Braintree High School - Wampatuck Yearbook (Braintree, MA)

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Only seconds ago we heard the blast off of the second rocket, now we hear the count down on the last. — 5 — 4 — 3 — 2 — 1 — 0 blast off! On all three rockets, secretaries Lee MacKenzie, C. Movalli, J. Blowers, N. Better, M. Bergonzie, and Half Pint Linscott are passing out informative pamphlets ex- plaining the structure of the rocket and giving credit to those responsible for the finished product. They have been put together through the efforts of writers S. Grubis, L. Hamilton and P. McVay; printers W. Potter, R. Hardy, R. Hasty, R. Neill, and S. Smith; publisher Spade Berman; typists S. Brennan and B. Mulligan; secretaries L. McKeough, Goody Goodwin, A. Modestino, J. Nickerson and J. Wilken. They have been sponsored by businessman M. Gilcreast, Stretch Deehan’s Insurance Co., M. Leo, and B. Peckham, jeweler. An excellent crew of draftsmen. Red Tzamos, L. Carifio, Ted Williams, R. Haskins, E. Rose, B. Mortimer, and J. Morello, drew up the plans of the rocket, and electrical engineers C. Doran, W. Irving, and K. Congdon planned the wiring. L. Fornell, M. Bernabeo, and A. Drysdale designed the interior, while Skip Dauphinais and R. Tapper did the actual construction work. Many of the pamphlets deal with the life and work of G. Mitchell, the astronautical engineer who designed the rockets. He was assisted by R. Russell, C. Pickett, Jim Murphy, R. Miller, and R. Elliott. “Did you bring La Rocket Cafe?” asks Frogman R. Bradley. “No!” Bang! Bang! “Anyone else forget their La Rocket Cafe?” Inside the rocket there is a great deal of activity going on, for several of the teachers are having their hair set for all the festivities to come. L. Tedesco is giving L. Hendrickson a poppie, J. Pecoraro is cutting C. Reed’s hair in a pixie, G. Mahon is giving J. Pearson a bouffant, B. Califano is having a French twist done by M. Bonvie, and P. Holbrook is arranging G. MacDonald’s hair in a beehive. No rocket could be complete without a TV room. Several secretaries, J. Moline, P. Williams, S. Hammond, S. Spinney, and M. DiCarlo are watching Michael Vella’s sports show. He is interviewing “Wild Bill” Elliott, pro ball player. Now for a station break — There’s “Hot head” Fontana with his head in an oil burner demonstrating to housewives B. Salters and J. Foster the fine texture of the soot in his oil burners. — Back to the show. P. Vecchione, D. Hannon, R. Cox and J. Rakauskas, pro ball players, are now being interviewed. - — Time out for another entertaining commercial! — Salesman R. Bonvie is trying to put across the point that Flak -0 makes sheets the B-B-Beddiest. Housewives M. LaTanzi, and J. Farina, are listening attentively at this point. — Back to the interviewing of that celebrated golf pro J. Dizel. — Let’s pause for station identification! This is station B.H.S. Blink. Blink — “Say there, D. Miller, with the telescope, are you an astronomer?” “No. I’m a peeping Tom and a scientist on the side.” “Do you chew Smiceroy?” “No!” — Back to the show. Commander J. Klink just clanked by with his Navy detachment. Roll call: Birdie Purdy, T. Thevenin, A. O’Rourke, Nellie Field, Marty Mardirosian, D. Linscott. W. McCarty, W. Gill. R. Garland, and W. Ludlow. “All present and accounted for? If not raise your right hand.” — Guess what — another commercial — Big Barber Bing Neal is expounding on “Neal’s Hair Tonic,” W. Thorn’s amazing chemical concoction. — Now stay tuned to R. Nagle and Hawaiian Eylelash. At this point G. Ghiorse, who is studying for postgraduate exams, yells, “Turn that infernal racket off!” So much for TV; let’s join secretaries D. Kurtzis, J. Nelson, B. Saunders, G. Wing, and B. Frazier who are keeping an account of the trip to send to their friends back home. Radio operator R. Cavan announces that we are coming to a space station which has grown into a modern community. D. Olson is responsible for the modernistic structure. Dirty and Clean Black take excellent care of the ten-foot square community park near a small shopping center. Secretaries A. Darche, C. Hobart, K. Imlay, and r. Dexter are shopping for souvenirs in J. Schrader’s five and dime store. They have stopped to talk to sales clerks C. Smith, S. Seppala, and D. Bohlken, and sales manager K. Brady. Next door is Tiger Elliott’s Beauty Salon; she has J. Zampine, A. Graziano, and F. Hayden butchering heads for her. Their victims are office workers L. Quaglia, J. Kelley, and J. MacLane. (Zy 8A

