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

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD 9 AMY MORELL “Amos” Usher Senior Play ’24. Ticket Committee and Property Manager Senior Play ’25 Typist on Herald Board ’25. Debating Society ’25. Statistics, Class Night. “Maiden with meek brown eyes In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like dusk in the evening skies.” FRANCIS O’LEARY “Frankie” President ’21-’22. Baseball ’23-’24. Class Editor ’24. Participated in Junior Essay Contest ’24. Captain Baseball Team ’25. Assistant Editor ’25. Member Debating Society ’24-’25. Member cast Senior Play ’25. Winning debater ’25. Class Prophecy, Class Night. “Still art thou Valor’s venturous son!” ANNA SWEENEY Anna Vice-President ’22-’23. Glee Club ’22-’24. Assistant Circulation Manager ’24. De¬ bating Society ’24-’25. Participated in Junior Essay Contest ’24. Member cast in Senior Play ’25. Play Committee ’25. Participated in final debate. Circulation Manager ’25. Essay on Motto, Class Night. “A full, rich nature, free to trust Impulsive, earnest, prompt to act And make her generous thought a fact,”

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8 THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD MARY LONGO “Slippery” Entered as Senior ’25. Member of Debat¬ ing Society ’25. On Play committee ’25. Member cast Senior Play ’25. Partici¬ pated in final debate. Statistics, Class Night “What ho, my jovial mates! Come on! we’ll frolic it Like fairies frisking it in the merry sunshine.” CLARA MATHER “Bobby” Glee Club ’21-’24. Participated in Junior Essay Contest ’24. Dance Committee ’25. Member cast Senior Play ’25. De¬ bating Society ’25. Typist on Herald Board ’25. Class Treasurer, ’25. Gifts, Class Night. “She is meek and soft and maidenlike, A young woman fair to look upon.” AUGUST MIDDEN “Speed” Basketball 22-’24. Response to Advice ’24. Athletic Editor ’24. Baseball ’23-’25. Tpyist on Herald Board ’25. Class President ’25. Member cast Senior Play ’25 Address of Welcome, Class Night. “For the good are always merry.”

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10 TIIE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD CLASS DAY EXERCISES. ADDRESS OF WELCOME. Members of the School Board, Superintend¬ ent, Principal, Teachers, Undergradu¬ ates, Parents and Friends:— In behalf of the Graduating Class of 1925, I wish to express our thanks for your presence here to-r.ight and welcome you to our commencement exercises. It has been our pleasure to attend the Windsor Locks High School for four years from which we shall be graduated to¬ morrow evening. The four years which we have spent here, we may assure you have been four years of our life that we shall long remember. While at High School we have come to know the value of friendship and co-operation shown to us by our leachers and schoolmates. When we leave to-morrow evening there will be sorrow in our hearts for this will end our happy schooldays here to¬ gether. To-night you are to hear of the merr»er side of our school life and to-morrow night, of the more serious side. As members of the Senior Class, we welcome you here to our Class Day exer¬ cises and we shall endeavor to make Windsor Locks High School proud of the Cla ss of 1925. A. Midden, ’25. -(o)- CLASS HISTORY. On September 6, 1921, we began our studies as Freshmen of the Windsor Locks High School. After some confusion we found our way to the Main Room. Tho teacher, Miss Long, counted heads and found us to be fifty-two in number. We were the largest class that had ever en¬ tered and we felt very important. On October 15, a class meeting was called and the following officers were elected: Francis O’Leary, Pres : dent; Anna Sweeney, Vice-President; Charles Albani, Secretary; and Arlene Hancock Treasurer. On December 23, we gave our first rhetorical program. It was our first ap¬ pearance before the school assembly and we were very nervous. Frequent occasions in which we have participated since then, have heelped most of us to overcome this ner¬ vousness. As Freshmen we were very much in¬ terested m the high school graduation exercises because we hoped in three years more that we w’ould be in the coveted position of graduates. The following September thirty pupils from our class returned as Sophomores. Because of the great number it was im¬ possible for all of us to have the Physics Room as our class room. Some of our classmates were placed in charge of Miss Olive Doherty in the French Room. The upper classmen immediately felt it their duty to name us the “Silly Sophs.” On November 29, we gave a Thanks¬ giving Program. We spoke with much gi eater ease than we did when we were Freshies.” On one of the coldest nights of the winter our class went on a sleighride to Thompsonville. We stopped at the Palace of Sweets for refreshments. If the old saying of “Practice makes perfect” is true we surely knew by heart the old song, “Forty-nine bottles hanging on the wall,” which we sang all the way home. The rest of the year was uneventful for our class. Our Junior year opened on September 17, 1923. Mrs. Leary welcomed us, seven¬ teen jolly Juniors to the Bookkeeping Room. In the latter part of October we held a class meeting and elected the fol¬ lowing officers: Francis Draghi, Presi¬ dent; Arlene Hancock, Vice-President; Joseph Lodola, Secretary; May Duggan, Treasurer. During the year we lost four of our members, Doris Mather, Victoria Sabonis, John Bercury, and Harry Wadsworth. On March 4, we gave our Junior Whist which turned out to be very successful. Our Junior Prize Essay Contest took place in Memorial Hall on May 13. Ar¬ lene Hancock received first prize, and Francis Draghi, second.