Dorchester High School - Yearbook (Dorchester, MA)

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C LASS PROPHECY Icontrnuedl When the spotlrght hut the center of the rrng I saw that one and only GEORGE STEVENS was rrnqmaster who had now become a world famous drsc lockey He was rntroducrng the Wrld West Show starrrng BILL HARRIGAN Ieadrng a gr0Up of Indrans Iwhooprng rt up as they drd rn the good old D H S daysI Among them was Brg Chref RUMBY wrth Squaw CAROL NELSON rn her own rrght the mother of frve Irttle rnluns though one would never know rt Chref Medrcrne Man was ED cure all SHEA formerly an Admrral rn the Navy Some of the other Indrans were BILL Tonto GRANT JACK I'I00fe RYAN TOM srlvefheels KELLEY ART Cool car ALBA PAUL oymmrre CAREY AND RICHIE Heaney 0 HARA All were home restmg on therr Iaurels from defeatrng the World Trotters The next act, Daredevrl Trapeze, starred JEAN WAJCIUM and her partner AL SHEEHAN fRemember those close frrends'7I As they clrmbed the ladder GILBERT NORTON and ARTHUR O BRIEN carrred out the net very skrllfully, due therr berng expert movers for the E S Walsh Movrng Co Upon reachmg the top the performers rmmedrately started a trrple summersault whrch brought cheers from the crowd Whrle the rrng was berng cleared LARRY BUSBY was sellrng popcorn and peanuts to Movre Starlets KATHY PATROS GAIL ROACH JOYCE CELESTER and PAT MCNAUGHT who loyally flew from Hollywood In the crowd I saw PAT DALTON Women s Edrtor of a prosperous newspaper and her reporter, PEGGY MURPHY who was coverrng the hrghlrghts The spotlrght prcked up Samba DE CASTRO and hrs mon eatrng Irons followed by hrs able assrstants RAY MICHETTI JANICE MURPHY JOHN PETITTO MIKE REDA and BILL PUGLIESE all ardes of the Governor The audience was thrrlled when DE CASTRO stroked hrs gentle beasts The clowns took over the rrng Bobo GREENE Skrppy MILSON JIMMY MacMILLAN and STEVE DAVIDSON fall rn the polrce forceI were choosrng four so called lovelres ALETIA SPICER MARILYN PRAIRRIE RO BURHMAN DIANNE CHISHOLM who had formerly been rn the Wafs It was amusrng to Captarn FOULSHAM and Patrolman ROBERT O REILLY to come to therr rescue The act brought the house downl At the far end of the Gardens our attentron was attracted to the Bare Back Rrders takrng therr places The LEE Srsters and the MAGAZU Srsters were the stars lust as petrte as ever The half concluded wrth the Human Cannon Ball, BARBARA WORTH now a teacher of Englrsh, was berng crammed rnto the cannon by JIM MORRISEY and BILL GRIFFIN professronal carpenters fno longer called wood butchers I The fuse was Irghted by Intermrssron came We walked up to the refreshment stand where we saw a lrvely group of grrls rn a huddle They proved to be my pals rn E4 4 203 BEVERLY GRIFFIN JEAN DOOLEY, NATALIE JOLLIMORE, HELEN BELLIVEAU BET TY KEEFE and SCOTTY COYLE They were marrred now and some had therr chrldren wrth them WILLIAM GALLAHER JOE BONANNO JOHN BURKE and ED CUNEO were makrng lots of money for the cause probably because of therr experr ence rn ownrng Florrda motelsl Walkrng sprrghtly by was MARY GREENE and her frrends SIMONE MCCASTOR JOANNE LUDDINGTON ELLEN ALESI and BEV GIVNER They had graduated from Wrlfred Beauty Academy and now had exclu srve shops rn or around Boston Nearby was MYSTIC MCGILLVRAY Iookrng lust as lolly as ever, playrng the part ofa mous fortune teller MARSHA PSOTA and LINDA OWEN both employed as secretarres rn a New York museum were to have her gaze rnto therr future The band began to strrke up some Elvrs Presley favorrte that brought back mrngled memorres WALTER DONAHUE was at the drums ELVIRA DUKE strummrng the gurtar ARTHUR MacALLISTER tootrng the bugle, HARRY SAUN DERS playrng the tuba BOB PROUT bowrng the cello and DOUG CHEVERIE and PAUL NUTTING playrng the vrolrn Therr musrc was topsll N wonder they play together at Ieadrng nrghtclubs all over the natron Soon the lrghts drmmed out the spotlrght was centered on the rrngmaster as he rntroduced BEVERLY NICHOLS and her trarned seal MERRY PERRY DIANE PALINGO BILL BALAS and NORMAN BERUBE employed at Roger sJewelry Co rn Ohro were her competent assrstants As thrs act came to a close a spontaneous applause broke out from one group rn the aud rence The rnstrgator of