Brattleboro Union High School - Colonel Yearbook (Brattleboro, VT)

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Than You Thunk Lufe un the Hereafter Sux Feet Under and Lost un a Cradle Down Deep We were really put through the wrunger' The examunatuon uneluded u blood count dont let anyone tell you a drop us all ut requures three of us had to haxe transfusuons just to walk out under our own power One of the y uctums eomplauned of a stuffed up head It was cleared out for hum wonder ful what a 32 specual wull do at close range The most umportant soeual functuon rapudly approached we greeted ut wuth open arms our hrst formal dance Our questuons were many What do you wear? Cost more than 254 What do you do take a gurl 7 Came the bug nught und the hall was filled wuth freshmen un new knee pants and Lord Iauntleroy collars After that affaur we had somethung to talk ubout for a long long tume George I took a real gurl to the Prom I dud I dud I dud eyen though ut was my suster' At last at long last Mr Wuggun decuded that we had grown up enough to b released from hus patuent tutelage for a few months at least As w e tore through the doorw ay we cared nothung about the year to come for the moment we were as free as burds' ll nue11INelun1uI.Vu effe 2 Sophomore Yecur OWN the dumlylughted eorrudors steaduly crept a large group of sappy sophomores eager to acquure further knowledge from the master munds of B H S Nouselessly they unfultrruted unto rooms ll and 12 where they were ummeduately put un urons by those robust keepers ol the zoo Mrs Murdock and Mr Dayus The few who eseaped to the seeond floor were ambushed wuth out warnung by Mr E Gordon Thomas We then packed ourselves unto Room 20 to welcoune the unsugnuficant I reshues After Saud busuness was thrashed out we trued to settle down to work Yes the class of 1950 had eome back for another cruck at the ununds of those denuzens of the dark the teachers of B H S ust then dusaster struck' We eould see a famuluar look uuug form slowly creepung toward us Gasps of horror could be Iu ard from those unduyuduals who had learned from the superuor senuors what thus shadow eould mean As ut approached closer a thun ray of lught fell upon ut No' ut couldnt be' not so soon un the year but ut w us Unele Curl Muller the fruendly money maker eolle t ung class dues' He appounted PHIL SMITH DON HOP KINS and IRANKLIN GALLUP as hus aecompluees to collect the mad money At last the first dance of the year finally came We Softues un our best bubs and tuckers set out for the Freshman Blowout Some of those wude eyed Freshmen thought that they could cut a rug I thunk that they soon changed theur munds when the handsome boys of the Sophomore class took over' On the followung Fruday we challenged the be wuldered offsprungs to a rope pull In such an embarrass E D ung sutuatuon they had no alternatuve but to accept As usual the I reshmen beat the Sophomores' I you luke to work here us ln opportunity to show just what you can do Anyway thus us what Coach Nato wuch told hus youthful squad of football boys The lueky he men ehosen for the work were DON WAITE HARRY ANDERSON WINSTON COBB GREY GODDARD ERNIE CARLSON BILL CODY and LAWRENCE TOMS The only trouble wuth thus Job was that they found themsely es puekung dandeluons out of the ground unstead of kuckung a football off the ground TIM RYAN and ALEX TENNEY were the one who man ag d thungs around the Held The two dazzlung brught eyes who kept our team goung were TINY FLETCHER aud BEV BOVER Good work gurls' Ballots were cast and to steer our hardy crew over the rough spots we elected JOHNNY CARLSON as presudent ANN CHAMBERLIN as Vuee presudent HANDSOME HARRY ANDERSON for treasurer BEV BOVER for secretary They dud a fine Job of hold ung the class together tuon of Roger Duetz were ANN CHAMBERLIN BEV ERLY DANIELL MARILYN GUSTAFSON VIR GINIA HERRICK BETTY HOUGHTON WARREN