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

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“BY ANY OTHER NAME” Clotille Brown — Nancy Mays ......... Typical negro maid. Healthy, happy, lovable. Parrie Moore — Barbara Sawyer........ An attractive, vivacious, adoles- cent girl. Natalie Moore — Priscilla Pudvah .............. A well-groomed girl of twenty-six. She has a great deal of charm and poise. Lonnie Mansfield — David Egner....... Is in the throes of adolescence. Mrs. Patrick — Ellen Bailey ............ A shap-featured, thin-lipped woman, about forty. John Trent — Hod Symes .... The average dream of a romantic soldier. Olive Patrick — Ruth Simmons .......... Just what you would think an adolescent child of Mrs. Patrick would be like. Sgt. Smiley Mack — Sam Hutchins..........Typical tough top sergeant. The play opens with Natalie returning from New York. She had met her fiancee, John Trent, there and invited him to her home for dinner. When Parrie heard about John and how they had met and fallen in love, she was in a daze. All her thoughts and actions from there on were to please and impress John. Lonnie, her sweetheart side- kick, was very depressed over her infatuation for a much older man. Parrie is to be Lady MacBeth in the school play, until Mrs. Pat- rick speaks to the Board of Directors and acquires the part for her dear Olive.” This upsets the Moore family to no end. Two days before opening night a soldier, Sgt. Smiley Mack, arrives upon the scene. He had been corresponding with Olive but with the illusion that she was a beautiful girl, as she had sent Betty Grable’s picture. Olive was so flustered by the whole affair that she swallowed a bobby- pin. Consequently, Parrie took the part of Lady MacBeth, with Lonnie as her new manager. The play ended happily for all. PRISCILLA PUDVAH, ’50 -----WRHS------- THE MUSIC PROGRAM Throughout the year music has been ringing in the halls of Wells River High School both upstairs and down. The students have co- operated under the supervision of Mrs. Harry Rowe. Mrs. Rowe has donated much of her time to the work of the students and her work is deeply appreciated by them. — Eight —

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March at Hale’s Tavern. The girls were given corsages and the boys, button-hole flowers. Dr. Oberlander, medical advisor to National Life Insurance Company, was the guest speaker. Dr. Rowe led the group in singing. Mrs. Gibson and Mr. Cornthwaite presented cer- tificates to the girls and boys squads. A few students participated in the opera H.M.S. Pinafore” pre- sented at the Village Hall, March 15 and 16. The basement floor of the school building was altered this year providing rooms for shop, lab and hot lunches. Our appreciation for the new showers in the hall has been shown by the amount of use they have had during basketball season. NANCY MAYS, ’50 ---WRHS— FRESHMAN RECEPTION On Thursday evening, October twenty-seventh, the long awaited freshman reception was held at the Village Hall before an excep- tionally good crowd of parents and friends. Getting under way at eight, the sophomores proceeded to acquaint their audience with the new members of W. R. H. S. Many amusing stunts were used on the poor innocent freshmen who, I hasten to add, were very good sports. They were decked out in the customary hilarious costumes and odd get ups” which, of course, pleased the crowd. After the initiation ceremonies were over, refreshments, made by the Home Ec. girls, were served at the table attractively decorated by them. Many thanks were given to Mrs. Rowell and the girls for the hard work which they did and the delicious results which they obtained !! Round and square dancing completed the rest of the program and I’m sure that everyone felt that the sophomores had done an exceptional- ly good job in organizing their first social event of the year. ANN DEMERITT, ’51 — Seven —

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The program takes one period of Thursday for the boys and one period of Friday for the girls. Group singing also takes place often on Fridays. Many of the high school students participated in Pinafore” which was a wonderful experience for them. On March 31, 1950 the Hilldale League sponsored a music festi- val at Danville. Wells River was well represented there. A chorus of about one-hundred and fifty voices presented part of a program of music to be done at the Burlington Music Festival. Chosen to repre- sent us at Burlington in May are: Ellen Bailey, Priscilla Pudvah, David Bidwell, and David Egner. A few students taking lessons from George McLure played in the band. The two students who will represent Wells River in the All State Band at Burlington are: Ann Demeritt and Barbara Bailey. We have thoroughly enjoyed our musical program this year and hope to have the same next year. BARBARA BAILEY, 51 ----WRHS------ HILLDALE NEWS Basketball, the chief activity of the Hilldale League, started in December and continued until the middle of February. For three months the schools in the League competed with each other. About fourteen games were played by each school in the League. The basketball season was brought to a close with a dance held at Monroe. The purpose of the dance was three-fold; it provided a good time for the schools in the League; it gave honor to the Groton girls’ team and Mclndoes boys’ team who had won first place for three consecutive years; it announced the All-Star first and second league teams. Captain Barbara Sawyer and center guard, Nancy Mays, of Wells River were honored by making the first league team. Captain Horace Symes, also of Wells River, made the boy’s second league team. The dramatic interest in the schools of the League was shown by the large participation in one-act plays. Held at Wells River, March 23rd and 24th, these plays offered another means for a League get- — Nine —