Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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HISTORY I HE final clash down the home streteh [73 of our last year in the Fitehburg High Sehool is over, and the elass of 1906 has broken the tape at the finish amid a blaze of glory and has emerged bearing a reeord far more suceessful and in- teresting than any of its precedents. Our Gardner co-classmates have treated us royally. They first show ed their rec- ognition of our superiority over any other class in F. H. S. by inviting us to a picnic at Lake Wachusett, so that they might become personally acquainted with us. Wyman had a most delightful time, and when it was time to go home he was among the missing, but was finally found on a settee near the lake with a Gardner girl (whom he afterwards ex- plained to us was his “cousin”), with his watch set back an hour and a half. Also, during our Freshman year, the elass in some unexplainable way accumulated the enormous sum of $1, and thereby had the honor of being the first class in ¥. H. S. to make any mc:)ney during their first year. During our Sophomore year our athletic prowess was given a boost when we surprised the school by tying ’04 for first place in the interclass meet, scoring 40 points. The classes of ’05 and ’07 were shut out. The next year we were formally organized, efficient officers being elected tc3 conduct the affairs of our great class in the proper manner. It was during this year that the solemn and dignified Seniors were awakened to the fact that they w ere really a very slow class by allowing us to publish the “Flapper” with- out making the least attempt at retaliation. Although they pre-

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Catherine Tlieresa Lealiy. l!)lizal)etli Lei])er, Second Senior Class Party Coniniittee. Rol)y Cheney Leonard. Irene Hilda Lewi.s, Associate Editor “Red and Gray.” ’O.I-’Od ; (Gardner Keeepticjn Coniniittee; Monu- ment Deeoratinjj; Coniniittee, ’t ' G. Bertha May Lowe. Jennie Almira Lowe, E ' irst Senior Class Parti ' Committee. Annie Gertrude McHugh. Lucy Margaret AIcKenne . Florence Louise McNamara. Lois Mossman. Genevieve Frances Murphy. Mary Josephine Nash. Helen Frances Nutting. Frances Elizabeth Pickels, Gardner Reception Committee. Alary Eva Quinlan, Associate Editor “Red and Grai’,” ’05-’0G; Writer of Class Song. Mary Esther Robinson. Elizabeth Frances Ro3 Ruth Sarkin. Bridget Loretta Shea. Elizabeth Alice Smith. Alice Ala Stock well, Gardner Reception Committee. Alice Honora Walsh. Ellen Catherine Walsh. Addie Louisa Wilkins. 14

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tcMidcd not to mind it, it was very evident they felt (jiiite sore by several ])ointed allusions referring to the little ]3ain])hlet whieh a|)])eared in their elass hook. Two elass ])arties were sueecssfully eondueted during this year, and we were also honored by c ' lnother invitation from onr Junior friends at Gardner, whieh was aeeepted, but nnfortnnatelv only a small number were able to attend. It mi ht be interesting to mention that Wyman eame to the eonelu- sion that his “eonsin” had forgotten him beeause he was unable to find her at the picnie. 1906 had the honor of elaiming the elass baseball ehampionship, winning out at the last moment in a verv exeiting series of games. Our last year has made a fitting “finis” to our unsur]3assed reeord in the school, and our senior danees have been surprisingly sueeessful, both soeialh and financially. Gardner entertained us again in the “ehair town,” and we endeavored to return their kindness by giving a danee in their honor at Fitehburg. The Black Hand should also be remembered for suppressing the wild and vvoolh Juniors and for keeping things alive at the school building during our Senior year. The only thing that they regret is that Principal Woodbury declined to remain on the member- ship roll, the only plausible reason being that he thought things were too slow. He likes faster company, you know. We upheld our prestige of former years in athletics, for again we won the class baseball championship in a walk. To top the climax, the captains of the three athletic teams this year are members of the class of 1906. Our experience in F. H. S. has indeed been one of harmony and concord, and we now stand first among all the classes which have graduated from the school, with a clean and unparalleled record to prove it. We, as a class and individually, have noth- ing to fear or be ashamed of, and if in the future, no matter what our occupation may be, we are still able to uphold the good record which we have so well begun, socially, intellectually, and moralh we cannot help but reflect honor and credit both upon our celebrated class of 1906 and upon our dear old Alma Mater. IG