Vermont Academy - Wildcat Yearbook (Saxtons River, VT)

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4 Cc. 'Vermont Qeahemp Perf fhiffv-Off' l , Mm .e W-- . . .. . Merrick QE. Wheeler SPM Springfleld, Vt- GENERAL WORCESTER TECH. Af noify as afalling rnoujlake. l' Y. hi. C. A. C353 Science Club C3j C4jg Orchestra C3jg Jazz Orchestra C3D C455 Cast, Ninth Holei' Cgj g Tennis C35 C4jg Football C4jg Basketball C3Dg Hockey C415 6' 0- Baseball C3j C4Dg Life Board C4j. Speck came to us last year as a juniorg now we regret very much to see him leave our midst in which he has gained so much popularity. We will miss the plunking of his banjo in our Jazz Orchestra. Speck will also leave a large place to be iilled in the Science Club, for he has done a great deal of splendid work for this organization. He is also quite a ladies' mang if you don't believe it ask Rusty. With the coming of tennis this spring we are sure to have a Bounding Basque here in Vermont. jagllig 0, wbimgp Nellie Salisbury, Vt. SCIENTIFIC MIDDLEBURY coLLEcE I find earth not gray but roxy. Glee Club C415 Y. W. C. A. C4jg Girls A. A. C4D. Nellie had quite a task before her when she came down to V. A. to live up to the line reputation which her brothers had made down here, but she certainly has done it to perfection. The Y. W. C. A. owes much of its success this year to the earnest work of this little busy body Cwe don't mean a gossip eitherj. She has taken a keen interest in the life of the school and also Alumni Hall. How can we forget the huge trunk of apples that we feasted on through Nellie's generosity. Her cheerful smile and willing hand have induced many other girls here to work for the Y. VV. C. A. too, so, you see what in- fluence you have around here, Nellie. just keep that smile of yourS and you will win friends wherever you go. U I

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l. . g a . .... a B st. - I l'11effh1'ffv wilhrat nf 1927 I f sera' 'r'rwe's+'e'm'rsm+ 'A' gsm he I --f 1 Qfgfjktt muftlg H Tut Rutland, Vt. GENERAL VVHARTON SCIIOOI. or FINANCE iff .ia if fff 'J' U W? 7 W JJ 'Vs lk I L ' ' Q-J mifwo AAA- QM? azwf ' What a Jzfmngf being if a man! lfhat a Jtraizger is w0man. ' Tut, as we all call him, has drunk deeply of life's wine, and he can give you sound practical advice on any subject. He spends much of his time in dreaming of the little woman that he has hidden away in a Massachusetts College. The rest of his time he spends in reading the ads for woman wanted, he believes in women's rights. Tut is a mighty good friend to everyone, and is always ready to work his head off for you as long as there are no studies mixed up in the affair. 'l'ut has two honors: he is the only fellow who can wash a window cleaII and has only eateI1 one Sunday dinner here in all the two years he has been lIere. Qlpfg Mligwb Alyr.e YV. Hartford, Conn. GENERAL JULIUS HART scnool. oI-' MUSIC No magic will wer IEUE7' zhy mufic from iheef' Literary Society C4.1g Vesper Choir C41g Y. VV. C. A. C415 Girls A. A. C415 Cast, Her Glovesf' C41. VVildcat Board C41. Oh Bowl come down in the reception room with me while I play the piano. Nearly every night before dinner that is what we hear floating up from the first floor to the second. The rest of us don't have time to do such rash things before dinner, but Alyee always believes in being a little ahead of time if anything. 'l'hat's one of her strong points. Sometimes we are inclined to envy her musical abilities for they cannot be excelled. How often we hear her playing Cherie on the piano, and singing, or sometimes whistling. With her wit and ability Alyce would be popular anywhere. XYe will be ex- pecting great things from you in musical lines some of these days. gall? Qmghgfgf Sally,' Hartland, Vt. cLAssIcAI. UNIVERSITY or VERMONT 'fCharactfr and pfrfonal force are Ihe only li7l'C'K.Yf7IIL'Ilf.f that are worth while. Y. XV. C. A. C21 C31 C41g Treas. C41, Literary Society C41Q Girls A. A. C31 C41g Sec. C41, Baseball C31 C415 Basketball League C315 Varsity Basketball C419 Winter Carnival C31 C41. VVho llZlSI1,t had a smile and a kind word from Sally? Wie would like to know. Sally is an ardent Y. YV. C. A. worker and we appre- ciate what she has done for that organization. llere is one of our class who is quite an lfskimo maiden, as she has won many points for our class in the annual VVinter Carnival. Sally is a worker, and if there is anything to he done from selling candy at the movies to decorating the dining hall, she is right on the dot. This classmate has been a faithful Incmber of the basketball squad which has had such a successful year.

