Burlington High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Burlington, MA)

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Their creations were used to frighten difficult children. As George and I always liked a little recreation we left the bus- iness section of town and headed for the amusement center. Upon entering the gym, we were reminded by a poster that Joyce “The Killer” Bayliss was wrestling “The Thin Girl,” who was none other than Helen McLaughlin. Joyce weighed 176 while Helen carried about 250 pounds. We passed through the corridor and on to the basketball court. There, two teams were battling it out for the championship. One belonged to Margaret Ellsworth, and the other to “Mr. X.” They made so much money with their basketball teams they opened a night club down town and called it the X-Ell. Their favorite per- formers were Galinos and Neilsen. Marian played the piano while Caroline sang and danced. While we were doing a few exercises in the gym, Secretary of State, Leo Govoni, entered for his daily exercise. He told us that Marcie Jones and Margaret Keating joined the “Wacs” to be closer to their husbands in the Navy. Having worked up quite an appetite in the gym, we walked across the street to Eleanor’s Swedish Restaurant. After Eleanor got out of school she replaced Mrs. Rogers as Representative. With the millions she made, she retired and built a restaurant. She had the finest Swedish food in Burlington. Ethel Jones provided en- tertainment for Ekwall’s restaurant with her forty piece “Hill-billy Band.” After leaving the restaurant, we crossed town searching for the Steamship Company. There, “Steamboat” Gould owned his own lines and did quite a flourishing business. Larry Azevedo had be- come a pilot and helped “Steamboat” out with his transportation. Having seen most of the city, we headed back to the residen- tial part of town where Burlington University was situated. When we entered the University, Miss Govoni, the secretary, told us that Miss Clark, the Superintendent, was out on official business. How- ever we roamed around the corridors and looked in several of the classrooms. In the Art class, Dorothy Murray was doing a fine piece of work teaching the pupils how to draw curves and angles. She told us she worked part time at Marinacci’s Halfsome, because she was donating her artistic talents as an act of charity. As we looked over the class of “’48” we found that Norman DeMone, an old married man, was still trying to get out of the twelfth grade. He said he was going to wait for his son to catch up with him. As the effects of the opium wore off, the vision of the future gradually grew dim. I quickly seized a piece of paper and jotted down the facts which had been revealed. Let us hope the class of °48 will look with satisfaction upon the shining careers awaiting them. Norman DeMone [e275]