Howard High School - Climber Yearbook (West Bridgewater, MA)

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lo THE CLIMBER out of paper so we hope this box of stationery will fill your needs. Marjorie Craddock: Midge, everyone has al- ways admired your flaming red hair: but after eighteen years of the same color, we think you would like a change. Brunettes use peroxide but redheads - that was quite a problem. Anyway, we are giving you this package of black hair dye. Shirley Crone: Cronie, your beautiful locks of natural curly hair are the envy of every senior girl. Use this bottle of Drene Shampoo when you wash your hair semi-annually. It will keep your hair lustrous and shiny, making it admired by every other girl you meet. Bernardo D'Ambrosio: Bernardo, we under- stand that your ambition is to become a butcher. Take this knife to help you do the biggest part of the job with our compliments, and don't cut yourself! Donald Davio: Don, you seem to have trouble writing so that others can read. Some people may say your difficulty is that you write too fast: but we think it is because, like the rest of us, you don't have enough energy to move the pencil after climbing up and down stairs all day. To give you some added strength we present to you this box of Wlzeatief. Thomas Ely: Tom,', because of your extreme height, everyone seems to depend on you to re- trieve articles that are in high, distant places. Sometime, the article will be too high for even you to reach. Here is a chair that you may use to assist you. David Fratus: Dave, this year you made a trip to Boston on a radio program in a debate en- titled, Do Comic Books Affect the Human Mind? You said Yes But since when do those text books you read sixth period come twenty- eight pages thick and with bright colored covers? In case you run out of work again, here are a few more to occupy your time. Marie Gaffney: Your ability to play basket- ball is evident to all who have seen you. Keep up the good workl Here is a ball that you can use in the next game you play. Shirley Gummow: Shirley, when you zoom around in your father's milk truck, it is the fear of all of us that you will take a corner too sharply and break a bottle of milk. This bottle will replace the one that breaks. Don't forget it at any time. lrma Hawes: lrma, you were voted most ro- mantic this year. Wt- all would like to know your secret. So, will you do us a favor? Take this note- book and pencil to write us the method. VVe prom- ise to follow your every word. Donald Holbrook: Donald, this year you never had enough gum on hand to fill your needs during the five hours of school each day, so we present you with this package of Beechnut. Have a chewy good time. Rita Hooper: Rita, every afternoon you rush around like mad to catch the 1:30 bus to go to work. This watch will give you the right time always, so you can be sure of making the bus if you leave when the watch says 1:20. Barbara Lundgren: Bobbee , your clothes always look as if you had just pressed them, be- cause the pleats in your skirts and dresses are always knife-sharp. Here is an iron to help keep them that way. Muriel Mansfield: Muriel, we happen to know that much of your time this year was spent on your five school subjects, and that many a night . , . . . . you lingered til all hours burning the midnight oil. You've guessed it. We are giving you this bottle of perfume that is guaranteed to burn in lamps. Florence Murray: Fanny, this year you did nothing but rave about the Davio Special sand- wich and you wish you could make sandwiches which tasted as good. Well, you can, now, with the help of this cook book. Lester Noyes: Let,,, in all your four years of high school, you have been the treasurer of our class. Here is a book of blank receipts to remind you of these happy years. Shirley Owens: Shirley, you are always writing something, sometime, somewhere. Here is a pencil and an address book with the addresses of your classmates in it. Now you can put your habit of writing to good use. Keep these handy. Mary Paiva: Mary, we all know that one of the things you like best, next to men, is ear rings. Big ones, little ones, bright ones, frilled ones. You never have enough of them so here is another pair to add to your growing collection. Grace Payne: Grace, whenever you get up be- fore an audience to answer a question or give a report you suffer the jitters Cdon't we allj. Prob- ably it is because of the many shining faces which suddenly loom up before you. To remedy this condition we give you these dark glasses. Mary Pross: Four years, sailor, store. mail. Wlizit do these things have in common? Oh, but we know! I love to bob for apples, don't you? We know you have many wishes, but do you know that you can have them come true? just rub this magic ring. Milton Rockwell: Rocky, you always have a -poke to tell, or when someone tells a real good one,

