Southington High School - Chronicle Yearbook (Southington, CT)

Page 29 text:

'IYHE EMBLEM Page Twenty-Seven , ... exam ' satisfactorilyg had to go to New Britain again 4 this time to be fitted. iMay 1. Another week of vacation! Rushed headlong into mad scramble be- fore graduation when we returned. May 25. Debating Club poverty partyg auctiong made 251025. Enjoyed by all. May 29. Second Emblem danceg aw- fully hot nightg not so many present this time. June 1. W01'd came about Colonial Dames essaysg Winifred Merrill fourth ,,, prizeg Frances Field and Walicla Guterch honorable mention. June 7. Senior assemblyg play writ- ten by Miss Beclfordg big success. Coming Attractions June 12. Emblem cake sale. June 17 8: 18. FINAL EXAMS! June 19. Class Night at Elm Tree Inn. ' June 21. Graduation. June 22. Senior prom at Holcomb School.

Page 28 text:

Page Twenty-Six THEEMBLEM Actors who turn not our souls to sad- ness, But fill our hearts with pride and glad- ness. Some are humorous, some are wise But the dancers are those that open your eyes. Some one may be a famous artist, :Twill not be an idle one, but the smart- est. Now let us turn a new leaf o'er For those who knock at Happiness' door, For those students with paper and pen Training their brains for business men. lnto the wide world they must go, Those classmates, Jack, or Jim, or Joe. NVe wish them success and a lot of luck ln every difficult task they buck.'l lVe can't hope comedy only to see y But for courage to bear some tragedy. Postlude And now while we are still all here 'We've much praise for classmates dear The good we've done, pray not forget it The bad we've done, we do regret it. And down the path of life so bright . Let's never lie down, but always fight, Though we may not find fortune and fame c VVe mean. not to cheat, but play a fair game. GJ THE DIARY OF THE SENIOR CLASS EPT. 9. Back to school once more, room five this time, Miss Bedford elected class adviser. Sept. 10. First chemistry lab class, general epidemic of coughing, poor lit- tle innocent gas blamed, we doubt it, think they did it for effect and to show they took Chemistry. Nov. 5. Hot dog sale in cafeteria. Profit 2157. Are all pupils of L. H. S. of Scotch descent? Nov. 23-24. The High School Heron at Colemanls, profit 3944. Graduation funds jumped. Dee. 6. t'Captain Applejaekw Senior class duly represented. Migs, ideal old- maid aunt, Wlin, good crook, Helen, S. 8 G., Bill, perfect butler, Buch con- deseended to be crook. Jan. el. Miss Gardner gave us a party, great fun, Mr. Phelan made mit- ten with crowbar, girls whittled-tried to, boys sewed on cloth two by four with two yards of thread, gave Miss Gardner dozen roses-take ton to show our love and gratitude. -lan. 15. Miss .Bedford and Miss Gardner out with Hflu, the subs as well as pupils glad to have them back. Miss Marsland found we weren't as Hdigni- fied as we might be and Mrs. Coleman couldn't drill Burke into our heads. Feb. 1-21. Class pictures! Under- elassmen jealous of our little brown en- velopes. Feb. 22-23. A Pair of Sixers and what a job selling tickets! Play a howl- ing success, our class got 23100 of prof- its. Lib a fine stenographer, Scotty by 'thonest and impartial cut made Boggs a butler, Doris a very helpful fiancee. Feb. 22-28. Vacation! Returned to school thoroughly rested-And How! March 15. Mr. Bonner took another vacation. Mfent to Maine and came back minus appendix, glad to see him return. April Il. Emblem dance, many more Seniors dancing now than first of the year. April 19. Field Day. Seniors third- less said the better. No representation from girls. April 22. Debate with Commercial, we won both sides, Seniors debating Dorothy Johnson, Alfred Buchanan, and Ruth Ralston, alternates Marian Thomas and Earl Carle. April 23. Needed eight dollars more, held cake sale. April 25. Hot-disputes among girls, uniforms or not, idea about given up, white crepe de chine ensembles ap- peared, made rush, dress passed

Page 30 text:

Page Twenty-Eight TI-IE EMBLEM VALEDICTORY ANYONE who has read Hawthorne's H will re- House of Seven Gables member how a young New England country girl found herself in a gloomy old house built by a remote ancestor, there to live with a distant cousin, a pessimistic old maid, and her demented brother. This girl, with her genial tem- perament, common sense, and gift of practical arrangement made not only sunshine but money for them, coming to be indispensable to the household. How many girls today would have the strength of character to stay and win against such great odds! A great many girls would have become morbid in the lonely, cobwebby, old house and said I cannot stayl' or lf I only had a chance like other girls! But this girl did not. She, with cheerfulness and sim- plicity, helped to change its atmosphere completely. . lVho cannot be pleasant under pleas- ing circumstances? XVe must have a character strong enough to call upon when we find ourselves in untried and not altogether pleasing circumstances. Are we satisfied to develop our charac- ter just enough to roll along in a rut, or are we going to have some resources in body, mind, and morals? A person's character and personality is not judged wholly by his behavior and temper under ordinary conditions, but his real character is discovered when he sudden- ly is called upon to act in an emergency. People who seem brave and courageous to us under ordinary circumstances often when they come face to face with real trials show us that they are not really brave, while people whom we think weaklings and nonentities often show clear minds and a hidden strength in an emergency. 8 H 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, NVhen life goes along like a song, But the man worth while, Is the man who can smile, Vfhen everything goes dead wrong. And so it is with a girl. Members of the Board of Education, Mr. Superintendent, Members of the Faculty, Parents, and Friends: I have been given the privilege on behalf of the Class of 1929 of thanking you for all you have done for us during the period in which we have been under your care and of bidding farewell to you all. For four years you have helped us in school and out, with lessons for character and for mental development in preparation for our future work. NVe have on the whole dwelt under pleasant circumstances, and we hope we have here gained something which shall enable us to adapt ourselves to conditions be- fore us and make circumstances instead of being unmade by them, as did the little heroine of our New England story. It hardly seems possible that the course in Lewis High School, which for four years has been our major interest, is completed and that we are about to live more on our own than ever before. At first the feeling is that we are adrift since no longer every hour of our daily program is marked off by a bell. Classmates-some of us are going on to higher schools and some of us are going immediately to work. All of us are going on with our education, we can- not help it, the difficulty will be to get the right kind of education. May it be such as shall strengthen our grasp on essentials and further our reach upward, and help us to make our school and coin- munity proud of us. -Farewell I