Tatnall School - Triangle Yearbook (Wilmington, DE)

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VOYAGE OF THE SENIOR CLASS The first arrival of the present senior class was Nancy Edwards, who joined us in the seventh grade. She was followed by Madaline Lattornus, who came to Tatnall in the ninth grade. In the tenth grade, Joanne Weigel and Susan Parriott became Tatnallites. Kitty Adomat, our exchange student from Ger- many, came for the senior year. SENIOR CLASS WILLS Being of round mind: Kitty Adomat wills to everyone a senior year with as much fun and good ex- periences as she had. Nancy Eduwdf wills her naturally curly hair to anyone who needs it. Mizdalifze Liztlomzzr wills her eyelashes to Martha Yerkes. Susan Parriotl wills her air-conditioned car to Elsie Dodds. So . . . there you are . . . buddy. joumze Weigel leaves physics class with relief.

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WH.ITHER AWAY? Now it fell in the month of june in the two hundred and fourth year of our kingdom, that I, Sir Tatnall of Sedgely, the first man to be dubbed graduate of the Tatnall School, went riding in search of a merry adventure. And it fell that I saw a sign hard by the school which made known that the Class of 1955 was gathering for a tournament of words. So right boldly I entered the school and hid myself behind a screen in the Great Cafeteria, for I had a deeming that I should not be made welcome. Aforetimes, only ladies were let come and they now cry that the Tatnall School is new-fangle for letting men come, however, I nist no man in no kingdom more hardier nor.of greater courage than the first Tatnall knights. And I, from behind the screen, did see them enter, all gorgeously arrayed. Their names were: the Lady Brigitte, the Lady Madeline, the Lady Nancy, the Lady Susan, and the Lady Joan, and a fairer set of ladies was there never in no kingdom. And there was great joy among them and straightway they fell to feasting, which was ever their wont, and talking, which they ever loved to do. Now the first happening in this tournament was quaintly called where have you been and what have you been doing? And first spake the Lady Madeline, Lo, many times in the past hath my voice rung forth, 'Girls, be quiet, please,' that now I teach after the manner of Sir Dale of Carnegie, and there is now such manner of winning of friends and infiuencing of people that Delaware is widely known as Lattomus Little joyous. Then spake the Lady Brigitte, and she spake in the accents of Delaware, For sithen I have always loved the olden ways, I have here taught the English classics, and in especial the 'Paradise Lost', which I do make committed to memory. Then spake the Lady Nancy, Now I, Lady Nancy, loving mankind and womankind and concerning myself ever with their ease, have founded a Spic hard by the Tatnall tournament field, where the young may foregather for feasting and merrimentg but, alas, the Lady Brigitte waxeth ever wroth with me. Alas, thyself! answered the Lady Brigitte, In my youth I never had no manner of time of no kind, with forever rushing to and fro speaking fair words to the Americans, and it grieveth me sore to see the young so disporting themselves in idleness. She speaks true, boldly answered the Lady Madeline, for it was ever her wont to defend her little sister. Make no more language, spake the Lady Susan, but hear of my adventures. For ever was I possessed of too many fine robes to wear from the waxing until the waning of the moon. And so I pose for advertisements, seventeen portraits a day, and never in none am I arrayed the same as in another. And let me say and here make known, that I pose for none save those that say, 'The right people' for even in my youth was I aware how the people loved those signs. Woe worth the day, spake the Lady joan, and the tears brast from her eyes, that the word should ever reach mine ears that one of my companions should stay within doors on such wise. For ever I traveled faster and faster between Middletown and Wilmington, so that I could not leave off traveling. So I am captain of the hrst Earth Hockey Team of the Inter-Planetary League, and many are the trophies I can show to make good my words. Though, sooth to say, I love not the moon so well as Middletown. Trophies might you have enow, spake on high the Lady Susan, but goodly sums of gold such as mine wilt thou never see more. Now make peace, spake the Lady Nancy, for it is summer when every heart gladdens with the coming of the fresh fiowersf' As the French book saith, said the Lady joan, we have ever been goodly com- panionsf' Then they fell to talking and laughing and weeping of the old days, their joys and their dolors, and I, bemused, brast out on laughing, whereupon the ladies rushed on me and seized me and cursed me in most orgulous wise, crying, Fic on thee, traitor! And they would have imprisoned me in an ancient safe had not appeared the house dragon, descendant of the mighty and redoubted Jinx, whose mien would strike terror to the hearts of the most mighty. So all the ladies fell into a swound, And as the dragon did eat the remnaunt of the luncheon, I did Hee.

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