LAZELLE DAVE PERRY JOHN ROBB PHIL SMITH BARBARA TATE and PHYLLIS WHITNEY Snuff Snuff' somethung was burnung' At Hrst we thought the school house was flamung to uts end fOh Happy Day'j but no ut was only the happy home economuc gurls learnung the trucks ot eookung and sewung' Haye you any thung to be repaured boys ' Well you d better do ut your se ' oMFrHuNc new had been added to Roger Duetzs dance band ANN CHAMBERLIN was playung xuolun and PHIL SMITH was bangung on the puano I want to unform al Iyou students thlt they dud a yery com ndable Job all tow of them' The sweet canarues un Muss Gates newly orgunuzed chour were PHIL SMITH MARY BINGAMAN DAVE PERRY BILL DENNISON GORDON ULMER JOYCE DARLING JOAN COLBURN ALICE HUNT EVLRETT JOHNSON DORIS BOMBARD MARY HOPKINS JULIE KING and ANITA MAGOON Coach Natowuch thought that we had some genuuses un our group so TIM RYAN DONNY WAITE DOODIE ANDERSON ERNIE CARLSON DAN DUDEK KIYI CARLSON CARL TENNY and LARRY TOMS trued theur best to make a few baskets Funny thung though' The ball ney er seemed to go unto that luttle hole I won der why' We were not left out of the Sku Team euther GOR DON ULMER dud a fine Job un representung our elass Early un the season Coach Natowueh preached the hugh and lows to hus track followers who uneluded our re luable classmate LARRY TOMS In sehool the eorrudors V A, Y a V ' ya ' f ' , , ' , . 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CLASS HISTORY Fresh mon Year T was ubrught eheerful day when we the el1ss of 50 eame troopung to the pounded port1ls of our pulatual palladuum ot learnung After w uutung a long tume ull of tive munutes we were suddenly brought to attentuon by a ereak us the massuxe doors swung open we thought that ut was tume th 1t our gre ut d uy h 1d urrux ed when we would beeome hon st fur seeung ete treshnuen unste ud the hunges had fuuuully guxen wuy under the gentle pers11 usuon of one hundred plus people l5l'LlflIIl1g un unuson Most of us h1d heard th ut thus w lS 1 d urk und lorsuken unstututuon but we eould see lught ex rywheue under tl1e e oor through the lloor und penetrutung the w ull We found th ut the shortest w ly between two pounts us not .1 straught lune patrol boys tuught us thus lesson Our bug questuon w1s Wh 1t h uxe those p utrol men got th ut w havent' The answer was Two munutes plus off eaeh elass Yes thus nrst day was pandemonuum Mr Wuggun unformed us that we were to serxe our tume wuth out any fuss and that any reeourse to that old l1shuoned law Freedom of Speeeh would be purely aeeudental We were told that there w usn t uny elevator to the thurd floor To be truthful the only rapud means of transportatuon eupal wouldnt lose hus lure whule w uutung for the male faetor to eome down Unele Carl than took the poduuun not ex1etly th ut euther he stood on ut und told us why ut was wrong for us to have money I for one never knew th ut money was sueh a durty fulthy substunee uf the long green us really the root of ull evul whut 1 lot of ungels there must be floatung around' To muke sure that he eolleeted 1ll the eoun we possessed he made JOHN C ARLSON MARI LYN GUSTAISON BARBARA MAGNAGHI und BARBARA TATI' auxuluury eabbage eolleetors Before too long we poor luttle Ireshues wrenehed wrestled and worked our way unto the sel1ool lute of good U3 old B H S GREY GODDARD and ERNIE CARL SON found themselx es un that huddled mass of organuzed mayhem elassed rlther loosely under the headung of game whueh us known as football In the band under the poundung flaul er leadershup of dureetor Thomas erunged CARROL RICE WARREN LAZELLE VIR GINIA HERRICK BARBARA TATE CARL TEN NEY BTV DANIELLS PHYLLIS WHITNEY DAVE PERRY and CHARLIE LAVALLA un the band JOYCE NIXON PHIL SMITH SYLVIA SMITH ANN CHAMBILRLIN BPV DANIELLS and MARI LYN GUSTAISON quuuled un the orehestra PHIL SMITH ulso found humself Glee Club ueeompunust polute nume for whuppung boy Nl l1y