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TH li L Ll M BIC R li Donald Davio is one of the nation's leading radio technicians, and has his own shop in a nearby city. Don still runs that taxi service on the side, however. Thomas lily is the head draftsman for a local construction company. 'fiom still takes a few days off now and then to sell his cards for all occasions. David Fratus is now attending Bates College in Maine, and is paying more attention to the co-eds than to his studies. Same ol' Dave. Marie Gaffney and Mary Pross are the two most popular nurses in the vicinity, and are taking their work very seriously, but where are they taking it? Shirley Gummow is attending Mount Ida in Belmont, and when she completes her course there she expects to be a full-fledged Airline Stewardess. I'll be willing to bet that every time she goes into the air there will be a great deal of commotion among the men pilots. Need you ask why? Irma Hawes is the state's leading Public Stenog- rapher and Typist, and is doing very well for her- self - in all ways. Donald Holbrook had a hard time deciding just what he wanted to do after school. He tried doing nothing for a while, then advanced to playing pro- fessional baseball, and now he's a leading pianist. I always thought it was the woman's privilege to change her mind. Rita Hooper is head bookkeeper and accountant at a leading Boston department store, but after a while she decided she'd rather keep house than keep books. Barbara Lundgren is now a very popular areo- nautical secretary, and has her own private office at Logan Airport. She always spends most of her time, while at the office, keeping the pilots away. Can't you just see it now? Muriel Mansfield is an English teacher at a school not far from West Bridgewater. The pupils have a hard job keeping their minds on their English because of her overwhelming charm. Florence Murray is working in the State House in Boston, and has a good position under the Civil Service. lilo always did like civil service. Lester Noyes is the bookkeeper of the Noyes Oil Service. We hope he is keeping those books straighter than the ones he used to keep in school. Shirley Owens is private secretary and recep- tionist at a local dentist's office. Business has in- creased so rapidly since Shirley has been there, that the dentist had to move his office into a big- ger building. I wonder why? Mary Paiva is head nurse at the Brockton Hospital, and every time there is an accident the patient requests to be sent there. I wonder why. Perhaps it's because she sings to her favorite patients. Grace Payne has gone to Canada to accept a position as a receptionist at Ingonish's leading hotel. Business will increase now. Milton Rockwell was recently discharged from the Navy, and is back at the local service station as head mechanic. Let's hope he doesn't skip work as much as he skipped school. Muriel Ryder spent four years at Bridgewater Teachers' College, and is now a teacher of foreign languages in Vermont. Theresa Seymour has her own beauty shop in Brockton, and also does a great deal of hairstyl- ing. She has won several prizes for her clever ideas. Emily Thomas was a genius at figures, and fi- nally decided to go to college to prepare herself to be a bookkeeping teacher. Guess where she is teaching. Yes, that's right, at West Bridgewatefs new high school. Dorothy Thompson is one of the world's leading aviatrixes, and has her own taxi service among the great airways of the world. With her fascinating charm Dottie wins the approval of all her as- sociates. Gwen Turner is still the telephone operator at the Brockton Hospital, and often has those four- way conversations going on. ,lust like old times, isn't that right Gwen? Geraldine Welch has a good position as a pri- vate secretary to her father. Nice work if you can get it - and she has it! CLASS GIFTS MARIE GAFFNEY AND IRMA HAWES Leon Beaulieu: Leon, you always have a bit of trouble pronouncing and spelling those big many-syllabled words that are sometimes used in ffnglish class. If you carry this pocket dictionary wherever you go, your problem will he solved. Sophie Burba: Sopli , we are all familiar with the fact that you are leariiing to drive. .-Xltliougli you have met no serious accidents yet, you may not always be so fortunate. 'liake this bottle of mercurochrome to be your first-aid if the oppor- tunity presents itself. George ki11I'llt 3I Sonny, nearly 4-vi-ry -get-oncl period this year you wrote a letter to a certain sonielnody iii Boston. By noxx, you must have run

