Natick High School - Sassamon Yearbook (Natick, MA)

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THE SHSSHMU 4 IEEE today, but we know that with the ideals and skills that have been acquired by us in Natick High School, we shall make our way into the world, striving to attain success for ourselves as individuals with the endeavor to make worth- while contributions to society. iaaith Brophy CLASS WILL Vl'e, the Class of 1939 of the Natick Senior High School, with all due premeditation, care, and sense of responsibility and consideration of the welfare of this gathering do truly and lawfully make, ordain, publish, declare and pro- claim as genuine this to be our last will and testament and request that its contents be carried out to the utmost. To Mr. Hill we leave our entire support for a new, spacious, modern and well equipped High School in order to do away with the evils of the double session. To Mr. Gardner we leave one ball and chain, similar to those used on Dt-vil's Island, in order to keep the prized geometry answer book from escaping his sight. To Mr. Maffeo we leave our best wishes for producing another cham- pion basketball team and our hope for one more chance to the Tech Tourneyv. To Miss Currier we leave a Ski Team that we hope will produce wonders and have the same patience as we have had in waiting for that precious snow to fall. To Mr. Vlloodbury we leave one correspondence singing course to be shared with the other members of that famed quartet. To Miss Rafferty we leave some junior who will lead and make known to the school the deliberations of that powerful and important group - The Student Council. To Mr. Sears we leave a few earnest Juniors who can convince him that the school still wants Sassamon Dances. To Miss Ratsey we leave our sincere thanks for her ever important advice and for her help in art classes. To Mr. Plausse we leave our wholehearted support in his organization of sports for everyone. To Miss Nutt we leave a Junior Class that will be as kind and friendly to her as we hope we have been. To Miss Shannon we leave an extra English period in order to allow the students to read the Readers Digest a little more thoroughly. To Mr. VVhite we leave Joe Miller's Joke Book in order to supplement his large volume of jokes. To Miss Young we leave a French Class that will enjoy the Cooperative French ltxams as well as we have. Those individual members of this Senior Class wishing to make personal bequeaths are as follows: I, joe Brown, leave the battle-scarred goalie equipment and one dozen bottles of liniment to my worthy successor. I, Dutch Grupposo, bequeath to VVarren Langley the prize position of heading the 1940 basketball team.

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THI: S'SSEME 4 IEEE decorations, a rhythmic orchestra plus a dancing party enjoyed by everyone. The new junior class officers - Cynthia Leland, President, Patricia Taffe, Vice President: Natalie Hastings, Secretary: Vivian Cantrel, Treasurer - led the colorful Grand March. The Commercial Department accomplished something never before recorded in the history of the school. 'lihere were more shorthand certificates fwhich show superior skill and accuracy in taking and transcribing dictationj awarded our class of twenty-eight girls and one boy than have ever been in the past. A gold pin is awarded for a person taking dictation at 120 words a minute and transcribing accurately, the requirement of colleges for a diploma. There were more gold pins presented to our group than any previous ones. More recent events come back to us as we recall 1938 and 1939, our senior year of school. Our football team fought hard, and, although it didn't come out on top, it was well captained by co-captains Burton VVright and VVarren Hanna. Four members of the football team composed Natick's team for Kick- off Time , a quiz program sponsored for many neighboring schools on one of the local radio stations. The prize for winning second place was a scholarship for some deserving senior boy to the Hempel-Diesel School of lingineering. YVe thank the boys of the Junior Class who graciously helped the senior boys merit this scholarship. The first outstanding senior activity of the year scored a brilliant success. This was our Senior Play, Lucky VVinner , a comedy in which each and every participant did a splendid job, showing that our class really has students with outstanding acting ability. The hockey team, led by Verna Lilja, made a favorable standing in the liastern Massachtisetts Hockey League. Four of Natick's players were chosen as members of the Eastern Nlassaclitisetrs Interscholastic Hockey League team, and played on the winning team in this competition. Our basketball team, under the captainship of Vincent Grupposo, chalked up an outstanding record of which they can be very proud. This team won the championship of the Bay State Basketball League for which they were awarded an ebony and silver plaque inscribed with the names of the players and their coach, which will add to the array of trophies won by previous classes. Gold pins as champions and medals for proficiency in basketball were presented to the squad by the league. For the final class leaders, the following were chosen to be the most outstanding: Olin Hayes, Presidentg Albert Alcock, Vice President, Natalie Hastings, Secretaryg Charles Pfeiffer, Treasurer. Each year the Natick Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution sends a senior girl as its delegate to an annual convention in Boston. Representing our idea of best citizenship, patriotism, scholarship, leadership and character, the faculty and class chose Vivian Cantrel as the girl with these qualifications, who was a competent representative. The Senior Reception will mark our last social event as a class. As the final strains of the music drift through the night, we will realize we shall never again be together as a class, but shall always hold it as a deep remem- brance. The beginning of the history of the Class of 1939 must come to end

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-l'l'll: S A SSHMU 4 IEIEIEI I, John Bennett, leave my position as presidential manager to the First Junior that is victorious. I, Beb Lilja, bequeath my hockey captaincy and special technique to Ralph Stenquist, hoping the 1940 season will hold much in store for him. I, Phyllis Jenness, leave my athletic ability to Paula Boardman. I, Olin Hayes, bequeath to John NVhite the honorable position of class president. VVe, Burt Wright and VVaddy Hanna, leave to Tony Amato the captaincy of the football team, hoping 19-IO will produce a great team. I, Virginia Adams, leave myi good looks, pleasing disposition and popularity with the boys to Hope Arnold. I, Sherwood Coleman, hereby bequeath my ability to make noise to James Fair. I, Charles Dorian, bequeath my great scholastic ability and some worn out text books to John VVhite. I, Russell Edwards, leave to Lyle Shufelt the ability to do homework at least once every marking period whether I need to or not. I, Susie Snoop, leave to some succeeding Junior a pair of large eyes and ears plus the ability to remain unknown. I, Leigh VVentworth, bequeath my ability to pass exams to any suc- ceeding ,lunior with that luck. I, Shrimp Alcock leave my highly prized title of Lady's Man to John Felch. I, Nancy Loker, leave my sunny smile to .lean McCarty. Vile, the graduating class, leave to 'l'weezer Jackson, better known as Jackie, our sincere thanks for his help in the Senior Play. I, VVinifred Murphy, bequeath to Louise Wlalsh my ability to entertain and please the rest of the class. VVe, Virginia Glancy, Vivian Cantrel, Eleanor Hedderig, Joe Vllilkinson and Virginia Greene, leave our positions as cheerleaders to those who can make the most noise. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this fifteenth day of june, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, the last will and testament of this Class of '39 in the presence of those witnesses who have here unto signed their names as attesting to this document. lsignedl Charles Dorian Witiiessed by: Edith M. Nutt Alice E. Dawborn CLASS PROPHECY Year: 19-I9 Place: City Hospital Time: 10 A. M. Natalie appears in nurse's uniformg picks up telephone receiver. Nat: Why, yes, Doctor! Pardon me, Doctor? A new patient? Certainly,