we were studyung un room 70 we were uled' 1 1 lelte e euh urun e pag un eaeh prunted book was umprunted upon our bleary retunas Was sueh a thung possuble9 Dud thus mean that the days of usung a lumunous wateh du ul as 1 readung lamp were ox er9 Indeed ut dud' Rught on the heels of modern uuuxentuon no further than hxe ye urs behund eame B H S In plaee ot our old e 1ndles we had Huoreseent lughts Mr Wuggun seemed to be the butt of many freak aeeu dents durung our hrst year None of our sober senuors knows unythung ubout thus I presume I 1m sure tl1at we shull nexer forget the sught ot Mr Wuggun runnung uround luke un uthlete truunung for tl1e I00y1rd dash uuutortunutely both eloek and bells went blotto so our worthy pu-uneupul demonstruted l skull as un ularm eloek Whule we are duseussung ueudents here s one more After reeeuxung our usual verbal blusterung from the loud sp aker we relaxed unto our usual state of uneasy slumber Suddenly all heek broke loose' A paur of xouees eame through the speaker exudently the P A System wasnt a dead as some people thought It was a eheerful luttle e lrful but Mr Muller spouled our entertainment by send ung a messenger downstaurs The last words were Oh m ' Someone used a blue peneul The old folks found out why unuor eomes home from at B H S up and down the staurs they ran walked and hobbled Some were heard to duseuss the possubuluty of huvung un elev1tor unstalled To unsuue a taur proeedure the Student Couneul took over the tremendous tasks of nomunatung votung and eountung durung the eleetuon ot our elass otheers When th smoke eleared aw uy we found presudent DOODIE ANDLRSON vuee presudent BEV BOVER treusurer IIOHN CARLSON seeretary ANN CHAMBLRLIN Thus el etuon was remurkably tree of eumpaugnung al though sexeral drugstores notueed 1 sudden upswung ol busune s at the sodu fountuun OOD thungs dud not alw1ys follow us around be eause thus was the year when the bug tests were brought from theur war tume returement We the elass of 50 were shoeked by thus tremendous onslaught of un surmountable terror Ex en the teaehers eheery You eant do any more than get zero' fauled to eheer us up xery mueh Funally T day eame and so dud the tests' lor two hours we wrestled wutlu the deelensuon of nouns the eonyugatuon of xerbs and xaruous other phases of our erutueal eurrueulm We passed wuth flyung eolors most of them red We thought that we were 1 faruly he llthy buneh of hoolugans durung the huppy days of B C before elunuej A tune government undermunung the he ulth of uts people' We were murehed unto the lubrury un groups the wuutung room eonsusted enturely ol benelues wutlu a few books tered round wutlu 1 h e ehy es 1 I 'r I'11 f - H, , . , ',. 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E D made 1deal spots for praet1s1ng the twenty yard dash 1t LARRY eould go that far llkl the desks were natural hurdles We had more th 1n 1thlet1e gemuses PHIL SMITH took over on tl1e Spothght Board H1s ILILIIIIOD to the staff produeed 1gre1t ehmge DMI we s1y for the better 9 1 also h 1d mueh to say rn the goxermng of o11r 1nst1tut1on JOHN CARLSON HARRY ANDFR SON l.l'lLI BEV BOVIR r presented us on the Student C OLIIMII Wh lf he ny LILLISIOITS they h 1d to mrke' The grett d1y hntlly Il'l'lWLeI' Tl11t well k11own danee w1s here the LIIIIOI' Prom' A few of the more kllflllg, d ISIIIDJ3 hero s of our el1ss rttended 1t The few who rema1ned home reael books tbout How To Get A Boy and How To Get Better Aequ unted W1th G1rls After t1k1ng final exam1nat1ons and s1y1ng sad fare wells to all the teaehers Iflel our b loyed IIFICIILIS we real med what a wondertul t1me we had had ID good old B H S But there st1ll rema1ned two more ye1rs of work and play All the Sophomores were look1ng forw 1rd to 1t' Pfznlnle M me R11 era Junlor Year ILL here we are entermg our th1rd year 1n the erumbl1ng 1vy eovered walls of dear old Brattle boro