New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 24, 1915, Page 9

HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OQUENCE REIGN AT ¥ i/ DONALD GAFFNEY, Z- Class President. bd facis bene fac. ¥hat you do, do well. ilass nights have passed and others l;come, but it is unlikely that any held will be any more enjoyable to the members of the class fuests than the class night of held last evening in the audi- jum of the High school before a e gathering of parents and friends fhe mémbers of théyclass. the time of the entrance of lass with President Bernard d Gaffney and Miss Tormay 8, until the last strains e farewell song had died in the hall, not a dull moment passed by the large assemblage. ‘interior of the hall never look- iy more impressive than it did ht, due to the ingenuity of % & of 1916 to whose charge corations were entrusted. The ented a beautiful sight with e flowers and palms, and an excellent background for eakers ‘and class officers. class songs written especialiv « e occasion to the tuneful airs ular melodies made an instant h the assehblage. and merriment tks which were not on revailed and the e Cl n s fl" ¢ the present: at thi mta- m‘m the.'fagl‘::; in jass will, of a_minituare auto- & goatee and a watering can. by the orchestra was | well carried out drrang- ¥ er and. Mr. Ander- f s of ¥915 has met here this ‘to" celebrate the close of its otrse at the New Brit. The occasion is one.. Our school life is ter- d and our more serious work udy must now commence. We 8 invited you, relatives and friends, d and participate in these fes- X¢rcises as you are well wishers npathizers. \ is welcome, then, the strangers, them as our - friends and thers, & heart's right hand of friend- them when they come to see " hése words of Lengfellow and same genial and hearty spirit, lend our greeting to you this g. We bid you a most cordial jass of 1915 is about to start Odyssey of life. . The ‘jour- be hard and tedious but we spared. = We stand at the open ibout to take our several paths. _leading from this portal , in places rougi, Butswe nd our: ways encouraged by and watchfilness of our par- ustained by the good ers, ‘and with \1oun}. cour- é r and determination, we’ will preparation is the hope and ‘olur success. To our prin- ind - teachors we -are greatly Their efforts and tireless made us ready to encounter 8. We thank them earnestly I be: aver grateful to them for iining and ' discipline. - not. - assembled to forecast , or to dilate tpon the prob- dife. The exercises of tho deal with the lighter side of flife. . The happenings outside routine of the class room est , US NOW. yr. years, humorous and nd of a personal na_ : A\fi‘ pleasantry. enlivenin; nal cofitact for four years, mind, and heart. with ‘of ‘these mutual asso- intimacies have grown ch will be 'mly uniting the _c;fi fon class g Incldents of RKUTH HILL Poetess. Class History By Edward Martin ““All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” As we stand here tonight, gazing backward over the scénmes of the last four golden years, how forcibly are we reminded of those words of the immortal Shakespeare, Four years have flown on rapid wings and in that time ‘this High school was our stage with you and 1| the players, while each ohe in his time played many parts in the drame we enacted here. When the curtain first rose upon our play it was September, 1911, %21 players crowded on the scene, a company of raw recruits. The parts wwere not well learnel, the players shy @nd awkward, while just to stand upon ihe stage and falter through our lines Lefore a critical audience of upper classmen required great courage. | Our “Comedy of Errors” went on from day to day and the first serious and interesting scene In which we were called to take part was a class meeting and out of the group there stepped to the fromt a president, Harold Malone; a vice-president, Tleanor' White: a secretary, Barbara Payne, and a tresurer, Irving Fletcher, Our status was now fully estab- iished and the sophomores invited us| neroes of the gridiron, Donnetly, Gins- | Pleasant chats carried on taere 10 join with them in a merry dance which they called a freshman recep- tion in our honor. We played no heavy or important i ‘as freshmen but stood by man- #fally and cheered ‘1ustily while the school football team Went through the monotonous form of defeating Hart- ford and adding a league champion- #hip. to the score of our school. As June drew near