THE CRIMSON AND WHITE

Senior Class History

ANCIENT

Green and slightly bluish with fear were we, the Class of '35, in those faraway days four years ago, when we first entered these awe-inspiring "Halls of Learning," and ---shall we say churning?

There was seventy of us - seventy bewildered "freshies."

The important Fall elections resulted in the selection of Clarence Roessler as president, Wendell Palmer as vice-president, and Doris Wood, secretary and treasurer. Graduation happily lifted from out shoulders the greenery symbolic, to the eyes of the upper classmen, of our extreme juvenility.

MEDIEVAL

Oh, joy supreme (?) we became Sophomores! Showers of notes and clouds of paper-wads powdered the atmosphere, and we distinctly remember an ink-bottle skidding down the aisle. Conduct points spoiled the fun to some extent, but you can't keep a good class down. Neil Warren was president, Lowell Schoengarth, vice-president, and the keeper of the treasury was Jean Kleckner.

Then, before we knew it we had reached the rank of Juniors and were presumably grown up. Our officers were: President, Lowell Schoengarth, vice-president, Archie Stockwell; Secretary and treasurer; Clarence Roessler.

During the course of the year and the following summer several of our members set sail on the stormy seas of matrimony. Alas - they failed to return.

The perfect climax to our year was the Prom. Remember how hard we worked decorating for it? Remember the good time we had at the Prom? it was the Prom King's birthday - a regal party.

MODERN

And school goes on! And, inevitably, it will soon go on without us. We have attained the dignity befitting Seniors - we hope; so our gradation should be a huge success.

Clarence Roessler, who led us through our trying Freshmen year was also class president, as well as editor-in-chief of the Annual, in our more than trying Senior year. As this is the first time for three years that an Annual has been published by N. H. S. all was not smooth-sailing for the editor.

A regular, if rather quaint, feature installed this year was the exclusive Chinese Study Class in Miss Getz's room during the sixth period. This has been called the noisiest organization in school. The members studied Latin there by that time-tested, approved method of reciting aloud to one another the fragments of "Caesar's Gallic Wars," that they could translate, punctuated frequently with bits of gossip, anecdotes, and movie reviews. Their motto: "After all, several heads are better than one."

Then there was Royal Order of the Curtain-Cord Knot Tie-ers in connection with the Chinese-Latin Class. Fancy knots and braided effects were very popular. The championship for trying the hardest knot went to Marie Bracken. It took two solid hours to concentrated effort before Mr. Becker and Mr. Flynn finally undid that particular masterpiece.

Some things tells us that, for some reasons, we'll hate to leave when gradation time comes, but then there are other reasons - such as conduct points f'r instance - that make us think we'll be rather relieved so - "We'll be seeing you" at Commencement.

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