Attleboro High School - Tattletale Yearbook (Attleboro, MA)

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m mum VALEDICTORIAN ELLIOT PIERCE SALUTATORIAN OLIVE CLARK HONOR (Alphabeticall: ROLL ELLIOTT AXDER80X L EZ ATWELL PHISCILLA HROWX A LAX lU RT ARTHT R CARLSOX ROBERT C ' HA?iIILLARD OLIVE CLARK rai;hai;a cdiuucAX (■( i r . ( i: I i;i:xiER mu x ( ;( i)i) i;i) ri! ( i:s ( i( Av SIAM.IA lIol.lUioOK .MAi;.)()i;ii; iioi r MARIE JAMES RICHAIil) .KtHXSOX LEOXA KELLEV ROSALIE KXIGHT MARIAX LARSOX LORRAIXE L 1UEX DAM I) MAiniX ALIC-E MclU HXEV MARY McBERXEY FREDERICK MOOHE llElil5i;HT MOOHE 1;LI.1oT I ' llJiCE DAMD i;« »rXSlA ILLE CKCII.l-: M. lMi:i!HE RALi ' ii M iiri;mi:iss D( »TH ' TA I-liO AXITA I HKEX ELIZAP.E ' l ll WKI.LS VIVIAX WriLLEr.MIEl AWARDS Helen W. Metcalf English Prize LVRIE MABEL JAMES The Washington- Franklin History Medal FREDERICK .SAXFORD MOORE Bausch Lomb Science Award STAXLEY EARLE HOLBROOK D. A. R. Citizenship Award MAHJOHIE HARRIET HOLT Attleboro Museum of Art and History Scholarship FLOREXCE BARBARA CORRIOAX CLASS MOTTO CLASS COLORS What we are to te, Maroon and Gold we are now becoming. CLASS SONG By ROBERT PETTITT I.eaviiii: the portals of our A. H. S., ( ' art- on our way, ( ii. allium the memories we now |):i» ' ,-, kcepin{ them day l.y (lay. Ihiriiifi these years, we have made many friends, friendships have been cast; Xow, at the time that our schooling ends, we know these friendships will last. We will succeed and we will not dismay, no matter how rough the sea. For it is true — we ' re becoming today what we are to be. Page T h ii I y

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m mwm Vivian Edith Wuilleamier College lass. General Hospital Viv A personality so rare; A charming face so fair. Honor Usher 3, 4; Field Hockey 4 Tennis 3, 4; Tattletale; Press Club 2, 3, 4 Biology Club 4; Tri-Y 4; Geometry Play 2 French Play 2; Office Work 4. Beatrice Yerbury College St. Lawrence University Eeatie Fvll of happiness and glee; A perfect picture of our Bea. Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Operetta 1, 2, 3; Music Theory 1; Honor Usher 4; Student Council 4. Marjorie Young College Homeopathic Hospital of P. I. Butch A woman either lires or hates; Is never neutral in feeling. Honor Usher 3; Student Council 3, 4; Basketball 3; Field Hockey 4; Blue Owl 4; Tattletale; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Operetta 1, 3; Concert 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Secretary and Treasurer of Band 4; (Jrchestra 1, 2, 3; Sketch Club 3, 4; Camera Club 4; French Assembly 2; Blue Owl Assembly 4. Molvin Joseph Young Technical P. I. School of Design Mel N ' eatness, wrt, aiul football aie his forts. I ' (i()t!);i!l :!, 1: Interclass Hockey 4; Blue Owl SialT 2, 3; Blue Owl Assembly 2, 3; Dance Committee 2; Football Assembly 2, 3. Armantl Raymond Zarrella General Zits Full of fun and misclnef, too, Dnnnj llriNgs he shouldn ' t do. Student Council 4; Football 2; Class Dav 4. Horace PhiHp Benson Manual Arts Horie Begone, dull Car,, you uud I shall ucrer agree. Lester Flemming Grant, Jr. Civic Arts Les rmjust a ' Drumming Man ' . Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4. James Thornton Drake Civic Arts P. I. School of Design Jimmie A true sport in erery .b ' e i-se of the word. Football 3, 4; Drivers ' Club 1. Eva Renaud Commercial Shorty Industry makes for success. Cilee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Operetta 2, 3; Concert 4; Music Theory 3; Assembly Program 4. Virginia Frances Stodda rd Household Arts Ginny Bright, meek, and ■mild, Yov never will he inld. Special Assembly 3. Page Twenty- n i n e

