Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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16 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL VERGENNES HIGH STUNT NIGHT WELL ATTENDED STUNT OF JUNIOR CLASS AWARDED FIRST PLACE After a four-year interval Stunt Night was revived by the high school pupils on March 2d. Whispered plans, closely guarded rehearsals, and mysterious bundles of all sizes, characterized the weeks of preparation. At last came the final Friday night and at last the curtain rose. Inton an immense mixing bowl Class Nine poured salad ingredients without number, each with a strong school flavor. Suddenly, as a result of most vigorous stirring. “School Spirit” rose from the bowl’s depths, to bring to a climax a stunt well done. “So This Is Paris,” was Class Eleven’s mysterious title. Flowing robes, gorgeous coloring, blue mountains, the Golden Apple and Helen of Troy, all these and more were cleverly presented in song and story. The thread of beautiful legend writhing now and then from a comic—sheepish—twist, gave unitv, effectiveness, and first place to “So This Is Paris.” Ice and snow, Eskimaid and Eskimo, Eskimurderer and Eskimice gave the members of Class Ten abundant op- portunity for action of all kinds. Yellow moonlight, cosy igloo and beautiful love scene soon gave place to fatal duel and most icy graves as “Eskimo Tragedy” went down to fame in second place. A vivid song-picture of the burning gymnasium, next plunged the surprised audience into the deepest gloom. Pour-ed-on water could not save either the gym or the “nine little gym suits.” Out of despair hope finally shone forth in “We'll build a gym” and a model of the new gymnasium was unveiled at the hack of the stage. Stunt Night was over. The specialties. “Puddin’ Head Tones.” Tap Dances and “Let’s Make Hay furnished entertainment between the stunts and the orchestra did its part welb Supt. H. N. Hanson. Miss Ruth Davies and Mr. Paul Collins acted as judges. The school extends thanks to all those who helped in organizing the stunts, in constructing scenery, in loaning property and in various other ways. The Senior Play, “Seventeen” is coming soon. Here is what the director says about it. “SEVENTEEN” The Senior play will soon be seen: The sparkling drama, SEVENTEEN, Youth and romance, the spring of life And laughter too, and pain and strife. You’ll like it all, just through and through, And you’ll like Ralph as Willie, too; And impish Jane, that awful child. Who drives poor Willie nearly wild; And Mary, playing Lola’s part, And breaking every poor boy’s heart. And Dave and Shirley, happy pair, Who, still, at forty, find life fair, Then gentle May, George. Johnnie, Joe, Young folks just like the ones you know. And May’s stern Dad. who sits above And throws things when they talk of love! And Russell says you’ll be remiss If you miss him as Genesis! If you are young, you’ll think we’re fine; You’ll like us if you’re ninety-nine; We’ll whisk you back to youth’s bright scene: Once more vou’ll just be SEVENTEEN.

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BLUE AND WHITE 15 talked on “Choices for Junior Tournament Team” and “Future Prospects.” Mr Carter conducted the meeting and various other school members contributed. Thurs., Mar. 8—Special Assembly. Safety Patrol organized. Consisted of the following members: R. King- man, C. Collette, R. Mundy, A. Sullivan, H. Washburn, W. Allen, L. Fisk, R. Barrows and R. Collins. Charles Frank-lyn Ryan was made Captain. Slogan—“Alertness Avoids Accidents.” Tues., Mar. 20—Two representatives of Bailey’s Music Rooms in Burlington entertained with music on the piano accordion and violin Fri., Mar. 23—Stunt Night held at the Opera House. (Account at the close of this calendar). Tues., Apr 3—Results of the Stunt Night discussed. Profit, $126.00. Wed., Apr. 4-—Discussion of baseball season and prospects. Fri., Apr. 6—Assembly speaker, Mr. H. C. Herrick. Instructive and entertaining sketches from the history of Vergennes. Mon., Apr. 9—Senior honors announced in order of standing: Valedictorian, Shirley Haven; Salutatorian. Margaret Carter; Pro Meri-to members: Shirley Haven, Margaret Carter, Shirley Adams, Elizabeth Abbott, Clarice Briggs, (t d with E. Abbott for 4th place), Melba Williams, Elinor Kimball, Barbara Bristol, David Ryan, Mildred Bruce, Mary Parrish, Lillian Meacham, George Barton, Robert Woodruff (tied with G. Barton), Charles Ryan. Mon., Apr. 9—Safety patrol substitutes necessitated by the opening of baseball season : Captain Charles Ryan replaced by George (Barton; Russell King-man by Newell Adams. Russell Kingman was made Captain. Mon., Apr. 9—Numbers by three boys repeated from Mrs. Casey’s program for P. T. A. of previous evening. 