Vermont Academy - Wildcat Yearbook (Saxtons River, VT)

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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

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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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Page thirty-four V V Y W 7 f W wilhtat of 1927 for time ever lasting. Under this marble, having the numerals 1927 and IVY written on it, there is to be planted Ivy which we hope some day will cover the whole front of Fuller Hall. YVe also trust that the succeeding classes will follow our example and thus beautify the campus. Now that Commencement is here, we cannot help looking back over our stay of four years here and thinking of the good times that we had here together. We also cannot help regretting that our time to leave the dear old institution has come at last. We can only look forward to a greater Vermont Academy, with a greater trust and faith. HOWARD POUPART Glass Brnpbecp Well, Bobby, you know why I called you up this morning and asked you to spend the evening with me? This editor's job isn't any cinch but it keeps you in touch with a lot of different newspapers-competition you know. In this collection of papers I have news of nearly every one of that old class of 1927 at Vermont Academy, the papers are all of the year 1958 and ,5Q. First is Joe Hardy, he always was Hrst anyway. Joe is in politics and is Rc- publican nominee for Governor of Texas. fDon't see how he got it with all those wild cowboysl. Successful as Joe is, he is still a bachelor and there are hopes of a gold digger landing him yet. Memphis, Tenn. Audria Gardner, leading social light, gave a talk for more women's rights and was listened to by an enthusiastic audience. By the way, Bobby, she married once, but is divorced now. Rockingham Speedway. Lee Bowman, driving his axleless 8, smashes 500 mile record and wins first money. 'l He is still alive anyway, though it is a wonder. I guess he gives Bow chills everytime he races. Oh, yes, they were married soon after commencement. Middlebury Times, Mar. 7. Chief of Police Conlon catches crafty boot- leggerf' Old Chub stuck to his old home town, didn't he, and sure is knocking them dead. Wait, why the bootlegger is a Bowen. Say, I bet that is Doc, I guess he will be out soon, though. New York Times, Aug. 7. Position wanted as private secretary and steno- grapher. Address, Miss Lois Rickerf' That is something I can't understand, I should have thought she would have been married long ago. New York Tribune, Dec. 16. See Jack Heith in his latest hit, 'Across the Sea. ' We have been hearing a lot about this Jack Heith but I never knew till last week it was Eddie Sonsire. Eddie and Lena have a great place out in Holly- wood and Lena plays in some of his pictures. They have two sons at V. A. now, a fullback and a tackle. Bellows Falls Times, Oct. 23. Say, that is some paper. There is a lot of news there for us, though. Academy Notes. Prof. Charles Millet voted most popular teacher on the campus. Charlie is teaching French back at the old school, and Carolyn Whitney is teaching Latin and is Dean of Women. They say the rules aren't so strict now, Bobby, with those two running the school. Boston, Oct. 25. B. U. gives Harvard a trimming. Say, that is unusual, at least I thought so till I read the name of the coach, Paul McNamara. It looks as though Mac was making as good a coach as he did a player. Boston Advertiser, May IO. Kenneth W. Dike, P.H.B., B.A., M.S., has just published his new book, Principles of Education. That is too deep for me. He always was that kind of a student. You know all about Tommy Rood so we'll pass him by. What you don't? Tommy Rood and his music makers? Why, Tommy is the second Paul Whiteman.