Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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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,

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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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14 THE ECHO who became a very successful business woman after being graduated from Sumner High School. Now we see Ellen Eaton arranging flowers in her little cottage on the hill. We think she’s married. Yes, the dial now points to the home of someone in the height of society, someone busy in the social whirl — Audrey Smart. We’re back in New York again, and looking to your right you can see Patricia Donovan herself, standing in a directing traffic. That is all. It was pleasant to be through this spectrogyroscope, thanks to Class ILL1AM BaGLEY To we give this little gun, And hope he’ll keep those Japs on the run. W ' e know that Billy will never flee, And he might need protection, you see. Irene Benvie To Irene we give this hook of many a joke. And hope that she won’t laugh and choke. She plans to be a comedienne in radio. So good luck, Irene, and cheerio. .Muriel Berg To .Muriel we give this dime So to Braintree she may go. Perhaps she’ll tell us in due time The name of that mysterious beau. . lice Bestoso To . lice we give this little man To take the place of her darling Dan ’Cause in the . rmy he must go, . nd this will keep her from feeling low. Leone Blachutta To Leone Blachutta, our artist member, e give this small paint brush In hope that her strokes will come out . nd not he done in such a rush. Janet Bolles To Janet we give this little book. From it she’ll learn to cook, . nd if the biscuits she makes are hard. Vie can all excuse her for leaving out lard. Ruth Cann To Ruth Cann we give this broom To dust and sweep her tiny room. e hope that someone soon will come To share wdth her in this clean fun. tower-like building in Times Square able to find out about our classmates the Lehtinen twins. Gifts Elizabeth Card To Lizzie we give this address book. So when she’s far away. She’ll only have to take one look To write a card each day. Russell Chandler To Russell goes this little comb. Now, please don’t throw a fit. Each morning before leaving home. How about using it? Marion Creighton To Marion we give this book of jokes So she may laugh and giggle . nd apologize to everyone she pokes When she squirms and wiggles. Paul Colby To Paul we give this curler comb To make the waves upon his dome. They always look so prim and neat. That permanent surely can’t be beat. Jean Currier To Jean we give a soldier boy, Eor he, we know, will bring her joy. And if he doesn’t, we feel sure The sailor boy will be a cure. Harry Davis To Harry we give this little gun, Eor we all know hunting is his hobby. We hope he’ll have a lot of fun. Be he hunting with Jim or Bobby. Patricia Donovan To Patricia we give this scalpel. And in the years to come, W ' e hope she’ll find some use for it When she patches up the cerebrum. Ellen Eaton Ellen is a girl of girls Of big green eyes and shiny curls. We give to her this picture frame Eor a picture of Bud, that man of fame.