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Pale thirty-t-wo wilhtat uf 1927 iiaisturp uf the Qlllass uf 1927 In September of the year of our Lord IQ23 a small group of us assembled in the halls of learning at Vermont Academy for the first time in history. VVe were just as green as the grass on the campus in May. Since we were only Freshmen and most of us had never been away from home very much, everything seemed strange to us. There were bells to get up by, bells to go to classes by, bells to eat by, bells to go to bed by-in fact it seemed all bells to us then. We were a long time in getting acquainted and consequently late in getting organized. Yet, as the old saying goes, Better late than never, we finally did get organized. The officers elected were as follows: Howard Boynton, President, Audria Gardner, Vice-President, Olive Gallusha, Secretary and Treasurer, also Mr. Otis, Faculty Adviser. We were a pretty game bunch of greenhorns, and we were well represented in athletics, having Michael Smolnicky on the varsity basketball team and Robert Eldredge on the varsity football squad. Charles LaClair represented our class on all the midget teams, Simonds made the midget baseball team. When it came to high scholastic standing even the mighty seniors did not put anything over on us. Quite a few freshmen were on the Honor Roll every quarter. Quietly the time and tide rolled on waiting for no man and we soon found out that we weren't wanted around under foot during that glorious event, Commence- ment. This event seemed to us as something very far off in the future somewhere. Most of us considered ourselves lucky to have successfully gotten through the freshman year and were glad to go home, thereby getting out from under foot. In September 1924 we returned to find some of our former classmates not coming back, but we were glad to welcome some new ones to take their places. We were then mighty Sophomores and we considered ourselves pretty big. This year we determined to get organized earlier and, of course, we did. At the first class meeting the officers elected were as follows: Robert Eldredge, President, Edison Shaw, Vice-President, Russell Layfield, Secretary and Treasurer, we kept Mr. Otis as our class adviser. Of course, since we had been razzed in good shape when we were Freshmen, we were determined to razz the Freshmen in good shape that year. But can you beat it, just our luck to have the Faculty bar all razzing. We had another class meeting and elected a committee to see about a set of Freshmen Rules. YVe got them all right and if you don't believe it ask anyone that was a Freshman at that time. The Faculty added that the rules were to be enforced by the Sopho- mores only. During this year a desire to get our class rings sprang up among a certain few in the class. This idea spread like a forest fire through the whole class. We were determined to get them and as it was our custom to get what we went after, we got them. This pleased us a lot because it gave us three years to wear them before we went to college. Charles LaClair, hlichael Smolnicky, Russell Layfield and Robert Eldredge represented our class on the football squad. Mike was a basketball and track man. Russell upheld the reputation of our class on the track team. W'e were represented even better still on all the midget teams having several midget letter men. This year passed away silently into a thing of the past. VVe were again informed that we did not need to stay around here in the way any longer. It had been a pretty big year for us, and We were glad that we could begin our vacation, consider- ing ourselves lucky to have gotten safely through another year. Since we had been here two senior classes had gone out into the world either to go on to college or to earn a living in some way, shape or manner. We returned in the fall of IQZS as worthy Juniors. It had been told around tha the Junior year was the hardest year in the whole course, so, we made up our minds