Natick High School - Sassamon Yearbook (Natick, MA)

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THE SASSAMON 9 CLASS POEM AT THE APPROACHINGU Instead of heing hurdened with despair, Lift up your heads, my classmates, raise your eyesl And cast them on the world that round you lies, Full conscious in Youth's sight Hope dwelleth fast. This is the great approaching. VVith a prayer Upon our lips, as memories of fond years Recede, we rally strength to hanish fears, Yet, faltering, ask, VVhere will our lot he cast ? With Logic as your master, Faith your guide Then turn, with courage grim to face the storm, And meet whatever follows in its form VVith Honesty to self and VVisdom's view:- So we can meet the future fortihed. The weak of heart, they perish while you, strong, XVill liye to sound a world untrouhled long In which, somewhere, your conquest waits for you. CHRISTINE XVRIGHTSON SONG FOR THE CLASS OF 1943 Uonning our armor, we hid farewell Our Alma KIater tolls a hell 5 Fleet years in transient glory pass Like wind that runs through ruffled grass. So as we part, looking hehind In that hrief hreath we call to mind Courage and Truth stand side hy side Banners of youth, they shall guide. II Long golden hours we have heen friends Now as this voyage nears its end There is no time for sighs nor tears Only the happy thoughts of years. Knighted we standg shields hurnished hright Swords held aloft agleam in the light Great halls are emptied, echoes will fade Yet we shall stand unafraid. ffiords and musir by- Lydia Isabel Harrzilforz

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THE SASSAMON ll CLASS PROPHECY HERE it is, blazed across the front pages of all the newspapers. It is the an- nouncement of the gala opening of the Hi-ho He-haw Racing Grounds, the largest of its kind in New England and predicted to make Kliddlesex County famous. The track has been built over what was once the town site of Natick. Clncidentally the town government has been transferred to Sherbornj VVe can't miss this! So the race track bill was finally passed! ln a second we are off to the town of our dear old Ama Klater. Our cab driver, Alike Klegliola, leaves us at the gate where under the watchful eye of plain-clothes men Francis Culcasi and Nello Rossini, the gateman, Paul Foley, snatches our tickets. Natick has changed a lot in the last decade, we all agree, as we take our seats, which are very good considering the place is jammed. From here we can easily spot old friends as they pass in the crowd. Here comes Eleanor Ahearn, Frances Klaresh and Evelyn Chapman who have founded a Home for Little VVanderers in VVayland. illyl VVho can these two strange looking characters be, decked in full artist regalia? they set up their easels, we recognize them as .lane Cummings and Betty Culverhouse who have disposed of much of their work on the Continent. VVe are not surprised to see the dynamic, touring, all-girl basketball team repre- sented by the four Flynn gals, Enid, Betty, Janet and Theresa as well as Gertrude Lane. Now how did she get in on that l-And speaking of women athletes, also roam- ing the ground are Carolyn Vance and Ruthie VValker, foremost physical culture authorities, who claim to have perfected the female Charles Atlas in Jeanne Fair, who has recently been titled f'Turnip Queen of 19-H. Others to profit by their courses are Barbara Bremner, theater manager, Al Beswick, seven day bike riding champ, and hlarjorie Joyce, named best bridge player in hlassachusetts only last week. Highly annoyed by the cries of the peanut vendors, George Nickerson and Jerry Digeronimo, just for fun we hurry to the betting window where we place a two dollar bet with bookie, Pierre llIcLaughlin. On our way back through the surging crowd, we collide with two brute-like men in the form of Louis DiCicco, lion tamer, and his keeper of the lions, Tarzan Cotchi Sargent, who is leading a pet cub. Once more we are seated, and just in time, for the mayor of Sherborn, Harold Grant, begins his dedication speech after the applause has subsided. VVe notice his officials standing by him, principal bodyguard, VVarren VVinters, who also owns a prospering Sherborn farm, Blondie VVilliams, pest exterminator, and Bill Scheufele, official applauder. There is a strong psychological reaction in the crowd as a Doosti hat creation passes, worn, incidentally, by that mad-cap designer, Barbara Dostie. And then, as if that isn't enough, a conscientious objector leaps upon a soap box and cries, 'flusticel Equal rights for men! Listen to mel lt is Charles Haddad. well-known orator, who is promptly dragged away by Helen Driscoll, Tina Arena, and Dot Hasgill. typical working girls who shout, Down with men's suffrage.