Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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Mdfor of ffm 194 9 cfvwa gow 6acL dome rieuenfeen or eigftfeen to the time when each of our 179 graduates was a bouncing baby, unaware that there were such things as junior Proms, Norwood Games, or Senior Plays in this wonderful world. We wish we could show you each '49er as he looked back when he preferred Pablum to pizza, but the pic- tures on the opposite page are all we could steal from family albums. Looking across the top, you first see Bobby Aspell, then the Kohuts - Dick, Mary, and john, then Lennie Johnson, joan Cleary, and Mary Mac- Donald. In the next row - Gene McCarthy with Janice Heiferman below, Tommy York in the tub, Kathryn Davis, and -- with their dolls - Carol Ahearn and Mary Donahue. Next in line-Lenny Nylund and his sister, Nat Dobson - the bathing beauty - Chassy Donelan, Dick and Teresa Fitzhenry fyou tell 'em apartlp and Carolyn Reid at the end. Below - Marie Brooks, Barbara Allegra, Bev Stuck, Betty DeFelice, and Arlene Leonard. Down at the bottom, first is Priscilla Shelley. The young man on the bike is Franny Starr. Under the umbrella is Marie Motte, while Kent Keelan is amused at the bunny. XVe were beautiful babies, we nineteen forty- niners, weren't we? Well skip now the intervening years of grade school and junior high school, and come to the momentous fall of l945, when, as shy and timid freshmen who didn't know whether 310 was to the right or left of l09, we entered Dedham High. The traffic officers thought we were green, but the upperclassmen as a whole hailed us as supermen because of our high scores in the Iowa tests. Six weeks later, when report cards came out, we lived up to our advance notices by being the only class with members on the all-A honor roll and by having the most members on the no mark un- der B honor roll. The War was over, and we were lucky enough to arrive in D.H.S. just as Mr. James Smith, Mr. Nicholas DeSalvo, Mr. Thomas LeGuern, Mr. Or- lando Scafati, and Mr. William Dunne returned to the faculty. The latter two left us later for other schools, but the others were with us during all our high school days-as was Mr. Clifford Gustafson, who came to Dedham High when we did. 4 QCLV5 By February we really knew our way around. We chose a committee which in turn drew up our constitution, and shortly afterward we held our first election. Richard Kohut was elected president, Leo Downing, vice-president, Mary MacDonald, secretary, and Peter Kipp, treasurer. We brought our freshman year to a successful close with our first dance, the Frosh Frolic. When we returned to school the next fall, we really felt important. We were sophomores, we knew the ropes, and there were underclassmen under us. There were many new teachers in school that fall: Miss Barbara Gurney, Mrs. Mil- dred DeSalvia, Mr. Lyman Avery, Mr. Samuel Beattie, Mr. Robert Carr, Mr. Roger Randall, and Mr. Edward Sheridan. The only change resulting from the class elec- tions in October was that john O'Brien became our new class treasurer. We saw a change in our school routine when assemblies were moved from Wednesdays to Thursdays, and another innovation -an excellent one-was the Boys' Glee Club, which Mr. Beattie organized. That was the year that the pupils in the history classes, under the direction of Mr. Howard Bot- tomley, prepared a memorial booklet giving brief biographies of the Dedham High alumni who gave their lives in World War II. It was also the year of a coal strike, when for a while we had hopes that the school might have to close because of a fuel shortage. janet Taylor was our champion in the Herald- Traveler Spelling Bee that year. Once again we ended the year with a dance, April Two-Lips, which, like all our dances, was both a social and a financial success.

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'- 1' M. my m MLJamesSmHh 'H The Chairman of Our 4 Class Advisers, we jcfvlica fe fgij goofs Mr. Smith, a Dedham High School alumnus, began teaching in the history department in 1959. After serving as a lieutenant in the Army, during the war, he returned to D.H.S. just as we were entering. For our four years here he has assisted us and advised us in all our class activities. He has been an inspiring teacher and a sincere friend. He will remain among our fondest memories.

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