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

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HOWE HIGH YEARBOOK Wianwniu We, the Senior Class, wish to set down these few lines that, in the years to come, should we for- get these words, we'll recall four wonderful years at Howe High . . . - Memories of our freshman Val- tb 4 entine Party . . . the success of our I7 ' sophomore Hal1owe'en Party . . . 4' X I Thanksgiving games . . . study UD ,L : hall . . . no school signal . . . bas- . X I I, Q ketball games . . . showers . . . book N2 ' reports . . . the moment before opening report cards . . . faithful U ' Cy . . . scrambles in the lunch- room . . . Monday morning blues . . . Tuesday morning assemblies . . . Mr. Chittim's piano renditions . . . 0 , 3 Miss Belcher's sound advice . . . ,V C baseball stars . . . typing with Miss X TA-v McLaughlin . . . eating what we made in cooking . . . bobby soxes and whiffles . . . waiting for good ole 2:00 . . . football rallies . . . watching the Howe High Indians during their weekly massacres . . . Mr. Sullivan's yardstick . . . supersalesmen at dance time . . . orchestra rehearsals . . . orderly UD class meetings . . . Mr. Burke's bull sessions . . . last day of each school year . . . skating parties . . . getting to know the teachers . . . rootbeer floats . . . waiting for doors to open in the morning . . . spring fever . . . Miss Baker's stories . . . tests assigned on the same day . . . wishing for elevators . . . wading through four years of English . . . singing carols in French . . . bookkeeping with Miss Shaw . . . the click of the clock . . . Stardust, our Junior Prom . . . Oratorical Contest quivers . . . mistletoe in room 20 in our junior year . . . Hedberg's poems . . . rainy nights at Prom time . . . Chuck Lampson . . . football heroes . . . Eli Wain . . . riding to the basketball games via bus . . . basketball trip to Nantasket . . . Mrs. Sampson . . . receiving class rings . . . inter-class gossip . . . math with Mr. 450 . . . Queen and her court . . . May Concert . . . room 21 . . . Tri-Delta battles . . . senior pictures . . . comfortable seats during B. U. tests . . . being an office girl . . . winning the trophy . . . violent reactions in the chemistry lab . . . '46 Victory Dance . . . looking for Mr. Franz at the football games . . . Mr. Locke's joy at winning the cup . . . cheer leading . . . romances . . . senioritis . . . griping . . . Senior Play dress rehearsal for the football men . . . the Duchess . . . ice cream at play rehearsals . . . Mr. Pim . . . play quotations . . . the night of November 8th . . . Miss Be1cher's expert coaching . . . Senior Formal . . . senior trip . . . senior boys' appreciation of pulchri- tude . . . putting out a yearbook . . . the ups and downs of school . . . Venus and Horace Mann . . . jokes . . . homework . . . yes, memories of four years, the best years ------ never to be forgotten! ! -25-

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HOWE HIGH YEARBOOK Harris C1'ouse is content To inherit the farm. It seems he will live By the strength of his arm. Lloyd Crandall was made Highest judge in the land. All law-breakers now Must obey his command. George Strom writes the script For Bob Hope's show. If the censors aren't careful, There goes radio. Harvey Morris, we fear, Has met a sad fate. From city to city, He hitchhikes a freight. Dot Sands is a nurse, And her specialty cure Is a course for young men On the subject, L'Amour. In a fashionable nightclub On New York's Broadway, We find Peggy Glavineg fShe sleeps through the day.1 As a diplomat Mr. Bob Austin did flop. Now he waits on the counter Of a Boston fish shop. Edward Morrison, Esq.- Attorney-at-law. Show me your contract, And I'll find a flawf, Advice to the Lovelorn Heads a newspaper column, And the name Mary Condon May be found at the bottom. A young lady dentist Is Miss Mary Meyers. She works on her patients With chisel and pliers. Fran Newman's job Is unique, we have heard. He acts as a stand-in For Mortimer Snerd. Willy Forbes runs a joke shop In the center of town. His pranks have attained World famous renown. Redman and Jacobs, Private escorts for hire- We'll even run out of gas Or get a flat tire. Scott is a jeweler, And the best that we've met. If you're buying a teaspoon, He'll sell you a set. Miss Marion Watts Now waits for the time When with a close friend She'll hear wedding chimes. As a singer, Miss Blair Is assured of great fame. We know at her best Sheill put Kate Smith to shame. Charles Grappi struck oil Out in his back yard. From then on, his rise To success was not hard. A dogcart that's run By Miss Smith and Miss Shedd Is having a time Keeping out of the red. Petersen and Emerson Have the lust to explore From the north to the south O'er the whole ocean's floor. Eileen Hurley's become A light-opera star. The sound of her voice Is known wide and far. -24- Rogers and Rose, Two accountants made good, Have established a firm That has certainly stood. Marilyn Connelly Is now giving courses On the training and riding Of all kinds of horses. Betty Murphy, a salesgirl One couldn't keep down, Takes charge of a store- The biggest in town. The Misses Virgin and Stuart, With notebooks in hand, Take dictation in court From a wit on the stand. Misses Gasser and Gullage Have opened a shop, Where they sell everything From a pin to a mop. She started as a salesgirl, Did Miss Betty Hartling. Her progress in business Has really been startling. Miss Faria, as a journalist, Made a name for herself. Her news makes the headlines- It's not left on the shelf. A sea widoW's life Dawn Tivey must suffer. We hear that her husband Is a seafaring duffer. We hear through some channels rEar Channels, that ish- That Louisa Wiggins Changed her name to his. My name's Stanley Hedberg, And I'll write my own verse. The future looks dark Without making it worse.

