Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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over the general average of the school. They were Ellsworth Head, Karl Bohaker, Milton Studley, Dean Wells, Felice Franco, Bertram Had- don, and John Barry. The Senior Prom was probably the most colorful event of the school year. It was held in the Town Hall which was decorated with the class colors, rose and gray. Much credit is due Miss Lathrop for her work in decorating the hall and to Joseph Sheehan, our class artist, for mak- ing the placard which bore the class motto. The committee also worked very hard to make the af- fair a success and. gave a benefit picture, The Great Meadow, to de- fray the expenses. In the early part of May, the class had a Freak Day. Practically all of the members of the class dressed in hilarious costumes and paraded around the school the en- tire day. Ellen Barstow, dressed as a country hick, had the best girls’ costume; while Donald Hatch, in the person of “Bull Dawson”, took the boys’ honors. This year, the high school had one of its most successful baseball teams. It was decidedly a cham- pionship team. Very good spirit was displayed during the year, and no small amount of credit is due Mr. Fuller, our coach, for the team ' s success. The majority of the team was made up of seniors. Johnnie Martin was captain, and Harry Handy, Felice Franco, Frank Perry, Milton Studley, Gilbert Costa, Jos- eph Goudreau, and John Barry won letters. Howard Pease was man- ager, and Jack Nichols was assist- ant manager. The Dramatics Club gave a play, “The Yellow Shadow”, this year, which was a decided success. The play was coached by Mr. Allen, and Howard Pease, Jennie Baker, and Virginia Leatherbee had leading parts. Our class had two members on the tennis team. They were Ells- worth Head and Jack Nichols. Each year it has been the cus- tom for the members of the school to vote for the senior boy and girl who they think have best exempli- fied the ideals of Loyalty, Honor, and Service. The names of the two chosen are inscribed on the bronze tablet which holds a commanding position in the front of the Main Room. The two outstanding stu- dents from our class were Virginia Leatherbee and Robert SanSouci. Here was the end of the record, As I closed the book, I heard the whistle blowing at the place where I worked. Tossing the volume back on the bench, I departed at top speed, not wishing to be late. John Barry A PROPHECY There was a dull explosion, flames and debris shooting up into the air, and then — nothing but blackness. ■ Fearfully I opened my eyes and looked around. The long aisle with its neat row of beds on each side told me that I was in a hospital. Then I remembered the explosion as my yacht had blown, up in New York, harbor almost at the end of its long trip from Africa, where I had been living for the past ten years. My movements in looking around had been noticed, and down the corridor came two nurses and a doctor. I blinked and looked again.

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For the second time in our high school career, members of our class were elected to the Sportsmanship Brotherhood. They were Eleanor James, Margaret Papp, Elizabeth Wiswall, Ellen Barstow, Ellsworth Head, Milton Studley, Howard Pease ,and Felice Franco. This year our class earned more athletic let- ters than any of the other classes. Bob SanSouci was captain of the football team, and John Martin, Harry Handy, Nathan Issokson, Milton Studley, Joseph Goudreau, Karl Bohaker, Ellsworth Head, Frank Perry, John Barry, and Jos- eph Sheehan won letters. Gilbert Costa was assistant manager. Fol- lowing the Thanksgiving Day vic- tory over Barnstable, a banquet was given by the Rotary Club and a dance by the cheering squad to the members of the team. As in football, the basketball team was composed almost entirely of sen- iors. Harry Handy, John Martin, Milton Studley, Frank Perry, Joe Sheehan, and Bert Haddon played on the team, and Karl Bohaker was manager. In girls’ basketball, Christine Wright was captain and Virginia Leatherbee, Eleanor James, Margaret Papp, Ellen Hamblin, and Ellen Barstow won letters. During the year, the Lawrencian, our school paper, was once again started, after having been aban- doned for over a year. The staff was composed entirely of seniors. Virginia Leatherbee was Editor-in- chief, Betty Wiswall, Literary Edi- tor, Dean Wells, Business Manag- er, Howard Pease, School Notes Editor, Ellen Hamblin, Girls’ Sports Editor, and John Barry, Boys’ Sports Editor. Among the pleasing activities of the school year