Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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ALUMPHI MOTES Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Shak. Twelfth Night. The engagement of Miss Martha Orr of San Francisco to George S. Roxby of that city has recently been announced. Miss Orr graduated from W. H. S. in the class of 1902. Palmer Hutchinson, W. H. S. 1915, is now at home on account of a broken wrist which he received when jumping a hurdle at Norwich Academy, where he is studying. The class of 1912 of the W. H. S. held a reunion on December 28, 1915, at the Elks ' Home. A banquet was served, after which the Class Prophecy was read. Later dancing was enjoyed. The engagement of Max Everett Eaton, W. H. S. 1907, to Miss Lixlu Cooper, now studying at Wellesley, has recently been announced. Miss Lillian Moses, Wellesley 1917, has received a Durant Scholarship. She was a graduate of the W. H. S. in the class of 1913. Miss Hazel Ryder, W. H. S. 1912, who has been working at L. P. Gowing ' s market, has given up her position and will remain at home. Paul Cartwright, W. H. S. 1912, has been obliged to leave Brown University on ac- count of trouble vnth his eyes. Robert Jackson, W. H. S. 1913, has served for the past year as captain of the Freshman Swimming Team at Harvard. Miss Mary Thistle was married to George Davis of Melrose in February 1916. Miss Thistle was graduated from W. H. S. in 1915. Mrs. Estep Jackson of Westfield, N. J., has been visiting friends in Wakefield re- cently. Mrs. Jackson graduated from W. H. S. in ' 7g. Edward H. Sullivan, W. H. S. ' 09, who is a parole officer of the Massachusetts Train- ing School has been transferred to the Metropolitan District and no w resides at 43 Melvin street. Mrs. Rufus Tilton and daughter Eleanor, of Springfield, have recently visited Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Verne at Lynnfield. Mrs. Tilton was formerly Miss Marguerite Verne, W. H. S. ' 05. Miss Molly Bridge, W. H. S. ' 12, is teach- ing at the Devon School in Everett. The class of 1915 held their first reunion in March, at the Elks ' Home. Miss Gertrude Tingley ' 10, is the con- tralto soloist at the Temple Israel on Com- monwealth avenue, Boston, Mass. Donald White ' 10, is now a graduate as- sistant at the Amherst Agricultural College, and also on the staff of the Amherst Experi- ment Station. A. Francis Harrington ' 08, and Walter J. Anderson ' 11, were admitted to the Bar this past summer. LOUISE WHITTEN ' 16.

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THE DEBATER AN UNEXPECTED STAR 71IHE cast of the annual Senior play, and the teacher who was coaching tion. them, were holding a consulta- In three days the play was scheduled to come off, and the day before, their leading actress, Dorothy McCall, had fallen while skating, and broken her leg. We can ' t postpone it. The hall is en- gaged three months ahead, besides we would have to pay for it anyway. The tickets are all sold nd the scenery hired. What shall we do? asked the business manager. Can ' t one of you girls take the part? We could find some one to fill your place, asked Miss Wright. Oh, we never could memorize all those lines in three days. Miss Wright! the girls wailed in chorus. Then, the only thing to do is to give the part to the girl who can memorize quickest. Whom do you suggest? asked Mac- Donald Smith. Louise Hathaway. An involuntary groan escaped the lips of all. But she can ' t act. Miss Wright. It would be great wouldn ' t it, to have our self-possessed heroine acted by timid, shrinking, afraid-of-her-shadow Louise! Don ' t remind us, Alice, of what we all know. It ' s bad enough to have to endure her in class, without having her spoil our play. Why did Dot try any fancy tricks at this late day, especially as she saw Lester sprain his ankle doing the same twirl? You know very well, Tom Payne, that you think Dot ' s fancy tricks are all right, when they don ' t make any trouble for you. Let Miss Wright ask Louise, as we might show how much we didn ' t want her, and then she would surely refuse. That is settled, then. We will rehearse at seven tonight, said Miss Wright as she dismissed them. Dorothy McCall disgustedly flung the popular novel, which she had been trying to read, on the bed beside her. I don ' t see why it had to happen to me. I never fell on the ice before. Of course I know that was a difficult twirl, but even if Lester did sprain his ankle trying it, there wasn ' t any reason why I should. Every- one feels it is my fault, although they have sent me flowers, books and candy. Only this mornig Alice said that of course they were sorry, but they did thinly I might have been more careful, mused