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'l'Illi L l,lM Ii li R I7 your laugh is heard the loudest. So that you will never run out of laughter, we are giving you this joke book. Muriel Ryder: Muriel, this year you were very faithful in your purchase of U. S. Savings Stamps. VVe know it must have cost you some money so to repay you we give you this bottle of perfume. You can get many a scent from it. Theresa Seymour: Coronets, pompadours, up- do's, page boys. lfach and every style you use. So to give your hair its everlasting shine, we give you this Halo shampoo. Emily Thomas: lfmily, being the smartest girl in our class must have its disadvantages. Don't you ever have headaches from all those brains? If you do, you can use these aspirins to aid you. Uorothy Thompson: Dot , you are the quietest member of our class. Your voice is soft and frequently you are asked to repeat yourself. VVe hope this microphone will enable people to bear you when you speak to them. Gwen Turner: Gwennie , you were fre- quently absent and, of course, you did not make up all the work you missed. flere is an assign- ment book with some late assignments. Geraldine Welch: Gerrie , you are always combing your hair. Surely your comb must be pretty well worn out now. Here is a new one that will help you to keep your hair in place all the time. CLASS STATISTICS GERALDINE A. WELCH 1ndeed, we have a very outstanding class gradu- ating this year. It really pleases me to be able to present these calculations to you. Let me see now - the total height of our class of twenty-nine is 167 feet and 7 inches, with Tom Ely, at 6' 3 , and Mary Pross, at 5 feet, being the tallest and shortest members. Speaking of Mary, did you know that she is doomed to be married hrst? Don Davio pulls the total weight of our class up to a grand total of 4,289 pounds, while Shirley Crone contributes least, with her slight 102 pounds. My, what an aged group we are! My accurate figuring tells me that we are 493 years old and that most of us were born in February. 1 see that the best-dressed girl and class featherweight, Shirl Crone, is the oldest member - doesn't she get around, though? Muriel Ryder, who was seven- teen on March 17, has the honor of being the baby of our class. 1 don't like to brag, but listen to this. 785 inches! My, what a dainty waistline the class has. Our total hat size is -135 inches. 1 guess that proves how many brains we have in our twenty-nine heads. I'll bet you couldn't guess what the total shoe size of our class is. 1t's 195. Leon Beaulieu's great size twelve and Muriel Mansfield's tiny four and a half's are the two extremes. We really were a hardworking class - during school hours, of course, but mostly after. From the minute we were forced out of bed at 6:-15 until we climbed in again at 10:22, we didn't have a spare moment. Let me take you on an imaginary jour- ney through a typical school day. After we wash our faces and hands with our favorite soap, l.ux, and eat in breakfast ol our la- vorite cereal, Wheaties, we gather up our books and start on our way to Howard High School. It is 7:50 and we sprint along so as to get to school before the first bell rings. Perhaps one of those lucky seniors, with a Hashy car, will come along and pick us up. Anyway, we safely deposit our- selves in Room 5 and noisily await the arrival of our favorite teacher, Miss Yukna. Almost every morning she can be heard pleading patiently, All right class, it's time to settle down to business. Ar S130 the passing bell rings and we tumble out of our SCZIIS and hastily file next door to our favor- ite class, Ifnglish. 1t's interesting to note how the majority of us selected English for our favorite subject. It was unanimous with the college class. Must be that our favorite Ifnglisli teacher, Miss Rylander, has them entranced with her witty ways. Boy, are we glad when lunch period comes. Those tunalish sandwiches certainly taste good. At 2:10 you will find us all back in Room 5 awaiting dismissal. Then a mad dash is made for Kirby's, where, almost every afternoon, you will find us sipping cokes or eating strawberry ice- cream, while making plans for that night. VVe have to hurry right home and do our usual two and one-half hours' homework, so we can be ready when our favorite date calls for us at 7:30. Should we go to the Canoe Club? That fabulous Vaughn Monroe is playing there tonight. Or should we go to the movies and see jeanne Crain and Van john- son? We decide on the Canoe Club and find many of our friends there. VVe see Shirley Owens and l,eon Beaulieu waltzing smoothly to our favorite 'Qlll1fl',NTk'll11il' l1egin'lo'l?ell You. Did you know that those two were voted to be the best dates, most popular, and to have the best personalities