Braintree High School - Wampatuck Yearbook (Braintree, MA)

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THE CLASS RECORD At the sound of the corridor bell on September 6, 1939, we started the first lap of our race for knowledge. We were then full-fledged freshmen. That was the year we did our homework so faithfully; Freshman Year when everything was new and strange; when we stood in awe of all our teachers. Didn’t we have our own Freshman football team and cheer leaders? And what about the chorus and gym and basketball teams? They made a good start toward the winning of our race. Well do we remember that day in February when we went to school in the sunshine, only to return home at five o’clock ankle deep in snow. Yes, that was the year of the Valentine’s Day blizzard which gave us practically two week’s vacation instead of one. With the coming of June we had rounded the corner of the first lap of our race and . . . a new sophomore took the baton for the second year at Braintre High, a tought but beara ble year. We experienced for the first time the real duties and troubles, as well as the joys, of an upperclassman. Sophomore Year The football team as usual had little effect save to beat the freshmen. In early January the first class meeting was held. The sophomores pulled themselves together for the hard press ahead. We gave some aid to the juniors ahead of us with the operetta “The Pirates of Penzance.” Dashing across the finish line of the second lap, . . . we breathlessly entered the third and important lap of our race for knowledge by getting together and drumming up our class officers. We wanted go-getters with lots of punch, so Bob Bewley, Bob Junior Year Thompson, Faith • Gambino, and Mary Jane Carty were ele- vated to the spots of president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, respectively. Having done this, we went excitedly and gloriously on with our school activities. Of course we sold Christmas cards and, with our usual vibrant spirit, almost beat the seniors. Remember the Oral English play? It was rumored it was one of the best ever staged in our school. “Little 125 }•

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Mary Tally “Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.” -Shirley Twitchell “When you dance, I wish you a wave o’ the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.” Activities: Glee Club 2. Catherine ’enati “Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.” (ierahliiie Wain “Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.” Kuth Wentworth “The silence of pure innocence persuades, where speaking fails.” Activities: Orchestra 1, 2, 3; Glee Club 2. Alarjorie Willis “Came but for friendship, and took away love.” Frances Wilson “A daughter of the gods, di- vinely tall. Activities: Hockey 2, 3; Glee Club 2, 3. 4. Janet Wilson “ Her waist exceeding small — The fives did fit her shoe.” Betty Young “There was a star danced, and under that, I was born.” Activities: Gym Team 1, 2, 4; Hockey 2, 3, 4; Wampa- tuck 1 ; Senior Show; Junior Prom Committee. 24 } I •i

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Women” certainly did something for our class. Our bank book swelled a great deal more with our sponsorship of that sure-fire hit, “lolanthe.” Notables of the town turned out to watch members of the school romp through this well- liked operetta. “Gosh! I’m getting tired, how about you?” each junior asked one another. But the frolicking gym exhibition and the decision of the class spon- sor and officers to have class pictures taken in our junior year, brought us all back and jumping the hurdles with a gleam in our eyes. So we scraped together the necessary cash from various sources, boarded the train and sat before the Purdy photographers to exhibit our Pepsodent smiles. So as to lunge forcefully into the last stretch of the third lap we staged the annual Junior Prom at the Town Hall, no less. To say it was a sen- sation would underrate the efforts of the class. It was a wow! And so tired, and worn, but with versatile youth at our beckon . . . we are ready to start the last and most important lap of our race for knowledge as we are now certified seniors of Braintree High School. With many of the student body and faculty going from the school Senior ' ear into the service of their country, and the war influencing the remaining seniors with a greater velocity day by day, the future of the class did not look too bright when the September roll call started us on our final year; but we soon got into stride as events began to “pop” with machine gun like rapidity. With Miss Daughraty as our new class sponsor because of Mr. Toolin’s induction into the army, the first class meeting was held early in October and votes were cast for our class officers. Bob Thompson was elected president with Wally Kemp (vice president). Faith Gambino (secretary), and Mary Jane Carty (treasurer), making up the rest of our executives. Following our procedure of last year we again sold Christmas cards during the Yuletide season. The annual senior play was put on about mid-season by a group from the class who surprised all by their great amount of unknown talent. We are now rounding the last corner and entering the old home stretch. From here in we will have to go all out for everything. All out for the Senior Banquet and Reception in June, and most of all, all out for preparing ourselves for the unknown future which we will rush into when we finish our spurt and cross the finish line of our great race for knowledge on graduation night for the Brain- tree High School Class of 1943. {26 }