Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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Mary: Did you mention Ida Rafer, Eva Trafton, or Emma Dunwoody? Jim: No, I guess we forgot them, too. That must make about twelve. What a class! Paul: What a class is right. Remember how Larry Legere and Mary McAllister participated in the finals of the Speech Contest our junior year. Louise: Yes, Larry was Class President that year too. Bill: Mary was Treasurer and Wayne Duval was Secretary ... Paul: And Mildred O’Hearn was Vice-President. Jim: A swell group of officers as I remember it. Mary: Yes, and a swell Prom we had that year, too. Louise: You said it! I can still see those purple and white hearts, and hear the rhythmic melody of that superb orchestra. Paul: Say, we had our share of musicians right in our own class. Eddie Bissonnette, Charlotte and Betty Patten, Annette Hamilton, Irma Padavano, Joe Pellecchia, David Sargent, and Bernard Marquis were all in the orchestra. Jim: Yes, and Annette Hamilton, Ruth LaFrennie, and Byron Fielden starred in the Mukado. Louise: There were quite a few juniors in the chorus, too. Bill: You bet, and our class often furnished soloists for the Thursday morning sings. Paul: Oh Yes! Although we were only juniors, we played as prominent a part in L. H. S. affairs as the seniors. Mary: Even more so, I think. Remember how we won all the class day honors? Jim: And how! Boy, the seniors were surely burned up. Bill: You bet, and by the time we were seniors, they just couldn’t hold us down. We won all the prizes and medals offered. Mary: All except the gold footballs for winning the Thanksg iving game. Louise: Don’t be sarcastic, Mary. The boys played a good game and on the whole it was a successful season. Jim: Ill say. Those cheer leaders (Nellie Wood, Helmi Laine, and Edward Bissonnette) surely put over that one touchdown each game. Paul: You said it! Remember that one Bob Flynn made in the Gardner game? That surely was a corker. ieesb ll Say! That run... (Enter Bob and Ruth) Bob: Howdy folks, how’s it going? Ruth and I were just trying to remember who our senior offiicers were. Larry Legere was president and .. . Mary: Louise Lemire was vice-president and Laurena Rogers, treasurer. Now let me see... . Paul: The secretary was Jimmie Fales. Ruth: That’s right. How could we be so stupid as to forget them? Jim: I don’t know, but you haven’t forgotten the Senior Prom, have you? Louise: What happy memories! Gee, I can still feel the syncopated rhythm of Don Weldon’s Orchestra. Jim: Same here. Remember that crazy song, The Music Goes Dow’n Around and Comes Out Here? Bill You bet! That surely pepped everybody up. Mary: And speaking of music, those three musical concerts were grand. Our class provided a large percent of the participants, too. Paul: You said it! We did everything that year . . . even to winning both prizes in the Better Speech Contest and two in the Why Buy in Leominster Essay Contest. Bob: That’s right, I’d almost forgotten. It was Eileen Moore who won the prize in the Speech Contest and... Mary: Roberta Follansbee was the recipiant of first prize in the Essay Contest, in which Louise Lemire won . . . Say, was it second or third? 29

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Drama of the Class of 36 Time: 1946. Place: Tenth Annual Renunion of the class of ’36. Characters: Bill, James (Jim), Paul, Mary, Ruth, Louise, and Bob, members of the class of 1936. (As the scene opens we find the gathered members conversing together in small groups, discuss- ing incidents of interest, but mostly reminiscing. One of these groups consists of Bill and Jim.) Bill: It was on that fatal Wednesday, September 6, 1933, that we entered the old prison, as we used to call it, for the first time. It was on that fatal day that . . Jim: For heaven’s sake, don’t tell me you still have that extremely irksome habit of using such flowery language on such trivial and unimportant occasions! Bill: Such an intelligent looking group gathered that one omnipotent senior prognosticated that, in his opinion, at least seventy-five percent of the class might graduate in 1936, if we were lucky. Therefore, one might venture the opinion that—Say there’s Paul, over there! Hey, Paul! Come hither my pretty maid! Paul: Greetings and salutations to all you pals and former classmates. Say, do you know how many of our class went out for football and made their letters? I’ve been having quite an argument with Bob. I say there were three, but he... Bill: You’re right, old man; Frank Rodriquenz, Mario DeAmicis, and Americo Spacciapoli all earned their letters. Jim: By the way, how many did