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

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 19 ing Rose Aron, champion fat lady of the world, and the famous tap dancer, Alice Healy. Here are some local items: Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bailey and nine children spent the week end at the Walden Hotel, Walden, Vermont. Philip: Here’s an interesting item. M iss June Perkins has been home for the past two weeks as her school at Owl’s Head has been closed on account of German measles. Here’s another: Miss Catherine Hoye made a non-stop solo flight from the Lyndon Airport to Paris. Senator Nelson IV. cRae of Washington, D. C. visited his summer home at Four Corners last week. Frances: Look at this. Why walk, when you may ride in such comfort. Irving Carpenter’s bus leaves Waterford at (!..'{() and reaches St. J. at 10.30. Miss Isabelle Hawkins holds the world’s speed record for bicycling. She made the run from Goss Hollow to West Danville in 10 minutes. Harold Murphy, President of the United Dues Collectors Association of America, inspected the local jail recently. Philip: (examining picture) Is this Alfretta Priest’s name I see on this picture? Alpa: Yes, she was a very line artist in her time but she’s all crippled up with rheumatism now. Philip: Was she the only painter our class produced? Frances: Painter! Why, Merton McGill and Hilda Yantz used to do all our papering and painting some years ago. Maxine Ward used to be our interior decorator and they did just as she said. And I always used to buy all of my eggs and farm products from Merriman Willard. Merriman has turned out to be quite a prosperous farmer. Alpa: Philip, you haven’t told us anything about Australia. Philip: It’s a beautiful country. Jack Rogers has a kangaroo ranch there you know. 1 used to visit him often. Edward McGinity and Robert Burns were raising ostriches and shipping

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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-

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20 THE ACADEMY STUDENT their eggs to New York for use at club banquets. Leslie Anderson’s firm made really beautiful Sally Rand fans of the plumes. All of us used to get together for many a pleasant day. Sometimes Spader Spader would also join us. They lived in Sydney and could come by air in a couple of hours. You know that they made a fortune in the import business, then sold out to Dick Funkhouser and that poor chap went under and lost all lie had. Frances: 1 knew someone who went to Australia once. He was Arnold Goldstein and he went as a stowaway. Always wanted to travel. I never heard if he got back. Philip: (picks up book) (). I say. This book is by Alice Harrington. I must read it. Alpa: It is worth it, too. Alice wrote a number of fine books. How proud Miss Ellis must have been when her pupil’s books came into print. Philip: Let’s see, who were the other authors in our class? There was Oliva Fournier who wrote ‘‘Lost in a Fog,” and Dorothy Cowling who wrote the “Dick and Dot” series of children’s books. Alpa: Yes, and Marjorie Peake wrote the biography of Major Roger Carpenter, Chief of the Air Patrol. Philip: Newspaper men are not really authors but Howard Pen-niman wrote articles on baseball in the American Sports Magazine. Alpa: It was quite a literary class after all. Marion McGill took up radio announcing you know. Began in Springfield. Yt. Fiances: Say Alpa, Arnold Dolgin is giving a lecture over the radio today on the “Mechanics of the Ford”. Do you ever listen in to the Goodrich Symphony on Saturdays. The music is fine. Alpa: 1 always tune in to Ruth Wheelock’s Bedtime Yarns at 7.30 every evening. Philip: You must have had some very interesting encounters in your social work. Alpa: I have loved it. One day 1 happened to be in Burke, Vt. and I saw Pauline Williams working as a hostess in the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps. Frank Towers was preaching in Sutton last year, too, and Arlene Drew has had a class of foreign children here in town.