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THE PHILOMATH -4 15 conies in handy when I am being asked a difficult question. I, Jeanne ( Did-You-Hear-About-So- and-So?) Donnelly, leave my ear for gossip and nose for news to anyone in the next class who has no self-conscious- ness or pity in her character. I, Elena (Bashful) Guerra, leave open for pretty applicants my undisputed posi- tion as the quietest marshal. I, John (Genius?) Antul, leave a deep breath to the one in any future class who thinks that he can talk as long or as often as myself. We, Swede Hedberg and Uncle Bengio- vanni (the Mutt and Jeff of high school), leave Mr. Jones a revised edition of track rules which will allow Swede to jump any way at all, and Uncle to run in every race until the opposition gives up. I, Jean McAuley, leave to Sue Merriam a perfect voice for saying, I ' m only tree an ' a half years old. As given in Ward 228 of the Framing- ham Unsanitorium on the seventeenth day of the fifth month in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty- three, and duly witnessed by: Roberta Polepsky Eva Costello H. Victor Perlsputter Edwin Stillwagging and the class l(aw)yer J. Antonius Duhnne. We, the Class of 1943 leave the High School! (Continued from page 7) We were amazed to hear that again we had to elect a class adviser. Honestly, it was getting to be a routine. This time we elected Miss Wiley, who had also been ad- viser to the Class of ' 42. After working with Miss Wiley for a year, all we can say is, There ought to be a schoolful. We planned a gala Senior-Sophomore dance to welcome the incoming Class of ' 45. It was a howling success, as anything promoted by our class would naturally have to be. Election time rolled around again and the class leaders were: Lefty Morris, president; Mary Clinton, vice-president; Mary O ' Malley, secretary, and Porky Collins, treasurer. Our athletic teams under the leadership of Lefty Morris, Billy Ryan, Sid Gree- ley, Basil Verdy, and Bill Martin piled up an impressive string of victories and really gave the school something to root for. The days had gone by on roller skates and we found ourselves approaching grad- uation faster than somewhat. Before we knew it we were in the midst of gradua- tion activities. Junior Prom . . . Band Concert . . . Class Night . . . Music Fes- tival. . . . All these events seemed to trans- pire in a dizzy haze, or a hazy diz, or some- thing. Then on the night of June 18 we walked the last mile down Nevins Hall, up the stairs, across the stage, down the stairs, and back to our seats. We came out of it all clutching a diploma and we knew that this was farewell to F. H. S. forever. Fred Vitali.
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14 h- THE PHILOMATH GlaU Will r LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLASS OF 1943 We, the Class of ' 43, being of question- ably sound mind and unquestionably sound body (as witness the 1-A ' s about to be drafted), do solemnly swear and avow this document to be the expression of our heritage for those succeeding us, and for the faculty as a whole and as individuals ( for some of them certainly are individ- ual). We, the aforesaid class, leave as re- quired reading several volumes of Sir Thomas More ' s Utopia for harassed and disillusioned members of the faculty. We, the woebegone, bedraggled, and completely supine Class of ' 43, leave to the more masterful members of the faculty a treatise on the dangers of inhibited self- expression. We, the slightly disgusted and more or less hopeless class, do leave to the future editor of the Student Crier a complete set of unused ideas (which he undoubtedly will never use ) for the improvement of said publication. We, the tongue-tied Class of ' 43, leave a dictionary of original pronunciations to Miss Benton. (Written with Mr. G. D. Lundberg as contemporary author. ) We, being mindful of everyone else ' s mistakes as well as those of our own, leave Mr. Small a new gas mask to replace the old one he keeps in his office as protection against those experiments that didn ' t turn out just as they were expected to. We, having often been rescued from the brink of a test, leave a set of printed in- vitations to be sent to friends in the armed forces. ( Those who make them out should remember to state the time so that there will be a special broadcast in the middle of Mr. Bush ' s physics class.) And now we come to the bequests of a more personal but equally irrelevant na- ture. I, Lefty Morris, being in a position of popular attention and therefore feeling the need for a bequest, leave my best wishes for the incoming class. I, Mary ( Busybody) O ' Malley, leave to some similarly gifted female of the next class my ability to out-talk any member of my class. We, Basil Verdy and George Mooney (the Laurel and Hardy of F. H. S.), leave Mr. Daniels a picture of ourselves to cheer him between the innings when things look bad. I, Fred (Sheik ) Vitali, leave to some in- coming Don Juan special directions for better grooming (even how to wave your own hair). I, Red (Hey! Look at Me) Waldron, leave to an unusually lucky member of the succeeding class my knack for con- sistently doing the wrong thing and having it come out all right. I, Don ( Hep-cat ) Ephlin, leave to some nervous soul the habit of ruining teachers ' nerves by beatin ' it out on anything with- in reach. I, George (Matchstick) Reni, leave a standing offer to tutor anyone in the ' ' Reni system of dancing. This consists of lean- ing ' way over backward and letting your partner dance in a circle around you. I, Wallace (Cutie) Burgess, leave to an innocent-looking member of the incoming class a list of dumb, disconcerting, but de- cidedly apropos questions for better heck- ling earnest pedagogues. I, Lou (Adonis) Abelli, leave to the best-looking member of the next class my profile and my far-away look, which often
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