Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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The Senior Year Book — 1935 Jlrmiifnt’B Abirrea CITIZENS of Westerly, teachers, and students of the Westerly High School or embryo citizens—we, the Class of 1935, extend to you a most cordial welcome to our last evening of fun together, before we are numbered among the alumni of dear old W. H. S. We wish to thank you for your wonderful help in our school activities during the past three years. To our athletic teams in both defeat and victory you have been loyal. To our Senior Play, “Milestones,” some fourteen hundred of you gave your attendance, which made this play. I believe, one of the most successful, both financially and dramatically, ever staged by a graduating class. The same support was accorded the school concert which was given a few weeks ago. The taxes paid by the people of this town for the support of their public schools make it possible for Westerly to have a school system second to none in the State. For all these evidences of your interest in our education, we again express our appreciation. To our teachers we extend our most sincere thanks and congratulations for their patient and willing guidance which has led us through these turbulent years. Many of our number will continue their education in higher schools, colleges, and universities. Some will seek employment in business or in labor. But we hope that as you may follow our careers, you will see that we meet life’s problems in a way to make you feel that your investment in us was good. In order that you may become even better acquainted with our lives and careers, you will hear our class history, written by a noted historian, which will tell you of our progress; our will, drawn up by one of Westerly’s leading lawyers, which will show you our wisdom; our prophecy, which will give you a foretaste of our future; and our gifts, which will demonstrate our amazing ingenuity. Now up with the curtain, and we will proceed with our evening’s entertainment. —Donald Graham. — 5( 8 )►-

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The Senior Year Book — 1935 (HmttentH Dedication -Faculty -Senior Board Class Poem and Ode Class Picture President’s Address Class History Class Prophecy Class Song -Class Statistics Class Will In Memoriam Class Pictures Autograph Page Student Council -The Orchestra Senior Play—Wednesday Night - Senior Play—Thursday Night - The Football Team The Baseball Team The Track Team The Cross Country Team Basketball Team Fencing Team Advertising Section PAC.K 2 4 5 6 6 8 9 - 11 14 - 15 16 - 18 19-31 32 33 - 33 34 - 34 35 - 35 36 - 36 37 - 37 38-50 - ■$ 7

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The Senior Year Book — 1935 OUaaH Siatnry FRIENDS and Classmates, as Historian of the ever glorious Class of 1935, I have taken the liberty of organizing a club, which, for lack of a better name, we shall call the Eureka Club, for have we not found the first step to success in Westerly High School? The club for all practical purposes shall be composed of members of this very Class of 1935. The only requirements for membership shall be that each person belong to the same Class of 1935, and that all promise, on penalty of expulsion, to meet at a specified place every five years, no matter where they are or in what circumstances. The purpose of this institution shall be to renew old friendships, old jokes, old news, old happenings dear to the heart of every member. As a special courtesy to the public, however, we shall invite them to attend the first meeting of the Eureka Club. Let us imagine, then, that we are in the year 1940, and in a private dining hall of a hotel. All of our members are congregated around a huge table, and. strange to say, almost our whole class is present. Well, our stage is set, our appetites are satisfied, and we are all ready to begin the game of reminiscing. Our toastmaster rises and gives us our cue—“Do you remember when—” The room becomes silent while he reviews for us the general events of our three years at Westerly High. “Do you remember when, in our second stage of life according to the greatest writer of them all, William Shakespeare, we came as school boys and girls, with satchels and shining morning faces, to the proud old building on which we had cast a longing eye for some time, a building which was for us no less than a house of dreams? “We were welcomed here by the genial Class of ’33, who introduced to us the faculty and various prominent figures in the classes of ’33 and ’34. “Then our first class meeting! I have often wondered if we looked as incompetent and ignorant as those attending other Sophomore meetings which I. as an upperclassman, have witnessed since that time. It seems possible and even probable. At last with the aid of Miss Fallon, we chose our competent Scots statesman, Andrew Low, as leader of our inexperienced group; Janet Coleman next as vice president; Dorothy Clark, secretary; and William Maxson as treasurer. It was in this year also that we proudly selected our class rings. This seems, however, to be the most uneventful year that we spent here, possibly because we did not know how to make it otherwise, or possibly because we were so busy becoming acquainted with everyone and everytRing. At least I am sometimes inclined to agree with Miss Mclntire in her statement that when we first enter High School as sophomores we are very eager to study and learn, but the longer we stay the more careless and independent we become. “After a reasonably profitable summer vacation we returned to these protecting walls, ready to accomplish almost any undertaking. “Now as experienced Juniors we could look down upon and scoff at the insignificant, uninitiated children entering for the first time the sanctum sanctorum. “Our first official move was to call a class meeting, for the purpose of elect- —• ( 9 )►“