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

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HOWE HIGH YEARBOOK companied by his wife, Lennea Johnson, the editor of the exclusive maga- zine Styles for the Tiny Woman. Peggy Joyce is not here tonight. We hear that she is working very hard for the good of her patients at the hospital where she works. Or is it for the handsome medico that she is working hard? Betty Leavitt is alone tonight. Any day her face may be seen on the cover of a popular magazine. Betty is a Walter Thornton model. Helen G'I l'l7lG.S' has been very busy since turning domestic. She lives on a farm where she raises children and hogs. Emelia Marynofwslin' has dropped her best ofiice manner for the evening in order to enjoy herself. She makes a very eilicient secretary and bright- ens the office tremendously, we hear. Kenny', Sheehan is holding down the position of chief engineer of the refrigeration department of the General Electric plant. A resident of Tewksbury, Viola Wilson, is here among us. Everyone knows why she now resides in Tewksbury. The famed shipbuilder, Grover Derry, is here. His hobby is building and racing model ships. Mariel Turner is doing detective work for the government. John Glavnfn, after handling the pigskins at Howe, has taken to raising them for a hobby in his spare moments. Carol Petersen, now the business manager of a large printing estab- lishment, has not failed to show up tonight to see her old friends. It could be that she is looking for a few more subscriptions. Claire Wentworth is often seen downtown with various of her ten children, although she is alone tonight. We have either seen or had news of all of the class of '45, ten years in advance, so let us now leave the Dry-Den as unobtrusively as We entered it, and return to the year, 1945. BARBARA EATON, Chairman DOROTHY RABIDOU CLARENCE DAVID BARBARA HUGHES ELAINE CRANDALL MARY LEWIS FRANCIS GLAVIN -24...

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HOWE HIGH YEARBOOK Judy Marshall, now a famous musician, has her own program, Take It or Leave lt, that may be heard every Sunday evening at 9 :30 p.m. There is among the gay folk here tonight, a. distinguished figure in the person of Phil Ward, the American ambassador to Siam. Another high-ranking personage is Donald Sehult, who is a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He joined the Navy ranks during his senior year at Howe. Remember? William Coy is in Movieland. He usually plays the role of the pre- cocious little boy, and very well, too. We learn that Barbara Conway is the head telephone operator for the Pay in Advance Hotel here in New York. Dottie Rabidou, who is seen near-the check room, has a very good position as private secretary to the president of a large bank in town. Barbara F ranz, an eminent psychiatrist, has her office in the Empire State Building, she proudly declares to all who are interested in hearing. Rita Caissie is here with her husband. She started out taking dic- tation, but now the boss takes it. Here comes Lindy Snell, who has just built his millionth car, the Flash The Charles Coriniers are entering now. Mrs. Cormier certainly has some beautiful furs, since Charlie spends most of his spare time hunting and trapping. We see -over there, the newest star of Broadway, Alice Wilson. She is with her leading man, Horace Howright. Many of the class of 45 have received flying f- lessons from Power Dive Cameron at his flying Held. He is at the moment being besieged by auto- graph hunters. Mary Lou Lewis, we see, is on from California for the opening of the Dry-Den . She is making a name for herself as a director in Hollywood. We have another resident of Sunny California in N the person of Ginny Brouillard, hula-hula dancer in a famous night spot. The well known musical instructor, Barbara Hughes, has just entered with one of her former pupils. He never made any progress because neither of them could keep his attention on the music. Janice Turner is here with her husband - a duke no less. Peggy McGrath has altered considerably since graduating. She has started to grow up! It must be her family of six. Mary Morgan's presence lends a lot of dignity. She is a member of the editorial staff of a well known newspaper. That illustrious research chemist Eddie Dugan can be seen above the heads of the crowds. He is ac- , 2:1 -

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HOWE HIGH YEARBOOK mfmhhlhd Fond memories of Jean and Mr. Locke as they stood under the mistletoe in Room 21 the day before Christmas . . . of the B. U. test.. .of Wednesday morning as- semblies . . . of the Senior Prom . . . of the basketball practices . . . of the explosion in chem. lab. . .of Senior play rehearsals ,-M-fr . . . of the Tri-Delta splash parties . . . of 'S' Miss Shaw's understanding and co-opera- tion . . .of Miss Baker's seventh period checkers . . . of yearbook drudgery . . . of T' many roller-skating parties . . . of cleaning Rdhg up after the Junior Prom . . . of bull sessions . . . of our air-raid drills . . . of fellows off to the service . . . of the snowball fights in the school yard. . .of the thrilling football games each Thanksgiving morning . . . of pushing Brown's model T around . . . of Miss Baker's dry humor . . . of the wise cracks of our senior wits . . . of Bull Gibb's making a spontaneous speech when presented with a gift at the foot- ball dance . . . of Sonny Dixon and his orchestra . . . of the rallies before the Chelmsford game . . . of our jeep rides . . . of Tri-Delta luncheon meetings . . . of Sammy's home room . . . of the 100W stamp days for Room 20 . . . of photo-taking fboth Purdy's and otherwiseb . . . of detention room of fresh- man election day . . . of purchasing class rings . . . of the Boys' Show . . . of Mr. Carnie's biology classes . . . of learning algebra from Mr. Dresser . . . of Mr. Brenner's basketball teams . . . of Chuck Lampson's G, coaching technique . . . of Mr. O'Neill's rugged ya' good looks . . . of listening in Room 20 to .N D-Day invasion . . . of Mr. Chittim's piano 7 X. A j selections . . . of Clarkie's preview of the Boys' f Ii X Show . . . of fire-proofing the stage scenery . . . I of our two weeks' enforced vacation . . . of Mr. u F Sullivan's aeronautics class . . . of collecting Q i ,.. X .1 - ads for the yearbook . . . of typing out yearbook i reports . . . of running out of gas behind Edson l y vi, Cemetery . . . of softball games here at Howe . . . l , of writing graduation speeches . . . of the class l X C of '45. - 25 -