Braintree High School - Wampatuck Yearbook (Braintree, MA)

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fUTURtS at pulling pimieiitos through olives and J. Leo is a pretzel bender. We also find PL Maslen working at the dental profession and K. Finnerty as his assistant. The electoral campaigns are faring quite well with M. Fleming running them. A. Ana.stos is running for president and J. Ferguson for vice-j)resident. R. Ferrault is the Lnited States delegate to the L.X. and W. Finer the senator from Alabama. IL Power is off on her own, organizing a dog catchers’ union. Some are not living in Braintree now: J. Wi.seman has moved to ( ' onnecticut, W ilson to P’lorida, and J. Whitten and E. Walker are buyers in Paris with A. Webber as their interpreter. Some are working at hardier jobs: ( ' . McCarthy is a lumberjack; M. Reis, deep-.sea diver; H. Yerkes, meat packer; S. Woorlbury, blacksmith; R. L. Smith, clam- digger; and F. Regan, window washer in the Empire State Building, is not disturbed by the champion flag-pole sitter, E. Streeter. In the finer arts division: W. ( ' oates and E. Brown are lecturers; S. Merritt is rewriting the dictionary; J. Robinson is rewriting Mr. Perry’s math books for less intelligent mathematicians; T. Robinson is inventing shorter shorthand; B. Summers is up in dramatics as head of Braintree Theatrical College; J. Marshall is a piano tuner; R. llarkin, museum curator; W. Rushton, quiz kid; B. Vivona, sculptor; W. Alills is singing in a church choir; D. Sutherland, intricate calculist; D. Nel- son and B. Osthagen are billboard artists; S. Blomgren is publishing J. Munroe’s new book, “How Not to Drive;’’ and H. Shedd is ju.st finishing her 400th pair of socks. J. Bissell is a taxidermist; J. Belyea and I). Birtwell are drilling for oil; K. Whitman is a gla.ssblower ; and L. Whittaker, I). Whitten, and I). Wilson are hunters (they’d rather hunt dear than deer!). (L Legg and B. Scholes are tied for the title of Mrs. America, but B. CTowninshield is too busy growing her hair to care about anything el.se. J. South is modeling E. Hutchinson’s hat creations. Poor D. Richardi is always in the dark and A. Hannon is trying to help her by inventing the electric light. D. Gregor is a meteoro- logist; S. Ripley s inventing portable television; M. Pantano and J. Nelson are airline stewardesse.® for Eastern Air Lines where M. Csernak is the chief test pilot. P. Hall and M. C omeau are hockey instructors and M. Libertine has ju.st won a swimming meet, thanks to the coaching of J. Raymond and J. Packard. S. Ratcliffe is boring the holes in Swiss cheese and L. Thompson is shredding shiedded wheat. R. Newell is a social worker; R. Morgan has a job with the F ' BI, tapping wires; E. Sullivan is a WAC; J. Roberts, a chimney sweep; and B. Reardon, J. Saia, and M. Ridley are tiaveling saleswomen with P. Sodano who is a Fuller Brush man. R. McLellan, Eyes and Ears of the World, is now talking about R. Reilly, deep-.sea fisher; G. Reardon, A-bomb .scienti.st; J. Manganello, foreign correspondent; N. Ayer, isolationist, and J. LeVangie, roller-skating professional. M. Burpee is running a home for homeless kittens and W ' . Becker, a day nursery with H. Ricketson as his head baby sitter. The chamjjion typist of the day is R. Murray, and R. Robbins and N. Routhier are earning their living removing pearls from oysters. G. Simpson is Admiral of the Fleet and C. Sakrison is swabbing the decks. It. Welch and R. Allison have banded together and are now the nation’s leading manufacturers of spittoons. D. Powell is a dancing teacher; D. Skinner is running the D. B.; and G. Pedretti is managing a chicken farm with R. Peacock still spreading his feathers. C. Curran has started a recent gold rush and it is too much for R. Harold, mi.ser, so he has hired F. Fowler to audit his books. A. Friedmann is writing a cookbook which she hopes will be of some u.se to J. Jensen and B. Hall who are running tourist cabins. S. Lloyd is taking Walter Winchell’s place. She’s always talking about L. Kormann who is our new Ingrid Bergman and M. Lane, cartoonist for the Saturday Evening Pod. Poor M. Alden is working her way through college. R. Noyes is manager of a girls’ basketball team, R. Smith is a wrestler, A. F ' urtado is beating a torn-torn on the South Sea Islands, W. Bowie is a lighthou.se keeper, and last but not least, (’. Carr is a bathing beauty judge. { 29 }

