Framingham High School - Philomath Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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'ot of brains 1n our class. In all of our four years in h1gh school Maureen Donnel, who was also the state governor for a day. I we had an outstanding number of students on both honor rolls. And Other Pe0Ple, N 0 Worked hard On our Student Publ1C8t10hS which then in our Junigr year 511 these people finally get recognition reported on our social functions, were Susan Pike, who was editor when they were inducted 1nto the National Honor Society. It was Of the Crier Wnicn Von a T and G Honor AVard, and Alice Litter, the largest group ever to be inducted, and because of this some editor, and Kathy Martin, aSSiStBnt ed1tOr, Of the Philomath, of the seats for the Jun1ors had to be moved in behind the lesser 5 record of this Our senldr Year- Of COUFSQ, at all the proms number of seniors to fit everyone on the stage. Officers from our girls were the prettiest, and our princesses and queen testify our own class were then elected, who ably continued on the tradition to this: freshman, Rosanne Agostinellig sophomore, Mary Noonan, of lighting candles and making speeches for the Induction ceremony. Junior, Patricia Richie, and our own Queen Guenevere, Lindsey They were Gloria Anspach, pres1dentg Elizabeth Gould, v1ce-president, Goddard- In this CateB0Py of Soclability, we C8hhOb forget all Susan Reder, recording secretary, Mary Noonan, corresponding the foreign exchange students we were lucky to meet, helping ur secretaryg and Lorna Fraelic, treasurer. Also, there were two semi- to Widen our understanding Pe0P1e and Cultures- There were finalists in tne National Merit Test -- walter Perini and Marty Jens Nielson from Denmark, Teresa Perez from Peru, Haluk Ozemek Bregman, in addition to the many who received letter of commendation. from Turkey, and Our Own Ue10Ved Jane Ford fren England- D1d we conquer athletically? Besides brains, our class And n0W, We're at the 010Se Of Our senior year. It has was blessed w1th a lot of brawn. Ever since freshman year we Passed by Quickly and naPPi1y as we Were the le3derS of the SChOOl showed our outstanding ability with athletes such as Ralph Bowman, Our 5en10r Class Offieers--Bruce Swift, President? Sally Maisny Don Anderson, Kevin Kimball, and Paul Nardini. In our freshman vice-presidentg Mary MacNamara, secretary, and Jimmy Nat1ch1on1, year 50 many boys get 'FW jackets that the school nad to discontinue treasurer--picked another steering committee to organize our most the practice of giving them to freshmen boys in succeeding years. imP0rtant Class activities. First on the agenda was tne 5en10r In sophomore year, all of the football teams our boys were on had Class Play, Twelve Angry People. The actors of our class most winning seasons, showing the great prowess of our class in sports. effeCtiVely turned tnemselves into Jurdrs as tney struggled to Our sophomore team was undefeated, the J.V.'s had a winning season, decide the fate Of B y0unE DOY aeeused of murder in this tW0-nk and, last but not least, tne vap51ty was Bay State Champs with performance. And then there was the Senior Variety Show under such Sonngmgpes on it as Paul Nardini, Ricky Smith and Jimmy able hands of producer Barry Koch and director Amy Johnson. Ss Trombl. When basketball season rolled around, our school was against 3 n3Ckgr0und Of 3 sneak-easy in the 1920's with B12 Sal B tti . . victorious in maklng the Tech Tourney with our sophomores Steve ronze J as the M C ' this Show was something totally new and . . diff t f Kamin, Brad hawkins, and Paul Calderon on the team. Junior year eren or us, as we went back to the generation of Bonnie M Cl d . With f t our class athletes were again outstanding but the famed first y e as moving skits' full of hitherto unknown Senior t 1 t t fill 1 b t th t line in hockey comes most readily to mind -- Kevin Kimball, Don a en , 0 n e Ween e ac S' this performance never let , . V , the audience rest for a moment. AHOSFSOH, and NGC Dowd. Also, that year the gymnastic team won . , O S 1 fi ll d t l the Say State heague t1tle with many of our classmates on the ur en or year na y rew O a C ose as the most Souad coveted awards 1n the whole school were announced--the High Honor Group and Leadership and Service Award. As seniors, of course our boys were the mainstay for all teams, whether it was football, cross COuhtrY, sdeeer, High Honor Group Leadership and Service track, basketball, hockey, gymnastics, golf, tennis, or baseball. Anspacn, Gloria Ansnacn, Gloria X , Gould, El1zabeth Donnelly, Maureen To mention only a few outstanding names, we list