Tenney High School - Torch Yearbook (Methuen, MA)

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611155 flisfvry cadet. Allen Potvin and Michael Watman were selected to attend Boys' State, while Kathleen Eichhorn had the honor of being selected for Girls' State. The D.A.R. Good Citizen medals went to two deserving classmates, Patricia Hill and Clifford Chadwick. As we finished the junior year, we all silently vowed that next year would be our year of years. We would be the exalted seniors and everyone would know it, or else. Excitement ran high in every competition. Every sport became a do-or-die affair. First, it was the football season with Stephen Andrews and Ronald Bretton as co-cap- tains. They were a team by themselves. One of our outstanding players, Joseph Boren, was chosen for the National All-American Football Squad. Although we did lose a few games by a very small margin, our spirits soared. We could never have managed without Captain Judy Sal- mon and her lively, coordinated cheerleaders. Leading the band down the field during the half-time of every football game was Captain Gail Collins and her well-organized group of twirlers-the maiorettes. Before the annual clash with our long-time rival, Andover High School, the football team chose lovely Angela Catalano as their queen. The hockey team also had its cap- tain-capable Nancy Wirth. With our senior year came the responsibility for our school publications. The guidance of Advisor Mr. Lister and Editor-in-Chief Angela Catalano was much appreciated in the numerous tight spots which the yearbook staff encountered while compiling the l96l Torch. Under the direc- tion of Miss Doran and co-editors Ann Marie Pietraszek and Suzanne McKenzie, the Blue and White went to press in order to meet the dead- line of its first edition. In October the Cadet Hop was held with the co- operation of Drill Instructor Rene J. Morrisette, who presented the officers and top sergeants with their ranks. Chosen to lead the corps were Colonel Alexander Freedman, Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Haddad, and Maiors Kevin Griffin and Stephen Andrews. If any of the marchers had two left feet, they nonetheless looked glamorous to the girls. After weeks of preparation opening night of the senior class play-The Perfect Idiot-finally arrived. The second floor hall of Tenney appeared to be a small-sized Broadway with such stars running around as Edward Charest, Elaine Com- parone, Vincent Cottone, Carolyn Crawford, Eliza- beth Dublin, Niall Fleming, Raymond Haddad, Susan Haiiar, Gayle Keaney, Rosanne Levesque, Norma Leveille, Gary Perry, Leo Root, George Sabbagh, and John Tobia. The winter season was highlighted by many fine basketball games. Leading the boys' team were two hard-working players, Ronald Bretton and Clifford Chadwick, while Marilyn Jacklin and Susan Haiiar captained the girls' team. The winds of March blew excitement and ac- tivity through Tenney. The month began with the twirling of cadet rifles at the fifty-fith annual Military Ball. To add to the color and formality of this military affair, Carolyn Crawford presided as Cadet Queen with Patricia Jennings and Polly Ann Sanborn as attendants. On Saint Patrick's Day, the actor of actors, John O'Tobia, added his own distinct Irish touch to the Tenney High School Talent Show. The senior class was well-represent- ed by many fine acts. Also in March, the first Science Fair at which every student of science was required to present an exhibit was held in the school gymnasium. The seniors were fortu- nate to have four winners in the top five places. The first place winner was Barbara Murad with a display on types of blood. The other senior win- ners were Holly Jones, Ruby St. Clair, and Alex- ander Freedman. In the spring many of our classmates had a chance to display their leadership ability. The captains of the spring sports were as follows: Clifford Chadwick, baseball team, Murray Smith, track team, Raymond Lavigne, golf team, and Patricia Hill, softball team. Gary Perry was our representative to the Student Government Day in Boston. The D.A.R. Good Citizenship award for the senior year went to Kathleen Eichhorn, while the American Legion School awards went to Gail Collins and Clifford Chadwick. Of course, we could not have had such a successful year without the untiring efforts of our president, Daniel Moynihan, vice-president, Rich- ard Hertrich, and secretary, Donna Chateauneuf. For taking such good care of our money, Carolyn Crawford had been re-elected to her fourth year as treasurer. Brenda Haiiar, having served her fourth year on student council, had been elected president of that body. Gayle Keaney, Patricia McCarthy, Clifford Chadwick, and Murray Smith had been the other senior members. At an assembly held the latter part of our senior year, the graduation honors were an- nounced. Allen Potvin was awarded the honor of valedictorian, Marcia Eaton, salutatorian, Susan Haiiar, honor essayist, and Susan Alt, class day orator. Holly and Mark Jones were selected to give the prophecy, Ruby St. Clair and Clifford Chadwick, the will, and Kathleen Eichhorn and Alexander Freedman, the history. The final social event of our high school career was the senior prom, beautifully decorated under the direction of Mr. Melia as art director and Mr. Russell as class advisor. Sayonara was the theme, and the gymnasium was decorated as a Japanese garden complete with oriental Buddha. The grace- ful racemes of the wisteria further contributed to the authentic Japanese effect. Now, after four years of molding our charac- ters and developing our minds, we shall go our separate ways. No matter where our paths may lead, the memories of these years and their in- fluence upon us will be with us always.

