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

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THE HERMIAD is that he must have been alone in the world, and it was arranged that the village magistrate should look over his belongings and dispose of them according to their value and so forth. The Master Van Dine had made a will stating that, being alone in the world, he would leave all of his estate to the schoolmaster who should succeed him. Among his possessions was a locked trunk and this, opened, revealed the savings of a lifetime. Best of all, it was Ichabod's, all Ichabod's. The hour Ichabod learned this his mind was made up. Gathering his belongings together, he set out on horseback, at a gallop, down the rutty road he had travelled a year or more ago. Katrina Van Tassel Van Bummell, when we left her a year ago, had been happily wedded to Brom Van Bummell. But this happiness soon turned to grief for Brom was still up to his old tricks, reveling every night with his gang. One night, after partaking too heavily of the wine cup, Brom was thrown from his horse. The injuries he suffered soon choked the last breath from his body. Katrina returned to her parents, a widow. But this sorrowful picture was not to last long. Katrina fell to thinking of Ichabod and of how he had courted her unsuccessfully. But for all that, she still liked him and wished that he had not disappeared. Onto this scene broke the dashing hero himself. After relating his wonderful luck to Katrina, he announced that Katrina was going to become his wife even if he had to drag her to the church. So, on a bright, cheery morning in the spring, to the strafns of organ music, Ichabod and Katrina were married, and Ichabod achieved the success for which he had worked so hard. I might add that they lived happily ever after. IT REALLY PAYS fLillian Steinman, 19371 It really pays to work and toil, To labor hard and not recoil From the task that is before you. It is not right and it is not fair To be a quitter, not do your share. So let's all work and never shirk The task that is before usg For it really pays to work and toil To labor hard and not recoil From the task that is before us.

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12 THE HERMIAD That night Jane was sent to bed early, but she did not go to sleep. It was very hard for her to stay awakeg still she managed it. Long after mother and dad were asleep Jane was awake. She was listening for Hi to lock the door. Finally she heard the latch click. Everything was quiet for a few minutes. Then, all of a sudden, she heard a muffled cry down stairs. It had worked! Hi did not know what the rose leaves were that Jane had scattered in back of the pillows! She was frightened! Now Jane could go to sleep peacefully after her day which had been both unfortunate and successful. FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD CRANE -f qursuia Gibiin, 19371 ERHAPS you remember that when we left Ichabod Crane in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow he had disappeared, vanished completely. It is at this point that 'this story begins. Ichabod had been scared completely out of his wits by his experience with what he had supposed was the headless horse- man. Inwardly he resolved never to return to Sleepy Hollow again, unless on some pressing matter. Thus we find him trudging along on a rutted country road. It was the morning after his harrowing adventure. The sun shone brilliantly in the heavens, but it looked down on a sad, sad spectacle. Ichabod was very much the worse for Wear. His clothes, dusty and wrinkled, fiuttered loosely about his person. He was usually clean shaven, but now an untidy growth of beard made him appear even more like a tramp. Suddenly a farm- house came into view around a bend in the road. This gave Ichabod a more pleasant outlook. Ichabod realized in a moment the bad impression he would make if he presented himsef in this state. So, stepping to a brook which ran along the road, he proceeded to make himself more respectable looking. He still had the beard when he lmoc ' Q the door of the farmhouse, but his clothes were brushed and adjusted. 11 cheery Dutch housewife answered his knock. In a few carefully chosen words Ichabod told her his plight and almost immediately he became a boarder at Dame Neer's. A A year later Ichabod was still residing at New Hague, which was the name of the village. His original profession of schoolmaster he had not been able to practfce there. for the position was already filled, but he had found enough odd jobs to earn him a llving and he was well satisfied. Then a great stroke of fortune fell upon Ichabod. The aged schoolmaster was stricken with apoplexy, which schoolmasters were apt to have, and within a few hours he went to the Great Beyond. The only person eligible for the vacant position was, of course, Ichabod and in a day or two he was again wielder of the birch rod. The most astonishing thing happened When, after vain efforts to find the late school- master's relatives to dispose of his belongings and papers, it was discovered

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14 THE HERMIAD MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR OPPORTUNITY fEvelyn Wellman, 19341 Do we realize that we should be thankful to have the opportunity to attend high school? I do not believe that many of us consider that we should be grateful for the chance to receive a high school education. We take it as a matter of course and do not stop to think that it is the people in oui: town and our parents who make it possible for us to have a high school and possible for us to attend it. We should, therefore, make the most of our opportunity and study while we have the chance. But-how many of us really study as much as We should? It would not be exaggerating to say that not more than one fourth of the students at Plainfield High School are really taking advantage of their oppor- tunity to acquire knowledge. Most of us are satisfied with a passing mark, and think that so long as we graduate it is all that is necessary. We think that the teachers are too strict or that they give us too much work. How else are we to learn, if we do not have the work to do? We would not learn much by listening to a teacher reading or talking to us. It is ourselves who are to blame if we do not pass. The teachers do their best to help us, but if we are not willing to do our part, the teachers cannot make us do it. We, the senior class, who will soon be going out into the business world, or going to higher institutions of learning, will have a chance to make use of our education and will find it very essential. How many of us will be sorry that we did not use our time and opportunity to the best of our advantage? The pupils in the lower classes should realize what it means to be at high school and should study. Parents should be more persistent that their children see what it will mean to them in the future. So, classmates, so, Freshmen, Sophomores, J uniors-start thinking of what you desire to do after graduation and prepare for it by making the most of your opportunity. AS OTHERS SEE US The following paragraphs are taken from papers written by certain mem- bers of the Senior Class who have transferred to Plainfield High School from other schools. From Connecticut At Plainfield-we are allowed the freedom that high school boys and girls desire. The pupils' reaction in the school makes it possible to do this successfully. Plainfield lacks outside activities such as an active dramatic club, a monthly school magazine, dancing after basketball games, and a school band. From Massachusetts One of the most noticeable things to me since I came to Plainfield High