Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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- Edgar Worthen Mass. State “He aims to please.” Track 3, 4; Interclass Basket- Dawe 3. Robert L. Bothwell Army “A profound thinker shall reap success.” Editor, Blue Book 3, 4; Better Speech Contest 2, 3; Senior Play 4; Home Room Officer 2, 3, 4; Magnet 3; Honor Roll 2, 3, 4; Franklin and Marshall U. S. THE MA Jack Yager Massachusetts Nautical School “A happy person shall have a multitude of friends.”’ Band 2; Speech Club 2; Inter- class Play 2; Blue Book 3, 4; Chairman, Ticket Committees, Senior and Junior Proms 3, 4; Ticket Committee, Thanks- giving Game 38; Usher, Recep- 1939 tion and Graduation 3; Football 3, 4; Commencement Issue, History Medal 3; Assemblies 2, 3, 4; Usher, Graduation and , ; Reception 3; Prom Committees Magnet 4; Senior Play 4; Decora- tion Committee, Graduation 3; 3, 4. Honor Roll 3, 4. IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM to our former classmate to our former classmate HELEN BIRD SHIRLEY MARTIN 1922 - 1938 1923 eos Class of 1939 Class of 1939 PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Through A Glass, Darkly Four months from now, some thirty members of the class of 1939 will still be looking for jobs. It is to them that this editorial is addressed. Someone got that job you applied for. Are you going to spend the next month telling folks that you’d have got it if you’d had the same pull your competitor had? Don’t! Such talk is poison to your personality and an earache to others. Go back to the employer who turned you down. With a smile in your eyes and in your voice say, “‘I wasn’t the man you wanted for that job. Will you do just one thing for me? Tell me what I can do to make a hit with the next employer I talk to. Pick me to pieces. Tell me everything that’s wrong with me. It won’t hurt. You'll be doing me the biggest possible favor.” This will take more courage than anything you’ve ever done but you'll be surprised how eager the boss will be to help you land a job. Take his suggestions even if they hurt. When the next opportunity comes along see how much better you'll be fitted for it! Supposing some one again beats you to the job. Go back and find what was wrong with you this time. You're just bound to land a job if you keep this up, but there’ll be many, many times when you’ll need far more courage than it takes to play football with a twisted tendon. Courage, willingness to work overtime, the ability to see one’s own faults and peculiarities, loyalty, punctuality, friendliness and cleanliness,—these are the old tested and tried ingredients which are found in the characters of successful people. Old stuff? Surely, but that’s what it still takes to get and hold a job. =D mal) 23

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THE 1939 MA Ollis Training School of Beauty Culture “Such a Talker!” Glee Club 3; Typist for the Blue Book 4; Fitchburg-Leomin- ster Musical Concert 3; Usher, Senior Play 4; Honor Roll 2; Leominster Concert 38; Prom Committee 38. Anna Ward Osborne Watkins Worcester Trade “‘For every why he has a wherefore.” Basketball —; Interclass Bas- ketball -; Senior Reception Committee 4. Wilmot Weeks Syracuse “Seven days got together 10 DECOINE Meas Sse Honor Roll 2, 3, 4; Football Manager 2, 3; Track 2, 3; Home Room Officer 2, 3, 4; Prom Com- mittee 3, 4; Senior Play 4; Blue Bock 3, 4; Magnet 4; Reception Usher 8; Speech Club 2, 3; Art Club 2, 3; Decoration Com- mittee, Graduation 3; Swimming 2, 3, 4; Stage Manager, Inter- class Play Contest 2, 3; Inter- class Track 2, 3, 4. Sumner Whitestone Undecided “Music hath its charms.”’ Entered 4; Orchestra 4; Band 4; Music Manager, Senior Class Bilayer Paul W. Whitney Western Union “He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin.” Honor Roll 4; Senior Prom Committee 4; Glee Club 4; Speaker, Annual Forensic Tour- nament 4; Senior Play Com- mittee 4; Speech Contest 4; Blue Book Staff 3, 4. 22 Wintrhop R. Wiles Worcester Tech. ‘““A good ship travels in all winds.” Honor Roll 23) 37343 Room Chairman 2, 3, 4; Chair- man, Traffic Committee 4; Track Team 2; Prom Committee 3, 4; Usher, Senior Reception 3. Thornton Willard Middlesex University “Great ships require deep water.” Interclass “Trackiy 7c eee: Track 38, 4; Interclass Basket- ball 2; 3: . Frances E. Willoughby University of Newark “Tt is her aim to enjoy life.” Band 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 3; Honor Roll 2; Assemblies 2, 3, 4; Joint Concerts 2, 3, 4; Leomin- ster Concerts 2, 3, 4; Interclass Play Contest 3, 4; Thursday Morning Sing 38; Blue Book Typist 4. Beverly Wilson New England Deaconess Hosp. “We always see her with a smile.” Honor Roll 2, 3, 4; Home Room Officer 2, 8; Art Club 2, 3 , 4; Art Club President. 4; Honorary Member, Fortnightly Club 4; Usher, Interclass Play Contest 2; Interclass Play Con- test 3, 4; Band 2; Speech Club 2, 8; Co-Chairman, Prom Com- mittee 3, 4; Health Council 2; Usher, Reception 38; Usher, Gardner Game 3; Magnet 3; Commencement Issue, Magnet 4; Senior Play Committee 4; French Club 3; French Club Pageant 3; Assemblies 3, 4. Bernard Wood Leominster Hardware Company “There is no greater pastime than fishing.” Football 2, 3, 4; Basketball 2; Track 4; Interciass Basketball 2, 3, 4; Interclass Track 4; Inter- class Baseball 4; Senior Prom Committee 4; Senior Play Com- mittee 4; Assembly 2, 4.

