Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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With the world of crayons, Alice and Jerry, and recess left behind, The Class of 1963 entered the 7th grade, already truly cosmopolitan. The Woods Hole School donated its share of students, many of ivhom were from families connected ivith the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Biological Laboratory , Eel Pond at Woods Hole At Diane Smith’s 10th birthday were Nancy Soares, Nancy Burrough, Pam Leach, Diane, Carol Motte, Joan Motte, and Marilyn Nutter. and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Within these three concerns, work is forging ahead in the field of natural science. Just this year the Albatross IV and the Atlantis II were launched, and a neic Oceanographic laboratory was constructed. Many members of the class attended summer school, Woods Hole style, by spending six weeks during July and August enrolled in a science school course at the Woods Hole School — from “ Seashore Life” in muddy sneakers to “ Astronomy ” ivith its uniques nocturnal field trips. However, this international flavor permeating the class has not ceased with the converging of all the members of the Class of ’63. Otis Air Force Base, formerly Camp Edwards, has brought the savor of many a southern accent, and many a western license plate to Falmouth, Atlantis II Nobska Light — Woods Hole ■■Pi : ■ ’ New MBL lab— Woods Hole

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Ho iv ever, Mr. Lawrence realized that Falmouth’s commercial life was destined for constant growth, which occurred so rapidly that Lawrence Academy acquired a superintendent , another teacher, new quarters, and a new name. Lawrence High School was built in a toivn which saw its boys abandoning farm and sea for trade and storekeeping and its girls looking beyond cradles and stoves to toivn life and ivork. The Teaticket School The Margaret A. Mullen School The Henry Ward Hall School The Woods Hole School Immigrants arrived from other states, as ivell as from across the sea washing the shores of Cape Cod. Massachusetts laiv made education compulsory up to sixteen years of age, and even Lawrence High School became too small for the ever-increasing number of Falmouth scholars it rang to classes every day with its old bell. Both name and student body ivere again inherited — this time in 1952 by a neiv brick building across Shiverick’s Pond, a long, high structure built in old colonial style, with a cupola, and a golden clipper ship for a weather-vane. The Class of 1963, largest class to graduate from Lawrence High School, is a chronology in itself, as closely united with the Town as was the school its members attended. This student saga began in the basement and on the first floors of the Village, Woods Hole, Teaticket, and East Falmouth schools, and progressed to entrance into the fifth grade when Teaticket and East Falmouth schools terminated their part in the education of the Class of ’63. 6

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and hence to Falmouth’s high school, which has been greatly enriched by those students who come from service families. Each has brought with him some ' piece to put into the broad, patchwork cultural heritage which the Class of 1963 holds. Now, when these students leave with the rest of their graduating companions, perhaps they will carry away a part of LHS which may be as Cape-Cod bred-and-born as that which they put into the school and the class ivas Phoenix or Oshkosh-born. With plans in the air for the arrival of a foreign exchange student by means of the Falmouth branch of the American Field Service, there is no real way of telling how far abroad the vistas of Lawrence High will go, as succeeding classes will stand in the same position as the Class of ’63. Still, there are those who are native to Falmouth who have brought just as much to Town and school as have any number of world travelers who have passed the way of a L.H.S. curriculum for a year or more. Certain things affecting Falmouth personally , are close to home, such as the new Intermediate School for grades six through eight on Jones Rd., and the new Falmouth Hospital, standing near completion on Ter Heun Drive, visible from the windows of our school. Members of Mrs. Hill’s third grade class were (bottom row) Teddy Tripp, Brad Ellis, Frank Spencer, Donny West, Walter Van Kleef, Jimmy Small, (second row) Lee Burwell, Cathy Jennings, Marilyn Reynolds, Anne Dyer, Marjorie Williamson, Unidentified, Mary Beth Studley, Mauralee Williams, Carol Gray, (third row) Mrs. Hill, Nancy W’yrick, Maureen Ingram, Linda Tobey, Lorraine Weeks, Doris Rose, Richard Dupee, Susan Pasley, Dick W ' illiams, Jon Durrell, Pat Rogers, (fourth row) Paul Oleniek, Wayne Ferreira, Alan Carrager, Unidenti- fied, Claire Schlepark, Joyce Sylvia, Tex Fenimore, Thomas Curnberand, Mike Finnell, John Studley. Members of Mrs. Thayer’s third grade class were (bottom row) Carl Irons, Mike Generous, David Malkus, Lorin Appel, David Berry, Wayne Allen, (second row) Mary Ballentine, Joan Motte, Becky Paulic, Elaine Ferreira, Gail McKilligan, Pam Leach, Leslie MacDougall, Joan Morrison, Derna Grenga, Bitsy Fowler, (third row) William Landers, Betsy McGilvray, Jean Wagstaff, Thelma Nelson, Pam Lawrence, Lesley Boucher, Sharon Lum- bcrt, Billy Hewins, Robert Carey, (fourth row) Mrs. Thayer, Phyllis Lopes, Marilyn Grew, Ingrid Frank, Eileen Lumbert, Joseph Ingram, John Hicks, Harold Mulkern, Robert Leighton, Eddie Ferris, Peter Jacoby.