Westfield High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Westfield, NJ)

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THE WEATHER VANE 23 Lucas is still undecided whether Stanford, Cornell or Penn, will be the scene of his downfall! Collier is more or less of an unknown member, although he aspires to Columbia. It can hardly be said that the girls are especially technical, literary, or aspiring. They are on the whole, content to lead a Life of Riley” and let the gentlemen strive. Maybe they are right, who knows? Anne Revere hopes to get through Wellesley and then try Johns Hopkins. Frances Smitley is going to Simmons, and later take over her father’s book establishment, properly termed The Dixie Book Shop. Catherine Dauchy is trying Connecticut College; Phyllis Watts has hopes of Smith, and Virginia Walker is going to Wheaton. Cecily Watlington, Elizabeth Evans and Ruth Jackson are taking up that brain taxing occupation of Kindergartening. We wish them luck! Muriel Rich and M'argaret Barrett are also contemplating some phase of the pedagogical profession. Edna Perkins, Helen Rankin, Julia Morrow, and Mary Ball are competing for the job of Secretary to Harding. Also, in view of the fact that the President needs a few good stenographers, Grace Scott, Gladys Sortor, Helen Riley, and Jessie Weller, the “Business Speed Kings,” are contemplating an income with no less than three naughts attached. Marjorie Plant, Katherine Noble, Mary Kay and Helen Martin have all enjoyed W. H. S. so much that they are coming back for a P. G. Next comes the multitude who look at the future and answer all inquiries with a Question Mark. They cannot feature a cold departure from home, and they do not relish another year beneath these portals. So as to the future of Carolyn Darbv. Frances Edwards, Edwina Jones, Virginia Nicholas, Frances Gendall and Ruth Holverson, you can guess as well as I. It would be difficult even to suggest what path Betty Pierson will be inspired to pursue! Four of our goodly number are giving themselves up to various preparatory or finishing schools. Just what the preparation or finish” will be, I cannot say ; but Elizabeth Tremaine is trying Bradford Academy; Ruth Tremaine, Sea Pines; Gudrun Eskeson, Sweet Briar; and Margaret Faulkner, like Lucas, is still meditating the Pros, and Cons, of several. The Golden West has attracted Alice Wright who is departing for the University of Wisconsin in search of a B. A. degree in Journalism and Physical Training. Thus you have the compiled future of iy22. “Caesar was ambitious,” but the present aggregation could give the old Roman particulars on some ambitions worth while. The Educational Heights have been reached by some, but there are those struggling further to gain the pinnacle of success ! Here are hopes that someday they may succeed! Alice Wright.

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22 THE WEATHER VANE CLASS PROPHECY And what of the future? It seems to be a delicate subject, and one which the majority of the class prefer to refrain from discussing. Of course, there are Pel on. Meigs, and Schaefer who know where they are going; they are sure of becoming great lawyers and not a bit bashful about it. Then Ernie Carr has h's heart set on Annapolis and thinks he will relish high collars, brass buttons, a knife-like crease in his striped trousers, and a shine. There seems to be no doubt in Swain’s mind but that all Broadway Theatrical Managers will welcome him with open arms, or the public fail to prepare for him the fatted calf. Wilcox says he is going to Carnegie—become a real Electrical Engineer and show up Steinmetz and a few others. We don’t doubt it! But perhaps the most select of our multitude is Barry. Not seeing his way clear at Washington, lie is about to depart for England, where, with the aid of some relative—Lord—Duke or one of that type, he is to become an English Diplomat, gain prestige in the House of Lords, wear a check suit, spats, a high hat, carry a cane and peer for the rest of his life through a monocle. “Go seek ye a greater Kingdom. Barry, the United States is too small for thee.” Perhaps the last really ambitious are Jones and Hutson who are planning when they finish Rutgers to erect a wireless to Saturn, just to prove that it can be done! The rest of the class are more modest in their aspirations, in fact Sampson thinks he is still too young to go out into the world, and is coming back for a P. G. Weldon has chosen to become a dentist and to gaze pensively into the Grand Canyons, with their little nuggets of gold! Taylor. Magner, and Lloyd have great business plans formulating, although Tennent did confess lie would rather go to Sing Sing” to take up “Music! Otto is going to start a Bank in New York in competition with the National, and he requests that the Class of ’22, deposit their millions with him. Conover says it is hard to decide and Brush and Miller claim that someone knows but they are unable to find out. Cagnasolla can not even imagine what is in store” for him. George Andrews and Bill Dar-roch haven’t reached the point where the future carries much weight although Andrews is contemplating Rutgers. Aks frankly admits that he is going to work, and we don’t doubt him ! Davidson and Pfaff both dodge the question, guessing they will get a position or possibly a job. Davidson contemplates a head long dive into the advertising business; we will accredit him with a position! Hescock is going to “Pratt. What is your choice, Tarzan. cooking or sewing? Gallagher, Alexander, Stewart, Harrison and Johnson are going to College to become generally educated, and

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24 THE WEATHER VANE TO THE UNDERGRADUATES To all those who have yet to live and suffer (as seniors) I write this word. Did you ever have a cold and venture forth into the world with its effects oppressing you heavily? The first of those whom you are to encounter is perhaps Mama, who vainly attempts to thrust upon you her pet remedy, next you battle against similar attempts from your Dad; and when these are overcome, you venture out to face the world itself. Each person you meet from there on, as he scans the situation and beholds the huge mouchoir (probably one of Dad's collection ) which you have at hand, begins to prescribe, and the prescriptions of the sum total vary from the special home-made concoction to Pine Bros, cough drops. And at the end of the day—alas! what troubles have you not had added to your cold. Well, to all outside appearances, to tackle this big world” against which we must battle after leaving school is as bad as to venture out with a cold. From the time you first become a senior the prescriptions begin. Each one in his own way and according to his own experience tells you how to get the strangle-hold on the world-about-to-be-met. You hear it in chapel; you hear it in church; and it echoes again at home. But cheer up and be optimistic for you will in the end use your own methods and preach them in turn to the “youngsters who are graduating.” Anne Revere, ’22. A CI-ASS SONG—Tune: “Ten Thousand Strong” Under the gold and white are we tonight, Twenty-two, with thee; How beloved of our hearts is your name. Our voices all merrily ring in the jubilee As thy praises we proclaim, As thy praises we proclaim. Onward marching! Onward marching! True to thy colors we’ll be forever— Chorus: For four long years we’ve tarried Amid the work and fun, But now our course is ended, Our high school is done. Among these halls of learning, no longer may we dwell. Dear Westfield Alma Mater—we hid thee farewell. Mary Ball. ’-J-