King Philip Regional High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Wrentham, MA)

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IHE4 THE EHIEFTAIN '-1 uuuup fl. li ' -Sd- '?Q' X 'I' R ---.,- ,g Q D O .4 I 9 ' - 9 ' -P ' - -o K+ -0 .I I rv I 'a id 1 5 .,. E . V, , .1 lr Q 1 9 x ' ' lg. 1 'v . I .1 .. 1 IHEB THE CHIEFTAIN M 1 1 1 1 1 1 fp-:fg,-:fg:fp-:fg--ff-,:fp:fk:!L1.'ff'-L'ff1f61'-X yearbook, just four dollars for a year's worth of memories. Again in 1962, the school held an exchange with Lakewood, Colorado. The exchange of thirty students was headed by Alice Church and Michael Cosentino. The band improvedg they received and A rating at a music festival and participated in two more exchanges. The drama club produced two more plays, this time doing The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Night is my Enemy. 1963 brought forth the first students to complete six years at King Philip. The senior class produced the play The Roaring Twentiesf' Also in 1963, the local newspapers told the story of eight senior boys, discovered drinking on a field trip to New York City. The school principal, Warren Pressley, suspended the boys for one week. The superintendent of schools, Dr. John McDonnell then suspended the students indedinitely. King Philip scholar Mark Cowell skipped his senior year of high school to attend Northeastern University to study journalism. He returned to King Philip in May to receive his high school diploma with his class. There was a dental hygiene clinic and every student who participated received toothbrushes and toothpaste for his entire family. 1963 was also the year that President Kennedy was felled by as assassin's bullets in Dallas, Texas. Matthew Sekula, a student at King Philip, traveled to Washington, D.C. where he saw the late President's funeral cortege pass from the Capitol building to Saint Matthew's Cathedral. I-Ie then attended the burial services at the Arlington National Cemetery. The King Philip class of 1964 planted a Japanese cherry tree that still stands in the north corner of the courtyard.