Plymouth High School - Pilgrim Yearbook (Plymouth, MA)

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8 THE PILGRIM To MISS LOCKLIN: A pair of gloves, fpreferably not whiteb, to be used in pounding the keys of the piano in an effort to extract music from its injured organs, without soiling your hands. To MISS CUMMINGS: Adequate room to accommodate the young would-be housewives in preparing that Home you love to see. To MRS. GARVIN: Two worthy co-captains to maintain the morale of the teams, and praises galore from Monsieur X CUnknown quan- tityj, of the Big Red House, to be bestowed upon your Charlie To MR. SMITH: A new manager to execute faithfully the demands of the Woolworth Plan, and a new set of initials that will not tempt the young flighty things to call, HJ. Hy? To ALL FRESHMEN TEACHERS: Courage: Rome wasn't built in a day. To the CLASS OF 1932! OLII' lockers: they may need a cleaning, but they are worth it. A warning is issued, however, that you do not buy keys unless you wish to employ a locksmith to open the locker doors for you. To the CLASS OF 1933: Lots of room. You'll need it if people in- sist upon having one-way traffic Ceach has his own idea of which way is The 0129.5 To the CLASS OF 1934: Self- controlg your spirit of independ- ence is not to be exercised in the presence of your superiors. - To CLARENCE FORTINI: Sparky's physique to be exercised on field and iioor, and you will soon become a brawny hero in the eyes of every- one. Have faith: Big oaks from little acorns grow. To FRANCIS BROADBENT: A billy club to aid you in teaching those who insist upon scratching the varnish of P. H. S. grounds, that you mean business. To JOHN BRADFORD: Mary Gray- son to share his weary moments, and to accompany him as he ma- nipulates his car UD along the Hillside Boulevard. To HTIPH CAVALLINI AND HIS ASSOCIATES: A good round half- dollar that you may all obtain a haircut suitable to your size and shape, but not in the style of the Kollege Kuts. To ADELE COHEN: The book en- titled How and Where to Use Cosmeticsf' There's a time and place for everything. To PHYLLIS SMITH: The right to succeed Miss Edna Wallace Hopper. Tune in at 2:30, Station BLAH, and you will be astounded at what may be accomplished with the tongue in a very short space of time. To PETE FERIOLI: A profession that suits your abilities. As a woman-hater you're a fake, and dog catching is not a promising position even for a man possessing such taking ways. To RUBY JOHNSON: A car with yellow wheels with a dashing young Romeo in the driver's seat. To EUGENIA MORTON: High hopes that her heart's desire will come true. They say that Scotch- men are tight. We wonder in what respects? For further information apply to Anne Harlow, who knows Scotchmen rather well. To DONALD MCLEAN: A new sweater: red and white pulls too much at the heart strings of the girl who knows who really owns the one you are wearing now. To THE GIRLS: John Sears, the Myles Standish of the Senior Class, with Thomas Dries to impersonate John Alden. To ONE WHO MAY BE INTER- ESTED: Ridhard Young's office. Will it pleased be notice that it is not specifically noted in which ofHce duties are to be executed? To THE OFFICE GIRL: A dashing young blonde of the male sex, with the request that she exercise in- fluence upon his choice of profes-

