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

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 BLUE AND WHITE 13 Eleanor MacDonald “Ellie Mae’ Activities Patrol 2-3-4 Music 1-2-3-4 Stunt Night 1-2 Music Festival 1-2 Business Course Bennington High Phy. Ed. Music Girls’ Club Religion Outdoor Club I like real people. I like my friends to be honest, frank and truthful. I had rather keep even my best friends at a distance because I believe “familiarity breeds contempt.” My dislikes are numerous, so I won’t attempt to broach the subject. I believe tennis, walking, swimming and horseback riding are my favoi-ite sports. I like good books, although it takes me forever to read one. My favorite person is my brother, Earle, who is a real pal to me. I look forward to his coming home soon from Iwo Jima where he is now stationed with the 4th Marine Division. I was born in Vergennes and have lived in So. Shaftsbury nearly all my life. I can truthfully say I like Vermont better than any other state in the union that I have yet seen. My career, I hope, will be law. I think I would like to study law and make it a profession. I have looked into the profession quite a bit recently, and it seems to have good opportunities for women right now.

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12 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOf Mary E. Goodspeed “Shorty'1 Activities Class Poem 4 Literary Editor 3-4 Music 2-3-4 Music Festival 2-3 Patrol 4 Stunt 1-2 I started school in Vergennes the fall of ’41. It was an interesting experience after attending a rural school of eight to twelve pupils for five years. Running from room to room seemed to me a complicated procedure and the noise confused me. Gradually I became accustomed to the pandemonium and now find myself an “old trooper” in the senior class. I was born in Islip, Long Island, in '28, approximately fifty miles from Manhattan I have lived in Vermont eight years and can truthfully say that Vermont is the most beautiful state I have yet seen. I havex the desire to be a journalist. I sincerely hope I shall find my vocation in that field. I like sincere people; frank, but not rudely so; I like people who can say “hello” to poor “Mrs Murphy” as well as to “Deacon Jones.” My disikes are few. Dandelion greens is one; corn}' music is another. My hobbies are limited because I don’t spend much time with them, but my favorite pastime is collecting poems and outstanding quotations. My favorites in entertainment are movies and music. Dana Andrews, Gregory Peck. Rita Haywortb and Alice Faye are my preference in stars. My favorite subjects are English and shorthand. To the class of 1946 I leave my love of poetry and Abraham Lincoln’s philosophy of life: “God must have loved the common people ... he made so many of them.”

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VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL Jacqueline Myers “Jacky” Activities Patrol 1-2-3-4 Music Girls' and Mixed Chorus) 1-2-3-4 Minstrel Show 1-2-3 Stunt Night 1-2 Christmas Play 3-4 Class Presentations 4 Basketball 1-3-4 Cheer leading 2-3 Music Festival 1-3-4 Scorekeeper Boys’ Baseball and Basketball 3-4 I was bom and that’s all that’s necessary. 1 guess. The place, little as you may believe it, was Burlington. Our family turned nomad soon after I reached the age of five with our move to Ticonderoga and then to Plattsburg. X .Y. Vermont still called us home though, so that it was possible for me to continue my education in V. H.S. School here was very strange to me at first, but I soon got the “knack” of it and then everything seemed to sail smoothly. My most exciting experience in high school was the chance for me to accompany the boys’ baseball team to Rutland to the tournament as their scorekeeper. I also enjoyed keeping score for basketball. My chief ambition is to attend business college then to work two or three years. Marriage will come after that. I hope. My favorite subject in school is bookkeeping and typing runs a close second. My dislikes are nosey people and liver; my likes ice cream and going to movies and dances. My hobbies are roller skating and collecting movie stars and poems. I would like to leave my ability to get out of a tight squeeze to the class of ’46, especially the girls.