Plainfield High School - Hermiad Yearbook (Central Village, CT)

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THE HERMIAD 21 take it as a joke though. In fact he came for me and lit in my golden hair. He scraped his feet the had hob-nail shoes onj stamped them, kicked, and danced around in my hair, and he felt as big as a locomotive. I had to whack my head against a stone wall to make him stop kicking and then go and stick my head in the frogpond to cool off. My head looked like a bunch of summer squashes for the next two weeksg and if I had had to wear a hat the only thing that would have fitted me would have been the ash can. 5444? A TRAGEDY fDonald C. Gallup-1 9201 H Please, Teacher, will you tell me? My hair is growing gray With worrying o'er my monthly workg Please drive this fear away. The teacher looked and looked and stared Then cleared her throat to say: Young man, you need not worry, You have a nice big A. U The poor, poor boy fell in a faint, 0, woe betide this day! The shock was too much for his brain- So he gasped and passed away. iff? FIRST IMPRESSION OF PHYSICAL TRAINING fHelen Krauss-1 9301 had been a Freshman for three weeks and secretly thought that I had not made such a blunder of this new enterprise after all. I had become acquainted with other members of the class and we had arrived at the stage where we thought our class was the class. ll have since learned that this is a characteristic of all Freshmen.J All went well until the first of the fourth week when we were told we must take P, T. I had heard some Sophomores say, The poor Freshmen

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20 THE HERMIAD we got the can in our hands, we all mysteriously swam ashore, got dressed, and went to town, leaving the party 'as it was. After giving the can to the police, our doubt was confirmed, as it was the money from West and Gane's Store. The chief of police told Gladys that he had two men locked up, whom he thought were the criminals, but the question of the note remained to be solved. When Gladys saw the two men she took the note from her pocket and the crimnials stared at each other. Finally, the older man admitted having written it, to revenge his partner, because he wanted more than his share of the money. They hid the loot under the raft until they could come to an agreement. A week later our club received a check as a reward, and with it we repaired the club house and the remainder was given to the much needed library fund. this ON HORNETS QJohn Dodge-19307 AST fall I desired to add to my collection a large hornet's nest. I had a few small nests and desired to add to these the gray and airy house of the hornet. I found one of a very large size some time after cold weather had set in and hung it by a string in my cabinet with the rest of my collection. I forgot about it until spring, When warm weather came I decided it would do no harm if I cleaned the cabinet and proceeded to do so, when I was reminded of the nest, and if I remember rightly it was a hornet that reminded me. He jogged my memory in some way and called my atten- tion to it. Memory is sometimes located in funny placesg it certainly wasn't where I thought it was. It seemed as though it existed in a great many places, as a matter of fact, wherever he touched me, and every reminder left a little red spot. Then more hornets came to renew old acquaintance. One lit on my lip. I suppose he thought it was a rose or an apple blossomg when he went away it looked like an artichoke. I put some mud and a wet sheet on it to cool it off and reduce the swelling so I could get through the door and away from the hornets. Hornets lit all over me, crawled up my legs and arms and down my backg I didn't dare try to stop them for it is very, very easy to make them angry and I was not in the mood to have a fight. It brought to mind an incident when I was younger. I was walking in the field when I saw a hornet gathering honey from the bosom of a wild rose. I got a stick and stirred him up more as a joke than anything, He didn't

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gg, THE P11-:argl-,QW ure of P. H. S. With this and other are soon to be introduced to the tort remarks, I did not look forward to the project. The dreaded time came, I couldn't understand the leader at all. She said Eyes right! and expected us to know that We were to turn our heads. Then Right Face ' and told us to turn on our heels. The next command was , . Count off by fours! The first girl said four, so I said Height. Evidently I was wrong. We hadn't straightened all this out in our minds when we were given exercises. This was worse than the drilling. The leader said Attention, then At Ease. She repeated this about eight times and finally declded to t' h ut have us stay at attention, Then you should have seen the mo ions s e p through One of them was to do deep-knee bending and the leader was us . horrified because we could not keep our balance. fShe lost hers, but I guess that was permissible because she was the leader.J The period was nearly over, the leader shouted, Fall out. When translated, this meant we were dismissed. Then we hurried and scurrled to get ready for class. The next day, there was a look of agony on the face of every Freshman who climbed the stairs. 154413 TO THE CLASS OF 1930 fDonald Gallup-19301 Shall I compare thee to a galaxy? Thou art far brighter, far more of a sight, Dark clouds do blot away stars from the sky, But thine is everlasting, spotless light. Thy charms are like the rarest precious stone, But nay,--a precious stone, a false may be, And who can doubt thy value, so well known, Thy charms and ripening inborn quality? All mortal things soon die and go their ways, But thy great name will never be forgot- Poets, scholars, authors, all will sing thy praise And thy immortal virtues dim will not. When thy career on earth does end, Alas! All men will say, That surely was a class ! Apologies to W. S.