Barre High School - Barretone Yearbook (Barre, MA)

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MO Michael Fargnoli Best Dressed Ann Pitisci Detention Pal Benjamin Greene Best Actor Geors ' e Marshall Best Looking Most Popular Best Smile Carol Britton Most Sophisticated Best Dressed Most Likely to Succeed David Sottile Detention Pal Matthew Cirelli Most Quiet Barbara Galvin Best Athlete

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Joseph Neri Best Athlete Jeannette Kasputis Most Nonchalant Peter O ' Connor Most Nonchalant Karen Kallio Most Active Best Looking Most Popular Best Smile Thomas Panaccione Most Active Most Versatile Evelyn Kowal Most Versatile Best Actress Class Clown Biggest Appetite Theodore Guilford Most Sophisticated Most Likely to Succeed Maria Trifilo Best Disposition Most Q,uiet Paul Mann Best Disposition Biggest Appetite

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affssffisroflv The time has come for an account of the past four years by the Class of I960. These years have passed very swiftly, and this chronicle will reveal whether they have been fruitful years. 53 horrified students entered the portals of Barre High School in September of 1956 a grueling experience for anyone. Mr. Vallarlo was on hand to greet us and guide us through our first year. Monsters, identified as upperclassmen and later found to be students like ourselves who had once endured the same ordeal, made the days of orientation more difficult. The Magazine Drive was thrust upon us before a month had pass- ed and, although eager to make a good first impression, the Ice Cream Social found us exercising, as is customary for Freshmen, at the back of the Assembly Hall. At the Freshiman Assembly we were sure the floor would collapse from all the stamping by the upperclassmen. The noise was effec- tive, as it astonished and frightened us, but the terror was even worse when the Frosh were forced to sing to the school song, which we had hardly mastered, all alone. Our class officers for this year of bewilderment were Tom Panaccione, President; Carol Britton, Vice-President; Evelyn Kowal, Secretary; Alan Houston, Treasurer, and John Mason, Student Council Representative . Seven boys responded to the call of basketball season by play- ing on the Junior Varsity Teem. They were Joe Heri, Tom Panaccione, John Panzyck, Ted Guilford, Dave Whigham, Paul Larrabee, and Paul Mann, who was captain. Barbara Galvin held a spot on the Girls ' team. Cheryl Merchant succeeded in winning first prize in the Calla- han Contest, and Evelyn Kowal placed third in the Prize Speaking Contest; both of these were a credit to the class. vVith one down and three to go, the Class of 60 commenced its Sophomore year. Mrs. Upham was our helpful homeroom teacher. The first few days we did our utmost to disturb our Freshmen replace- ments, but then settled down to business with the election of of- ficers: John Mason, President; Joyce Harty, Vice-President; Marion Damon, Secretary; Evelyn Kowal, Treasurer; Tom Panaccione, Student Council Representative, and Joe Heyes, Washington Fund Treasurer. Evelyn Kowal was chairman of the Sophomore Social, the sole