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

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VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL View and Review —Your Editors in this issue . . . Here we are with another “Blue and White,” our Spring and Easter issue, which is bigger and better than ever—we hope! Because everyone cooperated so well and handed in good contributions, the Literary Department is a healthy one. You’d better take a look. A big bouquet should go to our Art Editor, Carl Shaw, whose new lot of cuts are exceptionally smooth. We hope you like the photos of the basketball teams, too,—we do! In fact the whole paper is made up in an effort to please you—anyhow—Happy Easter ! success or failure? . . . With the coming of spring comes, also, another sport. Yes, your guess was correct. Baseball. What does this coming baseball season hold in store for V. H. S.? That, no one can foretell. But—let us stop right here and make a firm resolution that, success or failure, we will back our team with every ounce of spirit and encouragement we possess. Too, don’t break the resolution! Great things have been done by the weakest of teams when a little support was offered— on with the play . . . This year, for the first time, V. H. S. is to enter in the One Act Play Contest. What with a good play, a good cast, and a good coach no one can tell what heights of achievement will be reached. Of course, it must be rfemembered that our representatives will meet in competition, schools which have much greater dramatic advantages than ours. Their best acting is all they can offer—may they win at Middlebury! applause . . . Here we wish to offer a bit of praise where we believe it is due. Fist off—and “hats off” to the Girls’ Varsity for a swell record this past season. Girls, you’ve put V. H. S. back on the map and in the running. Thanks . . Congratulations to the “Spotlight” staff, too. You’re doing a good job although we understand how tough the going can be! Keep up the good work! . . . Lastly, to the Boys’ Varsity Squad—some would say sympathy; we say, “our praise.” You did your best and when that proved not to be enough, you took the breaks on the chin. You’ll be rewarded—. PAGE FOUR

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BLUE AND WHITE MARCH, 1940 VOL. 2, NO. 2 Spring Issue TABLE OF CONTENTS —FICTION— page 7 Queen of the Seasons 8 The Contest Won... 9 A Different Horse. 10 First Job......... 10 A Miracle......... 11 Black Pepper...... —ARTICLES— 8 Easter .............................. Inez Willard 16 Patrol Record........................Martin Casey —FEATURES 4 View and Review.............. 5 Editorials .................. 10 Spring Fever................ 12 Contrast 13 Day Is Done................ 13 Spring ....... ........... 13 Alone ....................... 14 Pages for Poets —DEPARTMENTS— 18 Exchange ...........................Ruth Merrill 19 The School Calendar.Aleda White, Eunice Washburn 21 Girls’ Athletics....................Hazel Evarts 23 Boys’ Athletics......Merritt Raymond, Stuart Haven 25 De Rebus Romanis.....Patience Norton, Genier Jerome 27 V. H. S. Searchlight................Allen Gaines 28 Le Department Francais.Alta Beach, Elizabeth Fifield 31 The Grinnery......................Raymond Ryan .....Your Editors ....Your Editors ...James Benjamin .Etta Van Ornum ...Dorothy Reed ....Frances Husk by ....Mabel Thorpe .Thomas Mundy ..Norma LeBeau .....Joy Angier ...James Allen ..Betty Fifield PAGE THREE

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BLUE AND WHITE EDITORIALS “SPRING IS HERE!” Spring is here! Every minute of the day we are conscious of the fact. This (time of year holds much for each of us—a special promise, a rise of spirit. Cases of the so called spring fever are prevalent, classes lag, stridying ceases. With a million and one other things in the foreground, and with the real purposes of “school going” far in the background, we go gaily on our way. But—let us pause to think of things to come. Weeks are simply packed with activity from now until June. Do not miss a thing— yet, do not do all and let the thoughts of work fade away. Finals are inevitable. Let your case of spring fever be one to boost you on to both work and play. S. M. S. WHAT IS V. H. S: ATHLETIC FUTURE? Why hasn’t V. H. S. good athletic teams? What will they be like in the future? Will we continue to rank second or will we emerge with a first division team? These and many more questions are on the lips of a lot of students who are looking ahead to 1941-2-3-5-8-50. Many are wondering just what the future V. H. S. teams will amount to. And I, too, am wondering. Certainly the students and others outside the school want V. H. S. to come up with a winning team. But getting down to facts we will attempt to answer the foregoing questions. First: Why hasn’t V. H. S. good athletic teams? Well, for several reasons, the main one being lack of good material. By that I mean, lack of experienced material. The teams are made up mostly of inexperienced men who never played 'till they reached the first year of high school and who through lack of previous years training are green; therefore, not producing winning teams. I’m not blaming the players themselves but the system we have at present to train the players. A pupil comes up from the sixth grade and starts playing in the seasonal sport. With no real effort to learn the right way to play he dabbles around fitting himself to whatever seems easy to him. This could be remedied with a little extra time and very little financial expense. The plan is simple and compiled very accur- PAGE FIVE