1st number —“Easter Bills,” Raymond Morris. 2nd number—“Ham and Eggs,” Martin Casey and Kenneth Sullivan. Wed., Apr. 11—Assembly program by Aladdin greatly enjoyed. Fri., Apr. 13—Aladdin entertainment at Opera Plouse. Senior Class benefit. Thurs., Apr. 19—French Club meeting held at V. H. S. Three act play, “Barbe-Bleue,” presented. Fri., Apr. 20—Trip to Castleton made by the following four Senior girls: Betty German, Elinor Kimball, Shirley Adams and Rachel Smith, accompanied by Miss McGovern. In a regional prize-speaking contest of the “F. F. A.” held in the auditorium of the Middlebury High School on Thurs., April 26, Walter Giard placed second out of four contestants. Annual Junior Prom at Opera House Friday, May 4 Japanese Theme Whittemore’s Orchestra

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BLUE AND WHITE 17 Inga’ Atljlrttra Russell Kingman, ’34, Editor 1st game Industrial School 24 2t Of course we didn’t have Vasseur or Levlock but our boys forged ahead just the same to win by a slight four-point margin. 2nd game Hinesburg 29 18 The new defense seemed to work perfectly. The Hinesburg quintet spent most of their time trying to get through, but the V. H. S. boys were too much for them. 3rd game Middlebury 36 4 The first Middlebury game was our first big game with all of the odds favoring Middlebury. The game was probably the outstanding guard game of the' year as Middlebury only scored four points. All of the four points were scored by foul shots. Booth and Martin covered their men perfectly, preventing any short shots, while the other three men held their men to a few hurried shots from way out in the court. 4th game Alumni 32 24 The Alumni game nearly went down in history as a defeat. Early in the last quarter a substitution was made which nearly cost the game, but Ralph Booth began to see red and sank two in a row to send the game into overtime periods. The Alumni team made a shot which was tied by Levlock. This meant another overtime period. Chas. Ryan pulled his usual stunt and scored four points to win the game for V. H. S. 5th game St. Mary’s 20 22 The St. Mary’s team seemed to be a jinx to our boys. They won both games by long shots. The game at Vergennes was very close, being tied at the end of the last quarter. This swung the battle into an overtime period. St. Mary’s scored two points, which put the game on ice for them. 6th game Proctor 18 23 Everyone was surprised to see how close our boys held the strong Proctor team. Proctor was the winner of the Southern tournament and was in the finals of the State Senior Tournament. 7th game Middlebury 31 26 The second Middlebury game was a different story from the first. Vergennes was behind 5 pts. at the half but Lady Luck was right at our side. With approximately one minute and 26 seconds of time left our boys came through with ten points. Booth made one of his famous back court heaves, and Alec made one of his equally famous long shots. Chas. Ryan came through as usual and made three long shots in a row. At the end our boys came off the floor with a lead of 5 points. 8th game Essex Junction 13 31 Our star center, Vasseur, was unable to go to Essex and we had to play on a small floor. Due to these two reasons our boys were easily taken over by the strong Essex Junction five. 9th game St. Mary’s 15 24 For the second time of the year our boys met their jinx and were taken over by St. Mary’s. St. Mary’s was the only school to beat our boys two games. 10th game Waterbury 20 16 Waterbury insisted on a game and finally our coach consented to play. They came with high hopes but our boys proceeded to crash these hopes and came out on the long end of the score with four points to spare. 11th game Beeman’s Academy 53 13 Beeman’s were taken over by a 40 point lead. This game helped a great deal to improve our boys’ style.