South Portland High School - Headlight Yearbook (South Portland, ME)

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ROBERT ALTON PENNELL Bob A friend tried and true. General Course. 'ABob thinks that it is easier to break a test tube accidentally than to waste precious moments trying to clean it, A bit expensive, too, isn't it, Bob? RALPH Noyes PERCIVAL Percy 4'The night shall be Hlled with music. Commercial Course. Class Play, 4. Ralph has been hiding his light for the last three years. He is a singer and also one of those gentlemen who prefer blondes. ELEANOR CAROLINE PLUMMER lfVhat I have done was not so bad for one so young. Commercial Course. Typewriting Contest, 3. I should say not, Eleanor. You know she's the youngest girl in our classfand smart, too. WINNIPRED PAULINE POHLE Good nature and good sense must ever join. College Course. Basketball, 1, 2, 3: Science Club, 43 French Club, 4, Student Club, 1: HEADLIGHT Board, 4. XVinnie thinks she will be a doctor. Witla Dr, Pohle established, we will all feel like being sick, VELMA GOODWIN PURINOTON Art needs no spun beyond itself. Commercial Course, Velma intends to be an Interior Decorator, but we shouldn't be a bit surprised if soon she was Hdecoratingn some man's interior with food. --of 32 Jw

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BETSY ELIZABETH NICKELS The sweetest little lady that ever I looked on. College Course, Senior Entertainment Committee, 45 HEAD- LIGHT Board, 4: President of French Club, 4: Student Club, l, 2, 3, 4: Student Club Play, 4: Washington Club, 3, 4. Betsy is just as sweet as she looksvwhich is saying a great deal. It is a joy to Watch her lead a Erenchi Club meeting. I FRANCES ITJIES Her Uoicexwas ever gentle, sweet, and low. General Course. Glee Club, 1, 3, 4: Prize Speaking, 2: School Play, 3: Dramatic Club, 3. In losing Frances, our prima donna, we are giving the Metropolitan Opera our best. PARKER OLIVER Ollie I am Sir Oracle. General Course. Parker doesn't adore school but he knows the worth of a diploma and intends to get it. Parker likes the intricate. : Let him wire your new homes, '29-ers. JOHN ELDEN PALMER Puts on swift wingsf' Technical Course. HEADLIGHT Board, 3: Glee Club, 4: Track, 3: Track Manager, 4: Business Manager Class Play: Toast Senior Reception. John is to be an aviator. He is tired of this terrestrial sphere and the mundane affairs of life. He wishes to soar aloft with the birds. John is very retiring-try to get him to be in a play. CHRISTINE MYRTLE PARKER Cl7t'lS', A maid at all things good-and fair to see, Commercial Course. HEADLIGHT Board, 4. Christine is a good student. She'll make A line stenog in some oflice. We wonder where she spends her evenings, and with whom. She never can be found at home. 413110

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MELDON FRANCIS RICE He doth bestride this narrow world Like a Colossus. Commercial Course. Basketball, 1, 2, 3, 4-Captain 4: Football, 2, 3, 4: Baseball, 3, 4: Senior Play, 4: Toast Senior Reception: Toast at Junior Prom. Mel's talent has been exhibited in so many ways that it is hard to name them all. Whether in football, basketball, baseball, or Senior Class Play, A'Mel has always shone brightly, and this year-well. who else would have captained the basketball team to such a season as it has had. BEATRICE HARRIMAN RODICK HBQE7' Beauty from Heaven sent. Commercial Course. Student Club, 1, 2, 3, 4-Secretary, 3, 4: Science Club, 3: Toast Junior Prom: Vicc- President of Class: HEADLIGHT Board: Toast Senior Reception. Somebody's stenog? No. siree. a dentist she is going to bel Bee's ideal is a 55,000 Packard roadster. We have our ideals, too, Doc, and a real pal like you is one of them. GEORGE ELLIOTT ROBBINS Geo Sing, heavenly muse. Technical Course. Dance Committee, 35 Interclass Basketball, 2, 3: Baccalaurate Com. George is a budding young poet, and a bril- liant French student. We hear he expects to write another epic, entitled Ashes of Garlic. KENNETH LEMONT RUSSELL HKen,,, HHank,,, URHSSU Stretching heaven ward. Commercial Course. Stage Manager Class Play, 4: Washington Club, 3. 4: Dramatic Club, 3: Science Club, 27 Manager of Basketball, 4: HEADLIGHT Board,4. Ken is the young man who always arrives at school promptly at 8.10. He is sometimes mistaken for a window-stick, but, nevertheless, has more friends than he can count. RUTH ALICE SINGLETON Sugar and spice, and everything nice. Commercial Course. Chairman Entertainment Committee, Junior Outing: Secretary Science Club, 4: Science Club Assembly Committee: Committee for Science Corner, Echo. Alice is going to gladden the hearts of a good many patients in a few years. She's just the type to make the gloomiest person in the world be glad. +f331'+