Richard Montgomery High School - Rocket Yearbook (Rockville, MD)

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r (Tljr ocbft »»■ %»' ;! -! track. The Junior girls won the Volleyball inter-class games and the boys the inter-class Baseball. June again found the nearly grown boys and girls at the end of their third school year. Three years were gone and one to go and a new feeling of the value of a high school education and the knowledge of one year especially well spent would prepare us for the future. Time passed as it is wont to do. Autumn brought them back to Rockville High School to further equip themselves for life's battles. The Soccer team had begun to practice and among the candidates for varsity positions were many members of this class. The line-up front the class of ’29 were: Mason, Marshall. Dawson. Darby, Magruder, Spates, Mathers, and Orndorff. Again the team came into prominence but Pooles-ville won the championship. The best treat for the Senior class was the construction of the new gym which proved in every phase of the word to be ultra-modern. The thought of receiving their diplomas in this new edifice brought a little more studying from the Seniors. Christmas arrived with the delightful holidays that accompany it, and departed leaving them staring into a dull three weeks at the end of which loomed exams. Exams passed, however, and only a few of the class went with them. I he sun came out again and for a few months more the Seniors were especially happy—for the initiation came off February fifteenth with paddles, long dresses, and odd leg apparel for the Juniors. Lordly were the Seniors, the educators and tormentors of the Juniors. The Juniors seemed to forget their maltreatment of the previous week for on February 23 they showed the high and mighty Seniors how to have a real party with fun. The Seniors bowed low to their entertainers in appreciation and thanks. With the completion of the new gym a pageant entitled “The Light” was put on for the dedication. Charles Brewer took the leading male role. Basketball loomed again and for the first time the entire school was able to participate in this sport. The “Old Liners” carried on as before, modest in victory and sportsmanlike in defeat. Inter-class games were staged. The Senior girls and boys both won high honors. Following mid-winter athletics came the school play “Welcome Home Jimmy.” The Seniors were represented in full. Those making the cast were: Frances Jenkins, Sonny Dawson, Betty Selby, and Claude Orndorff. The Rocket became better and better. The class of ’29 were in full attendance on the staff. The editors were: Charles Brewer, Sonny Dawson, and Mary Fisher. A On Field Day the Seniors outnumbered all the others and came throlugW with many points for their Alma Mater. And now as they await their diplomas they look back over the elfpeti years of toil and pleasure, of the dearest of friendships and some eneinic 'jf too, and are reluctant to commence their new existence, because it Will mean separation from all they have held most dear. Their only solace will,: be returning to the old school and finding it with wonderful improyemCjitsL and their under classmen even excelling their greatest hopes. Yet thqy will go forth into the world and carrv with them the standards of Jioekvillg High School. You have just heard the History of the class of ’29 Broadcast by Mtirv Vj Fisher through the courtesy of the Rocket Studio. a 'y (Stand by for further announcements of the class in future years.)

