Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-16

river, completed n year uncvcntful
! in outstanding social events but
| cvcntful in the growth and develop
ment Of character and mental ability.
The Junior year, in the gargoyle's
mind meant the social year, the
llrasantcst year of all The Glars OF
1922 began this year with a new
principal, Mr.. Clarence i. Quimby.
Sir Nash having resigned.
First Chizzle Wizzlc passed, as az
ways successful Then came the
Junior Prom. With due thanks to
the committees in charge the Prom
was Il decided success and the class
came forth with full treasury. Soon
after this came the class picnic. as
always down the river and the Jun
ior year was completed
Then the Senior, the busy year be
gan. Now Chiz&le Wizzle was not
u matter Of q booth alone, but i
play. 4 minstrel show, Il dance, ana
booths to be managed. However, the
aargoylc smiled. the class had come
through with flying colors. The
Senior booth with Cecil Stiles. chai,-
man, was a success. the ministries
were q success, tho class play was a
success.
No sooner was Chizzlo Nizzla
completed when plans were formed
tor Washington trip which came off
during the spring vacation Thea
the Senior essays had to be written.
and On their trail came the Junior
Prom the Senior Hon. the Senior
banquet The graduation program
Wa completed. Graduation was to
consist Of IN out door pageant rep
| rt=cnting the visions Or dreams oG Il
tony Senior in search of Il subject
for her Senior essay, followed by the
usual presentation Of diplomas.
This was Il wonderful class, the
EarGcy!c unused there would rcver
be another one like it. And then his
mind turned fondly back to tho
things that had made it wonderful
First, there was it's president, Syl-
vestcr Poor who every year had
faithfully performed the duties Of his
office in spite of his many and
mighty affairs Of the heart. And the
gar%oNIC, although he smiled as he
reviewed them, was very sorry to
lose track of Silly.
In athletics, too, the class had OK
,ccllcd. What other class could turn
forth such a list OF athletes as these
Captain Bill Ellis. an uncNcellci
second ha:cm&n; Dick Ridcout the
midget tWirlor; Joe knowles. whose
! exploits IS Il basketball player will
! so down to history; Jack Stafford
football. basketball ana baseball
hero; knowlton Hewins. basketball
star and Spot Giddings. track man OF
fame.
In debating. too. what class could
ever again boast such dcbaters as
Lois Hayden. Bernard Benn, Charles
Whiting? The possession Of 4
Charles Whiting alone, whose ability
as an orator is unsurpassed. woulI
make any class famous
In girls basketball there would
never again Re Dot Giddings. Il
Sam Soule. Helen Bachclder or "A
manager like Jeanette Bunker
But it is not alone in fine athletes
or dcDaters that class is rich. the
gargoyle pondered, it is in the char
actor Of its students. And the Ear-
he not watched them and listened to
Thorn ut recess for four Years? Ana
he realized that the class was indeed
an unusual one.
For in its numbers is had such
/ CeniGses as Ellen Parker, Marguerite
Chase. Gladys Muliken: social lights
as Eva Gliidcn. Anna Hendce, Fred
cricka Fife, Murray Randall, Spofford
, Giddings; just good Kids as Dot Gid
dings, Sam SOule, Louise Chase, Doris
Merrill; experts with brains as quick
| as their fingers as Nancy Hanks, Vera
, Jones Harry Jordan, Evelyn Dutton:
WE'LL liked, good. naturcd friends as
Arlene Gcnthcner, Jesse Bailey, MIN
| Sawtellc, Florence Wilson, Grace Nor
, ton; born managers as Cecil stiles,
Jeanette Bunker; ana Charles IIar-
!; ris and his motorcycle
Yes. the gargoyle decided, its ac-
complishmcnts We're many it's errors
few, for there are incidents such as
Paul Thomas and a Southport in the
history of every we'll regarded class
Md now the last assembly was over
; and tho CargOylc watched them go
all Of them who had worked and play
ed together for Cony for four short
Years and now were going forth alone
into the world to work and play And
, somehow the gargOyle knew that this
class was bound to succeed in life as
it had succeeded in high school, and
he smiled, the smile Of a gargoyle
carved in stone, but in his eye glisten-
cd a tear. the tear of a gargoylc cary
ed in stone for the joys and sorrows
Ct high school class, the class of
1922.
Following the reading Of the history.
Toastmastcr Getcheu called on knowl-
ton Hewins, vice president of the class.
for lew remarks. Charles Whiting
next kept the guests in laughter with a
serio-comic poem on young love,
twisted TO give a personal and local
atmosphere.
Class Prophecy
| Miss Dorothy Giddings then gave the
class prophecy for the academic de-
partment. She started with an unique
introduction, representing herself as
finding in a garden of roses, slips of
paper in the heart Of each individual
rose outlining the fate of her class