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

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 HItc JBcatljrr Jane 27 ROBERT PEARSALL “And here is a man who has advanced the dignity of his person.” Football Class Team (I. 2, 3); Spanish Club (2. 3); Junior Prom Committee (3); Glee Club (I); Hi-Y Club; Weather Vane Captain (2). “Parsally” spends most of his time at school getting on the nerves of a certain teacher. We nearly died laughing the day he knocked the valve from the radiator. It was the only lime his care-free and happy manner dropped. He thought he had blown up a boiler or something!!! One day he was tempted to do his English homework, but he stoutly thrust the temptation aside, and his record still remains. CARL RADERS “Declare our doom is drawing nigh. Art Club (4); Senior Day Play (4); Annual Committee (4). No other class ever had a Carl Raders! He is a most individual little person who worries his teachers and classmates with weird topics for debate. Indeed. Carl is a theologian extraordinary. Carl is 28’s most radical and most willing. WARD RANDALL “On you their gifts are all bestow’d again. ’ Weather Vane Board (3. 4); Business Manager (4); Debate Club (2. 3); French Club (2. 3); Dramatic Club (3. 4); Thanksgiving Play (4); Christmas Play (3); Senior Play (4); Junior Prom Music Committee (3); Orchestra (I. 3); Weather Vane Captain (2); Academic Committee (3) ; Dramatic Club Play (3); Interclass Track (2. 3). Ward is the boy who irritates the piano with great success. He is the boy who interprets middle-aged financiers with great success, and he also takes Weather Vane seriously—with great success. Until a few years ago. we never suspected him of being a sheik, but lately he has been playing Beau Brummel. As actor, artist, musician, author, swimmer, and scholar, we feel that he is a pretty good mixture of a lot of accomplishments. JEAN REYNOLDS “And fresh and blooming as the month of May. French Club (3); Senior Play Committee (4); Class Committee (3) ; Junior Prom Committee (3). Has she got them? We’ll say sho has. if you mean dimples! Can she do it? We fynon she can if vou mean talk. She has more speed and endurance when it comes to talking than anyone we know.

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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.

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2 S mile Ueattjrr jBmtc MERCEDES REYNOLDS “With her they flourish and with her they die. Glee Club (I); Annual Committee (4). What do you find beneath that mouse-like mask? What we would least expect. Ask Mercy. “For what is music but by which to dance? The Senior Copperhead saves its darts for those of worthier steel than mere High Schoolers. JACK RINCKHOFF In Mathematics he was greater Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater. French Play (3, 4); Debate Club (2); French Club (3. 4) ; Senior Play Committee (4); Junior Prom Committee (3); Junior Picnic Committee (3) ; Hi-Y Club (2. 3, 4) ; Academic Committee (2, 3); Senior Day Committee (4). Rinky has too many good qualities to enumerate here. We will just say that he is a great scientist at whose leave-taking both the labs will be the poorer and that we envy those not-guilty-your-honor eyes of his. JAMES ROBOTTOM Fierce on the foe th' impetuous hero drove. Christmas Play (4); Hi-Y Club (3. 4); Senior Day Committee; Weather Vane Reporter (3). Ladies and Gentlemen, meet “Hot Stuff” Robottom himself in person—the champeen blusher of the class of '28. His favorite occupations include quoting statistics in Hi-Y discussions. inventing new and soul-searing epithets, and guzzling strawberry milk-shakes, to which he is hopelessly addicted. We are meant to understand by his policies that he is a woman-hater, but we fail to see it! However he is ever helpful and courteous; but never cross him. men, never cross him! He's rough! SERVIA ROGERS Most women have no character at all. Class Basketball (I, 2. 3. 4); Christmas Play (4); Easter Play (4); Senior Play Property Committee; Junior Prom Refreshment Committee; Glee Club (I, 2, 3, 4); Living Pictures (3); Music Week Concert (3) ; Union Countv Concert (3); Annual Typist (4). Nineteen twenty-eight would not be complete without Scrvia. She is famous for her ability to take teasing good-naturedly. Whenever she is given anything to do, we may be sure it will be done promptly and efficiently. We hear that Servia has a crush on a certain young man who graduated last year, and we also hear that his initials are A.B.C. Three guesses.