Billerica Memorial High School - BMHS Yearbook (Billerica, MA)

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1938 FEAR BOOK CLASS BALLOT Best Boy Student , ; ; : i : . Alfred MacAllister Best Girl Student : : ; . : ‘ ; . Mary Nickles Most Popular Boy . gene : ‘ : ; Robert Westlund Most Popular Girl . : : é : : : Frances Collins Prettiest Girl . : : : ; : ; : Agnes Simpson Best-looking Boy ; i : : : : : . Walter Quinn Class Vamp : : : : : : ; : Evelyn Bourque Class Flapper . : : : : : : . Pauline McDermott Class Bluffer . A ; ; : : : . . Charles Griffin Teachers’ Delight. ‘ : ; : : . Alfred MacAlister Class Humorist ; : ; : ; ; : Gerald Finlayson Cutest Girl : : : : : j : : Dorothy McArdle Quietest Boy . : . ; : : ; : William Wallace Quietest Girl . : ; eee ‘ : : Marjorie Hurley Most Promising Boy — . : ; : : : Robert Houghton Most Promising Girl : : : : : : . Mary Nickles Most Innocent Boy . : : : : ; : Charles Crombie Most Innocent Girl . : ‘ : . : : Barbara Brown Sleepiest Boy. : : : : : . ; : John Plugis Sleepiest Girl . ees : : : : : Violet Ferman Best-natured Boy : F s ; : ; : : Frank Ross Best-natured Girl : : : . : : : Frances Collins Class Actor ; ; i ; : : A : Arthur Carlson Class Actress . : : : : : : : Evelyn Bourque - Most Talkative Boy : : : : : : . Charles Griffin Most Talkative Girl : : ; : : P . Mary Nickles Class Baby : : : : : ; : ‘ Lillian Lindsay Class Dancer . ‘ : : ; ‘ ; . Ernest Vocell Class Eater ; ; : ; : ; : : . Charles Griffin Class Lover : : ‘ : : ‘ : : . Walter Quinn Shyest Boy : , ; : : ; : : Charles Crombie Shyest Girl ; : an ae : : : : Marjorie Hurley Class Shiek ; : : ; : : : ; . Robert Olivieri Class Heartbreaker - ‘ : : eas Robert Houghton Best Athlete Gril. =). =, Dorothy. Brouillard Best Athlete, Boy . ; ie : : Robert Westlund Laziest Boy . : ‘ : : : é . . Francis Martin Most Beautiful Smile : ; : : ; : Frances Corbett Nerviest Boy . : ‘ ; : : : : ; Ernest Vocell 15

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BOW EF AlGH S60 01 ERNEST YOCELL “Qh, so small, and yet so big” Football 4. Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4—Captain 4, Baseball 3, 4. Sportsmanship Brotherhosd- The possessur of a2 magnetic personality, ‘as-we judge by his many friends, “Bus” is one of the most popular boys in the class. We all think that our cheerful “Bus” is a fine athlete and “one swell guy”. He has just one weakness, and it wears skirts. Don't ever forget old Howe High, “Bus”. RUTH WAITZ “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance” Year Book Staff. Ruth is a conscientious worker. : yet with a sense of humor and an ability to make and keep friends, she is sure to win a brilliant suecess in life. WILLIAM WALLACE “The waters that are the stillest are the deepest” Year Kook Staff, Although quiet and studious, Bill has one of the finest personalities in the class. His fairness and friendliness are two of the qualities that have made him so well liked by his comrades. We'll be missing you, Bill. Quiet, - 14 ROBERT WESTLUND “A little fun now and then is relished by.the best of men” Glee Club 3, 4. : : Newspaper Editorial Staff, Football 2, 3, 4. Basketball 2, 38, 4. Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4—Captain 4. President of the Sportsmanship Brother- hood; Year Book Staff. “Westy”, with his fine athletic record and dry humor, shines as an outstanding member of our class. We hope he realizes his ambition—to play on a big-league base- ball team! ESTHER WINDER | “She is petite, and she is gay, And she is merrier day by day” Tri-Delta; Year Book Staff. Who is the petite little miss who always looks as if she had just stepped out of a modiste shop ? Why, none but our Esther whose willingness to work, subtle humor, and grace in “tripping the light fantastic” have made her a very popular young lady of the class of ’38.

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HOWE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS PROPHESY men N the pages of the “Scholastic Review” in the year 1950 appeared the following news flashes about the Class of 1938 of the Howe eaetees| High School. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Professor Stanley Bocko of Harvard was cited in “The Publishers’ Monthly” for writing the. best book on “How to Keep English Sentences Separated.” BILLERICA, Mass.—First prize for the best layer at the Boston Poultry Show goes to Margaret Fletcher for “Pollyanna”, who laid 364 eggs in 364 days. HELL, Norway—After smash ing his luxurious yacht into the bank of a fiord, ‘Arthur Carlson, questioned, claimed that the Norwegian sign posts were too much for him. NEW YORK, N. Y—Charming Frances Corbett has been hired by McClelland Barclay to pose as his 1950 model of a perfect girl. PARIS, France—Bob Houghton, expelled from Harvard Medical School for his risque thesis on “Causes of Palpitations of the Human Heart’, bides his time by playing gigolo to a wealthy English dowager. BOSTON, Mass.—Mary Nickles and Grace Howe assume positions as co-editors of a spicy news column, devoted to the exposition of prom- inent people’s private lives. LOWELL, Mass.—Edna Homenick, benutieian: has been awarded first prize in a hairdressing contest for the most startling creation. PHILADELPHIA, Penna.—Alfred MacAllister, dignified Philadelphia banker, sailed last week for a week’s cruise to Bermuda. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A new animal hospital under the supervision of Dr. Edmund Grosvenor, veterinarian, has opened in Kajamazoo, NEW YORK, N. Y.—A new hit show has reached Broadway, with petite Esther Winder playing the role of a lisping ingenue. JACKSONVILLE, Fla—Marion Snell, glamorous snake charmer of Barnum and Bailey’s circus, was nearly suffocated by one of her charges, a slinky python, BOSTON, Mass.—An art student, Margaret Mongan, pays a $10 fine for her pain tings of nudes. GENOA, Italy—Frances Collins, having won fabulous sums. at Monte Carlo on the French Riviera, is reported losing it rapidly on the Italian Riviera. BILLERICA, Mass.—-Walter Quinn has announced his eandiasey for town treasurer. His platform is ‘Soak the Rich, and Pity the Poor’.’ HOLLYWOOD, Cal.—Kay Doherty, the stunning brunette who starred in “The Devil Woman’, is Charlie McCarthy’s latest crush. BILLERICA, Mass.—We nearly bought a ‘used-car the other day through the smooth line that the salesman, Scotty Ross, gave out. CHICAGO, Ill.—Alberton Ripley is acquiring fame as a criminal lawyer of extraordinary ability. 16