Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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THE ECHO 19 4 8 CU Will We. the members of the Senior Class of 1948. of Sumner High School. Town of Holbrook, County of Norfolk. State of Massachusetts, United States of America, being uncertain as to the frail life that we are living, do. therefore, make, ordain, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament. Item 1 — To Mr. Neal, the Senior Class leaves its title of being the most well mannered class in Sum- ner ' s history. Item 2 — The Senior Class leaves to the Sophomores the ability of earning money. Item 3 — The Senior girls leave to the Junior girls the back seats in Room 9 with the provision that they write the same number of sentences beginning with Although I am a Senior,” as a punishment for whispering as we did Item 4 — The Senior boys leave to the Junior boys the pleasure of gazing at all the pretty girls pinned on the walls of Room 9. Item 5- — We, the Class of 1948, leave all the fun we had on our class trip to next year’s Seniors, in hopes that they too may have as much as we did. Item 6 — To the Junior Class we leave Miss Megley’s morning period of silence. Item 7 — The Senior girls leave their front-row seats at the basketball games to the Sophomore girls. Item 8— To the incoming office girls, the outgoing office girls leave their ability to find Mr. Neal’s keys. Item 9 — T he Seniors would like to will some of their money to the Juniors, but it’s all spent now. Item 10 — To the Juniors we leave Room 9, with all its memories, creaky floors, hard seats, marked-up desks, and oh, yes, Miss Megley. Item 1 1 — The Law class leaves their arguing ability to anyone who thinks he can win a case from Miss McCarthy. Item 12 — Diana Von Der Heide leaves her outstand- ing ability in art, music, typing, and athletics to any girl ever to enter Sumner High who can match Diana’s qualities. Item 1 3 — Dorothy Skilling and Barbara Clinton leave their ability to sew to any underclassman who is qualified. Item 14 — Richard Stokinger leaves his brilliance as a mathematician to John Vining. Item 1 5 — To Richard McCormick is left Bill Austin’s amazing ability as a good driver. Item 16 — Ronald Murphy leaves all his broken bones to any unfortunate incoming Senior. Item 17 — Jimmy Rayner leaves all his tardy passes to anyone who hates to get up in the morning. Item 18 — Gene Anderson leaves to Bill Saunders his ability to clown around. Item 1 9— Robert Hollstein leaves his basketball star- dom to Jackie White. Item 20 — Gene Cote and Pete Taylor leave their abil- ity in gym to Richard Balch. Item 21 — Maurie Kelly leaves to any commercial Junior the right to read shorthand stories wrong. Item 22 — Helen Card leaves her giggles to Betty Mitchell who already has a good start and who will take them over gladly. Item 23 — Amelia Terrazano leaves her dancing ability and height to Tessy Cassani. Item 24 — The Seniors leave, (period) We attest this to be a true copy of the last will and final testament of the Senior Class of 1948, Sumner High School, Holbrook, Massachusetts, this second day of June in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight. (Signed) THE CLASS OF 1948 Witnesses: President of Freshman Class President of Sophomore Class President of Junior Class { io y

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THE ECHO 19 4 8 Hop and later our treasury made a record hop from our most successful, hard-earned Paper Drive, and believe me it was hard-earned. Our last and main event was the Junior Prom with Don Leach ' s orchestra. This longed-for event, taking weeks of thought and preparation, was all over in a few hours of pleasure. During April our long-awaited class rings arrived. Everyone was well pleased with them and are still proudly sporting them. Finally we escorted the Seniors at graduation half envious and half not — envious for reasons not pub- lished here! Those taking honors at graduation for Pro Merito were Rita Markie, Dorothy Skilling, Paul- ine Hadfield, Diana Von Der Heide, Audrey Bond, Helena Clifford, and Richard Stokinger. Helena Clif- ford won the Washington and Franklin Medal, the History Award given by the Sons of the American Revolution. A typing award was given to Diana Von Der Heide for typing fifty-two words per minute for ten minutes with no errors. As Seniors And now we bring you our sigh of relief — the Senior year. Elections were again held with the fol- lowing results: Richard Stokinger, president: Ronald Murphy, vice-president: