Leicester High School - Maroon Yearbook (Leicester, MA)

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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.

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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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I was just in time to see Paul Luo pa installed as principal. His job of training recruits in the Army will surely come in handy now. Pat Rogers always had a flair for business. Therefore, I wasn’t surprised when I heard that she was now president of Mineau’s Sports Store. Richard Kemp, after helping his father build their home, has developed Hyland’s field into lovely modern homes. He took great pains explaining the new electric gadgets in the homes. Judy Paddock lives in one of these beautiful homes, aand once a year she opens her home for charity purposes. Lory Russell is now owner and manager of Russell Mfg. Co. For an avocation he’s fire chief of the Leicester department. When I went to have some of my clothes cleaned the next day, I discovered that Evelyn Shocik has part interest in Beau Cleaners and her lawyer is Richard Johnson. Maxine Bickford has now set up a shingle — Bickford’s Hair Dressing School.” Joanne Cleary is the Dean of Women. Walking down the street, I bumped into Paul Riedl who is now business manager of the Carleton Woolen Mills. My stay in Leicester is over but, before I leave, I must go over to the town offices and visit old friends: Roberta Nof tall, clerk, and Alicia Adams, certified public accountant. Now I must fly down to Washington for a business conference with the President. I heard that Donald Neiber is now a farmer in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Pay Olsen is by his side. She works in the telephone company out there. I must remember to write to her soon. Jackie Guyan is now married to a British lord and lives in Liverpool, England. She has learned that punctuality plus is a must.” June Parse always was a good secretary and really worked hard for the job she has now. As private secretary for the senator from Massachusetts, she was happy to tell me that Herbert Pengilly is a captain in the Navy and Linda Page is happily married with eight children and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. I was very sorry that I could not visit Elaine Desautels and Vivian Moroivski but they were on a world tour. It seems that they won a contest sponsored by the Cherry Valley PTA. Another one of my classmates seems to have left our great town. Carolyn Grant is now happily married and lives in Alaska. Well, that’s a panoramic review of the Class of 1956 as it appears twenty years later. You must agree that we have been very success¬ ful to date. We have ever remembered our class motto Fortune Favors the Brave” and have, so far, overcome the many varied and difficult problems associated with this game called L-I-F-E. Let’s hope that the future will be as good to us so as twenty years hence I can further chart our successful careers.