Classical High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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THE BLUE AND WHITE EVERETT HENRY WEAVER 5oo W ILBRAHAM ROAD Indiana School of Embalming Ballot Committee 3. Laugh and the whole worlct laughs with you. EDWARD HOOTSIE WEBB 559 UNION STREET American International College Football IQ Track IQ Squad Leader ig Quotations Committee 3. Merry as the day is long. HAROLD JACOB WEBER 63 HOLLYWOOD STREET Northeastern University Baseball IQ Intramural Basketball ig Athletic Scholarship Pin ZQ Chairman of Photography Committee 3g Soccer 1, 2. Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. ALBERT CHARLES YENIAN O MAYNARD STREET Northeastern University Snapshot Committee 39 Intramural Basketball 1, 2, 3. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. Q' Students who remained in school to june IQ42 to complete their course. WP pf' '-M:-q i 'I -?2f'f ll- V R2 T R i ' ' - lim Hia. 'F ,i, :'!iS 'iELf7g?'!9?-A L 1' 1' 1' mr' ' 12-Li

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TI-IE BLUE A WI-IITI? GORDON SI-IAFTOE 539 DICKINSON STREET Tufts College Torch Club I5 Intramural Basketball IQ I-Ii-Y 25 Foot' ball I, 2, 3. A pleasant chap, well liked by all. BARBARA RUTH SIBLEY 385 BLISS ROAIJ, LONG. General Course Student Treasury 25 Quotations Committee 35 C.A.A. I, 2. Her ways are ways of pleasantness. ODETTE LOUISE SIBLEY 385 BLISS ROAD, LONG. Pratt Institute Quotations Committee 35 G.A.A. I, 2, 3. Always light-hearted and content. TIVIARY ANN STALTARI 223 PENDLETON AVENUE Massachusetts State College Pierides Alpha 2, 35 Student Government 3. I would rather excell others in knowledge than in power. .IANICE STOCKS 3 PERSHING TERRACE Creen Mountain junior College junior Prom Committee 35 Quotations Committee 35 Bowling 2, QQ C.A.A. I, 2, 3. This is fairy gold. LEWIS TAPP I2O QVERBROOK ROAD, LONG. Dartmouth College Ski Club 25 Usher Senior Prom Z1 junior Prom Committee 31 Class Picture Agent 35 Intramural Basketball I, ZQ Soccer I, 2, 35 Track I, 2, 3. Oh, it's nice to get up in the morning: but who wants to be nice? PATRICIA MARY THOMPSON 857 BELMONT AVENUE American International College Squad Leader IQ Dramatic Club 25 International Relations Club 25 Riding Club I, 25 G.A.A. I, 2, 35 Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4. Pleasant in manner and speech. WGEORGEZ USDANSKY I55 BELMONT AVENUE College Preparatory Course Tennis 25 Senate 31 Class I-Iistory 3. 'They with high thoughts are never alone. .pts oh 1, gl if Q ' I 'P If C I-I 5 5' f-...ffm T21-.

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TI-IE BLUE AND WHITE The History of the Class of IQ4Ig GRADUATION REFLECTIONS Gosh, I didn't think I'd feel as nervous as this! If they'd only hand out those diplomas a little faster, I wouldn't have to hobble along at the end of this line, feeling as though every eye in the auditorium is on me. just think! Graduation at last. It doesn't seem quite real. But there's Mr. I-Iill, handing out diplomas, and here are my classmates all about me. And there's Mr. Brown, sitting in the audience. Seeing him re- minds me of my first day at Classical. I was attempt- ing to cross the corridor into the asembly hall when I collided with a hurrying figure wearing a brown business suit and a snappy yellow tie. It was Mr. Brown. Patiently he explained to me that a student at Classical should never cross in front of a teacher. Classical teachers, it seemed, were a peculiar lot who walked around the corridors lost in thought, seeing nothing of the life about them. Pondering this, I entered the assembly hall where I met all my old friends and made many new ones. It was soon apparent who our leaders would be. Nomination papers were timidly brought forth, a few halting speerhes were delivered, the ballots cast, and Donald Fitzgerald became our first class President. George Clark became Vice- President, George lVIcKaig, Secretary, Robert Crosby, Treasurer, and William Friese, Member-at-Large. Second Polybius? It wasn't long after the election, I recall, that we had the blizzard of March 13. I have a picture of classrooms nearly empty of pupils and of stacks of excuses the next day mentioning colds and cars break- ing down. There was also a rumor that the faculty had begun to wonder why the boys always came back after such snowstorms with blisters on their hands, sore backs, and more spending money in their pockets. But we freshmen were too busy to pay much attention to such talk. Before gwe had found the answers to the questions, What makes Mr. R. R. Smith smile to himself as he walks along the corridors? and, What happens to all the food before the pupils who have third lunch can get down tothe lunchroom? vacation had rolled around. ak 44 ik wk Pls nk lk ik Well, I'm halfway up the aisle now. I can see my folks from here. lsn't that Bill McManus up there getting his diploma? I well remember the year he was Treasurer of our class. 'We were juniors then. I remember that the elections were hotly contested that year by our politically-minded classmates. Paul I-Ieenehan was chosen President, Donald Fitzgerald, Vice-President, Fay Reed, Secretary, Bill was Treasurer and William Friese was Member-at-Large again. That was the year the drama was revived at Classical with the presentation of W. S. Gilbert's comedy, Creatures of Impulse. Then came the variety review, I-leck's-a-poppin. Soon the Recorder and ,the Student Government had launched the drive that was to give Classical a much improved lighting system. After vacation we had to decide whether or not to defer and graduate with the class of H '4z . Those of us who did not defer became the class of U ,4IM,H I-Iowever, no change was made until our senior year. Thus we had a large class and our junior dance, the Patriots' Prom, was a great success. I Pl! lk ik 41 Ik :lf ik P14 After becoming seniors, time seemed to fly by. In 113, events followed one another in quick succession under the able direction of Miss I-Iorrigan and Miss Nlaney, our class advisers. First, we chose class officers. Bill Ivlclvlanus was President, james Ryalls, Vice-President, Agnes Dufault, Secretary, and Leo Desotell, Treasurer. Later in the semester we combined with the IIA class to give our class dance, a gala evening of fun. A while after that we witnessed another major change in our poor, battered traffic system. The need for such a change had been made evident to all. The new sys- tem worked well, a tribute to the school and the newly- organized traffic squad. It seems to me that we went back to full sessions about this time. Luck had been with us when the lunchroom with its ultra-modern lighting system was not Hnished on schedule. As a result we had short -13-.