Watervliet High School - Spectator Yearbook (Watervliet, NY)

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GIRLS AND ELECTRICITY I 'a Lge Twenty-six THE VIOLIN The violin is long and thin: The art of playing lies within. Il you want to play it right, First make sure you look at sight, Next you hold it with your chin, Now you are ready to begin. You move your liners up and downg Your bow goes up and then around. Next you learn your notes and scalcsg Then comes forth the dreadful wail. By the time you learn to play a song, The neighbors know where you belongg So you see your chance is slim, Of ever playing a violin. -loAN MARTIN 'k ANALYSIS OF A WOMAN Analysis of the creature known as woman, as seen through the eyes of the chemist. Symbol Wo Atomic Weight 120 Atomic Number 17 Occurrence: Found wherever man exists. Physical Properties: Boils at nothing and freezes at any IIliIlLlil'. Melts when properly treatedg very bitter if not well used. Chemical Properties: Possesses great affinity for gold, silver, platinum, and precious stones. Violent reaction if left alone, able to absorb great amount of food matter. Turns green when placed aside for better looking specimen. Uses: Highly ornamental, useful as a tonic in acceleration of low spirits and an equalizer of the distribution of wealth. Is probably the most effective income reducing agent known. Caution: Highly explosive in inexperienced hands. DOUG WILLIAMS 'k When Il' If she If If If she If she If she If If If If If Il' she her she she you she she she she zi. gill is sulky rind wont speak- exeiler. get too excited'--controller. talks too long-interrupter. way of thinking is not yours-converter. IS willing to come half way-meter. will come all the way--receiver. wants to go further-conductor. would go still further-dispatcher, wants to be an angel-transformer. think she is unfaithful-detector. is unfaithful-lever. proves your fears are wrong- --compensator, goes up in airk-condenser. wants chocolates--feeder. DOUG WILLIAMS

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The members of the art classes also leave a gift to Gil's, a sign with the word-s: Extra glasses of water will eost you five cents. After all, we have to make some money. Bill Phillips, the only man who attends school cheerfully and is unemployed at the same time cheerfully, leaves a copy of his pamphet entitled Finance Made Easy to Eddie Stevens. On the underclassmen we bestow that object of many campaign speeches, the third floor fountain, which every A.A. president since i936 has been fixing but which is still unrepaired. Did you ever try to drink out of that fountain? To Prof. Walsh and the members of that melodious group of young gentlemen called the Waterlivet High School Band, we leave the auditorium and music room, hoping t-hat they will make profitable use of the premises. Tish Stewart, who knows the way into Mr. Sanders' office better than he does himself, bestows peace and tran- quility on that sacred sanctum marked PRIVATE , ,Lucy Kasparian bestows her sense of humor and diary of stale jokes on all serious-minded 'souls that have yet to learn how to smile. Cubby Kapela, the original Calvert's man of distinction, leaves his excellent taste in clothes to Adolph Menjou and Frank Muscles Sinatra. To Marge Mahar we bequeath, and gladly so, that question: What is your trouble? The Bar-room Quartet leave their beautiful tenor voices to all the incoming freshmen who have not yet lost their grade school soprano voices. To the crowds entering the cafteria, we leave the Flight of the Bumble Bee so that they may have an excuse for the mad stampede-they were only keeping in time with the music. just think, a little bell causes that crushing, jarring, and maddening push to the cafeteria. The only thing comparable to it is a ride on the Temperance Hill cheesebox on a frosty winter mornin-g. The suave, dashing, handsome Howard Stanley leaves his Southern drawl and beaming smile to all of the serious, sour-faced souls of the Sophomore Class, the traditional Don't Tell Me! boys. The Class of 1947 hereby relinquishes all rights and privileges to the new meaning of L.S.fM.F.T. to the American Tobacco Company. Perhaps they will make it the basis for a new singing commercial. To all the future efficiency experts we leave the following legacy-a solution to the question: Why are students required to wait forty minutes for an excuse when they are two minutes late for school? It's undemocratic, ain't it? We bequeath a peaceful second Hoor to Mrs. Grady. No longer will the Casanovas whisper sweet nothings in the cars of their sweethearts behind the lockers near 207. To Miss Murray, who still insists that there are white horses, the members of homeroom 209 leave a clear view of the meadow. Don't give up hope, theylll appear on some blue Monday. Camille Cutie leaves her brilliance as an essayist tolall the future members of the D.A.R. We still insist that Camille will go far as an author. Perhaps to China, who knows? Remember, Camille, Pearl Buck did it and so can you. For the future female pupils of W.H.S., the Class of '47 has installed full-length mirrors in every other locker so that each may see for herself whether her slip is showing. To all students who are required to take Regents examinations we leave a copy of the February 7 issue of Life hlugazine. Turn -to page 113. The title of the article? If You're Going to Cheat, Do It Right. We, the class that piled all our defects and all our responsibility upon the slim shoulders of Miss Barrett within three weeks after her career in these sacred halls of learning began, leave her all our thanks for a job well done. 'l'o Mr. Sanders, who has guided us through the most hectic and unrnanageable years of our lives, we bequeath a major portion of our love and affection. So long, Pal. Bob Knott, classroom lawyer for the past year, refuses to allow his name to be signed to the Will because he insists that paragraph 3, line 2, and sentence 1 is irrelevant, immaterial, and inconsequential and is therefore out of orderg so we sign the will. I THE SENIOR CLASS, Minus Robert Knott, Esq. FRIED GLolacxNr:n Page Twenlyfve

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