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

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BLUE AND WHITE 21 THEM’S MY SENTIMENTS Mildred Bruce, ’34 Cold weather is too cold. I don’t like it. I prefer a heated interior. Those who enjoy the out-of-doors in zero weather are wont to say, “You don’t know what you’re missing'!” But I do, all too well, and count it a good miss. I have no room for regrets. It is much more enjoyable to be an interested observer on the inside. What could be easier than a good book and a comfortable seat before an open fireplace? The only trouble is— in these modern days of steam heat it is more likely to be a seat before a radiator. But what’s the difference? Oh, I agree, cold weather has its good points, even if I seem to fail in appre- ciation of them. Once in a while I like to get out and have a good snow-ball fight or go for a long tramp across the fields on snowshoes. When I am in an exalted mood, it is exhilarating to battle with the elements, but this is only occasionally. When the wind howls like a lone wolf, and the storm rages, pelting the earth with geometrical figures in its fury, that’s the time when I long for a Utopia with a perennial temperature of about ninety degrees in the shade. My only consolation is the fact that I know the storm cannot enter my snug dwelling, and that summer will come again with its warming sunshine and lazy breezes.

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20 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL Alumni 0ppartmwtt Margaret E. Bodette ’36, Editor News Bulletin From U. V. M. Class 1933 “Miss Gertrude Fishman, '32, of Ver-gennes, a Junior at the University of Vermont, received an average of 95% for the first semester college year.” Excerpt Concerning Robert Larrow, ’32 “Word received from Worcester tells of the appointment of Robert W. Larrow to the position of news editor for ‘The Tomahawk,’ a weekly newspaper published by the students of Holy Cross College. In commenting on the appointment, the ‘Tomahawk’ says: ‘Larrow, a graduate of Vergennes High School, of Vergennes, Vt., has been a high ranking student during his three years at Holy Cross, and in addition is a member of the Philomath, a lecture debater, and a member of the Vermont and ‘Cross and Scroll’ Clubs. His work on the ‘Tomahawk’ news board during the past year has been outstanding. Both his ability and his knowledge of editing qualify him for the position of news editor.” Y e have heard rumors of a pleasant surprise awaiting us in the future. The Class of 1933 are advertising a food sale for vacation week, the proceeds to be spent for an additional need in the new Gym. More will be made known in the near future. Gift of Class 1934 Since our last issue of the Blue and White went to press, we have come into possession of the gift banner presented by the Class of 1934. It is hung in a conspicuous place in the Study Hall. Although it has been referred to-in the School Activities of this paper, it is worthy of a second mention. William H. Carter, Jr., ’31 William H. Carter, Jr., ’31, a Junior in Middlebury College, is Editor of the College Hand Book. This winter he was Assistant Manager of the Winter Sports at the College. Lucile Wood, ’29 It is with a very definite sense of loss to the Alumni Association, our High School and the community that we record the death, on the 29th of January, 1935, of Lucile Wood, ’29.

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22 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL (grttutprg Joan Casey, ’36, Editor Really Sad Karl DeVine: “His stepfather died l efore Hen Jonson was born. Tasteless, We Hope We learn from Elmer Masters that “The Spy” deals with “internal” fiction. Not Really? Evelyn Lozo tells us that “Irving’s father was a Scotchman and his mother an Englishman.” So We Noticed Eunice: “I like to hear Lady Esther talk over the radio. She speaks so slowly and smoothly. Jennie: “It always sounds to me as if it was put on.” Eunice: “I feel that she should talk that way—advertising cosmetics. Jennie: “Well, those are put on too.” Radio Towers Too? E. Beach: “Johnson strolled along touching the telephone poles.” You’re Mistaken. It Was the Day Before! Ray Morris: Benjamin Franklin died yesterday. ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ Avery Palmer’s quotation from Cavalier poetry: “If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free. Angels alone that SNORE above, Enjoy such liberty.” In the Barn? Question: “To dance the heys with nimble feet)—What is the meaning?” Karl DeVine: Does it mean to dance on the hay?” Birds of a Feather— Vance Miller (Hastily glancing at the passage from “Macbeth”—“He’s fathered and yet he’s fatherless”)— “He’s feathered and yet he’s feather-less.” Exposed? ? ? ? Catherine Thorpe: “She’d be exposed to the gaze of the pass-by-ers.” I’m Sorry— Question: “What is scrofula?” Wilbur Norton (hunting through paper on which definitions were written) “I had that yesterday. Discovered—A New Number Helen Van Ornum: “Richard be- came king in eleventeen eighty-nine and ruled until eleventeen ninety-nine.” Zim—Zigor—Zitality Eleanor Gee (referring to a speaker who had addressed the assembly) “His speech lacked zigor.” Really Too Modest—Wasn’t It? ? Question: “What was Swift’s ‘Modest Proposal’? Answer (from an English 12 paper): “A young woman who admired Swift proposed to him. He wrote a book about this. Was It Very Sharp? Forrest Rivers: “His hair stood on edge. Rock-a-bye— Dorothy Claflin: Johnson’s mother married a bricklayer when he was two years old. Sad Bereavement Parker I eonard: “The Indians took some relation to her scalp.”