Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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Harry Wai.ton Nock Maude Gresham Pope May Virginia Powell “ A blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull And thanks his stars he was not born a fool The arrival of a fourth boy in the Tenth Grade was quite an epoch in the history of this class. During our entire Junior year we had only three hoys and just ex¬ actly three of that number were shy of the Kir’s. Is there any wonder that the fair sex hailed with delight another on whom they could bestow their unrequited af¬ fections? Harry came to us in our Senior year with quite a good reputation at the school which he had left. lie delights in athletic sports and music. But oh dear! his music! Why will he persist in tormenting us with his untiring efforts along this line? Perhaps it is enjoyable by some (his audience excluded), but we are proud to number him as one of the 05 8 and feel sure that he will make a record for himself in life. “ Oh! 7cho would inhabit This bleak 7u or Id alone Maude, though quite advanced in years, has the knack of acting young and appearing very innocent. She is well known to have a pull with the Astronomy teacher and never knowingly does any thing to offend him (which can hardly ho said of all the rest of us). This young lady has a cquired the habit of being sleepy in school on Wednes¬ days, the cause of which we might guess (though we hate to speak of it.) Some one suggested the Tuesday evening lesson, but it surely cannot be. Maude has a wonderful capacity for Trigonometry and she inhales it to the fullest extent. While she has been with us her life has seemed one of pleasure and she appeared to enjoy what the world offered her. We fear our pleasant asso¬ ciation with her may soon be severed as it is rumored that she holds “ Stakes ” in a Southern city which will require her attention. When the Literary Societies of the S. H. S. were organ¬ ized she was elected president of the Longfellow Society. “ Would she but follow what her sex advise All things would prosper and the school gro7u wise May is one of the most attractive girls in our class. She possesses many attributes that go to make up a wo¬ man, the most important of which is the possession of a “ Will ” and very frequently her “ Will ” asserts himself so that she cannot govern him. She tries to curb and hold in check this attribute of the mind, alias a young man of 05, but she does not always succeed. We predict, however,that her government over this particular “Will” will improve as they grow older. May is a landmark of the class having been one of its members since it lirst entered the school (just how far back no one knows) and is a credit not only to her class but to the school, in fact any school might feel proud of her name upon its list of alumni. [21]

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Gertrude Kilua.m You knoiv There are moments where silence prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken Just why Gertrude has never acquired the art of gab we will never be able to explain. Though she has been associated with a crowd of “ giggling girls ” for so long, she still has perfect control of her tongue and of those muscles of the face which excite laughter. (So unlike the rest of us.) The male sex seem to possess no attractions for this member of the class, consequently her brow is never clouded with th se worries that bother the “giddy ones.” Gertrude perhaps stands in a more favorable position with the teachers on account of her conduct and we be¬ lieve it would break her heart to injure, in any way, the feelings of any member of that August body, the Faculty. Ida Catharine McGrath “ Nothing is belter than wisdom Ida is one of our students from the country who has been with us during our High School career. She comes from the village of Fruitland, the land of the strawberry and blackberry and surely it does seem that the name of her community is in some way connected with her mind lor it is very fruitful as well as fertile. Her greatest fault is that she will never miss a lesson nor worry a teacher but probably her reason for that is that she expects to join the pedagogic circle after leaving the school and she fears her sins will find her out in years to come in her own schoolroom. Her precision is noticea¬ ble ; her attention in class is unpardonable, so attentive is she that she does not dare to move two seats down the aisle for fear she might fail to catch some half syllable. As to the boys she would never look at one unless by accident she sees a picture of one in a book and then she hurriedly closes the book to think of something more profitable. Olive Celeste Mitchell “ To, am with you always ' ' We now introduce to you one of the demure young ladies of our class. During the “Four Years of our Martyrdom ” there have been few times that she did not answer to roll-call, thereby setting us an example on punctuality. Now Olive has quite a liking for Astron¬ omy and would like to convince the class that the moon is the largest planet around which all the smaller ones re¬ volve ; but there is a difference of opinion and as she do s not often make mistakes of this kind, we will forgive her. She is usually very studious but in our last term became rather tired of Algebra and in some mysterious (?) way it disappeared. She made her way to the principal and with the most penitent expression imaginable said, “Mr. II - my book has gone through a hole in the wall.” (Of course she knew that we could not tear down the High School Building just yet and that she would likely be ex¬ cused. During our Junior year we decided that the class needed some one to care for the funds and elected Olive as treas¬ urer and this year elected her as one of the literary editors of the “ Tatler ” because of her ability along that line. [20]

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Chester Smith Sheppard ' And still the wonder grew. How one small head could carry all he knew A Pittsvillian who emigrated to the Salisbury High School in 1902. And a rather unwelcome arrival he was to us for wc soon discovered that he was to become one of the shining lights of the class, as his head was bright inside as well as out-side. This joined to the desire he had for knowledge and with the determination to win has made him valedictorian of ’05. Chester has been always one of “ the model boys,” but perhaps it is well the year is nearing its close for we really saw him eating candy in school hours (but he did not tempt his classmates to do wrong) and has been known to smile three times a week if olives were passed around. One of his ambitions is to teach but we think lie would be moved out of his usual calm forever if he had to teach the Third Grade Boys,as the effects of teaching them one day lasted an entire week. He is also our class president. Elsie Lee Smith ’ God bless the man who first invented sleep ” Elsie Lee Smith is another favorite daughter of ’05 whose record in the school has been highly creditable. The word wi mg is not in her vocabulary and she sticks to the use of her own diction. Just what she expects to do after graduating no one has been able to learn but it is probable she will retire into the shades of privacy for a season after her years of strenous life m the school, for strenous it is here. She is a lover of monuments even if they are no higher than the fence. This fancy has begotten within her a great love for the ” Monumental” city and we verily believe she makes an idol if not a monument of one of its inhabi¬ tants. Rebecca Roycraft Smyth Behold a child , by nature ' s kindly laze Pleased with a rattle, tickled zvith a straw “ Things are not what they seem.” This may very ap¬ propriately be applied to Rebecca for one would not think, to see her so easily amused, that she had a head containing so much good sense. But we knew her capa¬ bilities therefore we elected her as one of the business managers of our ‘ Tatler,” and she has used not only her brains but a very nimble tongue for its success. Her favorite pastime is pressing bricks, except when she feels that she must stay after school some afternoon to worry the life out of a teacher, or to listen to the practicing of that body of nightingales, The Male Quartette. What is Rebeccas’ favorite tree? why the “ Laurel ” tree of course and we wonder why? Under the spreading Laurel ” tree Our Senior “ Smythe’ stands The Smyth, a great admirer she, Of those in Delaware’s lands. [ 22 ]