Duxbury High School - Partridge Yearbook (Duxbury, MA)

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PART II. During the summer vacation of 1940, the passengers of the Limited 42 had such a burst of enthusiasm and wanted to soar to such high levels, that they decided to continue the trip by air. One by one they piled outlof the faithful train and hurried to a streamlined airliner, The Dreadnaught of 42. Marguerite Chandler, that dainty gal we liked so much, parachuted into space after the first week-to land on the roof of a girls' prep school and a few weeks later, we sorrowfully heard, above the roar of the motors, that Laurel Cahoon and Norma Gates, who had joined us at the Freshman station on the Limited 42 , would have to leave us. Also, Bud Whitney, who is now in Pearl Harbor, joined us that year. We decided to hold our class dance on November 15, 1940. Our class officers were: President .... Phoebe Shirley Vice President . . Harriet McNeil Secretary . Laurel Cahoon-Letitia LeCain Treasurer .... Eleanor Raymond Historian .... Dorothy Eldridge After Laurel Cahoon left, Letitia LeCain took her place as class sec- retary. Again we heard some sad news-Rose Burdick-honor roll first, last and always was her slogan,-was goin to leave us. She was bound for Randolph. The rest of the trip was spent uneventfully in our cabins, everybody enjoying our reception at the end of the year. The Dread- naught landed on June 18, 1941, our passengers dispersing to enjoy their various summer occupations. The last part of our trip was spent as one gay, glorious time, especially with Shirley Shaw, Eleanor Field, and Bi-l Buckingham as newcomers,- with the class play,- The Mad Hatters ,-and our Hallowe'en dance the big events of the fall season. Meivil.e Holmes who joined us on the train Limited 42 in 1938, had stayed from our crew and had not returned this year, Sylvia O'Neil left us late in March. Our class officers for this year were: President, Pilot ..... Eleanor Field Vice President. Co-Pilot . . Lloyd Blanchard Secretary, Navigator . . . M. Freeman Treasurer ...... Letty LeCain Historian ...... Phoebe Shirley Then, with graduation in the oHing, and everybody busy, the Dreadf- naught throttled down and finally made its last landing on this June 19, 1942. The happy days we spent in Duxbury High will never be forgotten. JOHN ALDEN l26'l

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CLASS HISTORY PART I. The Limited 42 pulled into the Freshmen station on September 7, 1938. We started with seventeen passengers but when we arrived we noticed that the Limited 42 had attracted Rose Burdick, Barbara Scott, Theodore Whitcomb, and Arthur Hammond. Because Phoebe Shirley, Mona Scholpp, Robert Herdman, Norman Short, and Stanley McAuliffe had miss- ed the last train they also boarded ours. The passengers were so thrilled with the experience of starting on this trip, that they forgot about class meetings until October 3 when the officers for the coming year were elected. They were: President .... Robert Bunten Vice President . . George Teravainen Secretary ..... Mona Scholpp Treasurer .... Phoebe Shirley Looking through the records, we find that our class dance was held on March 24, 1939. Since Arthur Hammond, Norman Short, and Stanley McAuliffe found that our accommodations were not up to their expectations, they decided to leave us. The first year of our trip was spent mostly in pregaratiin for the years that were to ccme. In June, 1959, our train pulled into the staticn which was called Vaca- tion where we were to spend the summer months. After the .ong needed rest was over, we once more boarded the Lim- ited 42 which was to take us cn to the sophomore station. In examining the passenger l-st, we missed Theodore Whitcomb and Barbara Scott, two of our former pass-angers, but found that the accom- modations of th-e Limited 42 had met the requirements of Synnove Strom, Daniel Winsor, Stuart Lagergren and Melvi-le Holmes. The President of the previous year called a meeting to elsct officers for our sophomore year. 'lhey were: Pr-esident .... George Teravainen Vice President .... Robert Bunten Secretary . . Phoebe Shirley Treasurer . . . Marguerite Chandler Historian .... Harriet McNeil From the dates submitted to the students, March 29, 1940, was chosen for our dance. The dance was very successful. As the train pulled into our mid-year term, Synnove Strom expressed her desire to leave us and go into training as a nurse. We enjoyed greatly those memorable years with their difliculties and pleasures. I will now turn the controls over to John Alden, who will continue the trip into the junior and senior stations. HELEN TAYLOR I253

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CLASS PROPI-IECY Harriet- Well, Mona Scholpp, how on earth did you ever get to heaven- never mind-don't bother to answer-I can imagine that you used the same tactics on poor Saint Peter that you used on Hogie when you were on earth. Monaf- Okay, you're so smart. Suppose you tell me how you happened to get in. Harriet- Oh, my great, great, grandfather knew the right saints. Say. what are you looking at anyway ? Mona- Why, I'm looking down on all our classmates. Don't you remun- ber that twenty-five years ago today we graduated from D. H. S.? Draw up a cloud and look on! Say! Harriet, is that E.eanor Field crawling out from under that car ? Harriet- Yes, that's Baby -She's head mechanic at Cushing Brothers' Garage now. She got her training in the Duxbury Motor Corps way back when she was in high school, and she became so good at pulling cars apart and even putting them back together again, correctly, that all the garages are trying to hire her now. Mona,- Boy! Who is that sleek looking fellow in the tux with a beautiful girl on each arm? Harriet- Oh, that's Bob Herdman. He's the owner of the Tiosey Ripsey Night Club. Don't some people do the most amazing things ? Mom.- Je1lo! There's Jack Benny still on the air! U-m-m, even the hair on his toupee has fallen out! Harriet- Holy smokes! Isn't that Helen Taylor with him? Mona- Sure! Ever since Mary Livingstone and Jack broke up, Helen has taken Mary's place. She's even funnier than the great Benny himself. Harriet- Well, well, there's Dottie Eldridge riding down the street with Willard Mills, the same old iiame she had during her high school days. You know, Mona, they say that Willie's so bashful, Dottie hasn't been able to get him to pop the question yet. Mona- Did you hear that Eleanor Raymond and Dickie Prince just got married? Harriet-f'Oh, did they? How come it was delayed so long? Monaf- Well, when Dickie was studying in Michigan, the gas rationing started, and as he could only get a very few gallons a week-well, you can see why it was delayed. Harriet- Look, there's Larry Marshall coming out of his famous Cure All Sanitorium. You know that's where all the society women go to rest up and have their nerves soothed and their worries ironed out by Dr. Marshall. Harriet- What in the world ever became of Opie Blanchard, Mona ? Mona,- Well, Opie certainly surprised me. Do you remember the picture we took of him with his flash camera ? Harriet- Do you mean the one that we all labeled 'The Wolf ? ' Mona- Uh-huh, that's the one. Well, believe it or not he's made a lot of money on that picture. He sent it in to the Wolf's Head Oil Company, and they use it all the time now for advertising purposes. And besides that, since Johnnie Weismuller died, Opie's been acting the part of Tarzan. L27l