we had mustered up sufficient courage to sing the school songs as a fitting climax to the first act. i Two months had passed when next the curtain rose. It was again Sep- tember—but this time 1912, Theé scene was set in the same man- ner ,the players were the same; nothing was changed exéept name, for they calléd us -sophmores naw and we .played. our parts with more @ssurance. W0 A notable event was staged early in this act when we gathered together cne day to hold a class meeting and the toga of office was placed upon the shoulders of Alan Hall ‘as’ presidnt, Mildred Robinson as vice president, Leonie Crowe as secretary and Steven Donnelly as treasurer, all of whom wore the robes with aignity and proved a worthy cholee. And then we made our stage the scene of merrymaking when we ten- dered the entering class a reception which they greatly enjoyed, although for some of them the yourney home was long and the way hard. So the play went on from day to day while we drank in history, Latin, and science, and absorbed by the rush of daily events we hardly noticed the passing of time until June crept round sain and the curtain fell upon Act 1L 5 Again the muses called. With frmer steps we trod the boards this tine, but we were not 86 many now, for some had gone Lo act thelr parts l ir the drama of life, ’ At the beginning tue scene took on rather an eXciting air because of the coming of a new stage director, for Mr. Akers, who had so fa(tht’ully years, had gone, and Mr. Slade was {o take his place as our leader. A flurry of excitement was in the aly also over the inauguration of the cne session plan which proved most popudar with us. Our junior class meeting afforded a medium for the display of the talents | of the wily politiclan and the bud- | aing statesman, when arter a spirited contest, we singled out to play the role of president, Fred Stevens; vice president, Catherine Mills; secretary, Ethel Brady, and . treasurer Ossian Eennett. Then followed an event which thrilled the actors witn joy, a foot- ball game with Hartford. On memorable day our sturay boys bat- tled long and well with our heredi- tary rivals, and when the time was up they came forth victors. They had won the day and as our class was rep- ‘s entertainment is the re-| ragented on the team we took our part iu celebrating the victory. Tt was in.this year that the progress of feminism was ably demonstrated hy the girls when they founded the Aloha club in which no boys were either required or desired. A vivid memory is the scene of the junior prom-——a great success which | We do nereby give and bequeath theé | poseq of. brought to a pleasing close our third ot EDWARD MARTIN, Historian. . September—once again, and the curtain rises for the last time. Every event that too kplace this Year is a part of school history and every pupil of the 136 now left in our class played some part in the hun- dred-and-one scenes enacted hers during this time and whether that purt was.large or small. “Fach one content dwell, A And un envied not his brother Feor any part that is acted well is just as good as another.” The fireworks of this vear were supplied by the athletic teams, base- ball, basketball and football; the hi- larity by the senior prom committee and the Dramatic club; the sociability by the Aloha and French clubs; and the scholarship by the Debating and Current Ewents clubs. “And now before us appears a page- ant of the various groups of those who were the leading spirits in our play: “Let the historic supply To note and name each passes by.” muse her aid form that Here come the senior class of offi- cers: President Gaffney, vice presi- dent Tormay, Secretary Crowe and Treasurer Hallinan. Next the muscled berg, Curran, Walthers, Loiselle and Johnson; those Napoleons or football, long victorious but destined at last to meet their Waterloo at the hands of Hartford High. The baseball team goes marching by with Walthers, Horton and John- son bearing, our class colors, And then with banners flying Gins- terg, Root and Tuthill, who carried the basketball team to victory. Here in quick succession pass the senlor members of the different clubs vzhich did so much to promote good fellowship: ' Glynn, Axeison and Du- powy who proveéd worthy disciples of Cicero in the Debating club; Mr. Lip- mén, & shining staf in the Current Lvents club, Miss Mills leading the OUr'y Frepch club and Miss Tormay with | desires. the Al6ha: club.: And. then Editor