Bourne High School - Canal Currents Yearbook (Bourne, MA)

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CANAL CURRENTS 15 YOUNG, JUNE (Juney) Sagamore Grammar School; Commercial Course; Sophomore Party Committee (2). “Here’s to the girl, so quiet and nice; Those copying her will be showered with rice.” ZEIGLER, FRANCES (Fran) Winthrop Junior High; Commercial Course; Hockey (1, 2); Upper Cape Symphony Chorus (2). • “Her interests are too many to mention. But roller-skating and dancing oft claim her attention.”

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14 CANAL CURRENTS PELLEGRINI, LOUIS (Pepio) Sagamore Grammar School; Commercial Course; Foot- ball (1, 2, 3); Basketball (3). “A football hero from start to end, A pal worth having — he’s everyone’s friend.” PHILBRICK, HENRIETTA (Henri) Bourne Grammar School; Commercial Course; Class Vice President (1); Basketball (2); Junior Prom Committee (3); Magazine Staff (3). “Always neat, tidy, and chic. Is thought by us to be quite slick.” ROZA. ELIZABETH (Betty) Bourne Grammar School; Commercial Course; Basket- ball (2); Sophomore Party Committee (2); Magazine Staff (3). “Elizabeth is our class flirt. Has lots of experience, but never gets hurt.” RYAN, DOROTHY (Dottie) Bourne Grammar School; Commercial Course; Hockey (2); “Belle of Barcelona” (2); Cheer Leader (2); Basket- ball (1, 2); Upper Cape Symphony Chorus (1, 2); Gradu- ation Chorus (1, 2); Science Club (2); Magazine Staff (3). “Good-natured, merry, diligent is Dot; Fall down on her job, — well I should say not.” TOBEY, NANCY (Nan) Bourne Grammar School; College and Commercial Course; “Belle of Barcelona” (2); Upper Cape Symphony Chorus (2). “Nancy, we hear, is a certain somebody’s pride. And will be, we expect, the class’s first bride.” WHITMAN, PRISCILLA (Puss) Bourne Grammar School; Household Arts, Commercial, and General Course; Upper Cape Symphony Chorus (1, 2); Graduation Chorus (1, 2). “Slim, pretty, and fond of red. May there be happiness not far ahead.” WING, VIRGINIA (Betty) Bourne Grammar School; Commercial Course; Student Council (1); Upper Cape Symphony Chorus (1, 2); Grad- uation ChQrus (1, 2); Class Treasurer (3). “Here’s to an efficient and charming young lass. Who’ll graduate, we expect, at the head of our class.”

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WITCHES Witches? “Fiddlesticks” is the word that our modern civilization applies to these eerie and mysterious creatures. But, — let us turn back the pages of time to a period known to the historical world as the Elizabethan Age. When the sun began to sink behind the high Scottish mountains, and the watchful shepherd had called his flocks to their protecting corrals, doors were bolted and all the win- dows were shut tightly in each peasant’s thatched-roof dwel- ling. Children scampered to their beds and quickly pulled the covers over their heads. Travelers, walking along lonesome and dark roads, cast nervous and cautious glances at every shadow and vague object that appeared before them. Grasp- ing their heavy staffs tighter, they quickened their steps and hurried to their destinations. The cause of all this commotion? Witches, of course. Hideous creatures appearing in the forms of old women, who were evil and ugly, with a potential hate for all human be- ings. Capable of any wrongdoing, they were believed to carry off children to their desolate caves, where they first cooked them in huge pots before devouring them with considerable relish. The majority of the population of this age believed in and feared them. — Flashing back to our present skeptical era, where men are men and witches are fables, we hear more “Fiddlesticks”, and with a shrug of shoulders the thought is dismissed from our minds. Still, when the sun has long disappeared on the distant horizon and the moon begins to peep out from behind a dark cloud with a misty, golden glow, I beg of you to heed my ad- vice for “You’d better be good or the witches will get you.” Walter Young, ’37.