Agawam High School - Sachem Yearbook (Agawam, MA)

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BOB: Say isn't this the “Mirror” issued when we were freshmen? It's got a lot of work in it by members of our class. Here’s a Sachem for '45, too. Let’s see what we looked like then. MARION: Oh look! Roger Ilcywood, Arden Tinti, Marion Pratt, and Ralph Tortoriello were our class officers. MARGE: The way those seniors used to look disdainfully at us just because we were a little younger! BUSTY : Here’s the next year’s literature, gang. We really went to town then, joining clubs, entering athletics, and earning good grades at school, too. Our football team was nominated for the Western Massachusetts cham- pionship, and our basketball team won the Valley Wheel championship. BOB: Miss Currier was our faculty adviser, and Roger, Arden, Jean Fusini, and Jack Cassidy were officers. Here's a program from the Blarney Ball, our first fling at putting on social events. XOBMA : That was our Soph party. It was a great success. MARION: Even The Play,” Norma? XOBMA : Let's not discuss the subject any further. BOB: Why not? What happened? MARGE: “The Play” was Norma’s first - NORMA: —and last— MARGE:—attempt at writing, directing, and promoting a play. The day of the grand opening one of the actors, Roger Hey wood, came down with the mumps. RUSTY : Thoughtless of him. NORM A: Well, it all worked out in the end. A1 Racicot did a good job of un- derstudying; and Jack Cassidy, Louise Phillips, Dave Itichman, Jean Fusini. and Louis Haggctt were very co-operative. RUSTY: Here’s the rest of the entertainment: Arden Tinti and Dick Frank- lin. duet; Francinc Provost, tap dance; music by the Sophomore Rhythm Wreckers; and a solo by Marge. BOB: It would have been a perfect year except for the death of Mr. Phelps and Mr. (Jranger. After that no one felt much like having fun. MARIOX: People began to wonder if we’d ever have a new superintendent until Mr. Wright took over. What’s this? The Mirror for the next year is in newspaper form instead of magazine. MARGE: Our Junior year brought about a lot of changes for us. Miss Currier left, our home rooms were changed, and Miss Phelps became our faculty adviser. Charlie Gonet, Louise Phillips, Jean, and Rusty were elected class officers that year. BOB: Mr. Langlois. Miss Bclvca, and Mrs. Hadley left (couldn’t stand us any longer); Mr. Oulton and Mr. Montagna returned after military service; and Miss Parvanian, Mrs. Coleman, and Mr. Freme joined the faculty. By the way, wasn't Mr. Freme here before? 1241

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(TV9 (S k3 Scknk: The Wylie living room. A large trunk stands open in the center of the room, much of its contents strewn on the floor. Norma, clad in lumber- jack shirt and dungarees, is depositing other articles from the trunk to the floor. The doorbell rings. XORMA : Come on in. The door's open. (Marge, Marion, Rusty, and Bob enter.) RUSTY: What goes on here? Was your house hit by a cyclone? MARGE: Are you packing for college, Norma ? I don’t think you’ll need that stuff. XORMA : Not packing -unpacking. Mom says I have to throw out all my souveniers so she can use the trunk for my clothes. After all my work collecting them, too. MARIOX: It must have taken you a long time to collect all this. NORMA: Twelve years. I didn’t collect much the first eight, but the last four years I’ve really been busy. IU)H: What’s this, a picture of the second grade at the Plains School? Not so good looking a gang as the one at North Agawam that year. XORMA : Did you ever see the picture Marion Hastings has of her class at Feeding Hills? MARION: Well. Agawam Center had the best building if you liked bricks falling on your head. RUSTY: The town finally condemned it and built a new school building. We were in the third grade at the time. MARGE: Iley, here’s a '43 Mirror—and a Sachem, too. (lee, wasn't seventh grade fun? {Oil: That was the first year we were all together as a class, and we were a pretty smart class at that. That was also the first year we had expe- rience with study halls. MARIOX: Those corridors looked long and dismal; didn't they? I got lost at least once a day. XORMA : Well, by eighth grade we knew our way around. See this armband? • That’s my souvenier for that year. Miss McCormick was head of the junior high corridor patrol which, by the way, boys, was composed en- tirely of girls. RUSTY : After all. you've got to allow for one mistake. MARGE: Remember the party Miss Potter gave for the Fnglish Club—and the mystery play a group of us girls put on ? XORMA: Ah, my debut as an actress. I can still recall my greatest line—“I’m scared.' [23]

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NORMA: Back in '42 and '42. lie took one look at what lie was destined to get in a few years and left. But we fooled him, he had some of us anyway. MARION : Isn’t this little deer, four-legged, that is, from the Reindeer Romp, our Junior Cabaret ? MARGE: That’s Romola Tangocci’s handiwork. She has some clever ideas. Rl ST) : We had a struggle for decorations because of the new fire laws. Any other class might have quit, but we went ahead and made a success. Of course, 10d Kennedy’s orchestra helped. MARION: We uncovered some talent in our class, too. Ginnv Kibbe sang while some of the girls danced, Joanne Woodbury sang, and Norma blew that thing she calls an instrument. MARCE: We got our class rings that winter. Charlie delivered them to us so that we’d have them in time for Christmas. HOH: We voted for our class colors lats year, didn’t we? I remember Leo DeLucehi nominated black and blue. Blue and silver edged his sugges- tion out. though. MARCE: Remember the fun we Tri-IIi girls had at the Wakefield Convention in March? This year only five seniors could go to the convention at Attleboro. REST)’: Then came the Prom in .May, and more trouble with decorations. MARION: We finally collected wild flowers and decorated the auditorium with them. Those and the crystal ball were very effective. NORMA: Eddie Abrahamson’s orchestra was tops. Naturally, that was be- cause he had a lot of saxophones in it. HOH: The death of Miss Barnes, our eighth grade history teacher, marred our junior year, though. MARION: June rolled around, and our friends of forty-seven left us in charge. MARCE: We kept the same officers and took over the front seats in assembly. How we used to fight to decide which room would be in the front row! RIESTY: We finally settled it by having a different room in front each month. HOH: More changes in faculty this year. Miss Moriarty. Mr. Quick, Mr. Oulton, and Mr. Alexakos left. NORMA : Mr. Skolnick, Mr. Kistner, and Mr. Foley joined the faculty. Miss Burke came from the junior high to teach French, and our own Mr. Lang- lois was welcomed back to the school in the biology department. MARION: I suppose this little wind-up toy is a relic of the Kid Party. I think we had more fun playing London Bridges” and Rattlesnake” at that than we did when we were in grammar school. MARCE: Weren’t the costumes funny? I think Miss Miller should have re- ceived a special award for her pinafore and sunbonnet and the long wood-shaving curls. And Charlie was a wonderful Santa. Rl STY: Every time the photographer had us set. some one would crack a joke; and he'd have to place us again. Here’s the final result (picking up pic- ture from the Kid Party). HOH : Here's an account of our football team for the past four years. Out of [25]