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THE PILGRIM 7 with these words Stanley Gilbert folded his paper and went on his way. Emma Wirzburger Argio Rebuttini LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT BE IT REMEMBERED that We, the CLASS OF 1931, of Plym- outh High School, in the county of Plymouth, Commonwealth of Mass- achusetts, being of sound mind and memory, fdespite the peculiarities of ancestors who could allow a Seven Years' War to endure for one hundred years,J but knowing the uncertainty of this jazz-ridden life and knowing that w-e are destined to be overrun by this sudden visita- tion of Baby Austins which, locust- like, are devastating our Pilgrim sod, do make this our last will and testament, hereby revoking any and all wills or promises heretofore made to any person or persons with that rare characteristic of having believed us to have been serious: To MR. SHIPMAN: Loud applause for your gift of seven-period days, for two of which, may it be remem- bered, we willingly dug deep, and brought forth a shining copper. To MRS. RAYMOND: Our sincere appreciation of your efforts to penetrate our minds with the fact that the verb to be never-never- takes an object, and with the fact that we should really follow Hamlet's example in acquiring the habit of thought. To MR. SMILEY: A set of new and serviceable biology books, to save the worthy steno's the duty of preparing his information re- garding the actions of man and the reasons why fish have bones in such inconspicuous places. To MR. FASH: A group of P. G's who will not insist on submitting their knowledge of the S. O. S. upon the poor innocents of Room I. To MR. YOUNG: A pal. We al- ways wondered where Bud Fisher conceived his idea of latitude and longitude. To MISS DOWLING: A book on architecture, that you may culti- vate your interest in the aforesaid field. To MISS WILBUR: A few more Deacons' and Dicksons' to play the jester in her Fresh-Men classes, who unanimously declare Latin to be Very essential to their vocabu- lary. To MISS KELLY: A group of en- thusiastic office girls who will not expect kindness in return for close harmony, and also a folio of song hits in which Sweet Jenny Lee is not included. To MISS J UDD: A stop watch. It will be much more practical in dic- tating for speed, and wrist-watches will not have to be borrowed. To Miss LANG: Our hope that she has enjoyed her first year as teacher in the school which she at- tended as a high school pupil. To CHIEF BAGNALL: A fire ex- tinguisher, which may aid him in preventing woods fires, which, we understand, some lofty senior may start by wearing a pencil over his ear. Wood against wood causes friction, and so we are in danger of tires. To MISS RIES: A Baby Austin to convey you safely to and from school. It will be more enjoyable: time schedules and dimes can be ignored. To MRS. SWIFT: A caddy, or, perchance, an assistant to carry your wire rack from room to room. If not suitable, a traveling bag may be obtained by registering request with our class treasurer. To MISS HELEN C. JOHNSON: An encyclopedia to be used in answer- ing innumerable questions for- warded by Clarence Fortini. To MISS BAKER: Some talented musicians to participate in the juggling of the French vocabulary set to the tune of the Marseill- aise. Possibly it would be wise to donate a pitch pipe to aid the violinist and singers to find the right key. However, all's well that ends well.

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THE PILGRIM 9 sion. A farmer's life is not the life- To KENNETH TINGLEY: Louis Stein leaves the following sen- tences to be correctly punctuated in such a manner that they make sense: 1. Put a dash between Boots and and and and and Shoes. 2. That that is is that that is not is not is that not it it is. 3. John while James had had had had had had had had had had had the approval of the examiner. On this sixth day of June, 1931, we do hereby in the presence of: Bridget O'Flynn Dangerous Dan MacGrew declare this to be our last will and testament, and as witnesses thereof, we two do now, at the request of, and in the presence of each other, hereunto sign: SEARS AND ROEBUCK Dorothy F. Covell Thelma C. Birnstein THE FUTURE Class Prophecy IN high spirits because we had just purchased a brand new 1951 model radio-powered plane, my pal and I decided to put her to good use. Twenty years had elapsed since graduation from Plymouth High School, and we considered it high time to find out just how our classmates were faring. Our first port of call was Washington, D. C., to which, in increasing numbers as the years passed by, many of our friends who had always been con- sidered ambitious and political- minded had migrated. , Unlike many who visit the Cap- itol, we had a very personal reason for paying our respects at the White House. During our school days we had rarely seen Katharine Davis upset by the pressure of her many duties, and now, as private secretary to the president, she was her usual calm and efficient self. She ushered us into the presence of the chief executive of the nation, Robert Armstrong, just as Verna Hurle and Viola Hunter were leav- ing. They had presumed upon their personal acquaintance with the president to ask him to use his au- thority against Alice Lema, Eliza- beth Hayes, and Mary Ryan who insisted upon using the radio in their apartment from dawn till dark in the faint hope that they might again hear the voice of Bru- no Zangheri. Bruno was with the Metropolitan Opera Company, we discovered, but upon rare occasions he broadcast negro spirituals' for the Calnan KL Landry School for Girls. On our way out we met a very well-dressed gentleman who seemed familiar, and then we both real- ized almost at the same time that this distinguished personage was Thomas Dries. We learned that he was a lobbyist, and that he was about to try to convince President Armstrong that Argio Rebuttini should be granted a monopoly in the retail fruit business. Wishing him luck, we trundled over to the U. S. Mint where Richard Young ruled as head of the Dime Department, Gilda Cap- panari acting as his assistant. The department had been showing a neat profit since the day when Richard had accepted the advice of lVIary Tracy, famed financial wiz- ard. She had instituted the idea of a new rate of exchange-eleven new dimes returned for each tat- tered dollar bill-to any high school pupil who could prove that h e was a regular contributor to the Ten-Cents-A-Week Plan. We found Louis Stein in charge ol' the Department of Perplexing Problems. Here he operated a sort of national information bureau- and guaranteed within forty-eight hours an answer to any and all problems troubling any citizen. He had been appointed to this oflice di- rectly after he had leaped to fame by refuting the Einstein Theory and advancing the simpler Stein Theory. Many of the problems that were received by Stein were sent for solution to a sub-bureau in charge of Jane Burns, who used the new Burns Equations in finding the value of X.