Fletcher: and his assistants with the class book to their credit. = A ' Behold before you the class night speakers, of whose efforts you may judge for yourselves’ X And last, but not least is seen the faculty, that wise group of leaders and advisers, to whom we owe so much and who have been our most faithful critfcs and guides. Now the curtain falls upon the play &nd signalizes the end' or our High gchool life. It portends the parting of the waye where each one takos a separate path and let us all remember that: N “On the world's stage ‘When our applause grows high For acting here life's tragi-comedy The lookers-on will say we act not well Unless the last the excel. former scenes Class Will By «‘Miss Ruth Norton . Know all men by these presents that we the class of 1915, of the New Britain High school, of the city of will of | 'managed the cast durlng the past tWo | New Britain, in the county of Hart- ford, in the state of Connecticui, be- ing of lawfuljgge, of sound and dis- posing mindgfand having during our four years mulated a vast amount of valuable ' property, do ‘iereby make, publish, and declare, this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking all previous wills by us made. We give, devise, and bequeath, to our lawful heirs as follows:— I. To our principal, Mr. Slade, we leave our true and everlasting friend- hip, II. To all bashful boys of the lower classes we leave the use of a book entitled “How to Get Acquainted.” III. To Mr. Fay (realizing his great liking for facial adernments) we be- queath an artificial goatee, to worn only on special occasions when e wants to be all dressed up. IV. To Helen Liegey we give and bequeath a coin she may toss up to help her declde her fate., heads, Ralph Newell; tails, Philip Tormay. V. To Anna Brown ’'16 we give the privilege of moving a little nearer the street (Street) she likes the best. VI. To all undergraduate classés, sole privilege of introducing a large quantity. of sehool spirit. . * " W . . R in his place did| be | VIL To Mr, Nelson we give (hel exclgive right of plaving tennis with Miss Locke. VIIL. To Coriinne Goodwin 'i6 we leave a popular song entitled “I Love to 8it and Dream of Lovely Night" (Knight.) IX. To Miss Comins we give a box of heart tablets to be used whenever she feels any slight fluttering of that vital organ. X. To Morris Dubowy we give and | bequeath all tiae old dictionaries in the school so that he may conintue his perusal of them after graduation. XI. To Miss Nina Maude Goodwin we give 1,500,000 “Flunk’ and “Si Period” slips to replenish her reducing supply. XII. To those little Sophomore boys | who will mourn the lose of Fay Leaviett, Hildur Ahlstrom and *Vi Strosser we leave our heart felt sym- pathy. XIII. To Mr. fast Davis we. give and riding up and down the corridors, he may save time and thus avoid be- ing late to his classes. Should he have occasion to pick up any other stray wanderers such as “Reub” or Willis Thomas ‘he has our consent to charge the usual “jitney” fee. ey sufficient to put an iron railing around the girls’ fountain, on the second floor, in memory of the many by Ruth Hill and Frederick Stevens. XV. We do hereby give and be- queath to Miss McGuinaess, a talking machine and some empty. records, which she may fill out when she feels | so inclined. XVI. To “Jack” Dean '16 we give | the monoply on “fussing” during his senior year. XVII. To the school board we leave:a ‘“No School” whistle and for the benefit of the lower classes and the faculty we hope they will see fit to blow it once in a while. We don't all own row boats. XVIII. To Gladys Thomas 'I16 we give and bequeath a statute of Be- ment Hibbard which she may have placed anywhere in the school she XIX. To Irving Fletcher we want to give some flowers in recognition of his faithful services as editor of the “Beehive.” We wonder if he should rather have Margarites (Margarite) or holly (Hoelle.) XX. To the janitor we leave a long handled duster to enable him to dust the velvet curtain in the auditorium. XXI. To the school we leave a 1 { curious as | we were passing up the street | saw bequeath a “Jitney Bus” so that, by | Hadley | XIV. To the school we leave mon- | Pportable waiting room which is to be erected on the front lawn on nights when the Aloha club give ‘'masquer- j ades etc., at which there are “No Men | Allowed”” We hope tne boys will {take advantage of this and keep off | the fire escapes and away from the