Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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10 THE ECHO Most agreeable — the Senior Class. Most likely to succeed — Class of 1939. Most daring — Pauline Rayner. Most musical — Muriel Wilson. Best actress — Jean Gagnon. Neatest — Ruth Leonard. Best singer — Barbara Barton. Most charming — Barbara Boardman. Most conscientious, most artistic, class idealist, most original, most am- bitious, and best actor — Douglas Egles. Most forgetful — Alexander Benvie. Biggest fusser — Dorothy Pepper. Most versatile — Me. Meekest — tie between Barbara Barton and Ruth Leonard. Biggest eater — Agnes Higgins. Class procrastinators — All of us. Now, with a knowledge of a job well done, we give a deep sigh of relief and entrust these important, epoch-making decisions to your memories, realiz- ing to the greatest extent that we are a class in a million. CLASS PROPHECY By Richard McKinnon Here it is 1959, twenty years since I was graduated from good old Sumner High, and here I am walking down Franklin Street, the main street of the great manufacturing city of Holbrook. I can look around me and see most of my old school mates, for they are the ones who have built Holbrook up to its enormous size. Right after the graduation in 1939 the little town of Holbrook began to grow and grow. There goes John Card, the mayor of this fine town. He always did have a good head for politics. He is waving a casual greeting to Douglas Egles who is coming out of a big drafting building which he owns. General Jack Hagerty is with Douglas, trying to get him to draw some plans for a new army airplane. Jack is leading a very comfortable life now. He lives in his big mansion up on Strawberry Hill (a bachelor of course). I haven’t seen Robert Nason for quite some time because he has taken a trip to England where he is teaching royalty how to play the accordion. Billy Woodman, the editor of the “Holbrook Daily Blab,” is having a hard time keeping in touch with his foreign news reporters, Alexander Benvie and Francis Keating, because as usual they are roaming from one country to another just making things hum. Mai Moran runs the biggest store in Holbrook. It is called The Moran’s 2 and 4 cent Store. It is just the same as a 5 and 10 cent store except that Mai cut the prices down to make more sales. Bunny Ford, who was left $4,000,000 by her husband who died in 1949, now takes life easy. Zoe Polisson is President of the biggest fruit company in America. Of course we had a home girl in our class. Ruth Leonard is married

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THE ECHO 9 CLASS STATISTICS By Ann McGaughey On may second of this year the illustrious Class of 1939 met to vote on some history-making decisions. Our class statistics! Applying ourselves seriously and industriously to our task, we finally reached the point where we decided our records were fitting to be handed down to posterity through the annals of history. First of all came the best looking — a very difficult decision to make in a class so possessed of pulchritude, but we decided at long last on Douglas Egles, with a tie between Ruth Leonard and Bunny Ford. Then came our smartest girl and boy — Jean Gagnon and Johnny Card. It seems Johnny must be able to squeeze much studying into little time, for he was chosen our Night Owl and Fastest Driver — two titles which need much practice to be thought worthy of. We have, too, some happy-go-lucky people in our class, because Agnes Higgins was chosen the best-natured; Mary Eldridge, the class giggler; Jack Hagerty, the class clown; Pauline Rayner, the most vivacious. Our best dressed and cutest girl is Ruth Leonard, while John Card is the best dressed boy and Class Romeo. Billy Woodman is our cutest boy. It now seemed that our class must be divided into two parts. Those who were of a romantic trend of mind must be segregated from those who were not. We found it too difficult to pick a most romantic, so we had to grant the title to three people: Richard McKinnon, Bunny Ford, and Johnny Card. Then came our woman-hater, or misogynist as he prefers to be called, Doug Egles, and our man-hater, Ruth Cossaboom. We’re beginning to doubt our decision on both of these already. Figures came next — and I don’t mean Arabic or Roman numerals! Our tallest girl is Ruth Cossaboom, our tallest boy, Richard McKinnon, while our shortest boy is Billy Woodman and our shortest girl, Ruth Stodder. The thin- nest member of our class is Dorothy Pepper; the heaviest, Mary Sorocco. The young man with the bulging muscles is our Class Hercules, Johnny Card. After a rest for our weary, overworked brains, we turned back to our work and compiled the following list of miscellaneous titles: Best boy and girl dancer — John Card and Bunny Ford. Teachers’ pet, most athletic, class orator, class wit, best politician fhe got to be president, didn’t he?) and worst speller — John Card. Most popular boy and girl — John Card and Mai Moran. Class gum-chewer and nosiest — Billy Woodman. Best secretary — Nellie Morton. Most studious — a tie between Doug Egles and Jean Gagnon. Quietest — Ruth Stodder. Laziest — Alexander Benvie. Most sophisticated — Barbara Scott. Most tardy marks — Ruth Cossaboom (evidently Ruth believes in the say- ing, “Better late than never.”)

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THE ECHO 11 and lives in her own little house where she sits in the afternoon doing her knit- ting and waiting for her loved one to come home from work. Agnes Higgins is doing very well on the stage where her outstanding role is Juliet in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Barbara Barton is in the movies. She sings western songs in practically all the cowboy pictures. Anne McGaughey, the city’s outstanding debutante, is going to put on a huge banquet for the hos- pital fund. She has to step lively now to keep her name the most outstanding on the society page because she has a very keen rival, Anne Seminovich, an- other of the city’s debutantes. From where I am standing I can see the Acme Jewelry Company of which Barbara Boardman is President. She buys all her best watches from Ruth Stodder who owns the Stodder Watch Manufacturing Company on Plymouth Street. Kathleen MacPherson manages that big beauty salon situated at the corners of Union and Franklin Street. I guess that the art of barbering runs in her family. The building next to it is Sorocco’s Restaurant. She got the idea from the Sumner High lunch room, I guess. The Holbrook Pub- lic Library is still situated in the same old place, supervised by Mary Eldredge. In the town hall tonight is a rare treat. Pauline Rayner and her all-girl swing band is going to render a selection of the latest swing tunes. We have some experts in our class too. Barbara Scott and Nellie Morton are both typewriter experts. They have a typewriting School in the business section of the city. Jean Cagnon is an expert on the English language. I re- member the big words she used to use in high school. You can imagine how long these words are now since they have had twenty years to grow. Ruth Cos- saboom is a clothing expert. She creates all the new styles in women’s dresses all over the country. Of course they all look silly, but that is what the girls like in these modern times. We also have a musical expert in our class. Muriel Wilson is an expert on the great Beethoven’s classics. She can play them bet- ter than he could. There goes an airplane overhead. I believe that is Lila Michael’s plane winging her back to Hollywood where she will make another moving picture. Speaking of airplanes, I heard that Dorothy Pepper is going to test out the new stratosphere plane recently invented. She always did find it very easy to go up in the air. What a class! Anyone could have seen that when they were graduated, they would become successful. T wenty years of hard work had brought the class of 1939 to the top of the ladder. ' ' DARBY AND JOAN Paw: (to Maw as they stood ’neath “The Old Apple Tree in the Orchard”) “We’ve Come a Long Way Together.” Remember the day we met “Down by the Old Mill Stream”? Maw: I wore my “Deep Purple” dress and “Put on My Old Grey Bon- net”. I’m glad you brought up “My Reverie”. “Thanks for the Memory” of “Our Love”. We were “Sweethearts” then and are still. I said “I Promise You” in “The Chapel in the Moonlight”. On our honeymoon we had “A Room with a View”, overlooking the “Blue Danube”. By the way. Paw, I got in “A Senti- mental Mood”. Well, it makes me feel old. Paw: I don’t feel old. I’ve got a long way ahead of me, and “Heaven Can Wait”.