St Johnsbury Academy - Lamp Yearbook (St Johnsbury, VT)

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 17 PROPHECY FOR THE CLASS OF 1935 A PLAY TIME: Fifty years hence. Place: Alpa’s home in Boston. Characters: Alpa Swett a very peppy old maid—leader in women’s work, charities, clubs, and what not. Philip Young: A lame old chap who has just returned from a lecture tour of Australia. Frances Rattigan: A grandmother. She knits for her grandchildren and likes to talk of the old days. Flossie Lynaugh: A gay divorcee looking for her fourth. Scene: Alpa’s sitting room. She is busy putting it to rights. Telephone rings: O! Hello Claudia. How is your rheumatism today? That’s good. What am I doing? Just straightening things up after my trip and getting acquainted with old friends again. Who do you suppose I saw in Cambridge yesterday? Helen Brock. Her grandson runs a taxi there and she is living with his family. You’d never guess who is coming to call this afternoon —Philip Young remember him? He just flew in from a lecture tour of Australia. (straightens hair) No one would guess this is a wig — looks like real, and is much more becoming than gray hair. Grace Marshall made it and she sure is a success at that even though she didn’t do so well in the printing business she started. I bought this dress in a New York shop. Sheila Ward and Ruth Bigelow sold it to me. (door bell rings and Philip limps in) P: Good afternoon, Alpa. How good it seems to see you again after all these years. It is a beautiful day, and the walk along the streets is delightful. As I waited to cross the street a big car passed by and I was pleased to see his honor. Mayor Sherrer and his wife. I couldn’t recall his wife’s name although her face was very familiar. Alpa: Helena Farnham was her name. You remember her in St. J. Academy. Philip: When I was in Russia a curious thing happened. I was passing through a village when I heard my name called. I turn-

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16 THE ACADEMY STUDENT HAROLD MURPHY wills his persistence in trying to collect dues to next year’s treasurer in the hope that he will be as unsuccessful as Harold. THOMAS McGUIRE leaves his eloquent and convincing vocabulary to Harriet Calderwood to put to good use in bringing her “Edgar” back to her. To Donald Ernest Bovee, GORDON MacLEAN leaves his ability in debating. To anyone who wants them, ALPA SWETT leaves her frequent trips to Railroad Street and vicinity. To Kevin Michael Cosgrove, BRUCE WENDELL CLIFFORD wills his startling efficiency. CHARLES HORTON gives, devises, and bequeaths his love for fishing and fish in general to any poor fish who wishes to take this up. RAYMOND TOWNSEND JOHNSON leaves his ability to clip his words short to Robert Hastings White who would profit greatly by it. WILLARD BALDWIN gives, devises, and bequeaths his position as Poo Bah of the Boys’ Dorm, to Philip Darling. FOURTH : The Senior class leaves what is left of its efficiency to next year’s seniors so Miss Ellis will not be so overworked. FIFTH: Whereupon, we hereby constitute and appoint the Buttermilk Twins executors of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we hereunto set our hand and seal and publish and declare this to be our last will and testament at St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, this eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five. CLASS OF 1935 WITNESSES: STANLEY BAILEY BEATRICE LE BLANC ELIZABETH WHITE ESTHER BECK CLAUDIA GOODRICH

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18 THE ACADEMY STUDENT ed and saw Sherman Woods. He had gone there on business and became so fond of the rivers there that he stayed permanently. Alpa: I understand rivers always attracted Sherman. Philip: Hugh Cuthbertson was then causing c|uite a sensation as a baritone soloist in grand opera in Moscow. I was very proud to meet him and his good wife Virginia Dubuque while there. Alpa: She wasn’t his wife very long. He has had three of them. Virginia was his first, Celia Montgomery his second, and Flossie Lynaugh his third. She lives here in Boston now. (telephone rings) Hello! Clinton. I’ll be delighted to go. Thank you. Good-by. That was Clinton Renfrew. He is president of the bank. 1 le wants me to go with him and his wife, the former Beatrice C. LeBlanc, to see the Lu-Lu-Lu-entertainers. Lucille Young, Lucy Wells and Lucille Castonguay. They still draw large audiences wherever they go. Did you know that Gordon MacLean made a great deal of money in air freight business? He retired a few years ago and his sons carry on the business. Dolly Banks was his stenographer for years until they were married. (Frances enters) Alpa: Aren’t you out a little early, Frances? Your husband away or something? Frances: Yes, Louie took Tomey and Ruth to the zoo today. He likes to go and talk to the keeper Red Johnson, while the children watch the animals. I had no dinner to get so I went to Julian Butler’s restaurant this noon. Philip: Louie is the fellow I read about who reclaimed the Everglades. He has surely been successful in his work. Frances: Did you know his partner Charles Horton? Philip: Charles was the fellow who married Elsinore Brown wasn’t he? Alpa: NO! She jilted him for Bruce Clifford. They ran a bakery for years. Charlie moped around a year or so but recovered and took Esther Beck for a wife. She made him a good one, too. Frances: 1 see you take the St. Johnsbury Caledonian. Alpa, any news of folks we know? Alpa: Yes, quite a few of our class stayed in Vermont. Frances: (reading) McNutt’s Circus Wed. Tlutr. and Fri. featur-