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

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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

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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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18 TH Ii CLIMBER it in the class? We notice that Shirley is wearing blue, the favorite color of the class, and has a corsage of roses, our favorite flower. After a pleasant evening of fun, we leave the Canoe Club and drive over to Sandyls for a mid- night snack of fried clams. Then home and bed. It was a grand evening, even if we did miss our fa- vorite radio prograrn, The Chesterfield Supper Clubv and had to put off writing the Navy, our favorite branch of the service, until tomorrow. I hope that by taking you on this journey with our class, I have given you some idea of how we spend our high school days and evenings. Before I close, I would like to thank all of those who helped me secure this information needed to make these statistics a success. DO YOU REMEMBER: Making soap in Freshman Science. . . Mr. Frellick's goats. . . Trying to go out the middle door in Room I. . . Mr. Jones's saddle shoes and bright socks. . . Mme. O'Shaughnessy and the four Shamrocks. . . Playing games in Bookkeeping II. . . Miss Yukna's many shoes. . . Football practice in the rain. . . Those endless nights typing projects. . . Miss Rylander's second year Latin class. . . Shirley Gummow taking dictation from Mr. Lindell in long-hand. . . Mr. .Iones's love for Shakespeare. . . Those Biology nature walks. . . The day Marjorie Craddock blushed in court. . . George Carnes, the thumbtack fiend. . . Mr. Kincaid's victory garden. . . Leon Beau- lieu pouring water on the Hoor through a funnel while holding the rubber tube in his other hand. . . Chewing gum in stenography class. . . Mr. Young's moustache. . . Mary Pross coming to U. S. History from physical education minus something. . . Donald Davio's penmanship. . . Florence Murray's lost basketball pants, Which, it is rumored, are now being worn by a North Easton boy. . . Miss De Coulis' fix- ing up for the Spring Dance. . . Donald Holbrook putting the Bunsen Burner on the water faucet. . . The day Miss Rylander's picture almost framed her. . . Bob Crocker, clown of World History. . . The day Gwen Turner hid Miss YuknaIs stop watch. . . The P. D. trip to Boston. . . Miss IrIoyt's make-up kit the night of the Class Play. . . The French style show. . . The morning Miss Rylander's room was topsy-turvy . . Lester Noyes, the great bookkeeper in Miss DeCoulis, class. . . Mrs. Russell, favorite substitute. . . Mary Paiva walking out of the locked door during the Class Play to find the prompter. . . Our 12 foot Christmas tree. . . The day someone put ink in the silver trophy. . . The morning the boys stood in line at Miss Ricciardellds door. . . Ifmily Thomas' bright blue gym shorts. . . Those days We skipped school.