Bellows Free Academy - Alpha Omega Yearbook (St Albans, VT)

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It was up to the junior class to give the seniors a fitting farewell and our Junior Prom proved to do just that. Of course our junior year would not have been complete without Junior Prize Speaking. Many of our class gave very good selections and Betty Kelley, Joyce McKillop and Kath- leen Sweeny won first, second and third prizes, respectively. This event brought our junior year to a close. In September, 1944, we began our senior year at Bellows Free Academy. Yes, we were dignified seniors now. We soon got acquainted with our new principal, Mr. Sunderland, and learned to like him very much. VVe chose as our leaders this year Eu- gene Gritiin, Marjorie Woodell, Joyce McKil- lop and Alan Myers. Football, which had been eliminated in our junior year, was started again. The Mer- cury got off t0 a good start with Donald Hill holding the responsible position of managing editor. Other members of the class who held important places on the staff are: Ethan New- ton, Janet Atkins, Eugene Griffin, Ann Fisher, Betty Kelly, Kathleen Sweeny, Luela ChaHee, Lucille Aldrich, Joyce Hoy, Antoinette La- noue, Ruth Nagle, Wanda Sloane, Hilda Win- ner, Alan Elrick and Dorothy Barr. Late in October we started work on the Senior Play. Our production was a mystery in three acts entitled The Night W'as Dark. Under the direction of Miss Hortense Bee- man and Miss Louella Catlin, our play was a huge success. The cast of characters was as follows: Rakofsky, Gordon Chevalier, Mor- timer Garth, Thomas McCormick, Mrs Delilah, Dorothy Barr, Kay Garth, Paule Lamarcheg Norma Patterson, Marjorie Woodellg Alan Garth, Eugene Griiiing Lillian Ferris, Joyce McKillopg Benjamin Garth, Norman Dennis, Jabez Weedle, Roy Wheeler, Gerald Skinner, Gould Susslin. We decided, shortly after mid-years, to have a Senior Supper on February 13. Eu- gene Griffin and Marjorie Woodell were host and hostess. In May came our last chance to participate in the Junior Jamboree and we made a final attempt to win the Willson Cup. Our play was Thank You, Doctor, and how pleased and proud we were when we were awarded the cup! Our four years at B. F. A. have gone by much too fast, but no one can ever forget these four memorable years that we have spent here. We have felt the limitations the war has put upon some of our activities but we have been able to meet them cheerfully. And now with the end of the war in Europe we can go forth hopefully into the future, trusting that war with Japan also will soon be over. Pk 09W fl A iii: .yy ICC gg' X. e -', it 'why - wiki p Page Nine

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CLAS HI TURY fBy Jbflarjorie Woodell ISTORY repeats itself. This state- ment is just as true of classes at tgfgwggl B. F. A. as it is of countries of the l 'i ' world. Yet there is always something that is different. Like other classes before us we looked forward to the time when we should be mem- bers of the student body of Bellows Free Academy. And those first days within these walls were just as bewildering and confusing to us as to freshmen of other years. The usual pranks, such as selling us seats in assembly and sending us to the wrong rooms, were played upon us. But we were a hardy group and we came through all this unscathed. And now it can be told. We even enjoyed the hazing, for we knew that when it was over we were fully initiated and could now take our rightful places among our fellow students, and we did. We elected as leaders for our fir-st year at B. F. A. Thomas McCormick, president, Joyce McKillop, vice-president, Alan Elrick, Secretary, and Rola Moulton, treasurer. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, we sorrowfully watched the junior and senior boys leave for the armed services, little real- izing that this event was to cast a shadow over all of our high school days. When things happen that affect our lives, they seem. to be just a part of the daily rou- tine, but later these events make history. So it is with our school life. Those first mid-year and final exams were obstacles to be over- come and we approached them with fear and trembling. Our first contribution to the Junior Jam- boree, a comedy .entitled Truth, was a production of. We, as a class, had pearance on the stage. Before we knew it, it was June and our first year at Bellows Free Academy was over. Then came September, 1942, and we en- rolled as gallant sophomores. This year it was our tu1'n to have fun with the freshmen and we really did, too. Our officers were Warren McGowan, The Unvarnished not to be ashamed made our first ap- Page Eight Janet Atkins, Marjorie Woodell and John Maynard. This year we were proud to be able to be represented on the Executive Council. We chose as our representative, Thomas Mc- Cormick. A few of our classmates made varsity football and basketball teams, and some were on the Mercury staff. We faced our mid-year exams a little more bravely this year, because after all we were sophomores. For our Jamboree Skit we presented a comedy, Mail Order Money, with the follow- ing cast: Norman Dennis, Thomas McCormick, Paule Lamarche, Betty Kelley, Dorothy Barr, Joyce lMcKillop, Warren McGowan and Eu- gene Griffin. This year the competition was divided. The freshmen and sophomores com- peted for a plaque and the juniors and seniors for the Willson Cup. Of course we walked off with the plaque. June came all too soon for most of us, but we were ready for a summer vacation. It didn't seem possible that we had spent two .full years at B. F. A. and now we were juniors and upperclassmen. We watched the poor freshmen being initiated and felt -sorry for them, forgetting that we had done the same thing just one year before. The first thing we did was to elect our oflicers: John Maynard, Joyce McKillop, Joyce Hoy, and Emilio DeMarinis. This year we were able to have two members of our class on the Executive Council, Alan Greenough and Warren McGowan. In November, Mr. Dickinson, our princi- pal died. This was a great shock to the school and to the entire community. Miss Chandler was appointed acting principal and Bellows Free Academy pulled through a great crisis. In early spring we learned that Mr. Jesse Sunderland was to be our principal the next year. Being juniors, we were sponsors of the Junior Jamboree. We chose as our play a mystery entitled The Phantom Gentleman. Our class bowed down to the seniors for the cup, but we broke all former records in the matter of attendance and receipts.

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