Woodstock School - WHS Annual Yearbook (Mussoorie, India)

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THE W. H. sq ANNUAL, 1928 A I7 CLASS PROPHECY December, 1938. EAR SIIVIPLICITY, lt's been ages since l've written, but now so many excit- ing things have happened that I must tell you all about them. just think-it's been ten whole years since l've seen you- since we graduated from Woodstock High School. I ,s'pose you wonder what has started me on this subject. Well, I'll tell you. Two nights ago l went to a most marvelous concert at Bare Hall. Madge Durham was the chief player fand a splendid one she isl. She told me later that all of the music she played had been composed by Florence Alexander who, you know, has made quite a name for herself in politics. l always knew that they would make their mark some day but l thought it would be in a far different manner. Do you remember that we all thought that Florence would go back to Woodstock to teach Latin and be a Guide, and we expected Madge to go in for deep-sea diving? l suppose that music has strange effects on people. l think l told you in my last letter that Florence was married. Oh yes-I have some other news, too. Did you know that Hugh Conley, who has been the Mathematics professor in the University of Catfish, has at last gone into the movies and become a H star i' P And l hear that Kitty Barnett, the popular society belle of Boston, is contemplating a return to Hollywood. You remember what a name she made for her- self in the H Russian Honeymoon. And oh, Simplicity, you must know this! l ran across the rarest tit-bit in the H Continental Times H yesterday: ln the Humour Column-which is run by Beryl Coombe-l came

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r' I6 THE W. H. 5. ANNUAL, 1928 CLASS :HISTORY HE. Class of ,ZS is one of the largest graduating classes we have had in .Woodstock for several years. Our history is the history of ten individuals who have wandered over the Eastern and Western hemispheres, until, drawn by some strange power of Fate, we have met here for a longer or briefer time, and grown to know and appreciate one another, and to go forth with a common feeling of love and- loyalty for the place where we have met and worked together. Anne Fitzpatrick and Beryl Coombe first entered the portals of Woodstock three years ago, when Anne came from St. Mary's Convent, Naini Tal, and Beryl from Queens- hill in Darjeeling. Sandy Rollo, Paul Stewart and Francis Kribs have alsogbeen here for the last three years-Paul and Francis are old Woodstock pupils. , Madge Durham, who was here in the days of her very great youth, returned in '27 to do her last two years' work. Frances Mattison came to us last year, brand new from Middle- town High School, Middletown, N.Y. This year we have had three newcomers to enter our class -Florence Alexander, who returned to Woodstock after two years in Libbey High School, Toledo, Ohio 3 Kathleen Barnett, who came to us from Ayrecliff, Simla g and Hugh Conley, who returned from Garfield High School, Terre Haute, Incl., to do a year's post-graduate work in P. S. C., Naini Tal. Hugh made a chance visit to Lanclour this summer-and liked us so well that he stayed! It is with regret that we think of leaving so soon the scene of happy comracleships, but yet we know that, however far apart our paths may lie in the coming years, our loyalty to the Class ol '28 will never be forgotten.

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I8 THE W. H. S. ANNUAL, I928 across a section given over to U Kribs, the Kourt Jester H 3 it seems that for the past ten years he has been a special favourite of King Cole in Furnace and now he is famous throughout the world for his wise-cracks. The sayings were extremely witty but, to my mind, they didn't outshine Beryl's jokes. Well, after having a good laugh, l went down town to do some shopping, and of course such an adventurous day couldn't let pass the opportunity of surprising me again. Hearing a merry whistle, l looked up to see Paul Stewart sauntering down the street. Naturally l told him all the exciting news and he informed me of several other astonish- ing facts. For one thing, he said, l found Sandy Rollo down in Hollywood directing away for all he was worth. l-le is supposed to be the cleverest director the movies have yet known. l happened down just in time to see the picture ' School Days ' in full swing. Hugh is to be the hero and there is a rumour around that the old time star, Kitty Barnett, has signed a contract for it. This astonishing news almost took my breath away but the next was not so unexpected. When l asked him what he was doing and where he was going, he said- Me? Oh l'm just enjoying myself and l'm not going anywhere but l've just come from somewhere. fCharacteris- tic of him, isn't it ?l From his manner, l guessed that he wanted me to ask him where he had just come from, so l did. H l've just been to see Anne Fitzpatrick, he said. H Anne! H l exclaimed. U What is she doing here, and why did you go to see her? Of course it was none of my business, but he answered readily enough, so l guess it wasn't too much of a break, if