Billerica Memorial High School - BMHS Yearbook (Billerica, MA)

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HOWE HIGH YEARBOOK Let us fly now in our imagination to the Gay White Way. Our plane taxis to a stop before a brilliantly X . N X X ' l ' i ' f ' X illuminated club where everyone N 30-wowooooowooooo-f00000003 f seems to be going. The name The -g -1,0-3 see' 3'-n3g0'7,f2,o2 80-,g 3og 3 - Dry-Den is proclaimed to all the ' ' ggi? 2 3511 owing? 201,33 . Eflorlgl byd theflaage neon sign across f I L'2..flDo2s '.f.'ff'2'1,. .2 X e aca e o t e building. Let us l l enter unseen by any one of this W Q 'fri multitude of opening night guests. 1 , There is the fastidiously groomed . TONIGHT proprietor, Raleigh Dryden, greeting . CWUE T anew his many friends and former Allawi? patrons of his old establishment on U ll Drury Street, graduates of Howe Q OR, N ' High School, class of 1945, in W Billerica. The festivities are directed very fl W capably by the debonair master -of - l l , HOHGHT ceremonies, Squawlc David. , ' l. Ruth, Bourque, personal secretary, Whose duties include keeping the books of the club, is seen here in the office of the club's manager, Frank -- W Slocoinb, who has just been named Esquire's Man of the Year. Along with Mr. Dryden, greeting people, is the head hostess, Barbara Eaton. Barb has had several movie offers, but she prefers her work in the Dry-Den. Among the first patrons to arrive are Ned Wells, one of the most popular heartbreakers - until he was caught- and Mrs. Wells, the for- mer Helen Tintle, who declares that keeping tabs on the children and on Neddie keeps her scampering. And there is the girl with the cutest pair of dimples in town, the queen of the Dilnples' Club, Louise Glennon. Suddenly our attention is directed toward the stage as the curtain rises on the Spotlight Band of the Week with its rendition of Drum Boogie, featuring Gene Krupa Gauthier and torch singer, Frances Langford Keaney. The ever popular Harry James Dixon flourishes his baton, our maestro di cappella. Well! Do you see whom I see? William Waite, the noted French professor at a very exclusive girls' school, is here. Richard Boliannon, that gentle little hunk of man, is the considerate bouncer in this club. His policy is to throw out only those who do not seem to be having a good time. Let us stop here beside this foursome talking over old times. The predominant voice is that of the new Hollywood COTl lQCllGllllQ, Elainw Crandall. Almost equally well heard is Rufh Healy. Ruth now has hor ..211

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HOWE HIGH YEARBCOK FORTY-SIXTH: I, Jean Fillmore, leave my red hair. FORTY-SEVENTH: I, Edwin Gibb, leave my broad shoulders and my position as left tackle on the football team to Harris Crouse. FORTY-EIGHTH: I, Helen Grimes, leave my shyness to Shirley Foley. FORTY-NINTH: I, Ruth Healy, leave my vivacity to Arthur LeBeau. ' FIFTIETH: I, Mary Lou Lewis, leave my library of best sellers to Miss O'Nei1l's English IIIA. FIFTY-FIRST: I, Frank Slocomb, leave my curly red locks to Tony Lavalle. FIFTY-SECOND: I, Viola Wilson, leave my knowledge of parts of speech to Charles Morrione. FIFTY-THIRD: I, Nancy Lunt, leave my early morning run for the bus to Margaret Verheyen. R FHFTY-FOURTH: I, Dorothy Hansen, leave my shyness to Dora usse . FIFTY-FIFTH: I, Marie Fleming, leave my studious proclivities to Virginia Durgin. FIFTY-SIXTH: I, Louise Glennon, leave my yen for chemistry class to Okie O'Connor. FIFTY-SEVENTH: I, Ruth Bourque, leave my position as art editor to John Mason. FIFTY-EIGHTH: I, William Coy, leave my chicken pickin' to Jackie Petersen. FIFTY-NINTH: I, Donald Schult, leave my dislike for English homework. SIXTIETH: I, Philip Ward, leave my memories of bookkeeping to Muriel Woodworth. SIXTY-FIRST: I, Richard Bohannon, leave my pleasant memories of Howe High sports to John Marshall. SIXTY-SECOND: I, Mary Keaney, leave my ability to do private school English to all struggling Howe-ites in English IV. In testimony whereof we hereunto set our hands and in the presence of said witnesses declare this to be our last will this Fourteenth day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-five. CLASS OF 1945 On this Fourteenth day of June A. D. 1945 The Class of '45, Howe High School of Billerica, Massachusetts, signed the foregoing instrument in our presence, declaring it to be their last will: and thereafter as wit- nesses thereof we six, at their request, in their presence, and in the presence of each other, hereto subscribe in our names. ' . 'k 's- - KENNETH SHEEHAN ' 0 Q NED WELLS ' WILLIAM WAITE JoHN GLAVIN ARTHUR SNELL GEORGE GORE - Q f 1 flflif L ll

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Barbara Boyd is here with her HOWE HIGH YEARBOOK I own column in the Bugle . She tells I fl unhappy spinsters how to get a man. I,I f I 2 Both girls are accompanied by their Neg 2.1 Ilr IJ' current beaux. Elaine has just 1n- 'B S' t l W. formed the group that Ernest Chick GI iI 4 W5 I,5,jfZf filji was last seen in Russia. It seems that KI i,'fI,I'l ' 12 J Wg ' ' he is exploring the world. 5' ' Here is Marie Fleming. My, how X! she has changed! It is rumored along ,ff i' is the grapevine that she is now Carmen ' . Miranda's understudy. el' That distinguished-looking, well- ,,gW, dressed gentleman standing by him-- f-x - 4l.lW'f + self in the corner is Arnold Brown. W He plays the butler roles that used to N belong to Arthur Treacher. Another Brown here tonight is M Connie Brown, now the twenty-fifth av 51-AGE ' so Mrs. Tommy Manville. husband. She met him when she was training to be a nurse. He was one of her patients. We overhear in another quarter that Jean Fill1nore's archaeologist husband has taken her to the Yucatan. He says that down there he knows where she is nights. Paul Wadleigh arrived rather late. He came directly from Carnegie Hall, where he had given a violin concert. We have just discovered that the pretty little dark-haired dancer participating in the floor show tonight is our own Dottie Hansen. Bernadette Knlski has not arrived yet, although she is expected at any minute. She wired that she missed the plane she was planning to get from Buenos Aires, and that she would have to wait for the next one that left an hour and a half later. We were surprised. Bernie never missed a bus when she was in school. Nancy Lunt just ilew into town with her newly acquired husband Lord Alexander Wesniewski in their private plane from their summer home on the Riviera. If you don't see George Gore here tonight, you can listen to his dry and intelligent humor over NBC every Wednesday evening. Over there is Edwin Gibb, now playing guard with the Chicago Bears, and doing very well for himself. Franny Glayin, arriving after playing professional basketball tonight, says he is playing the sport in order to put his children through college. Lorraine H onlne is missing from the group. Her absence is possibly due to the fact that she has just recently opened a day nursery. She had plenty of experience for such an establishment while she was still in high school. ' Janet MeColongh, the navy nurse who was voted The Nurse with Whom We'd Most Like to be Marooned Anywhere by thousands of sailors, brings us news that Jean Ellis is trying to master the Swedish language so that she can converse with her husband, a sailor who helped man the Gripsholm, back in 1945. ,22....