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

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BLUE AND WHITE 25 Scoring; for the first six are as fol- Points 284 125 106 97 59 43 lows: Name Games Willard 13 Badger 17 Looby 17 Faye 17 Stearns 13 Barrows 10 STUDENT PATROL Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers in Order of Rank for Patrol Sept. 1944-Jan. 1945 Captain— Martha Partch 1st Leutenants— B. Bacon C. Chapman E. MacDonald K. Panton J. Griffis G. Sears 2nd Lieutenants— V. Powers F„ Gilson I lean Danyow. Jackie Myers K. Evarts A. Tucker Sergeants— J. Guyette E. Chapman N. Partch E. Bristol C. Looby B. Norton Corporals— B. Dike R. Lackard T. Norton R. Slack Jean Mvers B. Jordan L. Poquette Promotions for Seniors Captains— Clyde Badger Thelma Williams Madalyn Hunt 1st Lieutenant— Mildred Searles Eva Hallock CLASSROOM BONERS OF 1944 A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the population. The Kodak is the Bible of the Mohammedans. A grass widow is the wife of a vegetarian. A Mayor is a he horse. A skeleton is a man with his inside out and his outside off. Shakespeare was born in the year ot 1564, supposedly on his birthday. Robert Louis Stevenson got married and went on his honeymoon. It was then he wrote “Travels With a Donkey.” Queen Victoria was the only queen who sat on a thorn for 63 years. An interval in music is the distance from one piano to the next. Medieval cathedrals were supported by flying buttocks. The future of “I give” is “You take.” Who signed the Magna Carta? 1 didn’t. Queen Elizabeth was a fat woman. The demands of the Spanish Ambassador she stoutly resisted. Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Wsahington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. Imports are ports very far inland. It was raining cats and dogs and there were poodles in the road. The Boer War was a pig fight put on for the pleasure of Louis XIV. Capital punishment should not be used too frequently in schools. Where is Cincinnati? Fourth place in the league. Why does cream rise to the top? So people can get it.

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