Mansfield High School - Hornet / Green Years Yearbook (Mansfield, MA)

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History of the Class of 1920 By ELEANOR R. AMES In September, 1926, we entered Mansfield High School as sophomores. We chose for officers to serve during this eventful year: Irving Green, President; Alice Burr, Vice-President; Lawrence Barrows, Secretary; and Thelma Williams, Treasurer. We were represented in athletics this year by Jalbert, who won a letter in baseball, and H. Houghton, who won a letter in football. Soon we were proudly displaying our class rings, happy in the realization that we were the first sophomore cless to have that privilege. The most successful event of the year was our sophomore class play, given on April 26, in the high school gymnasium. Miss Lyman, our English instructor, coached the play, which was entitled “Sauce for the Goslings”. The cast included Ruby Aiken, Jennie Fiske, Marion Cooney, Warren R. Jones, Jr., Irving Green, Bernard Jalbert, and Eleanor Ames. It was very successful and was well patronized by students, faculty, and alumni. The Preliminary Speaking Contest was also held in April. Ruby Aiken and Albert McGoldrick represented the class this year. June brought our Sophomore year to a close. Then came September, 1927, the month to return and to take up our studies as juniors. Election time also arrived, and the following officers were elected for the year: John Houghton; President; Thelma Williams, Vice-President; Irene Morse, Secretary; and Marion Valente, Treasurer. In February we gave a dance, which was very successful. In April the Preliminary Speaking Contest was held in the Town Hall. Ruby Aiken, Irving Green, and Albert McGoldrick again represented the class. McGoldrick won second place for the boys. Again we were prominent in athletics, and several of our members won letters. Dorothy O’Connor and Irene Morse were awarded letters in girls’ basketball; while in baseball, Jaibert and Sehron were successful. In football, Jalbert and H. Houghton, and in basketball, Jaibert, Green and H. Houghton were the winners. Then in June we held the annual prom in honor of the graduating class. After considering several well-known orchestras, we finally decided to employ the services of Bernard Loring and his assistants. The reception was most satisfactory, owing to the efficient committees in charge, under the supervision of our faculty adviser, Mr. James Kelly. Another school year closed, and we received the usual two months’ vacation. In September we returned again to our studies as seniors. This wes the year to which we had been looking forward for several years. At our first class meeting we elected officers for 1928 and 1929 as follows: Irving Green, President; Marion Valente, Vice-President; Thelma Williams, Secretary : and Eleanor Ames, Treasurer. Our first activity was the senior class play, which was presented on Thanksgiving evening in the Town Hall before a large audience. ‘‘Seven Keys to Baldpate” was one of the most successful of the recent high school productions, thanks to the efforts of the cast and the coach, Professor Connor. We were well represented this year in the Preliminary Speaking Contest. Four of our members, Ruby Aiken, Marie Leary, Albert McGold- rick, and Eleanor Ames, were selected to compete. McGoldrick won first place for the boys in the preliminaries and second place for boys in the Singleton Contest. [27 |

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Mr. Robinson announced that twenty-one of our class had earned membership in the Pro Merito Society. That is the largest membership in the history of the society in Mansfield High School. Those who were admitted to membership were Ruby Aiken, Harriet Ball, Alice Burr, Ethel Cruser, Alice Forbes, Charlotte Greany, Doris Griffin, John Houghton, Gretchen Knight, Marie Leary, Christine Martin, Albert McGoldrick, Made- leine Morse, Mildred Nordberg, Dorothy O Connor, Nicholas Pazsit, Ruth Rankin, Rose Roman, Marion Valente, Thelma Williams, and Eleanor Ames. The Pro Merito Socicty chose these officers: Alice Burr, President; Eleanor Ames, Vice President; and Harriet Ball, Secretary-Treasurer. Athletics must be mentioned ¢s one of the most successful activities of our senior year. Our basketball team won the championship of the Hockamock Bas- ketball League, and also first place in Class B of the basketball tournament held in Brockton. Mansfield High School was so proud of the boys that we gave a reception and dance in their honor at the Town Hall. The players received gold basketballs, and the school received a silver cup. The seniors who played on the team were Captain Irving Green, Manager John Hough- ton, Henry Houghton, and Bernard Jalbert. In football Captain H. Hough- ton, Manager Cody, Jalbert, Dunbar, and Sehron received letters. The baseball seeson will soon be ended, and Captain Jalbert, H. Houghton, and Sehron will receive letters. The girls on the basketball team who received class numerals were Dorothy O’Connor, Thelma Williams, Marie Leary, Marion Valente, Rose Roman, and Carol MacRae. The following girls also received the school letter: Captain Irene Morse, Manager Thelma Williams, Dorothy O’Connor, Marion Valente, and Carol MacRae. Tonight we begin the last chapter of our class history. We are looking forward to graduation night as the one goal for which we have worked during our high school life. As each starts out to write his own history on the pages of Life, may success and honor crown his efforts. Prophecy of the Class of 1929 By ALBERT E. McGOLDRICK It was the evening of June 18, 1940, a foggy dark day in London. As I was finding my way along Fleet Street after a hard day in my labor- atory, a man coming along, evidently in a great hurry, crashed into me. In surprise and indignation I looked at him. Could I believe my eyes? It was my old friend Johnny Holmes, who, I later found out, was on a week- end trip to Wales in the interest of the Mansfield Cucumber Growers’ Association. I rushed him into a nearby inn and we sat down. “Well, John, this is a great pleasure,’ I said. “It is eleven years since I last saw you. Tell me, how are things at home?” “Oh, things have changed a lot. Our class is all broken up; its members are scattered all over the world. “Edward Sehron is now in India, the proprietor of a huge dictionary factory. It is said that he is starting a new dictionary, entitled Barney’s Revised Pronounciations. [ 28 J