Barre High School - Barretone Yearbook (Barre, MA)

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Prophecy It hardly seems possible that twenty-five years have elapsed since the class of 1963 graduated from Barre High School. It seems like only yesterday that our classes were held in the ivy covered building. Now we are meeting for our twenty-fifth class reunion. Joan Vaidulas, our class secretary, has just recently retired from being an airline stewardess for a big airline company in order to get married. She ended up with a record of traveling 1,983 362 miles. Her best friend in school, Carolyn Tetreault, managed to sur- press her desire to become a jet pilot and is a very successful elementary teacher. Her students like her so much that at the end of each year they give her a party. Carolyn, being the sentimental type, cries at each one. Dominic Pante, who has been in the Marines since graduation, now is a high ranking officer and makes a huge salary. Jill Dod has just arrived from New York City. She is the personnel manager of a very large department store there. Marcia Potter, an old friend of Jill ' s, is now married and owns this department store. She is very well-to-do. Stewart Anderson and John Lamacchia have been teaching high school in California for fifteen years. Incidently, both of them are still not married. Car designer Geoffrey Watson is the most sought after person of his profession in the whole United States. Next year he plans to take a vacation trip around the world. His most recent creation is surely going to cause a commotion at General Motors. It is going to be called the Barre Buzzard! Mary Ann Mertzic, who was married after graduation, is still living in Barre with her family. She does a little secretarial work for her husband. Elaine Raffier was also married shortly after graduation. She now has nine children and has very little time for outside work. Last year she was nominated Mother of the Year. Roger Gariepy, Thomas Taylor, and Laurence Gould are all working together in a prosperous engineering partnership. Their central office is located in Outer Mongolia. Roger recently constructed the much needed bridge between Tongareva Island and Topelau Island, both in the Pacific. Tom and Laurence have just killed 10,000 penguins to make room for the new Shcp-O-Rama parking lot in the South Pole. William Regienus has been traveling in Africa looking for rare and exotic wood for his lumber company in Barre. From the experience gained on these safaries, he has just completed a book called The Village Idiot.

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This year, after a great many tense moments we came in first in the Magazine Drive. We will never forget the fun we had as kings and queens on the day of the Ice Cream Social. Next in line was the Senior Social. A one act play, entitled Christmas Trimmings, was put on for the alumni. A dance took place after the play. It soon was time for us to begin thinking of a play to put on in February. Mr. Weldon found us The Happiest Days of Your Life a hilarious English farce. The play took place on February 15 and 16. Our last activity as a class was a ham and bean supper on March 30. Carolyn Tetreault was the chairman of the very successful affair. Now those four years of high school that we anticipated such a short time ago are drawing to an end. Soon we will be walking through the ivy covered portals for the last time as a class and out into the world as separate, adult citizens. Years that have promised to be so long as we looked forward to them have flown by, and we find it difficult to believe that they really have happened at all. The proof of their reality, however, lies in the hearts of all of us, the memories of fun filled days never to be forgotten.

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Billy Whigham turned out to be a world famous pianist. He has just composed a concerto in E minor. Josephine Trifilo is now a renowned fashion designer in New York City. She designs all her clothes for Harper ' s Bazaar, and last week she raised quite a frenzy in certain fashion circles when she designed a dress consisting entirely of match heads and chewing gum. Olga Salvo, Patricia Mercik, Nancy Ibnlle, and Lorraine Stevens are all prosperous secretaries in a huge insurance company. They find time out of their busy, married lives to correspond with each other. Carol Meilus and Betsy Lang are both nurses now. They are the team that discovered the sensational Love Pills. Both of them are reluctant to take the pills, but they are on sale for anyone who will pay the outrageous price. Donald Carpenter is an electronic technician in Boston. He invented a light bulb that never burns out, but they are available to close friends only. Larry Benedict, who has established for himself the name of a famous critic, has been touring the United States while making a series of lectures. He recently rated William Regienus ' s book as excellent. Sportscaster Richard Lamacchia will announce his tenth world series baseball game. Most of his classmates will listen to it just to hear the sound of his voice once again. Donna Kruckas, after a short while working for the airlines, married and moved to New Mexico. She and her husband own a desert motel there, and they have quite a good business. Angelo Salvadore, a much desired house builder, is the highest paid carpenter in the country. His associate, Walter Higgins, is building the much needed apartment buildings in India. A leading hairdresser, Barbara Whigham is said to have never done the same hairdo twice. Some of her creations are real wildl She has never had the same customer twice either . . . because her hairdos are lasting. Rodney Dwelly is a surfboard instructor in Hawaii. There, he owns a pineapple plantation which he farms in his spare time. Marshall Southwick runs a farm in Barre. He just received a prize for growing a ninety pound tomato. Alfred Whippee, after retiring from the service, opened a chair factory. His business is doing very well, and he is on his way to becoming the next millionaire in the country.