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

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30 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOI contest was the first we have ever seen in any high school magazine. You had a very good editorial section. We hope to exchange many more copies of your magazine with ours. Scribbles, Rochester High School Your art is excellent, but your stenciling needs to be improved. We enjoyed your literary as well as your jokes We are looking forward to seeing copies of future editions. Newsy Bits, South Royalton High School We liked the way your magazine is put together, and it is very well edited. The sections were not well grouped. We hope your future editions will reach us. Sentinel, Spaulding High School We like your school paper, but we wish you would have a joke and literary section. We would like to see more school events and less world events. We would like to receive more of your school papers. B. H. S. Register, Burlington High School Your paper was very well printed, and we liked the way you presented your features. We hope to exchange more copies of your paper in the future. We would like to receive school papers from the following schools, whom we have not heard from as yet this semester: Middlebury High School Richmond High School Poultney High School Randolph High School Bristol High School Shelburne High School Waterbury High School Brattleboro High School Wilmington High School Essex Junction High School Northfield High School SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ’48 - ’49 The openng event of this year was the long anticipated Initiation. This year, however, instead of the usual clowning there was a party given at night for the frosh with the Seniors as hosts. Entertainment was provided by the freshmen in the form of a talent show. This makes the freshman officially members of the high school. Following the initiation the annual magazine campaign got under way. Class managers were as follows: Sen- iors, Grant Laber; Juniors, Doris Burroughs and Mike Mallow; Sophomores Helen Field and Roger Gfbeault; Fresh men, Richard Sorrell and Sally Bristol, 8th grade, Jean Sullivan; 7th grade, Freddie Hoose and Patty Jaquith. Manager in charge of the drive was Biagio Palermo, co-managers were Ann Milo and Viola Moses. This year more magazines were sold than ever before. Sales reached a new high with $1,040.45 as the total amount sold. The highest student salesman was Alan Russett who sold $105.50 worth, and Jean Higbee, who was 2nd highest, sold $49.00 worth. Different classes elected their class officers who are as follows: Seniors— Grant Laber, President; Marjorie Husk Vice President; Barbara Evans, Secretary ; Erwin Clark, Treasurer. Juniors —Vincent Mallow, President; Henry Sisters, Vice President; Stephany Thompson, Secretary; Alan Langeway, Treasurer. Sophomores—James Mc-Nulla, President; Vice President, Jack Stebbins; Secretary, Helen Field; Treasurer, Gwendolyn McGrath. Freshman—John Stephens, President; Alice Tucker, Vice President; Marguerite Lawrence, Secretary; Robert Stebbins, Treasurer. The high school has enjoyed during the course of the year a series of instructive assemblies. Sept. 21, the first one was an entertainment given by Donald Scot-Morrison who played on a harpsicord and gave excellent irn-

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BLUE AND WHITE 29 HIGH SCHOOL (Continued from page 27) ery case do his part to the best of his ability. It is good experience for one to be a member and eventually an oflficer on the School Patrol. It is equally benefit al to be an officer and a leader in your class. In both instances one learns to assume responsibility and feel some of the thrill of self-assurance and prestige which goes with these posi-tons. , Bv participating in various concerts, operettas, minstrels., plays, etc., a student is able to develop poise and stage presence to a certain extent. Many high schools offer dramatics as an exta-curricular activity and I believe that VI1S would do well to organize a dramatic club. A club of this type does much toward developing poise and self-assurance in a person. If someone else calls attention to one’s enunciation and voice inflecton, he will think more about improving it himself. By endeavoring to apply to everyday conversation, the English grammar one learns, one will discover after he gets out in the world that an important problem, common to everyone, is already solved. All these things come to light later in that personal interview, and depending on the nature of the job you are applying for, any one of these attributes might spell the difference between being accepted or rejected. A prospective employer takes all these into consideration, as well as whether or not your hair is combed and your shoes are shined. If a person spends the middle years of his teens in high school, he will have more broadening experiences than his classmate who dropped out in the freshman year. He has an 'equal chance with all the others of being chosen to go to the All State Music Festival, or even the greater distinction of going to Boys’ State or Gris’ State. Every senior girl is a candidate for the Good Citzenship Award; a higher honor may not be shown to any member of the class. He will have the opportunity of going on a class trip and finding his way around in a metropolitan area. He will have the experience of visiting the legislature, state institutions, etc. As well as losing out on the instruction which he would have got from his teachers, he is also missing a lot of personal help and guidance which they are capable of giving us. Our teachers are our superiors and of a higher calibre than the average laymen; therefore, we should be grateful for, and heed the advice which they can give us from previous experience. These are all major factors in the development of a young adult. These advantages of experience and environment all go toward moulding a well-rounded individual. How much broader will be his outlook on life because of the great blend of experience which he has had over this four-year period! Grant S. Laber, Class of ’49. BEAUTY Beauty is a wonderful thing, Whether it be physical or in the mind And souls of ones you love so dear. It s the changing of night into day. Of boats skimming over the rolling waves, Of winter changing into warm days of spring But most of all, it is the things Which are dearest to your hearts and souls. Marguerite Bradley, ’49 EXCHANGE Excellent Good Fair The Oriole, Highgate High School We received your Christmas issue, and we think your literary section is very well done. We especially enjoyed your sports and jokes section. We hope to receive many more of your school magazines. Searchlight, Richford High School We think your magazine was very well put together. Your short story

