Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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18 TIIE GOLD EX-ROD Morrison. He is janitor now, and has hopes of becoming pin boy soon. W. BLAKE: Speaking of bowling, Ivar Lofgrcn made a record last week. He shot a ball down his alley, it bounced over to the next one. and knocked down all the pins. R. BLANCHARD: Why, I didn’t know that he could bowl. By the way, “Dick” Beck- with is treasurer of the Fat Men’s Union. He tried keeping a drug store, but he ate so many ice cream sodas that he couldn’t make any profit. M. WATERMAN: 1918 must be fond of the drug business, Josephine Bennett is a soda clerk in Irene Pitts’ drug store at Quincy Point. Right beside her store is “Chet” Wee- den’s poultry farm. He might be here now, but he is too attached to his chickens to leave them. R. BLANCHARD: He must be very rich by now. That reminds me that “Charlie” Stewart is getting rich on his fish market, and his cashier, Mary Drohan, is also prosperous. A. WADDELL: Sarah Grossman must have millions from the royalty she gets from her book, “How to Earn Money?” But to change the subject, Violet Finn is running a summer hotel in Squantum now since her namesake. Katherine Finn, became mayor of it. She had Joseph Chignola, the famous brick-layer specialist, lay down marble streets, with rubber curb-stone. II. MURPHY: Talking about inventions. “Clif” Canniff made a great one. He invented the steam-heated, super-heated steam sidewalk. Whenever a crowd gathers on a sidewalk, a person can just turn on the steam, and the sidewalk gets so hot that the crowd disperses. Then there is Mollie Kaufman, who invented a new hair-restorer and made herself famous. W. BLAKE: George Fostello, Alvah Rey- nolds and Roy Walker certainly made them- selves famous. Then enlisted in the marines in the European war and were among the first to arrive at Berlin. E. MELLISH : That reminds me. Esther Canty and Hilma Hendrickson became Red Cross nurses and did good work at the front. E. HEAP: Did any one in the class go on the stage? A. ROBINSON: Surely, Bartholomew Gunning and Howard Dunkerly are touring the country as the “Gold Dust Twins.” “Mawrie” Berry gives vocal selections on the Victor records. He tried the stage, but his facial contortions were too much for the au- dience, so he had to go back to phonograph records, where he is heard but not seen. M. CURRIE: That makes me think that Frank Julius and Edwin Johnson are famous music writers. You can look into any of the sentimental songs they sell in the “5 and 10” and see “Words by ‘Eddie’ Johnson, Music by Frank Julius.” Another musician of our class is Grace Ballou, who teaches the ukelele. M. ROACHE: I suppose you have heard of Harold Herrick. He proved that bald heads are hereditary, and he showed how a moustache can be developed in two days. By the way, Carl Friberg runs a jitney plane from Atlantic to Squantum, and Harold Lar- son goes with him to keep the passengers in good humor. C. McBRAYNE (leaking up): They need to be in good humor to go down there. Poor “Don” Blake needs cheering up. His girl jilted him, so he became a hermit, and is now living in the wilds of Houghs Neck, writing books on the fickleness of women. He's not so far off. at that! E. JACKSON: Don’t get personal, now. By the way. has Houghs Neck grown any? C. WILLIAMS: Not much. Since “Plank” O'Brien left to become a bicycle rider in Herbert Hendry’s circus, poor Houghs Neck has degenerated. E. MELLISII: That’s too bad. I always had hopes for Houghs Neck. That reminds me that Mabelle Geddes and Joanna Falconer are running a boarding-house at Quincy Point, which is quite a nice place now. H. MURPHY: How times have changed! Our old friend, Anna Irvine, wrote a history which Mr. Roache said had Muzzey’s “skun”

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T II E G O L I) E N - R O D 17 the Professor of Thermo Dynamics at the Institute of Technology. Have you seen Ronald Shaw’s new physics book written in rhyme ? M. ROACHE: No, but I always thought he would write poetry of some kind. C. WILLIAMS: Of course, you’ve read Alma Lawry’s famous “History of the W orld War.” It’s used in all the schools now. E. HEAP: Say, Robinson, do you know of any inventors from Quincy? A. ROBINSON: Why, I’ll sec. (Takes small book from pocket). Here’s Ted Taylor who still lives in Quincy. He has invented a device for driving an auto without the use of one’s arms. I believe he has found it very successful. Nester Arenberg has invented a new style of spats which eliminates the bother of buttons, but is made of an elastic fabric which can be pulled on over the foot. Phillips Innis has discovered a method of canning heat by using the rays of the sun in some way. It is now used as the heating system in many buildings. E. MELLISH: I wonder what David Gcsmer is doing; W. BLAKE: Why, he is the president of the Boston Elevated Railway. I met him the other day just after he had had a conference with the Chief of Police, Gladys Irwin. lie told me that Catherine Osborne, Marion Ellis, Lillian Parker, and Madeline Parsons are also officers of the law. Ruth Sanborn and Cor- delia McLennan are judges of the Supreme Court. M. WATERMAN: Is there anyone we haven’t mentioned ? E, JACKSON : I’ll get my old class picture. It’s in this