Burlington High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Burlington, MA)

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Class Song Verse I Now we leave our school days past. Ready for our future tasks, and with God's hand as our guiding light, we shall well succeed. Refrain: Burlington, our Burlington We shall always love you; And we'll never forget you All through the coming years. Verse II We had work and we had play, but we looked forward to every day that we spent in B..H. S. year after year after year. Verse II Good bye past, Hello future, I hope that we shall be friends. Now we are ready to leave you. Goodbye school, goodbye. The End. Shirley Skelton Class Poem Our days at school have come and gone We think of all the friendships made And face life ahead with the thought That we will never be alone For if we put our faith in God He will guide us on life’s way And we shall have the strength we need To do the tasks that come each day We are living in an age Full of promise that we may Look forward bravely to the future And success will surely come our way Eileen Gentile

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RICHARD C. WILDE “The other Bobbsie Twin” “You can do nothing successfully without enthusiasm.” Pet Peeve: Sitting out a football game. Secret Ambition: To beat and play against Wilming- ton this year. Favorite Memory: Beating Wilmington for the first time in 1] years. Favorite Pastime: Sports. Favorite Meeting Place: Al Cronins at 7:00 P. M. School Activities: Basketball, Football, Baseball, Treasurer of Varsity Club, President '52’’ and 53, Student Council, Prom Committees, Dance Committees. BARBARA JEAN WYER “Barbs” “The unspoken word never does harm.” Pet Peeve: Two-faced people. Secret Ambition: To travel. Favorite Memory: December 13, 1951. Favorite Pastime: Reading letter from a certain boy in the Navy. Favorite Meeting Place: Cafeteria of B. H. S. School Activities: Dance Committees, Fashion Show, Junior Prom Committee.

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Class Prophecy 1974, twenty years hence. News has spread to the far corners of the earth that the wild forty-four members of the class of ‘54’’ are coming from here, there, and everywhere to attend an assembly, an assembly to be held in the great metropolis of Burlington. Looking over the news bulletins since the announcement was made, we are able to follow the travels of each member. Coach Al Wilde, who has pulled his team through thick and thin for the past twenty years, the thick being the cigarette smoke in the boy’s room and the thin being their marks, is discussing the coming assembly with Superintendent Sumner Rupprecht. Mr. Rupprecht has just won an argument with School Committee President, Shirley Skelton, over the shortage of white composition paper. In the art world the battle of the colors has stopped momentarily between Carl Johnson and Ora Davis. They are both on their way to the assembly from Paris. Bill Fontaine, who is said to be selling rum up and down the coast from Florida to Boston, is coming from his hiding place in the swamps of the Florida Everglades to Burlington, where Neil Foster, his accomplice, has been: selling his merchandise at a high price. A bulletin from Egypt tells us that Maharajah John Berlandi has refused to pay a travelling tax on his harem of one hundred dancing girls. In Detroit, Michigan we find that fifty-one percent of all General Motors stock has been turned over to those three automobile tycoons, “Big Jim” Sweeney and the “Money Bag Brothers,” Norman and Carl Christiansen. It is said they plan to arrive in separate chauffeur-driven Cadillacs. Prime Minister Erich Nitzche of Great Britain, while in London discussing affairs-of-state and the coming assembly with his chief cook and bottle-washer, Lester Enos, suggested using the battleship ‘Invincible’ with several destroyers as escorts for the forthcoming Atlantic crossing. A picture taken in New York and appearing in “Life” shows playboy Lester McGinnis lighting a cigar with a ten dollar bill. No doubt. In New York also, at the “No Second Chance Theater,’ the main attraction of the evening is the ‘Bobbsie Twins,” Dick Howard and Dick Wilde. They are currently going through their latest dance steps, an act called ‘Dig Those Sloppy Feet’ or “Your Shoelace is Dragging.” In the wings the next act waiting to go on is none other than ‘Fe Fe” Fay Collins and ‘“Mitchy”’ Arletta Mitchell who will sing ‘Burlington, My Burlington” or “Don't Send Me Back to Prison Again.” Their supporting cast consists of one guitar player named Phylis Fowler, one pianist named Joan Taylor, and one half base fiddler named “Little Jim’ Taylor. Around the corner from the “No Second Chance” in the local precinct station (the law enforcement department) we find Sergeant “Friday” Walter Bennett who has been hurling the big question at a frightened witness, Pat Ekwall, for several days now, “Just want the facts ma’am, just the facts.” He is usually followed by his partner-in-law, Kenny Jay, who says, “That's all, just the facts.”