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

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[LOV tLHR, A THE ART OF COOKING FOR BACHELORS The art of cooking is called an art quite justifiably. The fact that cooking is an art is proving itself to me more and more as I age. The preparations for the ordeal are as much of an ordeal as the cook- ing itself. First, before we touch too deeply on this subject, let it not be said that I didn't warn you first. I am of the firm belief that it is much more practical to stop now, before you have gone too far, and enjoy a meal at your nearest restaurant. The first thing that will confront you as a prospective chef is purchasing the necessary ingredients for your masterpiece. I have found that one of the easiest meals to prepare is pork and beans out of the can. But who can get romantic over pork and beans? Before making a safara to the wilds of a modern super-market you need the following virtues; a will of iron, nerves of steel. Last but not least, you need just scads of money. Now, before you spend all your money on things that you don’t need, let me give you a few pointers. The marvels of modern science have invaded the field of cooking now. Science has made our lives much easier to live. The brown-n-serve” roll is a new invention that is a must for all us bachelors. To serve these rolls prepare an oven to four hundred fifty degrees, melt some butter and brush it on top of the rolls and bake till evenly browned. There is nothing to it, provid- ing you don t forget the rolls in the oven. For our vegetables we will purchase some frozen french fried potatoes. Do not thaw, but place the contents of the box in a shallow pan, place in a four hundred degree oven for 15 or 20 minutes, then salt to your own taste. Next buy a box of fresh frozen peas. Place contents of box into a pan with one-half a cup of salted boiling water and add butter and cook. We now have everything except the meat and this proves to be quite a problem. — Ten —

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THE MUSIC PROGRAM This year our capable director, Mrs. Rowe, arranged to have the League Music Festival at Wells River. The program was very success- ful with each school singing two selections, followed by a combined chorus of two hundred and fifty, led by Mr. Walter Paskevich. The Glee Club took part in the Public Speaking Contest and in the Graduation Exercises. Deli Bailey, Mary Egner, and David Bidwell attended the Ver- mont Music Festival in Burlington as members of the All State Chorus. The members of the Glee Club express their thanks to Mrs. Rowe for her time and efforts. Mrs. Wilmot’s help as an accompanist made the Music Festival a success. - PRISCILLA DROWN ---WRHS---- SCHOOL ORCHESTRA Mrs. Spear organized a small school orchestra this year. They played for the first time at the One Act Play Contest. These students are also members of the Hilldale League Orchestra. We hope the orchestra will increase in size next year. —PRISCILLA DROWN ----WRHS--- SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL The School Safety Patrol consisted of the Junior High again this year. As their Captain they elected Russell Boyce, and as their Lieuten- ant they elected Christine Kaiser. The program ran very smoothly with few complaints. — Nine — —PRISCILLA DROWN

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The meat problem is going to be tough; the meat probably will be, too. Anybody can cook a hot dog or a hamburger but we must eat something better than that. Steak is too hard to cook when you broil it and it doesn’t taste as good fried. So let us buy a half a broiler (chicken) and fix that up. I don’t know how to cook a broiler so you will have to look it up in a cookbook. Now that we have prepared and enjoyed our delightful meal, the disaster strikes. The dishes have to be done. Now that we have reached the high point in our experiment I must leave you to clean up as best as you can. Please don’t throw that dish at me. After all, didn’t I warn you to eat in a restaurant? —DAVID BIDWELL '53 —WRHS— OUR ABC’S A is for our arrival four years ago. B is the rank for which we struggled so. C is for Mr. Cornthwaite the principal so stern. D is the mark in history we earned. E is for evil things which we did. F is for the failures we never rid. G is graduation for which we have strived. H is the humor in school we’ve revived. 1 is the interest we sometimes lacked. J is the jokes Mrs. Gibson never cracked. K is the knowledge we tried to gain. L is for lessons which drove us insane. M is the many tests we never passed. N is the noise that we did amass. O is the orchestra Mrs. Spear had. P is the Senior Play which wasn’t bad. Q is the quiz we couldn’t abide. R is the report card we tried to hide. S is for study — we didn’t do much. T is for times we got in dutch. U is for us — the whole class of’53. V is vacation — when we were free. W is our winless boys’ team. X is the extra” in them we esteem. Y is you, WRHS, which we served. Z is for zeal — we hope will be preserved. —CONNIE MAYHEW — Eleven —