Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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22 THE MIRROR shopping early. James Casella, her mechanic, is testing her new plane and Kenneth Cass, butler and radio man for Miss C'Malley is testing the push-button system which Miss O'Malley will carry in place of a radio. . Associated Press Dispatch: Arthur Farnsworth, famed coining expert, saves Bank- of Ireland from ruin? Coin Collectors Fail To Collect At closing time yesterday Kenneth Clapp and Theron W il- son, both of Waltham, entered the Waltham Trust Company and forced Miss Beulah Weymouth, a teller, to admit them to the vaults. Freeman Patterson, Trust Company janitor, heroic- ally summoned the police by means of the new burglar alarm system recently installed by Howard Morash and Morrison Shirley, electrical engineers of walth.-am and Chicago. Capt. Douglas Hogan, Sergeant Marshal Robichaud, and officers VVilliam Crpin, Warren Eaton, Axel Larson, and Joseph Le- Brun of the local police, responded to the call and Wilson and Clapp were soon in the care of Robert Mickalson, turn-key of the local jail. Chief of, Police, Alton Currin, praised his men for their quick work. When asked their motive by Willard Jackson, police reporter of the Waltham Daily Mirror, Clapp and ,Wilson replied that it was their hobby to collect coins. 'Frederick Haggarty Hospital Overcrowded Nurses added to staff today are: Misses Margaret Bow- man, Martha lsaacson, Gladys Jones, Margaret Galligan, Louise Fynn, Hazel Sprague, Dorothy Tortola, Eleanor Weaver, Helena Taletowicz, Elin Gustavson, and Marguerite Jones. Dr. Roger Hunt says, 'The Haggarty Hospital for cats must ex' pand'. ' , Local School Teachers Taken in Raid Sergeant John Fitzgerald and oflicers Frederick Judd and Kenneth Larsen were attracted to the Crystal Pool Parlor last evening by cries of 'Seven, se-ven, come elevenl' and 'Come on, you little black and whitel' They entered just in time to see

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T H E M I R R O R 21 CLASS PROPHECY Eximcts from Waltham Daily Mirror Friday, June 5, 1941 M-ayor William Greig Approves of Dump Site for New High School. u City Engineer, Arthur Flint declares Dump Site Im- practical. New Swamp Site Proposed by Councillor Rozilla Chase. High School May Run in Six Shifts, says Superintendent of Schools Adam Danosky, after a three-hour conference with Principal Harry Fisher of the Senior High School. Pr'esid-ent Richard DeCoste of the City Council says, 'School Situation is Critical'. Missionaries Leave for the Orient V Their Reverences Francis Biggins, John Connerney, and William Atwood, all of this city, left for Upper Rangoon this morning where they will join the Rev. Paul Durkin in his ex- tensive missionary work. Other Walthamites who are now in foreign lands as missionaries are Miss Irene Burke, Miss Dor- othy Jacobs, the Rev. Arthur Erickson, the Rev. Francis Mc- Ivor, and Miss Olga Anderson, secretary to Mr. Mclvorf' Prepare For Polar Flights High Admiral Arthur Chiasson announced today that prep- arations for his flight to the North Pole were nearly complete. His secretary, Miss Lois Seested, has been swamped with let- ters for 'Santa Claus, all of which the Admiral has promised to deliver when he says, 'I-Iello, Santa Claus? Frank Farrar, radio operator for the expedition, will ask Santa to say a few words to us from his ice palace at the North Pole. Miss Dorothy O'Malley, well-known local aviatrix, is also planning a flight to the North Pole in order to do her Christmas

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THE MIRROR 23 Miss Gertrude Harrington, teacher of elocution at the Senior High, roll a pair of dice on the floor. The others who filled up the circle of the merry little game were booked by the police as: Misses Eleanor Brown, Charlotte McLeod, Marie Bresna- han, Charlotte Gibb.s, Josephine Graceffa, Bernice Bowley, Margaret Hanselpa-cker, and Esther Silver, direct-or of girls' athletics, all of the Senior High faculty. Misses Mildred Har- rington and Virginia Bush, propri-etresses of the Pool Parlor, said the game was carried on without the-ir consent. Others taken in the raid were: William Clark and Edward Regan, men about towng Elmer Keith, a Fuller Brush man, Knute Johnson, football coach, Sam Marcou, a pugilistg Benjamin Weinstein, Richard Dorrington, Clive Arl.sworth, and Keith MacLean, sailors. Some of these fellows appeared rocky on their feet, but Mary Russo, soda-jerke-r, said that she had served nothing stronger than ginger ale. C s1n ll11-. Blackstone Office Staff Strikes for More Pay Employees of the Benjamin Blackstone Life Insurance Company struck today. Mr. Blackstone is not worried: he says, 'They'll be back tomorrow. The strikers are: Misses Rose Stroum, Frances Smith, Dorothy Handrahan, Helen Peirce, Ruth McEnaney, Catherine Maclnnis, Dorothy Evans, and Eve-lyn Chandler. 'ff' Marines Go South a A special detachment of U. S. Marines was sent to protect U. S. citizens in Central America yesterday. The Marines in the detachment were: Gen. Edward Carruthers Maj.. Gen..James Elkerton Brig. Gen. Austin Connors Col. Eldon Gray Maj. James Doyle Serg. Maj. Cedric Lamont Capt. Henry McNamara