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

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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.

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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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18 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL 12th game Hinesburg 41 30 This game came the night after our Gym burned and our boys had been up practically all night, After three hours in snow drifts our boys finally arrived, cold and in borrowed uniforms—but they heat Hinesburg on a small floor by eleven points. 13th game Beeman’s Academy 50 25 Our boys went to Beeman’s and returned with a 25 point lead. 14th game Bristol 42 16 The boys were all keyed up for this game. Bristol has always been our rival and our boys were set on beating them. After a short argument about rules our team went on the floor and piled up a lead of 26 points. 15th game Essex Junction 32 22 Essex Junction was very proud of its record. They had amassed a long string of consecutive victories (including V. H. S.) and were still winning, until Yergennes stepped in and spoiled their record. Our boys had to beat Essex Junction in order to get into the Tournament and they certainly won the right. 16th game Essex Junction 28 24 Our team had to beat Essex Junction again in order to play Bradford. For the second time in four days our boys beat the invincible Essex Quintet. 17th game Bradford 31 13 Now all our team had to do was to beat Bradford to make the Tournament. Bradford proved to be an easy victory, and our boys were in the Tournament. The Tournament 18th game St. Michael’s 23 20 The first game that we had to play was with St. Michael’s of Montpelier. Although St. Michael’s proved a very hard game, our boys came through and won the first game of the Tournament. 16th game Orleans 13 28 Yergennes lost in the Semi-Finals of the Annual Junior Tournament to Orleans by a score of 28-13. The Orleans team was later winner of the Tournament by virtue of their 26-16 victory over Bethel. The Vergennes boys, fatigued by playing five games within eight days, could not hold the pace set by the Red Raiders of Orleans except in the first and third quarters when the scoring was: Vergennes 4. Orleans 5; 3rd period, Yergennes 7, Orleans 2. After the Tournament our boys finished off the season by beating Bristol (27-13) and the Vermont Industrial School (29-27). Ralph Booth was selected as All Tournament Guard for the second team. After the season was over the Merchants of Vergennes joined and gave the boys a banquet. At the banquet each member of the team was presented with a miniature gold basketball. The team has been admirably well supported both when losing or when winning. At each Tournament game many people went many miles over ice and snow to support the team. BASEBALL SEASON 1st Beeman’s April 28 10 to 9, favor of Beeman’s 2nd Middlebury May 1 18 to 17. favor of V. H. S. 3rd Bristol May 4 10 to 8, favor of Bristol