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

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Boys in the Armed Forces Hartley Thompson. Pilot Officer in R.C.A.F. London. Ontario. Canada Leonard Jacobs. MoMM 3 c U. S. Navy Overseas Raymond Byron, F rivate Army Air Corps Kcisler Field, Miss. Vincent Agan. Private Army Overseas William Kontos. S 2 c U. S. Navy Portland, Maine 17 Leo Fitzmorris, S 2 c U. S. Navy Overseas Leonard Timmons, Private Army Air Corps Clovis, Mexico Ralph Coutermarsh, TM 3 c U. S. Navy Overseas

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during the school year. Then too, a number of fellows were to join up on the inactive list of the Army Air Force. As Willy wandered up the center aisle he drew near a knot of his pals. Horning in on the conversation Willy was just in time to catch Stan Wright’s description of what he, Jimmy Clayton and Stanley Joy did at Boys’ State in the early part of the summer. Willy also gathered by the conversation floating around that a lot of the fellows had worked here, there and everywhere during the summer recess. However the first bell brought them all to order as it had in those dim and distant years way back in 1938. But it was Miss Urie and not Mrs. Ryan who introduced herself as their home room teacher and class advisor along with Mr. Currier for the forthcoming year. The class of ’44 distinguished itself during its senior year in the field of dramatics and music. The Music Field is a class of ’44 specialty. The Boys’ Quartet, Band and Glee Club are all heavily sprinkled with '44 talent. In the absence of Miss Hill “Stan” Wright put the Glee Club through its paces at the Christmas assembly. Jimmy Clayton romped the band through a few numbers also. The whole was a satisfactory assembly. “Burt” Shepard and Violet Pierce won first place in the Watson Prize Speaking Contest, Jimmy Clayton and Mafelda Iz .o came in second. Few wilj .orget Dick Wood and Betty Densmore as L'il Abner and Daisy Mae in the Senior Stunt. That was a rootin’, tootin’ and SHOOTIN’ little sketch about the Hill Billy's, Revenooers and the Martins and the Coys. That was a night of high suspense until the final results were announced. The Seniors had to content themselves with a lowly third. Oh, well, it was a lot of fun. Tre Dramatic Club entered the “Powers That Be in the District One Act Play Contest. Hartford High School got third place in a field of three. Members of the cast were Norman Fortier, Alice Puller, Roberta LaPlante, Betty Densmore, Marjorie Gauthier and Peter Perry. “The Saturday Evening Ghost a three act play presented by the Senior Class was well received by the audience. Chief mystery about the play was Stanley Wright’s disappearance up the chimney. C hief interest lay in iolet Pierce’s love for a ghost in an old English Castle. Added items of note were Vernon Osgood’s performance as an American Soap King, filthy with the old lucre; his wife, Beverly Greenwood; a pair of brats by Norman Fortier and Rosie Morale; an eccentric young Englishman by Peter Perry; the ghost and an Eng-lish Lord by Stanley Wright; and an old English nanny by Charlotte Lyman. Not to be forgotten was the Senior Ball. The first at Hartford High for many a year. After sweating out the obtaining of a band. The Royal Barons from Randolph furnished us with a very acceptable platter of music. Looking backward over the years to that day in 1938 when the l eginnings of the “Class of 1944” first met in rooms 12 and 14, later added to in force by the Wilder, West Hartford, North Hartland and Quechee contingents, it is rather unbelievable that we should have progressed so far in what seems to be a short time. Probably every class has felt and will feel that same emotion, but that feeling is there nevertheless. Those six years spent in Hartford High school weren’t wasted. We learned a lot and had a lot of fun doing it. 16

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ADAMS. GEORGE Curly Junior Prom 3; Scrap Drive 3; Stunt Night 4; Senior Ball 4; Senior Play 4; Scrap Drive 4. Do you know why we call him Curly?” It's because he has proved a farmer can get up early enough to get his curls arranged before 8:00. How do they pronounce often in Quechee, George? Remember how helpful he’s been whenever there was a job to be done? The A. A. F. wings he’s been wearing indicate his future. BURKE. MARBARA Marb Glee Club 3; War Stamp Salesman 3; Scrap Drive 3; English 3 A Assembly 4; Paper Diive 4. Marbs is a neat looking lass from Quechee Tech. In her quiet way she has made many friends although her Quechee interests” have taken most of her social time. Good luck. Marbs. BURNHAM. REGINALD “Reg Home Room Activities 1. 2. 3. 4: Junior Prom 3; Scrap Drive 3; Senior Ball 4; Stunt Night 4; Paper Drive 4. Reg is one of our class standbys. Though he’s one of our quieter boys from whom little is heard, when there’s work to be done you find him there pitching in. We all lespect him for his efforts in getting his education. CHAPIN. LOUISE Chape Freshman Dramatic Club 1; Home Room Secretary I; Debating 2; Round Table Discussion 2; Representative 2; Basketball 2. 3. 4’ Oratorical Contest 2; Patratores 2. 3; Masquers 2, 3. 4; Garbo’r 3. 4; State Home Economics Conference 2; Cheerleader 2. 3; Uushe; at Prize Speaking 2. 3; Graduation 2; French Club 3; Junior Prom 3r Class Secretary 3; Stunt Night 3. 4; Business Manager of Senior Play. Prize Speaking, and Masquers Plays 4; Senior Ball 4; Yea; book 4. Chape’s patience and cooperation have made her one of the outstanding workers of the class. She needed her patience the night of the Dramatic Club plays when the change box crashed during the final moments of the play. After school hours she can be found serving sandwiches at the railroad lunch counter. Socially successful. she won the place of honor at the class president’s left at the Senior Ball. 18