Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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The Senior Year Book— 1931 secondary education in the school of experience. It is by the symptoms, traits, and characteristics exhibited while they were our fellow students that we shall attempt to predict their choice of profession. So let us transport ourselves in imagination, twenty years hence. First to mind comes President Donald Bonner. Mr. Bonner, when recently approached by representatives of the press regarding his reelection to the town council, merely said, “I do not choose to speak.” Echo: (He’s permanent head man of the Elizabeth York-Pawcatuck River Boat Club. What’s he got to say about that?) Speaker: Considering that Donald is being backed by Bill Mitchell, the Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island, we think he stands a good chance. Echo: (Attorney General?!! What you mean is General Nuisance of the State of Rhode Island.) Speaker: Speaking of politics reminds us that Marjorie Estabrook is doing very well as Mitchell’s political boss. Speaker: Charles Kenyon, former W. H. S. pugilist, has turned into a professional boxer. Echo: (Oh, yes! He is an undertaker.) Speaker: One of the most daring robberies of the century occurred yesterday when little Thurston Rider, the smiling newsboy of Chicago, was robbed of his day’s receipts, arm elastics, and a cigar coupon. The poor old man was sweetly calling his wares in a plaintive voice, “Extra ! Extra! Marrack Codings sued by wealthy widow for breach of promise,” when two men attacked him. The men were traced to a boarding house owned by Anne Rinne and Frances Johnson, but operated by the merry widows, Mary Bray and Kay Blake. Arrests were made by Detectives Moscaritolo and Ligouri of Scotland Backyards. The bandits gave their names as George Binns and John Hinch-liffe. Speaker: Frank Turano, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island, in a recent speech said, “All great men are dying.” Echo: (He’ll probably live to a ripe old age.) Speaker: Harvey Conklin, the famous lexicographer, defines a dry battery as one favoring prohibition. Speaker: Mildred Young, the most in- quisitive girl in our class, has taken up research work. Echo: (Is she still searching for the name of the Unknown Soldier?) Speaker: Eleanor House and Alice Webster are in the pin business. Echo: (Still sticking to the point.) Speaker: Sposato and Sculco have just opened a plant to manufacture excelsior. Echo: (What? You mean long sawdust.) Speaker: Frances Farnham, well known aviatrix, yesterday broke the world’s altitude record. Echo: (Flying high.) Speaker: Miles Coulbourne is going around with a “Smile” on his face. Echo: (Business is Rossing.) Speaker: Florence Greig, Valedictorian of the class, has taken up public speaking as her vocation. She's on the Chautauqua circuit. Echo: (On the 4th of July she spoke so long her tonsils became sunburned.) Speaker: Henry Stahle, who, until recently, has been selling Austin cars, utoder hard times caused by the unemployment situation, was reduced to selling apples in the square. Echo: (Yes, crab apples.) Speaker: Elizabeth Edmond is so neat her business is always picking up. Speaker: A1 Fusaro and Eliseo Magni are working in the rubber factory at Cranston. Echo: (Sure! They’re doing a long stretch.) Speaker: The other day I saw Margaret Whalen, in the park, practicing for the Band Concert. Echo: (What was she playing? The Hose?) Speaker: Lib York has a honeymoon garden. Echo: (Even in high school she was always saying, “Just lettuce alone.”) Speaker: Mary La Via, Mildred Signor, and Rose Castagnaro have invented a fountain pen that will not leak. Echo: (The kind you forget to put the ink in.) Speaker: Benjamin Simmons has accepted a position as file clerk. Echo: (What is he, a manicurist?) Speaker: Dorothy Beaudreau has just opened a greenhouse. Echo: (Yes, she is specializing in Sweet William.) - «e{ 18

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The Senior Year Book— 1931 During her four years at our school, Eleanor Scanlon has added much prestige to our class. Thus upon her we bestow the degree E. C. S., Energetic, Cheerful, and Sociable. Florence Moran has always been one of us. Due to her faithfulness to her studies, we present her with the degree D. A. I., Dependable As An Ingersoll. By hard work at her books, Florence Greig has earned for herself the highest rank our class can offer—Valedictorian. To her we give the degree F. L. U. F. F., Fluff Laughs at Us Foolish Fellows. To Ray Payne, the slow and sophisticated member of our group, who throughout the four years in school has never overexerted himself, we give the degree J. R. P., John Rises Presently. To Elizabeth Thomson and Alice Webster, two gay commuters, we give the degree R. F. D., Rarely Feel Demure. Mary Gencarelli is one of those uncommon individuals who are seldom heard, but never seen with a glum face. Her degree is N. W. S., Never Without a Smile. Although Clara Fish doesn’t bother with the boys, she is always ready to giggle at their jokes. Her degree is O. M. I. N., Opposes Men In Nature. Since for four years Eleanor Kenyon has struggled over the keys of her typewriter, we give her the degree H. S. H. T., How She Hates Typewriting. Frances Johnson is of a very quiet nature but she can always be depended upon to recite in class. Upon her, therefore, we bestow the degree E. R., Ever Ready. A1 Fusaro, an outstanding cross-country man, can propel his short, arch-like legs around the course in such a manner that the spectators believe