English High School - Blue and Blue / Record Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Spring, baseball, street parade, hot weather, and final tests, they all came at once. The consolation was, of course, that the end of the school year was in sight. So, after helping the baseball team through its schedule — FARRELL and POWELL again — whistling at the first robin, could we help it if the bird happened to be on the flag staff in front of Girls ' High? — getting callouses in the street parade, and practicing for vacation on the days of the tests, we finally reported on the last day for our report cards. Yes, the day had come that we could walk down Dover handing our report cards to the gentleman with the message that they permitted the owner any number of pink elephants. The playboys of Dover could legally have their menageries, and we could legally relax as we had done all year anyway. Junior Year Remember that Thursday about which I made the crack? Well, look out, English, it ' s here and we ' re back! Once again the rush started. We all pulled out our homemade car checks and started for the brick building in the middle of the South End. It has been said, and how true, that many English High football stars received their training coming through Egleston Square. Once more we approached this center of culture and headquarters for fun and calisthenics. This time, however, we walked towards the doors of our cultural den straighter and wiser with the knowledge that we were sedate juniors. Think of that — well, try, anyway. Juniors! my, my — now we could struggle with P3, run for office, or at least for the door at two o ' cloc k. We had learned how after two years of diligent study. RECORD BUSINESS STAFF Standing, left to right: Assistants Alexander H. Doucette, Seymour Salett, Nathaniel Marks. Seated: Business Manager Edward H. Rubin.

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Now interest in school was aroused once more. Not only track and hockey, but that year for the first time in many, basketball was revived. English had suddenly become a place of danger through which only the fearless could pass. What with hookey — oops, pardon me, — hockey players wandering around, sticks over their shoulders, basketballs flying thick in the upper gym, track men speeding around the drill hall, hurdlers buzzing down the iirst floor corridor north, and sprinters making a greater draft than UNCLE SAM in the second-floor corri- dor north, teachers had to watch out as they left their classrooms after school. They could have been killed, and, of course, the guilty one could claim it was an accident. Briefly now we ' ll recall the records of those various teams. This was one of our most glorious years on the indoor track. We were not only Reggie Champs, but won the State meet — many thanks due COURT ELLIS. Our basketball team was co-champion, led by such players as CAPTAIN KERR, BILL NORTHRIDGE, and JOHNNY ETTER. Our hockey squad was of the usual English High timber, but, unfortunately, didn ' t cop the championship. JENNINGS, BARRY and CAPUTO certainly did more than their best for us, though. Now, while awaiting spring vacation, we went back to the old humdrum business of causing minor earthquakes at the call of second lunch, showing fresh- men our pass keys to the elevator, and, occasionally, even studying, before tests, that was. Prize drill now drifted around. And although there were no signs of future generals, at least most of the freshmen in the companies were guarding the clothes instead of costing us more points than we could have lost ourselves. ROOM ATHLETIC CAPTAINS OF JUNIOR AND SENIOR Third Row: John C. Collins, James D. Moroney, Austin H. Young, George J. Tarantino, Robert J. Jepson, Austin P. Roche, Basil Adams. Second Row: Joseph W. Pinto, Joseph P. Bullock, Charles W. Weddleton, William J. Smith, Paul F. Richardson, John C. O ' Connor, Conrad G. Balfour, First Row: Edward R. Adelson, Mario D. DiGiorgio, John H. Etter, Sumner Frank, William J. Hennessey, Richard F. Lee, Joseph H. Miller.

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RECORD EDITORIAL STAFF Standing, left to right: Samuel Rubinovitz, sports editor; David A, Marlin, photography editor; Richard S. Carroll, sports feature writer; and Robert P. Gersin, school graphics editor. Seated, left to right: Robert W. Egan, associate editor; Thomas J. O ' Keefe, editor-in-chief; and Bernard Zigman, art editor. Yes, it would be a great day, the day after the next day: Saturday, no school! Well, as juniors we got off on the right foot, everyone else started with his left, but this was only the beginning, of course. Beginning? Beginning of what? Well, first it was the beginning of Uncle Ralph ' s rest home; then there was the start of the V program — simple enough but hard on the feet — but worst of all it was the beginning of school. The school finally settled down. For the newcomers who didn ' t recognize this point of progress we gave a definition. It was: This school has settled down when you can hear the fellow next to you snoring. Now that that was that, we got on with the year ' s activities. We had great fun one day selling a freshman lunch tickets and telling him they were good for one dip in the swimming pool. The first few days were so warm that the sight of Room 312 caused some reminiscing. It seemed that by a series of accidents, during the previous spring, several students had dropped onto the church via a window of 312. Finding a desk on the church roof — it ' s a strong wind that blows around Montgomery Manor — they climbed back in throueh a corridor window. Well, enough dilly dally, let ' s proceed with football. That year we lost two but made up for th°m by beating Latin decisively in Harvard Stadium. The victory was largely due to the efforts of BILL NORTHRIDGE, BOB MURPHY, and PAUL BJORKLUND.