Perth Amboy High School - Reflections / Periscope Yearbook (Perth Amboy, NJ)

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OUR WASHINGTON TRIP Steps ((With apologies to Rudyard Kipling) Steps, steps, going up and down again; There’s no end to the steps ; The chaperones are here again ; Steps, steps, going up and down again. Up, up, going up and down again ; Hotel, museums, Capitol, and White House. Steps, steps, going up and down again; There’s no end to the steps. We slip, we slide, up again and down again ; The steps are still before us. Oh ! Oh ! The steps are still before us ; Steps, steps, will we never see the end of them ? Sing to the tune of Old McDonald Had a Farm Here check, there check, everywhere check, check. (Repeat until tired.) The system is Great. Nevertheless the trip was one to be cherished and remembered by us all. “OCR'S was a Hue trip, OCR’S was.” Some things overheard: “When do we eat?” “Where do we go next?” “Our’s is a fine house, Our’s is.” “Only five hundred more steps to go.” “What, are you trying to cheer me up?” “Great place to reduce, Washington.” Chaperon—“John, 1 wouldn’t slide down the banister.” Tough John—“Wouldn’t! Ya mean ya couldn’t.” Overheard on the train going to Washington : John—“Oh. it’s a surprise to see you on this train. Joe—“Yeh, I missed the good one.” John—“Don’t you like the service of this railway?” Joe—“I don’t know, I haven’t had any yet. John—“What? These waiters and porters are all crack ones.’ Joe—“Yeh; well. I’d like to take a crack at them all right.” John—“How do you like the table in the dining car ? ’ Joe—“The table’s all right; it’s what they put on it that 1 find fault with. John—“You’re cuckoo; they keep wonderful food on this train. Joe—“Maybe they do, but they certainly don’t sell it. Overheard coming back : Waiter (shouting)—“Dining car in the rear. D. C. in rear. D. C. in rear. Student (tired of hearing guides)—“Shut up; we know the District of Columbia is in the rear,”

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I, Margaret Fraser, bequeath my attractiveness to Eloise Larson. I, illiam Haas, bequeath my shyness to Edward Herbert. I, Ruth Shoe, bequeath my “Reducing Records” to anyone who needs them. 1. Edna Widerstrom, bequeath by conquests to Gladys Hulsizer. 1, Helen Ward, bequeath my ability to study to Alton O’Brien. I, Virginia Hoy, bequeath my athletic ability to Inez Rossi. I, Elliot V ilson, bequeath my good looks to Stanley Zellers. I. Pom Fennessy, bequeath my athletic ability to Richard Connelly. I, Abe Goron. bequeath my fondness for bluffing to Gerson Isenberg. Po the School we bequeath our class picture to be hung in the “Hall of Fame” in P. A. H. S. To all. a word of warning regarding hard study and watchfulness of points, so that as Seniors they will not have so much to worry them ; our teachers. May you have as good ones as we had. Lastly, we bequeath everything else we have not mentioned above to whatever heir may wish to claim them. If there be too many to decide upon, let first come be first served. We now rest content, knowing that our executors will carry out these bequests, and that you will not blame us for our tew(?) faults. Should any heir herein mentioned object to the bequests, he shall be summoned to appear before the Board of Education and the Class of 1925 to present his complaints. We hereby appoint as executors of this article any Seniors who lingered on the beloved threshold instead of passing with us. We sign ourselves for the last time as a body, The Class of 1925. ----------o----------- A Poem in Imitation of the First Ten Lines of L’Allegro Hence, happy Hours Of Time and Tide born, In waking with the Sun at early morn, 'Mongst this world of love and flowers. Find out some lonely heart. Where joy has never been And sorrow lives within ; There we find the grief that lies Behind those sad but smiling eyes. From this heart, happy Hours, never depart. Freeda Petersen. Hence, vexing Crossword puzzles, Of dictionaries and professors born Would that your hour had gone Where Dame Fashion sends fads of bygone days Possessor of Man’s time, Most fads are temptations that come and go, But you have lingered so Into every home you have found your way ; Who sent you here we pray? Any place, go anywhere, but please go away. Blanche Jorgensen. -----------o----------- She—“I ought to have taken chicken instead of these eggs.” He—“ ait a few minutes and you might have your chicken.”

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 Subject Ailment Dominant Trait or Occupation Fa vo rite Express ion Doom STELLA ALTMAN Stoutness Laughter “Huh!” Stenographer VIRGINIA ADAMS Eyes Singing “Oh!” Prima Donna IRENE BEATTY Teasing Map work “Yeah!” Librarian BESSIE BERNSTEIN Quietness Reading notes “Cut the comedy!” Librarian THEODORE BLITZER Bluffing Borrowing homework “Oy!” Real estate GLADYS BLUM J limping Talking ‘I know it!” Secretary WILLIAM BRANDWEIN Low Voice Sociability “Know your Chem?” Lawyer MAE BURKE Recklessness Primping “I don’t know!” Home girl FRANK CERULO Laziness Bluffing “Lend me!” Grocer MARY CHECK Shyness Studying “I’ll try!” Stenographer CECILE CHMELNIK Slow Motion Copying homework “Did you get it?” Teacher (?) WILLIAM CON VERY Getting into trouble Working (?) “No?” Engineer KATHERINE CHRISTENSEN Books Quietness “Wait a minute!” Teacher MARGARET COUNIHAN Powder Puff Powdering her nose “I-I-don’t know!” Society matron ELSIE CROWELL Work Talking “Now, girls!” English teacher JOHN DAHILL Shyness Smile “Who’s Irish?” Business JOHN DALY Girls Imitating someone “I’m saying you’re cute!” Guess EMIL DAMITZ Too ambitious Supporting poles “I’ve flunked again!’ Chemist GEORGE DONESON Talks too much Talking “I wasn’t talking!” Dealer EDWARD ELLIS Weaker sex Talking to girls “I know her!” Nothing RUTH ENCHERMAN Overstudv Dancing “How-do!” Teacher, maybe