Woodbury High School - Warrior Yearbook (Woodbury, CT)

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AMY ELSIE POULIN “Her step was royal—queenlike.” Glee Club (3, 4). French Club (4). Dramatic Club (4). Class Will. Amy has added interest to many classes this year, through her own interest and the initiative she has shown in accomplishing more than was required in the curriculum. Did you see the marvelous project she did for Modern History? Yes Amy is industrious, but she has a ready sense of humor and we are indebted to her for many of the witty articles appearing in the Mirror. Although we do not know what Amy intends to do after graduating, we are sure she would make a very excellent storekeeper with very little practice. FRANCES LILLIAN SMITH “FRAN” “Looking wistfully with wide blue eyes as in a picture.” Class Secretary (1). Glee Club (3, 4). French Club (4). Dramatic Club (4). Dance Committee (4). Art Editor of the Wide Awake (4). Class Prophecy. “W'ho is the tall demure girl with the dreamy blue eyes?” Don't you know Frances? She has be:n an indispensable worker on committees for dances and class entertainments. Rumor hath it that a certain member of the Junior Class will be very lonesome next year, and you must believe us when we say that we feel the utmost compassion towards him. DOROTHY EDITH WEASA “DOT” “Thy smile has brightened many a young man's life.” Class Treasurer (2). Track (2, 3). Basketball (1, 2, 3). A. A. (1, 2, 3, 4). French Club (4). Dramatic Club member (4). Nature Study Club (4). Dance Committee (4). Class Prophecy (4). There will be many long faces in June when Dot leaves our midst. Dot is in her element when on the dance floor and gatherings at school and about town would be far from complete without her. We have heard that she has developed quite a liking for the great north woods and a decided antipathy for the gypsy moth, both for some deep, mysterious, unknown reason. We feel sure that Dot will always make a decided effort to obtain what she desires in life.

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Page Twelve DOROTHY EVERELDA PARKIN “DOT” “Love of all nature was her gift.” A. A. (1, 2, 3, 4). Class President (2). Glee Club (2, 3, 4). Cast of “When the Whirlwind Blows” (3). President of English Club (4). Secretary of English Club (4). Poetry Club (4). Dramatic Club (4). Class Will. Down from High Street every morning strolls Dot to the old gray school house. She looks like an angel with her long golden hair and her smiling blue eyes, but, oh my, you don't know the half of it. When there is anything to be done, Dot from the kindness of her heart is always ready to help, and we can testify to the value of her opportune assistance in many a tight place. She has always been a great friend of the Sophomore Class and we wonder why. She is often original and she coined the now famous expression “white whales.” ELIZABETH MARIE PARTRIDGE “I seek one man, one man and one alone.” A. A. (2, 3). Secretary of English Club (4). Secretary of Magazine Club (4). Poetry Club (4). Novel and Short Story Club (4). Dramatic Club (4). Dance Committee (4). Class Poet. We hear that Bessie is all through seeking now, and we unite in wishing her the happiest of married lives. With her dark eyes and quiet smile, she seems to us a part of the poetry she delights in reading. However she is capable of making class meetings interesting with her firmness in upholding her views. Without her quiet assistance we would have found ourselves many times at a loss.

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Page Fourteen VALEDICTORY ESSAY LILLIAN HICOCK “Sandburg - A Man of Hie People” “The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.” One would scarcely believe that the few lines just quoted could cause such a furore in the literary world that a complete revolution of the ideas of poetry would ensue. However, such has been the case in regard to this brief symbolic poem, with its graphic and daring comparison, whimsical in its originality written by the poet and biographer, Carl Sandburg. Carl Sandburg of Swedish descent was born in Galesburg, Illinois, January 6, 1878. His father was an uneducated man whose real name was August Johnson, and he worked as a construction hand on a western railroad. Carl’s schooling was very irregular, and at the age of thirteen he went to work on a milk wagon. Soon afterward he became a partner in a barber shop, and then a scene shifter in a cheap theatre, a truck handler in a brick yard, turner apprentice in a pottery shop, dishwasher in Denver and Omaha hotels, and a harvest hand in the Kansas wheatfields. He was occupied in these various positions for six years. These positions gave him an ideal training for his life work. When war with Spain was declared in 1898, always ready for adventure, he enlisted in Company C, Sixth Illinois Volunteers. When he returned, he entered Lombard College in Galesburg, and there became interested in literature. Although working his way through college, Sandburg was captain of the basketball team as well as editor-in-chief of the college paper. After leaving college, he was advertising manager for a department store, and worked as a district manager for the Socialist-Democratic party of Wisconsin. In succession he was a salesman pamphleteer and newspaper man. On the staff of a business magazine, he became a safety first expert, and his articles on Accident Prevention brought him as a speaker before many manufacturers’ conventions. In 1904 Sandburg published a pamphlet of twenty-two poems. They were uneven in quality, but were forerunners to his later poems, similar in style, but not as intensified. His occupation as a newspaper man deterred his appearance before the public as a poet, but in 1914, a group of his poems appeared in “Poetry —a Magazine of Verse,” in the same year his famous poem, “Chicago,” took the Levinson prize of $200.00, and a year later his first book was published. He had arrived. His Chicago poems were published in 1916, “Cornhuskers” in 1918, “Smoke and Steel” in 1920, and “Slabs of the Sunburst West” in 1923. He has written many mystical short stories for children, among them the “Rootabaga Series” in 1922, and Root-abaga Pigeons in 1923. But the great masterpiece is the Biography of Abraham Lincoln. It is not at all difficult to discover the elements which make this biography so interesting. There are none of the dry statistics which are usually supposed to make up a biography. There are statistics to be sure, but they are used merely as incidentals rather than as the main theme. For example in a biography of ordinary type we read that “Abraham Lincoln, politician and statesman, was born in Kentucky, February 12th, 1809.” How different is the account of Lincoln’s birth which Sandburg gives. He writes in his conversational way that “One morning in February of the year 1809, Tom Lincoln came out of his cabin to the road, stopped a neighbor and asked him to tell the “granny woman,” Aunt Peggy Waters, that Nancy would need help soon. “On the morning of February twelfth, a Sunday, the granny woman was there at the cabin, and she and Tom Lincoln and the moaning Nancy Hanks welcomed into a world of battle and blood, of whispering dreams and wistful dust, a new child, a boy.” “A little later that morning, Tom Lincoln threw some extra wood on the fire, and an extra bearskin over the mother, went out of the cabin and walked two miles up the road to where the Sparrows, Tom and Betsy lived. Dennis Hanks, the nine-year-old boy adopted by the Sparrows, met Tom at the door. “In his slow way of talking—he was a slow and quiet man, Tom Lincoln told them ‘Nancy’s got a baby boy.’ A half sheepish look was in his eyes, as though maybe more babies were not wanted in Kentucky just then.” This is the story as told by a man who saw the human side of the affair, who did not simply state the date of Lincoln’s birth in order to show'