Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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10 THE ECHO CLASS OF 1940 STATISTICS By Nancy Cook It gives me great pleasure at this time to submit the statistics of the illus- trious class of 1940. It was a great fight, but we all won. To start off on the rio;ht foot, the best looking students of our class are Helen Mitchell and Leo Kunan. Leo also won top honors as being the best dressed boy and the class Romeo. He tied for first place with Richard Quincy for the most popular boy, but Richard was voted the most athletic boy and the class Hercules. Away from the serious to the more silly. Henry Megley and Bruce Smith were voted the most comical and the biggest eaters. Henry was also voted the class clown, the best politician, the biggest fusser, and the biggest bluffer. Bruce came out as the noisiest and the heaviest. Bruce and Beatrice Tveson tied as the class gum-chewers; Henry and Howard Nason tied as the most daring; Howard and John Behan tied as the most forgetful. Beatrice took honors as the best dressed girl, the most popular girl, the class flirt, and the class giggler. Howard Nason was voted the sleepiest, the laziest, and the class sci- entist. Allen Murdock came out on top with the most likely to succeed, the most studious boy, and the most conscientious. Ruth Johnson was chosen most studious girl, teacher’s pet, and the most ambitious. Ruth tied with Mildred Clark as the most sophisticated. Mildred was voted the best singer, and the most charming. Nancy Cook was elected the best actress, the most versatile, and the best girl dancer. Others to attain honors were: Cutest Girl Quietest Class Wit and Best Actor Most athletic and tallest Worst Penman Shortest Girl Shortest Boy Tallest Boy , Thinest Class night-owl and fastest driver Most talented and most musical Most agreeable and most artistic girl Most artistic boy Class idealist and most original Meekest Class jitterbug and best boy dancer Biggest procrastinators Corinne Terrazano Eleanor Smart John Towns Morgan Twins Charles George Virginia Koeppel Richard Lyons Harry Robertson Mary Moran Harry Spieler Herbert Hamilton Eleanor Baker Sulo Nihtila Robert Finlay Robert Franz William Poole Senior Class For evident proof that we are a great class we have animals in our midst such as Lyons. Men of trade have been known to be present in the names of Smith, Baker, and Cook. Great cities and even countries are represented

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THE ECHO 9 acrobatic dance. The remainder of the year passed with little more excite- ment. September 1938 rolled around. This year the forty-nine leaves had buds. Although we lost during the year Dorothy Beere, who moved to Braintree; Thelma Bill, to Brockton; Rose Sacco, William Seaverns, William Sprague, and Robert Wheeler, we gained Richard Wilhelm from the South, Dorothy and Doris Morgan from Randolph, Paul and Mildred Clark from Quincy, Sumner Eddy from Easton, and Virginia McLaughlin to make the count still forty-nine. Dick left during the year to return to the South, and Paul left to go to work. The junior year was a very important one. At our first class meeting we elected Sumner Eddy, president; Barbara Iveson, vice-president; Dorothy Morgan, secretary; and Doris Morgan, treasurer. During the year we elected Ruth Johnson, Allen Murdock, and Sulo Nihtila to represent us on the Student Council. Our class also had the distinction of leading all the classes in the magazine drive. A very important class meeting was held on January 25, as we discussed our class rings. We really felt quite proud and grown-up to have real class rings of our own. The big event of our junior year came on May 5, the night of our Prom. The outstanding event was the Grand March led by our officers. The Prom was a grand success, and an event long to be remembered by us. Finally June came, and we left realiz- ing that at last we would blossom out as Seniors. Blossom we did but with only forty-three in our class. We lost during the year Alma Anderson, Irene DeCosta, Frank Vascovitch, Virginia McLaugh- lin, and Sumner Eddy. Robert Wheeler came back to finish with us. Our first class meeting was held on October 10. The class officers had been elected previously on October 6, with Richard Quincy, president; Barbara Iveson, vice-president; Eleanor Baker, secretary; and