Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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IEDHAMILS. - Artist: Do ll' llc sent Kussinaul, when he had him in English, on an inspection tour of the study halls. t'ustonier: Did he find out anything? Artist: Yeah! Ile found out that you can fool in some study halls some of the time, but you can't tool in all the study halls all of the time. Customer: I have heard that they held the much-talked-of Junior Prom that year. Artist: Yes, Jean Withington got her start then as an interior decorator. lt was one of the big events of the year. Everyone was on his best behavior. The boys were very stitf and formal in their tuxes, afraid to move for fear of cracking. The girls certainly showed what style and looks were like at Dedham High. The ice cream was so hard that someone suggested bouncing it on the pavement to soften it. t'ustoiner: l've heard that the senior year was the year of the greatest activity. XVas that true? Artist: lt certainly was! The town figured that, now the Class of '32 would soon be grzuluating. it would be safe to build an addition to the school and there were plenty ol' workmen and noise to keep the students company. Vustonier: l imagine that they didn't care very much for that. Didn't it interfere with their class work? It must have been very annoying to the stu dents to have their studies interrupted so Artist: Uh, yes indeed. They would postively turn blue in the face when the mortar mixer drowned out the voices of their teachers. But some of the students seemed anxious to learn bricklaying. They would hang out the win- dows, doing their best to watch the process, and even their studies were eclipsed by their interest in the art of this craft. f'ustomer: I suppose there were a great many changes in the classes on account of the work on the building. Artist: The assembly hall was torn down, to the everlasting indignation of the seniors, and the gym was no more, when the workmen were through with it. The girls had to take long walks in place of their regular exercises. Miss Tobin can tell you all about her difficulties in keeping her charges from blocking traffic and, above all, from getting lost. She had to hold up whole classes while she searched for missing members who had accidentally wandered off. l'ustomer: I recollect that the popular Mr. Botto1nley's problems classes were taken over by Mr. Peltier. Artist: Yes, there were plenty of tears shed over that, but the mourners were finally resigned to their awful fate and in time even grew to like it. t'ustomer: By the way, how did their play Tons of Money turn out? IVas it a success? Artist: It was a wow! Eleanor Rhode's realistic sobbing and Tay Hersey's love making were the outstanding features of the show. They brought down the house. l'ustomer: I've read all about the undefeated D.H.S. girls' hockey team. What a talented class. Artist: Undefeatcd! Say, they lost every game-but just the same A. Brown and C. Babcock landed positions on the Boston All-Star Hockey Team. Customer: XVhat about their other exploits? Artist: Vtfell, their exclusive Senior Prom was held at the Capen School and all the dignified seniors tu1'ned out for the big event dressed to kill. Customer: I heard a lot of gossip about stray mice wandering around the building. I hope they didn 't do any mischief. Artist: None to speak of. Just frightened some of the girls, that's all. According to the reports I've heard, one of them terrified Carmela D'eFalco. Mr. Cowan had sent her to do an errand on the third floor. On the Way she l932 M

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- YEAR some -Te A -1 Class History TIIIC CAST AR'r1s'r ....,...... ..... I 'harles Vizzano Cusromnic ..... .............,.... . Charles Iiussinaul Scene: Artist 's studio. l'ietures ranged about the walls. Enter Artist and Customer. Artist: These pictures are going on exhibition, but I want you to look them over and have first choice among them. They're a. series of historical scenes from the school activities of the class of '32 of the Dedham Iligh School. Customer: Dedham High School .' Never heard oi' the place. Is it near Islington? That's a great little town! Artist tshockedj : My dear young man, don 't you know that the Dedham Iligh School is down in history for the wonderful graduates it sent out in '32? Such ignorance! Tsk-tsk! Customer Chumblyj : Now that you mention it, I believe I have heard of it. Isn't that the town where they have such delicious drinking water? Artist Cimpatientlyl: Well, we won 't discuss that. Herels the first pic- ture. lt's enitled T110 Your of 1928. Customer: VVell, well, well. VVhat a funny looking bunch of kids! XVhat's the matter with them? They look as if they were going to their doom. Artist: Not quite. They're starting out for their first