Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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20 THE SENIOR YEAR BOOK 2471! HGV Will you now enter with me the office of the Panciera, Collings, and Coduri Company at Thompson's Corners? These three enterprising young ladies have invented an altogether new kind of pencil which is absolutely guaranteed not to bend, buckle, twist, rust, melt, freeze, or in any way hurt the tender membranes of the fingers and mouth. These pencils, by the way, have just been installed in the Westerly High School. The office of the before-mentioned company is most fortunate in having as errand girl Mary Turco, who well proved her ef- ficiency in that capacity during physical training periods when she was a senior. Our old friend Herman Miner has obtained through his industry and perseverance the enviable position of president of the Washington Trust Company. It is interesting to note that Mr. Miner rather pendantically insists on every one's addressing him as Most Honorable Sir . The metropolis now fades and I behold in the distance Lantern Hill, where the little mud hut of Ellery Fisher, the hermit, is situated. Five years ago when he went into his retirement, he made the statement that he never wanted to see another woman as long as he lived for when he was near them, he always felt nervous and embarrassed. How this ragged, unkempt, man differs from the dashing Bud Fisher of high school days! The atmosphere is becoming noisy and confused as I enter the dangerous ward of an insane hospital. And here is poor Edwina Matthews gone crazy from over study. When the wild desire to conjugate French verbs comes over her, she has to be chained down because of her violence. The reverend halls of Yale University now appear. And can this be Grace Walton who is head of the physics depart- ment? Grace certainly has had experience with the youth of the land, though, for she was the only girl in our high school physics class. I now behold a totally different and much more frivolous scene, a cabaret in New York, with Beatrice Silverstein as a solo dancer. A great change has certaidly come over our Beatrice. Not always is the child the father of the man. Again, the cabaret vanishes and its place is taken by the dock of a large ocean liner. Here stands Herbert Hinchliffe, the boss stevedore, driving his men with utmost cruelty. Some- thing should be done to check such unnecessary harshness. I now feel myself sinking-sinking down into the depths until I am surrounded by walls of stone. Where can it be? Oh yes, back in Westerly again in the new granite quarry dis- covered by Ethel Winterbottom, Elvira Giannoni, Josephine Guiliano, and Isabel Steadman. Their company is unique in that it employs only women workers.

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YEL. .. THE SENIOR YEAR. BOOK 19 -. new Derby. When I recall John's great speed in passing to and from classes while in high school, I do not wonder he chose this profession. I now find myself gazing on Westerly, my beloved birth- place, only to find the whole town in a state of great jubilation. The reason is that, at last Miss Mary Kenyon has taken over the editorship of the Westerly Times. No Wonder there is such a wild burst of excitement. And there is another reason for Westerly's jubilee. Carl Saunders has just been elected director of the new Y. M. C. A. He recently gained much favor with the school committee through a lecture delivered to the school children of Westerly on The Way a Pupil Should Studyv. Mr. Saunders must have procured much of his interesting data from his own school boy experiences for, as I remember it, he was one of the most conscientious students in the class. I now perceive still another member of our illustrious' group standing on the stage of our own assemblly hall. In his school days, Sylvester was always Miss Stanton's prize pu- pil when it came to mouth opening drills and it was hinted ev- en then that some day he might become her successor. My old friend Dallas Clarke appears before me in the role of the World's champion professional baseball player, having years ago broken Babe Ruth's mighty record of sixty home- runs. Ah! I see Achille Piccolo has become Bunk Stanton's1 successor as a marathon runner. It is interesting to note that Killy keeps in training by diligently chasing horses at the Watch Hill Riding Club. Who is this young lady so assiduously painting the new Rhode Island Hotel Building? Helen Murphy, I think. I real- ize now what practical training she received in Miss Hood's drawing classes in the old high school days. Behold with me for a moment the newly elected Westerly school committee, Irving Silverstein, Gordon Perrin and Alice Blackburn. They have finally triumphed over every opposition and succeeded in hiring Ruisi's barb-er shop for that long de- sired basketball court. Can this be another member of the class who has joined the ministry? Yes, it is certainly Julius Mackowitz. This profession may be a surprise to some but I well remember the time long ago when he made a very excellent Friar Tuck . Perhaps that little incident turned him from his proposed ca- reer of grand opera singer. Verily! Verily! Here is my old classmate, Lillian Ruisi, tuning the Westerly High School piano. Her voice training is apparently very useful to her, when she has to deal with as hard-worked and long-suffering an instrument as this.

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THE SENIOR YEAR BOOK 21 val' - - flew My boyhood friend, Arthur Gervasini, now comes into view as the newly-elected honorary president of the Lady Hairdressers' Union . We always did know that Arthur was duly appreciated by the gentler sex and this is added proof. No place of business visited in this mental peregrination has disclosed the whereabouts of four of my classmates: Eliza- beth and Catherine Roan, Helen Cherry, and Helen Wills but the mystery is clearing up as I gaze upon four happy homes, each with its gay garden and cheerful hearth fire. May the fortune of every member of our dear class of 1928 be as pros- perous and contented as the scenes before me! But they fade. The spirit of prophecy departs! The heavy veil of mystery is again drawn! I can reveal no more. Ladies and Gentlemen of the radio audience you have just been listening to a prophecy given by Mr. Mahahm Kah- rinseer, of India. Station W. H. S. Sinigar, India, now signs off at 9 :35 P. M. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Charles K. Campbell. Women drivers insist magnanimously that they only expect half of the road 1 It's comforting to know that, but still, it would be nice in emergencies if they could decide which half it is that they want. Officer on the bank- Hey, you! No swimming in the reservoir. I'm gonna arrest you as soon as you get out. Man in the Reservoir- Ha-ha! That's one on you. I'm not coming out. Officer- Why not? Man-'Tm committing suicide. Percy- Well, we've stopped the crime wave in Scotland. Fred- Fine How did you do it '? Percy- By charging for room and board in the jails.