chest. Why didn’t I think of it before ? H. MURPHY: We haven’t spoken of Louise Hodge. A. WADDELL: Oh. she’s the cooking teacher in Quincy High. Helen Lawry has a dress making establishment, which is noted for its “room of mirrors” where she does most of her work. (E. Jackson brings picture. All look at it.) M. WATERMAN: Here’s Lillian Jones. M. ROACHE: Oh, I’ve read of her popu- lar millinery shop in New York where, I be- lieve, Florence Townc and Clara Jacobson Work. H. MURPHY: Did you see Sylvia Ruud’s picture in the paper last week? I guess she’s the most popular actress of the day. M. CURRIE: She was a Red Cross nurse during the later part of the War, wasn’t she? M. ROACHE: Yes, she and Margaret MacPherson went together. Margaret is now head nurse at the Boston City Hospital. Have you heard Elsie Oberg speak in public? She is a senator from Squantum. R. BLANCHARD: I saw Florence Thorne in the Boston Library not long ago. She is a librarian there. W. BLAKE: These three girls (pointing to certain ones in picture) are engaged in the office of the Hotel Bostonia of which I am Manager. They are Helen Riley, Penelope Stevens, and Ellen Fitzgerald. A. WADDELL: Have any of you heard Marie Ladd, Cecelia Devine, or Edith Nicoll, lecture? They are quite prominent in the New England Philanthropic League. They make speeches in the different cities and have succeeded in getting most of the tenement sections and slums of New England cleaned up. M. ROACHE: I haven’t heard them but I heard Agnes Jennings lecture on style: “The right thing to wear at the right time.” I haven’t heard what became of Doris Turner. W. BLAKE: I read a book of hers a short time ago. She is an explorer and has dis- covered a number of unheard of things. She writes under the name of “The Wanderer”. R. WEYMOUTH: Did you know that Warren Ladd is the manager of a large pe- troleum concern in Pennsylvania? John Mahoney and Frances MacDonald work in the office of the same factory. C. WILLIAMS: I happened to drop into the Y. M. C. A last week and saw “Frankie”

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THE GOLDEN-ROD 19 a mile. Tyra Alquist is another historian. She wrote the history which is now being used in the Quincy schools. By the way, have any of our class become journalists? W. BLAKE: Why, yes. There are several of our class-members on the staff of the Quin- cy Ledger. Arthur Carino is the editor, Ag- nes Joyce runs an “Advice to the Love-lorn” column. Stanhope Ring is the sporting editor, and George Dorlay is the joke editor. M. WATERMAN: Why, I have a Ledger right here. Shall I read a few briefs? ALL: Yes! M. WATERMAN : Here are some remarks which ought to interest us. (Reads) “Quin- cy’s prominent chiropodist, Stephen McPhee, is suffering from bunions. He is recovering rapidly, and will soon be back at his profes- sion.” Here’s another: (Reads) “Rosslyn Burgess and Leo Rosa, our local dentists, have gone to Maine for a vacation. Natives Be- ware !” A. WADDELL: Let me take the paper a minute. Why, here’s an advertisement. (Reads) “Buy Gorton’s Corn-Plasters: One dollar per-----.” Why, that must be Hattie Gorton! She told me she was in the corn business. Here’s a notice: (Reads) “A fine concert is expected tonight at the ‘Alhambra.’ The Greater Quincy Sextet, consisting of Harry Lubarsky, Oscar Hultin, Gustave Wes- ter, Dorothy Buckley, Alice Cahill, and Sadie Files, will render the ‘Sextet from Lucia,’ in Italian. A large crowd is expected to turn out.” C. WILLIAMS: I bet they’ll walk out be-' fore it’s finished! (Glances at his watch.) Why, it’s getting late. If I don’t get home pretty soon, my wife will annihilate me. W. BLAKE: That’s nothing to what I’ll get. My mother-in-law will massacre me! R. WEYMOUTH (glancing at his “Big Ben”) : I believe that I am scheduled to ad- dress a gathering at Boston in thirty minutes. E. JACKSON: Well, it’s too bad everyone has to go so soon. We have had an enjoyable evening together, and maybe we will all meet again. Be sure to return in the order you came, or you may not reach your destinations. (Presses another button.) Good-bye, every one. M. ROACHE: Good-bye, Esther, we’ve all had a wonderful time. ALL: Good-bye. (Leave.) E. HEAP: Well, that’s the most wonder- ful machine I’ve ever seen! It’s marvelous! I’ll sec that you get a good patent on your in- vention. Good-bye! E. JACKSON: Good-bye. (Alone.) I knew that my invention would be a success. It just couldn’t fail me. Just to think that I know what every member of the class of 1918 is doing! (Goes out.) Esther Jackson, Edwin Heap. Criminal Camouflage “Well, Bill, how goes it today?” “O pretty well. How arc you?” “I am about the same. What are you doing?” “Not much of anything but loafing my time away as manager of a land wireless station. What about you?” “I am on the newspaper staff; and that re- minds me of a story which I laugh at when I think of it. Want to hear it, Bill?” “Sure, Ed, shoot away.” “Sometime ago I was reading a high school magazine, in which I came across a story about a detective who was in the secret ser- vice of the government and was on the trail of German spies during the present war. Tracing them to an abandoned house, he found next to the chimney the aerial of a wireless set of the high frequency type cap- able of communicating with Germany.