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611155 J-lisfcfry We have now reached The end of The road as far as our high school educaTion is concerned. lf we haven'T learned anyThing in These four years, I guess we never will. In a few shorT days, The whole-hearTed and generous guidance ThaT we all accepTed so maTTer-of-facTly will no longer be ours To seek, and we will face The fuTure sTanding on our own Two feeT. However, before we con- Tinue on our individual ways, leT us Take This par- Ticular Time To look back aT some of The wonder- ful memories which have made These lasT four years so enjoyable. We shall skip over anyThing disagreeable as if iT never happened, even Though we have all had our ups and downs aT one Time or anoTher. We can all remember ThaT beauTiful, sunny morning in Sepfember when we firsT enTered Tenney High School. There we were-young, innocenT, and eager, noT knowing whaT To ex- pecT. AT firsT, we were quiTe apprehensive and shy. However, ThaT feeling didn'T sTay wiTh us Too long. We were deTermined To launch our careers wiTh courage and forTiTude. We followed The paTTern seT by The upper classes and proceeded To elecT class officers. This procedure was Thrilling, as we felT so grown-up wiTh The privilege of voTing. Our final selecTion for presidenT was Raymond Haddad, his cronies for The year were VincenT CoTTone, vice-presidenT, Norma Leveille, secrefary, and Carolyn Crawford, Treasurer. Our sTudenT council represenTaTives were Three girls, Brenda Haiiar, Susan Haiiar, and Sandra Dierrich. You noTice ThaT The boys were noT represenTed aT These all-imporTanT meeTings. ls iT possible ThaT The girls had more courage or else had more experience in sTanding up for Their righTs'? The senior class honored us wiTh an official welcome. The evenTful Freshman RecepTion, our firsT recepTion in high school, was very exciTing. WiTh The wearing of MousekeTeer ears, iT seemed as Though we had been TransporTed back To The naive days of our childhood, buT we knew beTTer, we were diplomaTically humoring our hosTs. Following The grand march, we were de- lighTed To learn ThaT STephen Graham and Polly Ann Sanborn had been selecTed as king and queen of our freshman class. Since freshmen seldom have an opporTuniTy To Take an acTive parT in The world-shaking af- fairs of upperclassmen, leT us skip genTly over The resT of Those days of our obscuriTy and re- view our nexT big sTep, namely, our sophomore year. We began our sophomore year wiTh prac- Tically The same crew aT The helm. There was Raymond Haddad again as presidenT, VincenT CoTTone once more as vice-presidenT, and Carolyn Crawford back in her same office, buT we did have one new officer-Gayle Keaney-serving as secreTary. We again senT Three girls-Brenda Hai- iar, Sandra Diefrich, and PaTricia McCarThy-To The sTudenT council meeTings. Maybe iT was on accounT of Their gifT of gab. We won'T quesTion ThaT now. As for The foofball season of ThaT year-iT is really worTh Telling abouT. lT was The firsT Time in Tenney High School's hisTory ThaT a foofball Team was undefeafed-quiTe an accomplishmenf, mind you-nine wins and no losses. lT all came abouT because we sophomores yelled ourselves hoarse aT The games. This gave The players The inspiraTion To win. We know ThaT for a facT. Toward The close of our sophomore year, The halls of Tenney High School were shaken by The noisy oufbreak of a simulaTed war in miniaTure. IT was ring Time and everyone was opinionaTed. We all knew which ring was The besT choice, buT To prove iT To our fellow classmafes was a feaT. AfTer much deliberaTion, we finally seTTled on a ring, To The greaT chagrin of many friends. Those wiTh whom we were bosom pals no longer soughT our friendship. Of course, we knew all along ThaT iT was iusT a Temporary esTrangemenT, and we