Williams Memorial Institute High School - Legenda Yearbook (New London, CT)

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JEAN ROSS BENNETT Benny College A laugh that is all my own. Glee Club 1, 3; Choir 2, 3; French Club 3, 4; Vigilance Department 3, 4; B.Y.C. Council 2; French Club Vice-President 3; Class Treasurer 4; Puzzles and Games Editor of Descant 4; Music Festival 3. Buck Benny rides again! Only our pal Jean doesn't long to lope across the prairies on a wild mustang, but only aspires to be a calm, perfectly dignified school teacher. We wish we might have learned our ABC's from you, Jean. MARGARET HOLLIS BONNEY Peggy College A smile is a great asset. Jefferson Jr. High, Long Beach, California; Woodrow Wilson High; Roosevelt High, Honolulu; Drama Club 4; French Club 4; Mathematics Club 4; English Club 4; Latin Club 4; Departmental Honors 4. Peggy personifies charm. A spontaneous conversationalist, she is noted as well for her dancing eyes and pleasing smile. She will be missed from the Drama Club where these qualities make her one of our most successful actresses. EVANGELINE BRACHAS Angel Commercial Her lriends know her true worth. French Club 3; Glee Club 3, 4; History Club 4; Circulation Board of Descant 4; Drama Club 4. A self-confessed collector of knick-knacks ranging in interest from football souvenirs to perfume bottles, Angel , who has domestic tendencies, can also bake a cake. But will she, with all those other outside interests? LAURICE ELIZABETH BRAX Laurie College Life is but a pleasant dream. French Club 3; Biology Club 2. Abounding with vitality and good nature, Laurie is one of our most vivacious seniors. The most lackadaisical ward will blossom into lively convalescence with her exuberant manner. GLADYS HINSLEY BRIDGEMAN Hins College A healthy hatred of scoundrels. French Club 3, 4; Legenda Biography Staff 4; Class Vice-President 2; Nominating Committee 2; Departmental Honors 1, 2, 3, 4; Latin Club 2; Drama Club 4; Thanksgiving Dance Committee 4. Calm, cool, and collected is Hinsley. During our first air raid alarm, she hied herself to the Mohican roof garden so that she would not miss a thing. Her poise and her flair for finding the right word should enable her to pick daisies in the field of journalism. 18

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ELIZABETH MARYBAQUERO Bette General Healthy, free, the world before me. Departmental Honors 4. Forecast for Bette : Successful and happy future among good friends who will appreciate and enjoy her fun-loving nature. HELEN ELVIRA BARBERA Bobbie Commercial Dancing feet show a merry heart. French Club 2, 3; Choir 2, 3; Christmas Pageant 3; Field Day 2; Chairman Thanksgiving Dance 4. Bobbie has demonstrated to the satisfaction of all that efficiency and executive ability do not depend on size. Though petite, she has shown her ability by making our Thanksgiving Dance one of the most successful ever held at W.M.I. LUCILE HELENE BATCHKER Luce College Let knowledge grow from more to more. Forest Hills High School, N. Y.; Richmond Hill High School, N. Y.; Drama Club 4; French Club 4; Debating Club 4; Latin Club 4; Departmental Honors 4. Lucile came to us for her final year of high school and we soon realized our good fortune. Her linguistic and forensic ability will doubtless aid her to success in her chosen profession, law. BLANCHE MAE BEEBE Beeb Commercial Let me but continue on my way. General Science Club 1; Biology Club 2, 3; Music Festival 2; Descant Circulation Staff 1. Beeb , in her own quiet manner, is an outstanding senior who has made her mark, especially in athletics. We know she will make good in that field as a physical education instructor, for her heart is in her work. FLORENCE L. BEIT Flossy General Quietness is usually connected with good sense. Science Club 1; Biology Club 1, 2. One of our most chic seniors, Flossy makes many of the lovely silver bracelets, which make music wherever she goes. May the silver of your bracelets be reflected in all dark clouds! 17

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MABEL ELIZABETH BROTHWELL Commercial Matters will go swimminglyl Orchestra 1, 4; B.Y.C. Council 2; Descant Typist 4; Legenda Circulation Board 4; Departmental Honors 3, 4. It will undoubtedly be quite a while before Mabel can visit Hawaii, but she has already embarked on her secretarial career. Though lucky, Mabel's good fortune is not entirely due to luck as her charm, intelligence, and poise will surely win for her a comfortable niche in the secretarial corner. CLARA MILDRED BRUCE Brucie” General Her very foot hath music in it. Science Club 1; Orchestra 3, 4; Band 2, 3, 4; Choir 3, 4; Glee Club 3, 4; B.Y.C. Council Secretary 3; Descant Reporter 3; Junior Tea Committee 3; French Club 3; Legenda Feature Staff 4. Piano, organ, clarinet, bass violin, drums—is there any instrument Clara doesn't play? She is Miss Miller's ''gal Friday. Her hobby, she tells us, is collecting pennies. We expect that it will take quite a few for that new organ on which her heart is set. LUCILLE MAUD BURDICK Ciel General A kindly smile to all she lent. French Club 2, 3; Circulation Board of Descant 2; Glee Club 1. Ciel views the future with an unconcerned eye and is happy at present just dancing the hours away. As we, the staff, contemplate our weighty problems, we think perhaps she has something there. MARY JEAN BURGESS Burge Commercial Born beneath a lucky star. Drama Club 1; Spanish Club Treasurer 3; Christmas Pageant 3; Junior Prom Committee 3; Junior Tea Committee 3; Drama Club 4; Debating Club 4; Thanksgiving Dance Committee 4. Collegiate and neat, sweet and petite,—no, this isn't a limerick; it's just an apt description of Burge , one of our most enthusiastic jitterbugs and sport fans. CHARLOTTE MARY BYRNE Peaches Commercial Quiet, unruffled, always the same. Just give her a few yards of chintz, an objet d'art or two, together with carte blanche, and Peaches” will make home look like something else again. All this she accomplishes while she writes a poem or compounds a tasty recipe.