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

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Sixteen Cainal Carreiits 1947 The Freshmee A bout eight o’clock one morning last September a group of forty green, shy, in- experienced, and scared Freshmen stumbled up the steps to Bourne High School where they were directed toward the Freshmen home room. Although students came from both Bourne and Sagamore Grammar Schools, we had one of the smallest Fresh- man classes ever to enroll in Bourne. After a few days of confusing classes, study and home rooms, using the wrong stairs, on the advice of the upper classmen, we settled down for the year. It has proved to be a very busy year with elections, parties, all kinds of sports, plays, dances, . . . yes, studies too! Under the direction of our class advisor, Mr. Clayton Campbell, we held election of our class officers. By a very close vote the following were elected to lead us through the Freshman year: Richard Salsman, President; Carol Dwyer, Vice President; Theo- dora Thamalis, Secretary and Treasurer; and Judith Courtney, Student Council. The elections have proved to be very satisfactory. We had our first class meeting and it was decided that we would start early to raise money for our many future school activities. Previous Freshmen classes had never undertaken the collecting of class dues but nevertheless we decided on twenty-five cents a month. On October 1, 1946, a Halloween Party was held in our honor by the Sophomores. The only purpose of this party was not for our pleasure but to enable them to initiate us. These parties always seem to please the upper classmen ( could it be that they like to see us suffer ) . The hor- rible rumors from everyone made us all wonder what was in store and to dread the thought of the approaching date, but this fear ( as we later found out ) was all in vain. To our amazement in- stead of being initiated we played games, ate refreshments, saw mov- ies, and danced. Only a few boys in our class have shown prospects of becom- ing promising athletes, but in the future we are confident that we shall have the stars. On the other hand the girls were very active in the line of sports. They con- stituted a large part of both the first and second teams in hockey and basketball. The girls have shown us that now and in the future they will go all out for sports. During the month of February a team of girls from our class went to an interscholastic tourna- ment at Plymouth. Although we were not as fortunate as the Soph- omores and the Juniors, who won, we lost with the satisfaction of R. Salsman, T. Thamalis, C. Dwyer having done our best to win.

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Momriie Ha h Scliool Fifteen for baseball and the girls for soft ball and a successful season is being awaited. All in all we think our class proved its worth in the field and on the court. On February 22nd, we held a Cherry Tree Dance. Attendance was poor because of a snowstorm but all who were present agreed that it was fun. As there was such a small crowd the dance was very much like a large party — quite informal — stunt dances were held and movie tickets were awarded to tne winners. Also in February, eight of the girls journeyed to Plymouth to play in the tourna- ment. We defeated the Plymouth Sophomores, . 6-10. Eleanor Harding chalked up 25 of the points. We were served ice cream afterwards. We then went hunting for bubble gum. We got results, too. A ring committee was chosen and when the gentleman came they picked out three of the best looking rings and we chose the one that we all agreed upon. Now we can hardly wait until next fall when we shall have them on our fingers. Our sophomore year has been fun and now we are looking forward to the rest of the year and our Junior year at Bourne High School. II i 1 i| I I 1 m H 1 i| 1 rirst row. L. Bower, C. Tucy, S. Raymond. E. Harding, J. Besse, T. Tobey, E. Gibbs, F.Taylor, B. Downey, H. Harrison, L. Browne. Second row: D. Douglas, M. Lunedei, M. Jenkins. C. Gagnon, E. Stymies: A. Sylvia, U. Wing. E. Norris, J. Robbins, M. Rattray. Third row: R. Anderson, J. Bigelow, F, Anderson. W. Thomas. R. Nowlan, A. Fuller, G. Dodd, R. Kerr, E. Venn, R. Layton. Fourth row: W. Alden, W. Whittier L. Eerretti, R. Andrews, A. Booth, D. Handy, R. Burns, W. Cook, C. Eldridge. Fifth row: C. Harding, F. Manamon. P. Collins. E. Cannon, J. Lahretto. R. Hurley, C. Thamalis.

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Bourne Hi h Seliool Seventeen We are very proud of the salesmanship of the students in our class. A prize of five dollars was to be presented to the Freshman who sold the most Senior Play tickets. Conrad Nowlan outsold the other students and won the prize. Raffle tickets for the Athletic Association are now on sale and another one of our classmates, Joanne Byron, is showing us her selling ability. So far she is way ahead of everv ' one in the school and it is very doubtful if anyone can catch up to her. We are now approaching the end of our Freshman year at Bourne High, which has been one of our best years of school. We have gained a rich experience and a sense of great loyalty for our classmates and our school. Our class is looking forward to next year at Bourne with a great anticipation and we are glad to be coming closer to being called upper classmen. First row. E. Berriault, M. Bigelow, R. Smalley, C. Nowlan, R. Salsman, J. Courtney, C. Dwyer, T. Thamalis, K. Haskell, D. Mendes, W. Mendes. Second row. S. Thomas, P. Wing, M. Cardoza, J. Chandler, M. Browne, H. Stephenson, L. Fuller, Mary Schuster, Marjorie Schuster, E. Griffith. Third row. J. Holt, B. Forrest, P. Neslein, E. Alden, B. Wixon, E. Trench, M. Robbins, J. Byron, M. Lincoln, E. Compton, P. Nightingale. Fourth row: M. St. Pierre, G. Hesketh, R. Wagner, R. Grant, J. Ellis, C. Bradford, H. Harrison, R. Brightman, E. Wheeler, Q. Coppi.