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

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21 (Tljr 3-Ucatlirr Jlanc LOIS JOHNSTON “Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound. Class Basketball (2. 3. 4); Class Academic Committee (3) ; Junior Prcm Refreshment Committee (3) ; Junior Picnic Committee (3); Hockey (2. 4); Academic Committee (3). Personally, we feel that Lois spends most of her spare time sitting on the edge of a cloud strumming a harp. Where else could she get such fantastic inspirations? But she certainly returns to earth and is all here, when it comes to playing basketball or doing good hard work on a committee. WILLIAM JONES “The Club must hale him master of the joke. Class football (I. 2. 3, 4); Class basketball (3); Spanish Club (3); Orchestra (4). Skeeter, another of our “1 Don’t Care Boys. is of the volcanic type—noise personified. What will Chapel be without his periodical dropping of the drumsticks? While rather inactive till late in the pursuit of the fair sex he surely promises to make up for it. CHESTER KENNEY From every face he wipes off every tear. Varsity Ba ketball (4); Varsity Baseball (3. 4); Class Basketball (I. 2. 3); Class football (3); Spanish Club (4); Thanksgiving Play (4) ; Junior Prom Committee (3) ; Hi-Y Club (3. 4). Chet is the kind of fellow that often makes us wonder why the word melancholy was ever invented. Surely, if old Dan Webster had only seen his perpetual grin. he would have omitted all the gloomsters. Chet’s greatest pastime is teasing. Being an original chap, he likes girls—one brunette in particular. WINIFRED KENNEY “Life is a jest, and all things show it. Class Basketball (4); Class Weather Vane Committee (3. 4); Junior Prom Invitation Committee (3); Junior Picnic Committee (3); Glee Club (1); Weather Vane Captain (I); Senior Day Stunt Committee (4); Class Day Committee (4). Winnie’s wit and pep characterize her in W. FI. S. Winnie is going to teach after leaving the halls of Glassboro. Don’t you wish you were going to be a little boy in Miss Kenney’s class? We wonder if she’ll ever teach stenography!

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(Olie 333 pat her 3Hanc 23 JOSEPH HINDS Saw others happy, and with sighs withdrew.” Entered tn Senior Year. Class football (4); Senior Play Lighting Committee; Class Pin and Ring Committee (4); Senior Day Music Committee (4); Varsity baseball (4). Joe came down from Connecticut at the beginning of this term. In his genial but unobtrusive way he quickly won his way into our midst. To a casual observer Joe seems rather quiet and subdued—but give him his sax, and how that boy can play! He puts all his hidden fun and personality into his playing—and what results! We are proud of our own Rudy Wiedoft.” THOMAS HUSTON He grins, and looks broad nonsense with a stare. Varsity Track (4); Class Track (3); Basketball (4); Senior Play Properties Committee (4) ; Junior Prom Refreshment Committee; Union County Track Meet (3). Thomas Huston, the man with the cold ankles, came into our midst in his junior year, from the wild and woolly West— Chicago. His hat, spats, and gloves have made him one of the most distinguished of seniors. It is whispered that Tom has interests in Canada. THERESA JANUZZI Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen. Junior Prom Committee (3); Junior Picnic Committee (3); Academic Committee (4). This serious brown eyed maiden is secretary of the Children Should Be Seen and Not Heard Club. Tessie, we believe, is afraid of her own voice, for she rarely lets us hear it. Perhaps she will grow more garrulous as she grows older. GRACE JOHNSON If you could get us a dish of tea. ’ Debate Club (4); Art Club (4); Senior Play Art Committee (4) ; Senior Day Play (4); Speaking Contest (4) ; Class Day Art Committee. Grace is new this year, but has already proved herself a good sport. She is in her element when she is standing on a platform haranguing a poor audience. She made a hit in Plainfield at the debate, and we suspect that she will be addressing Congress someday, about why the Development of the Some-thing-or-other should be augmented as much as possible by interstate commissions.

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(Ebc 3HcatI|cr £lanc 25 WILLIAM LINDSAY Contented wi’ little and content wi moir Far in a wild, unknown to public view. Class Football (2. 3. 4); Dramatic Club (3, 4); Thanksgiving Play (3. 4); Senior Play (4); Class Dramatic Committee (4) ; Class Finance Committee (3); Class Pin and Ring Committee (2); Junior Prom Refreshment Committee (3); Hi-Y Club (I); Dramatic Club Play (3); Class Day Play (4) Bill comes from the distant expanses of Scotch Plains. On account of the scarcity in said hamlet. Bill gets his Coles from Westfield. HARVEY MASON At once the chaser and at once the prey. Thanksgiving Play (4) ; Senior Play Committee (4) ; Senior Day Play. Gravy is the boy who charms all the women with that Packard with the orange wheels. He has been a sheik ever since 6th grade in Lincoln School. Ask the Wilson twins, they know! He can make a ukelele sit up and beg in a wee. small voice. ANDREW McWHINEY With whate’er gall thou sett’st thyself to write Thy inoffensive satires never bite. Weather Vane Board (2. 3, 4) ; Spanish Club (3. 4) ; Dramatic Club (3, 4); Academic Committee (4); Junior Prom Committee (3); Glee Club (2); Orchestra (3); Hi-Y Club (3. 4); Leader Reporter (2. 4). Andy—as he is well known to all of us—is a man of actions, rapid action. His hobby—all big men have hobbies (as they say in books)—is airplanes, in every shape and form. His life work and great ambition are to make somebody laugh at one of his own jokes. GENE MESSERSMITH She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought. Springtime (I) ; Glee Club (2); Dramatic Committee (3) Junior Prom Committee (3) ; Finance Committee (4); Senior Day Play (4); Thanksgiving Play (4); Head Typist for Annual (4) ; Glee Club Concert (2); Hockey (2); Cheer Leader (4). Nothing ever seems to disturb Gene's calm serenity—even an avalanche of Weather Vane material to be typed at the last minute in an impossibly short period of time. We envy her poise and ease.