Taunton High School - Journal Yearbook (Taunton, MA)

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THE JOURNAL The relentless globe leaves them to their fate as it turns to a new scene in Venice. A tall dark Italian is passionately serenading a lady draped over a balcony. It is Hilda White. On the next balcony a spook party is holding sway: Helen Crowell, chief medium is producing spirits out of the air to the great interest of her audience:-Eva Lynds, Marguer- ite Concannon, Charlotte Chase, and Bernice Pring. Now a party of nterrymakers sweeps by in a gondola among whom are Rozzy Davol and Betty Freeman, popular debutantes of the season. They are stop- ping by the edge of the canal to purchase flowers of Ida Bird and Alice McRae, when the Emperor of China passes, accompanied by his Chief Cook and Bottle Vllasher, Lawrence Ryan. Close by, in another gondola, Elliott Hathaway and Frank King, fish venders, are trolling for pickerel. But is this Taunton that we see? VVhy, there is a skyscraper where L. E. Higgins' once stood, and is that George Maxwell washing windows on the thirtieth floor! Here comes a parade with mounted policemen at the head, two of whom are old acquaintances, Ester Atkins and Helen McManus. It is a great surprise to Find Dot Dean as mayor, in tall silk hat with the Board of Health, Mildred Rausch, Muriel Cleathero, and Ruth Forsberg, marching at her heels. Next comes the Cobb, Bates, and Yerxa float with Aline B. Petra adorning the top as fairy queen, and Marian Aldrich and Barbara Knox riding gleaming horses, advertising the Tholras Gracia safety razors. Immediately behind them is VVhitman Tillson leading the Odd Fellows' goat. Do our eyes deceive us? A race-track on Vliinthrop Street, and who is participating in that mule race? Hurray! Hilda Grayhurst and Emilie Pollard are a tie! Even the worthy judges, David Faber, Ethel VVerner, and Joanna Majl-:ut are jumping out of their shoes in excitement. Now we see the old assembly hall of T. H. S. Kenneth Garside, the principal, is addressing the pupils on the subject of Rose Tuttle's next lecture on Cosmetics . In the back of the hall stand Gladys VVilliams, teacher of cooking and harmony, and May Travers, teacher of millinery and manual training. Occasionally they glare at an offending freshman. In stalks the janitor, that king of the furnace: the monarch is none other than Charles McCarthy. He lanfents that the furnace invented by VVinthrop Coffin persists in back- firing and desires to call in the veterinary, Albert Dowd, to cure its ills. Mr. flarside breaks off his speech the radio sends in a bedtime story told by Miss Gladys Briggs from the Lincoln-jaskulka piano stores. Then follows a duct by Carolyn Hutchins and Alice Najarian. The pupils are elated, especially when a rousing speech is made by Stanley Baker, president of the Soporific Somnambulistsf' The crystal clears and now the hands of the mystic CmistakeC?Dj are outstretched, waiting to be crossed with silver. VVe have seen our class- mates, one and all. VVhat next? 62

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THE JOURNAL route from China. There are with him three passengers dressed in gaudy silks, all old schoolmates: Irene Willis, a returned missionary, Helen VVilbur, a specialist in Chinese manicuring, and Ada Van Vranken, in- structor in home-made Greek. Mountains of snow and ice replace the pyramids. On the edge of a glacier trips Muriel Needham, teaching aesthetic dancing to a group of polar bears, while Elsie Menice and Gloria Miller are playing hide-and- seek around an iceberg. Not far off in the Eskimo village, Eileen Deven- ey, Eleanor Owers, and Abby Sayer are bobbing the hair of some Eskimo ilappers. ln the doorway of the next hut Arthur Croacher and Charlie Avila sit smoking their pipes, talking about the day when Scup Master- son's steam yacht, The Herring Run was wrecked, stranding them on the lonely shore. Their conversation soon comes to an end, for with a splash Esther Fenton and Violet Banks in their ski-shod Marmon have knocked Frank McNelly into the ocean. The poor thing has been har- pooning minnows by the sad sea waves. After Milton Goldstein has hauled him out by the coat-tails, Frank is not much the worse for the ducking. The blare of a trumpet! A herald, Arthur Germond, on the top of a snowbank announces in loud tones the arrivalofthe Snowbound Frolicsf' The main feature , he proclaims, Hwill be the dance of the Merry Half Dozen, with impersonations by our artists, Eleanor Roberts as Irene Castle, Helen Maloney as Cleopatra, Mary Lynch as Evangeline, Delight Brown Mary Pickford, Edith Gollub as Romeo, accompanied by Lillian Willis as Juliet. A lazy atmosphere surrounds the globe. Beneath a gently waving palm tree lounges Billy Mason, gracefully eating bananas and watching Ethelyn Maker driving her pet crocodile over the sand. ln her train follow Gertrude McAloon and Frances Jones teaching three pickaninies to play on harmonicas, and Gertrude Lawlor and Gladys Sheppard cast- ing their newly-patented brand of chewing gum to the parrots. A party gathers on the beach headed by Marguerite Tracy and Bertha Teplow with their arms full of microscopes, megaphones, and telescopes. They board a boat, piloted by Collis VVhite, and are off to explore a newly dis- covered river, reported to be larger than the Amazon. ln the rear are Professor Raymond VVicher, the only man in the world who knows how to talk the monkey language, and Stuart Vllalker, laden with hair tonic for the natives. Alice Reid, the proprietor, rushes down from the hotel, waving their unpaid hotel bill. The party has gone, however. They are overtaken by a motor boat bearing Elizabeth Brady and Eliza- beth Patten, envoys from the Insane Hospital Ship. They are in search of Max VVhitters and Paul Goldstein, dangerous lunatics. But their quest is unrewarded. Great is the commotion aboard ship as Milton Levy jumps aboard barely escaping the jaws of a famished lion. 61

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