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

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BLUE AND WHITE 27 LIBER ROMAMUS UNA SCHOLA NOVA Scholam novam habere debemus. Nostra schola est antiqua. Quantam antiquam scholam esse non scio, for-tasse centum, aut septuaginta quinque annos habet. Gradi sunt periculosi. lux est mala et sais tabularum negrarum non habe-bat. Neque magistri neque discipuli sub eis condicionibus laborare debent. Cum est ignis in oppido, cives mirantur si schola incendat. Omnes discipuli sperant videre scholam novam in nostro oppido. Nostra causa est justa, cur recusamur? J. Abare, '47. SEXTUS ET MARCUS Sextus et Marcus pueri parvi sunt. Filii agricolae sunt, igitur bene labor-ant. Hi pueri impigri sunt et laborare amant. Agricola et pueri in Hibernia habitant. Hibernia terra bona est. In Hibernia agricolae bene laborant et laeti sunt. Est flunien prope casam. In flumine Sextus et Marcus natant. Flumen est periculosum, sed bene natant. Sextus et Marcus animalium amici sunt; Igitur ea non timent. Hi pueri boni sunt et ab amicis saepe laudantur. In schola pueri Latinam discunt. Latinam amant et interdum in Latina scribunt. Interdum Sextus et Marcus legunt de Britannia. Brittanniam amant, quod insula est magna et pulchra. Aliquo tempore, Sextus et Marcus ad American) venire cupiunt quod America est magna et pulchra. Paul Chapman, ’49. Latin I MARCUS ET PAULUS Marcus et Paulus amici sunt. In urbe Roma habitant. Paulus parvus puer est. Ad Roman-am scholam it. Ibi legere et scribere discit. Ejus pater miles in exercito est. Parvam sororem habet. Ejus nomen Cornelia est. Suum fratem interdum vexare amat et iratus turn est. Marcus parvus puer quoque est. Ad scholam non it, quod suam amictam et suum avunculum juvat. Ejus avunculus dux in exercito est. Parvum con-cohrinam habet. Ejus nomen Fulvia est. Suam consobrinam non vexat, quod, si faciat, castigatur. Ann Milo, ’49. Latin I MARCUS ET SEXTUS Marcus et Sextus pueri Romani sunt. Pater Marci dux est. Pater Sexti in exercitu est. Pueri in flumine aestate saepe natant Olim Sextus in ripa fluminis dormiebat et Marcus in flumine natabat. Subito Sextus clamorem audivit et in flumen, Marcum juvare. properavit. Mox Marcus tutus erat et acceptus erat. Pueri ad Roman scholam eunt. Ibi legere et scribere discunt. Magister puerorum elatus est. Cum Marvus et Sextus viri sint fam-am habere cupiunt. Yvonne Davis, ’49. Latin I VER IN VERMONTE Vermons in vere omnibus pulchra est. Simul ac aves audimus et nivis abitum videmus, tempum vernum esse hie sci-mus. Ad scholam ire nolimus quod alios res habemus quas facere cupimus dum aestatem expectamus. Natamus et aliis ladis nos delectamus, sed in aestate laborare placet. Molly Jerger, ’47. Latin II