him to be the modern Pheidippides. His degree is A. F., Athlete’s Feet. Upon Rose Hoadley, an ambitious associate, we confer the degree W. 0. R. K.. Worries Over Receiving Kredits. Earl Carpenter and Dana Christy, an inseparable pair, are like a kerosene lamp. They are not especially bright, generally smoke, frequently go out at night, and are usually turned down. The degree with which we adorn these youths is G. K„ Gentlemen Kings. May Gould, the last on our list, but far from the least, deserves the degree E. N. D., Ever Notably Dependable. Now, friends and otherwise, we have conferred your degrees to the best of our childish ability. May they spur you on to greater depths than you would otherwise have been able to fathom. So— Here’s to those who love us less And the few who love us more; We hope that we haven’t hit too hard And still have friends galore. (Claris JJrn hrrif MR. BACON, Mr. Mason, Teachers, President Donald Bonner, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow Members of the Class of 1931: It is our honor to have been entrusted with the class prophecy, by the students who at this time are celebrating their graduation from W. H. S. Miss Dorothy Beau-dreau will later inform you of the feats accomplished and prowess displayed by various individuals, and of the credit and honor amassed by the class as a whole, which has served to further the high esteem in which this institution of learning is regarded throughout the United States. To Miss Beaudreau, then, in her capacity as historian, we leave the recounting of the deeds performed by the class up to our graduation in the year of our Lord 1931. To us is left this difficult task of attempting to prognosticate the position in life which the members of this same class may have attained by the year 1951, when they have completed, at least partially, their —i7

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The Senior Year Book— 1931 Speaker: By matching pennies, Edward Boutelle has at last saved enough money to take a trip to New York. It is reported that he stands for hours in front of the baboon’s cage in the zoo humming— Echo: (Walking My Baby Back Home.) Speaker: Sam Shawn and Steve Zegar-zewski, the baseball players, are very famous pitchers. Echo: (Did they find them hanging in an art gallery?) Speaker: Hope Hoxie has just inherited a fortune and, like Edna Wallace Hopper, has retained her beauty, come back to town, and proves to be the hit of the season. Bud Christy is again interested. He says her new telephone number is 2573. Echo: (Art Lenihan told me that it’s 2473.) Speaker: Oh no! Bud called her up last night; he should know. Echo: (That’s all right. Art’s the one that answered it.) Speaker: Margaret Kibner and Mary Mearns have written a book on the rivers of South America. Echo: (Rather deep.) Speaker: Bill Dolan is now football coach at Notre Dame. Incidentally he is now exceedingly bald. Echo: (He’s still got a wave in his hair but the tide is out.) Speaker: Bob Burnett has become a famous surgeon. Echo: (He always did like to cut up.) Speaker: May Gould and Florence Moran are sojourning on the Sandwich Islands. Echo: (I’ll bet they can’t get a good sandwich on any one of them.) Speaker: At a banquet held in Nelson Himes’ automat on last Saturday evening, the Honorable Everitte Greene donated a huge sum to provide lounges for the class rooms in the new W. H. S. Mr. Greene said he had been greatly inconvenienced in his slumbers during his high school days by the hardness of the seats. Speaker: Connie Hamilton and Ruth McCoy ride horseback every morning for exercise. Echo: (Yes, but the horses are the only ones that get any exercise.) Speaker: Althea Nichols, Anna Fra-quelli, and Martha Nardone are taking up Spanish, English, German, and Scotch. Echo: (What are they doing, running an elevator?) Speaker: Shorty Carpenter is official gum scraper at the Westerly High School. Speaker: Ray Payne and Harold Solo-veitzik are manufacturing doughnuts and Swiss cheese. Echo: (Rather wholesome food.) Speaker: Mary Brophy and Jenettlee Rose are in the dishwashing business. Echo: (A habit they must be careful not to drop.) Speaker: Harrison Smith and John Nagle are running a broom store. Echo: (They’re doing a sweeping business.) Speaker: The noted psychologists, Jean Meikle and Pearl Payne, have been studying the cases of the school marms, Mary Gencarelli, Eleanor Kenyon, Elizabeth Thomson, and Ellen Michie, who claim that their hair turned white overnight. The psychologists are satisfied the Freshmen have worried the teachers so cruelly that white hair is the only natural outcome. Speaker: Mildred Ross and Violet Marra are members of the Debutantes Relief Corps. Echo: (They relieve heartaches.) Speaker: Ida Perry was so mortified by the manners displayed at our class banquet that she has written a book entitled “How to Conduct Oneself at a Public Gathering.” Speaker: Pretty little Evelyn Wilson is the reason for the increase in practice of a certain dentist. Evelyn is acting as his assistant. Echo: (She always had an aching for that.) Speaker: Burnie Stenhouse, our class carpenter, has made a fortune in the contracting business. Echo: (All he ever contracted was the whooping cough.) Speaker: Arthur Lawton is a model for “What the well-dressed man will wear.” Speaker: Edith Simmons is on a trip around the world to prove that it’s flat. Echo: (If she just went to one of her friends and asked for a loan, she could tell that it is flat.) Speaker: Dorothy Ryan is sojourning in the south. Echo: (Looking out for her interests in sugar Keane.) -■■4 9 )►•-