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

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT This last year we entered with a keen feeling of having a place in the world, but forgot our importance long enough to welcome six new teachers, and to mourn the loss of the more familiar ones. Also we pause to mention our regret that Mr. Redington, Miss Wilson and Mr. Oldham were unable to finish the year with us. In the next census our athletic team will have a nickname if the ballots hold out (we hope.) Ques. VI—What kind of public services could the senior class offer in case there was a shortage? Ans. VI—Frankly speaking we’ve got some swell musicians and just enough singers to keep them busy. Our numerous actors and actresses are all set for anything after four years’ training under Miss Clark. The public need have no worry about not having a means to get “further details to be found in their newspapers.” Our newspaper staff is ready to take over the New York Times any day. We are well supplied with promising young farmers and have a sufficient number of home economics girls to add the finishing touches to their grade A-)- produce. As for sports, well just look at the husky men Academy sports have developed. Mighty proud we are of our players. If the public needs someone to help them put a bill through Congress they need only to address our debaters. There’s no doubt but what they could turn the tide of public opinion. You can never tell, we probably have the second U. S. president from the Academy developing right in our class. W hy, our accomplishments are u'nlimii d. There never was and there never will be another class like 1940 (excluding the figures.) do all those concerned, we are leaving all our mistakes and sorrows loi the past to worry about, and are looking forward to a wondrous future, or are we surmising incorrectly? Signed by the History Committee Professors. Chairman, Kathleen Stanhope Rose Langlois Earl SilsL , Charles Flanders Allene Beattie Luella Drown Elmer Morrison George Boutwell Bishop McGill

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 15 CLASS HISTORY FINALS FOR 1940 R-R-R-R-R-R-Ring (The bell rings and the buzzing ceases.) Booming Voice: Turn your tests over. Read the directions carefully before starting and then write with pen dipped in humor. Ques. I—Describe the first few weeks of the memorable fall of 1936. Ans. I—T’was but a short time ago we meekly sought out room 6. How we labored over the first few weeks’ homework! (I wonder what there was about those teachers that scared us so. Gosh! what else happened??) Ques. II—Tell something interesting that happened in the sophomore year. (Please omit the fact that you told the incoming freshmen where to get off, usually in the wrong place.) Ans. II—Tanned and freckled, the more steady freshmen proudly stepped into sophomore shoes. (Sounds familiar doesn’t it?) That year Robert Frost established a summer home only seven miles from St. Johnsbury. (My, it must be nice to be famous enough so that the “Student” seeks an interview.) Ques. Ill—If you have not mentioned a teacher in the previous question, answer the following one. When would you have most enjoyed a teacher’s company? Ans. Ill—During our sophomore year our faculty developed a wanderlust. Most noticeable were the following three: (Maybe if 1 give three I'll get extra credit.) To begin with, our g' ial U. S. history teacher was beckoned to the greeting of beautiful Hawaii. Tales of these islands were welcome diversions from the ever lasting task of making seniors “think” (“some of you aren’t thinking”.) Miss Grover’s travels in the wild and woolly West brought back a thrilling line, too long for a chapel period. Mrs. Goodrich crossed the bounding main to sunny Italy. (I always did want to sail the seven seas. Dear me, I could have crossed two off my list.) P. S. Mr. Smith and Mr. Redington both booked for a long voyage on the uncharted sea of matrimony. Ques. IV—Tell about something that has material stability and which caused a hubbub in tlie junior class? Ans. IV—Most of us were budding out satisfactorily but needed some little thing to make us feel secure. So, we got hitched to the Academy. If you can’t guess now, just look at your fingers. Here was something to make our junior boys houseclean their fingernails. Ques. V—As long as you have been itching to get at this question, write concisely and thoughtfully what you will remember about your last year in the Academy? Ans. V—1940 was the census year and again the events of the past ten years are coming back to light.

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 17 CLASS PROPHECY (This is an excerpt from the Academy Student of June 1965 — courtesy of Principal Adams and Alumni Secretary Lumbra and the Grace of God.) Looking back along the years we consider that the class of 1940 has been singularly successful in its various enterprises. Fully one half of the members have become outstanding in their respective fields. For instance: Graham Andrews has founded the rapidly widening field of romantic chemistry. Norman Chase, who performed the unheard-of task of balancing the U. S. Budget with the valuable aid of his secretary, Margaret Colbath, gives full credit to his training as Business Manager of the Student. Mine. Firsten Klagsted (Thelma Davis), whose glorious voice has thrilled millions at the Metropolitan Opera House, is singing Wilhelm von Lanctot’s epic opera “Die Swingstersinger von St. Johnsbourgh.” The orchestra is conducted by Earl C. Silsbyski. Of course the fame of our “star member, Lorraine Lamarr (Jean Campbell), need not be mentioned. The whole world knows the Cinderella tale of the humble floor-walker who rose to dazzling heights under the sponsorship of her discoverer and director, the renowned Roland Barrett. Only two years after his graduation from Harvard Law School, Frank Gentile won national applause from the older generation for his fiery case against “swing”. The chief witness on the opposing side was “Cheerful Charlie” Hoar who, with his tri .npet and “Wee Jeanie” Scott’s swing version of Brahms’ Lullaby, almost turned defeat into victory. In the business world. Philip Brown, founder and president of Brown’s Buttons Inc., has recently published his autobiography entitled “How to Make Buttons and Influence Fashions”. In it he tells how he used his engineering training to suggest novel designs. He makes full acknowledgement to Betty Hawkinson, who, as a laboratory technician, was able to furnish him with broken test tubes out of which he made his first models. Leo Burrington is g into the monkey business in a big way. He is attempting to persuade Congress to make a treaty with the red-headed King Bongo Lavigne of Mango-Mango to import 5000 monkeys to get rid of the Jitterbug pest. He is being helped in the Senate by Senator Robert Healey alth«j the opposition held up proceedings for six days with Senator Mary Strauch’s filibuster. Ann Ashworth is thrilling the country with her mystery stories; her latest being “Who Stole the Needle Out of the Haystack?” Speaking of authors, Bertha E. Hastings has just published another volume of poems, “Spring Is Come, I Wonder.”