Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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THE ECHO 23 ALUMNI NEWS Class of 1940 Tracing the Class of 1940, we find three fields of endeavor; advanee study, business, and marriage. They go like this: Advance Study Eleanor Baker has completed a course at Wilfred Academy. Edith Brown is training to be a nurse at Quincy City Hospital. Robert Finlay is studying chemical engineering at Franklin Institute. Charles George is attending Boston University. Ruth Johnson is taking a medical secretary’s course at Simmons. Leo Kunan is studying horticulture at Massachusetts State College. Allen Murdock is attending Wentworth Institute. Business Richard Quincy is working at the Sprague Steamship Company in Boston. Herbert Hamilton is making out fine with his own pop corn stand. Beatrice Iveson is employed at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Richard Lyons works at Hamilton’s garage. Francis Mack and Sulo Nihtila are employed at Fore River. Henry Megley is working at the Holbrook Post Office. Mary Moran is working at Brockton five and ten cent store. Helen Pollison is working at the Holbrook Cash Market. William Poole is helping with his father’s dairy farm. Bruce Smith has his own dairy herd, one of the finest in the state. Harry Spieler is employed at a Braintree garage. Marriage Barbara Iveson has married Wesley Howard of West Bridgewater. Nancy Cook is now Mrs. Allen Murdock. She is living in Holbrook. Sylvia Morton married Robert Barrett and is living in Braintree. Scholarships at the 1940 Graduation Services Class of 1936 Charles George Friendship Club Scholarship Nancy Cook Alumni Scholarship Ruth Johnson Awards D.A.R. “Good Citizenship” by “Old Boston” chapter D.A.R. Ruth Johnson Silver pins (typing) Beatrice Iveson, Marie Smith ALUMNI CARD PARTY On the evening of Wednesday, February 26, 1941, the alumni association held a successful bridge and whist party. This party was sponsored to raise money for a scholarship which the alumni will award to some member of the grad- uating class.