would soon be friends once more. AT The conclusion of our sophomore year, exciTing Things began To happen for some of us. Elaine Comparone and Michael WaTman were presenTed wiTh The D.A.R. Good CiTizen medals aT Senior Chapel. These Two sTudenTs were The firsT ones from our class To be awarded a medal for ouTsTanding ciTizenship. When we were back in SepTember as full- fledged iuniors, whaT a Thrill iT was To be able To look down on The poor liTTle freshmen! By This Time we ourselves were a well-organized Tribe under The leadership of Him-Good-Friendly Chief Daniel Moynihan. The Chief's council in- cluded his righT hand warrior, Sfephen Graham, The noTe-Taking squaw, JudiTh Salmon, and The wampum-holding squaw, Carolyn Crawford. This Time The squaws once more asserTed Themselves and senT four females To The Tribal council. They apparenTly felT ThaT if Three had been good The year before, four would be even beTTer This year. Those lucky squaws were Virginia Burgess, Bren- da Haiiar, Donna ChaTeauneuf, and Kafhleen Eich- horn. AT an impressive ceremony in April, TwenTy- Two iuniors were inducTed as charTer members of The Nafional Honor SocieTy. The inducfees were Susan AIT, Deborah Bovernick, Gail Collins, Elaine Comparone, Carolyn Crawford, Marcia EaTon, Kafhleen Eichhorn, JudiTh Garland, Susan Haiiar, Holly Jones, Katherine KeTler, Ann Marie PieTras- zek, Hazel RoTondo, Ruby ST. Clair, JusTine STocks, Nancy WirTh, Clifford Chadwick, Alexander Freed- man, Mark Jones, Guy PiTochelli, Allen PoTvin, and Michael WaTman, who laTer became presidenT of The socieTy. The junior year broughT honors To many mem- bers of our class. We were elaTed when we heard ThaT Judy Salmon, a junior, had been selecTed as capTain of The cheerleaders, an honor usually re- served for a senior. AT The annual CadeT Field Day exhibiTion Raymond Haddad won The PaT- naude medal, The highesT medal awarded To a

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611155 Prvpher Time: 1971 Place: New York City Holly: Well, Mark, now that you're back in the states what do you have to say for yourself? Mark: I see that you're still as ugly as ever, Holly. lt's too bad that I had to leave Heidelberg University so soon. I really enioyed my stay there and I shall certainly miss all those German frauleins. Just think, after one year's intern- ship I begin to practice medicine and shall start raking in the money. Holly: Good for you! I'm teaching biology now and I lust like it, especially when the pupils cringe as they are dissecting their frogs. Sev- eral of your classmates are teaching at the same school. Julie Chadwick is teaching solid analytic geometry, Gayle Keaney, civics, Gerry Toma- selli, advanced physics, Rosanne Levesque, driver education, Norma Leveille, college alge- bra, and Donna Chateauneuf, geometry. Ed Graham is the principal and Steve Graham is the assistant. Eddie Charest, Sue Fitzpatrick, Suz- anne McKenzie, Bill Mullen, Justine Stocks and Carolyn Crawford went back to Methuen to teach. They heard that the teachers receive marvelous pays there. Mark: It will robabl sur rise ou to learn that P Y P Y Angela Catalano and Nancy Wirth are medical technicians and Kathy Ketler, Elsa Gale, Bar- bara Murad, and Joyce Takesian are lab techni- cians at the Mayo Clinic where I plan to in- tern. Pat Charlesworth, Janet Cleary, Carol Androski, Gail Collins, and Sandi Dietrich are nurses at the Mayo Clinic also. I understand that Harvey Cook is seen quite often at the hospital after the girls have finished a case, he's the undertaker. Holly: I didn't realize so many were working at the clinic. Judy Garland, Beverly Reuter, Donna Nelson, Mal Jacklin, Carolyn Russell, and Ann Pietraszek are registered nurses at the Massa- chusetts General Hospital. Nancy Ingalls is doing occupational