H1gh Sehool Unfortunately for the seeond year I0 a row we wer plaeed under superv1s1on of that gruesome twosome MISS I'I11I'l'lCtClI1LLIy md M1ster Charles Cnrpen ter Dav1s A few of our elass Casanov IS lrranged th1ngs so that they eould be eloser to the new erop of freshman females for they were not fast enough for those of the elass of 51 It wasnt long before the 1ney1t1ble sh rdow 1rr11ed Yes you guessed 1t Shyloek M1ller wus lgdlll atter our money To help hxm foree the dolllrs from us he em ployed POLLY STREETER and MARILYN CHICKER ING you know Chlek the glfl w1th the ah er well you know what I mean Already up at Stolte M6IUOfldl I1eld were Coaeh An drew N3tOW1Lh and h1s Jerky personnel of dandel1on p1ekers er exeuse m football players Among these rugged 1nd1y1duals were DAN DUDEK GREY GOD DARD BRUCE GAUTHIER ERNIE CARLSON HARRY ANDERSON LARRY TOMS WINSTON COBB and CARL TENNEY ERNIE CARLSON was grven honorable ment1on on the All State Team To gu1de our poor 1mmature souls we eleeted the most d1st1ngu1shed quartet that eould be found anywhere They were Pres1dent LARRY COREY V1ee PI'CSlkICUf JOAN COLBURN Seeretary EDWINA ILETCHER Treas urer CARL ALEXANDER TI'NNIY C1bb1ge surely wasnt named after Alexander H1m1lton as our deHe1t for the year elearly showed' We weleomed two new members to our beloved el tss I RED BERRX MAN and BARBARA MALC OM These two g1rls er pardon me th1s boy and th1s g1rl had no trouble tlndmg tr1ends IU the1r new surroundmgs The students who wandered lDt0 the darkness of the Ll1lkls6l1 eoop next door Qbetter known as the Annexj to proude the world w1th the sweetest musle th1s s1de of heayen well sweet ITILISIL w ll ITILISIL anyway were ANN CHAMBERLIN VIRGINIA HERRICK BAR BARA TATE BETTY HOUCHTON JOHN ROBB CARROL RICI' WARREN LAZELLE PHYLLIS WHITNIY MARILX N GUSTAISON BEVERLY DANIILL VIRGINIA HI'WIT'I PHILIP SMITH IFILI ROCI R C HAPMAN mr Mlll 11 rolled 1round 1nd we all beg tn to look for the D1aI that M1ser M1lIer had prom1sed us I e 111 he 1r IIIITI now X es people you must pay your dues 1f you want the D1al and other prnrleges I ean remem ber what ERNIE CARLSON Inswered Ah fooey' I m 1n all sports and I am t 1ble ta read nohow so why should I g1ye h1m my money ' Bun Ch ttfey hooked yumors MARY HOPKINS DAVID MANLEY and WARREN LAZELLE to help h1m pubhsh the Dlal wh1ch was agam Next eame the bloodhounds for news the Spotl1ght Staff These eager beavers under the able d1reet1on of MISS Lord Qnot that they needed any 1dv1ee5 were Ed1tor 1n eh1ef ROGER CHAPMAN ASSOLIQIC Ed1tor JOYCE NIXON Sports Ed1tor BILL DENNISON ass1stant ed1tors POLLY STREETER JOAN COLBURN PHYL LIS WHITNEY PHIL SMITH 1nd JACK ROBB Stumbl1ng staggermg hobbhng elflbbllflg, and dou ble dr1bbl1ng our basketball boys eame down the eourt TIM RYAN DON WAITI: HARRY ANDERSON CARL TENNEY and DAN DUDEK helped to turn 1n 1 good season s reeord Of eourse you ean t forget managers LARRY TOMS md ERNIE CARLSON you know the managers they are the ones who do all the shootmg wh1le the aetual basketball e 1nd1dates run all afternoon We also boasted of the two smallest bounemg beautres of the eheerlng squad TINY ILETCHER and SQUIRT BOVER Now I want to ment1on a lad who was stuek w1th the name GORDON IRVINE ULMER JR Gordy was our member of the sk1 team wheres er he went he eopped sk1 yumpmg honors IIOR the b1g dramat1e event of the year the sehool play we had LARRY TOMS FRAN COVEY and VIR GINIA HEWITT do1ng the aetmg for the yumor elass MISS Edland had a tough t1me Wltll G1r1ger 1t seems that she wanted to put on a burlesque show wrth herself 1n the lead1ng role Ser1ously though the pl my was a gre 1t sueeess The eall for baseball e1nd1dates brought out many 1un1ors A look at the hneup showed JOHN CARLSON ERNIE CARLSON DAN DUDIK TIM RYAN and HARRY ANDI RSON o11 the selu 1d We were 1lso rep resented by three 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