Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

Page 23 text:

Westbrook High School H WD Ml IEE IQ 9 S DIAMOND MERCHANTS AND SILVERSMITHS 482 CONGRESS STREET, PORTLAND, MAINE PICTURE FRAMES THHHE ZAMHLIEBIIEIIQTF SWUIVDIMD NIIIIHPIIIIIIMIIIIIIINIIIIIUFIIIIIIUHIIIIIIMlIIII1NIllIlM1IIlllIMHIIIIlWIIIIIIINIIIIIIIKIIIIIWIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIINIIIIIIINIIIIIIWPIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIPIIIIIII4NIMNIIIIIIWKIIIIIUVIIIIIIIOIIIIIIHVIIIIIIWIIIIINHIIIII4PIIIIIIIIUIMII4IIIIIIIIIVIIIIINPIIIIIIIPVIIIII4IlIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIOOIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIUIIIIIIIUIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIWIIIIE PORTRAITS Of Q U A LI T Y 'W 'Po'rtland, emaino

Page 22 text:

20 The Blue Er whale friend. He had to play each game and read the directions carefully before he made the pur- chase. When I said Thank you each time I received his change, he replied, very dutifully, Yes, lVla'am. How I wanted to laugh, but you can't laugh at customers no matter how comical the situation is. Some people ask foolish, unreasonable ques- tions. One woman held up a small boy's suit and asked me if I thought it would Ht her lit- tle boy, who was in Canada. Thoroughly dis- gusted, I replied rather tartly that I didn't know her little boy. She gave me an offended look, but after you have spent six hours on your feet, waiting on all kinds of people, irritat- ing, patronizing, jolly, considerate, and incon- siderate people, you don't care what people think of you-at least 1 don't. Some of them rush up and down the aisles in a great haste, others dawdle about, not knowing what they want or having only a very vague idea. There are a few, a very few, people who know what they want and buy it Without first speculating as to whether it will wear well or if they can get it a few cents cheaper in Portland Cnever figuring their car- fare to and from Portlandj. Gradually the crowd thins out and the girls have a breathing space before they start re- plenishing their diminished stock. Then the last-minute customer comes dash- ing in and rips the whole counter fthat I have just filled and straightenedj apart in a frantic effort to find some object that she simply must have for Sunday. Someone always knocks at the door after it is locked, but is met with the polite but firm words, Sorry, madam, the store is closed, and she goes away muttering about the nerve and audacity of those clerks in colorful terms. The first bell rings and the cash is taken from the registers. The second bell rings and there is a mad scramble for the dressing room. We receive our pay envelopes with much satisfac- tion at the realization that we earn our own spending money. The drug store is the des- tination of most of the girls, where we promptly spend our pay on candy and other things that we don't need or want. People should try looking at themselves as a salesgirl sees them if they want a big, hearty laugh. K. Y. MACN., TH. KEEPING AMERICA AMERICAN America, discovered in the year 1492, ls the land that was made for you. You must, every day, do your best To help make America greater for the rest. Never let her standards fall, But raise them higher, one and all. Your forefathers did their part before, Show America you can do as much and more. And when in the future years to come VVe look back at the work welve done, And know that if we will, we can, liach one of us, keep America American. D. I.. P., '32. l?7 'b, Tin Illl ' -Mfg, I iff w S -A - :FE 4' Gin, ikf' Ywi.-7 -L if-22 If x l,-'wal 1 -.ig H - gli iii!! T 'f f.. E? 574- . ' IA . '45 ' ' 'AJ bf'-'N ' 1 -159 H 5? X

Page 24 text:

22 af! The Blue E-r White S li N lll GD lilo S ll A lil ll S ll lll 'IU S SYLVIA ESTHER ALLEN-COMMERCIAL Syl Well, Syl, we hear you want to become an extra good nurse. Here's luck to you. Pastime: Taking care of her Hartfleyj. Failing: North Windham. Ambition: To be a good nurse. Favorite Expression: Aw, Gee! HUGH EDWIN ANDREWS-COLLEGE Hughie Hughie is our class heartbreaker, but anyway we wish him all kinds of luck. Pastime: jerking sodas. Failing: Women. Favorite Expression: G-O-S-H. Ambition: To be a drug store cowboy. EUGENE ARTHUR ARSENAULT-INDUSTRIAL Pickle Football CID. Pickle hails from across the river and has been in our midst for four years, but no one knew it until last football season. Favorite Expression: Leave my soap alone. Ambition: To be a plunging back. Pastime: Working for Charlie. Failing: Looking for Buck or Gun, ETTA VIOLA BETTINGER-COMMERCIAL Etta Betta' Etta hasn't done much broadcasting these four years, but we'll always speak a good word for her, won't we, Barbara? Favorite Expression: Gol darn it. Ambition: To be a private stenog. Pastime: Attending the Star with Barbara. Failing: 8.15 A. M. CAROLA DOROTHEA BOGDAHN-COMMERCIAL Dot Usher at Graduation 135. Here is one of the sweetest smiling girls in the class. Good luck, Dot, and we all hope you keep on smiling your way through life. Failing: Shutting off the alarm clock and crawling back into bed. Pastime: Favoring other people. Ambition: To make this world one great ray of sunshine. Favorite Expression: Don't be so silly. DORIS MILDRED BURNH.AM-COMMERCIAL Dol Basketball C4, 3, 72, lj. Dot hails from Naples. She doesn't have very much to say, but we bet she could tell us something about those summers in Naples. How about it, Dot? Favorite Expression: No l Ambition: To be somebody's bookkeeper. Failing: Naples. Pastime: Swimming.