Vermont Academy - Wildcat Yearbook (Saxtons River, VT)

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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

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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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VBUMHBTTQIHUBMP -D - Page thirty-three to do our very best in all that we undertook. We were very glad to welcome to our class Marjorie Dunning, Roy Hardy, Merrick Wheeler, Herrick Bristol, Allen Clark, and Robert Hoyt fall the way from Detroitl. At our first class meeting the following class officers were elected: Robert Eldredge, President, Audria Gardner, Vice-President, Roy Hardy, Secretary and Treasurer, we also kept Mr. Otis as our class adviser, since he had done faithfully his duty in the previous years. We hadn't known Joe Hardy very long but we made a very wise choice when we chose him as our class secretary and treasurer, as time has proven. This year we started off with a boom! Joe Hardy, Mike Smolnicky, Wheat LaClair, Russ Layfield, Bobby Eldredge and Bob Hoyt came out in answer to the coach's thrilling call for football candidates. Joe was elected captain of the next year's team. The good record was kept up. Hardy, Smolnicky, LaClair, all making their letters in basketball while Wheeler, Poupart, and Bristol, all made the squad. On the baseball team we were represented by Hardy, LaClair and Bristol. The track team would have missed Manager Eldredge and Russell Lay- field. This year it was for us to linger behind and bid the Seniors farewell. Of course it was expected that we should learn how to carry on the Commencement exercises, which, according to our custom of doing everything we should, we did. In September 1926 we returned to our old Alma Mater as Seniors. We were very glad to welcome to our honorable class many new students among whom are Nellie Whitney, Alyce Walsh, Elizabeth Howe, Clifford Counihan, Paul Mc- Namara, Ames Purdy, Fred Robinson. Purdy, Counihan, McNamara, all showed their worth on the gridiron. Counihan again proved his steel on the hockey and baseball teams. McNamara showed to our satisfaction that Charlestown could put out some all round athletes. Robinson was voted by the student body as the most studious boy in the Senior class and Betty Howe, the most studious girl. I almost forgot to say that Betty was the best girl athlete in school. At our first class meeting the following officers were appointed as final oflicers of the class of 1927: Robert Eldredge, President, Carolyn Whitney, Vice-President, Roy Hardy, Secretary and Treasurer, again, we kept Mr. Otis as our class adviser. It hardly seemed possible that we were then high and mighty Seniors. The next thing to impossible was to believe that four long years had quietly slipped away into the unchangeable past. It seemed to us that we had been enduring great hardships such as doing Latin, French, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Algebra, Plane Geometry, or else doing a half hour, or hour, on the coal pile for being out of our room during study hour or some other minor thing. Many of us will long remember the training that we received on the farm while we were here. Since we were Seniors, we determined to maintain our high scholastic standing which as the records show, we have done. Our class has always been active in all Extra Curricula Activities, such as Orchestra, Literary Society, Vesper Choir, Science Club, and Life Board. The Life Board would have been greatly handi- capped without the Editor-in-chief, the Literary Editor, the Business Manager, the Editor of the French Department, and Associate Editors, in fact most of the board were Seniors. Our class has always taken an active part in the Christian associations of the school, such as Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. Both the President and the Vice- President of the Y. M. C. A. are members of our class. In the girl's organization the Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer are members of our class also. This year our class has decided to start a new custom which we hope will be- come a tradition of the school. We are incorporating into our Class Day Exercises the Planting of the Ivy. We plan to take a brick out of the wall in front of Fuller Hall and replace it by a marble brick which will have a hollow back. In this hollow the Class Roll, Class Will, Class Poem, and the Class Prophecy will be deposited