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

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THE CHATTERBOX 23 THE ALUMNI BANQUET Invitations arc out for the Alumni Banquet. The annual banquet and business meeting will be held Thursday evening, June 26, at the illage Hall dining room and will be followed by a social and dance in the hall. A very interesting program has been prepared and Perley Klark s or- chestra will furnish the music. A collection of class and school pictures will form one feature of the evening’s entertainment. ----$----- THE 7’s, 8’s AND 9s There have been ten classes whose numerals have ended either in 7, 8 or 9. Twelve of the fifteen members of the class of 1897 are living and we have heard from Harry Marshall, William Bolkum, Herman Bone and Bertha Davis Bone. 1897 Canaan, Vermont, May 13, 1930 Dear Alumni Editor: I received you letter regarding the Alumni feature of the June issue of the Chatterbox. It is a matter of record that I was a member of the Class of 1897, W. R. H. S. and for the past twenty-one years have been located at Canaan, Vt., and my principal occupation has been with the U. S. Customs Service as a Deputy Collector. I believe I have been a subscriber of the school magazine since it started a few years ago and have enjoyed very much reading the same, especially the issues of the present school year with the Alumni features. There are several of my classmates that I have not seen or heard from since our graduation and if any of them should come to Northeastern Ver- jnont I would be very glad to have them look me up. Sincerely yours, Harry Marshall, '97

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22 THE CHATTERBOX Teachers, Superintendent, Members of the School Board, and Friends: We realize that you have done all within your power to make the school what it is today. The debt we owe you lies deep in our hearts. We realize now more fully and deeply the services you have so freely granted to us. We wish to express our appreciation of your efforts, by which we have so prospered. May we, as students, go forth achieving success of which you will feel proud. Parents: No words can express our gratitude to those who have placed our wel- fare above their own; who have sacrificed many things that we might receive a good education. May we always fulfill your expectations for us and may God give us strength to do the things that will make your hearts happy. We hope that we may reach the goals that you would have us reach. Under-graduates: We trust that you will do even better than we have done and that we shall not be disappointed by the way you go on. You should see love, friendship, guidance, education and loyalty. These we saw and hope that you may see them as plainly as we have. We have very much enjoyed your companionship through these years. You have meant much to us; it is the student body that makes the school. We hope that you will always keep faith with us and those who have graduated before us, to whom our school means a great deal. Classmates: We have looked forward to this day for four long years. It has been our end and aim and now we must meet it with a happy heart. We are ready to go into life with glad hearts and confidence in ourselves. We will meet life’s tasks with a challenge; nothing will be too hard or long for us. We are not saying farewell to our friends, but to our four happy years at high school. —Mary Sawyer '30 -----§---- JOKES The oculist was examining the eyes of a patient and had requested him to read the top line of a test card, the letters of which ran H P R T V Z B F H K. When some moments elapsed, the specialist said: Do you mean to say you cannot read letters of that size?” Oh, I can see the letters all right,” replied the patient, but I can’t pronQunce the blooming word.” i—Pharmacal Advance.

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24 THE CHATTERBOX Dear Alumni: As I am one of the older members of the Alumni and have had an op- portunity to observe some who have made a success in the world, and others who are failures, I am beginning to wonder why some have been successful and some have not. Isn’t it a popular notion that we arc divided into two classes, the fortunate and the unfortunate? In the one class are those to whom every good gift has been given; they have health, and joy of living, and the natural capacity for achievement. The other class includes those who, by some handicap beyond their ability to conquer, are kept from being the successes they ought to be. This is the popular notion, a notion invented by us ordinary folks as an alibi for our shortcomings. I believe we like to assume that the reasons for our mediocrity are beyond our control, that if only we had been given more health, or more money or more education or more something or other, we would have been something very different. It pleases us to indulge ourselves in envy toward those who just couldn’t help succeeding. Some of our most distinguished men had some serious handicaps to con- tend with. Take for examples: Beethoven, who began to grow deaf at twenty-six; Demosthenes, who stammered; Julius Caesar, who had fits; Byron, who had a club-foot; and Dr. Johnson, who was a constant sufferer. The difference between these distinguished men and our successful Alumni and the rest of us is chiefly a difference of spirit, of determination, and the will that refuses to recognize defeat. I am of the opinion that why some of us Alumni have been unsuccess- ful is because we have been satisfied with just a comfortable mediocrity and perhaps have not considered it worth the while to exert the effort and sac- rifice to attain success. I do not believe anybody gets a hundred per cent equipment for life. The game is to see how much we can do with the cards we have to play. fm. H. Bolkum '97, Boltonville, Vt. -----5----- 83 Chestnut St., Gardner, Mass. May 17, 1930 My dear Mr. Gibson: Doctor Bone, class of 1897, asked me to write for both of us in answer to your letter in which you asked for information concerning us for the June issue of the Chatterbox. Dr. Herman D. Bone is located in Gardner, Mass., where he does Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat work. He is chairman of the Medical Executive Board of the Heywood Hospital. On account of the size of his practise he has an assistant, Dr. Herman A. Morrill. For the past two years, he has been first Interne at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital which is the largest hospital of its kind in America. Dr. Morrill came from Pike, N. H.