Wells River High School - Chatterbox Yearbook (Wells River, VT)

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2 THE CHATTERBOX iEiiitnml FAREWELL With this last issue of the Chatterbox, we give up our places on the Editorial Staff. We wish to thank every one for the support received this year and for the material submitted to us so promptly. We have done our best to perform the duties as- signed to us on the Staff and to faithfully carry them out in mak- ing the paper a worthy representative of our school. WELCOME The Staff of ’28-’29 wishes to extend a welcome to next year’s Staff. We feel sure that the new members will do their best for the improvement of the paper, and we wish them every success. %» g rltnnl Neuia A school supper was served at the church parlors, March 6» by a most efficient committee of parents of the High School stu- dents. The dining room was in charge of Miss Dorothy Grant, and was very attractively decorated with the school colors, red and white. Each table was attended by a girl and a boy from the High School. During the supper hour, music was furnished by Mr. Muir, on the violin, accompanied by Marjorie Amidon of the Junior class. Following the supper, an entertainment, in charge of Miss Beatrice Farman, was given. First, were illustrations of one of Artemus Ward’s stories with George Deming as “Artemus”. The characters were represented by Lyndol Davis, Agnes Wil- son, Winston Gibson, and Bernard Adams, class of ’32. Second on the program was a song from “Windmills of Holland”, by Flora Glynn, Agnes Wilson, Sarah Martin, Lyndol Davis, George Deming, and Bernard Adams, accompanied by Lillian Tripp at the piano. Then came the play, “My Lady’s Lace”, a Dutch personi- fication. The characters were as follows: Mynheer Cornlis. Hoi-

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June v.m Qlljattrrta TABLE OF CONTENTS Staff Editorial School News Exchanges Athletic Editor’s Dairy Class Picture Roll Call Class Day Parts Commencement Essays Jokes School Song STAFF Page 1 2 2 5 o 8 9 10 24 31 Page 4 of Cover Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Literary Editor Business Manager Assistant Business Managers Hollis Darling, ’30; School Notes Social News Athletics Rene Rogers, ’30; Jokes Donald Adams ! Alumni News Sarah Martin, '29 Pearl Russell, ’30 Gladys Laturnau, ’29 James Thomas, ’29 Kenneth Leonard, ’31 Mary Sawyer ’30 Eleanor Wilson ’29 Herbert Andrews, ’30 29, Gordon Adams ’31 Adna Mulliken, ’30

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THE CHATTERBOX 3 lis Darling; his daughter, Anje, Ruth Wilson; the old nurse and lace maker, Meader Ka'atje, Pearl Russell; Ian Van Born, re- cently from Paris, Gordon Adams. The next number on the program was a mock wedding with Gladys Laturnau, the bride, attended by Eleanor Wilson as bridesmaid, and little Katherine Morse as train bearer; Katherine Bailey was the groom, with Mary Sawyer as best man and Sarah Martin, the minister. Lillian Tripp played the wedding march. On April 6 a food sale, under the direction of the H. S. girls, was held at Clark’s store. The proceeds were used to send a delegate from the school to the Older Girl’s Conference at Brattleboro this year and to start a fund for the same purpose for next year. Marjorie Amidon, Pearl Russell. Lillian Tripp and Eleanor Wilson were absent from school April 19, 20 and 21, because they attended the Older Girls’ Conference. Marjorie and Pearl were delegates from Barnet, Lillian from the Wells River Con- gregational Sabbath School, and Eleanor from the High School. Eleanor gave her report of the Conference in Assembly the fol- lowing Wednesday. Friday evening, May 3, the Senior Class presented to a large and appreciative audience, the three-act comedy-drama, “A Little Clodhopper”, under the direction of Miss Dorothy Grant. The parts were well taken and the hard work put in both by the members of the cast and the coach showed in the presen- tation. The cast of characters was as follows: Septimus Green, a young book agent full of pep, Donald Adams; Ocey Gump, a fresh country product, Hollis Darling; George Chiggerson, an innocent little lamb from the city, James Thomas; Mrs. Chig- gerson-Boggs, his doting mother with a smooth scheme, Gladys Laturnau; Miss Juliette Bean, a Splinterville boarding-house keeper, Aurora Garbati; Charmian Carter, who thinks she’s a Vampire, Katherine Bailey; Judy, a little clodhopper from the poor house, Sarah Martin.