therapeutic work. Did you see any of our former classmates in Europe? Mark: Yes, I did. I met Doug Waites, Niall Flem- ing, and Linda Greenwood in Switzerland. The three of them are going to be ski instructors and Niall is going to be teaching people how to fall correctly. Sue Alt, Pat McCarthy, Judy Salmon, and Susan Hajiar were on their way to the French Riviera when I saw them at an airport in Paris. They looked rather pallid from the poor air in those Paris coffee houses. Steve Andrews won the Irish Sweepstakes and is spending his time in Paris to avoid paying the U.S. taxes. Louis Saab, Kenny Sheipe, and Charlotte Whiteside, the three millionaires, have invested their money in a foreign auto factory-they are the manufacturers of the Russian Edsel. While vacationing in Rome, I ran into Joyce Malisos and Betty Eliet who are working in the U.S. Embassy. I didn't run into them very hard though, they only demolished the front end of my Ferrari. In Rome, I also met Lenny Donovan, who works for an airline company, and Ray Michaud, his co-pilot. Actually all Ray does is scare the starlings off the strip before Lenny's Electra takes off. Linda Bellmore, Brenda Bonacorsi, and Sue Dietrich are airline hostesses for the same company. George Skaff, who flew me across the Atlantic, is a pilot for TWA. He surely knows how to handle a plane, I doubt that anyone could have made a better crash landing. Brenda Gordon, Sharon Mills, and Jackie Hurrell are stewardesses for TWA also. Holly: I never expected you to see so many of our classmates in Europe. Did you know that a new office building is being built in Methu- en? Carl money-bags Tearno, the president of the First National Bank of Boston, is lending the money to Al Freedman, Larry Erban, and Donald Chase, who will be the owners. Dick Bogannam, Robert Gouette, Stephen Smith, Ken Downey, John Pagliuso, and Dick Davis designed the building. lt's too bad though that they made a mistake and put the basement on the second floor, it may make things quite difficult, especially with the sewerage system. Paul Gallo, Kevin Griffin, and Ron Reinhold are the architectural engineers. John Glyzinski, Guy Pitochelli, and Ray Lavigne are their as- sistants. The head electrician is Dick Marquis. He must have mixed the plans with those of the prison because all the aluminum lawn chairs are wired and have seat straps. Many of our classmates are going to be fortunate enough to have offices in this wonderful building. Bruce Weymouth is planning to have a music studio along with Louis Armstrong. Allen Pot- vin, now a civil engineer, will have an office on the lOOth floor. He is disturbed for he will need a pressurized suit and oxygen because of the high altitude. Hazel Rotondo, who has had a good deal of practice writing 500-word essays, and Ruby St. Clair plan to have an office on the 18th floor. They will write articles for HELP, MAD, and other popular magazines. On the 4th floor Al Fielding, Marilyn Jessie, and James Perry plan to open a modern art studio. Richard Galarneau will be working for them as a photographer. In Lawrence there is a new dental clinic where David Begg, John Frederico, and Ray Haddad have their offices. Doris Dion, a comedienne on the Steve Allen Show, was seen going into the clinic. Pat Akulonis, Ann Waring, and Sandy Brown were also seen going in one of the offices. Next to the dentists' offices is Sunny Esperian's hair- dressing shop where Marcia Eaton, a youth director, Arleen Dubois, Francis Patti, Joan Per- ry, and Pauline Peront spend a great deal of time. In the basement is a huge gym where Ton Grasso takes time out of work with his wife's permission to play a little basketball. Joe Boren, Dan Moynihan, and Murray Smith are the gym instructors. Among the successful businessmen who often go there to work out