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PROPHECY OF THE CLASS OF 1961 e««uo t ott e tc(A Flash: “B. H. S. Class of ’61 to hold twenty-fifth reunion on Venus this week.” Yes, that’s what the headline read on June 17, 1986, and today is the big day. Meteorologist W. Zablosky has predicted a beautiful week. Everyone has gathered at the Hollis Rocket Terminal where the old wooden bleachers once were. The air is full of excitement as we are anxiously waiting to board our rocket, and there is a great deal of activity going on around us. Terry Soley is very busy at his doughnut stand for everyone is stocking up for the trip ahead; even J. Adams, the baggage truck driver, can be seen nibbling one of Soley’s doughnuts. Stepping out of a taxi is the now famous actress C. Moore; she is surrounded by photographers and reporters including M. Caron and F. Kibble. Kay Peckham and D. Archibald are on hand to maintain order. There seems to be a slight delay, for H. Daley is repairing the engine. In our spare time we will follow service men D. Mclnness, H. Cleveland, and E. Ashton to R. Foss’s Canteen. Inside “The Braintree 5” — C. Streiferd. Chuck Morrison, N. Hourihan, V. Kosmo — are playing to the exotic singing of D. Shaw. Fitzy is making banana boat sundaes for J. Hurney, R. Caldwell and Robert Migliorini. Little Hoot Gibson, M. Sullivan, C. Woodward, L. Paty, and G. Hill, all navy men, are playing cards in one corner. The music is interrupted when stewardesses J. Murphy, Bunny Foley, Di Clancy, and D. Walker come to tell us that the rockets are about to blast off. At the end of the field we see D. Pettengill driving a bus load of teachers, who have just arrived from a teachers’ convention, to the rockets. Stewardesses A. Curreri and C. Joyce are leading teachers S. Allard. N. Greene, J. Whalen, C. Mischler, N. Borden, C. Bigony, P. Lyons, A. DeMarco, W. Hedlund, A. Kelvie, R. Ohman, M. Shields, P. Cass, S. Kincaid, R. Reera, and P. E. Smith to rocket number one. Since our class is so large, it is necessary to employ several rockets. The first rocket is staffed by pilots A. Burrell and K. Webster; engineers J. Sheehan, S. O’Connell, W. Lofgren, J. Kennedy Jr., and A. Sullivan; electricians Butch Adams and M. Monti; hostesses J. lannuzzi and J. Lutz; dietitians S. Davis and B. Dunbar. Also on its staff are Father Haviland, Sister Centorino, and Rev. Walker. The medical staff consists of Ray Baker, M.D., medical secretaries R. Lauria and Ducky Trescott, nurses Betsy Campana, J. Brayton, J. McLennan, Jo MacLaughlin, J. Murray, and Dutchie Empey, R. Landry, D.M.D., and his assistants J. Kincade and P. Madden. — “The pause that refreshes,” compliments of W. MacCormick. R. Caiman, Inc. Rocket number two is staffed by pilots Porky Knowles and D. Pacheco; engineers R. Shire, R. Guarino, R. Coletti, R. Maguire, and A. MacDonald; and electrician Squeaky Smith. Also on the staff are Father Skinner and Rev. Johnson. The medical staff consists of V. Richardson, M.D.; medical secretaries B. Church and N. Martin; nurses C. Morrison, Chops Olson, E. Rouleau, J. Nightingale, L. Morison, and M. Todesca; Soapy Borax, D.M.D., and his assistant J. Barnes, C. Pollack, and Tonto Nelson. — “Another pause that refreshes,” compliments of R. Keniston, J. Smith and Co. The third rocket is staffed by — -“oops” the first rocket just took off. As we were saying, the staff consists of pilots G. Sirois and T. Hingston; engineers R. Hofferty, P. Aalto, W. Frazier, C. Lodi, and D. MacKay; electricians C. White; hostesses G. Trant and P. Willson. Also on the staff is Chaplain Batchelder and Rev. Corkum III. The medical staff consists of W. Barnes. M.D.; medical secretaries C. Johnson and “0 My Gracious” Marshall; nurses S. Buker, D. Wick, M. Tisdale, M. Lonergan, P. Bishop, and J. Bailey. Since everyone is boarded, we are nearly ready to blast off. Everything has been checked and rechecked. The rockets have been put into the capable hands of several mechanics, including W. Belcher, K. Smith and R. Fitch. We are waiting for W. Henry, now a veterinarian, who ran back to get his Beasley, the B. H. S. mascot. 7A

