Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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THE ECHO 3 RUTH CHURCHILL Union Street “ Few things are impossible to diligence and skill” Hobby: Studying Activities: Librarian, 3, 4; Pro-Merito Pin, 3; Glee Club, 1. Ruth is one of the smart members of the Senior Class. She claims she doesn’t like studying, but she gets such good marks that we think she must study, as she won salutatory honors. CAROL COULTER (Toots) South Franklin Street “ Give me time ” Hobby: Sports Activities: Athletic Drama, 2; Pro-Merito Pin, 3; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4; Track, 2; Apparatus, 4; Basketball, 3, 4; Captain of Team, 4; Class Secretary, 2, 3; Echo, 4. Toots is another sport lover. She plays tennis, basketball, baseball, and whatnot. She spends many pleasant hours in old Jonas. Yet with all her athletics Toots’ name appears on the honor roll every time. ROBERT CROSBY (Bing) South Franklin Street “ Crosby , Columbo, and Vallee ” Hobby: Living up to his reputation Activities: Glee Club, 1, 2. Bing seems to be an all-round favorite with teachers and pupils alike. He can take dictation at the rapid speed of sixty words a minute, but that doesn’t bother Bing in the least. RUTH DICKERMAN (Dickie) South Franklin Street “In whose body lodged a mighty mind” Hobby: Being modest Activites: Librarian, 4; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4; Reporter, 4; Athletic Drama, 3; Pro-Merito Pin, 3. Ruth is one of those modest, meek maids, whose spare time is spent in guarding the office. Also her name always appears on the honor roll. MILDRED ERNEST (Mil) South Franklin Street “A jolce a day keeps sorrow away” Hobb y: Telling jokes Mil is always ready to tell jokes — especially in history class, when she tries to tell Mr. Neal that she can’t read her own writ- ing. Remember some of those times, Mil?

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2 THE ECHO DEDICATION This issue of the “Echo” is affectionately The “Echo” Staff wish them the best of dedicated to the graduating class of 1932. success in life, as they have had in Sumner. SENIOR STATISTICS FRANCES AHERN (Peanut) Chandler Street “Variety is the spice of life ” Hobby: Clothes Activities: Senior Drama, Lunch Room, 4; Reporter, 4; Bas- ketball, 4; Orchestra, 1, 2; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3; Apparatus, 4; Track, 1, 2; Vice President of Class, 3, 4; Echo, 3, 4. After every vacation Peanut brings back the latest styles from New York. She played the part of the pert little miss, “Vangie” or Evangeline in “Memory Lane”. Oh yes, she loves history, and we tell her that she ought to do advance work in it, but she plans to train for a nurse in New York. CHARLOTTE BATCHELDER (Pinkie) North Franklin Street “ Blame it on the waltz ” Hobby: Dancing Activities: Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4. Pinkie (is that right?) trips a very light toe, and we see her at all the dances interpreting the latest “Rumba” steps. LAURA BLANCHARD Weymouth Street “ Fair ivords never hurt the tongue ” Hobby: Giving Advice Activities: Senior Drama, Head Reporter, 4; Class Secre- tary, 4; Athletic Drama, 3; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4; Lunch Room, 1. We never knew what a good actress Laura was until we saw her in “Memory Lane”. She is a good typist and makes an excel- lent class secretary, too. We hear that she spends very enjoy- able evenings with a certain person. Take a tip — if ever you need advice go to Laura. GERALDINE BROOKS (Gerry) North Franklin Street “Happy am I, from care Vm free ” Hobby: Laughing Activities: Glee Club, 1, 2, 3; Rifle Club, 4. Gerry believes in laughing all her cares away. You never see her frowning. Once in a while she’ll get a little angry in French class, but it never lasts long. JOSEPH CALLAHAN (Joe) Pleasant Street “Athletics in the prime of life ” Hobby: Sports Activities: Basketball, 3, 4; Baseball, 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club, 1, 2. Joe is a lover of sports. You’ll find him either in the gym or out on the ball field.

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4 THE ECHO JESSIE HARRIS (Jess) Plymouth Street “ A little fun to spice each day ” Hobby: ? Activities: Librarian, 3, 4. Jess doesn’t believe in being serious all the time. She’s usually ready to smile, and quite adept at composing poems for English. CHRISTIE HAYDEN (Chris) South Franklin Street “ Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious” Hobby: Alumni Activities: Echo 1, 4; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4; Librarian, 3; Rifle Club, 4. Christie spends many hours in writing lengthy letters to Brown University. We wonder what its all about, but we Seniors have a faint idea. She makes the foursome. STANLEY HILL Division Street “The gun is mightier than the pencil ” Hobby: Guns Activities: Ride Club, 4. Hill would be a good speller if it wasn’t for the mistakes he makes now and then. Even if he can’t spell, he can shoot a ride, as all the members of the ride club know. CAROLYN JERYEY (Shorty) North Franklin Street “A horse, a horse, m,y kingdom for a horse ” Hobby: Horseback Riding Activities: Basketball, 2, 3, 4; Apparatus, 4; Track 1, 2; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4; Reporter, 4; Echo, 4; Ride, 4. Shorty is one of those small meek little cow girls who enjoys riding the plains (streets of Holbrook) looking for the town’s only wildwest cowboy. RUTH JOHNSON (Ruthie) Pleasant Street “Anything but history, for history must be false ” Hobby: History Activities: Glee Club, 1, 2, 3; Class Treasurer, 3; Track, 1. Ruth is the previous class dirt among the editors of the Echo, no wonder, what eyes — all she has to do is to wink. She spent many weary days up to Dr. Cole’s when she submitted to an operation for appendicitis, but she’s back again and just as nice as ever.