Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
CLASS OF 1905
FIRST TO BE
ENTERTAINED
BY FACULTY
First To Hold Glass Night
First To Graduate
From New School.

On = quiet evening, say in 1905,
could be seen a few well attired fac
ulty members meandering toward
the Windsor Hotel, anxious girls
scurrying by i'm evening dress. You
may guess that this is the class of
1905 giving a return banquet to the
faculty. Indeed, the class felt ra-
ther hOnored that their teachers for
the first time had deigned to rec
Ognize the fact that class consist
cd of the human element. To return
this recognition was the supper Civ
en- this evening. Sufficient torments
imposed on the part of the pupils for
past sulferin2s, Harold SalmOns,
class president, announced that a
turkey supper was waiting. In this
manner the evening continues Each
member of the class will here be
presented:
Miss Mary Banning, at the present
time Mrs. Arthur Derrickson, of Mil
fOrd Miss Eugenia Graham, living
now in Houston, Delaware, as Mrs.
Ernest Simpson; Miss May Counsel
man, now Mrs. F. Brehm, of New
Jersey; Miss Edna COunselman, now
Mrs. Watson Belts of Philadelphia;
Miss Florence Houseman, now Mrs.
Carey of Milton; Harold SalmOns, of
Milford; Robert Dams of Washing
ton. D. c., dubbed "Spink" Dams up
on the occasion of reciting "BObO-
link, Sphinx, Spank, Sphinx" Pierce
Simpson, living now in Philadelphia,
and Arthur Hudson of Wilmington.
These remaining members of the
class of 1905 were honor students,
having a scholastic average of over
ninety: Miss Lillian Hauser, Mil
ford; Miss Estella Handy, Washing
ton, d. c.; Miss Elizabeth Deputy, at
present Mrs. William Riggs of Mil
ford; Miss Sara Anderson, now Mrs.
Henry Price of LansdOwne. Pa;
Miss May Watson, member of Mil
ford school faculty. and Shovel
Abbott of Milford.
Each class, of course, has its dis
tinguishing characteristics. Thus
it appears that this class of fifteen
members had been the largest up to
that time and was the first to grad
uate from the then new school in
North Milford. Too, the class was
perhaps more mOdernistic than for
mer classes by holding the class
night program apart from the grad
uatiOn exercises.
The additional honor of presenting
an original essay was given to the
honor students. Miss Elizabeth Dep
uty's Famous Song" and Miss May
WatsOns christian Characters in
Our National Life" certainly must
have added TO the program.
Light has just fallen on an incl
dent that apparently must have been
missed by the clever teachers of the
school at that time and even Princi-
pal Larue. A certain senior, Miss
May Watson, whose department rec
ord up to that time had been perfect
felt that certainly it would be a sad /
coincidence, if she graduated with
out having done something that (
would call for a reprimand With ten |
other girls one afternoon, she .
stealthily crept out of school and .
FASTENED down to the scene of the
marriage of Dr.. Walter Grier. a
member of the school board. Rather
remarkable was it not that she was
not even suspected?
Pierce Simpson expressed the
class sentiments in these few lines
extracted from the class song:
Fond mem'ries cling to each old
wall,
And linger in each spacious hall.
Aud from each classroom wide re-
sounds
The echo of familiar sounds.
Old Alma Mater, tried and true
OFT will our thoughts turn back to
you,
AS l4em'ry fOndly turns her gaze
Upon our happy High School Days. {
Irene Williams '33