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

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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.

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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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 tTlic feather 3anc ALFRED MEYER Some, less refined, beneath the moon s pale night. Class Basketball (3); Manager (4); Class Football (3); Thanksgiving Play (4); Senior Play (4) ; Senior Play Program Committee (4); Class Pin and Ring Committee (3); Orchestra (4); Weather Vane Captain (3. 4) ; Senior Day Music Committee (4); Annual Committee (4) ; Knock Committee (4). Al is Flaming Youth personified. When his banjo begins to tinkle, feet begin to itch! Al acts as Westfield's Grover Whalen, especially when a new girl comes to town. He is also an expert dance crasher. ALLEN MOORE Successive study, exercise and ease. Varsity Track (I, 2, 3, 4); Interclass Track (I, 2); Class Basketball (3. 4) ; Class Football (3, 4) ; Spanish Club (4) ; Slide Rule Club (4); Chairman Senior Play Scenery and Carpentry Committee (4); Hi-Y Club (2. 3, 4); Union County Track Meet (I. 2. 3. 4); Academic Committee (2). What about Al Moore? He’s a fast man in basketball, and it takes a good guard to keep up with him. In the class room the teachers have to hold him back so that the rest of the class can catch up! As you have probably guessed, he is also well known to the feminine elite. Always a good sport, always playing a clean game, always doing his share and more in school activities, Allen is the fellow to whom it is safe to entrust something which has to be done and done well. WALTER NELSON Live well and fear not sudden Fate. Junior Prom Committee (3); Senior Play Committee (4); Class Football (3, 4); Class Basketball (3, 4); Varsity Baseball (4). Blimp is all that his name implies. He ran a close second in the contest for the biggest world figure of today. When Blimp marches into chapel they have to open both doors. In basketball he gallops around, making a five-man defense all by himself. Of his cheery good nature and unfailing congeniality. we need not speak. PATRICIA OLDS “What passes in the dark third row Or what behind the scenes. Entered in Senior year. French Club (4); Senior Play (4). We all think of Pat as Dulcy —for surely nowhere but in professional realms could one have found a more intelligent or scintillating performance than that of our talented “leading lady. Her diversified and interesting life, her somewhat intellectual tastes and interests, her unusual personality, her home in High Orchards, her car—all lend an air of charm and intrigue to this attractive young lady.