Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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Thirty THE L A W R E N C I A N — 1 9 4 5 SENIORS AT WORK Top row: Senior Expression Class; Senior Art Class. Middle rou : Senior College English Class; Senior Typing Class. Bottom rou : Senior Business Class; W. H. O. I. Workers.

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LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL Twenty-nine Class History Natalie Robinson W E, the Class of ’45, entered Lawrence High School in 1942 with the anticipa- tion of three worthwhile and happy years here. Now as we are to graduate it seems as if most of our expectations have been fulfilled. During the fall of our first year in L. H. S.. we elected our class officers. Elwood Eldridge was chosen president; Marshall Cross, vice- president; Esther Tsiknas, secretary; and Frank Carter, treasurer. Many of us joined the different school activi- ties. Ellie Eldridge, Harrison Wulbern, Ralph Medeiros, Eddie Medeiros, Arthur Williams, Campbell Lawrence, and Marshy Cross went out for football; Anne Lawrence, Marilyn Mullen, Beverly Stewart, Carol Peterson, Ruth Weeks, Jane Hubbard, Esther Tsiknas, and Paul Ding- well played in the orchestra; and seventeen of us joined the Lawrencian. Returning to Lawrence High as juniors in 1943, we again elected class officers. Ellie Eldridge was re-elected president; Beverly Stewart was chosen for vice president; Esther Tsiknas, secretary; and Frank Carter, treasurer. To start the social year at L. H. S. in Novem- ber we had a Juke Box Dance, which was planned by Carol Peterson, the Social Commit- tee Chairman, and her committee, Anne Law- rence, Beverly Stewart, Rose Moniz, Natalie Robinson, Peggy Scharff, Esther Tsiknas, and Jack Doyle. After the New Year, we sponsored the Leap Year Dance, which proved to be a great success. On the football team our star players were Ellie Eldridge, Frank Sisson, Richard Cahoon, Pete Bailey, Ernest Silva, Jack Doyle, Sumner Baker, and Merle Davis. In basketball Frank Carter, Ellie Eldridge, Paul Dingwell, and Merle Davis represented the class. Last but not least on the baseball team were Jack Farrell, Ellie Eldridge, Jack Doyle, and Dave Baldic. As a class we have done as much as we could to help the war effort. We had bought by June of our second year two fifty-dollar war bonds and had given a dollar to the Red Cross for every boy in our class who had joined the service. By then there were quite a number of these boys. Alden Stewart, Edward Pierce, Theophil- us Moniz, George Towers, Hurlbert Bailey, Ralph Mederios, Bob Palmer, George Grace, Reginald Irving, Ernest Silva, Paul Dingwell, and John Ferreira were in the Navy; Robert Booker was in the Army; and Marshall Cross was in the Marines. Late in the spring, Ellie Eldridge, Marshal for the class of ’44, was elected as president of the class for the third time. The other officers elected the senior year were Frank Carter, vice president; Esther Tsiknas, secretary; and Vic- toria Simons, treasurer. In 1944 we entered Lawrence High with many plans to make our last year a big success. As a result of our plans the social committee held a Football Hop, which went over so well that another was given shortly after. The social committee members were Chairman Ruth Weeks and Beverly Stewart, Esther Tsiknas Anne Lawrence, Rose Moniz, Victoria Simons, Carol Peterson, Jack Doyle, Frank Carter, Frank Sisson, and Ellie Eldridge. Two wins over Barnstable made our football season an extra special one. Seniors on the team were Captain Eldridge and Doyle, Mac- Dougall, Carter, Sisson, Rogers, Davis, Cahoon, and Baldic. Of these Ellie Eldridge and Colin MacDougall were chosen as players on the All- Cape first team, and Jack Doyle was chosen for the second team. Senior stars on the basketball team were Ellie Eldridge, Frank Carter, Merle Davis, and Dave Baldic. The girls also had a basketball team for the first time in five years. Members from our class who went out for it were Co-cap- tains Carol Peterson and Ruth Weeks, and Bev- erly Stewart, Esther Tsiknas, and Anne Law- rence. This year for the first time Lawrence High was represented in the Junior Town Meeting of the Air, in which James Rogers spoke on the affirmative of the question, Should the United States Intervene in the Domestic Affairs of Liberated Countries?” Beverly Stewart, Jim’s alternate, Carol Peterson, Anne Lawrence, Esther Tsiknas, Frank Carter, Bradford Perry, and Jim Vincent went to Boston with him and were in the audience at the broadcasting sta- tion. Victoria Simons was chosen to be our D.A.R. representative. The cancellation of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Convention was a great dis- appointment to the Lawrencian Co-editors. Beverly Stewart, Carol Peterson, and Esther Tsiknas and Circulation Manager, Frank Carter and Business Manager Victoria Simons, all of whom had planned to attend it. In the most important decision of the year, the students of Lawrence High chose Frank f Continued on page 31)