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SOIOR Well, here it is the year 1960, and we see Braintree’s chief census taker, M. Christie, cruising around town. Let’s go along with her and see what the graduates of 1949 are doing. K. Aitken is the mayor. His school hoard includes, D. Spera, principal of grammar schools; his secretary, P. MacDonald. For school teachers he has elected: M. Burns, J. Fabiano, M. George, E. Migliorini, and J. Sullivan, the kindergarten teacher. In the public works department we have A. IMarsico, street sweeper; P. Eisenhauer is the judge of traffic courts with J. Delaney as his police sergeant; they are trying to keep peace in B. Condon’s pool hall and in J. Fitzsimmons’ night club where B . Baker is the bouncer; E. Allen is the dishwasher and K. Bono the chief cook and bottle washer. While we’re here, let’s look over the chorus girls; A. Gogan, E. Hartford, and X. Giles. Well, here’s good old B. H. S., B. MacDougall is taking Miss Evans’ place, E. Callahan is the physical education instructor, and we have a new chemistry teacher, J. McCarty. Her two star pupils, J. Brousseau and R. Brown keep blowing up the new addition so G. Cody, R. Fraser, D. Hughes, D. LaTulippe, J. IMattie, J. INIeisenhelder, and J. Smith are still trying to rebuild it. The interior decorators, P. Correnti, T. Den- nehy, G. Eosue and X. Hoyt, are patiently waiting. K. Evans, P. Leo, B. X ' yberg, and B. Peckham, nurses in the new Braintree hospital, are all eyeing the new doctor, X ' . Mattson. His unfortunate patient is W. Nelson. Dr. Mattson is also the doctor for A. Moran’s midget football team. His star players are A. Avitable, B. Leavitt, D. Vec- chione, D. Vitagliano, and J. Zampine. Right next to the hospital is A. Bregoli’s home for aged women and on the other side E. Gurney and J. Holbrook’s home for bachelors. They’re complaining lately because J. Crowley’s Hudson Bus makes too much noise. Parts are hard to get now, but maybe R. Evans and C. Gale’s black market business could help him. But right now they’re in the barbershop run by B. Morgan, M. Woelfel, and J. Young. (They should collaborate with T. Manter, noted hair stylist.) Well, look here, IMortimer Peck has sold his establishment. It is now B. Piccini’s Cut-Rate L’ndertaking Parlor, L. Saunders is the assistant mortician and A. Davies is the head dresser (lucky stiffs!). X. Morrison, D. [Murray, M. Oliver, and J. Vines are digging graves for him. M. Johnson now has the A. Leo baby food show with P. Frano on sound effects; F. Gibb, the star crooner; X. Raub, the announcer. They are competing with J. Flynn’s disc jockey show. Xow that we are downtown, let’s look into some of the new stores. We now have Sak’s, Washington Street; X. Swasey is the credit manager; B. Olson the office boy; E. Robinson is running the elevator; J. Boucher is the cosmetic advisor; and X. Walder the head buyer. Further on we see J. Koffink, manager of Greene’s Five and Dime; J. McXutt, running a successful haberdashery; M. Mundf, a cobbler; D. Cassidy, butcher; J. McLaughlin’s Chinese laundry; and last but not least, G. Schultes, selling vitamin pills in Smiley’s, where J. MacGregor is the soda jerk. Oh, look over there, J. Golden’s circus is in town; [ I. Tanner is a tightrope walker; E. Patenaude the weight lifter; R. Puliafico, stilt walker; H. Dyer the lion tamer; E. and P. Spellman, human cannonballs; and M. Mahar is still telling corny jokes. Watch out crossing the street, those driving instructorettes, D. MacDonald and C. Moulton, are at it again. They’re dodging the cross-country experts, A. Carlsen, R. MacCormack, and F. White, who are racing a snail. Sing Sing has moved to the midtile of Braintree Dam, with A. Graziano the warden; R. Hine a prison guard, and R. Kidder serving a 99-year term because he was accused of a lock-picking crime that F. Potter actually committed. Whose lovely mansion are we entering? Oh, so J. Langley married a multi- millionaire. J. Thomas is her competent secretary, and M. Shutt her maid. S. Wentworth is now editor of the Braintree Observer and P. Trapp and B. Anderson are writing on Advice to the Lovelorn column for her. R. Quinlan is a specialist {28

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