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“Hold on to your head, I mean hat, and let’s go.” The next stop is the new schoolhouse which covers nursery through high school. A. Forhes’ Nursery classroom is well stocked with stuffed animals donated hy D. Woodbury, wildlife manager. Next in line is K. Shelley’s kindergarten, whose art supplies have been given courtesy of G. Anderson’s Art Supply Co. The teaching staff of the elementary grades includes Dotty Delpapa, S. Fall, B. Morley, Ming Toi Leban, M. Silowan and S. Zoda. We catch the high school teachers J. Hutchinson, E. Charles, and A. Teevan and even the physical education instructor B. Cook watching S. Pimentel painting her famous portraits. The rockets are about ready to leave for Venus. Everyone ready? Let’s go. After a few hours Venus looms into sight. We circle it to get a “bird’s eye view” of the surroundings we’ll be in for the next few days. Secretaries S. Nash, N. O’Neil, H. Burke, K. Robins, and M. Greenan, with their noses pressed against the window, see forestry men D. Ward, A. Howe, W. Holmes, B. Bent, and Chink Whitehouse chasing driving instructor D. Richards, after her student M. Kelley knocked down one of the few trees there. R. Workman, game warden, is helping them along with some buckshot in the Beeee-hind. All the confusion has outdoor writer, W. Purdy, quite perturbed. As we descend into the ocean, (we missed our target!) we see W. MacNevin wrestling with a squid while plumber D. Argentine fixes a leak in his suit. We finally reached land with the help of R. Otis and D. Graziano’s apparatus and that great weight-lifter, A. Chase. Before doing anything else, everyone brings their wet clothes to J. Young’s Chinese Laundry. Despite our slight error in navigation, we are on time for the fashion show, the first event of the week. While we marvel at the gaily decorated platform by P. Morcom, the first model waddles out. C. Cain is wearing a root-beer barrel of the finest plywood, designed by P. Landry, and her bubble-cut by J. King has just broken. The next model is F. Serra wearing a J. Gallagher original (original what, we dare not say). Her locks have been arranged by Brown-Eyes Bierman. Last, but by no means least, S. Symmes glides out on a banana peel. She is wearing a balloon dress by P. Bond. (No smoking, please) . Her wispy ends have been plastered down by Cheech Puliafico. All this time B. Regan and P. Jones have been sketching the outfits for the Venus Journal. Of course, there was the usual chorus of whistlers, some of whom were servicemen, J. E. Sullivan, Little Richard Mahler, J. Walgreen and Mike Hemingway. Buyers C. Gardener and D. Reed are seriously thinking of purchasing some of these outfits for their stores. As the crowd is dispersing, nurse A. Reardon bustles in to doctor the injured model. “Look, Ma, no teeth,” compliments of Battistini’s tooth paste (better use L. Seidler’s instead.) Several bookkeepers. Freak Vitagliano, Puddles Thomas, Crunch Gruney, and stenographers, Lily Smith, J. O’Connell, and Beaver Dixon have decided to tour the ultra-modern hospital. Jo Coletti, Jo Kaukola and Moo McKay are laboratory technicians here, while K. Hjelm works in the laboratory as a biologist along with Frog Mattie, a medical re- search man. On the staff is pediatrician S. Samaha, physical therapist P. Brackett and children’s nurse N. Bates. At the same time engineer P. West, auto mechanic J. Mavilia, C.P.A. Art Sward, and I.B.M. mechanic R. Mitchelson tour the Venus courtroom and watch court in ses.sion. W. McNally is defending used car salesman, R. Williams, who was accused of selling a car with full ashtrays, and in another case G. Sullivan is defending M. Salvucci, a telephone operator, who is accused of crossing wires. The court sec- retaries are Terry LeGere, S. Regan and Gus Lindquist. The days pass quickly and soon it’s the day of the big “reunion picnic.” the bang-up finish of the week. With our thinking men. mathematicians Biscuit Bissett, Hoppy Hopkins and electronic engineers, W. Whittam, Art Cusick, thinking up things to do, it’s bound to be fun. First on the agenda is a stimulating lecture on picket lines to Fore River worker, K. Marinella. Machinists Teddy Alger, Wilbur Whipple, Richard Migliorini and J. Ramos will give a demonstration on the art of screwing a screw with a screw driver. “Hanson the Ham” (radio operator, that is) is spinning platters to add to the excitement. Our business section is really swinging