Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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'00 1 28 THE SENIOR YEAR BOOK I 'PGV will and testament set our hand and seal this twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-nine. Requiescat in Pace Per Reginald Lamb, Attempter at Law., DEBUG Class Song fTune-Till We Meet Againl The sun of our schooldays is settingg All nature Whispers goodbyeg Four fairest of flowers On memory are ours For the years so quickly sped by. The sun of a new day is risingg Our untried ships will set sail Upon life's fitful sea And may We e'er be Strong to meet with a smile each fierce gale. CHORUS: Joy and gladness bid us all forget Parting sigh and Whisper of regret. Cloudless morn is soon to dawn When we're closer, nearer, drawn. To thee, tho far apart in sacred truth, We'll hold high thy teachings of our youth. Whate'er brings life or destiny, We'll be true to thee.

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THE SENIOR YEAR BOOK 27 fini! Y ' Llfsw I, Mary La Pere, bequeath my ability to arrive at school on time to Theresa Materese. In order to doubly assure her earli attendance I leave her in sole possession of my speedy truc . I, Robert Drysdale, 3rd, bequeath the various devices with which I have been wont to annoy the teachers, including one patent adjustable chalk flipper, one gross best elastic bands, fifty-three assorted wisecracks, and instructions for maintaining an innocent appearance, to Stahle, with the hope that he will employ them, better them, and above all, pass them on to future generations. I, Agnes McKellar, bequeath my fondness for BILL - ing and cooing to Dorothy Ryan. I, Jack Clancy, being sorry for having caused Miss Sturtevant so much trouble by writing at the top of the black-board, do hereby bequeath to said Miss Sturtevant the best stepladder which can be bought in order that she may have the laugh on Jack Wallace if he attempts to follow in my footsteps, said ladder to be paid for with the proceeds from the sale of my French compositions to any of the lead- ing French periodicals. I, Fred Dotolo, bequeath the red coat which I wore in the Senior Play to Durfee, to be cut up and used for bait for his favorite outdoor sport of hunting the wily bullfrog in the wilds of Alton's main street. I, Reginald Lamb, bequeath my booklet Il,legible Hand- writing Made Easy to Scibilia with the hope that he will soon be able to puzzle the teachers as well as I have for four years. I, Marjorie Peterson, bequeath the sweeping air of queenly dignity which I wear to accord with my cognomen of Sheba, to Ruth Saunders. We direct that the remainder of the fruits of our scho- lastic endeavor be collected by the faculty and disposed of, as models of academic skill and perfection, to the various High Schools of New England, for a sum sufficient to buy the School a steam roller of its very own, with which it may amuse the boys during recess, and also one best patented steel scraper for said steam roller for the purpose of re- moving gum in the corridors. We leave the problem of handling this combination roller and scraper, especially up and down the stairs, to the next Physics class, for a practi- cal demonstration of their ability in the mechanical field. We hereby appoint Miss Laura E. Mclntire, our beloved teacher and guardian spirit of the school library, sole execu- tor of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we, the class of 1929, the testators, have to this, our last, final, only, ultimate, and conclusive

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THE SENIOR YEAR BOOK 29 MDI. . 1 .1651 Class Statistics E U E May I take you into my confidence this evening and tell you the great news that I have been appointed assistant to Roger Babson, the most noted statistician of the country? The first delicate, but nevertheless delightful, task which my director has assigned me is to compile the statistics of the most famous class of the most famous high school in the country, the statistics to be used hereafter as a basis for judging all High School classes. Without hesitation, I chose the class of 1929 of the Westerly High School of Westerly, Rhode Island, since its perfection is unrivaled. Mr. Babson asked me to study this particular class from various standpoints. First, from that of Age, second, Intellect, third, Industry, fourth, Deportment, fifth, Phil- osophy, sixth, Disposition, seventh, Ethics, eighth, Philan- thropy, ninth, Aesthetics, and tenth, Arts. 1. Age. First, I investigated the age of the students of this remarkable class and found that though some who are real infant prodigees, ,like our class babies, Ruth Williams, and William Brown, graduate at the age of seventeen, the average age of the graduates of this class is eighteen years. 2. Intellect. The intellectual aptitude of high school students varies greatly. Here, I might mention that there is nothing quite so refreshing and entertaining as unspoiled, natural humor. Mary Dolan and Robert Drysdale are never out of sorts, and the day is never dreary enough to darken their bright and scintillating remarks. Thus it is only fair to designate them as the Wittiest members of the class. 3. Industry being the next subject of my study, I un- dertook to ascertain how the little busy bees of the class of 1929 improved their shining hours. As a result, I discovered that some of the pupils are trying to make us believe that they are not perfectly capable of attaining as great heights as others, but if it were not for their tendency toward lazi- ness and procrastination, Zilla Farnham and Bill Tucker- man, with their unusual natural talents, would find it pos- sible to become the President and Vice President of the United States. There is another student in the class who, although not all the teachers are aware of it, can get byi' without being studious, and yet none would call him lazy. Rupert Cole- man could bluff his way through any English course and make the class believe that he had sat up until three o'clock the morning before, preparing his lesson. Unquestionably,