Towle High School - Spirit Yearbook (Newport, NH)

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PAGE 26 THE SPIRIT OF TOWLE The Teams that competed in Scholarship Day at Keene: 'VCHEMISTRY GUY DODGE JOHN SNAPE JAMES BROCK i' lx! Place 'liHISTORY JOHN STUBBE LYMAN MILLER HARLOW' NELSON ikglld Plan' FRENCH MURIEL BELL JOANNE CONDON MIRIAM VAUGHAN HONOR ROLL MURIBL BELL MIRIAM VAUGH.-xN HARLOW NELSON GLADYS HOWARD VVILLENA HASTINGS XVALTER XVIRKKALA JOANNE CONDON JUNE BRILL AILI PELTENON ELEANOR GOULD Prize Speaking The 1936 annual Junior Prize Speaking contest was a great success. There were live girls and three boys competing and for all their minority the boys took the first two places. prize wi'th Edgar Confession. Mer- and everyone was Merton Sayles took first Allen Poe'S The Murderer's ton was outstandingly good completely satisfied with this choice. choice for second Loui Bonaccorsi was the place with Spartacus' Speech to the Gladiators, by E. Kellog, and Muriel Bell was given honora- ble mention. It was a hard long fight but fairly won. This spring Merton was scheduled to go to Durham for the state competition. During the year Mert was called upon several times to repeat his splen-did performance and this gave him an excellent chance to practice and perfect his form. Apparently his form was perfected to perfec- tion because when the time came to show his abilities at Durham he came back to us with iirst place in the serious declamation. Superlatives Boy Most Popular Richard Purmont Most Studious John Snape Most Versatile Merton Sayles Most Likely to Succeed Harlow Nelson Most Business Like Loui Bonaccorsi Most Radical Arthur Brault Most Individualistic John Stubbe Most Valuable to the Class Richard Purmont Most Cheerful Merton Sayles Best Looking David Chase Best Dressed Philip Hackwell Best Athlete George Hamilton Best Dancer Merton Sayles Class Sheik ' Arthur Brault Class Procrastinator Arthur Brault Wittiest Merton Sayles Girl Most Popular Rita Trudeau Most Studious Gladys Howard M.ost Versatile Eleanor Gould Most Likely to Succeed Muriel Bell Most Business Like Beatrice Rowe Most Radical Miriam Vaughan Most Individualistic Miriam Vaughan Most Valuable to the Class Beatrice Rowe Most Cheerful Willena Hastings Best Looking Dorothy Osborne Best Dressed Dorothy Osborne Best ,Athlete Rita Trudeau Best Dancer Bertha Antilla Class Flirt Class Procrastinator Wittiest Rita Trudeau Amelia Peters Eleanor Hall

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THE SPIRIT OF TOWLE PAGE 25 RUTH H. WILLETTE Rudy Commercial Course Activities: Glee Club 1, 2, 4, Theta Lambda Sigma 4, Hockey 1, 2, 3, Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4. RICHARD WIN N Dick , Rich General Course WALTERAN WIRKKALA Walt General Course Activities : Glee Club 2, Manager fFootba11j U, Prize speaking, Theta Lambda Sigma 4. JOHN J. WOOD Jake General Course 'k Indicates winning' of letter.

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THE SPIRIT OF TOWLE PAGE 27 History Class of Nineteen Thirty-Seven In 'the Fall of 1932, our class numbering 105, entered Towle High S.chool. We were reminded the first thing that we were Freshmen, and would have to obey t-he 'rules prescribed by the Sopho- mores. We were socially accepted at the Fresh- man Reception and were ready in a few weeks to enter into the various activities of the school. Our class was well represented in all athletics throughout the year. By a popular election Richard Purinort was chosen President of the class with Ar'thur Brault and Wanda Zekos as vice-president and secretary- treasurer respectively. We sponsored several socials that year all of which were very successful, financially as well as otherwise. Our Sophomore year started off with a bang, by the initiating of the new Freshmen. This proved 'to be a great deal of fun, and set our class up a notch in high school life. The leaders for the year were: President, Joanne Condon, vice-president Arthur Brault, and secretary-treasurer, Wanda Zekos. The big event in our sophomore year was the Winter Carnival followed by the Carnival Ball. This was the 3rd annual carnival and brought out a variety of talen't on the part of certain members of our class. Our Junior year opened with Richard Purmort at 'the helm, and Arthur Brault, Beatrice Rowe an-d Robert Hurd vice-president, secretary and treasurer in the order named. The big social event of the year was the Junior Prom. All the various committees did good jobs and everything went off smoothly. The Annual Junior Prize Speaking Contest was won by Merton Sayles, who did such an excellent piece of work that he was sent to Durham, New Hampshire, the next year and came home with iii-st prize, winning over contestants throughout the whole state. At the Senior year elections Richard Purmort was chosen president again, with Harl0w Nelson as vice-president, Beatrice Rowe as secretary, and Robert Hurd as treasurer. Harlow Nelson was chosen editor-in-chief of our school paper with a capable staff of assistants. For the annual senior play our class chose Streamline Sue, a comedy in three acts. It was presented before a large audience and proved to be a huge success. The class was mush grieved at losing one of our quieter classmatesf Vesley Chamberlain, as the result of an automobile accident. At the annual scholarship day in Keene, the Chemistry team took first place in their division and the history team took second in theirs. This ranked Towle as third place in the high schools throughout the state. The class is 357.8 feet or 4294 inches or 10,906 cm. tall. A person composed of such proportions would weigh 8966 lbs. or 4075 hg. He would wear a size 48.5 shoe and would be 1135 years old. Loui Bonaccorsi has the larges't head in the class and Muriel Bell, the Valedictorian the smallest. The largest shoe, size 13, is worn by John Stubbe. Our class father is Walter Wirkkala, who is 24, and our son is Richard Smith, who is 16. After having enjoyed the various exercises connected with graduation, we will move on out into the world and leave a place for the class of 1938. - - , Ignorance or Light? I VA LEDICTORY I I have come to the conclusion that at long last, our only hope of preserving democracy is to ban- ish ignorance through education. The democracy, which we hope to preserve, implies the right of every individual to have a fair and equal opp.or- tunity. Democracy, as we understand it today is even more than representation of the people in government-it is political and social equalitq. Without public education is there not a possible consequence that our country would soon become a prey of anarchists? The individual liberties, which we are fortunate in possessing, today, enable us -to be free-'thinking people, who have the riht of self determination.