Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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THE MIRRGR 27 'Mba Twill uf the Qlllass nt 1927 Be it remembered, that we, the class of 1927, of the City of Waltham, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being of sound mind and memory Cin spite of the numerous doubts that the faculty may have to the contraryb, but knowing the uncertainty of this life, do make this our last will and testament, hereby revoking all wills and codicils heretofore made by us. After the .payment of our just debts and funeral charges, we be- queath and devise as follows: To the junior class, that they may successfully carry on the tradi- tions ofthe class of 1927, we leave the brains of our class pickled in alcohol. To the sophomore class we leave our ability to run successful socials. To the incoming class we leave a wagon-load of the newest text books, for careful study, of everything, including the length of a mos- quito's life to the distance from Waltham to Boston. To our principal, Mr. Burke, we leave a crop of Ma.x's curls. As Mr. Ward seems to have had more or less difficulty in getting his classes to learn memory passages, we leave a machine to accomplish this. We sincerely hope that it will save him much breath. To Mr. Hodge, whom we so frequently hear commenting on features Number 1, 2, etc., we leave a new book of pet expressions. We hear that Miss Pratt occasionally has trouble with her car- pardon us, we mean her flivver-we leave her a new one guaranteed trouble-proof under all conditions. e In order that the undergraduates may have the pleasure of con- gratulating Mr. Hollis as we did, we have placed an order in his name with Mr. Stork, for twins. 7 That more people may enjoy those delicious meals prepared under Miss Hunter's direction, we leave her a new stove and plenty of pots and pans. To lessen Miss Cutting's toil we leave her an electric sewing ma- chine. Since Mr. Kimball see-ms to have come up to the expectations of the class of 1926, we leave him, in addition to their gift, a baby snake to train and bring up, with the request that he call it Periyakulans. A little bird told'us that Miss Hall has a garden, so we leave her a set of garden tools to use when working in it, with the hope that when she uses them she will remember us and our enthusiasm for Latin.

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as THE MIRAROR q g with a huge T-bone from one of the sirloin steaks. This eccentric creature was Malcolm Graf, whose wife, Nathalie Mosher, forced him to always remove his shoes before entering his home in accordance with her Dutch ancestry 's custom. Jenny Profita, who kept a fine little fruit and vegetable, store on Moody Street, with her husband, Tony Siano, sat next to Malcolm. After them came Stella Morreale, Marjorie Meader, Olive MacNainara and Eiza-beth Leishnian, in rapid succession, who were having a wonderful time talking with their mouths full about everybody in the room. I do hope they were saying something nasty about me! Leslie Mitchell and her hubbie, Ja-nies Howie, made up the next couple, and they were exceptionally quiet till I noticed that they were busy eating and were probably stocking forthe Sabbath day to follow. Eating so fast, they couldn't talk! A strange sight indeed. About this time I was becoming so surfeited that I began to feel dizzy and sleepy, but fought it off to watch a pretty little song and dance number now being enacted on the stage. In ,it were Dorothy Keith, Catherine Devlin and Louise Doncette. It was called the Dance of the Nations, England, Ireland and France. Frances Atwoocl, formerly ca.lled '4Funny, next appeared in a pathetic little skit, called When You and I Were Young, Maggie ll' Winton Dangleinayer took the part of Maggie's husband, but his technique was stilted because Margaret Bent, who was supposed to close the act with a lovely shower of roses, kept getting the wrong cue and came out at least live times to pelt in- offensive Ding with the flowers when she- was least expected. Eleanor Dow appeared after the rosy rioters with her famous quartet of mu- sicians. She herself led with the piano, Leo Coughlan played a J ew 's harp, Helen Cutter, a harmonica, and Phyllis Closby, a ukulele. They were accompanied by Doris Charnley, Peggy Cox and Millie Caswell, who rendered a familiar old selection, Good N ight, Ladies, as a grand finale. Immediately after their exit I began to have a distinct longing for my little trundle bed. But when Charley got up and had finally borrowed his countrymen 's ears and was deep in his speech at last, I lost all grip on my senses and was soon oblivious to everything and every- body around me. The following day when I came to at last, I was told that I had been removed, bodily, from the hall as a public nuisance, and they say I called out in my sleep as I. was being carried out to my waiting auto for disturbing Charley and his speech, with my vociferous sleeping, Long Live the Class of '27--theBest Class Ever! -just like that, with capitals and all ll 1'-H -nag:-' ' - 1---p---1-.

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gs g 'rHE,M1,RRo1z p True to our well known spirit of co-operation, we leave Miss Ober a Pomeranian to fight with the Persian cat left her by the class of 1926. To Miss Spencer, who delights in solving problems of all kinds, we leave the following: If the rock of which the Sphinx is made wteighs 100 pounds per square foot, how much does the head of the Sphinx weigh if it is as high as the pyramid 70 paces west of the Sphinx 's left ear, as long as said pyramid is high, and as wide a.nd one-half these two dimensions. We sincerely hope that she makes use of the above on the coming senior class who will undoubtedly solve it, since we have left them the use of our brains. To Miss Rand, whom we have noticed chewing her beads, we leave an all-day lollipop of any iiavor she may desire. A little bird has told us that Miss Flagg is always getting her hands smeared with ink, while changing typewriting ribbons, so we leave her a typewriter with a ribbon which will never have. to be changed, assuring her of clean hands in the future, we hope. Witli our usual helpful spirit we leave Miss Hart a glass case in which to keep her new car. To lighten the burden of the coming editor of the Mirror and t0 lighten Mr. Nottenburg's responsibility we leave the latter an automatic searching machine which will prevent copies of the school magazine To Mr. Rounds we leave a new Chevrolet and free admittance to all factories. To the youngest member of our faculty, Miss Delesdenier, we leave a. new set of messenger girls to replace those who graduate this year. from appearing before schedule. To Mr. Goodrich we leave plenty of sulphur and sulphuric acid with a recipe for making perfumes which require open windows and ventilators. As Miss Burgess must be tired of teaching pupils to draw the'pres- ent frieze in the assembly hall we lea.ve her a new one. We heard that Miss Rose is quite ill at ease while teaching English to her sophomore classes, and a senior is present in the room. So in order that she may be assured of comfort, as we desire all teachers to be so, we leave her an abundant supply of earlaps to present each senior with on entering the room. Knowing Miss Hoffman will miss the present senior German class, we leave her a Darrot with which she can carry on extended conversa- tions, and we sincerely hope that it teach her a few new stories to tell her future classes. To Miss Clement we leave a free passage to France.