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

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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 ]

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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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Martha Katharine Toadvine “ She thinks loo much Such maids are dangerous Martha is one of the meek and lowly ones of ’05. Iler charming modesty and unaffected grace are really a puz¬ zle to most of us and we feared she was on the road to that happy (?) region, “Old Maidsville,” to avoid which she did not seem to care. Recently however her tactics have been changed, and from the great interest she manifests in the lower grades, particularly the eighth, she doubt¬ less will :n time recover from this indifference. She is remarkably fond of locating cities in various parts of the country, and can give information at a moments notice about the situation of Evan sville. She is one of the mu¬ sicians of ’05 as well as one of its good students. How¬ ever, the class is famous for these, so she is just one among the many of that noble band. Nina Grace Venables “ luingh and the wot Id laughs 7cith you Weep and you weep alone Nina is not given to tears if she were we think she would try to overcome it for it would be a very sad thought to her to travel through life alone. She is unselfish in her affec¬ tions sharing them equally between “company” and “ something to eat.” So fond is she of the latter that she has often been heard to declare, “ I’ll eat my hat,” a feat we have never seen demonstrated. She sometimes laughs. We suppose she is amused but others say it is because she has dimples. We are sur e that she possesses a goodly share of vanity but she never seems to take it as a com¬ pliment to be told that she has a bright head. We have a remembrance of one day when she was not moved upfront for talking but she said she had rather sit up front than die from not talking and we still enjoy the great opinions of a fertile mind. Myra Waller “ l ull many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air Myra is from the town with the biblical name, Ilebron, and whether there is something in a name or not she has very devout notions and very religious ideas. So pious has she become of late that she will not dance any more but the source of her piety here might be in the fact that one of the “ Big Four” of our class does not attend balls and his influence is so far reaching that it has enveloped her. Unlike that of the flower, the warm wave of color is very often seen to rise to her face. We are sure she is not aware of it, for her modesty is so great that she would not even allow herself to blush if she knew it. Myra is thoroughly conscientious in her work and be¬ lieves it pays to do right. She is kind and her kindness is having its effect upon the captain of the football team. [ 23 ]