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

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THE TATLE R—1 9 2 7 27 Biggest Bluffer As We Are -o- Ruth Messick Smallest Girl Madlyn Watson Smallest Boy Wilbur Jones Wittiest Biggest Baby Edward Betts Stoutest Hilda Heath Thinnest Helen Truitt Most Intellectual Maria Thoroughgood Most Serious Grace Leonard Most Literary Polly White Tallest Clarence West Most Business-like Wilsie Mills Happiest - Elizabeth Twilley Sloivest Robert Johnson Most Popular - George Tilghman Best Dressed - Lemuel Dryden Leoma Walls Most Practical - Gladys Shockley Sara Graham Alice Elzey Nellie Mae Turner Elizabeth Walton Blushes the Most — Annabel Dick Walton Parsons Aline Wilkins Helen Toadvine Most Mischievous — Ford Brewington Carroll Long David Fields Most Conscientious . Jenny Carey John Bailey Grace Timmons

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26 THE TATLE R—1 9 2 7 that we were to take a test to prove, or disapprove, our business ability. We did nobly with this test, as with the others. Just before Easter, there was held a Senior Class meeting, at which Edward Betts, who won the highest score in the above mentioned test, was presented with a certificate from Strayer’s Business College of Baltimore, Maryland. Three cheers, Edward! We wish you a long and prosperous business career. “We are really getting afraid that our schoolhouse is a fire trap. A fire every year! What excitement! Hiram Hammond played the hero again, when he discovered that the school roof was on fire. For his timely services we say, ‘Long Live Hiram Hammond.’ “The Senior girls were as busy as bees until the last stitch was sewed in their white dresses. We appreciate Miss Parker’s patience in listening to our complaints about the many ailments of the sewing machines, the missing bobbins, or the crooked French seams. The boys, also, worked hard until they had finished their wood-work, exasperated Mr. Waller, and mashed their fingers with misdirected hammers. “A history of the Senior Class would be incomplete without mention¬ ing the part that the Seniors play in athletics. Several of the Senior boys are on the soccer team, the baseball team, and the basketball team. The girls’ basketball team and volley team are composed almost entirely of Senior girls. Walton Parsons, George Tilghman, Franklin Fields, David Fields, and John Miciotto have fought valiantly the battles of the W. H. S. Among the girls, Hilda Heath, Dora Taylor, Nellie Loomis, Nellie Mae Turner, Irma Pollitt, Alice Elzey, and Gladys VanHorn, are bright and shining stars. “With the Junior-Senior Banquet begins the preparation for the close of school. The Juniors at last organized their class, collected dues in a whirlwind campaign, and served a banquet of which they were justly proud. We thank them for the good time they gave us, and will always have a soft spot for them in our hearts. In these closing days of our High School life we look back over the four years that we spent at W. H. S., and begin to realize that those will be the fondest days of our lives. We are looking forward to the success of our class play, and to the privilege of receiving our diplomas. As we take leave of our classmates and teachers, we wish the best possible future for each of them.” When Claire had read the very last word of the history, she let the “Tatler” slip to the green grass, and laid her head against the trunk of the apple tree nearby. Her eyes were closed and she was thinking. Just then someone called, “Claire, Claire!” It was Meredith. Startled, Claire opened her eyes and gazed a moment at her friend. Then she told her about finding the old “Tatler” of 1927. The two old schoolmates sat down together on the bench under the apple tree and, as they had done before in front of a glowing fire, laughed, and talked, and read about their happy High School days. The brilliant sunset, the fresh green grass, the vari-colored flowers of the garden brought back to Claire and to Meridith all the joy and fragrance of a springtime long ago. Pleasures many may be ours, And our pathway strewn with flowers; Some may famous come to be, Others rich and quite carefree. Not an hour, however sweet, Not a day that brings some treat, Do we cherish more in measure Than those days of countless pleasure. —Maria Thoroughgood.

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28 THE TATLE R—1 9 2 7 SENIOR CLASS CLASS OFFICERS CARROLL LONG, President DAVID FIELDS, Vice President IRMA POLLITT, Secretary MARIA THOROUGHGOOD, Treasurer ACADEMIC Bailey, John Kennerly, Margaret Banks, Ruth Krause, Althea Betts, Edward Layfield, Howard Bounds, Thelma Leonard, Grace Brewington, Ford Marshall, Myrtle Bryan, Nettie Messick, Carroll Cannon, Eunice Messick, Ruth Carey, Jennie Miciotto, John Cooper, Philip Owens, Irma Dennis, Cleo Parker, Laura Dennis, Lewds Parrott, Kathleen Denson, Mabel Parsons, Walton Dick, Annabel Phillips, Lillian Dixon, Edna Phipps, Thelma Dolby, Adele Smith, William Dryden, Lemuel Taylor, Dora Elliott, Harlan Thoroughgood, Maria Elzey, Alice Tilghman, Maude Green, Marian Tilghman, George Harris, Kathryn Timmons, Grace Hayman, Levin Tindle, Woodfield Heath, Hilda Truitt, Helen Holloway, Ada Tubbs, Mary Holloway, Francis Turner, Nellie Mae Jenkins, Ruth Van Horn, Gladys Johnson, Robert Jones, Dolores Walls, Leoma Jones, Elizabeth Walton, Elizabeth Jones, Martha White, Polly Jones, Wilbur Wilkins, Aline COMMERCIAL Carmean, Calvin Chatham, Irene Fields, David Fields, Franklin Graham, Sara Layfield, Evelyn Long, Carroll Loomis, Nellie Matthews, Ralph Messick, Harlan Mills, Wilsie Oakley, Kathryn Parsons, Lawrence Pollitt, Irma Richardson, Wanda Shockley, Gladys Strurgis, Dorotha Tilghman, Nannie Toadvine, Helen Toadvine, Pauline Trader, Margaret Twilley, Elizabeth Watson, Madelyn West, Clarence