Windsor Locks High School - Herald Yearbook (Windsor Locks, CT)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. 5 CLASS DAY EXERCISES ADDRESS OF WELCOME. Classmates and Friends:— It is with great pleasure that, in the name of the Senior Class of 1919, I wel¬ come you here this evening. Only four years apo we entered the Windsor Locks Hiph School as Freshmen to take upon ourselves the duties required of a hiph school student. In our studies we worked hard, always strivinp for Success. As a reward for our patience and hard work, we have now completed our Senior year: to-nipht we meet to bid farewell, as a class, to the school of which we have been mem¬ bers for four happy years. The propram arranped for this eveninp will be. for the most part, one of humor and merry-makinp for us all, but to-morrow will be presented the serious side of our school life when we meet for really the last time as students of the Windsor Locks Hiph School. Apain let me assure you, friends, that we are all plad to have you with us, and we will do our best to make this a happy and merry eveninp for all. George F. Wallace, ’19. PRESENTATIONS—PART I. Upon me has been bestowed the honor of presentinp to you, the members of the Class of 1919, what we are pleased to term class pifts. May these tokens, slipht thouph they are. be acceptable enouph to each of you, so that whenever you see them they will turn your thoughts back to the past, and the various experiences which you had while attendinp the Windsor Locks Hiph School. These remembrances are giv¬ en in a truly friendly spirit, and it is our sincere wish that they be received in the same way. First—Let me pive honor where honor is due—and call forward Georpe Wallace, president of our worthy class. Georpe Wallace—Frequently you come ruhing around the corner from the boys’ hall into the Main Room about 8.3114 (. ffl. It is well known by your associates that the Hiph School bell was the only means of awakenin ' ? you from your morning slum¬ bers, so we feel that in the future you will need an alarm clock if you intend to hold a business position any length of time. I only hope that you won’t ofrpet to set the alarm, and that you will arrive at the office at 8i00 o’clock, or whatever the hour may be, with just as pleasant a smile as you always wore at 8.32 when you arrived at your seat in the Main Room. Kathryn Nolan—Throughout your school life you have had very little to say, and was uniformly quiet. Here are some castenets. If you will use them as you walk along, clicking them sharply at each step, you will be able to make noise enough so that peo¬ ple will at least realize that you are ap¬ proaching. Wilfrid Callahan—You always appear to be in a hurry. You are forever running for a car after school, running up Church street hill on “high,” running from Clay Hill, or running down Warehouse Point Main street away from the fumes of gasoline. Ta e this speedometer, that with it you may be able to record the speed of your various manoeuvers. Mae Nugent—Why do you always walk so slowly ? If you cannot in anv other way nuicken your nace a little, here is a remedy. Accept this instrument, which will, when you turn the crank, play you a lively tune. Always carry the music-box with you. and when you are walking, keep up with the music and step lively. Jessie Wadsworth—The past year you have spent much time writing nites and letters to your friends in school. Now a literary ambition is most praiseworthy—far be it from me to discourage you in vonr pur¬ suit of the epistulary Muse; instead I wish to encourage you all I can. I, therefore, present you with a box of writing paper, so that in the future you may continue your correspondence without fear of running out of material. Isabel Root—After all these years of at¬ tending school, even this past year, expe¬ rienced thouph you were in educational matters, you went so far as to occasionally enter a class and say that you did not know what lesson had been assigned. If you are as forgetful as that, you really ought to take a course under David Roth the memnrv expert: if you find that impossible, however, use this little book: make in it a record of whatever you wish to remember. Thus,

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Class of Nineteen Nineteen, Windsor Locks High School. Rear row, left to right —Anna Leary, Fred Warns, Raymond Kilty, Ellsworth Cutler, Anna Groves, Teresa Rooney, Jessie Wadsworth. Front row, left to right —Isabelle Root, Kathryn Nolan, May Nugent, George Wallace, Anna Oates, Wilfrid Callahan.

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6 THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. much valuable time as well as embarrass¬ ment may be saved you. Helen Groves—Here is a box, small, it is true, but prepared with painstaking care. To show you how painstaking—let me as¬ sure you that I made four trips to Hartford in order to interview people who should be proper authority upon the selection of the contents of this box. Expense was nothing to me: I only wished to secure the right things. Now in case a certain drug store, less than a hundred miles from here, should ever “fail up,” you will find in this box enough Rexall remedies of various kinds to insure this establishment a fresh business impetus. I suggest that you rent a safe deposit box of the Windsor Locks Trust Safe Deposit Co., and lay this package away for safe keeping. Ellsworth H. Cutler, ’19. PRESENTATIONS— PART II. Fred Warns— Now, Fritzie, here’s a violin; Unless you use it ' twill be a sin. ’Tis yours to play at your command, Perhaps you’ll rival Sousa’s Band. Anna Leary— Thees beads to decorate Miss Leary, But I’d advise you to be most wary Whene’er you wear them on the street. For all your friends you chance to meet, Will smile and say “now isn’t she sweet.” Teresa Rooney— The latest styles in dressing hair Are in this book compiled with care, Its many rules please follow well. And you will be our village belle. Raymond Kilty— This mask to wear upon your face While standing at the catcher’s base; ’Twill save you many an ache and pain, If you decide to play again. Anna Oates— A “Flivver” for Anna, and it’s minus a a door. It will hold all the Seniors if some sit on the floor. You see we took care, as I’m sure that we ought, Lest your finger again in a door should get caught. For that accident surely a lesson has taught. Ellsworth Cutler— A box of writing paper to Cutler we present, The “wads worth” many a penny, But ‘twill not cost him a cent. Now all our gifts have been presented, and each of us has something by way of memento of our four years together. To¬ morrow night we will leave forever the W. L. H S., but always in our hearts there will remain love and loyalty for our Alma Mater, as we pass “Out of School Life into Life’s School.” Isabell Root, ’19. CLASS POEM. “Out of School Life into Life’s School.” The time has come when we must part; our high school days are o’er, Gone are our happy care-free years; the years that come no more, Windsor Locks High we must leave you, we each have a part to do, But in our wanderings our thoughts will e’er come back to you. Alma Mater we must leave you, we each have a part to play, But ever in our memory our class and school will stay, Our parting day has come at last, how fast the moments fly; The happiest days of all are gone— Now we must say good-bye! To you, dear Alma Mater, to your teachings we’ll be true. And evermore our fondest thoughts will travel back to you; After we have reached our goal and crowned ourselves with fame Back again to you our thoughts will turn with loyal hearts aflame. Opportunity knocks once, we must listen for its call, And be up and ready for it comes but once to all. Success awaits the unafraid and failure’s but a test, It’s .iust a little harder trial, a chance to show one’s best. Travelling life’s pathway fate will lead to land unknown, But our school days we’ll treasure no mat¬ ter where we roam. “Out of School Life into Life’s School,” working faithfully each day,