football co- Martin, Kathy Ferullo, John t 1 N , Anne Provencher Johnson, Amy cap a ns ard1n1 and Smith, hockey co-captains Kimball and Anderson, Koen, Barry M 1 h S ll and baseball co-captains wayne Hawkins and Peter Eorghi. The Ngrginelapagl Ritchie Pat 1 1 hockey teams had a winning season and scored the big upset of the Smith, irnesi C a S 1ft B year when it defeated first place Needham. However, the boys W ' race E c t f t 1 ht t d ti t 1 ht weren't the only athletes, our girls participated actively 1n X ep or ommorrow n g a gra ua on' on S ' J 5 1968 1 our 1 t 1 ht t th 1 . Al h sports all of their four years too. Perhaps the year's biggest une ' ' S as n g oge er as a C ass t ough it is doubtf l if ll ld bl 1 ft thi k thrill goes to Sally Ma1sh whose softball team won their first u we 3 con ever assem e Aga n a er S wee ffor there 1s a huge and exc1t1 orld 1t1 J l t' h game in four years. Our cheerleaders, Joanne Mores1-capta1n- S ng W awa ng Us ' e S cpe we will al a b 1 th t t f ll th Joanne Cattani, Maureen Donnelly, and Gail Relzner, were always W ys remem er our C ass, e greg es one 0 a ' e Class of 1968. we did many things of which we can always be proud there to cheer on the teams, ably aided by our majoretteg under and let's hope again that we will always be remembered. Each one Margaret Lavalee. of us can alwa s be r d h h a nl d at d 1 1963 U f D1d we also conquer socially? Throughout our four y p ou W en e S YS' gra u E n ' or' truly, wE CAME, WE SAV, and NE CONQUERED. years 1n high school, our class d1d an outstanding job in Mary Noonan, Chief Historian contributing to all class activities. Our student council Maureen Donnelly, Assistant representatives worked diligently to make all the dances and drives a success, and senior year they were ably led by President Anne Provencher, Assistant

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VENIHUS, VIDIHUS, VICIHUS HE CAME. Pour years ago, la alpteaber, 196l, we, the class of 1968, entered Framingham South High School as innocent, wide-eyed freshmen. Little did we realise what was ahead of us: four of the happiest and lost fulfilling years of our lives. He were to leave an indelible mark with all our achievements -- scholastic, athletic, and social. HE SAH. As freshmen we came and we saw what was happen- ing in this new world all around us. 1953 WIS B PPGS3-denfill election year, and a mock election confronted us in our first few months. For many, this was an awakening to the political situation which had hitherto been unknown. But we weren't the only ones to be confronted with a new experience. The rest of the school was confronted with us. Due to our large numbers, rooms, such as the girls' and boys' dressing rooms, had to be utilized as classrooms to accommodate us. We also brought into the school the new French program which had started in 255 fourth SPBGE classes. Many upperclassmen must have been amazed and humiliated when freshmen could speak French as well as they. we really began to feel a part of the school when we were allowed to attend the football rallies and show our school spirit. KA year later we realized how lucky we had been when the next freshman class and succeeding ones were denied this pr1v1leae.l And then there was more bustle of school activity and spirit as everyone participated in the candy sale, Christmas projects, and ned Cross Drive. Of course, our class sold more fudge than anyone else! Remember, as we all innocently trudged out of school lugging our ten or twenty pounds while the seniors scoffed at us? But we d1dn't mind. We were doing something for our school and showing that we were the greatest class with the greatest spirit. And then we were sophomores--no longer were we low men on the totem pole. It was s whirlwind year of activity, starting with our football team winning the Bay State League title. Later, to amuse the English teacher, we spent many an hour writing about our gloriously exciting lives in our sophomore autobiographies. Then there was the delicious odor of formaldehyde emanating from our clothes as we devotedly cut up frogs in our biology classes. The science department had instilled in us such a craving for knowledge, that we all eagerly entered astonishing projects in the Science Fair and were the best represented class there. This was also the year for us to take the traditional sophomore testing to tell us where our aptitudes and abilities lay. Many a girl was quite surprised to find that she was perfectly suited for a Job as a plumber or engineer. At the end of this second year of high school, we were allowed to conduct elections for class offic- ers, who would lead us on to fame. The