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

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JUNE 1949 CLASS POEM I WALK SEDATELY I walk sedately through these familiar Halls today. Walk quietly and remember my Life here. I touch a time-scarred desk, Recall a face, relive a memory. What will I remember? Barbaric pageantry Of football games, a concert’s swelling Majesty, the Junior Prom or some blithe Deviltry? My friends — will I remember them — Will they remember me? Or are we Doomed to dim obscurity? And into my sadness there comes a Thought of peace. For here, enshrined Forever by these hallowed halls, a Portion of myself shall live — Until eternity. And when, in the days to come. The death bell of time shall toll, I’ll echo the snatch of an old School song, in the chapel of my soul. —Kay Hubbard 25

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT Jean Gorham and Kay Hubbard have graduated from L. I. for the third time. They like the atmosphere. Miss Gorham is contemplating retirement because of the extraordinarily long hill. Kay will still carry on. Jo Chamberlain is proprietress of a Gentleman's boarding house in New York. The gentlemen must be between the ages of 16 and 36. Carolyn Wood and Janice Courtney are known as “Chamberlain’s Chambermaids.” Jayne Simpson and Beatrice Camire have just completed a long run on Broadway, and are now running for cover. Mike Whitaker, prominent political leader, has founded a “Society for the Prevention of Socialism.” Jean Colby and Ellen Powers were charter members. Miss Beverly Stone and her “Violent Violinists” are touring Transylvania with a new selection of Be-Bop. Miss Patty Fitzpatrick is soloist for the group. Accompanying them is Miss Ernestine Turner, who is financing the trip. Doris Spiller, that personality plus girl, is the inventor of the new No-stick lollipop”. Mothers all over the country are sending congratulations. We add ours. Pat Desrochers, Leo Pillion and Lorraine Gosselin have pooled their funds to inaugurate a chain of fruit stores in Siberia. The hope to clean out scurvy and vitamin deficiencies there by this move. Richard Cutting, the chemist, has discovered a new process for making paper out of old pine cones. For this the state of Maine has awarded him $5.000—and a gold medal. His Secretary, Peggy Pellerin, is being kept busy picking pitch from pine cones. Janet Bailey and Rachel Schoppe are the two highest paid tobacco auctioneers in the South. Their efforts have been rewarded by a southern accent and fourteen carat gold cigarette. No comment. World-famous Virginia Cassidy and her two colleagues, Rhoda White-hill and Ruth Parsons, have just returned from South Africa where they were hunting for a species of shmoo now feared extinct. Peewee Christman is the only woman in the world ever to win every single award at the Olympic Games held this year in Higher Slobovia. When the reporters asked her how she accomplished this amazing feat she stammered “Shucks, it was easy; I was the only contestant.” Bravo, Miss Christman. Nancy Dean Lillian Stearns Rachel Schoppe Dorothy Weeks John Tirrell Glendon Moffett 24

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