Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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THE ECHO 11 STATISTICS Each year at graduation the Senior Class is always eager to know who are con- sidered the first and the best along all lines; hence the Class of 1943 has voted and this is the result. In this election there were several “mosts” which were the unanimous choice of the class. There were Glenna Hulbert as the teller of tall stories and the biggest eater; Richard Jennings, the most bashful; Theodore Haggai, the most athletic; Audrey Smart, the class giggler; and Lois Tilton, the class gum chewer. There were many ties or very close votes for various honors: Elizabeth Card and Windsor Hollis, for the most versatile; Elbridge Hooker and Frank McGaughey, for the woman hater; Audrey Smart and Eleanor Finnegan for the best looking girl; Windsor Hollis and Frank Moran for the best looking boy; and Frank Moran and Paul Mitchell for the class orator. Then there were individuals who had many honors showered upon them: Raymond Lutz, the best singer and the class Romeo; Eleanor Finnegan, the most sociable girl, the most romantic girl, the class procrastinator, and the class coquette; Elizabeth Card, the most original and the teachers’ pet; Alma Mann, the most conscientious, the most studious, and also the man hater; Windsor Hollis, the best dressed and the most popular boy; Madeline Lyons, the noisiest and the most popular girl; and Paul Colby, the most studious boy and the class idealist. For single honors are Gertrude Robertson, the quietest girl; Richard Jen- nings, the quietest boy; Irene Benvie, the class poet; John Thayer, the class photographer; Mary Walsh, the best girl dancer; Gordon Neal, the best boy dancer; and Audrey Smart, the best dressed girl. The Class of 1943 has two sets of twins: the Lehtinen twins, Enoch and Albert, who were chosen the class teasers; and the Grover twins, Edna and Eleanor, who were selected as the most artistic. There was no question about the tallest boy; Victor Hogan claims that honor. But there is a question as to who is the smallest. Madeline Lyons and Elizabeth Card still have that problem to straighten out. Truly, this is a great class, this Class of 1943.

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10 THE ECHO selves in regard to supplying the music for the night. The officers’ parents and the teachers were chaperons. The Grand March was led by the president, Victor Hogan, and Virginia Beach. Everyone had a grand time. Everyone now looked forward to next September as seniors. September rolled around with the former juniors now important seniors. This year Windsor Hollis was elected president; Glenna Hulbert, vice-president; Dorothy Doble, secretary; and Ruth Weatherby, treasurer. Windsor declined the office of presidency, thus Glenna automatically became president. Later Raymond Lutz was elected vice-president. Dorothy Doble having moved away, Paul Colby was elected secretary. The Student Council is represented by Dorothy Porter, Muriel Berg, Lois Tilton, Elizabeth Card, Irene Benvie, and Jean Currier. Miss Kathryn Megley and Miss Grace McCarthy were the home-room teachers. The class was represented in practically every one of the clubs sponsored by our school. In the gym exhibition Theodore Haggai took first prize. During the year William Malcolm left to join the Navy; James Richardson left and later was inducted into the service and is now in the Navy. The Army and Navy gave a test on April 2 to the senior boys. Hollis, Thayer, and Davis, having received the highest grades have a chance of going to college at the expense of the government. Paul Mitchell and Harry Davis have passed successfully the aviation V-5 tests, have taken the oath, and will be called for aviation cadets when their eighteenth birthdays are reached. Betty Putt was the choice of the class to represent 1943 at the D. A. R. Convention. She had an interesting time of it. The Senior Drama met with a tremendous success both socially and finan- cially. The drama. The Mad Halters, was coached by Miss Megley, with the following cast: V4ndsor Hollis, Lois Tilton, Elizabeth Card, James Richardson, Dorothy Porter, Irene Benvie, and William Williamson. A New York Trip was sponsored by the class this year, but because of a slight disagreement it finally ended up in having the girls go under the super- vision of the school with Miss McCarthy and Miss Megley as chaperons, and the boys going under their own supervision. From all accounts everyone had a most delightful time. This year it was happily announced that the class would get out of school a few weeks earlier because of the war so that the year closes with Class Day, Baccalaureate Service, no Reception, and finally graduation.

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12 THE ECHO PROPHECY It is the year 1963, and I am now at my spectrogyroscope, a super-network of wire machine that enables one to see anyone he desires at the turn of a dial. This machine, turned out in the late “fifties,” is just another example of those revolutionary machines, turned out each day by that indefatigable scientist. Enoch Lehtinen, The Microbe Masher. He and his twin brother Albert are known as “The Whiz Brothers Inc.” I turn the dial to find some of my old classmates. I see New Jersey, and a big gasoline and oil plant, the owner none other than W illiam Bagley. who, married, is making a fortune. At a turn of the dial is the home of Muriel Berg. She has succeeded in being the director of dramatics in America’s largest theater. The dial now moves to the National Art Exhibition in New York. There is Leone Blachutta, teaching a class of two hundred on the fundamentals of art. In the next studio is Theodore Haggai, now one of the wealthiest photographers of New York and one of the best. The dial catches on the corner a vision of Marion Creighton, manager of the New York Tribune, and on the other side is Jean Currier of New York City, who now owns the largest frame shop in the country. New York seems to claim many of that Class of 1943 for now is seen Eleanor Einnegan walking up Wall Street, where she is coming from her duties as a cashier in a large bank. Let us keep the dial turned on New York to see what shows up. Here is - Gertrude Robertson, a famous singer in the Metropolitan Opera. She is one of the greatest women singers in the country; Betty Putt, the proud owner of one of the better pet shops. She chose New York because of her very happy class trip there; Benvie’s Hotel, owned and operated by Irene Benvie; the park com- missioner, Richard Jennings, at the New York Giants’ baseball park; Dorothy Porter, an executive in a big book-receiving store; a very studious person, Ray Lutz, head of the Ray Lutz’s Eiolics I he bought out Earl Carroll’s beauties that were so famous in 1943, and he seems to be in his glory) ; Willie Williamson, pitching for the Major League baseball games, the best player on the team, and with the credit of having the most home runs of anyone in the major league; and Mary Walsh of the Arthur Murray School of Dancing, teaching the intri- cacies of the “Bam-Bam,” the newest dance sensation. The dial now is on Boston, Holbrook’s own home city. Vic Hogan’s orches- tra is heard coming from the Blue Room of the Hotel Essex. Accompanied by Vic’s orchestra is none other than that famous vocalist, Madeline Lyons, singing her theme song, “Charles Sumner.” A turn of the dial shows us the great World Wide Correspondent and Pho- tographer from America, Mr. Jack Downe, known to us in good old Sumner as John Thayer. By the looks of the crowd that has come to see the big game today between the “Yanks” and the “White Sox” there must be a big attraction. It is the pitcher of the Sox, Erank McGaughey.