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 •v w 5E|)f IaocUct 4' F-R-E-S-H-I-E-S until the following September when that station was taken over by another Broadcasting Company. After a silence of three months “the troupers” took over the S-O-P-H-O-M-U-R-E station for some better broadcasting. This station was directed by Miss Hickerson and Mr. Gardner. Caesar seemed the only cause for worry while the station sent out reports of the events of the lordly Sophs night and day. The organization of Student Government was the first step towards attracting attention. Every room had the same procedure. The Soccer team was highly successful during that year. Babe Welsh, a sophisticated Soph, represented that class on the Varsity team. In Basketball; Sonny Dawson. Frank Marshall, Rose Porter, Betty Reading and Dorothea Hoskinson were Varsity stars. With spring came athletics and dramatics and Field Day in full swing. On the track the stars were Luther Burdette, Sonny Dawson, Frank Marshall, Babe Welsh, Newts Williams, Ardean Owings, Lucille Penn, and Betty Reading. One hundred and twenty-five points were achieved by Rockville High School—more than any school at the meet. On the stage Sonny Dawson, Frank Marshall and Mary Fisher were found in “Kicked Out of College.” The Sophomore girls won the inter-class Volley Ball Championship undefeated. The first volume of the Rocket appeared that spring, 1927. June brought exams and partings and thus for a second time the station signed off. Juniors! What a strange and dignified term for a station. The “Old Guard” was again at the microphone planing for the best of years with Mr. Blackwell and Miss Sherwood. The rough places of high school were gone— gone except for initiation—what a dreaded word. On nice little cards which each Junior received from the Seniors, they were ordered (not invited) to attend a party in their honor on December 22, 1927. Thei day which was just preceding the Christmas holidays was a veritable nightmare. The party was a very enjoyable affair—for the Seniors—who presided without mercy. However, there were no deaths and each awaited patiently his chance at revenge on the 1930's. In return for the paddling and highly flavored foods stuffed in them on the memorable night, the Juniors gave the Seniors a dance, indescribable with adjectives. The orchestra kept everyone moving. The food and favors proved attractive. It was one of the best ever given, the only damper placed on the affair was the error of the weather man for it poured without ceasing. k Soccer was foremost in their minds in the fall and it was rumored to the greatest of all times. The scheduled games seemed to prove that (nor contained some truth. However, at the semi-state meet between Havre de Grace and the boys, the Orange and Blacks were downed by a goal, j vj “Carrie Comes to College” found many in support to the cast—and thp Faculty play, “The Man from Toronto” was quite a hit. 'f In the middle of the year when excitement was waning the class rings came along to thrill the heart of every future Senior. 'Che Girls’ basketball team jumped to honors last year when they defeated the lower half and clashed with Poolesville for the County Championship otily- o be downed 13-11. Euhice Leizear, Dorothea Hoskinson and Rose Porter carried the Junior colors in every meet. VpieHt Day found more and better Junior representing R. H. S. on the V io . - ■ Page thirty

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(Tt)f ftocUct Class TOtll Good evening everybody. This is station W-I-L-L, of the Senior Broadcasting Corporation, broadcasting from our Studio in the Rocket, at Rockville High School. We, the Seniors of Montgomery County High School, Rockville, Maryland being of a sound and disposing mind, herein make our last will and testament. 1. To Mr. L. F. Schott, our able principal, we leave the right to govern the students ad infinitum. 2. To Miss Schwartz we leave the right to guide many a class through the trials and phases of Senior Year. 3. To Mr. Burdette we leave the right to coach next year's soccer team to victory. 4. To Miss Murphy we leave the right to make the deposits grow in the Bank and to make the upper hall, “Little Wall Street.” 5. To Mr. Petrie we leave the right to make a bigger and better “Rocket” in the future. 6. To Miss Sherwood we leave a new set of typewriters. 7. To the Junior Class we leave the privileges, restrictions, the honors, the humiliations, the pleasures and quarrels of Senior Year. We leave them many presidential vacancies to he filled to the best of their ability. 8. To the Sophomores we leave our athletic, dramatic and oratorical talents that they may use their leisure in a more profitable manner. 2. To the Freshmen, we bequeath our mental powers, that the year 29-30 may find the the “Wisest Fools” of R. H. S. 10. Edward Spates leaves his position as class President to William Wootton. 11. Theodore Mason bequeaths his chair as President of the Student Council to Dorothy Wootton. 12. Betty Reading wills her love of advanced styles to Helen Hendricks. 13. Eleanor Williams wills her cheerfulness to Ella Willson. 14. Clara Hammann leaves her artistic ability to June Isherwood. 15. Margaret Dunlop stores her cosmetics with Bertha Young. 16. Rose Lee Clagett wills her conceit to Laura Gardner. 17. James Darby’s dignity goes to James King. 18. James Maughlin’s good looks is left to Amelia Farmer. 19. Laurence Mathers bequeaths his accuracy to Edgar Gartner. 20. Ruth Dronenburg wills her marcel to Woodrow Bennett. 21. Carl Tucker’s winning ways with the ladies finds its way to Bruce Phillips. 22. Nell Floyd’s excuse for being late every day rightfully belongs to Hejen Tyler. - 23. Sonny Dawson’s wis 24. Lucille Penn and M and Adrian Fisher. ise cracks are willed to George Lamar, ary Waters leave their height to Jack Mark- 25. Ruth Pope’s banking ability is bequeathed to Evelyn Purdum. 26. Mary Fisher relinquishes her importance to Worthington Pumph- erv. 27. Alger Barbee’s musical ability goes to Isadore Steinberg. ,28. Ruth Tuohey’s secretarial ability is willed to Thelma Sanbower. 29. Ann Knight leaves her membership to the Citizenship Society to