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

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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 ]

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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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Margaret Smith Woodcock Fye! what a spendthrift she is of her longue! Margaret is a native of our little city. Ever since we have known her she has been of an inquiring mind audit has always been a puzzle to her why the art of perpetual motion could not be acquired, and determined that when she reached the High School she would make a special study of Physics to find out if she couldn’t invent some plan by which she could talk all of the time, and this plan she nearly accomplished much to the discomfiture of her hearers. But “ things are never so bad but that they might be worse,” for Margaret needed a few hours for sleep, hence her failure to carry out this, her long-cher¬ ished plan. She has shown quite a little talent for poetry and is the class prophetess and Alumni Editor of “The Tatler.” 124 )