classes. They've probably just ran into an upper classman on tratiic duty. Customer: My, 1ny! Look at the knee pants and the curls! Aren't they sweet! ' g ' . Artist: See that boy there? That's Bob Snnth. He was elected vice- president and he never came to a .class meeting during all four years. A nice lad, but rather shy with the ladies, Customer: Here's another sketch. Poor youngsters, they look like the morning after. Artist: You're right. The morning after the freshman party. They all voted it a grand occasion. The mosquitoes held a Thanksgiving dinner at the same time. Slightly out of season, but greatly enjoyed just the same. Those two girls there-Mary and Theresa DeBenedictis fthe inseparablesl-won the elimination contest and each got two perfectly huge lollypops. Then the crowd held a sampling bee, but when they were at last tired of the game, the poor girls were left to enjoy their lollypop sticks in peace. Bob Hill began his great dancing career here-lilary Delaney carried him around on l1er feet for one whole dance while the orchestra played XVas That tl1e Human Thing To Do? Mary 's feet came through all right though. She limped a little for only a year or two after. She's doing well now. Customer: The next picture of yours is quite a sunburst. This boy looks like the cat who has swallowed the canary. Artist: This portrait represents the sophomores. They had a right to be happy. They had just escaped going to school in the afternoon with the fresh- men. Customer: VVho's this lad here? He's grinning from ear to ear like a Cheshire cat. Artist: Oh, that 's James Boone in one of his studious moments. The junior year 's activities are typified in the next picture. Customer: That was their big year in athletics, wasn't it '? Artist: I'll say it was. VVhy, the football team even managed to defeat Norwood with the help of Letteney, Larcom, Smith, Henderson, and lVIaclXIillan. Customer: Oh, by the way, do you know a gentleman by the name of Ryan, who teaches English there? l952 13

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YEAR l500K e saw a little inousv friskiiig about on the seeoiul floor and the lirave girl flasliecl back to Mr. Cowan with the exciting 111-ws. t'11stome1': I hope they clicl11't inalu- any ll10l'l5 personal 2llJIN'2ll'?lIl0t'S. Artist: Oh, yes, one last one for good luck. A hold mouse niaile Pl visit to :LD steiiograpliy class wliere it was given a very XV2ll'lIl rect-ptioii. I have it port1'ayed lu-re. llelen Volk is g1'I't'l'llllQ' it with very entliusiaslic cries and zittenlpting to swing from the ceiling lights. Customer: Coe, I wish I had been tliere. Artist: Thatls what a lot ol' other hoys wished, too. 'l'oo had I! l'usto111e1': This is getting iiiterestiiig. Got any more pictures like the last one? Artist: Sorry, tl1at's the last, I tl1i11k. l hope I haven 't bored you. f'ustomer: Not at all. In fact I've enjoyed it iinmensely. Are a11y of these scenes for sale? Artist: NVell, they will he after the exhibition. Just which one are you interested in? Customer: As a matter of fact I think the last scene is thc masterpiece. I'll have that, if you don 't mind. CURTAIN. CHARLES KUssMAUL, IIIARY DEBENEDICTIS, ROBERT HENDERsoN The Wzll of 1932 THE CAST CLERK OF THE COURT ............... Thomas Brooks ATTORNEY SOHULTZ ..... ...Donald MacMillan ATTORNE1' L1vERwURsT .... ..... C lhester Parker Miss IIIALICIOUS ENVY. . . . .Evelyn Jordan Miss 1933 ............ ..Barbara Miller THE JUDGE .............. . .. ..... Olan Drake CThe stage represents a courtroom. The judge's bench is at the right, turned sidewise to the audience. O Facing are table and two chairs for the attor- neys: behind these are two more chairs for the witnesses. In the back center is a table for the clerk of the court, and to tl1e judge 's left is a chair for the Wit- nesses to testify in. As the curtain goes up the clerk is seated at his table. He rises impressively.j Clerk: Oyez, Oyez! This court is now in session. All ye who have business draw nigh .... Cliike all the clerk's speeches this is spoken rapidly and i11- coherentlyj CThe two attorneys, Miss Malicious Envy, and Miss 1933 enter left. The judge enters right. lVhen all are seated, the clerk reads from an enormous ro1l.j Clerk: The case of Malicious Envy against the estate of the class of 1932. Liverwurst Crising and coming forward toward the benchj : Your honor, my client is a deeply wronged woman. She is the victim of the grossest and blackest injustice. The late 1932, who owed her everlasting gratitude, who was indebted to her in a thousand and one ways which I need not enlarge upon- the Class of 1932, your honor, left my client in his will-nothing! Now, your honor knows and I know and we all know that however grievously his will wrongs my client she has no legal redress if-IF--he made the will when he l952 15