windows. | XXII To the basket-ball team and [its comch we leave some good advice. ;‘When going to New York and vicin- | ity to play basketball it would be | | well to, take along some chaperones | to conduct them safely past the , places of interest and through China- town XXIIL 'To Mr. Moody we give “Sque-gee” sprinkling cart to him in clearing the corridors the warning bell has sounded. really will be quite effective. XXIV. To Miss Hope Schmidt, we leave a pair of roller skates, so that | she may enjoy her favorite pastime while delivering notices and passes. XXV. To.Mlzs Plaisted we leave a | season ticket to Fox's theater so that she may enjoy every change of pic- tures next year as she hos this. XXVI. To Florence Blinn '15 leave a bottle of ink and a pen our contribution to her ‘“Cedar Ches XXVII. To the freshmen and jun- iors we leave a little courage so that next year they will not have to call on the police or hire “Dublin Pugil- ists” to fight their battles. XXVIII. To Miss Ward we leave a bottle of “Rexall’s Natural Blush,” and a box of “Eye-Brighteners.” XXIX. To any junior girl who { wants it we leave a certain little piece of extra yair which was worn on the 18th of March by one of the little girls. XXX. To Miss Crawley we leave a danger signol which she may wave before those ferocious girls wao scramble, for the Underwoods, XXXI. To all succeeding senior/ classes we give the use of the clab- orate paraphernalia used in present- ing Comus. » XXXII. To the junior class we give any stray property not herein dis- a aid after It we s XXXIII. To our Alma Mater leave our love and reverence, we HARRY GINSBURG. Phophet. In witness whereof, we have. here- unto set our hand and seal at said New Britain, on the twenty-taird day of June A, D. One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifteen. Miss Eleanor White and Harry Ginsburg A short time after tlie class night | exercises of 1915, “Pel” and ‘1 being classmatcs school, to to what were doing since thought we would our leaving take a walk the post-office. and sce if there were | As we a number of mien running to- wards ue, waving their arms, shouting an doing all sorts of things, to shov’ their perturbed spirits, As we did not understand the meaning of the demonstration we kept on towards them but, they. instead of stopping. ran past us and then some. We still believer they are running yet, But we were soon to find out the cause of the trouble. Turning a corner we saw a red flag sticking out of a hole in the earth. Then the fireworks se- gan. Before we could change our minds, the blast had blown us into the ozone. and we were making rapid progress towards the heavens, exuact destination unknown. We floated along for a while and then we began to fall very lightiyv. till finally we landed in a beautiful park. At first we thought it was Franklin Park. in our own town, but we were soon enlightened. Being rather tired we sat down on the nearest bench, which seemed as if it were on the very edge of the eartin. Being still very doubtful as to our present whereabouts, we began .o look around for signs of life. Ah! a newspaper. Picking it up, this was what we read: ‘“Read the ‘Yelping Hot-Dog’ the leading newspaper in Mars.” Then we read on—'‘Daily ecirculation 3,- 000,00.” Editor, James McCarthy. Turning to an inside page we saw a column headed—"Aid to Beauty Seekers.” The author of this cols umn was Amelia Tutles whose know ledge in this line is unlimited. Of course it is an unusual accoms plishment to be able to write to a column a day on this all. important subjéct but Amelia seems to be hold- ing.down her job wonderfully well. In another section, which seemed to be of the most popular in the page, we saw that most of the spacsd was taken up by letters to a certain person, and their answers. Heading the page we saw, “Advice to the Love Lorn. All questions on affairs of the heart treated with utmost con- fidence and secrecy.” Supervised by Madam “Sarah Heart Burn” or Ruth Norton in private life. TRuth’'s en- vironment certainly does agree with her disposition, Just then a startling event attract- ed us; the foresaid event was a long line of stars which began to pass us. Little did we realize that these stars represented our glorious class. As the first drew near, we could see Lhe interior, and, then the real surprise came. We found ourselves before a side- show tent. At first long, low sounds which sounded like distant peals