Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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12 THE ECHO CLASS GIFTS By Agnes Higgins and Douglas Egles The school chiirs cramp poor Benvie’s hack And cause him misery. So we will give this pillow soft To show our sympathy. Our singer’s Barbara Barton. No doubt she’ll soon be tops. So now to ward away all ills. We give her Smith’s cough drops. To Barbara we give this shorthand pad Because we know it will make her glad. And when dictation she does take, Mer accuracy and speed will be no fake. To John we give this Indian boy. We know that all his years of knowledge Will enable him to discover with joy That it’s the emblem of Dartmouth College. To Ruth we give this clock to ring In the morning from her sleep to bring. So she may hop right out of bed. And think of what Mr. Neal has said. If miracles were now in style And Egles learned to dance, This dancing book would teach him how The latest steps to prance. We give to Mary this little mop Because ’twill put her on the hop. And when in a lunchroom she does work. We know that she won’t be a shirk. To Bunny we give this little phone For then she’ll never be alone. And when she hears it ting-a-ling. She’ll jump and hop and dance and sing. A puzzle hard we have for Jean — Two keys to take apart. To disentangle these, we know, Would take one who is smart. A gift for short haired Hagerty With which he’ll never part. We know, because the gift’s a comb So he’s licked right from the start. A curler new for Agnes To keep her hair in trim. She needn’t twirl it anymore During every class she’s in. A rattle bright for Francis To keep him quiet and good. We hope he’ll take fine care of it And act just as he should. To Ruth we give this recipe hook. In hopes that she may learn to cook. For when her Bob comes home at night. He’ll be able to eat with great delight. Miss MacPherson gets a horn Which she should always keep. It gives a most delightful noise. In fact, it goes “Beep-Beep.” We’ve all seen Mac’s old Chevvie, Or heard it anyhow. So here’s a brand new Chrysler That’s certainly a wow. To Lila we give this little bunny. For she’s cute and always funny. When the bunny doesn’t behave. We know that she won’t rant and rave. McGaughey needs this emblem To show from whence she is. The way she moves from school to school Keeps us really in a whiz. To Mai this letter “H” we give To help her gain in knowledge. It ought to catch the eye of one Who hails from Harvard College. To Nellie we give this little pencil So she may figure out the stencil. And when to future schools she goes. We know she’ll be there on her toes. To Bob we give this brand new flute. We know that on it he will toot. Everyone knows he’s a musical fellow, And soon, who knows, he may play a cello. To Dot we give this cedar chest, In which she must put all the best Of things she’s saved for that great day When Daddy dear gives her away. To Zoe we give this little store And wish that many come to the door To buy fish, meat, and pickles dilled. And keep the register always filled.

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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”.

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THE ECHO 13 Pauline now gets a powder puff To keep her nose from shining. With her good looks and everything She’ll have the boys all pining. To Anna we give this pair of soles, To keep her shoes free from holes, We know to Avon she likes to walk. To see the boys and have a talk. For Scottie here’s a choo-choo, A nice, new, shiny train. She won’t have any trouble In getting up to Maine. To Mary who is an excellent cook We give this bright and shiny spoon. Now when her family comes home at night. They’ll sing a merry, merry tune. We couldn’t think of a gift for Ruth; Our brains we’ve racked and vent. So go and get just whate’er you want. With this new, shiny cent. For Muriel a music sheet For practice loud and long. We hope that she shall find it A most delightful song. To Billy we give this package of gum. Hoping that he may have some fun. And if he doesn’t chew too fast. We hope for him it will always last. WILL By Barbara Boardman We the members of the Senior Class of 1939, of Sumner High School, Town of Holbrook, Massachusetts, being uncertain as to the frail life we are living, do therefore ordain, publish, make, and declare this to be our last will and testament. Item 1 — To the teachers, Mr. Neal, and the School Committee we leave our grateful appreciation for helping us through these four years of struggle. Item 2 — To the faculty as a whole, we leave all the pleasant memories of this wonderful Class of 1939, that is so marked in the history of Dear Old Sumner. Item 3 — To Mr. Walsh we leave our reputation of being the most forget- ful class that ever graduated from Dear Old Sumner. Item 4 — To the incoming seniors we leave the back seats at assemblies. We hope they will consider this as much of an honor as we did even though you can’t see so well. We also leave our greatness, intelligence, and high scholastic ability. Item 5 — To these same incoming Seniors we leave the watching of the clocks from 8:10-1:45. We wouldn’t want those clocks lost. Item 6 — To them also we leave all books, papers, pencils, desks, and room 9, and hope they will cherish it as we did. Item 7 — To the incoming Freshmen we leave our records and noble deeds as a monument of what is achievement. Item 8 — To the student body we leave the memory of the dignity of the Seniors in their caps and gowns. Item 9 — Mr. Hodge’s Physics class leaves happy memories of trips to al- most everywhere in Massachusetts. Item 10 — The lunchroom girls leave their ability of making sandwiches to Gerry Kelly, Lillian Gordon, and Mary Moran.