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BLUE AND WHITE 31 personations of emminent musicians. The second one given by Norman Webster on Oct. 18 was entitled “So You Don’t Like Poetry,” it proved most interesting to all. George Gilbert Gro-man frequently known as the “Diplomat of Dialects,” gave an illustrated talk on dialects and accents. This took place on Nov. 15. Our last speaker, Victor Griffin, on April 29 gave us a “birds-eye” view on “Romantic Mor-roco.” October 28, Ernest Johnson, noted Negro tenor entertained the high school. He was accompanied by Mrs. Robert Galipeau at the piano. The high school joined in on the choruses of many of his songs. Twenty-five students from Mrs. Thurber’s Junior and Senior English classes traveled to Middlebury to see the Margaret Webster production of Macbeth. The play was very well done and the students were enthusiastic in their praise of it. The 1948-49 cheerleading squads for the boys and girls’ basketball teams were: Stephanv Thompson, May Ross and Norma Bodette, Senior squad; Shir lev Hamilton, Jean Sullivan, and Shelia Clark, Junior squad. Early in Nov., the 25th to be exact, the Class of 1949 gave the annual Senior play. The name of it was “A Ready Made Family.” a farce in 3 acts by Jay Tobias. It proved to be a huge success and highly amusing. Mrs. Thurber and Miss Howland were codirectors. The Christmas issue of the Blue and White went to press the week of Dec. 16, all high school classes participated in the making, with pupils from the typing classes volunteering to do the stenciling. It was composed entirely by the student body with Mrs. Thurber and Mrs. Berry advising. Dr. Lange of the University of Vermont was at the high school. Tuesday. Jan. 5. and gave aptitude tests to the Juniors and Seniors. As yet. the results have not been figured. The Drill Team made its first public appearance this year at the Vergennes-Middlebury game. January 28th. The Boys’ Basketball team was nosed out of first place this year by the fast •playing Bristol quintette. The VHS girls also got runner up cup, when in a hard playing game they lost by one point to the Bristol sextette in the deciding game for first place. It was an all round disappointment for those concerned. On Friday, February 11 a chartered bus arrived at VHS to take the Seniors on their long anticipated trip to the Ice Follies at Montreal. During the day and a half they were there they stayed at the Laurentien. a modern 22-story structure. At 7:30 Friday night them class met in the lobby to go to the follies, where they had box seats. On Saturday afternoon many of the Seniors went on a sight seeing tour of the wax works museum. The class left for home that afternoon at 4:00 p. m. It was a trip that will always live in the memories of the Class of ’49. This year in an effort to make more money for their class treasury, the Senior Class had a milk and apple concession in the hallway, every recess. Without this fund their trip would have been impossible. The Vergennes Band has finally gotten underway, they have played for several PTA meetings. Until their uniforms come they will wear the Patrol capes and caps. Everyone agrees that they are a great success. An added attraction this year are the drum major and majorettes. They are: Grant Laber, Drum Major; Bettie Sullivan, Barbara Evans, Carolyn Cowles, Marguerite Robinson, Sally Bristol and Alma Dan-yow, Majorettes. The officers chosen for the band are: President, Dennis Sullivan. Secretary; Mary Charbonneau Librarian, Alan Langeway; Mgr., James McNulla; Press Agent, Norma Bodette. This year also was their first year at the Burlington Music Festival. Good Citizenship Girl for the Class of ’49 was Viola Moses, who was also (Continued on page 33)