South High School - Index Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Failing in the manicuring business because she was too bashful to hold hands Ethyl Roach decided to await the Robbin's return- from Rochdale. After graduating from Tech in 1918, Lawrence Dolan studied medicine, but, sad to relate, he could not practiceg being unable to pass the state examinations. When asked what a crazy bone was, Larry replied that it was a dollar spent on a girl. Well, Larry ought to know. That staid and stately young lady, Helen Gates, secured a posi- tion as starter on the Worcester Consolidated. It was noticeable that when Helen was on duty the cars were always late in starting. Helen was also the proud possessor of a medal given by Andrew Carnegie to the pupil going through high school in the shortest time. XK'alter Steele did not look as tall as of yore, and upon inquiring, I found that VValter had got married and settled down. Steely was at quiet retiring chap and did not go out much in society, for as he said, Holmes the place for him. The name of George Rix had attained universal fame and stood for everything progressive and original in art. George was working for Busy Bodies' Magazine, drawing pictures and ten dollars a week, some weeks. George was putting all his spare time into a drawing which was likely to prove his masterpiece. It was a sketch of the State House in Boston, and Rixey expected to have it finished about the time Frank Plaisted got in. George wasnlt hurrying any. Mother Fortune had been exceptionally kind to Inez Holmes. For a time Belle directed Harry Davis' Mandolin Club, but later she secured a seat in Wall Street and found a fortune in Steele. Paderewski was no more! His name and fame were forgotten and his place among the great artists of the world was usurped by Grace Davis. She graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music an accomplished pianolist, I would say pianist, and soon gained world-wide fame. One night while Grace was at the beach she started to play the storm from William Tell and the life- savers came out looking for wrecks. Her training in the Philomathea stood little Sarah Warren in good stead. This small girl with her small voice was advocating woman suffrage and had already been instrumental in establishing an important reform to prohibit wasting time at dances. 26

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The mermaid informed me that I was on the Island of Bye-and- Bye, an exact duplicate of the earth twenty years advanced, and directed me toward a path of sea-shells that wound under the trees. This wonderful land interested me intensely and, thinking it might aid me in writing a prophecy, I jotted down some of the changes that I noticed had happened to my friends since I had last seen them. On Mr. Young's recommendation our president, George Dixon paid a visit to Robinson Crusoe's Isle as Theodore Roosevelt's agent. On his return, George founded a girls' seminary, called the Bimkall School. He didnlt make any money out of the scheme, but that was immaterial, it was a girls' seminary, and that was enough for Dickey. He decreed that there should be no reports and four visiting days per week. He was also obliged to exclude advanced mathematics from the curriculum, for whenever a pupil asked him to prove a proposition Dickey would reply, I haven't had time yet to make that one up, just as he used to in Mr. Parker's ifth hour mathematic class. Nevertheless, Georgie was as good-hearted as ever and still retained his happy faculty for making everyone his friend and no one his enemy. The DuBarry, the Gibson, and the Kangaroo all faded into insignificance when society saw Alice Sawyer's abbreviated walk. No one had ever seen anything like it before. At Al's suggestion Gene Powers used his oratorical skill in securing the passage of a bill which increased the standard width of sidewalks to fifteen feet. Two persons afflicted with Al's walk couldn't pass in any space less than that. Al was also a club woman of great celebrity and spent most of her time driving her Stearns runabout. Plaisted and Powers was a commission house selling lots for a cemetery. It was a dead business, but Frankie's silvery tongue and Gene's smiling face overcame that. While waiting for Gene to get orders Frank had written a book entitled The Deception of a History Teacher or How to Recite Without Studying the Lesson, and had made a fortune selling it to the pupils at South High. The President of the New York aereal club was our old friend and classmate Howard Martin. Howard always did want to get up in the world. On one trip Howard took four bottles of-Coca-Cola with him for ballast, and then when he wanted to lighten the balloon he drank the Coca-Cola. What fools we mortals be ! 25

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When the smaller half of the heavenly twins, the little warbler of Miss Woodman's chorus, Florence Davis appeared, David War- field, Julia Marlowe, and Malcolm Williams had all retired from the stage. Her's was the only name on the bill-boards and in the Boston American. David Belasco offered her 55,000 per week but she refused his offer and later appeared as The Girl 'With the Baby Starel' in Deserted, or Won't Somebody Find Me a Man! Needless to say, Flossy's acting completely paralyzed the theatrical world. She immediately made a hit with the bald-headed row, but, strange to say, although many fell in love with her innocent face, Flossy still remained in the bachelor class. At last she retired and bought a hotel in Rochdale called the St. Dennis. It was neither saintly nor Dennis's-but then, what's in a name? After taking the orders the Reverend Paul Porter, as he was now called, obtained a charge in Greendale. Paul had written several hymns, notably a beautiful temperance song, entitled, Over the Bar. Paul was especially in demand for funerals on account of his cheerful countenance. At last he became so disgusted with the fast life of Worcester that he went abroad and became a hermit in the wilds of Shrewsbury. The Bay State House was doing a phenominal business, and the reason was easy to see:-Anna McGauley, Lena Navin, and Alice Burke were waitresses, and Helen Laverty was bell-girl. The restau- rants near the Worcester Academy and Holy Cross were forced out of business. All the college boys took their meals at the Bay State. By the moaning sea at Provincetown, a new hotel had been built. No wonder the sea moaned, for Sarah Crawford McWhirter Montgomery was the proprietor. Sadie had a suprising number of annual boarders, Minna Holl was Sadies' chief councellor and con- spirator, in fact, she was the Dean of the place. But although she was at the beach, Minna's thoughts instead of turning seaward, persisted in turning Woodward. But then, there are lots of things at the seaside besides fresh air. Mary's lamb was a thing of the past. But Georgie's Lamb, Miriam was decidedly present. This vivacious bit of feminine humanity gave up superintending candy tables to study drawing. just at present she was doing her best to draw George. Let us hope she doesn't draw a blank. 27