Putnam Hall School - Pennings Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Please realize what a sought-after corridor this is-especially at 8:45 P. M., after a two-hour struggle with the man who walks four hours, rides twenty miles, flies fifteen minutes, to find how long it takes A to rake the lawn when B cuts the grass in two days. They say the early bird catches the worm, but what worm can be so alluring that it causes five-thirty rising. Ask Haze, We're afraid Virginia will have to get glasses if she reads many more books by the hall light. And anyway, floors are awfully hard, and doors do creak. Gusta, some morning you'1l oversleep but-whoever said five min- utes wasn't ample dressing time? You disagree? Want your business letter typed? Ask Flip She breaks the record. She uses a Biblical system- Seek and ye shall find. Let's give three rousing cheers for Upper South! H. T. E. H. UPPER NORTH We admit the other corridors are filled with people of great im- portance and talent, but we-and we alone have such specimens of human nature as are to be found in no other alley. Upper North has to offer the greatest ivory tickler and mouse trapper as yet known to civilization, the only genuine wild Westerner in the East and who, it is rumored, is distantly related to Buffalo Bill: the only woman alive who can live on a biscuit a week and: still lead cheers in a surprisingly animated fashion. Also, we can present two charming, but enormous Southerners, who each morning and evening may be seen taking their deadly dozen in an earnest attempt to attain a venus-like figure. We're betting on them too! They'll do it yet if only Bob's rolling pin does its work. No other corridor can show us one of the fast disappearing race of red heads, but we have a grand one. They say that in thirty years the type will be extinct. She lives with a very select member of the A. A. Society, who is also the owner of a knock-out sweat shirt. I almost neglected to mention the fanatic 'we possess. It thinks It is a poet, and has a wild mania for collecting cats! It boarded one once, but the ungrateful animal got restless and sought adventure in the halls, where it was taken for a stray tiger, and was consequently frightened into a complete breakdown by shrieks. Miss Smith, the fun-sharer of Old North, found eight curl-papered heads watching with the keenest interest the travels of the cat up the middle of the corridor. It was never seen after that night. We never did like the looks of that night watchman anyway! You've heard of birthday parties, tea parties, and petting parties, but have you ever heard of a washing party? You sit on the edge of the bathtub or the basin with the curling iron dangling over your head like a sword by a hair, and then you whisper-at least you think you are whispering-until Miss Chase comes tearing down the hall shout- ing, Girls, girls, where is that terrible noise? Is somebody hurt? Miss Chase arrives to find the young ladies strenuously hurrying through their toilet so as to get to bed QU. She gets out her cooky box and insists that everyone have at least three. Umm, and they're great too! A bell tinkles faintly in the distance, a few last voices are heard: Oh hello, Miss Collins,-back from your week-end? Who's got that light now-I can't find my toothbrush ! Got your window open, Helen? Only an inch P Got your coat and shoes out, Rachel? Sort of cold out, you know? And then the tramp, tramp of the watchman. Let me see-I guess 6:30 will be early enough to finish my Latin -how comfortable this- QSnore--z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z.j S. G. LOWER NORTH Corridor Capers might be a kind of sauce or pickle put up by A. Corridor-but they aren't. They are--er-eh-well, the dictionary says a caper is a frolic. . Lower North Corridor, as the name may suggest to a few of the most clever readers, is a corridor in the northern part of Putnam. It is the lower corridor. fBy that we do not mean inferior, we mean near the ground in situation--the foundation of the school, as it were.j Here in different rooms live twelve persons, six of them seniors. The executive ability of the school snores here. We have the president and vice-president of the Senior Class, the editor-in-chief,

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Elflflfilllllfl EAFEH5. WHICH CORRIDOR? Whiclt corridor has: An overworked curling-iron? Half of the basketball team? Three of the orchestra? The captain of the basketball team? A florist in the bud? The perfect itchy-palm? Spark Plug herself? She with the crown of glory? A devotee of bobbed hair? A Winsome brunette? A lovelorn lass? A nocturnal reception Hall? ., O T Of course you have guessed it-there is only one corridor with so many assets-the Upper South. The season opened with a bridge party-and what a party! The scores waxed high, the hands were wonderful, the excitement greatg it all seemed supernatural, superb, when suddenly-with a crash, we were forced back into reality-we were discovered!! Miss Evans insisted that such a party is a bad influence. Say we, not so Miss Evans! Think what a great reformation it brought about in Flip ! And think of the excitement caused by a Serenade-the latest C?j fraternity songs-outside Kate's door. How about having the illustrious teacher on our corridor-who caused so much excitement in the dining room, when she didn't ap- pear! The rumor was a broken leg, but we're glad 'to state that after a diagnosis by the school doctor, it proved to be a sprained ankle.

