Duxbury High School - Partridge Yearbook (Duxbury, MA)

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CLASS PROPHECY Edith P.- You know Nancy, it's been a long time since we've graduated, and I've been wondering what every one is doing now: so I sent for the copy of Whois Who for the year of 1960. I just know they'll all be in there. Here. take one, and .etis look them over. Edith P.- Look, here under the B's is Arthur Bradford. He's a real success, for it says here, 'the inventor of the first airplane that could carry a trailer along with it !' Nancy O.- Here's one of our old classmates, Pete. Martha Nickerson, a well-known band-leader. It sounds good. That Rippy-tippy Martzy Ellicgerson and her band, now playing at the ritzy Muskrat and Beaver u . Edith P.- And look here! It seems that Evelyn Edwards and Irvina Jones are still together. Irvina is running for the ofiice of Constable for Mounce City, and poor little Evelyn is wearing herself out working for her. She has taken it upon herself to make a three hour soap box speech on every corner in Mounce city. It says their slogan is 'For Security and Protection, vote for Honest, Upright. Dependable J ones.' Nancy 0.-- And here's Mac Mosher and Dickie Verge. They've found fame together as comedians. A twosome whose names are plastered all over Broadway-the second Charlie MacCarthy and Edgar Bergen. Edith P.-I think I'll look in the back of the book for a while. Here's Walker, Clarence Walker. You know, he was the all star pitcher on our baseball t8..1.l. Well, he nas linnliy worked himself up to the position of manager for the Boston Bee's. Nancy O.- Morton, Barbara Morton, the baby of our class. It says she's the principal of a girls' private school. It seems she started it herself and the ambition of thousands of girls all over the continent is to go there. Edith P.- Oh and Ann Peterson! Listen to this! She has written a book, 'How to Win Friends and Please People'. I guess if anyone were to write a book like that, sh-e'd be the best qualified. Nancy O.- And here's Freddie Harrington. He is now the Postmaster- General of the United States. He must have lost his shyness to work him- self up to that position. Edith P.- A-B-Burns, Frances Burns. You remember her. She was that extra bright girl in our class. It says here she is head dean of Welles- ley College where she teaches Psychology, Anthropology, Phrenology, and Ethnologyf' Nancy O.- I see where that spirited soul of Dick Prince's has settled down to something more than plucking the heartstrings of beautiful young ladies. He is now in the Bombo Bombo Jungle in the heart of Africa hunting rare specimens. I 31 l

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Richard Prince, Norma MacKenney, Frederick Harrington, Martha Nickerson, Clarence Walker, Irvina Jones, Arthur Bradford, Doris Prince, Kendall Blanchard Nancy O'Neil, Earla Chandler. The rest of the class members gave much time to committees to make the production of the play possible. On November 19 the baskeba.l season began. Dick Verge and Mac Mosher, were co-captains during this thrilling championship year and Clinton Sampson was manager. 'il.e boys won the South Shore League Championship on February 25. The girls didn't get the cup but deserved it as much as the team which did. This year's captain was Edith Peterson who had Doris Prine., Irvina Jones, Earla Chandler, and Martha Nickerson, Manager, on the team from the senior ciiss The end of the school voyage is here. The tides of our av-erages hav-3 continued to ebb and fiowg examination questions have tried to overwhelm us, but not many have succeeded. These twenty-two remaining have been able to procure the necessary passport at the entrance of each s.1cceedQng sea, and have paid the pric-e for the passage in hard work. We look ahead to a greater ocean. We shall go on writing new logs of greater adventure, for while the Voyag-e of Duxbury High School Life is at an end for the Class of 1911, the voyage of real life is just at its Cori- mencement. NORMA MACKENNEY E301

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Edith P.- Here's Kay Blanchard. Kay Blanchard is hired by station WBZ. He's the man that sits in the studio and laughs when the pro- gramme conductor holds up that little sign after a joke. Ncmcy O.- Here's Larry Raymond. Since he inherited all that money he's been taking it easy. He's now cruising the northern Pacific and will later join an expedition to the North Pole. Edith P.- Prince, Doris-Oh, yes, you know Dolly was a roller-skating fan. It says Doris Prince has been the main attraction at the Boston Arena for the past ten years. She holds the record for being the only girl who has ever jitterbugged on roller skates on a tight rope fifty feet above the ground. Nancy O.- Here's our great, big, strong, Winnie Hagman. He's gone from setting pins up in the Duxbury Bowling Alley to owning a chain of alleys all the way across the United States. Edith P.- I wonder what Earla's doing. Here she is. Why she's working right in Duxbury High School. The Partridge Staff found that they couldn't get along without Earla to type for them, so she has had a per- manent position there, ever since she graduated. Nancy O.- And who'd 've thought that our bashful Tommie Taylor would rise to fame in Hollywood as the super-super heart-smashing Romeo of 1960. Edith P.- Let's see, we haven't looked Norma up yet. J, K, L, M, MacKenny. Well, look at this! She's still going to the University of Main. I guess she found that she needed more than four years to get acquainted with all those dashing young men. Nancy O.- And did you know that Clint Sampson owns five mansions in different parts of the country. One in Maine, one in Florida, one in Cali- fornia, one in Kentucky and one in New York, Clint likes to lounge around you know. Well, Pete, our classmates didn't do so badly for themselves, did they? We certainly hope they will continue to be just as successful in the future. NANCY O'NEIL EDITH PETERSON i321