Brockton High School - Brocktonia Yearbook (Brockton, MA)

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Cfaaa .Mdfory No more pencils! No more books!- How often have we quoted this time- worn phrase in our carefree, younger days. For those of us who are not going to college, Iune 9th will afford the final opportunity for cursing the three R's. Seriously, as we reminisce over our three hectic years at Brockton High School, we realize with pride how actively we have participated in the traditional school affairs. On the sports parade, we proved victors in almost every field. After compiling excellent records in our sophomore and junior years, the champion senior football team climaxed a brilliant season with a second battle of the North and South, in which the Red and Black defeated Edison High of Miami in the Orange Bowl. Our junior year was a bonus one for the baseball and golf teams. The Baseball Nine sparkled as much as the proverbial diamond when they won the Eastern Massachusetts State Championship. While the golf team won the State Championship, the '49 hockey and track teams showed the stuff they were made of along with the basketball, cross-country, and tennis teams. The girls, not to be surpassed by the stronger sex, were avid participants of the intramural sports. The shining attraction of '49 was the high school band, which established for itself a name as one of the great bands of the state. Another group which became prominent during our senior year was the Galloneers, sixteen deb- onair men of song, who by their unusual interpretation and styling won the plaudits of all those who heard them. The Sarah Bernhardts and Iohn Barrymores of our class were given a chance to display their talents in the hilarious success, The Fighting Littles. We at last came into our own when as seniors, we tripped the light fantastic at the merry Forty-Niners' Frolicf' Changes occurred. At the close of 1946, Headmaster Haskins accepted a posi- tion at Westfield, and, coming in as juniors, we began our last two years under Mr. Frellick, who has proved to be an inspirational leader and friend. The resignation of E. Marion Roberts, director of athletics for the past thirty-five years, came as a surprise to all. Mr. Roberts is now planning to guide young apple trees rather than champion football teams. Brockton High School will miss this capable and gentlemanly member of our faculty. ln our senior year, our happiness was dimmed by the untimely death of Clinton Bonney, beloved head of the history department, and the deaths of Richard Obert and Iames Alden, two of our classmates. We realize full well the significance of the saying, In the midst of life, we are in death. Along with the joy and thrill of graduation, we shall momentarily be saddened at this step in our lives. We shall no longer see many of the familiar faces which have passed us so frequently in the corridors. But, looking back, we shall always consider our years at Brockton High School part of the best years of our lives. 21

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