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

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BLUE AND WHITE 9 Norma Georgianna Muzzy “Muzz” Music 1-2-3-4 Rotary Supper 4 Mixed Chorus 2-3 Minstrel Show 4 Stunt Night 1-2-3 Dorothy Ann Bowers “Dot” Music 2-3-4 Music Festival 2-3-4 Class Day 4 Stunt Night 3 Rotary Supper 4 Ambition—Teaching “Dotty came from Boston to begin her Sophomore year. She is a dark ambitious girl. We wish her success in every undertaking.’’

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8 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL Joyce Mildred Tucker ‘J0y” Senior Play Rotary Supper 4 Ambition—Undetermined “We know you’ll succeed, Joy, so good luck to you!” Earl Sidney Willard “Stinky” Basketball 3-4; All-tournament team 4 Baseball Captain 4 Scenery Manager in Senior Play Blue and White Staff 4 Plays Saxaphone in Orchestra 4 Mixed Chorus 4 Ambition is to be a Physical Education Instructor “Earl is the tall boy who always seems to always get what he goes after.” Thelma May Williams “Bill” Senior Play Rotary Supper 4 Grade Banking 1-2 Patrol 1-2-3-4 Stunt Night—1-3 Minstrel Show 1 Basketball 1-2-3 Ambition—To travel abroad “May you always be happy in your success that is bound to come!”

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10 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOT THE CONSTITUTION—TEMPLE OF LIBERTY Carolyn Chapman, 45 A temple of liberty—the greatest temple ever built by man, insuring some of the greatest rights and privileges in the world, built up by some of the greatest leaders in all history—that is our Constitution, the Constitution of the United States, beginning with the famous words every American knows— “We, the people”—yes, it is we, the people—everywhere, all the time. Perhaps we can call the Bill of Rights our ten pillars, for surely they hold up our temple. They stand for the things we can’t see, the things we accept without questioning, besides the freedom they definitely state. Supported by our pillars is the preamble, the arch of our temple, the backbone ot everything the American people want for themselves and the rest of the world “to establish justice, to insure domestic tranquillity”—or, the right to a decent home in a decent world. Every temple must have an emblem or a standard to signify to whom it belongs or what it means; therefore our Constitution must have a standard. We have it—the flag of the United States, the red and white stripes, the forty-eight stars against a blue field—the flag standing for so much. We know it by many names—Old Glory, the Star Spangled Banner, the Red. White and Blue, but it all means the same thing— the standard of freedom floating o’er a free land. Perhaps Henry Holcomb Bennett best expressed the meaning of our flag, in his poem “The Flag Goes By” when he wrote: Hats off! The colors before us fly, But more than the flag is passing by: Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great, Fought to make and to save the State; Weary marches and sinking ships; Cheers of victory on dying lips; Days of plenty and years of peace; March of a strong land’s swift increase. Equal justice, right and law. Stately honor and reverend awe. Sign of a nation, great and strong Toward her people from foreign wrong Pride and glory and honor,—all Live in the colors to stand or fall.” Yes, that's what our flag stands for. What makes a man cheer when he’s dying? What makes him fight on when there seems to he nothing left? We ask why, but we know. He's cheering because he knows he’s