Edith Brown, treasurer. At our class meeting we decided to have a class photographer; the choice was Vantine from Boston. Their photographer came out to the school to take our pictures. The first event of the senior year was the Senior Dance, on Octo- ber 26. The Grand March was led by the officers, and everyone had a won- derful time. Then came our Senior Drama, “Little Women.” This was a great success financially as well as dramatically. Extra chairs had to be brought in to seat everyone, and some did have to stand. A great amount of cred ' t is due Miss Kathryn Megley for her fine coaching. The four “Little Women” were played by Nancy Cook as Jo; Mildred Clark as Meg; Eleanor Baker as Beth; and Beatrice Iveson as Amy. John Towns played the part of Laurie Lawrence, Charles George as John Brooke, Ruth Johnson as Han- nah, Doris Morgan as Mrs. March, and Richard Quincy as Mr. March. Sulo Nihtila played the part of Professor Bhaer. All acted fully as cleverly as professionals. At the end of the third act Richard Quincy presented Miss Meg- ley with a large bouquet in behalf of the cast. Ruth Johnson was elected as the good citizen to represent the class at the D. A. R. convention in Bos- ton. At last came the end of the year and our final activities. A boat trip to Provincetown on June 8, Class Day June 11, a Graduation Service for the Senior Class at the Brookville Baptist Church June 16, Reception June 12, and Graduation June 21. Now we have gone from little seedlings to great blossoms, and take with us the happiest memories of our lives of our four years in Sumner High School.

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THE ECHO 11 by Quincy and Franz. For color we have a Brown, For bits of scenery we have Poole. For the ability of the class as a whole we have Smart. We have uncovered the family tree of Mildred Clark, and we find that she is a descendant of Siward of whom Shakespeare speaks in his great plav “Macbeth.” Thus ends the statistics of another of the graduating classes of Sumner High School. THE CLASS PROPHECY By Doris Morgan In 1950 a palmist told the story of the class of 1940 — The biggest line in anyone’s hand is called the line of life. You’ve all walked far along that line, and now it’s time to look around at your neighbors. Branching from this center line is one that’s called success. Neighbor Quincy has found this groove with plans produced for aeroplanes. The line of fortune was won by Johnny Towns whose snap-shots enlarged until they became favorite moving pictures. However, he has changed his technique. Now the people are allowed to pose for their pictures. Across the hand from finger to wrist there is the fine line of travel which represents the traveling salesman’s route of Harry Spieler, the speed demon. Just below the little finger several lines form a small cluster. Here we see the famous Kunan nurseries with fences built around the edge, to keep out the prize cows of Bruce Smith. In the middle of each finger is a line which stands for Ruth Johnson, the sewing teacher; Eleanor Baker, the art teacher; Helen Mitchell, the riding in- structress, and Howard Putt, the big fierce lion trainer. Eleanor Smart’s story shows a heart in this large palm, for she has married a business executive. However, that heart could stand for Beatrice Iveson, too, for she has found her man and now teaches Junior how to giggle. A large circle marks Barbara Iveson’s work, for she is a star reporter and has just written an article entitled, “ hat Harry Robertson Has Done at the Head of the Holbrook Water Department.” From a star shown at the finger tip of the imaginary hand there was the fate of Howard Nason who plays the best tennis game in all the L. S. A. He shares his place as star with Philip Hammond, who made all America sit up and take notice when he pitched that no-hit, no-run baseball game in the world series last year. A small square represented Henry Megley’s soap-box stand. As expected, Henry became an orator and now is a full-fledged politician. Henry’s right- band man is Sulo Nihtila who wins Henry’s elections by drawing cartoons for the daily news. Donald Clark and Arthur Levangie stood for the bachelors’ marks, and my! the girls they used to have! Our palmist showed that Lillian Gorton has become the owner of a beauty shop; Helen Polisson, the owner of a grocery store; Mary Moran, a learned