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LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL Thirty-one Class Prophecy Anne Lawrence I N order to find what the future holds for you, the class of ’45, I brought out my crys- tall ball, and strange were the many sights I saw. The first one I saw was Bev Stewart, who was high on a platform speaking for the United Charities Drive with her two grandchildren on either side of her. The scene shifted to Lincoln Park, where Frank Sisson and ]ane Hubbard were filling in for Frankie Carle. As part of an occupational therapy program, Lillian Barrows was jitterbugging and Cather- ine Green was tap-dancing. There out of the blue sailed two admirals, Frank Carter and Jack Doyle, saluting from the bridge of their newly commissio ned ship, the U. S. S. Pat. As Lawrence High School Advisor, Esther Tsiknas was surrounded by boys all asking her the same question: Who th’ heck ’ll I drag to the prom?” In the corridor, Eleanor Fontes was selling absence slips and Muriel Peters was selling caricatures of the teachers. Dot Crocker, Ernestine lllgen, and Dot Hampton were hard at work on a bridge across Falmouth Harbor for convenience in emergen- cies. Jack Farrell and Charlie Vail were farmers. One tended to the hay-hay! while the other fell back on the ho-ho! Lilly Erskine was on her hands and knees scrubbing the deck of the C-18. Avis Hill was raising goats for L. H. S. mas- cots. Jim Vincent was famed as maker of fish flies. In the crystal I could barely distinguish the trademark, Allen’s Best.” Vic Simons was polishing 50c pieces in the bank. Colin MacDougall was perched high on a pile of money. He had just invented an effi- cient lipstick remover for white shirts. Then on the other side of the ball rose a little church. Ruth Weeks rolled up her model T” to take her little boy from the Sunday School teacher, Peg Neal. Lewis DeSouza, Tony Medeiros, and Stan Harvey, as members of the Air Corps, appeared as wolves in sheep’s clothing. Lewis and Tony were howling, and Stan was blushing. In the psycho ward of a large hospital Lois Baker was head nurse. Madeline Bonito, Betty Cunningham, Judy Ferreira, Loretta Murray, Marilyn Reynolds, Hazel Rodriques, Pauline Stratton, Bev Sylvia, Lorraine Torres, Mary Balona. and Germina Viega were all suffering from 6 A. M. fatigue. In a school house in Alaska, Nat Robinson and Peg Scharff were teaching the Eskimos the Harvard tongue. Herbie Sample was washing dishes in a huge drugstore. Ellie Eldridge, as president, and Dave Baldic and Richie Cahoon, as outstanding executives, were the heads of an All Sports, No Home- work Club for Boys.” The whole crystal suddenly turned a blaz- ing red. It was Jim Rogers zooming by in his fire truck. Terry White was sitting with a lap-full of mice. She was teaching them how to be as quiet as she. Past a barber’s pole and through a window display of pipes, I saw Brad Perry giving Ellie Eldridge a whiffle. The telephone gals, Evelyn MacDougall, Carol Peterson, and Rose Moniz, were on the job with a complete set of push buttons for automatic control. For a long time I concentrated on Richie DeAiello, Sumner Baker and Mort Davis with- out anything happening. Finally in desperation, my crystal gave forth three wild wolves, thrash- ing wildly about. With the commotion, the crystal ball fell in shattered pieces on the floor, to be forever powerless. ♦ ♦ ♦ = CLASS HISTORY Continued from page 29) Carter and Victoria Simons to have their names added to the Smythe Tablet of Honor. On Friday, May 11, we enjoyed dancing to the music of Gene Marshall’s orchestra at the Senior Prom. Baccalaureate Service was held at the Con- gregational Church on May 20th. The next day was Class Day, with a class banquet in the evening at the Four O’Clock. Graduation on May 22nd terminated our three happy years here in Lawrence High School.