Dorothy half- aloud. Just then she heard a timid knock on her door, and at her Come in, the most fiightened-looking girl imaginable entered the room. Oh, hello, Louise! she said in rather an icy tone. I just stopped on my way to the hall to show you my costume. Kow do you like it? Louise asked, slipping off her cape. You look well enough, indifferently. Oh, Dorothy, I ' m so scared I don ' t know what to do. If I should forget my lines, or get stage fright or something, I never could face the school again. I can ' t stand up straight now, my knees are so shaky, and how I am going to walk across the stage, I can ' t see, wailed Louise. Oh, you ' ll do all right, said Dorothy scornfully. Dear me, it ' s seven-twenty now, and I ' m due at the hall at half-past. I must run, and Louise dropped a timid kiss on Doro- thy ' s cheek as she hurried past. The mean thing, she needn ' t have come! I felt badly enough anyway, and Dorothy sobbed herself to sleep. Oh, Dot, it was simply great! I never would have believed it of Louise! Why, she didn ' t seem to notice that she had an audience at all! She acted just as if she were living the, part. She didn ' t forget a single thing, and she kept all of them busy acting up to her. Everyone said it was the best play that has ever been given here. My, it ' s one o ' clock this minute! I know you are sleepy, dear, but I couldn ' t wait un- til morning to tell you about it. Good night, and Dorothy ' s younger sister went to her own room. For a long time Dorothy lay thinking. I suppose I was mean to Louise, but I was disappointed. I worked harder on that play than I have on anything else I have ever tried to do. Oh, I had some fine ideas! I was going to do so well that everyone would say that I had a great future before me! But, after all, I ' m glad that Louise succeeded, perhaps I ' ve been praised and petted too much. It is her turn now, and she went to sleep, this time with a light heart. LUELLA CONKLING SIDNEY ' 18

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THE DEBATER 1564 William Shal spedr 1916 Classifxjing Shal ( sp ar S Wom n Characterizations from Dr. George WOMAN PLAY Katherine .... Taming of the Shrew .... .. Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice Rosalind As You Like It . Viola Twelfth Night . Lady Macbeth Macbeth Portia Merchant of Venice . Helena Love ' s Labor Lost . . . Tamora Titus Andronicus Juliet Romeo and Juliet Cordelia King Lear Cleopatra Anthony and Cleopatra . Marina Pericles Isabella Measure for Measure Imogen Cymbeline Hermione . . . Winter ' s Tale Ophelia Hamlet Miranda Tempest Desdemona . . Othello randes, the Great T)anish Critic CHAR A CTERISTICS High spirited, self-willed, but lovable. High intellect, combative, energetic, daring- ly witty. Gay without a sting, sensitive and intelli- gent; loving passionately and being loved passionately. Sound of understanding, emotional, deep and patient, with great power of passive love. Wicked even to the point of brutality under stress of passionate love and great am- bition. Thoroughly genuine, almost masculine, yet most womanly in power of self-surrender. High-souled type of loving and cruelly mal- treated woman. Powerful intellect, defiant of morality. Passionate love yet under control of prin- ciple. Filial love, kindness of heart. Quintessentially erotic emotion chemically free from all other elements. Nobility of character. Spotless purity of soul. Born for happiness, inured to suffering, calm, collected. Majestically lovable, grand and gracious simplicity. Unobtrusive affection, devotion even to in- sanity. All that is admirable in woman, maidenly immaculate. Victim of jealousy. He was a man not for an age, but for all time. . . Ben Joh-tison. SHAKESPEARE T is now an opportune time, since magazines and papers are de- voting so much space to articles on Shakespeare, to speak of a few things concerning him. One newspaper is giving a series of pictures with brief but interesting explanations; pageants are being planned, and Shakes- peare ' s plays are being given in honor of him, since this is the Three Hundredth Anniversary of his death. There is no necessity of writing a sketch of his life, as anyone who is at all inter- ested in this famous man has read the meagre facts about his life. But, it may be well to know how the people of his own time regarded this great man. They were not, as many people of today believe, un- appreciative of his merit; they did not con- sider him to be any ordinary writer; his plays were not passed by unnoticed and the majority of the people of that time were as appreciative of Shakespeare as we are today. Even Ben Jonson, his great rival, who was always jealous of Shakespeare ad-