thrs hrgh prarse was none other than DAVID McLEAN and hrs party, consrstrng of DIANNE LYNCH PAT MCMANUS LILLIAN PRATT GRETA RING AND JUANITA TAYLOR staff members at the New England Mutual Ins Company Next the elephants were led rnto the rrng by PAUL WATERS and JANE NORTHALL holders of q Mqsger 5 De gree rn Educatron Seated upon the backs of the elephants were VERONICA MICHALOWSKI BARBARA LARSON JUDY MONAHAN DONNA MOORE and JUDY SPARROW regrstered nurses rn a local hosprtal The elephants were accompa nred by therr trarners DOM CORRENTI JACK CASCARANO BRIAN MURPHY and TOM DOUGLAS, agorn the Medrcql professron was rn evrdence as they were Boston doctors Runnrng out wrth the elephant stands were, JOHN PETITTO and EIBIEOI. bEAliI.tAN1Thescrrpt wrrters for Warner Bros It was thrrllrng to realrze what sacrrfrce busy men and women had made rs ne r entrre act was excrtrng, but the death defyrng stunt of the elephants prckrn u LORRAINE PENTZ 9 P JULIitSCIPII1ONE JOAN SHAW CAROLINE REGAN and AGNES MILANO and tossrng them rnto the arr only to land them Egrllgrolglfllg jileleifmrgczss fabulous These grrls are experaenced lab technrcrans at the Beth Israeal Hosprtal and well Uged fo Next a ten foot tank was pushed rn by DICK POTHIER BILLY PROVOST DON PURCELL and MARTIN BOWLBY IThey were graduates rn electronrcs from M I T I Pullrng outa water hose to frll the tank was BILL REYNOLDS BOB WRIGHT 66 . . 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Class Prophecy- 57 I breezed unto Boston on June I2 I967 not havung been un the bug cuty sunce my graduatron from Dorchester Hugh School un I957 I bought a Boston Globe and settled down to see what was doung To my surpruse I saw a full page spread advertus ung the Fabulous Amateur Curcus to be staged by the Class of I957 of D H S for the benefut of the swummung pool to be an nexed to our Alma Mater Fulled wuth enthusuasm at beung able to see my classmates, I read on to duscover that CONROY and HOLMES professuonal curcus men were coachung the productuon I rushed to the telephone to call PAT ROWAN who had been my closest fruend She was more than delughted to hear that I was able to attend thus gala affaur wuth her She had al ready planned to meet JUNE ZAHKA and JACKIE BURKE at the Boston Garden where the curcus was to take place Several hours later I was delughted to meet my fruends who I found were employed as secretarues to umportant men un the John Hancock Co We cpprocched the hckef boofh where we saw pretty as ever MARCIA McGIN NES and lovable as ever MIDGE MacDONALD sellung tuckets Near the sude show sectuon we were greeted by RICHARD REMMES Iookung most pros perous The gurls told me later that he was the executuve of the Natuonal Mutshaw Bank From a dustance we heard a loud vouce callung Come One Come All advertusung the famous Calypso Dancers Wuth great curuosuty we followed hus vouce and upon comung closer saw that the barker was DAN O CONNOR Surroundung hum were DORIS MURPHY MARY NAUGHTON CATHY POWERS JO MOONEY and PEGGY NOLAN who ut turned out were wuves of promunent doctors and who stull luke to do dance routunes for fun A luttle farther behund a stand I saw TOM NUGENT sellung lemonade As I walked towards hum, I saw DON DEMPSEY boostung dugnufued BILL MONROE up to look unto the tank of lemonade to see uf the guuce was as good as that manufactured by hus concern Contunuung our tour of the sude shows we came to the anumal pens where DAVID CAHALANE BILL KOIVU and RONNIE ADAMS were feedung the elephants My pals were amused to see thus truo of Boston clothung salesmen tendung anumals Near by good natured FRANCIS CURRAN had the 'ob of holdung the crowd back for TOMMY BOULOS was about to walk unto the Iuons cage These tasks were quute dufferent from theur dauly 'obs as assustant managers for Jordan Harsh Co WALTER JOYCE BILL KELLEY and JOHN DONAHUE were brushung the coats of the horses soon to perform theur equestruan act whule BRUCE MCCORMACK JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, and AL CERONI were urgung theur wuves to pat the anumals at a dollar a stroke Much to our surpruse we learned that they were all graduates of Tharvard College and held promunent posutuons un the socual world as well PAT YONAKER JO