Coe Brown Northwood Academy - Chronicle Yearbook (Northwood, NH)

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second row, in the laboratory, to Frances McKenna, in hopes you have as much attention given to you during tests as I did. Article XVIII: I, Marcia Williams, do hereby will and bequeath, my curly hair and lady-like ways, to Etta Yeaton. I sure hope you make the best of them. Article XIX: I, Lorraine DeButts, do hereby will and bequeath, my 1940, two-tone chewy, that hasn’t got a muffler, to Kathleen Folsom. Now you can have a car of your own Kathleen, and won’t have to depend upon your fathers’ “yes” or “no”. Article XX: I, Reta Shepard, do hereby will and bequeath, the punch, ticket box money and the front seat of the High School bus to anybody who wants a free ride on the bus all year long. Article XXI: We, Virginia Wood, Lorraine DeButts, and Barbara Corbett, do hereby will and bequeath, our good manners and ability to work in office prac- tice, to Joyce and Etta Yeaton and Myrna Williams. Article XXII: We, Dotty Holmes and Gloria Twombly, do hereby will and bequeath, to the future senior classes our ability to sit and talk in the back of the room and still pass Mrs. Price’s quizzes. Article XXIII: We, Jack O’Connor, Robert Magoon, Spike Bryant, and Albert Burtt, do hereby will and bequeath to the next Chemistry class all our broken equipment, bad experiments, and acid eaten clothing in hopes that they can get in as much trouble and have as much fun as we did. Article XXIV: We, Reta Shepard and Anne Witham, do hereby will and bequeath, our ability to write notes back and forth right in front of Mrs. Price and get away with it, to anybody else who thinks they will be able to do the same. Article XXV: We, the senior class, leave our ability to get into trouble, all our accomp- lishments in our four years, and our kind attitudes toward our teachers and our school work, to those who follow in our footsteps. We also leave World Problems, and English classes in which to catch up on your sleep, homework and gossip. Given under our hand and seal this twenty-ninth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-six. Signed, Frances Ellsworth Evelyn Ward Clifford Price Anne Witham Reta Shepard

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Article VI: I, Robert Magoon, do hereby will and bequeath, my ability to rile up the teachers, to John Leskowitz. Article VII: I, Arthur Slade, leave to that noble Captain of the Spanish Armada, Miss Ward, my inability to memorize. Article VIII: I, Doris Holmes, do hereby will and bequeath, my ability to get along with the World Problems and English books, to any future Senior who thinks they can do as well. Article IX: I, Gloria Twombly, do hereby will and bequeath, my ability to rush ahead and get my Bookkeeping done, and leave everybody else behind, to Phyllis Clark. Come on Phyllis, speed it up. Article X: I, Robert Wentworth, do hereby will and bequeath, my ability to come up with the wrong thing at the wrong time to David Short. Don’t get too discouraged David, better days are coming. Article XI: I, Anne Witham, do hereby will and bequeath, my job as typist for all the teachers to Roberta Wallace. Don’t work too hard, Roberta. Article XII: I, Edward Bryant, do hereby will and bequeath, my hot Mercury, to Richard Stevens, in hopes that you will use it to the best of your advan- tage. Some advantage, huh Dickie? Article XIII: I, Barbara Pender, do hereby will and bequeath, my ability to make noise and get into trouble to Marion Wheaton. I sure hope you make out better than I did. Article XIV: I, Barbara Corbett, do hereby will and bequeath, my ability to get along with Mrs. MacPherson, to Vincent Bane, in hopes that you will have better luck than I did. Article XV: I, John O’Connor, do hereby will and bequeath, my ability to sit quietly in English and World Problem Classes and listen to everything Mrs. Price says, to Lenny Burritt. I hope you learn as much as I did. Article XVI: I, Shirley Young, do hereby will and bequeath, my ability to get into trouble and talk my way out of it, to Carol Thiem. Hope you have as much fun as I did Carol. Article XVII: I, Albert Burtt, do hereby will and bequeath, the fourth lab chair in the

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THE SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY The year is 1966 and the place is Snow Hill Park Hotel, an ancient New Hampshire summer resort. Gee! It’s hard to believe that the Class of 1956 has been a memory for ten years. I just can’t help wondering what hap- pened to that finest, most brilliant class that ever graduated from Coe- Brown North wood Academy. I, Arthur Slade, am now a high school teacher and manager of Snow Hill Park hotel. I was just remarking to my Chef, Jim Corbin, that this tenth reunion all came about because of Shirley Young’s chance remark, “That the tenth anniversary of our graduation would be a good time to hold the party we planned after we returned from our class trip.” So in our usual prompt way we held our Senior party only ten years late. A good record if I must say so myself. Albert Burtt, was the first one to arrive. “Always bright Burtt”, as we used to call him, is now the owner of Burdock Farms in Aching Back. He and Roberta have increased the farms production of rocks and weeds over 100%, since they purchased the place. Say! Do you recall Anne Witham and Reta Shepard? Look, here they come now. Anne is now settled down to the quiet job as secretary to the firm of “Drinkwater and Salt Stock Brokers”. Reta, is very handy around the house since she married Winky White. The children keep her busy, however. Then came Lorraine DeButts. She is now secretary to the head of the “Granite State Well Drilling Company”. She said she wanted to make money. Boy! she really makes a lot now. Look! Rocky Magoon is now coming up the walk. As everyone knows, Rocky, and his wife, Margie, are the owners of the biggest dairy farm in the state. He sure did fool Mrs. Price and her predictions. Here comes John O’Connor, owner of the biggest Buick Repair Shop and Sales Room in the United States. Edward Bryant just drove up to the Hotel. He is happily married to Barbara DeMeritt and is a successful dairyman. He is currently thinking of buying the Manchester Dairy. Whoever would have thought he might some day own it? What is that noise? I remember, that must be Wentworth’s car. It al- ways sounded like a bulldozer going through a china shop. To think that that wreck still runs. You would think that a fellow in his position, owner of G. E., would buy a new one. Here comes the person who is responsible for this party, Shirley Young. She has proved to be the first teacher to make a million dollars. Shirley is the head of the Coe-Brown Home Economics Department. “Hello”! Barbara Pender. When did you arrive? Gosh, you always wented to be a Marine. I am so glad you are now a General.” Dotty Holmes is arriving now. Everyone agrees that she really sur- prised them. Did you pass her mountain estate on the way here? It was formerly the “Mt. Washington Hotel”. However, she had it redecorated and had gold-plated plumbing installed. She thinks it is much more practical than copper. To think it all came about because of her career as a druggist.