Classical High School - Classic Myths Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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PRESIDENTS' ADDRESS Mr. Fenner, Parents, Teachers, and Friends: To the last meeting of the class of 1958, l bid you all a most cordial welcome. How very strange to say our last class meeting! Three years ago we met here for the first time. Some had been classmates at Chand- ler, at Grafton, or at Providence, most were strangers. Now we see only friends. ln September of 1955 the road ahead was new, a little frightening, and very long, now we can only think how short a time we have spent here. For all that we have gained, for all that we have enioyecl, we know well we must thank our parents, our principal, and our teachers. And we RALPH G. JOHANSON owe much to each other for these pleasant days of youth. Let us then together, before we set out upon our separate ways, look back on the way we have come, listen to some words of wis- dom, hear some music and bequeath our common wealth before, on Tues- day, we ioin the long line of those privileged to call Classical, Alma Mater. 5-if-. l

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CLASS DAY SPEAKERS CLASS DAY SPEAKERS Claire Tarranf Richard Bogage Charles Palson Vyfaulas Gailiunas Valerie Harden GRADUATION SPEAKERS Carolyn Patton Vytautas Gaillunas John Rizos Carolyn Bohmann GRADUATION SPEAKERS

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CLI-l CLAIRE TARRANT SS HIST Small craft warnings were dis- played in the Tatnuck, Vernon Hill, and Shrewsbury Street areas as approximately two hundred and thirty of us moved toward the good ship Classicalia. We were greeted by Captain Fenner in the main salon or Assembly Hall. Shocked by the brilliant glare from the light, we meekly accepted our places on the bottom rung of the ladder. This was a new year for us, a year of dis- covery, a year when nobody knew who Eddie Simonian and Ralph DRY Johanson were. During the autumn days we walked the deck, we dis- covered an annex to the galley, Lanos, and by the end of October Carol Leader, Pat Fell, Neil Riordan and John Clifford had their names in the Argus, In November we had become so famous a class that all our names - even our telephone numbers - were published. Any voyage has its risks, and so when Mary Lowney broke her leg, we iust chalked it up to a better understand- ing of navigation. Although the year was a stormy one, there were buoys to guide us: Tom Foley, Ralph Johan- son, and Paul Engstrom made the varsity football team that won the lnter-high Championship. Paul Sull- ivan and Larry Purington made the first string hockey team, and Paul Faler made the baseball team. We were all very proud. We attended our first varsity show and watched Debby, Janie, and Carole dance with dry bones. Unable to keep up with the pace, Susan and Sandra Budnitz escaped to Bancroft, and we lost a few other members to our worthy opponents, Commerce, North, and South Gail Thomashaw and Bev Levine made us all more than a little envious when they highlighted their sophomore year by attending the Senior Prom, while Barbara Bachrach, Carolyn Patton, Vyto Gailiunas, Rose Hussey, Jim Swicklas, Doreen Waskiewicz, Casimir Matonis, Debby Sawyer, Mark Sherman, lrene Staras, Judy Pearlman, and John Rizos, had to be content with Horace Mann honors. We ushered in our iunior year with Eisenhower and Stevenson fighting it out to the cry of Salatubie! We decided that we were much too grown up for frivolity and opened our second year aboard ship form- ally with class elections, choosing Ralph Johanson as Captain, Maryio Gosler, first-mate, Pat Fell, second- mate, and Mike Pellegrino, purser. As we stopped to count up, we found that we had some new crew-mem- bers, Janet Dye, Janet Richmond, Alyce Butler, John Kelly, Charlie Murphy, and Jackie Hickey - all from Assumption - the boys that is! We surrendered our desire to be grown up and took to celebrating at Barbara Ovane's open quarters and attending our second variety show