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

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THE CHATTERBOX 11 CLASS GIFTS Toward a lasting remembrance of W. R. H. S. I have been given the power to present these gifts to my classmates. I trust that they will be found appropriate and a great help to each of this now dissolving class of 1930. When I read the name will each one step forward to receive his gift. Marjorie Amidon: Marj. has been trying to make us believe that the moon is made of green cheese for the last four years. But really, Marj., your bluff hasn’t fooled anybody. Therefore, we present to you this telescope to carefully analyze the moon. Bill Andrews: The strong man with a low voice. We suggest to Bill that this loud speaker could improve him, for we know that he is worthy of giving the world a lot of good sound knowledge. Hollis Darling: Owing to the fact that you have been in the habit of being late to school every other day this year, we find it most appropriate to present to you this alarm clock, sincerely hoping that your career in electricity and this alarm clock will keep you awake for a home run rather than a walk in this world. Adna Mulliken: The sheik of the school who gives instructions on How to Capture any Fair Maiden.” Since you have found that practising this art is harder than preaching it, we offer to you our hearty sympathy and to console you we present these twins. May you keep them forever and live happily ever after. Pearl Russell: We who have known you for four years all know that you are very good, but being very quiet, we fear others may overlook this, unless you develop your sense of humor. So we consider it our humble duty to present to you this book consisting of many jokes. Will you please memorize them and use them on the proper occasions to get acquainted. Mary Sawyer: The vamp of the entire school. She has broken more masculine hearts in school than Cleopatra did in all Egypt. Mary has been trying for three years to capture the fellow who has the sportiest looking roadster. To end your search, we present to you this humble but well- built Cadillac. —Rene R. Rogers -----§---- ADVICE TO UNDERGRADUATES We, the Class of 1930, think it advisable to give a little advice to the Undergraduates. As Seniors and the oldest and wisest group in W. R. H. S., we feel it our duty to leave some of the much that we have learned here, that

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10 THE CHATTERBOX submitted to the class, but were not obeyed very well and we found it nec- essary to hold an initiation in which the Freshmen were duly punished. When we enrolled as Juniors, our class enrollment had not changed, but there was a new faculty; Mr. Muir, a graduate of Colby, was principal; Miss Munsell and Miss Farman, a graduate of University of Vermont, were the assistant teachers. At our first class meeting that year, Hollis Darling was elected President; Mary Sawyer, Vice-President; Rene Rogers, Secretary and Treasurer and Mr. Muir, our class advisor. There were two school plays presented that year. In The Little Clod- hopper,” presented in the spring, Hollis Darling was one of the cast. In the winter Marjorie Amidon and Pearl Russell attended the Girls’ Conference held at Brattleboro, Vt. Our last year found no change in our class but the faculty was slightly changed. Mr. Wells of U. V. M. took the place of Mr. Muir and Mrs. Lanphere taught Home Economics and the commericial subjects which were added to the curriculum this year. Our class president was Mary Sawyer; Vice-President, Hollis Darling; Secretary and Treasurer, Rene Rogers; and Faculty Advisor, Mr. Wells. We had a very successful year in basket ball, winning some 14-5. At the end of the basket ball season the players were presented gold basket ball trophies. We, as a class, are very proud of the record of the team, as three of our members were regular players: Captain Hollis Darling, center; Rene Rogers and Herbert Andrews, guards. The girls organized a basket ball team and Mary Sawyer was Captain. Even though our school has a small number of girls from whom to select a team, credit and praise for spirit and work should be given them. A play, Go Slow, Mary,” was presented this year, in which Rene Rogers, Mary Sawyer and Hollis Darling from our class had parts. In the fall, Hollis Darling, Business Manager and Mary Sawyer, Editor- in-Chief of the Chatterbox, attended a meeting at Burlington, for all Editors and Assistants of different school papers in the state. This year Mary Sawyer attended the Girls’ Conference which was held at Bradford. In every year in high school, each class has given many very interesting assemblies, one of which was a special program put on by our class last Arm- istice Day, when we had music and readings appropriate for the occasion. Now we are leaving Wells River High School to take our places as men and women of today. We shall carry with us pleasant memories of happy days spent here, and we hope that sometime in the future each of us will have made a worthy record, and will be living lives as useful as our four years here have been pleasant. —Adna Mulliken

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12 THE CHATTERBOX you younger people may not find High School life as hard as we have found it to be. We advise the Junior Class to take on a few more members so that their graduation exercises will not be as hard to get ready for as we have found ours to be. We are going to counsel Lil Tripp to continue to be as happy next year as she has been this and there are only two ways we can see; one is to look up another Ford driver and the other is to drive a Ford herself. While hunting for a piece of advice for Mr. Leonard, we found our- selves confronted with the problem of high flying. Chet, we most sincerely advise you to keep off skiis before you jump out of your best school day life. We advise Gordon Adams to read the newspapers more so that next year he may be able to give a news report in English class whenever the teacher asks for it. The class of 1932 is large enough in numbers, but we advise the mem- bers to do less playing in their classes and keep up with the high scholastic average which we have set for two semesters. We advise Mr. Murphy to get a little more pep and not drawl out his words when speaking in class. If he should go a little more quickly to class next year, it would not disturb things so much. The class of 1 933 has lost two of its members this year; Gordon Rus- sell and Wayne Heath. We, the Class of 1930, suggest that they bring in a few new members and, for variety, why not admit at least one girl? Besides this, we wish that a certain member of the Freshman class, Richard Amidon, would get rid of his bad disposition, because we fear that he will regret having such a temper when he leaves Wells River. We hear that he is leaving this school to attend a larger one where he may play foot- ball. We admit that he has been a very good athlete for us, but fear that he is hardly big enough to play football yet. Advice is harder to give than an outsider thinks, because it docs not fit everyone. As this is the last of our school days here, we shall endeavor to give you a few examples to follow. One of the easiest things to let go backward in any High School is scholastic standing. In our school, athletics and social life play at least some small part, but we have always kept up the scholastic standing and we feel certain that the succeeding classes will maintain this record. We advise each member who returns to W. R. H. S., to bring at least one new student with him next year so that there may be a much larger High School. We sincerely hope for the best for our old High School; we have tried to uphold its traditions and we expect you who follow us to continue to do this with even better results in the years to come. —Hollis Darling '30