Leicester High School - Maroon Yearbook (Leicester, MA)

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Will EVELYN SHOCIK — leaves to Carol Fitzsimmons her ability to blush so easily. PAT SUNDBERG — leaves to Marcia Sundberg her sophistication. BILL WASTILA — leaves to Butch Kent his good looks and athletic abilities. EDDIE WILLIAMS — leaves to Betsy Pearsall his attendance record. LINDA PAGE — leaves to Mr. Madden the peace and quiet that he’s been waiting for all year. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE JUNIOR CLASS — we leave you this train so that you’ll have no excuse for not going to Washington next year. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOPH¬ OMORE CLASS — we leave this flash¬ light to guide you through the dark years ahead. MR. TIERNEY — to you we leave this bag of cement to repair the walls of the new school building. MR. SKELLEY — to you we leave this angel to watch over the kids as they dash for the cafeteria line. MR. COMER — to you we leave this box of aspirins to take when you get the headaches the oncoming seniors will no doubt give you. MR. BOULE — to you we leave this new supply of magazines to read while the kids are taking their history tests next year. MISS SCANNELL — to you we leave this new lock and key to keep the freshmen from destroying your room at recess time. MISS O’NEIL — to you we leave these batteries to keep your recorder in good running condition. MISS FRYE — to you we leave the comple¬ tion of your police uniform. MR. ROWDEN — to you we leave this basketball in hopes that you will have a more successful season next year. MR. TIVNAN — to you we leave this telephone memo to record telephone numbers of next year’s advertisers. MR. MADDEN — to you we leave these roller skates for you to get around in the type room faster. MR. SULLIVAN — to you we leave this red pencil to replace the one you used this year. MISS DEVLIN — to you we leave this little cart to transport your books from Room 10 to Room 12 every day. MISS DELLA SALA — to you we leave this door to replace the one we broke during the play. MR. CALLAN — to you we leave this airplane to take off in when the going gets too rough at Leicester High. MISS CHRISTINE McPARTLAND — to you we leave this can of blue paint to replace that which we used for our Prom decorations. MISS HELEN McPARTLAND — to you. we leave this typewriting ribbon to type out all the working cards next year. MRS. JUBINVILLE — to you we leave this gas pump to replace all the gas that you have used in taking all the sicklings home. MRS. NIEDERER — to you we leave this recipe book so that you can get some new recipes for next year. MR. PERODEAU — to you we leave this can of Ajax to clean the desks with next year. MR. GAUMOND — to you we leave this music book so that next year’s class will have some new graduation songs. MR. MacGREGOR — to you we leave this beard to match your moustache. Having signed, sealed, and published this document, we declare it to be the close of the last will and testament of the Class of 1956 of Leicester High School on this sixth day of June in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six. Signed in the witness of: Eloise and Dennis the Menace Signed: Patricia Dowd and Linda Page

