Hartford High School - Hartford Key Yearbook (White River Junction, VT)

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The next page gives the result of the Harvest Hop, the night which was chosen by the Seniors to entertain. What a colorful gym it was that night with pumpkins and cornstalks everywhere, and punch for all! Next is Stunt Night, when once again the 41’ers come hack into place by taking second prize with their skit titled “Cinderella Steps Out.” A blank page shows where Christmas vacation broke the monotony in school routine and following it came the business of collecting soap and razor blades for the Bundles for Britain contest. One of the high spots in our scrapbook is the picture of the Senior Play, with the stars still in character. The cast of Savage, Shepard. Miller, Smith. Jorgensen, Perry, Jockel, Davenport, Demers, Hefflon, Couture, and of course Charles Blood, did manage to make the train arrive on time. “The Ghost Train” did have its success, however, and according to the last report the ghost still rattles around the darkened stage, calling for lights, camera, action! Graduation at last, and as usual all loo soon. With it comes the final pages in our scrapbook. Pictures, headlines, and clippings, all fade into the mist of the past. As we close the cover on our Hartford treasures, let us pause and remember! [15]

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Mark and Anne, and so many other couples representing life “Down Through the Years ? Miss Young was the sponsor to that. There still does not seem to be so very many pictures. I guess they really believed in all work and no play. They must have been waiting for next year to step into social limelight. Well here we are again at the end of another year. My, how some of them have grown. John Sumner is almost a six footer now, and Karl Goodell is gradually outgrowing his bashfulness. The same old story again, but it always makes a happy picture, the class trip snapshot taken at Lake Morey. For the second time they held the final farewell party of the season. Ah! Behold pages and pages. History in the making. Here at last those little Freshies of two years back finally step into their own. There certainly are a great number of snapshots and headlines this year. Pictures are closely crowded together, espe cially those of the officers, Herbert Smith, president; Noreen Ray, vice-president; Betty Shepard, secretary; and Jean Joekel, treasurer. Practically on top of them is the group picture with such new friends as the Alger and Chase twins, Doris Putnam. Jacqueline Gobie, Rita Curtis, Jessie Jaeger, and Helen Smith. Is that an orchestra we see, or only the stage setting for Stunt Night? It must be the Junior Stunt. Everyone moving but saying nothing. The idea was a night club with music and singing done in pantomime. But there doesn't seem to lx- any blue ribbon with this picture. There are some blue ribbons, however, and they go to Everett Savage and Mark Miller for winning first and second prizes in the Watson Prize Speaking contest. The others go to Althea Hcfflon and Betty Shepard for their D.A.R. essays. Social gatherings come to the front as we turn the page and reveal a large picture of the Junior Prom. It's really a beautiful picture and clearly shows the efforts put in to make it a successful evening. The background is an old-fashioned garden and there in the foreground are numerous dancers, dancing to the music of the Green Collegians. Clippings are thinning out now, although sports and music still appear here and there. Let us now turn quickly to the last few pages and see what the Seniors have for us. Four years. Four memorable years pasted in one small book. Again we see the officers, with Betty Shepard again as president, and her assistants Jacqueline Gobie, Althea Hefflon, and Jean Joekel. As in other years evidently the Senior Class began with many of its former friends missing, such as John Sumner, George Melisi. Leland Fountain, Rita Curtis, John Kapise, Robert Smith. Raymond Wright, and Vernon Cook. Headlines first spring from Freshman Reception, when Mark Miller, as master of ceremonies, conducted a school of classmate professors, who in turn initiated the new Freshman class. [14]

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Front Row (left to right) : Jean Jockel, treasurer; Herbert Smith, class attorney; Betty Shepard, president. Second Row: Jackie Gobie, vice-president; Althea Hefflon, secretary; Charles Blood, sergeant-at-arms. [16]