Putnam Hall School - Pennings Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Name . Town Ambition Margaret Melville New York City Ethel' Henry Dayton, O. Elizabeth Rogers Washington, D. C. To be a successful - business woman. Margaret -Bakes Tacoma, Wash. Vassar. Agnes Snyder Stratford, Conn. Vassar graduate. Louise Meinig Wyomissing, Pa. Vassar graduate. Helen Thatcher East Orange, N. J. College graduate. Florence Morrison Brooklyn, N. Y. Lawyer. Ethel Thomas Savannah, Ga. To make those I love . happy. Helen Wilcox Jacksonville, Fla. To do one thing well. Mary Byxbee Meriden, Conn. To be a woman of the world. Helen Race Meriden, Conn. -- To bea sporty woman. Rachel Smith Dillon, Mont. ' To play the piano well. Augusta Gennett Richmond, lnd. Dartmouth prom. Virginia Smith Monticello, N. Y. ' Hazel Thomas Pawhuska, Okla. To he a force in her own community. Mary Hopkins Hudson, N. Y Vassar '24 Harriet Lewis Donora, Ba. Vassar '24 V Harriet Brinckerhoff Poughkeepsie, N. Y. To be a librarian. Helen Taylor Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Vassar graduate '28, Senior Statistics Nirvana me Melio Hen Libby Peg Aggie Sammy Thatch Flip Doc Bob Byx Race Rach Gus Gatha Haze Polly Brinck Favorite Study French Latin English Science Latin Math. English Gym. Latin English French Latin Math. English History English French Math. Math. History Idcal Person Cyrano de Bergerac Agnes Snyder Mrs. A. L. Duncan Madame Kokoszynska Her Mother Her Mother Her Mother Woodrow Wilson Abraham Lincoln john Barrymore John Byxbee Paderewski Nelson Theodore Roosevelt Robert E. Lee Florence Nightingale 52 She Is A Dreamer A Good Sport Usual Efrpression Hi skunk l Temperamental WouIdn't that freeze you ? An Athlete Pardon me. Stately H'mm. Quiet Oh how vile. One Broad Grin Why do you ask me? Full of Pep Oh heck! A Georgia Peach What's eatin' on you? Reducing That gripes my soul. Clever And that's no maybe. Cute Add and subtract that. Sweet For Heaven's sake! Flirtations Disgust l Well-Read Oh dear. Phlegmatic VVell, don't you think? Jolly Oh my cowl Playful Doggone it. Businesslike Studious Occupation Raving about her brother. Bridge. Hurrying. Doing French. Studying. Doing Math. Grinning. Eating. Making baskets. Eating pickles. Writing poems. Dancing. Practicing. ' Reading -Saturday Evening Post. Reading by flash. Reading poems. Cracking jokes. Playing banjo- mandolin. Studying. Laughing.

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OUR LIBRARY MAGAZINES WE ALL WONDER- T he American - - Agnes Outdoor Life - - Peg Banter ---- Melio Le Rire - - - Thatch The Gargoyle - - Meinig Punch ---- Henry Snappy Stories - Race Frivol ---- Doc La Vie Parisienne - Byx Swamp Angel - - Bob Literary Digest - Gatha Little Folks- - - Polly and Harriet Jester ---- Flip Musical Courier - Rachel Good Housekeeping Harriet B. Siren ---- Gus Whirlwind - - - Lib Bon Ton - - - Hazel Modern Priscilla - Helen T. VVho'll get the flag hanging in study hall? Whether an anchorite is a new shade of green or a tribe of Indians ? Why we can't all look like Mary Pickford? Why we can't write Sonnets? Who likes parsnips? Whether Bob Wilcox will really get sylph-like? Wlio invented Latin? Whether Caroline Kohn studies from 44 a. 5 a. m.. Why Melio c1oesn't wear socks? Why we can't get A reports? Why we all can't be clever? Whether or not an anapest is an insect? What's so fascinating about The Flag ? m. on or only from M elio

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Which Type Are You? By M elio I BLASE 1 Can't stand one summer resort more than ten days. 2: Hates most of her clothes and all feminine oppositions to her con- quests. Yawns deliberately and quite often, too. Affects a southern drawl and raves continually of abroad.', Thinks Mah-jongg, tennis, and prep.-school lads frightful bores. GREENWICH VILLAGE l. 2. 3. 4. 5. Wears ear-rings, smock, and tam. Puffs a cynical coffin nail. 3- Swears by Elinor Glyn, Carl Sandburg, and futuristic art. 4- Firmly believes in free verse, free love, and free everything. 5- Thinks the Pirates Den is the ue plus ultra. SMALL TOWN LASS Wears hem of skirt and sweater belt just above knees. 1' Hair in fan style, in fact, just a mere decade behind the fashion. 2- Changes her steady once a year and thinks Rudie Valentino di- vine. - Chews gum vociferously. ' Greatest amusement running for the mail, and a soda at the,corner drug store-except, of course, on the weekly movie night. BABY DOLL 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Blue-eyed stare and Haxen curls. I Sweet sixteen but-our consciences trouble us-we can't go on. 3' Reads Elsie Dinsmore and Peter Rabbit. 4- Chief topic of conversation, What color ice-cream do you like 5- best? with a playful poke. Affects organdies and kissing games. 53 ATHLETIC Never heard of the Club Royal. Good Sport. Wears middies and flat-heeled shoes. A rah, rah! person. Popular with girls. HIGH BROW Indiiferent to popular opinion. Wears woolen hose and a pince nez, Reads French. Quotes Browning, Shakespeare, and Goethe. Not quite sure whether a ,Sigma Nu is a flower or a chemical ex periment. EPROM 'TROTTER Vivacious. Good clothes. Keen-looking, if a bit flapperish. Interestingly naughty. Oh! so popular. COSMOPOLITAN Fascinatingly sophisticated. Makes Manhattans, Bronxes, and Horse-necks Smart clothes. Quotes Heywood Broun and: Bernard Shaw. beautifully Knows best theatres, restaurants, etc., in town.