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

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Senior Year This Thursday wc may not jeel happy, But as seniors we do feel pretty snappy. At last our senior year. Now as we approach Montgomery Manor with graying hair and faltering steps, we thank our lucky stars that our homerooms are on the first floor. The elevator might not work this year. Well, here we are at the start of our senior year and we have a cert ain matter between LI and KANOVITZ to settle. Li settled it! Kanovitz got his cut slip in his senior year; it seems he got into one of Li ' s classes again. This year a revolution took place at English. We ' re referring to the doing away with the rotating block system, not the springtime row. Now when a fresh- man comes to English, he hasn ' t any excuse for taking the wrong lunch. Poor fellow, it ' s a tough life! The biggest miracle happened last year, however, and we just remembered. The windows were washed. For two days we saved on electricity. This year when we want light, we either throw an eraser or a switch. The only difference is that the former method produces a draft. As long as we ' re still talking about events early in the year, let ' s take a look at the old pigskin record. Our team this year seemed to be better at tying scores than winning. Still, among FARRELL, LUCIANO, DI GIORGIO, and ETTER we didn ' t do badly. The only thing that ruined us was the naval engagement on Thanksgiving Day. We didn ' t lose to Latin, but we did lose to Mud. Restless times now, you know, anything could happen. It did! AL DOUCETTE saw a senior playing ball with his little brother. His only complaint was that the kid didn ' t bounce high enough. But wait, what ' s all that hustle and bustle? Why have those seniors got machine guns? Oh, yes, senior elections. Seated in the hall we patiently listened to all the suggestions for smoking rooms, elevators, swimming pools — in fact everything was suggested but class officers. First prize for humor goes to JAMES C. CURRAN for his summary of the junior class expenses. Most enlightening! The outcome was as follows: BILL CONNELL, president, in one of the closest elections in years; KELLY and CURRAN by walkaways for vice-president and secretary-treasurer, respectively; and ENGLERT and FLYNN on the executive committee. Now as the election rumpus dies down and the noise over class dues — a dollar this time — grew louder, we come to the Christmas season and interlude. Our schooling is once more resumed and we turn to sports first. Our hockey team had a fairly good season in that we beat most of our opponents including Latin; BOB MURPHY was our big gun. The basketball team came through fairly well, beating Latin and losing only three games. CAPTAIN ETTER and FUZZY FAZZINO were the standouts. The track team as usual won the Reggies, tied for first in the Northeastern Meet, but finished second in the State Meet. CAPTAIN BOB FARRELL, CONNIE B. LFOUR, and IRV HOWE were real stars. Now let ' s turn to monetary troubles. After all, somebody has to buy a yearbook to read this story; so dig deep, boys, when the yearbook committee looks you up. This is a big year for English High. We are going to be the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary class. Perhaps you wondered why no mention of it until now. The author had to make ?ure we ' d all make it. A short review of baseball shows MARIO DI GIORGIO and COIMPANY turning in for a good season. That ' s all, boys, the printer wants this, so make your own notes for the rest of the year. And for those who desire the sequel, may we ask you to send your name in catalog order to the author? He will gladly send you the latest news about ' 46 as it occurs between now and our 75th re-union. Cheerio!

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THE STUDENT COUNCIL Somehow, after the football season, we began to realize that there were such things as last periods. A really wonderful year this was, as we approached the beginning of the end. About a year and a half to go. Maybe by then we could solve those physics prob- lems, eh, boys? The sophomores, youngsters that they were, asked us if physics was hard. Their answer came in a sort of a sinister laugh. Well, Christmas and Xew Year ' s rolled by once more, and we showed we still had the Christmas spirit, even after vacation by that red embossing on our cards. Once again track, hockey, and basketball found their places in the sports world. As far as the hockey team was concerned, the going could have been better, but still, JAKE MALONEY and ED DUNN weren ' t to be overlooked. We didn ' t win the city championship but were co-champs in basketball. Hal Bolster ' s last minute shot that beat Latin was a honey. Our track team won the Reggies again and Captain Dave Krivitsky was the outstanding competitor in the State Meet. Now came the fun, Junior class officers had to be elected. Juniors had to make speeches! Madly rushing around with guns, they filled their nomination papers. And then, on the great day in the morning during B schedule, they made speeches. The final results were: BOB FARRELL, president: PAUL KELLY, vice-presi- dent; SKIPPY CURRAN, secretary-treasurer: JOHN FLYNN and ED ENGLERT, executive committee. Once again baseball filled the air. This time our stars were JAKE L LONEY. AL LUCL VNO, MARIO you know, and DICK LAWLER. The ' team, under Coach Joe Sheehan, who did a swell job by the way, made the State Tournament. Lawler turned in a beautiful job of pitching in that game with Milton. Then once again, the sticky heat of summer settled over Montgomery Manor. With three years behind us, we stepped into sunlight and freedom to end another year.

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PICTURE COMMITTEE Second Row: Daniel E. Gillis, Edwin H. Rubin, Richard F. Lee, Herbert M. Byer, and William J. Hennessy. First Row: John F. Monohan, John W. O ' Brien, Robert Finkelstein, James D. Amirault, Chair- man, Bertram M. Rettner, Kenneth Fertig, and John H. Etter. ALUMNI COMMITTEE Second Row: Melvin Adelson, Duncan E. Morrill. First Row: Edwin H. Rubin, Austin H. Young SENIOR