Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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THE MIRROR 15 As our co-executors, We appoint the one- who sold the French the snow shovels with which to build the Panama Canal, and the one who controls the price- of Mexican jumping beans in Patagonia, who shall carry out the provisions of this will when a new high school shall bless our fair city. In testimony whereof, we set our hand, ordaining and de- claring this to be our last Will and testament, this fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty ninth. Wendell Maher, 1931. Q ' - ff? f t. V .K 4' ' GQ f n ' gf

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14 R THE MIRROR p tWe should like to know who the young gentleman is that Miss Flagg drives to school every morning in her new Whip- pet-6. Our suspicions have led us to believe that he sits in room 14. We leave her our sincerest hopes that she will find another companion from the class of 1932 as appreciative as her former passenger. To sum up the brilliant career of Miss Rigby in Commer- cial Law, we hereby appoint her as attorney for the defense of pupils summoned to the sanctum sanctorum of Judge Arthur N. Burke on the charge of misbe-havior. In order that Mr. Sheehy may continue his good work of directing the wayward sophomores to their home rooms as they enter the building at one o'clock, we leave him a police- man's uniform to add dignity to his authority. To Mrs. Clapp we l-eave a metronome to keep time for her unsteady beginners in typing, also, a new supply of Ruth Edd- ing's latest song hits to play on her much used phonograph. To Miss Mudgett we leave a supply of water buckets to be placed in room 19 at the time of floods caused by one of the experimental geniuses in her laboratory classes. To Mr. Nottenburg we leave the honor of being the chief printer of the New York Times as a reward for his excellent work in the publishing of the Mirror. To Mr. Leary and Miss Sewall we leave the lastest edition of Perfect Alibis that have been in the past and will be- in the future used by pupils who do not desire the athletic build. To Mr. Kimball we leave a class of curious boys who de- light in puzzling out endless examples of why and how a ,thing is done in Physics. To Mr. Crawford we leave our deepest sympathy at having to lose his former symphony players, and we hope that the orchestra of 1932 will be able to equal the genius ability of its predecessors. 1 To Miss Norris we leave our fondest wishes that she may continue to enjoy the socials and proms of the coming year, and that she may continue to have equally as good dancing partners as have been in her former sophomore classes.

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I6 THE MIRROR History of the Class of 1931 O good fortune prevented us from becoming sophomores three years ago. No kind spirit protected us from this in- l rious fate, this callow state. We were just what the Word implies, sophomores, sophos-moros, half wise, half foolish, just common clay ! Because of this condition, because we were not vastly different from former sophomores, we were ignored by upper-classmen, and we commanded no respect or admira- tion from our teachers, a sad beginning for our confident ex- pectancy. These first pangs of disappointment were somewhat abated when the great barrier between us and the junior and senior classes was broken by the common vision we all entertained of a new, modern high school. Perhaps the juniors would grad- uate from the n-ew building, we surely would. A second com- mon property was our sensational football team and our equally sensational band. We had a very successful season, and both the team and the band won fame. - One distinction we enjoyed 5 we were the first sophomore class for whom a course in music was compulsory. Reh-earsals for the sophomore choruses in the operetta Ivan, the Terrible began early. We screeched wild Russian songs, wore Russian costumes, and pretended to do Russian dances.. Mr. Schoon- maker, who had written the operetta, took the part of the mad Ivan. He displayed not a small amount of talent, and it is to him that w-e owe the success of the production. We made fur- ther musical efforts at Christmas time, when we sang carols in our beautiful, childish, sophomore fashion. ' After the Christmas vacation, what remained of the win- ter passed quickly. :We elected our class oilicers: Adam Danos- ky, president, Beulah VVeymouth, vice-president, 'Virginia Boucher, secretary and treasurerg Morrison 'S-hirley, auditor. Spring came, bringing its usual fevers and its annual crop of moustaches. We had an assortment among the seniors and the faculty ranging from the charming Ronald Coleman model to the Sedate Mr. Smith fthe brother on the left-hand side of the boxl. Another sign of spring was the number of crushes which seniors had- on sophomores. They had yielded at last