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HOWE HIGH YEARBOOK fan, u, 9 ? Agnes Adams as a floorwalker . . . Bob Austin's playing the violin . . . Kay Barnett without a song . . . Janet Barton without a I x giggle . . . Janet Belanger's starting Q fb Kb 9 a debate . . . Shirley Blair's making K C an Atomic bomb . . . Ramona Brown -QJ - as an English professor . . . Mary Condon without a temper . . . Mar- ilyn Connelly without a horse x'-5 Qf ' Q5 . . . Lloyd Crandall heavy-weight Q f NWI, champion . . . Harris Crouse's going D g. to the Chelmsford Victory Dance ZLW . . . Buddy Cushing without his j sharp sweaters . . . Don Davis's speaking audibly . . . Stanley Dickie's looking wide-awake . . . Russell Emerson in the Marines . . . Theresa Faria as an auctioneer ,- . . . Willie Forbes's enjoying eco- fw 7 nomics . . . Nancy Gasser in the -2 17 ' 'Q' detention hall . . . Barbara Gibbons's writing a best seller . . . Arthur Giles with a joke for mixed com- pany . . . Peggy Glavin's being true to one . . . Charlie Grappi without his hair combed . . . Olive Gullage's shouting from the roof tops . . . Marilyn Gracie's being put out of a basketball game . . . Doug Hall without Shirley . . . Betty Hartling's giving oral topics . . . Stanley Hedberg's actually laughing at a joke . . . Eileen Hurley, Swedish . . . Betty lnnis's being conservative in her remarks . . . John Jacobs as a stand-in for Harry James . . . Eddie Kelley without his retorts . . . John Knight, anemic . . . Tony Lavalle's not willing to help . . . Billy MacDonald's making passionate love . . . John Marshall the Himminentl' academician . . . Grace Martell with- out a smile . . . Fred Monagle's reading Shakespeare voluntarily . . . Harvey Morris's chasing a girl . . . Ed Morrison as a soprano . . . Diana Moss without Curley . . . Lois Muck's being bold . . . Betty Murphy's knowing a vocabulary word . . . Franny Newman's coming out of his trance . . . Dotty Olivieri as a platinum blonde . . . Mary O'Nei1l's starring in John Loves Mary . . . Kay Perkins without her diamond . . . Louise Perkins's missing the Old Timers' Dance . . . Jimmy Perry's needing a permanent . . . Jackie Petersen with time on his hands . . . 'tCharlie Randall with perfect attendance . . . Jackie Redman's not blushing . . . Dick Rogers without John Rose . . . John Scaringi's going to Killarney . . . Dot Sands, disagreeable . . . John Scanlon with her hair out of place . . . Scotty Scott with a girl . . . Shirley Shaw's being vivacious . . . Mae Ellen Shedd without the Grange . . . Lois Smith, noisy . . . Hazel Stuart as a sleek brunette . . . Bo Strom without a wisecrack . . . Eleanor Swanson not true to Don . . . John Terris in a grumpy mood . . . Dawn Tivey's missing a movie . . . Ray Trainor without his H's . . . Mary Turco as a radio commentator . . . Elsa Tuttle's not wriggling her nose . . . Vivian Virgin as Joan Davis's stand-in . . . Bing Watts's making a Bang . . . Robert Whiteway's getting detention for talking . . . Louisa Wiggins, down on the farm . Mary Myers as Portia Facing Life . . . Winky Lee's dwelling in Gay Paree . . . Harry Henry without a grin . . . Bill Laurendeau's reciting calmly . . . Roy Ouellette as a stand-in for Sydney Greenstreet . . . Howard Makepeace's arriving on time . . . And-Can you imagine Howe High School without the Class of '47? 26