of thunder, struck our ears. Then we be- came aware of the fact that it was a man’'s voice we heard, and not the elements. Upon a second glance we discovered that it was no other than our old friend “Buck Loiselie.” “Buck” had become famous for his remarkable bass voice, and was now a barker for a circus. Stepping closer we heard him say, “Right this way, Ladies and Gentle- men, and behold the greatest won- ders of the age. The only two like them in the world. They know four years Latin course backwards aud are capable of many other notable feats. All for the small sum of ten cents. After parting with the necessaiy wherewithal, we made our way into the tent. There in & small enclosure, surrounded by iron bars, and curious sight seers and engaged in & termific verbal combat were our two prodig)'t lver Axelson and Morris Dubowy. Stepping up to the rail, we were able to make out the cause of the argu- any word from our old friends. ment. 1t seemed that the two young men had written a book on the wars of the United States. The main chuse of all the ill feeling seemed to be the choice of a suitable name for the volume. Iver wished it to ba called, “Famous battles of our land.” Morris thought that “Notable combats in which our forefathers participat- HUTIL NORTON, Class Wil ed” would be the most appropriate. Finally the argument was placed in the hands of a sportily dressed, indi- vidual who we saw was Thure Bengston, Thury thought that only euitable name for the bone of contention was “Scraps of American History.” By thé way Thurry i now a theatrical producer, and some of his latest productions are “ Uncle Tom's Caboose,” and “Bengston's All- Star Vaudeville, Trip-er-beg’ par- don-Vaudeville Troupe,” featuring Jimmy Baldwin and “Fat” Barnes as “Damon and Pythias,” or “Tom and Jerry.” is a real drama in three acte. show- ing the evils of gambling and known as the “Lost Pair Dice” (Paradise.) 6 animal tent, and we saw a girl stand- ing before one of the cages con+ vulsed with laughter. On Jlooking closer we recognized Leora Saunders. of all the hilarity was she replled that her giggles had been so greatly on to one of the animals. Looking at the cage we saw the sign “Laughing Hyene.” 1¢f you can infliet anything on him Leora, you'll be going some. Passing on, we came to & place which had all the appearances of a race track. Just then, we observed trying to pass it | which was accompanied by a racket i much more terrible than that which | we used to hear in the Auditorium, on Tuesday mornings. Judging by th size of the crowd, it must hav been and unusual event. As the cause of the cloud and noise came into view, we saw that it ‘was a racing automo- bile. The car was approaching at terrific the whole affair was the attitude of the driver. As they whizzed by, al- most completely hidden by a cloud of smoke which arose from a cigar- ette fastened between the driveas teeth, we ‘could see him seated at un angel that would cause the brightest geomtry shark to tremble. The thing which we mistook for the windshield was nothing more than his feet, which were upon the dash instead of on the pedals. Beneath them was lhe inscription, “Post No Bills."” [ course this wonderful person couid be no other than “Dick” Anderson. “Dick” first learned to abuse a buggy while taming the Abbe Hardware Co.’s “Thunderboit.’ As we passed along, we thought we heard loud, angry voices ariseing from a certain place and decided to investigate. As we turned a corner we saw a crowd gathered about a car- riage. Standing at the horses head as a representative of Law and order, was Ralph Newell, our pride of Plain- ville, It seemed that Ralph had for- bidden the occupants of the carriage who turned out to be Harold Judd, and Leon Lehrer, to hitech thetr horse to a nearby tree you know Ralph loves trees; he said he would arrest them If they committed ‘be deed; our former friends insistcd they had all the right in the world to do so as a sign on the tree read “Fine for Hitehing.' Hearing hoarse cries and shouts our attention was drawn to a large crowd and simultaneously we bound- ed thither. On the platform we saw Billy Sunday, his coats off exhort- ing the people to lead better lives. Sitting near him was Mary Lockwood who obediently handed him a glass of water now and then and uttered fervent “Amens’” every once in a while to start a little enthusiasm. Mary was always strong on religion but we had no idea she would do- vote her life