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literary and poetry editors of the Year-Book, and the president, vice- president, and secretary-treasurer of the Athletic Association. fWe've quite the athletic corridor. Five of the original eight wild women-I mean A, A. members live here.j We also claim the tennis champion of the school, the manager of the Basketball Team, andthe best skater. About a week before each vacation, famous classes in reducing are held in a certain room, and -certain girls become professors of this subject, nobly leading a. desperate class on to victorious loss. Here, the night before vacation, these same professors give a feed, when nigh on to a million calories are devoured by each pupil. This insures the professors their job for the next time. We wonder if these same professors are in any way responsible for having a branch of the fam- ous Store located on the corridor. Something on Lower North holds a big attraction, for four girls have left their happy homes else- where to make new ones on this particular corridor. Perhaps they were deceived into believing they would get a chance to use Melio's famous balcony. How well she guards: it! Why not? It's the only one in the school, and helps to make North famous. We mustn't forget that North also claims the only real suite of rooms. An observatory and weather bureau is maintained on our corri- dor. It :is really the only reliable one at Putnam. 'Vxfeather news is given out every day. As a result,,one knows whether to say at break- fast in the morning, Isn't it cold this morning, Miss Evans? or whether to say, Isn't it fearfully hot this morning, Miss Evans? Some of the girls from other corridors have been known to make most horrible mistakes about these matters-just from lack of information. North also supports a human alarm clock. It goes off anywhere from 5:00 to 6:30 A. M. Never known to miss! If it did, it would be sure to say, Pardon me l We all believe in politeness on North, - especially in the breezy, Pacific Coast brand. And speaking of wonders, how ,about the non-detachable military belt? Was it ever known to come off? But this is not all. We have famous instructors in all languages, Latin, Spanish, and Baby Talk. Come down to North,' In visiting time, in visiting time,-- It isn't far from' South ! L. M., '25, LOWER SOUTH Any words you want misspelled? Come to Caroline. Run along with Hazel If you want to be on time. If you're ever hungry, Visit Peanuts right away. Go to Mary Byxbee To while' the time away. janet's quite an expert When it comes to catching mice. Miss Whitcome's dreaded medicine Really tastes quite nice. Florence went away one day, We have an empty room, She's in sunny Florida, But we know she'll be back soon. Charlotte is a bridge fiend, She holds the winning score. Mary gets ten letters And then she howls for more. Beth is very quiet, But there's mischief in her smile. And Lower South has surely Got the others beat a mile. Every night we trot our little flowers-to-be down to keep the teacher on duty company. Don't tell anyone, but on the way back we VISIT. Sh! It's a secret. We sincerely recommend Peanuts' little stunt as a sure cure for even a chronic case of melancholia. Miss Whitcome has a very bad influence over us. The day she chose to stay in bed, was chosen by four other little Lower Southites as the proper time to miss classes. Although our corridor has many advantages, it also has the dis- advantage of being too near the teacher on duty. It may be said, how- ever, that usually she is so busy attending to Upper North that we are