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

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16 Mr. Tighe, Mr. O'Malley, Mr. Guerrini. The Mansfield baseball team, under first year coach Dave Law, finished third in the League with a 10-7 record. Bruce MacPhee was the leading pitcher with an 8-2 record. In the summer of °77 the Mansfield High School Hornet Band realized a dream it had had since March of 1976. On August 3, 1977, a little after mid- night, a TWA chartered jet lifted off the runway at Logan Airport, Boston, taking over a hundred happy students to the Emerald Isle. The Band stayed there for 17 days touring Limerick, Dublin, and Galway, among other towns. Some of the eighth grade band members accompanied the band. The 1977 football team, after suffering the lose of Scott Carpenter, lost three games and did not repeat as league champs. After Carpenter’s return the team went On a Six game winning streak though, which saw the emergence of runningback Chris Gonsalves. Gonsalves, though only starting five games was the team’s leading rusher. Souza scored 342 points in the 1977-78 basketball campaign, but a 12 game losing streak hurt the team, and dropped it from contention. Paul also was voted to the Boston Globe All-State track team as a high jumper. He and runners Danny and Dirk Lamagno, and pole vaulters Dennis and Jay Buckley, led the track team to a high finish, and in the winter, six first place finishes gave the Hornets the crown for Indoor Track. That leaves us with the biggest moment of the Mr. William DeStefano Ist Row: Dr. Ptaschnik, Dr. Collins, Mr. Day, Mr. Hindman, Ms. Gi a Ibert, Mr. Gearhart. 2nd Row: school year. On June 4, 1978, 171 seniors were at Memorial Park under blue skies, and received their diplomas, which were handed by Vincent Guerrini and principal DeStefano. Dr. Joon Collins announced his resignation that year. ; This class was the highest ranking academic class in years, led by valedictorian Kathryn Sue Harsch and salutatorian Stephanie Girard. The group also received a school record of $85,000 in scholarships. This class was deemed one of the most versatile and talented in the school’s history. So ends the first century of Mansfield High School. It outgrew five buildings and countless administra- tors and faculty but never outgrew the strong educa- tional talents that it gave to its students. May those who enter the doors in the next one hundred years find the same success and happiness that Mansfield High School gave in the last one hundred. kK We are deeply indebted to Mrs. Warren Chapman and Miss M ary Halliday for pictures and invaluable information. Mr. Spencer Kelley

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beating Westport 87-64. Salachi scored a school record 45 points in that game. The school budget rose above 2 million dollars , at $2,081,611, in 1970-71. In February of 1971 the custodians went on strike over a contractual dispute, as did the cafeteria work- ers and clerks. The Hornets Hoopsters broke their Hockomock League losing streak with a 71-67 win over the King Philip Warriors. Alex “The Fox” Salachi netted 32 points. Salachi also made All-Hockomock in basket- ball. The MHS Band held an exchange concert with a band from Amherst Central High School in Snyder, NY. The new Hornet track was dedicated to James J. Kelly. The first annual Kelly relays also took place that year. Harold Qualters passed away on April 25, 1971, —and the old high school, which was being used as the Mansfield Middle School, was named after him. In 1971-72 the Math team went to the finals in the State. The school budget stood at $2,348,154, and the Middle School principal Dr. Gerald Bourgeois named supervisor in charge of secondary school cur- riculum. In 1972-73 season, Tony Day took over at the helm for MHS football. He guided the team to its first win in 27 games, a state record for losing streaks, as Paul Ferrara and Paul Pedini scored in a 13-0 win over Norton. Later in the year the Hornets picked up their first Hockomock League win since 1968, a 15-7 win over Oliver Ames. Bernard O'Malley was elected Chairman of the School Committee. Jack Auld placed his name on the top ten scoring listin MHS history by scoring 244 points in the 72-73 basketball season. He had a career total of 645 tallies. Ray Lively scored 295 in the 72-73 campaign. Avery resigned from the superintendent’s position, ending a time span in which he made MHS the “envy of area communities.” The Hornet band picked up a first place in the Southeastern Massachusetts District Music Festival. At the outset of the 1973-74 school year, a Houston educator, Dr. John Collins, was appointed as superin- tendent. The major highlight of this year was the band’s trip to Disney World in Florida. The band Mansfield High School 1978 : De Centennial Class Graduates also won first prize in the State Marching contest. On Homecoming Day, 1974, the Hornets sent the town of Mansfield into a continuous three day cele- bration as Mark Wood scored a list minute T.D. ona long end run to give MHS a 19-14 win over the Franklin Panthers. The Hornets ended that season on a down note, losing to Foxboro 39-27 on Thanksgiving Day in the snow and mud. Steven Corey led the 14-2 boys tennis team to the Hockomock League title. The Hornets also won the J.J. Kelly Relays for the first time. In October, 1975, a student’s suspension caused 150 students to boycott classes. The student dress code also received a face lift, as moustaches and beards were allowed for the first ttme. The MHS boys track team won the Hockomock League Title with an untainted 11-0 showing. The 1976-77 version of the Mansfield Hornets foot- ball team won its first Hockomock League champion- ship since 1968. The team lost only one game, that being a 21-20 decision to North Attleboro, and that loss kept the team from the state championship. Elmars Reks was the team’s leading rusher with 1,013 yards, and he made All-State defensive end. Steve Lively and Joe Nett, both juniors, were among the six Hornet players to be named to the All-Hocko- mock team. The winter of 1976 saw sophomore Paul Souza become the first MHS sophomore to score 300 points in a season. Souza also enjoyed a successful spring, as he leaped to a height of 6-10” in the high jump.