campaign period was a vigorous one with posters plastered on the walls, tags fluttering from girls' pocketbooks, and lollpops issued before the campaign speeches. The results were John Ferullo, presidentg Paul Calderon, vice-president, Pat Ritchie, secretary, and J1. Natlchioni, treasurer. And when the summer flew by and we were all too soon back in school. For two years. mystifgpd, we had quietly watched the activities of the upperclassmen: the long serles of tests, choosing colleges, sending in applications, and waiting for acceptanoes. we had seen all this, but we d1dn't realize the importance of it unitl we experienced it ourselves. But then, we were finally upperclassmeng we were Juniors. The threat of college acoeptances and rejectlons fluttered all about us. we now reg11ze hon important they were. Also, to give us a first hand knowledge of the careers or vocations we were considering, occupational conferences were held. And then we relearned the letters of the alphabet: PSAT's. NMSQT's, SAT's, and achievements seemed to be the most important end made us wonder lf it was all really worth lt. BUD. there was a lot more to junior year thrn just college worries. In music appreciation we had advanced from Tony Soul as freshmen, to Ted Tuscont and the Wlldmen as sophomores, to the Boosters Club's first Homecoming Dance and the I.B.C. dance with M.C.'s from WBZ as Juniors. Our class celebrities included Sally Halsh, who was selected as the finalist in the American Field Service Program and spent the next summer in Italy, and Bonnie Wilks, who upheld the reputation of our class in Drama Nite. No memories of our Junior year would be complete without mentioning the Junior Prom. At the beginning of the year the class officers had selected a steering committee to aid in putting on this gala affair. For many months they met and planned the prom, and en arduous but pleasant task it was. The steering committee meetings ran long while everyone haggled over whether or not those attending the prom would like strawberries on their ice cream. Klt was decided not to have the strawberr1es.J That year our class decided to break trad1t10D by holding the prom out of the school for the first time. Another change was the three Grand Marches which were held to accom- modate all the people on the small dance floor at the Meadows. All in all, the prom was a huge success, except for one minor difficulty. The cameras were so astonished by all the 'Moonlight and Roses' beauty around them, they forgot to function corectly, and so there are very few pictures around of the best prom South High ever had. Therefore, posterity will just have to take our word for this. The only thing left to add about Junior year was the hard work we expended on our theses. we all remember well how horrified we felt when this assignment was first explained to us. How could we possibly do all that work and put it all together in one paper? But somehow or other we all managed, and marched around proudly showing off 'my thesisu to everyone. However, for many of us it was not just an English thesis with which we were confronted, but a U. S. History thesis too, and somehow the due dates on both seemed to coincide. Yet, we d1dn't mind Kmuchl. Dedicated students like us thrived on sifting through volumes of books on the Civil llfn Andrew Jackson, and President Kennedy. WE CONQUERED. Then all of a sudden it happened! The class ahead of us had graduated and we were SENIORSI Fatlently, for three years, we had watched and waited for our year of glory and now it was here. Did we deserve lt? Of course we did! How did we fare scholastlcally? Hell, we sure had a

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C L A S S J I L L Kevin Kimball leaves his place in the penalty box to next year's co-captains. Terry NCCBFCHY loaves mis nhon Juann reputation to anyone who wants it. Joanne Horesi leaves four years worth of ki:ley'. le: mane- up to next year's cheerleaders. Jenny Ponta leaves her foolish pranks ana HT. C :,N tc next year's most comical girl. Gale Reizner leaves ner clue eyes to silly Ee-goai .. ner locker to Matny Lahfley. Paul -areini leaves his two front teeth uno fwntlstic spied to cutcn Aucrr. Booty Paul leaves his UConn nits Yrossn t . unc is lucay enoufn to have to 'G. Cris JQCUOTiCL legvff Hi' gugrtererc ,iliLU .j Lcj who is aoou: five incnis tiller. Steve 1 lip leave: niJ 3 -'- s etbill 7LJC f?YCiE3 Jriu . I n3 leav ale L ellen e of inc 31:22 5 sex exactly as it U71 .ea lc 1'er,a Lintu 'ra,t. Maureen -ohne l, eau s South 'L-UeUO.IIv!!H Peter -er hi its .Lc.ae' init leav- Lcretner as usual. JLhiCc Lelake leave: -r su-fcstion that we ornal our con- tract ultn .egtwool . 