Diana Von Der Heide, secre- tary: and Marjorie White, treasurer. Representatives to Student Council were Helen Card, Eugene Cote, Helena Clifford, and Robert Hollstein. We lost four members this year, James Calway, Rita Markie, Agnes Colarusso, and Kenneth Loud: however, we gained Alice Dwyer. The basketball team, composed almost wholly of Seniors, had a brilliant year. Members of the class also joined the baseball team, gym squad, and the other clubs. Starting off the year with a bang we had a Hal- loween Dance with the rhythmic Ray Connors orches- tra. In October we held a Paper Drive. Next on our list was taking charge of the Magazine Drive. Then came one of our great highlights of the year — the Senior Drama. Always thinking of getting to Wash- ington we managed to be the first class to hold our drama in the Town Hall since this school has been built. We also raised the most money on it, practically doubling the income of other years. This proved too that we had the greatest attendance ever obtained. Ah, that’s our class for you. Along in December we definitely decided that we were going to Washington plus New York. We already had boosted our treasury and felt we could secure the remainder. Another Hot Dog Sale was held in February and also another profitable Paper Drive. Oh, we were really on our toes this year. In March we sponsored a basketball game — the Senior boys against the Alumni —beating them, of course. Eugene Cote and Pete Taylor gave a spectacular gym exhibit as a prelim- inary. Our last undertaking was our Whist Party. The D.A.R. Good Citizen of 1948, selected by the Class and Faculty for outstanding dependability, responsibility, courtesy, and patriotism, was Dorothy Skilling who enjoyed a day in Boston as the guest of the D.A.R. We now put down our working gloves and on April 18 moved on to New York and Washington on our long awaited Class Trip. Yes sir, we had made our goal by earning the most money a Senior Class has ever had. Again, we were the first class to ever go to Washington, and believe me it was worth all our efforts — five days full of our nation’s highlights. Always being a lucky class, we had good weather every day of our trip. We visited the White House, even seing the new porch recently added by President Truman. We went up to the top of the Washington Monument from which could be seen almost all of the famous buildings and scenes of the capitol. One of the most interesting places was the Smithsonian Insti- tute which has collections of everything thinkable. Another was the Federal Bureau of Investigation building where a guide explained the operations of their branch of the law; this everyone greatly enjoyed. Mt. Vernon, Virginia, proved to be a very beautiful estate. In New York we saw the play, “Oklahoma,” and went to Radio City Music Hall seeing the picture “State of the Union,” and the very spectacular Rock- ettes. All in all it was just plain wonderful. Arriving home now made us realize our year was just about spent. Class Day and Graduation were almost on top of us. Yes, they were here, and the greatest class ever to leave Sumner, the “Class of Firsts,” departed in a blaze of glory. DIANA VON DER HEIDE, Secretary of Class of 1 948. {9Y

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THE ECHO 19 4 8 O ' auoritei Subject History Comic Strip Mutt and Jeff Newspaper . . Record Actress .... June Allyson Song . . Now Is the Hour Actor .... . Alan Ladd Food . . Pizza Sport .... Basketball Big League Player Ted Williams Singer .... Bing Crosby Radio Program Lux Radio Orchestra Vaughn Munroe Our IddodtaA and Best looking girl Dorothy Mercer Best natured girl . Helen Card Best looking boy Edgar Carlson Best natured boy . Alan Loud Most popular girl . Pauline Hadfield Girl genius Helena Clifford Most popular boy . . Robert Hollstein Boy genius . . Richard Stokinger Most ambitious girl Dorothy Skilling Most studious girl . . Dorothy Skilling Most ambitious boy Ronald Murphy Most studious boy . Ronald Murphy Best dressed girl Barbara Clinton Wittiest girl Maureen Kelly Best dressed boy . . Eugene Cote Wittiest boy . . Eugene Anderson Most athletic girl Diana Von Der Heide Most musical Ruth Hayden Most athletic boy . . Charles Dickinson Girl most likely to succeed Dorothy Skilling Class woman hater . Richard Ernest Boy most likely to succeed . . James Rayner Most dignified girl Jean Gilman Cutest .... Marjorie White Most dignified boy James Rayner Best girl dancer Amelia Terrazano Class flirt . . Alice Dwyer Best boy dancer Wilfred Austin jju l 1 1 J