Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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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.

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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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THE ECHO 13 What’s this? The South Sea Islands! If there isn’t Lois Tilton working industriously over food samples. She’s found a new way to make butter. And here is Gordon Neal on a deserted island in the Pacific. It seems that while making an airplane flight from America to Hawaii, to inspect his pineapple plantation, something went wrong with the plane, and to the rescue sped a newly commissioned patrol boat of the U. S. Coast Guard under the command of a brilliant officer, Windsor Hollis. Here is also a famous test pilot, Paul Mitchell, whose face was in a Chester- gold cigarette ad. He was known as “Suicide” Mitchell because of his utter disregard of danger. And there’s Elbie Hooker in his hydrogen balloon. He’s on his way to the planet Mars. This is now the White House, Washington, D. C. There is Miss Helen Mackie, private secretary to President Frank Moran. She has but a few minutes to talk to us, but in that short time she tells us that Vice-President Russell Chandler got his job with his political pull. There too is the Congresswoman from Massachusetts, Miss Alma Mann. Right here is Glenna Hulbert, who was in the woman’s branch of the Marine Corps but is now back in the United States training more women in Quantico, Virginia. Sunny California is next. There’s Harry Davis, who in June 1943 joined the Naval Air Force. Since then he has been cited for bravery many times and now, in his back yard, can be seen his own private little plane. The dial points to Holbrook. Helen McIntosh is wandering alons South Franklin Street with a group of youngsters following her. She is taking Miss Megley’s place at school and is teaching them how to write poems of the sweet spring weather. Here’s an ultra-modern hospital. The head nurse, Janet Bolles, has not changed in all these years. She tells us that Agnes Schutt and Mary Eaton are also excellent nurses in the same hospital. There is a new brick post office and a new postmaster, none other than Paul Colby, now a very important-looking young man. Elizabeth Card, an old schoolmate, comes in view. She w as graduated from Radcliffe College, and now’ is a very famous chemist in the largest laboratory in the world. Alice Bestoso is there happily married and still living in the old home town. A huge hotel, not there in 1943, is managed by Ruth Weatherby and is known as the Weatherby Eating House. The Grover twdns, Eleanor and Edna, who drew so many cartoons for Snoops and Scoops, are now’ very popular interior decorators. A plane is landing, and a very lovely and pleasing stewardess steps out. It is Eleanor Kennedy. She completed her nursing course and then became an airline hostess. The Holbrook Air Port is owned and operated by Ruth Cann,