Weston High School - Key Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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William Nussburger leaves his ability to be inconspicuous to Priscilla Otto. Leonard Upham leaves his nimble feet to Gordon Desmond. Anne Whitney leaves her job to Sally Foster. Let’s hope she’ll keep this one a secret. Francis Pooler, our reigning misogynist (woman hater), leaves his title to A1 Mac. Alice Rand leaves her mother’s marvelous cakes to the next year’s discussion club hoping they’ll enjoy them as much as we did. Herbert Vinnecomb leaves his wolfish ways to Ken Turner. Perky, Helen and Kitty leave their thanks to Joe Sheehan for many delightful mid-morning snacks. Donald Whelply’s leaves are cancelled because he failed to get up until 4:31. Hector Poison left us in December. We’ll always remember him as a born comedian and a good friend. The senior members of the First Aid class leave their bandages and splints to the manager of next year’s football team. The Discussion Club leaves the Cummings living room for better or for worse and also with fewer tea cups. We hereby nominate and appoint Mr. Carl T. Rhoades, our esteemed principal of the Weston High School, Weston, Massachusetts, to be the sole executor, without bond, of this our last will and testament; and we hereby re¬ voke all former wills and testamentary instruments. In WITNESS WHEREOF, we hereto subscribe our names and affix our seal this 9th day of April, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-one. .(Seal) The attached instrument was thereunto subscribed by the Class of 1941, the testators, in the presence of each of us and was at the same time declared by them to be their last will and testament, and we are at their request signing our names hereunto in their presence as attesting witnesses. Francis O. Guthrie, Dorothea Benotti, Katherine Macdonald, Doris Peakes, Helen Harding. 19

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Peggy Hill leaves her speed in typing to George Wheeler hoping that some day he’ll type more than three and one-half words a minute. David Kingsbury leaves his ability to get along with Pop” to Quiz Kid.” Red Guthrie leaves his ability to slip into class unseen to Phee” Brown. Alan Morgan has left exciting Weston for the peace and quiet of college life. Robert Mann leaves his collection of keys to David Campbell, hoping he’ll find one to fit Kay Ritz’s heart. Joseph Newell leaves his argumentative spirit to the future debaters of the Sears Essay Contest. Margaret Moody leaves her managerial ability to Desperate” Desmond. Russell Johnson leaves his ability to be comfortable hanging on a locker, to Geraldine’s next admirer. Alvin Jacobs leaves his ability to eat unseen in class to Alden Whittemore and David Cooper. Kitty Macdonald leaves her unsophisticated and natural ways to Corinne Cre- han hoping for a change. Doug Schofield leaves his skill for broken field running” to any needy male being pursued by Beryl Enholm. Marjorie Perkins leaves on the midnight train, June 18. Future address, In¬ diana. Doris Peakes leaves her staccato personality to Loretta Bourinot. Barbara Sherman leaves her dignity and respect for her elders to any and all undergraduates hoping it will be put into use as soon as possible. Sherman Davis leaves his efficiency to Charles Place. Kathryn Place leaves her hairbrush to Stephen Ellis. Mary Sullivan leaves her sense of humor to Ruth Maxted. Katherine Macdonald leaves her position at Cole’s. Interviews will be held by Lieutenant Cole. Don’t rush, girls! Bobby Travis leaves in a cloud of dust. But he won’t get far on one and a half gallons of gas. Douglas Schofield leaves his ability to charm the freshman girls, and Barbara Travis, to Henry Ross, who seems to be charming the senior girls already. Rolland Marden leaves his ability to jitterbug to Charles Morealli. Saada Gage leaves her laugh to Ruth Maxted in hopes that Mr. Zorn will ap¬ preciate it. Robert Whittemore leaves his dazzling smile to Warren Swanson in hopes that he’ll use it once in a while. 18

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CLASS PROPHECY This is Scoop Jackson,” your reporter for the Daily Planet, giving you the fourth edition of today’s news. Starting off with the national news . . . Clarence T. Ackerson, the student adviser at Vassar College for young women, has just resigned his important post, due to his inability to give his full attention to each student. Flash! . . . Announcing the new species of plant, the Avalanche, just developed by Eve- leth Cooper, and named after her nineteenth child. David Kingsbury, photographer for the Palace Films, Incorporated, announces the pub¬ lishing of the latest colored photograph of the spacious ranch owned by Kay Place, newest queen of Hollywood. Flash! . . . Alan Morgan gets the bird! He docks at New York on Monday morning, with his latest ornithological development. It is well known in this community who will be there with a helping hand and happy heart to greet him. Arriving on the same boat will be the famous nurse, Peggy Moody, direct from fighting malaria in the tropics. Red Guthrie has recently been ordained as minister of the Methodist Church in Kendal Green, a position he graduated to, from that of chief coffee-pourer for the church suppers. Russell Johnson, the honorary after-dinner speaker, delivered a soul-stirring speech at the banquet given to celebrate the maiden flight of the latest rocket ship designed by Joseph Newell. Flash! . . . Divorce proceedings have been filed by Mrs. Mary Sullivan O’Leary McCarthy Foley Reilly Finnegan Hennessy. Evidently she has not yet outgrown her tendency to change at regular intervals. Rolland Pierce Marden, the 20th century architect, has finally collected his harem off the coast of California, but his suppressed desire of having Veronica Lake visit him hasn’t been fulfilled as yet. Terry Brownell, director of physical education in Newton, acquired a black eye when she questioned an umpire’s decision at a recent game of her girls’ baseball team. The hospital however, reports the umpire, who suffered a concussion and several serious fractures, as do¬ ing as well as could be expected.” The former Barbara Colpitts is still struggling along on the extremely slim salary of her husband, a country doctor, whom she met while she was an undergraduate at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She still has not abandoned her suppressed desire of holding a $50 bill in her hand once before she dies. Flash! . . . We have been requested by the weather bureau to announce the following warning: A tempest is raging at the Burke and Shaw residence. All people trespassing with¬ in three and one-half miles do so at their own risk. Guest at the broadcast of the Chicago Round Table Discussion Program next week is Margaret Dolan, well known conductor of the program, The Woman on the Street.” That proves that questioning can be made profitable. Helen Coburn, the vocalist for Jon Elastic and his Rubber Band, is on a world-wide tour through all the army camps abroad and in this country. By popular demand she will become Miss America of 1 47 for the second consecutive year. William Nussburger, the prominent artist of Weston, who resides at 15 Fairfield Place, has just carried his blushing bride, Sylvia, gently across the threshold. Katherine Macdonald, that pretty little busybody, always busy as a bee, has just opened a nursery school near Lake Louise where she teaches swimming to the little dears. 20