Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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The 1926 Chameleon HELEN MacKNIGHT Senorita MacKnight, we would have you know, is a very busy young lady; for being clerk to El Circulo Espagnol, assistant business manager of the CHAME- LEON, not to mention the innumerable dances and parties, which her many pulchritudinous qualities require her to attend, are certainly positions which demand such sterling qualities as those she possesses. ANGELINA MACOLINI We wish that we had been told the joke that keeps the smile continually radiating from Angelina’s coun- tenance. Her chestnut locks are as yet unshorn, but we can guarantee that no employer would refuse Angel- ina, if he possessed a knowledge of her speed upon the typewriter and elsewhere, provided that she applied personally. ERNEST MAGUIRE “Ernie” doesn’t try to push himself into the rays of the spotlight of Senior fame; he doesn’t have to. That service is performed for him by his uniformly excel- lent marks in all subjects. However, he does not, in his superior knowledge, like Kipling’s cat, “go by his wild lone,” and live in a stratum far above us “stupes,” but rather he does his best to raise us into that exalted condition where the word “flunk” or its equivalent is an archaic barbarism. ANNA MAFFUC1 Do you like brown eyes? Then you want to know Anna. You want to know her, anyway — the class of ’26 will vouch for that. Her smile won us long ago and if it were not for her eraser in typewriting, I fear many of our “perfect copies” would suffer. She will never forget — “Did you get that, Miss Maffuci, that was only 120 words a minute.” 23

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Belmont High School GEORGE LOCKE Did you enjoy the Senior Prom? You did. Well, you may thank Mutt” for much of your enjoyment; it took his artistic skill to plan and execute the decorating of the Town Hall for that memorable occasion. By the way, you must have noticed flaring posters for various events, tacked in different parts of the school. If you didn’t like them, they certainly weren’t George’s; for his dexterity with the brush is as proverbial as his skill with the literary pen. RENA LOOMER It’s the songs you sing and the smiles you wear, That’s making the sunshine everywhere.” To know our Rena is to feel that these lines must be her motto. Always smiling, always joking, always ready for a good time, she has won a big place in our hearts, though she has been with us only a short time. She goes in for everything from basketball to musical comedies, all the while keeping her studies and we are very glad that our curly-haired classmate decided that Belmont is the best school and the class of ’26 the best ever. WILLIAM LEAHY Happy-go-lucky Billy. One never sees him without his big car — and girls. He drives like a whirlwind, and my advice to you is, that when you see a dull red car headed in your direction, to show your “dust.” We wish to contradict the rumor that Bill’s numerous trips to Fiske’s are on account of the waitresses. The reason is that he likes sweet things. Bill has not found time to go out for any athletic activities except dances, and driving the girls to their basketball games. Remember the Everett game? JOHN LYON Here we have the barber’s and the photographer’s despair! Not that we mean to say that Jack is lacking in his share of manly pulchritude; quite the reverse. But he has the tawny, luxuriant locks of a true lion, and they exasperate him mightily by their waywardness. However, Jack is as upright as his hair, a squarer, bigger- hearted, more industrious youth than he being as rare as a white elephant. This may be explained by the fact that Jack is a lover of the woods, and all that they stand for. 22

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Belmont High School ANNA MALMSTROM “There is a time to work and a time to play,” is Anna’s motto; for no one can be gayer or more carefree than she; nor can anyone, on occasion, subdue her lighter side more swiftly or more completely than can Anna. Wherefore do we anticipate that her career, following her receipt of a business college diploma, will not be commonplace. By the way, in the water, Anna resembles Aileen Riggin and Gertrude Ederle combined. KATHERINE MALTMAN Who is it that is doing all the talking? “Kay,” of course. But by no means is that all for which she is noted among her classmates. She shines in the intel- lectual as well as the social life of B. H. S. Every morn- ing she may be seen at the back of the room, con- scientiously laboring over the attendance sheet. When her patients see Kay’s sunny smile, a sure cure will result. We are sure she will make a first-class nurse. RICHARD MURPHY “Big Dick,” as he is called by his many admirers, is perpetually trying to erase a grin from his beaming visage. Sports or dramatics— Dick is always to be found in the foreground. Have you ever heard the little fel- lows during football season? He is their gridiron hero. If you caught a glimpse of him in the fall, you invariably saw a pile of books — but when football is over — well! DOROTHY MASON On the basketball court, slender “Dot” is a veritable whirlwind; she minds not her opponent’s size, that being part of the game. Taking the ball from both great and small, skillful or inexperienced, is her favorite indoor sport. We are sorry that there are not more girls’ teams in the school; for, if there were, we should undoubtedly see Dorothy again in some star role. But being a clever Amazon, is not her only accomplishment, for she certainly can tickle the piano. 24