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

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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.”

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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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BLUE AND WHITE 23 ) FOR THE NEW GENERATION I The banking service that satis-'' fied your father and grandfather ! won’t satisfy you. !; Each generation makes new dell mands. We have made it our business to anticipate these demands and to be ready to fulfill any new banking need that arises. !; If you are a progressive busi-| ness man, this is the bank for you. !: THE National Bank of Vergennes Member Federal Reserve System C. L. HAIGHT C. T. S. PIERCE INS. AGENCY 1 - — —' — CALL Slack’s Market COMPLIMENTS OF FOR DR. L.R. GOODRICH .ALL FOOD SUPPLIES Tel. 160 i Tel. 134 ; L Vergennes, Vt.