. O. at Gray; Jennie Ie. Foster, nurse-maid at New York City; Marion E. Roberts, teacher at North Gray; Harriet L. Russell, teacher at East Gray; Kathryn Sweetser, teacher at New Gloucester primary school; Ernest L. Coffin, farming for Walter Leighton at Cumberland; Byron Hanson, student at Gray's Business College; ISdward Kent, farmer; Guy A. Prince, farmer at Gray: Clarence M. Quint, apprentice at Willis Rumery Co.. Portland: Perey S. Quint. at Gray’s Business College; William L. Russell, farmer, Gray, Maine. Ex.—'21, Joseph Leonard, student at Tufts College. MiGs S22 EXTRACTS OF LETTERS FROM GERTRUDE H. MERRILL, MT. SILINDA MELSETTER, SOUTH RHODESIA, AFRICA August 8. Just off again. Madeira just fading out of sight in the purple haze. Miss Larkins and 1 went on shore with the party, and it was surely a beautiful trip. The engines stopped as 1 was having my morning swim, and we dropped anchor out in the Bay of Funchal about 6.30 A.M. Land was sighted by 3 A. M., however (but not by me.) Before the anchors splashed. dozens of small craft were out from shore, some piled high with wicker chairs and basketry, others with fruits, and many little green boats with divers. The traders were on board before we were dressed, and had their beautiful embroideries spread out everywhere; there was hardly room to step, and we had to stop our ears and hang on to our pocket-books hard. According to prices of such wares in America their prices didn’t seem un- reasonable; but ‘by waiting until near sailing time one could get the goods at hati the original prices. Vhe Maderians are born a mphibians and mendicants. It really was great sport to watch the boys, some of them grown and others quite small. dive from the boat-deck down into the clear blue depths for a shilling or a farthing, it didn’t matter much which. Sometimes they would swim quite a distance under water; you could see their brown bodies flashing along under one boat and another, before coming to the surface. About eight o'clock we went down the ladder to a little motor launch dancing up and down on a slightly choppy sea. Only a few minutes before we had feet planted solidly on terra firma, but in a few minutes more we were being whisked along American style in a real auto, that somehow seemed rather out-of-place in that old- world environment of stuecocd houses and palm-trees and ox-sledges and pack-mules. We boarded the little mountain train which started very promptly on its puffy climb nearly to the top of the mountain, about 3500 feet above sea-level. Such a beautiful view as we had numerous times on that climb! It didn’t take long to get above the clouds, which hung so low that we couldn’t tell where sky and sea met. ‘The clouds were soft and fleecy, and few tho. The mountain panorama was beautiful, with its terraced gardens and vineyards and varied forestry, and many kinds of wild flowers, and the houses, both clustered and scattered, built of the soft volcanic rock, or of stucco, painted different soft colors, with tiled roofs of green or red, and once in oe a —— —— — — ae