Hale High School - Pompositticut Yearbook (Stow, MA)

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In high school Heidi was tops in English, but the perfection of her art came with those years of answering the steady stream of letters turned out by some Dartmouth admirer of hers With this skill coupled with her extensive medical training she now writes the mush lest saddest, and most widely listened to daytime serial in all radio Gertrude Gallstone Girl Therapeutist o Though Portia Faces Helen Trent, John s Other Life Can Be Beaut 1 ul success It broke up only after some hours of joking reminiscing and singing old school songs We took leave of each other with many friendships re established promises of regular corres sondence made and plans agreed upon for a future reumon As I drove home from the party I could not help thinking how closely my classmates had fashioned their lives on their ambitions plans peculiarities and hobbies as they had express ed them during the happy days at old Hale High I concluded how accurately I might have pro phesied the very facts which had come to light this evening if I had so wished I remarked to myself that this reumon had been a delightful and satisfying culmination to ten short happy years Bruce Maclver 19 ' - ' 'Il r Ol ' 9 ' - 'f .Il The party lasted well into the night and was, in the opinion of all who attended, a complete

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tnme just what name each of them would have ten years from now, I would soon fmd myself served wxth lawsuxts from seven msulted women Peggy Lewxs hadn t become a mechamc m her father s garage as all of us had expected but w1th her expenence m makmg sweaters for semor boys, had opened one of the most ex clusxve shops 1h all Boston, whmch specxahzes m fme yarns and exqulsltely wrought kn1tted creatxons The party was well underway when Douglas Mann trotted up It seems he had come all the way from northwestern Canada smce that mormng, and would have arrxved sooner, but had to stop off and battle a couple of forest fzres along the way Dougy you see, IS one of the Domlmon s hottest forest wardens havxng entrusted to him an area two thousand mxles long and a half mlle wlde By the way, thls str1p IS not lald out ln a stralght llne lnstead xt bends around to form a carcle Thxs may seem szlly but you d be surpr1sed how easy lt IS to patrol In one of the rear corners I found Vlrgxma Batsford, seated at a pxano, pzckmg out a s1m ple practlce exerc1se Vlrgmla s lnterest 1n the pxano orlglnated durmg her school days xn Stow She had studzed fazthfully and had mastered the longest, most involved composxtzons that Chopm or Rachmanmoff had ever produced But when she turned her talents to the teachmg of the piano, she found that those practlce exercises were so dlffxcult for her after the long classzcal pzeces, that she had to practxce them all her spare tame lest her pupils attann a Arlene Larsen whom you ll remember as a sweet blue eyed young woman, explamed to me at great length how she had won just the week before, the world championship ln uphlll motorcycle racmg Thxs IS the thlrd successlve year 1n whlch Arlene had taken thxs coveted honor I mzght add that she makes her lxvxng at gwmg demonstratlons and mstructxons ln motorcycle techmque Shlrley Jensen followed a calhng no more femmme than that of Arlene It seems this wln some mxss IS employed to subject preproductlon models of Ford cars to severe endurance tests In thls way she 15 entitled to smash up dozens of brand new models of her favorlte car before the pubhc even knows of the1r ex1stence Shxrley holds awards not only for wreckmg more cars over a stated perlod than any other tester but also for more completely demohsh mg them Harvey Trefry was there of course, as well as those gxgantlc muscles of his Harvey, as you probably read through the years, 15 one of the greatest coaches football has known smce the days of Knute Rockne and Fxeldxng Yost Last year he coached Notre Dame to 1ts fourth successlve perfect season Yes mdeed nowhere In thms country are they more proud of thelr coach than at dear old Notre Dame Female Seminary of Wounded Knee, South Dakota The two gxrls who had gone forth mto the world to become nurses, Marjorxe Gray and I-Ie1d1 Peck both had reallzed thelr amb1t1on but not qulte as they had expected Marjorie s fondness for animals had always been one of her outstandmg tra1ts Some of you mlght re member her falthful feedlng of the stray cat, whom we dubbed Elzjah, whzch was contznually wandering mto the school Perhaps It was somethlng of this nature whlch prompted Margle to accept the pos1t1on whzch she now holds, namely head nurse at the recently founded Maynard Cat and Dog Hospxtal 18 . , . . , I 1 , - . . . . D . . . , . . . I . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . , . . . . , . U . . 0 . I superior skill in the rendition of the same. , . , - , . . . . . O I . - . ' . - . . . . . . . . , . . . O I I ' . - . . . ' I I

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CLASS HISTORY Ever smce Herodotus Thucydxdes and Xenophon varzous hxstorles have been written but no materlal, you wxll agree, affords better subjects for hlstory than thxs class of 1949 Smce I have always been mterested in hxstory, xt glves me great pleasure to present our class history It was on September 8 1937 that this hxstory begms We started ln varxous schools all over the state to acquxre knowledge There were elghteen who gathered at Pxlot Grove School but by the tlme we were mn the second grade, we lost some classmates but gamed enough to make our number fxfteen I had the pleasure of Jonmng at that txme, together wxth Jerry Lyden Howard Mann, and Joan Hallet In the thlrd grade we were glad to have a new classmate when Waltham gave to us Marjorxe Gray who proved to be an outstandmg member of our class Four of our members were obhged to go to Gleasondale for the thlrd grade because our class room at Stow was overcrowded The next year, however, they again Jomed us at Pxlot Grove Near the begmnlng of the fourth year we lost Davxd Clemens to the flfth grade, and John Thomas left for another school This same year we welcomed Harvey Croft, Wxllxam Colleton Edward Mason and Lorralne Jones to our fold Then came the transfer to Gleasondale and the nde on Pa s bus where Harvey Trefry was made ass1stant bus offlcer We recelved a new member ln the fxfth grade when Joseph Johnston came to us So far we had had only two teachers Mrs Perkms and Mlss Wetherbee because Mzss Wetherbee had been transferred to Gleasondale wxth us, as our teacher Three McNe1ll, of wh1ch number only Bruce Maclver remamed wlth us Then came Jun1or I-hgh and the upper world The seventh grade brought back Shxrley Jensen who had gone to Maynard from the f1rst grade Richard Standlsh and others also came to us that same year Ffnally came the last year of Jumor Hlgh, when we were joined by Alfred Mxlak, malung our number nmeteen Concernmg our class act1v1t1es that year we held a dance late an Apr1l from whlch we profxted greatly On June 8 1945 we graduated from Jumor Hlgh and would up the year s act1v1t1es by go1ng to Lyonhurst for our class trlp Our entry 1nto Hale Hlgh found us nnnus fave members Joe Umbrello Donald Colleton, Henry Russell Jerry Lyden and R1chard Standlsh, most of them contmumg thexr studles else where Dorothy Wh1te was the only one to Jom the corps whzle Joseph Johnston left durlng that year Our Sophomore year was rather qu1et, but we were happy to welcome Eleanor McColl who came to us from New York The Jumor year saw no new faces, but we lost Alfred Mzlak The outstandmg soclal event for the Jumor year was the Prom whlch was a great success In an mtertown publ1c speaklng contest between Harvard Lnttleton, and Stow four contest ants were chosen from our class, namely He1d1 Peck, Marjorxe Gray Bruce Maclver and John Derby To John Derby went the hmghest honor for boys Z0 . , . ' , . . . . , . ' . . . . . . I 1 0 I O . . . . , ' O I l 0 . . ' new members came to us the next year, namely, Bruce Maclver, Norma Martin, and William ' ' IC UI ' . . . . 0 , , . . , . . . . . . . . . 2 , , l . . . . . - I . . . D . I D . . D ' I . I