Exeter High School - Pinnacle High School (Exeter, NH)

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1946 EXETER HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 29 SYNOPSIS Herbert, at sixteen, is already a musical genius but his hundred and one ideas are forever getting him and the Rains family into difficulty. It's bad enough when he misses the important audition with Felix Heidler, famous music critic. His music teacher, Miss Hepplewhite, has arranged the ap- pointment with Mrs. Ellington-Lewis, a prominent socialite, but Herbert doesn't show up. When he does arrive, it is with Vincent, his partner in misfortune, two twelve-foot planks, and many excuses. The music critics and Mrs. Lewis, disgusted and indignant, leave when Herbert injures his fingers with the planks. The lumber is for a float the boys are building. They have worked hard to copy plans for the new high school, and its only fault is that it repeatedly collapses during the parade to the merriment of all but Mr. Tierney, the contractor for the school, who sees this as an asper- sion on his professional reputation, since Herbert's father is also a contrac- tor. For a time things look very dark with Mr. Farnsworth, Vincent's pro- fessor father, and Miss Arnold of the Chamber of Commerce siding with Tierney against Mr. Rains. All is made right, however, when Tierney is exposed as a crook and the boys are hailed as the city's saviors. Herbert gets another chance to play for Mr. Heidler because of the efforts of Jean Bressart, Herbert's Miss Moonlight. The senior classes of R. F. S. and E. H. S. combined to present the very successful Moonlight for Herbert. Many thanks are due to our director and patient coach, Miss Irene Winn, who can take a lot of credit for the success of the undertaking.

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28 EXETER HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 1946 i, K SENIOR PLAY CAST Left to Right: C. Currier, J. Auger, K. Tufts, L. Brabant, C. Tufts, C. Walsh, P. Spencer, J. Monaghan, Miss Winn, C. Bell, B. Horne, P. Cammett, H. Stanley. Cast Beverly ..,. ..... ....... C E CIL BELL Mrs. Ruins .....,.,,, . . PHYLLIS SPENCER Mr. Heidler .....,. . . . . , , , CHARLES TUFTs Mrs. Ellington Lewis , , , . . CONSTANCE WALSH Vincent .......,...,.. . , . DANIEL HEARTZ Herbert . . . . . HEYWOOD STANLEY Mr. Rains ..,,.,. .... . BURTON HORNE Mrs. Tracy ....... , . LORRAINE BRABANT Miss Hepplewhite , , ,... CLAIRE CURRIER Mr. Farnsworth . A KENNETH TUFTS Mr. Tierney JOHN MONAGHAN Miss Arnold . . , PEGGY CAMMETT Miss Bressart , .......,. .,.,,,.. J EANNINE AUGER Prompters . Property ,... Sound Effects . . . , . . . . IVIARY DURGIN and DOROTHY LANDERS , CARLETON ELDREDGE and GWENDOLYN LONDON , . . . . .,.,... ,..,..... .,.,, S A LLY HIGGINS

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30 EXETER HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK 1946 CLASS PROPHECY Throughout the past year in our aeronautics class we have been study- ing weather forecasting, and it interested me so much that I became a meteorologist, but that is beside the point. I am sure you all are anxious to hear what has happened and is now happening to the class of '46, By a strange coincidence I happened to have Word of all of them on the same day, and this is how it happened. One morning as I was going out I ran into Water Commissioner Bob Barker, who, to find water employs the ancient and approved method - divining rod. He is continually bothered by Norman Bearisto, now a famous professor of Physics, who keeps telling him that it is against the Law of Physics. While talking to these old classmates of mine I learned that Clif Davis tried boxing as a profession but failed because after hitting his opponent just once, Clif would stop. His kind heart would not let him strike the poor fellow again because it hurt him so much. I also learned that a much changed Clarence Carroll will be a successful player-manager of the House of David. His success is due to a new hid- den ball trick, which involves the use of his three-foot beard. I was also told that Earlikins Wiggin is in danger of going Nets over his profession, smelt fishing. I had with me a late report from La Guardia Field, New York, which shows that the Tufts really know their flowers, even the little flower, for whom the field was named. They have followed, indirectly, in his footsteps and are unique in being the only mayor who can appear in two places at the same time - a distinct political advantage. Leaving my friends, I journeyed to the thriving metropolis of Stratham where I intended to consult Joe Desroches, a prominent meteorologist, who makes all his observations early in the morning, which is made necessary by his Holy .... chicken farming. I saw a row of farm buildings, which I learned from Joe were owned by former classmates, Ernest Wiggin and Irving Spencer. Across the dooryard of the first farm I saw a set of tire tracks and small bits of a certain commodity which is much used on gardens in this vicinity - fertilizer. The next set of buildings could more readily be described as cow barns than farm buildings. From the windows, doors, ventilators, and various other apertures in the largest of these barns was issuing - guess what? No, you're wrong. It wasn't what you thought it was. It was Spencer's golden voice, singing to his cows- contented cows, that is. Returning home I found on my desk beside a sequence report from Washington a letter from Lee Fredette, 34th assistant adviser to the Chief of Staff for the Waves.