Clinton High School - Memorabilia Yearbook (Clinton, MA)

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Senior Junior Coming back here each year had become a habit now. We were upperclassmen and this was going to be a busy year for us. How superior we felt to the Freshmen and Sophomores! To guide us through our Junior year, we elected as officers Mike Pizza, President; Janet Robichaud, Vice-President; Jean O ' Brien, Secretary; Anthony Ernst, Treas- urer. We set about the business of building up our treasury so that we could give the Seniors a prom they would remember. We had a raffle and we sold stationery before Christmas . . . and during the football season we ran a series of dances at the K. of C. Hall. We selected our class rings and after waiting in anxious expectation wore them with justifiable pride. Mid-years rolled around . . . they were becoming monotonous . . . we still didn ' t know what good they were. This year the Senior class decided to re- vive the Inter-class Dramatics Competition. We put on The Lie that Jack Built, coached by Miss Gannon, with the following cast: Jack: Daniel Mitchell Frank: Richard DeCesare Helen: Gloria Jackson Dora: Virginia Gasparian We worked hard and had fun doing it, but the seniors proved to be the best in the eyes of the judges and they won the prize. June came, and with it our own Junior Prom! The committee in charge, especially the decorating committee, worked diligently to make it the best Prom on record and we think it was. Gerry Hedin ' s orchestra fur- nished the music; the crystal ball transformed the hall into a fairyland. Beautiful girls . . . handsome men. How grown up we felt. In September we would be Seniors! We returned to school for our last time. Unconsciously, we assumed a new dignity and self assurance. We organized early in September and elected Mike Pizza, President; Janet Robi- chaud, Vice-President; Phyllis Grady, Sec- retary; Anthony Ernst, Treasurer. We had work to do to earn enough money for our class book and our graduation activi- ties. We ran a series of dances during the football season at the K. of C. Hall. We had a turkey raffle at Thanksgiving, and we sold five hundred boxes of Christmas cards. The contract for printing the class book was given to Stobbs Press, Inc. in Worcester; and the Sargent Studio, in Boston, is to be our photographer. This year our Galloping Gaels con- quered all competition, and as a result, won the Midland League Championship, a feat of both distinction and renown. On January 27 we presented the Inter- class Dramatic Competition. Our own offer- ing, Johnny Goes Haywire, although we worked hard, was not quite good enough and the prize went to the Sophomore class. Their play was clever and the performance outstanding and everyone agreed with the judges ' decision. After Christmas wc settled down to study for our last mid-year exams. And with the passing of these exams, graduation seemed to come closer. Our pictures were taken, class book writeups were finished, senior clubs were organized, rehearsals started with Miss Driscoll, and plans made for grad- uation week. The most exciting time of our four years . . . the club activities, the trip to Provincetown, the Senior Banquet, our last High school Prom, this time as guests of the Junior class . . . and night of nights . . . Graduation!

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Freshmen Looking back to that September day in ' 45, when we entered high school, we re- member how we felt as we realized that at last we were in high school. Yes, we were big boys and girls now. This illusion did not last long, however, after we found our- selves confronted by upperclassmen who soon changed our attitude. We recall their superior attitudes and their misguidance which caused us to be late for our classes so many times those first few days although we seemed to be always in a rush (not be- ing accustomed to Clinton High School habits). Our first school assembly that year was a football rally. We practiced cheers and songs that we might lend support to our football team. The Town Hall rafters rang as we added our lusty voices to those of the upper classmen. 1945 was the year our Green and Gold Band made its first ap- pearance and that year our football team won the Class C Championship. After Christmas we heard talk of “Mid- years which were entirely new to us and we became a little worried and somewhat anxious since some of us had brought home sad tidings at the end of the first quarter. A high light in our first year was the Navy Day parade. We had not yet organ- ized as a class so we had adopted no class colors. Mr. Cobb had a beautiful felt ban- ner made up for us in green and gold, the school colors, and we were so impressed that when we organized as sophomore s we adopted green and gold as our class colors, therefore, giving these colors a two-fold meaning for us . . . our school and our class! Just before school closed for the year we had a field day . . . we marched, headed by the Band, from school to Savage Field, where a program of races and games had been planned for all classes. We had our first chance to show our athletic ability and it was on that day that some of our star athletes made their debuts. Some of us, young and timid, ventured to the Junior Prom and discovered the wonder of a formal. It was a night to be re- membered ... a land mark! When we returned to school in September we would be Sophomores! Sophomore September soon came, too soon, and we were returning to school but this time things were different. Instead of being pushed around, we went merrily about our busi- ness. We were no longer on the bottom shelf. We were now superior ... at least to the Freshmen. We witnessed another successful football season in which Clinton High retained the Midland League Championship and we were very proud of our own classmates who made the first team and contributed to the victory. We organized as a class and elected Michael Pizza, President; Janet Robichaud, Vice-President; Jean O ' Brien, Secretary; and Raymond Dyer, Treasurer. And we started our treasury by paying our first class dues. By this time, report cards gave us little worry as we had learned to prepare alibis in anticipation of the trend toward red ink. Mid-years came again and although still a great obstacle, we took them in our stride. June came and brought another Field Day . . . and another Junior Prom. And with it came the realization that we had completed half our high school course!

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Ad maiorem Dei gloriam