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

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18 THE ACADEMY STUDENT Nutting: Stanhope: Currier: And then the climax to our scholastic endeavors came when the Valedictorian, Katharine Powell, and the Salutatorian, Anita. Tegu were announced in the Student. Yes, there was only one-half a point between the two highest ranking students. There were seven other students who had an average of 90% or better for the four years, and eighteen students who had an average above 85% for the four years. Now, that brings us up to the present and finishes our class history. I think we have covered just about everything, so we will call this enough. If you should think of anything we’ve overlooked let me know. Patricia Currier Carol Nutting Earl Rodger John Poole Margaret Stanhope

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 17 Currier: Stanhope: Poole: Rodger: Nutting: Currier: Stanhope: Poole: Rodger: That must have been clue to our advertising in chapel a week before the game. We should put the words to our song in this history. It’s the only way they will be preserved. Now. how did the words go? Wasn’t it like this? Buy, buy, buy hot clogs, At the L. I. game tomorrow. Buy, buy, buy hot clogs If a clime you have to borrow. Now what was the rest of it? I think it went like this: Come and try this treat You will find it can’t be beat; And as you eat away You’ll give a bark for St. J. A.’’ By putting these words in this history, we’ll be able to read it in our Student ten or fifteen years from now and get cpiite a laugh out of it. Now, I think we should mention the new addition to Colby Hall. This building is going to be wonderful for future classes, and even though we won’t ever attend classes in it, we are all anxious to see it completed. Remember the excitement around school on Monday, December 8, when the United States entered the war! Yes, and soon after that, a group of students organized the Junior U. S. O. Any students having relatives in the service were eligible to join. They elected John Poole as their president. Since then, the rules have been changed so that any student may join the organization, but only those having relatives in the service may hold offices. We lost Ralph Dodge from the senior class in January this year, when he joined the Navy. He is the only member of our class who is in the service at present. I think we should mention a class meeting that was held this year. One of the most important ones was when we elected a nominating committee of four people (Betty Lindsley, Mary Dean McLellan, Robert Morrison, and Charles Delaney). This committee and the four class officers—Larry Lumbra, President; Patricia Currier, Vice-President; Frank Barney, Secretary, and Marjorie Cook, Treasurer;—then proceeded to appoint the graduation committees. This year we succeeded in putting every senior on some committee.

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 19 PROPHECY SCENE—Parks’ Palladium PROPRIETOR—Theron Parks TIME—1957 Enter—Dorothy Whaley, successful editor of that sophisticated magazine for sophisticated people, “Spec.” Dot—Gimme a pumpkin phosphate. Enter—William Lyster. Bill—Gimme a pumpkin phosphate. Hiya Dot! Dot—Hiya Bill! What are you doing up here? Bill—Oh, I’ve come 'way up from Virginia just to have one pumpkin phosphate ! Dot—What have you been doing lately anyway? Bill—1 ’ve just been elected mayor, first selectman, and cemetery commissioner of East Swashback Center, Virginia. Of course this takes a lot of time from my tobacco plantation but it gets along all right without me. Know what’s cooking with any of the other members of our class? Dot—Well, I had a letter from Arlene Amey the other day. She just opened a private hospital for injured baseball players. Jeanette Begbie’s her head nurse; and boy, they’ve got a rushing business since Skitch Weymouth started running the St. Johnsbury Dinosaurs. Enter—Katharine Powell. Kay—Gimme a pumpkin phosphate. Hello Bill, have you seen the latest Strauch girl ? Dot—What do you mean, Kay? Kay—Well, Carolyn’s drawings have taken the place of the Petty Girl and Gene Tierney as the army’s favorite wall decoration. Gloria Tubman’s her model and Armand Blake is applying his knowledge of mechanical drawing in designing the frames. Dot—Oh! Did you know that Mary Dean McLellan is up here on a visit. It’s the first time she’s come back to St. J. since she closed up her Wee Shoppee in West Danville and moved to Bunchabananas, Venezuela, to be with her husband, who’s stationed there as the representative for one of the large steamship lines. Oh, look, here she comes now! Enter—Mary Dean McLellan. Mac—Gimme a pumpkin phosphate. Hi Kids! I’ve been visiting all around.