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

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MARSHALL (and Deputy, guns drawn, enter through swinging doors): Break it up! - What goes here anyway?” DEPUTY (quieting ED): ‘How would this look if it got in the papers? We've got to think of the record around here; MAJOR (stepping forwerd@ quietly but surely): ‘ We’z sick'n fed up'td dem lazy Fifty-Niners. I allus sez de ‘udn t make out no good nohow; - take dat lazy Baldwin feller, - or Strong. ‘N dey a'’nt got no senze of vslus 'n sich, - nilists, ‘n atheest’s, 'n whoozis whatsists ... dey gotta gO, - evy last o‘tem. CHARLIE (impetuously): and don’t forget that fire they set in the trash can last year, - or the fellow who dropved his . gym bag down four flights of stairs.” MOB: Ya, Yeh! ... DEPUTY: “Wait a minute, Charlie, we never pinned those wraps on the Fifty-Niners (smiling), even though we did try? VOICE: (from rear): Well, what about thet autographed table cloth Ronnie Grant tried to carry away from the junior prom? Whaddaya call that? MARSHALL: “A good try: . . Now look, you folks have any legitimate gripes you can bring them to me and justice will be done. But I don't think you know how much good the Fifty-Niners hawe ac- complished. (claps hands ... smoke begins to rise from large brass svitoon at left of bar. Smoke increases, forms figure, and, to the amazement of those sathered, steps forward, arms : crossed, with vindictive glance, as Larry, The Pellagra Kid, himself. At this moment, Fifty-Niners begin quietly entering through the swinging doors). “I have created a God-out- of-the-machine: LARRY: . Pardon, the History Committee created me, and I'tm out of a spitoon!:” MARSHALL: Very well, but I called you here... LARRY; The History Committee placed me here, - and I'll ave them know that this is the LAST time I enter through @ spitoon: it's wet in there, (shaking himself).

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1n98 History (he o ming £ the Fike, Niners . Once upon a time, there was in the far west of Massachusetts (to a Bostonian, Springfield is in the far, far west anyway) a community, highly esteemed and venerated, called Classical, which, for meny years, had been a center of the Universe. Then, suddenly, without warning, on September 5, 1956, e hor- rible vestilence struck, er at least it was so viewed by Classical’s older and more critical residents. On that day nearly three hundred Fifty-Niners, headed by Larry, derisively The Pellagre Kid, rode into town and begam to seize control of @ll Classical. Three years later, at the time of this cli- mactic episode which follows, the Fifty-Niners are at their height of power. This is the story of how Classical's valiant Mershall, with the help of his henchman the Deputy, fought to protect the honor of the Fifty-Niners from the wrath of the older residents. Let the curtain rise .. .- just a bit higher please... now for the lights, Brian, = on the swinging doors... ah: The scene is the teachers’ e xchange (Arness Hideaway) at which there is a rather large, noisy, AVE assemblage. The proprietor, ; Y Arness, is wiping off the coun- alll ter. Chester is accompan- ing Annie, Kitty, and Mm. Pran- cene, the dancers, on the steam @ §, ‘ealliope. n at first unidenti- “A'S fied figure rises to a stool at the right and begins an appar- ently drametic speech, which, after a -pause of about a minute, we join: ED (the speaker): %. . . and go I say, take ’em out and shoot ‘em at sunrise, - every last Fifty-Ninert” MOB: Yea, Bravo, Morte: . . . IfI ARNESS (holding up a mug and shouting above crowd): A toast: A toast! Who'll have another drink? - ooph, my stomach!” (mug : erashes to floor as Arness Aidt 2 grasps at his belly). i vee aee

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DEPUTY: Five hours unless you SUUterUD vis Sa eee en MARSHALL: (to Deputy, then Lerry); Please! It is most unfortunate, Larry, and IT told the historians never to do it agein, = but they so much wanted to tell their whole story in one short vee ow tell us about the organization of the Fifty Niners. LARRY: Well, first off, our class edvisors deserve a lot of credit. Let's see, there's Mr. Hargreaves, Mr. Mulek, and Mrs. Bale. Last yesr, Mrs. Flanagan was a great help until her unfortunate illness and subsequent death. Then, in 1957, there were Mr. and Mrs. Corbin. As for officers, I'm president, Jim Heggie's vice president, Jane Thatcher's trearturer, Valerie Smith's secretary, and John Gharkoudian's member-at-large. In 1957 Judy Holland was vice president, and Ruth Orenstein was member-at-large. Otherwise, they've been ths same.” MARSHALL: “Thank you, Larry. Oh Chester, could you interrupt your performance long enough to tell us about the music clubs? CHESTER: “Yeh, sure, heh, heh. Of course I'm new here, but we have lots of fine musicians among the Fifty-Niners. Take Desmond Clinton, = don’t know what I'd have done without him. Then, Linda Chalfin and Richard Ouellette won Junior dixtension Scholarships. But the musical interest of the Fifty-Niners is best represented by their part in the Christmas and Spring Concerts, the Carousel, and three years ago, the MIKADO. VOICE: “Tell us about the upper girls’ chorus, Chester, let’s not Weemsiate on this here history! CHESTER: “Well (shyly), girls will be girls. MASTERSON: (coming forward): I'd like to put in a word for the sports; many of the Fifty-Niners were valuable to Classical as athletes: in football, Charkoudiam, Johnson, Mutcherson, Cotter and Webster; soccer, Heggie, Radding, Durocher, White, Smith, Crump, Johnson, etc.; bssketball, Levy, Sakellis, Smith, Johnson, Dragone, and Biza; hockey, Heggie, Duvall, Hallahan, and Dupont; swimming, White, Coffev, Gonzales, Kelly, Jilson, and Halpern; tennis, Halpern, Murrsgsy and Jilson; and bowling, Burati, Baker, Lavoie, and Jilson. The Cheerlsaders were Burzinski, Underhill, Howes, Kober, Dearborn, Shaw, Jennings, Britton, Smith, snd Brand. Thank you.” MARSHALL: Thenk you, Masterson. Now, Francene, could you tell us about the tibrary?” Mm.FRANCENE: “Well, Marshall, really you deserve most of the credit for the new library yourself, - it probably wouldn’t have been re-organized if it hadn't been for your interest in it. From whet I've seen, the Fifty-Niners are a pretty | fair bunch, for they helped me a lot. Leslie Williems, Linda