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THE 1939 MA Historv ail the Class of SESS) On a bright September day in 1936, our caravan of 261 pioneers, having joined with two older and more experienced groups, set out on a three-year journey, determined that we should conquer the great tasks that Jay before us. When autumn came, and we struggled with our new problems, many of us succeeded in receiving high honors for our services. During these months scarcely a week could pass without ovr having a battle with the various Indian tribes we encountered. These battles were called “football games’’, and in them many of the older pioneers were aided by our younger division. We defeated our oppos ition in seven out of nine battles, the last one taking place on Thanksgiving Day, when we were narrowly defeated by the Fitchburg tribe. The members of the sophomore division who fought valiantly beside the veterans were Owens, Gordon, Woods, DeCarolis, Cocci, and Fricke. Our next great obstacle was met in January, 1937, a raging mid-year storm. Most of us survived, but some had to be left behind on the trail, to continue the journey the next year with a different division. During the winter months, a friendly battle broke out among the three divisions. These fights came under the name of Interclass Basketball Games. A regiment of sophomores from Sec- tion 20 were the victors. Not to be outdone by the male pioneers, the girls formed four groups of basketball fighters, captained by Gertrude Gopfert, Fern Hardy, Dorothy Hirst, and Dorothy Martin. At the same time, the pioneers acquired a fit of talkativeness, which finally resulted in a contest to discover who were the best speakers. The senior pioneers, however, won the contest. For entertainment along the way, each of the three groups of pioneers produced a play. Our sophomore play was Poor Richard, starring Dorothy Martin, Jeanne Boyden, Jack Yager, John Ward, Elsbeth Austel, and Wallace Cunningham, who won honorable mention. The winter soon passed and spring came, bringing with it two new types of warfare, baseball and track. We were represented in all events and won most of our battles. Once again the girls, under the leadership of Dorothy Martin and Antoinette Lanza, started two regiments, this time of hockey players. We had “fought a good fight.’’ We had travelled one-third of the distance to our goal; and, as summer approached, we were given 2 well-deserved rest. As soon as the air began to grow cooler and the leaves started to turn, the roving spirit crept back into every one. One September day we again packed our belongings into the covered wagons, shouldered our muskets, and started westward into the unknown. In but a few weeks we began meeting Indian tribes on the warpath. However, the first skirmishes were easy victories. Later on, some of the brave pioneers in our junior division dis- played their strength and skill in these football battles. These were ‘Triple Trigger’ Torcoletti, “Daring Don” Vorse, “Coyote Killer’ Cocci, ‘“Bullet Bill’? Laprade, ‘‘Sharp Shooter’ Smith, “Frisky” Fricke, ‘“Wooly’” Wood, and “Little John” Ward. The biggest battle of the whole season fell on Thanksgiving Day with our strongest foe. After a long, hard fight, the victory was ours. During the lull between battles we had a contest among ourselves, a friendly one. This was a Better Speech Contest. Our best speakers fought the contest one evening in November. We were proud to have two members of ovr own group win. Vincent Longo won first prize, and Robert Bothwell received honorable mention. The next month of our journey was a tedious one and made us feel the need of some good leaders for our group, as the older pioneers had already chosen theirs. The officers elected were John Ward, Dorothy Martin, Louis Cocci, and Kathryn Welch. With the coming of the new year of 1988 we received new hope. Our whole division of junior pioneers resolved to be the best group ever to travel in the wagon train. 24