Southampton High School - Sea Spray Yearbook (Southampton, NY)

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THE ORANGE PEAL 29 Editor’s Mail Box Dear Editor: Kindly omit my picture as I do not wish to appear among the common herd. Dear Editor: What are you going to say about us? Dear Juniors: Not what we wish. What we would like DICK WELLS. TWENTY-TWO JUNIORS, to say is better left unsaid. Dear Editor: THE EDITOR. Won’t you please give Edna a hard knock? about me. Dear Lillian: She’s been telling tales LILLIAN. We are sincerely sorry but we are unable to comply with your request. We’ve mislaid the hammer. THE KNOCKER. Dear Editor: Beware! If you do not wish to die an ignominous death! Do not under any circumstances destroy my dignity and hurt my feelings in your book. A brick will await you. TRUTHFUL WILLARD. My dear Willard, Thank you for the information. We will soon be making a collection of bricks and intend to build a new gym with those promised. All contributions gratefully accepted. THE EDITOR. Dear Editor: Won’t you say only nice things about me this year and cut out the unkind knocks ? GENE S. Dear Gene: If you’ll please tell us what the nice things are. We can’t seem to find them all. Besides, we don’t want to spoil Class Day. ‘ THE EDITOR. Class Prophecy It was a dull, gloomy day in the Cave of the Winds, but the keepers of the “Witches’ Cauldron” felt no chill or depression for it was the day on which they had decided to forecast the fortunes of the Class of ’24, S. H. S. The three witches, Hysteria, Mysteria and Wysteria, huddled around the huge cauldron, filling it with magic herbs while they murmured incantations.

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28 THE ORANGE PEAL The Maid and the Middy The annual operetta presented by the students of the Southampton High School was given on January 18th of this year. The success of the operetta was due to the untiring efforts of Miss Ruth A. Jennings, assisted by Mr. H. F. Sabine and Miss Alice L. Hudson. The operetta banquet (given each year as a result of the operetta) was held at the Hampton Manor on March 25th. Everyone had a splendid time, in fact, we believe it was the best and most enjoyable banquet ever held. The cast of the operetta was as follows: BILLY (The Middy attached to “The Dreadnaught”) ..ABNER BENNETT DAWSON (A Retired Farmer) .................... EUGENE BALDWIN THE COUNT (A Spanish Gentleman) ...............HENRY BURNETT EVANS (Master of Ceremonies, Lakeville Boat Club).. RICHARD FOSTER FITZ (Of the House Committee, Lakeville Boat Club)... .HARRY FRANK CAPTAIN DASHER (In Command of “The Dreadnaught”) ....................................... RUSSELL BAILEY BOUNDER (Of the Lakeville Boat Club, Champion Oarsman) ....................................... HAROLD PHILLIPS YOUNG SLIMSON (Also of the L. B. C. “The Great Unknown”) ....................................... RICHARD WELLS ATTENDANT (of L. B. C.) ...................... LESTER FANNING VALERIE VANE (The Maid) ..................................EDNA ELLISTON MRS. GAILY (An Attractive Widow) ............. ELEANOR GALOW ALICE (Friend of Valerie) .................... LILLY PETERSON MAUD (Friend of Valerie) ................... HELEN McALLISTER PHILLIS (Friend of Valerie) ................... ESTHER STREET ANITA (The Mysterious Cause of the Trouble) .........????????? MAIDS—Emily Bishop, Edna Fredericks, Gerretta Skinner, Helen Schwenk, Catherine Corrigan. SUMMER HOURS-DANCERS—Dancer, Elizabeth White; Bessie Eisner, Arlene Bechtel, Elaine Terry, Thelma Squires. LIBERTY BATTALION—Catherine Corrigan, Edna Fredericks, Lilly Peter- son, Esther Street, Eleanor Galow, Emily Bishop, Lester Fanning, Warren Van Hise, Courtland Smith, Isador Eisner, Henry Ford- ham, Leonard Hawkins. MIDDIES—Willard French, William Fordham, Edward Foster, Michael Micari, Herbert McCarthy, Arthur Herbert, Edward Whitman, Gregory Morse. YOUNG MEN—Isador Eisner, Lester Fanning, Henry Fordham, Warren Van Hise, Ernest Youde, Leonard Hawkins, Courtland Smith, Richard Wells. “I’ve been on this train seven years,” said our conductor friend of the Long Island Railroad, proudly. “Is that so,” said Miss Hudson. “Where did you get on?”

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30 THE ORANGE PEAL “Double, double, joy and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble. On this night so dark and drear Arise, O Spirits—have no fear. Class of ’24 S. H. S. Has openly to us confessed They would ask the Fates to-night Of their future—dim or bright. So in kettle herbs of Jove, Magic potencies of Love, Herbs of Fame and brews of Wealth, Loyalty and Joy and Health, Boil together well, and wait For the Spirits rising late. Double, double, joy and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” Soon the wondrous brew was finished, and out of the pale light of the fire which glowed fitfully beneath the cauldron, arose a vision—the Spirit of Fame. Slowly murmuring, as if gripped in a trance, she spoke forth the Will of the Fates: “I single out of this noble group a few on which to bestow my favors. One bright young man, Harold Archibald Phillips, shall become the famous senator renowned the length of Layton Avenue for his ability to talk much and do little. Harriet Raynor, because of her speed and accuracy, will soon be known as tennis champion of Wooley Street. Ah, here we see a famous artist—Emily Bishop, known the world over for her marvelous hair-dressing establishment on Fifth Avenue. Next I see Lester Fanning starring as Shylock in the “Merchant of Venice” playing at the North Sea Community House. From her hands, a piano player and composer of future fame and from her Vergilian nose a truly great (?) scholar, Helen McAllister will go far, fast and furious and end her life peacefully with a Baby Grand. And here we see a famous singer? Ah, no, only Harry Frank, renowned agent for Singer Sewing Machines. Wait—covered with much dirt and grime in the dis- tance I see one, overwhelmed by a desire to discover a worse principle than those which tortured him in chemistry, Dick Wells trying to prove how many wells make a river.” As she disappeared, the witches droned on, swaying gently. Then arose another spirit—Wealth. She began speaking and the witches ceased their invocation. “Power and sometimes happiness do I bring and as my honored one I choose that dark specimen of manhood, Peter Balnis. In future years, Peter as owner of a poolroom will gain money, money and more money. But will he keep it? That is not for me to say. I bestow my gifts and leave. Anna Hayes as a prize fight manager will be recognized as “Hearty Hayes,” the wealthiest New Yorker known. Helen Bruzdoski—ah, hers was gained by chance. Playing the races and winning poker games has indeed made her rich. “But there—-I am weary. Enough gifts have I lavished to-day.” The next vision rose quickly, blithely, for was not she the Spirit of Adventure and did not she have the power to bestow the great gift of enjoy- ing life? Merrily rose her voice as she proclaimed: “That genius among you in his attempts to reach Mars and other planets will have adventures which none of you shall know—for he’ll tell them in such technical language that you poor mortals will never “get” the story. His worthy colleague in these adventures will be Genevieve Roche, who as