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26 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL THE LAWNMOWER AND I Did you ever have something that you simply hated to do. that you just kept putting off. saying that you would do it tomorrow? Well so have I. and that is mowing the lawn. I don’t see why someone doesn't make a grass that wouldn’t grow, but then it would put the lawnmower companies out of business and we wouldn’t want that to happen, would we? Well to get back to my story, let me tell you about our beautiful, big, red. shiny, smooth running, even cutting, super ball bearing, rubber tired, lawnmower. Yes, again I say let me tell you about it. My father bought it because that’s what the man said about it and I will admit it did look nice compared with our old one, but he soon realized his mistake. I thought it would be a pleasure to push this one. so 1 started mowing the lawn. After I had heen around the lawn once or twice 1 began recalling the things my father had said about this contraption. “Beautiful !” oh! that it was. but I thought, “looks are only skin deep. Big! too big if you ask me. If I could have borrowed a horse to pull it. I might not have minded. Red and shiny ? Not for long, after I spilled the can of oil all over it in hopes that it would run easier. Now, I come to the funny part. Smooth running, even cutting, boy! You push it three or four steps and you will feel as if you were trying to push a freight train up hill backwards. And talk about even cutting, our lawn looked like the waves of the Atlantic. If it had been, I would have tossed the darn thing in. The only trouble with ball bearings was that I think they forgot to put any in. It had rubber tires all right, as I soon found out. Every time I turned a corner, one or the other of them would fall off. In disgust I put it in the shed. Well, maybe it wasn't all the lawnmower’s fault. Mav-be if I had mowed the lawn during the past three weeks it might have run easier. I went into the house and tried to invent a grass that wouldn't grow, but I guess I fell asleep. Walter Wood, ’46. JUST DAYDREAMING Have you ever imagined yourself a great musician, a great actor or actress, the hero of a baseball or football game, a great tennis player, the champion golfer, swimmer, or diver, an aviator. or one of the millions of other things that vou can dream about? I have, and I know that you have, too. I have often imagined myself an aviator zooming through the endless sky into the world of tomorrow. Daydreaming is good for you. It takes your mind off your studies, work and all your troubles. When you daydream, your mind rests and is not bothered with thinking about what x equals. However, you should not let daydreaming become a habit. If you do, you will find yourself “going around in a fog.” You can try to conquer the world, but don’t let daydreaming conquer you! Donald Spooner, '47. THE PARTING The soulful mewing of the sea gulls brings back haunting memories, even today. I still see the craggy cliffs as they stood out against the clinging skies; still hear the roar of the ocean as it flung itself in desperation against mv dull ears. The black see, the white foam, all stand out like an etching in my mind. All the skies were wearing grey—a soft mourning grey—but I didn’t notice. I was much too absorbed in myself—my sorrow. In this very place I had met him. How happy we had been! All life bgan in this place, on that day. How fitting that I should lose him here, too. But what was the use of going on? I had lost him—my only friend—my life! He had flown away forever. “Pee-pa”— my sandpiper. Jeanne Guyette. ’47.

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28 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL i J? LECTURrtWNCAlSE j=r = a u L’Ami Bob La classe de franqais lit un petit livre intitule “L’Ami Bob,” C’est l’histoire d’un jeune garqon qui demeure dans la ville de Paris. 11 s’appelle Robert Durand. Ses parents sont morts, aussi de-meure-t-il chez son oncle Sebastien Durand. Ce Sebastien est un excellent homme et il adore son neveu. Ouand Bob a six ans, Sebastien se marie avec une jeune fille. beaucoup plus jeune que lui, une fille mechante et desagreable qui s’appelle Gertrude. II se marie parce qu’il pense que Bob a besoin d une mere. Depuis ce jour-la, le bonheur a quette le petit appartment. Tout le temps. Gertrude est de mauvais humeur. Ouand Bob a quinze ans, son cher oncle l’enoie a une colotiie de vacances. Avec lui va son ami. le gros Totor Clermont. Quand Bob retourne deses vacances, il court a la maison de Sabastien. Ricn n'est a la meme place, les meubles memes ont change. Gertrude passait et se met a crier:—Ah ! te voila petit valeur. Ton oncle est mort. Sors d’ici! Sors d'ici! Et plus vite que cela. Robert Durand descend l'escalier en pleurant et Gertrude jette apres lui le bouquet qu'il a achete pour elle. Dans la rue. Bob pense a sa situation. In- stintivement, il va rue Norvins chez madame Clermont, la mere de ses amis Totor et Nenette. Parmi ses larmes il lui raconte son triste retour, la facon dont so tante l'a chasse. La brave femme lui (lit:—Tu vas rester avec nous. Bob accepte, mais a condition qu’il travaille pour gagner sa vie. A quinze ans. done, il devient Marchand de jour-naux el il se fait quide. Noue quittons Bob an moment oil il a fait de nouveaux amis, une riche fa-mille americaine et un paunre petit chien abandonne. Therese Bodette, ’48. L’Education En France En France l’education est sous le controle de l’etat. Les Maitres reqoi-vent leur salaire du governement national. Les ecoles sont divises en trois grdaes. Il y a, pour commences 1'ecole maternelle ou les petits enfants vont pendant deux ou trois ans. En-suite il v a lecole primaire elementaire oil les eleves reqoivent l’education elementaire. Cette instruction dure six ans. Au bout de ce temps ils subissent un examin. S’ils y reusissent. ils re-qoivent le Certificat d’Etudes Primaires. Apres qu’une eleve a requ son Certificat d’Etudes Primaires il a trois choix. S’il est destine pour une vocation il va, tout problablement, entrer dans 1’ecole primaire superieure. Mais s’il s’attend a se preparer pour une profession, il doit entrer dans une lycee ou dans un college. C’est interesent de savoir que les filles et les garqons vont a differentes ecoles, et aussi qu’ils vont a 1’ecole le samedi mais non pas le jeudi. Ils ont deux rnois de vacances comme nous, les mois d’aout et de septembre. Les classes terminent a la fin du moi de juillet. Les heures sont longues et les ecoliers franqais travaillent beaucoup. Georgette Poulin.