HODGMAN and RUTH JOHNSON were dressung the trauned dogs for theur act In real Iufe these gurls dressed themselves every day to go to theur well paud 'obs un the Gas Co We strolled unto the mud way to buy some refreshments and bumped unto a crowd from Benson Clothes Inc Among them I recognuzed Manager PAUL CONNOLLY hus assustants BILL COSGROVE and JOE DOOLEY head bookkeepers VIRGINIA CZUPRYNA and ROSEMARY DETOMA and head salesman SMILY JACKMAN They were rushung to encourage JOHN SINDONI who was takung the part of a sword swallower and was beung untroduced by RONNIE SMITH, a well known auc tuoneer about town Gay costumes and nouse drew us to a nearby platform where HELEN KALLIS was Ieadung SHIRLEY WALLACE, MAUREEN CURRAN BARBARA SWEENEY and NANCY FAHEY un a Hundu dance sumular to one whuch she durected un the Talent Show un I957 The gurls were now housewuves devoted to theur famulues Among theur vuewers were PAUL TONER DANNY WALSH JOHN DECHELLIS BOB FITZGERALD, MANUEL MIUNO, and DAN MOSEL all professuonally connected wuth TV A flame from the next platform caught my eye and I rushed to loun the crowd watchung the fure eater RICHARD PUGSLEY To see hus nonchalance no one would suspect he was the father of truplets whose mother watched the feat wuth fear and tremblung O hus rught was GEORGE NIAKAROS the famous tattooed man Hus tattoos had been paunted on by FRANCIS LAMONTAGNE Boston s famed artust and wunner of SI 000 pruze offered at the Art Festuval ln the crowd that assembled were RON NIE MAN SON BOB CANNATA MARVIN KINDLE JOE KILBANE and JEAN PERRY, graduates of Columbua Unuversuty and students of Van Doren Down the mudway JOHNNIE WELCH was puttung on a uugglung act He must have been practucung hus stunt for months because hus assustants BERNIE KENNEDY ALBERTA LaMARCA ANGELA KREST JACQUELINE MURPHY and CAROL DaSILVA dressed un brught red costumes, passed hoops balls wands and covers wuth great rapuduty and he never fauled once All for the cause dud I learn thus truck he saud cheerfully to the amusement ofa crowd of Chucago resudents who had flown un none other than the former DOLORES LYNCH SHIRLEY LLOYD PAT MADSEN and PEGGY SHEEHAN accom panued by the Stockyard executuves THERESA FARRELL PAUL MURPHY, and JOHN MORELLI It was tume to enter the bug tent we were seated un the front row by CHARLIE BARRASSO, usherung un a gold suut who now was the owner of the Strand Theater un Dorchester The band played the Natnonal Anthem durected by WILL DALEY and sung by RITA MacLELLAN She had receuved specual permussuon from Northeastern Aurlunes where she us stewardess, to have tume off from her busy schedule 65 I I ' , . 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RONNIE McELMAN Tufts Dental graduates JOAN ALIX SANDY YESHULES and MARILYN O CONNOR ceremonuously tested the water Thus truo was employed at the Slenderella Shop The Great Duvo FRANCIS DORAN entered un a fanfare of musuc It was amusung to see the seruous conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra put on thus act Hus ladders were held by PAUL BURKE and RONNIE MANSON unteruor decorators un New York He confudently gave hus robe to CAROL MITCHELL a dress desugner un New York Cuty who eyed ut approvungly Upon reachung the top of the ladder, Duvo made a perfect lack knufe duve unto the water tank below I heard WALTER JOYCE prausung thus excutung act to HELEN GOODE and recommendung that, as telephone employees they should phone the news to hrs pretty wufe un Calufornua After thus stupendous Oct the knufe thrower JOE LEVINS and hus assustant FRANNY CHAFE came unto the rung Whrle JIM JENKINS and DAN MATUKAS were testung the knuves and JOE MALONEY and RICHARD McKINNON were sharpen ung them I found out that they all worked at the Boston Edrson Co and were stull the best of fruends FRED BATES and LAR RY GYNN offucually tested the knuves for exactness They volunteered because they worked at the Gullett Blade Co JOE S stunt came off wuth flyung colors In the next rung was featured the acrobats led by LORRAINE MIDDLETON and ALMA SISCO Theur assustants were KAROLYN KURKJIAN ANN McKINNON JEAN BAGLEY JUDY BOETTCHER PRISCILLA BIBBER GAIL BARNETTE and PAT COMPBELL These gurls formed a human star around whuch the