to it Attracted by a modist's shop which advertised '‘Waists a Speclalty,” we entered and saw a slender woman in black gliding towards us, She was no other than Daisy Ko- lodney whose waists had been at the same time the envy and despair ol all the rest of the zirls of the school. Her partner, Millicent Barnes, was a valuable addition to the shop for she was so polite that it was seldom that a customer escaped her without buying something. The following star showed us o street which appeared to be the busi- | ness section of the town; first we saw a store with a sign before it on which was painted a picture of the Atlantic ocean. Standing in the dorway with a properous air, and his face wreath- ed in smiles of contentment, we sow Ernie Horton. We then knew thal we stood before a fish market, L] reply to our question as to the cause of his joy he told us that a custom:- er had found a pear] valued at twenty dollars in an oyster purchased at his the | Another popular production | fe ! A little farther on. we came to an | When we asked her what the cause | admired at N, B. H. 8 that she wns | in the distance, a large cloud of dusi | ghip dock. speed: the most remarkable thing of | NIGHT EXERC shop., The supply of o) less to say wae S00n €0 hausted. Ernie believes pearl was well worth the As we passed along we line of pepple all moving 1 ; furniture siore across Glancing at the sign over i) read K. Walther, House on the instaliment plan, one dollar down and you catch them.) On we saw this, “Special every purchase of two doll we will give a wife or husb sale guaranteed to be new on the most modern ideas.” understand why the crowd tracted. The first lucky pens Florence Blinn. Florence her eyes on a certain prize a while and now congratulag now in order, Kenng always Heve in doing things up in sty say you're married Ken . how is it that Elsig's single? | Eve Raber and’ Alma | haye opened a business ¢ Main street. Most, of the | | were young men but this | does not seem to { | much. n fact they | | 1 | | pleased than otherwise us about it. The next star appro elowly. As it drew make out the interior to A large ¢ro about the gang-plank 3 }“Beln Voyage” to a couple mounting it. Freddie {and Ruth Hill are now (and at that ‘moment they paring to sall for the Sou {lands. Their main ambiti teach Cannibals hew to | itarians. | As we drew aw | we saw a handsome lunch-c { the street. Phil Fagan is land Alfred Hanberry presi | the kitchen. In order that ¢ ' may not have too much trou inhaling their soup, Phil them with noiseless soup- ! most frequent guests are of the Glooks, especiaily Willlams and Clement Clemmy says that he now u what is meant when they say |a La Carte” (cart), The next scene that wWas upon us, looked like the 3 church. As the strains dw burst upon our ears, we turned t¢ who the accomplished musician and picture our surprise when Louise Doerr. Louise was a trylng time at the m Francis Coffey, our talented the hiccoughs, while singing and Louise had to watch M a hawk in order to skip a mote time he hicked, " Passing through \a park church we saw something mediately caught our eye. was the most interesting 1 bad ever seen. It consisted girls who were supposed to gaged in conversation. One to be too grouchy to say and another appeared to be proud and disdained to talk companions while the third tired to sqy anything, “of o could be no other than friends, Henrletta Flagg, Ni liot and Faye Leavitt. When the state capital pight in the next star, wa | There, looking just as d ever, stood our old friend 1 Otto was class grind you know after leaving school he was 8¢ voted to his books that he fnkil came a page in the legislature. Passing into the senate cf saw a tall red haired yuiag livering a speech on Woman & Who else could it be but Curt gan. Curtiss ¢ an ardent of the cause, for he always the ladies His pet belief all women should hang toj We then thought we would down to the new Clty Hall and spect the bullding. As we through the corridor, we were tioned to be very guiet as the "B of Strategy’ 'was having a secret sion with the mayor. Just', door opened, and the memb the board came out. Who Wers Who elee could they b Light. Eifrieda Glnnblrs minski and Ida Clark. Th 5 are the charter members of the th ar club of the class of 1 e now the mayor's visors. As we came out of the an ambulance drew up to and three nurses got out, Ject of their visit was a : poodle who had become stricken v £