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

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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.

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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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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 21 Theda Delworth was head nurse in the Boston Charity Hospital until she grew too old to work. (Flossie enters) Hello, everybody, great fun to see you all together again. Clayton Parker just drove me here in one of the new cars from his garage. He sure has a swell line, cars I mean. Alpa: Sit down, Flossie. We’re just talking over school days. Flossie: Did you know that Eugene Boucher was the lawyer that handled my last divorce case. I saw Thomas McGuire as I came in. He was on his way home from the factory and borrowed my paper to read on the car. Frances: How have you been feeling lately. Flossie? Flossie: I have been having a frightful time with my neuritis, that is, until I went to Dr. Elizabeth White for treatments. She’s helped me a whole lot. Chiropracter you know. By the way Philip, Ameta Revoir, the beautician, made a great name for herself by lifting the face of Madeline Pratt, the movie star. Alpa: Beatrice Goldstein read my horoscope about ten years ago.— Flossie: She told me I’d be a famous beauty and be married four times. I’ve only married three yet. Bessie Parker used to say she’d rather teach school than marry the best man living. I wonder if she has retired yet? Frances: (looking at wrist watch) Louie must be waiting for me. Philip, won’t you and Flossie come to supper with me? Philip: Thanks for the pleasant afternoon, Alpa. — Good-bye. All: Good-bye. EXIT Philip Young Alpa Swett Frances Rattigan Flossie Lynaugh