Agawam High School - Sachem Yearbook (Agawam, MA)

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Our first social function was the Kid Party. Prizes were awarded for the funniest, prettiest, and cutest costumes, and children's games were played. I.ike real children we enjoyed our gifts from the Christmas tree and a visit by I lerbert Morris as Santa Claus. With the beginning of the new year, graduation seemed very near, for we appointed committees for class pictures, for the senior play, for the year book, and for the banquet. We chose for our senior play, What a Life. the original Henry Aldrich play by Clifford Goldsmith. The play was produced for a large and appreciative audience, May seventh. For the first time in the history of this school, the house was completely sold out. These class functions were not the only activities in which members of the class participated. We were well represented in the operettas, sophomore and junior years. Lillian Protzenko and Ivan Shepard had the leads in both The Pirates of Penzance” and Pinafore.” Many other members of the class had musical ability and took part in the operettas, Boys’ Glee Club, Chorus, Or- chestra. and Band. They were always willing to provide entertainment for parties and assemblies. Members of the class of 1043 were prominent in the dramatic club which presented many assemblies, and participated in the Valley Wheel One Act Play Contests. Outstanding member and president of the Agawam Masque, was our Norman Wood. Members of our class have also been prominent in the many other clubs of the school. We had representatives in the annual oratorical contests and did much toward the success of the school paper, the Agawam Mirror. In our junior year, Marion Langevin was assistant editor, and in our senior year, Andrea Cornfoot and Llizabeth Eberhahn served as co-editors. As Seniors we were proud to have one of the largest groups in the Pro Merito Society - fifteen members out of a class of seventy-six. We enjoyed sports as well. Frank Grasso was the outstanding athlete of our class, for he was prominent on the football, track, baseball, and basket bull teams. At the end of our junior year we said goodbye to Marion Langevin, w ho had been one of the outstanding members of the class. We were fortunate, however, to gain John Biergel, Gloria DesRosiers, Elizabeth Eberhahn, Virginia and Marjorie Magoon, Melba Pauzt and Marguerite White. With the declaration of war against the Axis powers in the middle of our junior year, changes came in the Agawam High School. We saw many of our boys leave to take defense jobs or to enter the service. We started to study Aviation, Nutrition, and First Aid, all of which contributed to the war effort. The Student Council conducted a successful sale of war stamps and bonds. The rationing program often interfered with the regular school routine. Gas rationing curtailed the athletic program, and caused the cancellation of con- ventions of various scholastic organizations. However, in spite of these diffi- culties, our life at the Agawam I ligh School continued to be carefree and happy. It was only when our graduation approached that we faced reality. We realized that we could not start immediately on a career in college or in business. Pour years ago we started our high school career with high hopes of pleasure and profit for ourselves. Sow ire are ready to offer our services to our country, wherever they are needed—in the hospital, the factory, the office, the school room, on the sea, in the air, or on the baltlefront. May we face our tasks bravely and gladly. Donald Curran Brenda Hartley Eleanore Kerr

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 . Three cheers and a uhoop! We're here at last! Yes! We made it! We're now Treshmen of the Agawam High School, the Class of 104]. We're going to he the best and most brilliant class this school has ever had. We started off toward this goal by quickly electing our class officers: Francis Nolin. president: Andrea Cornfoot, vice-president: Marion Langevin. secretary: and Theodore l nais, treasurer. W e also elected the following people to the Student Council: Theodore Donais, Andrea Cornfoot, Robert Smarse, and Marion Langevin. As a class we did not participate in any extra-curricular activities, but one of our English classes did present a play, The Trysting Place.” Unfortunately, our talent did not match our ambition. Mr. Langlois later said, It was the worst thing I ever saw. Still, it marked the dramatic debut of Norman Wood, Brenda Hartley, and Francis Nolin, all of whom had important parts in our senior play. Early in our sophomore year, we elected I lenry Daglio class treasurer, a post he held for the next three years. Our other officers remained the same as in our freshmen year. We also appointed a movie committee consisting of Andrea Cornfoot, Marion Langevin. Donald Lewis, and Leslie Moore, because we had conceived the unique idea of keeping our class history with moving pictures. These pictures were to be shown at our class banquet, and to be kept as a permanent record. The big social event of the year was our Decade Party which celebrated our tenth year of school. Shirley Lundcn and her committee did a clever job of decorating the gym w ith cut-out figures to represent our progress through school. Lleanore Kerr had charge of the refreshments which featured a birthday cake with ten candles. The entertainment consisted of an original skit written by Charlotte Gravel, giving episodes from our school career. Time went by. and we were Juniors, upperclassmen. Leslie Moore was elected as our new president, and Shirley Ahern, our new vice-president. This year, we wished not only to keep up the high scholastic record we had established our first two years, but also to take a more active part in the social life of the school. Out first social event was the Junior Cabaret which took the form of a Funny Folks Frolic. Large copies of our favorite characters in the funnies, made by the artistic members of our class, served as decorations. Maggie and Jiggs were on the curtain, and Henry, Olive Oyle, Donald Duck, and the little King decorated the walls. There was an excellent entertainment provided by the 1043 Boys’ Glee Club, Lucille Lango and Sandy Di Donato, and Norman W ood who gave an unforgettable imitation of Carmen Miranda. Then along in April, we started preparations for the Prom to be held on May sixteenth. Despite great difficulties, the decorating committee, headed by Alice Draghetti, in one evening, transformed the auditorium from the head- quarters of the gas ration board into a beautiful Hawaiian garden. Again three cheers! Now we were Seniors! We had at last achieved our goal. As our senior officers we elected Francis Nolin, president: Andrea Corn- foot, vice-president: Jamelie Shaer, secretary: and Henry Daglio, treasurer. Francis Nolin, Andrea Cornfoot, Theodore Donais, Gloria Caruso, Donald Curran, Julian Magiera, and Vera Diduk became members of the student council with Henry Daglio as president.

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JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS Lewis Jones, President Jean Blackburn, Secretary Lois Fournier, Vice-President Francis Hart, Treasurer