1 .S fc all future seniors. saroar QU lalven 4 r Hvise-cracainf aoilityn to Joauie beef: Qcx Au,erson leaves without sis license. ' Podl Cflderua leaves his left-hanueu jump snot to next year's tasletoall teas. P Joanne Cattani leaves with her rraauation rift--? - Ts-' ,u.ecn loscano leaves--never without a sale connanion. Jim Trombl leaves ---- friendly as ever. John Steacle leaves his escapades at North to Marty Grlnley. Carol Joyce, Pat Ritchie, Joanne Ferguson, Dottie Crosby, and Lindsay Goddard leave the South High UAn1mal Squadu only to establish another one at U. of Mass. Mike Richardson leaves his bones to anyone who thinks he is Hmeatyn enough to fill them. Eddie Resteghini leaves in his new red sports car. Cris Crowley leave the D. Q. and Famous without her presence. Judy Bell looks forward to school days at U. of Mass. Elaine Kindler passes on her repu ation as a gum pusher. Donna King leaves her head to Mr. Bagush. Susan Krailo sends George Bernard Shaw back to the library. Margaret Lavallee leaves her high nuleage tank to any stong- armed girl. Beverly Leith leaves word that she is practically hitched. Jane Levenson looks forward to French interests in future years. Patty McKee and Barbara Myers leave behind their fame of being a gruesome twosome who can conquer any foe. Ann Mahoney passes on a worn softball glove to next year's team. Ann Palanzl leaves B-33 without saying a word. Luanne Peso flys off to never-never land like Peter Pan. Linda Hill and Liz Hayes leave C-20 with Steve Garner. Alex Hunter leaves notehand to secretaries. Liz Hayes leaves instructions on how to have Chinese fire drills on Grove Street. Steve Garner leaves the immortal words Hwhat the heck do we have to do to do this for?H to Mr. Hamilton. Wendy Durgin leaves her horn to any girl who can fill her space. George D'Amora leaves as a master ln speaking Spanish. Mary Leonardo leaves her business brains to help the cafeteria workers keep track of the pennies that go down the garbage disposal. Pat Bronzettl leaves Sa1's Speak-Easy to anyone brave enough to take lt. Paula Cournoyer leaves her dancing ability to anyone who can fill her shoes. Colleen Duggan leaves one crazy microphone and a great voice to Mr. Jachowitz. Margaret McCarthy leaves her fantastic math ability to some undeserving junior. Bonnie Wilkes leaves her spirited personality to some life- less Junior. Susan Clarke leaves her sewing ability to the Home Economics Department. Nancy Cole leaves her long hair to any Junior boy interested in being a hippie. Jane Brassard leaves all her math tests and homework to some unsuspecting underclassman entering Advanced math I. Stephanie DeCicco leaves a set of well worn-out nerves from the variety show. Marsha Myles leaves one gold dress and a pair of gold stockings to some future sparkling graduate. Larry Smith leaves the senior girls to the junior boys. Nancy True leaves a garter from the variety show to be used as a slingshot. Pat Capstick leaves twelve successful varsity-sport Seasons as the indispensable water-boy. Tom Levanson leaves his heart to Miss Lampertl. Cay Bushnell leaves the nickname of uPantherH to any green freshman who can see in the dark. Gary Kach leaves a recipe for putting fortunes in baegals Walter Perinl leaves all his essays to any potential writt who needs inspiration. Robert Hare leaves his wig. Richard Kowalski leaves his ntweets' and Wquacksn to Raffl Kassabian and all the other members of the Howdy gang. Steve Brandon leaves his brain to science. Edmund Hall leaves a supply of game Jersies to the football team. Robert Locke leaves golf for hopscothh. Ted Jose leaves his sister to all of the Junior class wolves. Dave Lewis leaves his heart and Hsoul' to us all. Alice Litter leaves a year's supply of Excedrin to next year's Philomath staff. Eddie Guardlani leaves all his rides to the baseball team. Leslie Breed leaves the much used, out of tune piano. Marni Abu and Nancy Stephan leave two daily ice cream sand- wiches to Gale Roberts. Susan Reder leaves directions to North to next year's senior girls. Gloria Anspach leaves her striped dresses. Celeste Introinl leaves her sincerity to anyone who can live up to it. Sondra Davidonis leaves her artistic ability. Mike Vodoklys leaves the high school girls for happier hunt- ing grounds at U. of Mass. Butter Ferrari leaves Rat and Hammy to next year's senior girls. Ricky Smith leaves his one and only yellow card to any deserv- ing math student. Rozanne Agostlnelll leaves her weak stomach to be a nurse. wayne Hawkins leaves his sporting ability to some deserving Junior. Julie Natlchlonl leaves her way with words to the English Department.