Duxbury High School - Partridge Yearbook (Duxbury, MA)

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REMEMBER .... Miss Downey in the seventh grade . . . proverbs and posture . . . the world wants things done, not excuses or habit is like a cable: we weave a strand of it each day until it is so strong we cannot break it . . . Lawrence Barbosa's falling asleep in class . . . Mr. Warner our art teacher in the fifth grade . . . room sixteen a three time winner for our homeroom . . . Nancy Glass and bubble gum in Mr. Gesiak's geography class . . . field trips witl1 Nlr. Scott in tl1e American citizenship class . . . first English classes with Mrs. Bassett . . . our sophomore dance . . . kick-a-poo joy juice . . . Eva's birthday party . . . first postwar basketball championship this year . . . those plane geometry classes with Mr. Hjelm . . . our class party up at Xantasket Beach . . . some of us looking a little green after the rides . . . George riding in the little cars . . . going broke and enjoying it . . . helping Juniors with 718 graduation . . . seemed a long way off then . . . not so long until we were Juniors . . . almost getting lost on biology class field trips . . . all that new lab equipment, but the faith- ful Partridge Academy equipment still with us . . . starting the record hop idea . . . our own entertainment . . . our drummer boy Teddy Drake . . . the small frys moved in with us . . . the Junior Prom . . . cutting out what seemed to be endless paper um- brellas . . . our wishing well with 354' in it . . . Honor l'Sllt?l'S . . . the graduation . . . try-outs for marshal . . . the Senior Reception . . . election for Student Council President . . . the Senior Class play . . . Miss Gray's wonderful help . . . the gun that wouldn't go off . . . bananas . . . Wioodsum trying to burn the chemistry lab out . . . playing basketball and more basketball . . . being exposed to Shakespeare about now . . . surprising ourselves liking it . . . yearbook troubles beginning . . . all the help from teachers . . . trying to get into college . . . more yearbook troubles . . . CdeleteD . . . Mr. Herrick's endless picture taking . . . trying to get everyone lined up for pictures . . . popping flash bulbs . . . those meetings at John's and Pris- cilla's with Mr. Carter . . . getting measured for caps and gowns . . . curtain prob- lems . . . use the patched one or the cloth that doesn't reach the floor? . . . announce- ments . . . how many? . . . what kind? . . . our graduation essays . . . writing them . . . rewriting them . . . oh well . . . our own band playing at graduation . . . underclassmen finding seniors in all corners of the building practicing their es- says . . . working 011 the stage . . . our fancy new class song . . . grand march prac- tice . . . time flying . . . graduation getting close . . .9 fl9l

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