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Like as the setting sun that is about to depart from view below the horizon, we, the Class of 1956, recall with misty eyes the golden sunrise of our freshman year. From that September morning in 1952 when Mr. Skelley offered us compasses to locate ourselves to this June day in 1956 when the faculty exclaims Hail and Farewell,’’ we can only remember four years blessed with happiness. Now as we see the light of our high school careers growing dim, and as we hear our happy voices fading away to stillness, we know that our minutes at Leicester High School have hastened to their end. Therefore, we, the Class of 1956, realizing that the bonds which have united us through¬ out our high school days are dissolving and being of sound mind and possessing happy memories, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testament. ALICIA ADAMS — leaves to Donna Carney her make-up abilities. CAROLYN BERTHIAUME — leaves to Robert Shea her peaches and cream complexion. MAXINE BICKFORD — leaves so many lonely hearts behind her. LEROY BULLARD — leaves to be Mr. Peepers on television. MARCIA CHILDS — leaves to George Grady her height. JOANNE CLEARY — leaves to Pat Gallant her sense of humor. BARBARA COX — leaves her cleanup duties in the girls’ locker room to anyone who’ll be so unlucky as to get them. CAROL DAHLSTROM — leaves to learn how to cure or kill us. ELAINE DESAUTELS — leaves to Sally Dobie her taste for nice clothes. CLIFFORD DODGE — leaves with an air of dignity on his red scooter, which had caused him so much previous worry. PAT DOWD — just glad to leave. BRENDA FERGUSON — leaves to Kathy Best her love for short hair. Class RICHARD GARY — leaves to continue his interest in chemistry. CAROLYN GRANT — leaves all her problems behind her. JACKIE GUYAN — leaves to Sis Zeveski her quiet ways. FERN JONES — leaves to Paul Butler III her debating abilities. DICKIE JOHNSON — leaves to Dick Ollie” Johnson his name. DICKIE KEMP — leaves with all thoughts of school behind him. FRAN KLOCEK — leaves to be the wife of a Marine. TED LAWSON — leaves to Bob Slocomb his favorite wave. PAUL LUOPA — tiptoes out before the teachers ha ve a chance to change their minds. BOB McKEON — leaving with us, though many of the times we doubted it. VIVIAN MOROWSKI — leaves her vacant seat at Mantell’s to be filled. DONALD NIEBER — leaves to Dave Luoma his winning personality. ROBERTA NOFTALL — leaves to Carol Latour her dimples. FAY OLSEN — leaves to Jean Farrell her cute ways. JUDY PADDOCK — leaves her typing ability to anyone who can excel it. JUNE PARSE — leaves to the cheerleaders the task of winning first place at the tourney next year. HERB PENGILLY — leaves to Smokey King his way with the girls. PAUL RIEDL — leaves to Debbie Sargent all the problems he has caused her this past year. DEB ROWDEN — leaves to Jeanne Williamson her love for lavender. PAT ROGERS — leaves to Sally Streeter her ability to talk so much. LORY RUSSELL — leaves to polish all of Leicester’s fire engines. DEB SARGENT — leaves to Nancy Fyffe her appetite.

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Class Prophecy Work! Work! Work! Am I glad it’s time for a vacation. Teaching the Africans the proper diet is no easy job. Oh, well, I’ll be home soon. While I’m there I must visit Frances Klocek Streeter. I hear she has six lovely children. Can it be possible that this is 1976? But now I’ll just go out and sun myself on deck. Who’s that over there? Why it’s Fern Jones , She’s in the Women’s Armed Forces and is the sergeant in charge of recruits. I left with my eye on the future — possibly in the Women’s Air Corps. What’s this? ? ? The captain wants to see me. I went to his table quickly to find that it was none other than my old classmate, Edtvin Williams. He liked the Navy so well that he decided the sea was his career. I wasn’t too surprised to hear that Brenda Ferguson was his private secretary. From him I learned that Bob McKeon is a major in the Army and Fed Lawson has part interest in Grant’s Stores. New York at last — almost home. I decided to stay at the Taft Hotel where another of my classmates, Herbert Whitworth, is manager. He told me that a must” for me would be to go over to Radio City Music Hall and hear Carolyn Berthiaume sing — a few steps up from our Class Day program. Remember LeRoy Bullard’s sense of humor in our c lass play? It has certainly paid off in big dividends. LeRoy has taken over George Gobel’s show. Farewell to New York and hello to Leicester. I wasn’t too surprised when I got home and found my old home town now a big city. Leicester now boasts a new hospital, three new high schools, two movie theatres, and six factories. When I got home, my mother informed me that I had a special invitation from Barbara Cox, head nurse, to visit our new Hospital. When I arrived, I found many other classmates working there. Richard Gary, graduate of Clark University and Har¬ vard Medical School, is one of the chief surgeons, and Marcia Childs is his secretary. Carol Dah strom works here also, combining both career and marriage. Bill Wastila, another graduate of Clark University, works in the hospital’s ultra-modern laboratory, doing work on a cure for many dreaded diseases. A trip over to the elementary school showed that I had been right. Deborah Sargent teaches former classmates’ children in the first grade of the old elementary school. She told me that this was the seventh child of Deborah Rowden that she had taught the first lessons of reading and writing. She also told me that Pat Dowd was now married and traveling the whole North and South American con¬ tinents. She has ten children by the way. As a reward for his great knowledge of sports, Clifford Dodge is head of athletics at dear old L. H. S. He can proudly boast an unbeaten record for the last fifteen years.