Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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THE MAGNET ATHLETICS MALCOLM JOHNSON, ’32, Chairman ROBERT CAPONE, ’32 WINTHROP MAYO, ’34 MARJORIE HARRIS, ’33 JOKES ERIC MAGER, ’33, Chairman DAVID WHITNEY, ’33 ROSAMOND SOBELTON, ’32 ALICE ROUISSE, ’34 RAYMOND TEMPLE, ’33 BUSINESS DONALD COOK, ’33 Chairman DAVID LUBIN, ’34 ADVERTISING STAFF DAVID LUBIN, ’34, Chairman EDWARD BASSETT, ’34 AGNES FIRMIN, ’34 MARGARET VALLIANT, ’34 LILLIAN MOREY, ’33 DONALD COOK, ’33 TYPISTS CLEMENCE ALLAIRE, ’32, Chairman MARIE BARIL, ’32 MARION SAFFORD, ’33 SIMONNE FIFE, ’32 MINNIE WESTON, ’33 MARION WILFERT, ’32 JEANETTE CAPEEDEES 32 HOME ROOM SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS Home Room 1 RAYMOND CARR Home Room 8 BETTY MIDDLEMAS y 2 EDITH GARDNER a 9 RUTH MARCY v 3 HAROLD BEAUDOIN a 10 MARION SAFFORD : 4 CHARLOTTE GAMBLIN : 11 ESTHER RAND x 5 BARBARA ORCUTT x 12 SEYMOUR THARLER 6 ALEX STEIN y: 14 SYBIL BOURBEAU i 7 RUBY GAGE ‘ 16 BERNARD LaBELLE Home Room 20 AGNES FIRMIN CIRCULATION MADELINE MAGER APPAREL for Men, Wromen and Children New Creations for 1932 Lubin Clothing Company “Where Satisfaction is Certain’’ 7-9 Central Street Leominster Patronize our advwertisers who hawe made this magazine possible.

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Tale, MAGNET yy x BETTY HART, ’34 ANNE BURDETT, ’32 MADLYN BOURBEAU, ’34 ROBERT ERICKSON, 33 BET FY, COOK, ’34 ELLEN SWEENEY, ’32 IRMA SANFORD, ’32 RUBY McRAE, ’32 ANNE BURDETT, ’32 =ESGHOIAS Q CINTERSCHOLAST ic SS fey 5 fe Commencement Number TABLE OF CONTENTS Classes Activities Boys’ Athletics Commencement Essays Girl ’ Athletics Advertisemeasats THE MAGNET BOARD MARA TRAFTON, ’32, Chairman THE STAFF LITERARY MARA TRAFTON, ’32, Chairman MARGARET VALLIANT, ’34 ART ANNE BURDETT, ’32 Chairman CLASS PROPHECY AGNES HACKETT, 32 QUOTATIONS KENNETH RIELAY 32 PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY Bokes ERIC MAGER, ’33 DONALD COOK, ’33 MARTHA WESTINE, ’32 HOWARD IRS i733 ANITA LEIGHTON, ’32 WILLIAM PENNERY, ’32 LETHA LEAHEY,,32 ALICE SMITH, ’32 EVERETT McDONALD, ’32 Published by the Students oi Leominster High School

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seeeeeeeeeSeSSESESMOEESE MAGNEL Class History, 1932 One September morning in 1920—pleasant or otherwise—mothers all over Leomin- ster were either sending their youngsters off to school or were personally escorting them to their first day in the first grades of the city. For many mothers it was a harrowing ordeal, accompanied by screaming, whining, pulling, bawling, and stamping of feet; for others it was a proud day when their little ladies and gentlemen, about to embark upon the ship of education, behaved so admirably. At all events, these children in the first grades of Leominster, 582 of them, were those who, had they stayed in school and passed every grade each year, would now con- stitute the Class of 1932. But by 1929 the number left in the class was 205, of whom 166 were graduated from the ninth grade. There are about 116 graduates now in June, 1932, and that is all that remains of the original 582. These figures, of course, do not account for those who started in school before or after 1920 or those who came to Leominster from other places. The Class of 1932 is unusual in its “firsts.” Those who were graduated from the ninth grade remember that they were in the first class to graduate from the new Junior High School. It was the first class to run its Senior Prom before the Junior Prom of the same year ; the first to choose a motto before the Senior year, and to have that motto on a sign hung up in the assembly hall several months before graduation; the first to have modern folder diplomas; and the first to run its reception in a manner not to be a public free-for- all fight. In the fall of 1929 the Class of 1932 entered high school, and took for its class colors red and white, those of the class just graduated. Soon came football days, and four mem- bers of the class were successful in the big struggle for recognition. They were Gyp Pen- nery, Ray Carr, Warren Bentley, and Axel Johnson. Neither basketball, baseball, nor track had outstanding representatives from the class that year. 1930 saw the following names added to the list of football men: Brown, Rand, Mc- Donald, LaPierre, Caswell, and Arris. Leahy and Rand upheld class honors in basketball; Leahy, Smith, D’Onfro, and Capone were baseball men. Brown shone in track, while Bent- ley and Pennery rolled up a few points. The football stars of fall, 1931, were Bentley, McDonald, Arris, Pennery, Johnson, Leahy, Tata, LaPierre, and Caswell. Brown left L. H. S., and Carr and Rand were out because of age. Leahy and Lane starred in basketball; the heroes of the diamond were Capone, Smith, and D’Onfro; the track men were Pennery, Bentley, Killay, Dupee, and Arris. In the road race, April 19, Strypek broke the tape first and Leahy came in second. The Junior Class officers were: president, Ray Carr; vice-president, Rena Mackay; secretary, Everett McDonald; treasurer, Simo ne Fife. The Junior Prom of that year was one of the most successful proms ever held at the high school. The Senior Class officers were: president, Gyp Pennery ; vice-president, Rena Mackay; secretary, Everett McDonald; treasurer, Anne Burdett; marshal, Bill McAulay. The Senior Prom was a very colorful affair, and the snow-man, snowballs, and rainbow decora- tions made a big hit. “Where were you on the night in question, April 15th?” “Why, at the Senior play, of course!” It was Green Stockings. The players were Mara Trafton, Malcolm Johnson, Janet Wheeler, Kenneth Killay, Rosamond Sobleton, Barbara Orcutt, Anne Burdett, Donald McCaffrey, Alec Stein, Gyp Pennery, Bill McAulay, and Paul Rand. Mrs. Burgess, nee VanAmburg, directed this play through many difficulties, and the results were certainly worth the effort. The Class of 1932 is comparatively small, but good things come in small packages, and we all agree that this is the best class yet. ANNE BURDETT EVERETT McDONALD