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

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Wells River is very fortunate to have music lessons in its cur- riculum again this year under the direction of George McLure. Mem- bers of the band were given a Christmas party at the Monroe school- house. Refreshments were served and music for dancing was furnished by Jimmy Packard and his Orchestra. Many of the students will attend the Vermont Music Festival in Burlington. The band will go to the New England Festival which is to be held in Old Orchard Beach, Maine this year. The Seniors are once again the recipients of their basketball warm- up jackets. NANCY GOULD, ’49 ---WRHS-- HILL DALE LEAGUE NOTES A dance was sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce on March 25 for the basketball teams of the schools in the Hill Dale League. This dance was held in the W. R. H. S. gym which was decorated appro- priately for the occasion. Music was furnished by a six-piece orchestra made up of students from St. Johnsbury Trade School and St. Johns- bury Academy. This event was immensely enjoyed by all present. The four teams participating in the Kiwanis’ Invitation Tourna- ment at Woodsville were given a banquet by the Wells River Valley Kiwanis Club. Held in Mclndoes, this banquet was a huge success. Trophies were presented to the tournament champions, Groton girls, and Mclndoes boys. On April 28 and 29, one-act plays will be presented in the Wells River School gym. The schools competing in this contest are New- bury, Peacham, Mclndoes, Wells River, Danville, and St. Johnsbury Trade School. On May 13, a semi-formal dance will be held at Mclndoes for the teams of Hill Dale League. NANCY GOULD, ’49 — Eight —

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basketball squads. Various functions have been sponsored to ease this expenditure. Again this year the high school staged a magazine drive to earn money for the athletic equipment. At an assembly held last fall the student body enjoyed an unusual form of entertainment. Rose Richardson at the piano accompanied Miss Edith Clark who played the lyre, xylophone, and the English bells. The students appreciated the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce in ob- taining this entertainment. A Hallowe’en dance was sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club for the neighboring schools of Newbury, Groton, and Wells River. The village hall was weirdly decorated under the supervision of Marion Webster assisted by Nancy Gould. Mr. Stone capably led the group in a few square dances. Free refreshments of coke, sandwiches, and cookies were donated by the Kiwanis Club and other members of the community. Members of the basketball squad and other students of Whitcomb High School in Bethel, Vt. (where Mr. French taught this year) were served an excellent supper in the new Home Ec room on December 16. In the evening the two schools participated in a game of basketball which was followed by a dance. On February 4, we played a return game in Bethel which was preceded by a fine supper of Italian spaghetti and meat balls. The Chamber of Commerce sponsored a supper for the benefit of the showers. Movies were shown following the supper. The physics class attended the General Electric Magic Show, a demonstration of recent scientific experiments and discoveries in the fields of physics and chemistry, which was held in Bradford. The Home Ec Lab in the Village Hall was the scene of a Valentine Tea on February eleventh. It was sponsored by the Home Ec classes. All mothers of school children were invited. The lab was attractively decorated with red and white valentines. As an added attraction, Mrs. Harry Rowe played the violin and Mrs. Adine Farwell sang. The Juniors and Seniors attended Legislature at Montpelier at the kind invitiation of the town representatives, William J. Taisey and Walter Renfrew. The students were taken to meet Governor Gibson and were then served a dinner at the Pavilion Hotel. — Seven —

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FRESHMAN INITIATION Freshman initiation took place in September. The neophytes ar- rived at school on the fateful day, clad in an awe-inspiring array of gar- ments. The boys wore shorts and girls’ blouses, high rubber boots, paint- ers’ caps and bransacks. The girls sported late-designed red-flannel un- derwear, had their hair in rags, and wore men’s shoes and bransacks. All freshmen had to bow to sophomores, open doors for them and carry their books to classes. The freshmen were introduced at frequent intervals during the day to the allure and charm of lipstick by the sophomores. At noon, the initiated were paraded to the post office by the initiators, so the public would be able to view the future pride of Wells River High. At night, a more formal procedure was followed at the hall, when the finishings touches were administered and the freshmen became offi- cial members of the school. On the whole, freshman initiation was enjoyed by everyone ex- cept sophomore Hod Symes, who, in the process of applying lipstick to the freshmen, was twice overpowered by two freshmen girls, and given a dose of his own medicine. JOHNIE MAHNKER, ’49 ----WRHS------ “GIRL-SHY’’ Girl-Shy” was presented by the Wells River High School Seniors at the Village Hall on Friday evening, November 19, 1948. The cast was made up of twelve students: Phil Basch — Tom Arsdale ............................... woman-hater Keith Bidwell — Oke Stimson ....................... just the opposite Charles Frost — Anthony Arsdale ....................... Tom’s father Kendall Fisk — Dean Marlow ..................... dean of the college and Caroline’s flame George Hall — Alfred Tennyson Murgatoyd ...........what non-lovers of great poetry might call a bore in the extreme sense — Nine —