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DREAMS by Wendy Sharpe, ’78 The dreams we’ve dreamed that have not come true, we'll dream again until they do. The places we’ve been, the things we’ve done will all disappear with the fading sun. We have not conquered all there is to explore, and here we find that there is much much more. We leave the past and its memories and remember only what we dare not forget. As years go by we'll go our way growing further apart with each passing day. We will not forget our lifetime friends, for all the love we share will never end. Where do we go when this day is through, we have so much to say, a lot more to do. Wipe away tears and dry our eyes, now we must leave and say our good- byes. We have not conquered all there is to explore, and here we find that there is much, much more. And here we find that there is more. CLASS ODE 1928 by Roy Irving Martin The day is ending; the sun sinks low. Its rays ascend- ing in one last glow. The dawn tomorrow will be bright, a day of sunshine, joy, delight. Blithely we start at the break of day With hope and courage and laughter gay; We'll follow where the path may lead, True to ourselves in word and deed. Though cloudy skies may betoken rain We'll still press on each our goal to gain. What matter if some rain does fall, Sunshine and shadow come to all. ARCTURUS by Bill Frank and Mike Beach, ’78 When a candle is lit, some of the darkness is gone, the flame lingers on and helps show the way. As we stand here now with our hearts burning bright, Let’s join in the hope that we’ll spread the light. And the time has come for us to go our separate ways. Let’s live our future as our yesterdays. And let us all shine the light, always burning so bright. When a friendship is born, part lasts for all time, the love lingers on, and helps show the way. I will never forget, the times that we shared, the memories will light my way. And the time has come for us to go our separate ways. Let’s live our future as our yesterdays. And let us all shine the light, always burning so bright. Class Song 1937 By Mary Elizabeth Belcher As the rosy dawn lights the eastern hills, to herald the coming day, We face the years with determined wills, And eagerly scan life’s way. We seek fresh summits to attain, And all but lofty heights disdain. May the courage and hope of life’s bright morn through the afternoon prevail; Each failure bring a faith reborn, the stormy peaks to scale; Each triumph give us humbleness, the will to serve, the power to bless. When the sinking sun has gone to rest, Suffusing the distant plain with the radiant glow of his fiery crest, A glory of golden rain, Then shall we come to life’s last mile, A song in our hearts, on our lips a smile. When to the top we have won at last, Our hardships over and sorrows past, A glorious view our eyes shall meet, A smiling world beneath our feet.