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

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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.

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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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24 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL Young people on their way up in the world who learn to be on time usually make good. Let our WATCHES, and service assist you. “Watch us for Watches” W. H. 8C W. S. Bristol JEWELERS | ( ! E. G. 8C A. W. Norton ; ; ESTABLISHED 1868 J. A. Harrington Co. INC. COMPLIMENTS OF Dealers In HARDWARE SPORTING GOODS Charbonneau Baldwin ROOFING, PAINT And LEONARD ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS ■ — — I ,