Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

Page 30 text:

Nineteen-forty- Name Favourite Expression Where Found Pastime Avery I’ll do it for you In the stable Typing notes Carmichael Give me 3 good reasons In the vegetable greenhouse Abusing her voice Condit Here, Sir In her room studying Playing nursemaid to Pelargoniums I)orsey Where’s Dr. Patrick ? Botany Greenhouse Listening to operas Eldridge Oh dear Greenhouse Writing letters Emery Has the bell gone? With Bittner Knitting for the English soldiers Geuting ’Scuse me In a daze Acting Hayes We are excused Under a landscape board Playing nursemaid to dogs Hughes I’m not proud Not here, on week-ends Taking cuttings Johnson I dunno Farmer’s Digest room Planting Delphiniums Jones Gotta go work In her dream world Writing poems McCarty What say ? Across the fields Collecting diseases Meigs Oh, really Ambler to Phila. Junior Leaguing Reed Not makin’ any money settin’ here Never can tell Riding horses Sanford I’ll do something, if I do it wrong In the stable Riding Colonel Sharpe Time out Behind a novel Trying to catch the Royal Blue Vansant I’m sorry With McCarty Knitting Wisner Oh! Indoor garden Riding Millie Woerner Yes please? In the rec. room Dancing Wriggins How wonderful Ambler to Phila. and points East Going abroad Faculty You’ll never get a job if you do that On our consciences Surprising us with Blue Books Generals Quick Mr. Andrew, the ladder On a water spout 60 ft. up Kidding the specials Specials Golly I worked hard Underneath drawing boards Working in cold frames and wishing they were hot beds 28

Page 29 text:

Wise-Acres Johnny’s original “Robin Hood.” . . . Her royal highness, Pip, makes a lovely queen. We feel a bit leary about finals—Commencement comes soon. It’s all over. . . . To Dot Barry, Peggy Meigs wills her trusting nature. To Betty Beyer, Sharpie wills her voice. To Mary Bittner, Vic leaves her calmness. To Barbara Brown, Peg Geuting wills her dramatic talent. To Sally Burbank, Mike leaves her vegetables. To Bonnie Butz, June leaves her careless coiffure. To Stinky Clarke, Johnny leaves her business ability. To Laddie Clark, Sandy leaves her volubility. To Mary Jane DeMuth, Vic leaves more of her calmness. To Kate Freeman, Betty Haves leaves her early bed-time hours. To Mac Graham, Bobbie leaves her wise-cracks. To Jeanne Gressel, Edith leaves her interest in French. To Jean Hartman, Mickey leaves her ability to iron shirts. To Ann Heartt, Elaine wills her happy thoughts. To Linn Henry, E. J. leaves her ambition. To Eleanor Lamb, Mike leaves her abused voice. To Lilly Luben, Mickey leaves her ability to sketch. To Dot Lundberg, Betty Hayes leaves her ability. To Lynn Mitchell, Betsy leaves her bubble baths. To Doris Netwick, Sharpie wills her laugh. To Perky, Edith wills her riding ability. To Wicker Rae, Betty Avery leaves her height. To Jeannette Renshaw, Isabel leaves her sedateness. To Billie Rudolf. Pip wills her love of Strauss. To Penelope Smith, June leaves her neatness. To Florence Smoogen, Betty Avery leaves her love of horses. To Rhoda Specht, Tommy leaves her Botany. To Aisy Sullivan, E. J. wills her hair. To Marion Sullivan, Betty Hayes leaves her wit. To Pig Van Buren, Pip leaves her tidy hair. To Nan Wickes, Phyl wills her Jitterbugging. To Ruth Yates, Peggy Geuting leaves her flightiness. 27

Page 31 text:

 StakLitie± Wise-Acres What If Noted For Needs to Ambition Destiny She weren't a good sport Her tiny waist Have more free hours To have a farm To be a sharecropper There were no Penn State Banging her head on the wall Stop talking in her sleep To grow own vegetables under glass To grow violets There were no colours Her happy thoughts Dye everything black To obtain all species To have one Ger-of Geraniums anium in her kitchen window There were no Dell concerts her lovely hair Eat more To be a Botanist To find the right solution There were no rock gardens Cleaning her room Wear a watch To be a Horticultural journalist To write comic strips The Royal Air Force moved back to Canada “At homes” in the rec. room Relax To be happily married with her own garden To have the garden Cows did give buttermilk Her bird-like appetite Believe l % of what she hears To raise horses To have nightmares She stayed up after 8 o’clock Her delicious cakes Be a teacher Garden consultant To join “Information Please” She didn’t have a car Her wise cracks Wash her own hair To own a florist shoppe To be a traveling wife There were no Yearbook Her business ability Make up her mind To write the Great American Novel “True Confessions” She curled her hair Her steady nerves Pass a Woodies test To be a poet To paper a room with reject, slips She had a complete drafting outfit Leaving the windows open in the Ac building Have more time Not to be a glamour A Zasu Pitts girl She had no car Her trusting nature Think before she speaks To beat Johnny in Journalism To write Great American novel Her Saintpaulias Rushing around did bloom Learn to knit To raise a string of To be strung Morgans along by a Morgan (J. P.) There were no Rock gardens Talking fast Work on Friday To plant Alpine plants in the Alps To get up there and yodel She giggled Her laugh Take a P. G. as a general To be a landscape architect To become involved in a triangle She weren’t a special Roomful of Juniors Learn how to spell To be a landscape architect To have to work She got to class 5 minutes ahead ner lovely disposition Talk more To raise ponies To get by exams with ponies She ever got mad Her sneeze Be less scarey To be a housewife To be a housewife There were no Europe Her lovely hands Come down to earth To be a Horticultural Therapist To be an Entomologist They weren’t so much fun Practical outlook Have more classes To have a model like ours class To have a muddled class They didn’t prune at 10 below Hard work (?) Teach the heifers To be Davy Tree to brush their men own hair Davy Jones’ locker The worm turned Pushing pencils Join the WPA None Dust 29