go out for football that year? Bill: As far as I can remember, there were around seventeen. Paul: Say, that was quite a record for sophomores, wasn’t it? Jim: You bet, and Barry Pickford was the only sophomore to win a letter in baseball Bill: And speaking of baseball, the manager of the team that year was Wes Wallace. Paul: Yes, I guess our class had its share of good athletes and scholars, too. Why, during that year we had six or seven on the first honor roll. Let’s see, now, there were Roberta Fol- lansbee, Helmi Laine, Ruth Yule, Larry Legere, Wilfred Metivier, and George Carter. I think there might have been a couple of others, but I’m not so sure. Bill: George Carter made quite a scholastic record that year. Besides attaining the highest honor roll, he, together with June McKenney, climbed to the finals in the Better Speech Contest. Jim: Yes, we had quite a successful sophomore year. (Enter Mary and Louise). Mary: We weren’t behind the scenes as juniors, either. Remember that smooth victory over Fitchburg, Thanksgiving Day ’34. Paul: That’s right, Mary. 14 to 0. Louise: We had our share of men on the gridiron, too. Let’s see there were Spacciapoli, De- Amicis, Frankie Rodriquenz, Barry Pickford, and . . Bill: Don’t forget George Grennough, Bob Flynn, Frank Munroe... . Paul: Sure, and Leon Kurasowicz, Pierino Capone, and Joe Pellecchia. Jim: Yes, we surely took an important part in athletics. Not only football, but basketball, too. Bill: You’re right, where would the team have been except for Roy Frye, Kenneth Paul, Pete Rudnicky, Harry Hunt and... Mary: Don’t forget Spachie. He always starred in all the sports. Louise: That’s right, but although we excelled in sports, we attained a high scholastic rating, too. Mary: You bet. Our class had more than any other on the first honor roll. There were Louise Lemire, Mary Mager, Dorothy Brion and . Paul: Yes, we were speaking about the honor roll before you girls came in. I guess those were some of the names we omitted. 28

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Jim: Third as I remember it, but then I haven’t a very good memory. I can’t even recollect our class motto. Bill: (pensively) Oh yes, the class motto, well... er . . . Wasn’t it Labor Conquers All? Louise: That’s right because I remember that our class was the first to change from a Latin to an English motto. Paul: Say, we were always changing something. “Member how we introduced the school ring? Ruth: Yes, we even tried to publish a year book instead of the Magnet, but the opposition was too great. Mary: And speaking of the Magnet, half of its staff were members of our class. Louise Lemire was Editor-in-Chief. Helmi Laine, Roberta Follansbee, Ruth Lafrennie, Jimmie Fales, Harvey Kidder, and Ruth Yule were all on the Magnet Staff. Paul: There were others that helped, too. Let’s see . . . Wilfred Metivier, Cherrie Jackson, Irving Epstein, Bill Halliwell, Ruth Smith, Irma Padavano... Jim: Don’t forget Larry! He was business manager that year... an excellent one, too. Remember how his efficiency enabled us to purchase a three-colored cover for only twenty cents? Bill: (absent mindedly) Yes, but I was just thinking about the dramatic inclinations of our class. Mary: They were surely great. We had a huge membership in the Speech Club. Ruth: Not only that! We even had an authoress in our class. Bill: To be sure, Helmi Laine. It was a good play that she wrote, too. Paul: You said it! Say, that French play, Le Voyage de M. Perrichon, was a grand success and casted mostly from our class, too. Jim: So it was, but don’t forget the senior play, Milestones. That surely was the climax—a perfect production. Bob: Righto! Let’s see, it had quite a large cast as I remember—Paul Durand, Helmi Laine, Dorothy Brion, Cherrie Jackson, Barry Pickford and .. . Mary: June McKenney, Edward Bissonnette, Betty Buzzell, Wesley Wallace... Paul: (impatiently) Don’t forget Americo Spacciapoli, Jerome Durand, Wilfred Metivier, Jimmie Fales and .. . Louise: Jane Kemp, Emma Dunwoody, George Carter, Eileen Moore, Louise Lemire, Roberta Follansbee . Ruth: That just about completes the cast. Jim: Just about completed our high school career, too. Louise: Yes, except for graduation night. Bill: Say, we surely looked dignified in those caps and gowns . . . at least more so than we ever did before. Mary: And probably ever will again. Bob: That’s right, but we had a grand old time in L. H. S. just the same. Jim: You said it! We've had a grand time at this reunion, too. It’s surely fun to meet your old classmates again and bring back school day memories. ROBERTA FOLLANSBEE DOROTHY BRION FRANCIS THREADGOULD GEORGE CARTER 30)