Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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THE MIRROR 19 'iBut C the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must returning for Miss Pratt, our loved teacher and friend, had died. We shall never forget her noble and splendid work, her beautiful and in- spiring life. For a few weeks Miss Mendum took Miss Pratt's placeg now we have Mr. Reynolds. Our nrst social affair was the Senior dance, which was early in December. Cnce more Nutting's saw the blue and cream in one of the prettiest events it had ever witnessed and one of the happiest incidents of our history. Its refreshing influence continued till the end of the month, when Miss Hall sent us some candy for a Christmas present. After the Christmas vacation we had a Masquerade Ball. At this, our senior social, we experienced the traditional privilege of the senior, that of staying till the unprecedented hour of eleven. Fulfillment of another senior tradition was our play, It Pays to Advertise. This is a three-act comedy, farcical, witty, and artistic. The performance formed an appropriate prelude to our spring vacation. After vacation we were pleased to have Seabury and Miss Mudgett with us again. More good for- tune was the School Boardis decision that we should graduate June eleventh-the best news we had heard all year. Having settled these things, we gave our attention to the more serious questions of diploma points and College Board Entrance Examinations. This matter put an immediate damper on all frivolity, and the young man's fancy dared not take its proverbial turn. More work was done in the few remaining days than had hitherto been done in weeks. -Sophomores won- deringly beheld our senior countenances grow serious and grave 5 we provoked from them the admiration and respect which we, as sophomores ourselves, had formerly failed to command. And now that our illustrious history is ended, although we are somewhatdazed at the brevity of three years, we are never- theless certain of three things: first, we believe in a beautiful myth, our new high schoolg secondly, we feel confident that blue and cream malte the noblest of combinationsg and thirdly we are still determined aut vincere aut mori ! Helen Catalafo, 1931.

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18 THE MIRROR fancy was only too ready to take its accustomed turn in spring. Once more we recognized masterpieces of the tonsorial art, and once more seniors became eilamored of sophomores. But even in these trying conditions we had serious affairs at hand. Our school won honors in the Massachusetts and New England Music Festivals. Further honor came to us when a group of school children from Caney Creek, Kentucky, came to visit us. They told us about their progress in education and explained their .strange but remarkable moral system to us. Although their principles and methods were unusual, they were nevertheless -splendid, and we were grateful to Miss Hall, whose efforts had made pos-sible their visit to us. This is but one of the many admirable things Miss Hall has done for us, and, although she has resigned, we still feel her fine and splen- did influence. Next in our history we decided that blue and cream make a combination sufliciently noble for our class colors and that aut vincere aut mori was sufliciently eloquent to represent our ideals. After we had settled these things, we held our Prom. The affair, which was very pretty and very successful, forms a pleasant part of our history. Our junior year was nearing its end, when we learned one day that Miss Mudgett had suffered an unfortunate accident and would be unable to meet her classes for some time. Both teachers and pupils heard this news with sorrow, for we all love Miss Mudgett. Thus our adven-ture was overg we were seniors, still wav- ing the blue and cream, still determined aut vincere aut mori g mostly mori when it concerned football. Our band however, was still strong, and our Mirror had won recognitionin a national contest conducted by the Quill and Scroll. Others of our good fortunes were Miss Norris, our new Latin teacher, Miss Caswell of the French department, and Miss Grover of the commercial department. Still another sign for a favorable ye-ar was our wise election of class officers: Elwood Johnson, presidentg Charlotte Bell, vice-presidentg Bertha Storer, secre- tary and treasurerg Howard Morash, auditor. Best of all, Mr. Ward was to supervise our affairs. Hardly had we begun our year when We realized too well the meaning of Milton's

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Studious Boy T H E M I R R O R WHOS' WHO IN THE CLASS OF Most Popular Girl Most Popular Boy Most Useful Girl Most Useful Boy Best N atured Girl Best N atured Boys Most Most Most Most Obliging Girl Obliging Boy Studious Girl Best Looking Best Looking Most Athletic Most Athletic Class Clown Best Actor Best Actress Class Baby Girl Boy Girl Boy Best Dressed Girl Best Dressed Boy I Brightest Social Light Class Bad Man 1931 Mildred Fox Adam Danosky Charlotte Bell Irwin Smith Bertha Storer John F. Carroll Paul Pearson Eleanor Nye Harry Queen Faith Arnold Howard Morash Lois Seested Wendell Maher Esther Silver William Greig Richard DeCoste Elwood Johnson Carolyn Hatch Richard DeCoste Helen Ryan Harold Keeman Virginia Boucher Roy Bradley