performers dud cartwheels They had left a bookung ofa hut show on Broadway to assust LORRAINE and ALMA for they thrulled to be on the same bull wuth such a famous dance team From the second balcony came a squeal and I looked up to see EDDIE MANSFIELD S cotton candy fallung onto SANDRA JONES S haur Her escort ELAINE HALL came to her rescue Presently the rungmaster blew hus whestle to have all rungs cleared RICKY McNEIL FRANCIS MORGAN DON MUR PHY and FRANCIS POWERS came out un blue leans to break up the rungs whule LEON ANDERSON GARY BARDON RICKY BURGESS LEO DRISCOLL VICTOR CARRANA and DAN FRIEBERGER cleared the floor All these boys were home on leave they had become the bug brass of the regular army and relushed the chance to be kuds agaun Soon the band struck up a Rock n Roll a favorute of I957 I went off to buy some ace cream from FRANK McCARTHY and WALTER LILJEGREN I saw ED GALLEY was sellung balloons and JOHN EARLE was personally blowung them up To the delught of the chuldren GLORIA HILL was fetchungly modelung Davey Crockett hats whule NANCY HENNESSY was havung great success un sellung them I remember how co operatuve thus group was back un our hugh school days Suddenly the band stopped playung and the rungmaster came out to announce the concludung acts The furst was the Mexu can Chuwawas Dog Act led by FRANCIS FARMER She took the dogs unto the rungs and set them on theur stools TERRI FIENSTEIN MARIE GRAHAM LORRETTA MAHAN and SONIA KRYKLYWEC trupped un gauly and each stood besude a stool As the trauner passed them the balls they would place them on the dogs noses These gurls had graduated from Boston Cleru cal and were effucuent secretarues It was fabulous to see the dogs skull un balancung JOHN CUMMINGS and RICHARD MCKINNON came un balancung poles The gurls placed three dogs on each pole Then JOHN and RICHARD started walkung around the rung gradually workung up to a runnung pace They got a bug hand partly I suspect because they were so well known un local polutucs The furst number of the last half of the curcus was the hazardous bucycle performance done by WALTER THOMPSON MIKE RIDA FRANCIS POWERS WILLIAM MCCORMICK and LEO LANCILLOTI wuth theur partners CAROL MARTIN ALICE CURREN JEAN CHRISTO JO COUGHLIN and FRANNY DONOVAN They curcled the enture rung doung unbe luevable feats The applause was tremendous for these Whute House employees The rungmaster thanked the auduence for theur response and announced the grand finale Leadung were fuve magorettes CAROL WILKINS BARBARA STEVENS PAT MCMANUS RUTH FAGERBERG and CAROL BURNHAM, Iookung lust as luvely and cheery as un the old days Theur appearance was greeted excutedly by theur young offsprungs tn the auduence Next came the band playung loudly and fol Iowed by the enture cast who had guven so generously of theur tume and energy We gave them a bug oratuon They marched off and the curcus was over Two clowns came back to kud wuth RICKY COELMAN, ED JOYCE and JIM SHEDONE IWAL TER HOGANI who had been suttung besude us and entertaunung us wuth theur adventure ID Afruca Behund us, I could hear MARILYN WILLETT S and CAROL WILDE S merry laughter The crowd was begunnung to break up I heard the famuluar vouces of KATHY FARREN ANNA FOLEY CAROL GALVIN MARY FOTI and PAT FULLER who were duscussung the show wuth BOB GALEY MIKE FLAHERTY JIM KILLIAN, VINCENT SAVVA These fruends saw much of each other as they were home owners un nearby Lextngton From a dustance I saw WAL TER SULLIVAN CAROL TEAGLE ANN THERIAULT MILLY WALKER RITA WAUGH CAROL WEYDT ANN WHITE an TOM WALSH squeeze unto a chartered bus takung them back to theur homes un Provudence Rushung past to get theur chuldren home Eaeforeomudnught were JACQUELINE MURPHY JIM DEVIN ROBERTA DONOVAN CHARLIE DUGGIE and JOSE PHIN EAT N I bud the gurls good by assurung them of how much I had engoyed myself When I got to my hotel uf there weren t FRANCIS MCCARTHY BILL LYNCH RICHARD McNEIL and PAUL HURLEY wautung to be taken to the aurport for theur plane to Los Angeles We remunusced fondly about the fabulous basketball team and how they dud us proud at the Tech Tourney and wushed we mught have had the fun ofa hugh school swummung pool 67 l . 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