were the luncheon clubs formed by both boys and girls. Each group had one ban- quet during the year. Betty Wis- wall was toastmistress for the girls, and Karl Bohaker was toastmaster for the boys. This year we were guests at the Hallowe’en Party given by the jun- iors at the Country Club. It was certainly evident that those jun- iors could furnish delicious refresh- ments. Clubs got into full swing this year. Jennie Baker was secretary of the Art Club, Howard Pease president of the Dramatics and De- bating Clubs, and Felice Franco president of the Floricultural Club. About half a dozen members of the class played in the orchestra this year, which was part of the All-Cape Symphony. Four con- certs were given, one being in Fal- mouth. Three members of the school were sent to take part in the Northeastern High School Or- chestra at Syracuse. This group was composed of the outstanding players of all of the high school orchestras in Northeastern United States. Two of these pupils were seniors, Irene White and Robert SanSouci. Bob was honored by being elected concertmeister of the en- tire group of hearly two hundred and fifty members; while Irene was given the first chair in the French horn section. The same three members of our class were sent to the All-New England High School Orchestra again this year. Early in April seven senior boys were presented with keys of the National Athletic Scholarship Soci- ety. Membership to the society is limited to those boys who have earned a letter in one major sport and have an average in their studies

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Yes, I knew these three people; they were none other than Ellen Hamblin, Madeline Roderick, and Bob SanSouci of that large and somewhat shady class of 1931 back in Lawrence High School. Well, Bob had finally realized his ambi- tion to be a “sawbones.” Here it was the year 1943; so I immediate- ly became interested in learning from these three members of the whereabouts of the rest of my class. As Bob came up with a knife in one hand and a roll of bandages | in the other, I heard a groan from the next bed to mine. I saw big Donald “Bull” Hatch of my high school days. As I later learned, “Bull” had slipped on a banana peel | in front of Dean “Count” Wells’ banana cart. “Bull” had been try- ing to wave to both Alice Perry and Florence Landers, who were driv- ing past in a rather doubtful-look- ing automobile made by the Barry Motor Car Company, of which John Barry was president, general man- ages, sales agent, designer, machin- ist, and shop boy. During my stay in the hospital I had a good chance to learn from “Bob”, “Hambie”, and “Maddie” about my former classmates. I learned that Jennie Baker was the famous movie star who was hailed by the producers as “the best figured star of the screen.” I also learned that Felice Franco was the idol of sunny Spain, where he was known as “the handsome and brave toreador, Don Franco.” According to SanSouci, Harry “Buck” Handy and “Jack” Nichols were employed at the New York Public Zoo, where they could be seen every day busily engaged in skinning bananas and feeding them to the apes and monkeys in the monkey houso. Betty Henry was a teacher, but she had only one pupil and that pupil was “Buck” Handy, her husband, whom she and Harry, Jr. cften went to see in the monkey house. Irene Norris was now a model in a fashionable shop on Fifth ave- nue in New York. This shop was owned by Eleanor James, the “Jim- mie” of our school days. I learned that John Martin was a hard-boiled traffic cop at one of j New York’s busiest intersections, but as usual John always found time to smile and wave to the at- tractive members of the fair sex who chanced to drive by. John | was up to his same old high school tricks. “Hambie” informed me that Olivia Roderick and Lillian Hazel- ton were the proud owners of a neat little bakery, above which hung a sign which read, “If you try our biscuits once, you’ll never try an- other.” I had to smile when I learned of Reger Tobey’s occupation. Leave it to Roger to get a colorful job. He was selling large red and yel- low toy balloons at county fairs. Nathan “Guz” Issokson, so “Don” Hatch informed me, had an inter- esting and easy job. He was em- ployed by Uncle Sam as “adjust- able ballast” for the Navy’s newest dirigible. Idly glancing through a news- paper one day my eye was attract- ed by a picture with the heading “Rescued and Rescuer.” Reading on I learned that “the brave life guard, Joseph Goudreau, had dash- ed to the aid of Loraine Pease, a former belle of Lawrence High School, and had pulled her safely