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-i«f mum mm A GROWING INDUSTRY OF ATTLEBORO Of late years, chemistry has come to play an in- tegral part in our industry and in our daily lives. Im- proved fuels make our automobiles run better; new alloys of metal make possible streamlined airplanes and high-speed trains; new chemical processes have founded entirely new industries, but of these many innovations, the one perhaps best known to the general public is the field of plastics. Plastics can b ? used for almost every conceivable purpose: combs, radios, jar tops, ornaments, and countless other small household articles are now made of plastics, and they are coming to be used for larger and larger objects. Plastics can be employed for almost any necessary task, as is shown by the fact tha t a certain man whose skull was crushed is now alive and walking around in perfect health, thanks to the bakelite skull which now covers his cranium. These new materials have many properties com- monly unavailable in other substances. There are special plastics having the qualities of a lasting finish, any desired color, imperviousness to solvents, acid- resistance, alkali-resistance, great strength, insulating properties, and many others as w( ll. A nianutacturer can find a plastic to fill almost any need he may have. The average plastic is, chemically considered, a cluster of extremely long molecular chains. These chains may be scattered and pointing haphazardly in all directions, as in bakelite and beetleware, or they may be stretched out side by side in a thin filament, as in nylon, the new material which threatens to replace silk. There are many different classes ot plastics: bakelite is the phenol-formaldehy l ' type ; beetleware, the urea-formaldehyde type; while nylon, which I have already mentioned, and lucite ; the plastic which conducts light around corners, are cellulos( acetates. To show you how the small plastic ash tray you have at home was made, I shall trace the story from the making of the plastic, which I shall assume to be bakelite, through the molding process to the finished article. Phenol, or carbolic acid, as it is commonly called, is combined with gaseous formaldehyde, under the influence of a catalyst. There are several different catalysts in ordinary use, each one producing a slightly different product. But no matter what the catalyst, the result of the combination of these two materials is a resinous or tarry substance. This resin is then mixed thoroughly with a filler and a coloring pigment. This fill, i- is generally wood, ground into extremely fine powder. But sometimes, to give the plastic special properties, other fillei s are used such as asbestos, to produce a fireproof plastic. After the resin has been mi.xed with the filler, the plastic is a solid mass, completely unlike the smooth black ash tray which we are discussing. This material is then made into small granules by grinding. The manufacturer of your ash tray probably bought his plastic in the granulated form, for the manufacturer seldom makes his own plastic. In the factory one of two things was next done. The granulated plastic may have been put directly into the mold, or else it may have been first pressed into the approximate shape of the finished product. The object of tnis primary shaping, or preforming , as it is called in the factories of Attleboro and other cities, is to make sure that the plastic will reach all portions of the mold, and also to reduce the space needed in the mold before heat and pressure are ap- plied. In either case, the next step is to subject the material to great pressure at high temperatures in a mold of special steel. The first effect of the heat is to melt the plastic, so that under the pressure it readily flows into all parts of the mold. Then, as greater pressure and heat are applied, the plastic hardens in th ' mold. Wh( n it is removed, after a cooling period, there is the finished ash tray with a smooth shining finish which requires no polishing. This tray will not melt under heat, for the heat and pressure in the mold changed it chemically so that it is uomeltable. As you can readily see, it is the mold which de- termines what the product will be. This shows that whatever can be molded, can be made from plastics. This fact presages a tremendous future for plastics. In the world of tomorrow, we may find not o ily knick- knacks and small articles made of plastics, but larger and more complex things as well. There is at present a company which is experimenting with the possi- bility of using plastic fenders on automobiles. Plastic Page T h i r t ij - o n e