Pittsfield High School - Yearbook (Pittsfield, MA)

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1940 Calendar September 9, 1937-Twinkle, twinkle, little sophomores, with your minds O1 a-wandering farg twinkle, twinkle, little sophomores, how we wonder what we are! September 10, 1937-Everything under way, everybody swears on three hours of homework a day! September 1 1, 1937-Everybody becomes more broadmindedg two hours a day are enough. September 12, 1937-Two hours too much, one hour just about right. September 20, 193 7-First sophomore assembly-Principal Strout warns boys to beware of winking senior girls! fHaven't seen any yet, darn it!! October 10, 1937-Sunday. Flip coin on whether to hear Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd or flunk English tomorrow. October 31, 1937-Boo-oo-ooo! November 10, 1937-Football rally. Slum and gravy! Swing it, sophs! November 2 1, 1937-Everybody wearing beer jackets fput it on the cuffj. November 24, 1937-Pittsfield 6, St.joseph's 0. Need we say more? December 10, 1937-junior prom! Snow on the ground, but spring in our hearts. Woo-Woo. December 20, 1937-Hard going today. Mr. Goodwin exclaims, A pupil is one who is never on time - except when he buys something that way! December 25, 1937-Miss Rhoades wants a horseless carriageg Miss Kaliher a fourteen karat ring. December 26, 1957-Miss Kaliher got a garden and Miss Rhoades a horse! December 3 1, 1937-New Year's Eve fcensoredj. January 1, 1938-A new month - a new year! Everybody turns over a new leaf. january 2, 1958-New leaves don't help. What's the use? january 15, 1938-One way on the stairs-no running in the corridors! Who's this Mr. Strout anyway? january 16, 1938-I know now! ! February 17, 1938-Report cards today-sober faces here and there. February 18, 1938-Pardon us-sober faces everywhere! February 26, 1938-Saturday-Liberty. February 27, 1938-Sunday-Ditto. March 6, 1938-Sweaters coming down-skirts going up. March 20, 1938-Nothing happened, so we'll fire in with a gag! QA bachelor is one who never Mrs. anything., April 5, 1958-Grins and howls at the Girls' Gym Exhibition! April 8, 1938-Candid cameras popping up in the most unexpected places! ! April 22, 1938--Some of our more absent-minded colleagues forget QPJ that the spring vacation is over. April 30, 1938-Rain today - four sophs seen walking in the rain. Drip, drip, drip, drip. May 10, 1938-Clippety clap - ye olde wooden shoesies make their appearance. May 20, 1938-Spring is here to stay - ZZZZZZZzzzzz. 'qu ' 85

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To Mr. Herberg - we leave a class which will not secure answers to problems by means of telepathy. To Mr. Hayes - We leave a new set of bookkeeping books which will present the details of that subject as he wants them presented. To Miss Pfeiffer - we leave our sincerest appreciation for her invaluable guidance in The Pen and the Year Book. To Miss Madden - we leave a cafeteria equipped with robots who can slice sandwiches, peel oranges, season hamburgers, and what not for the lazy patrons of the cafeteria. To Miss Nagle - we leave a horse equipped with the very best of shock ab- sorbers. To Miss Ward and Miss McLaughlin - we leave a thoroughly obedient group of girls who will present a flawless gym exhibition without greying the hair of any of their teachers. To Mr. Innis - we leave a supply of notebooks for his classes, who will obed- iently take notes on all he says. To the junior Class - we leave the record of two previous class operettas, Pinafore by the class of 1939 and The Mikado by our class, that they may equal the success of these productions. To Miss Morris - we leave a class comprised entirely of ladies and gentle- men. To Mr. Murray - we leave some cages in which to isolate the popular traffic officers. To Miss Parker - we leave girls whose conduct will be such that they will not be habitually frequenting her office. To Mr. Carey - we leave the hope that his very satisfactory golf game will improve with the years. To Mr. McKenna - we leave a pennant for the Red Sox. To Miss Prediger - we leave a studious, serious-minded history class that will be ever eager for new knowledge. To the rest of the faculty - we leave sincere thanks for their efforts in impart- ing to us their very useful teachings. In testimony whereof, we, the Senior Class, affix our name to this document this eleventh day of june, A.D., 1940, in the presence of these three witnesses: Superman Scarlett O'Hara The Little Man Who Wasn't There 84

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