Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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THE MAGNET EDITORIAL STAFF Thanks to this Magnet Staff and its directors, Miss Elizabeth Colley and Mr. George Peck, our yearbook provides for us a plentiful source of knowledge on school life and school activities. The Magnet Editorial Staff, which is composed of a group of literarily inclined boys and girls who collect data and pictures on important happenings around school, wished to have the ‘‘new look’’ apply to the Magnet as well as to the latest dress fashions. This is one of the reasons we now have a yearbook with numerous pictures and with more accounts of curricular and extra-curricular activities than ever before. Every Tuesday during activities period, this group met to discuss various production problems. Also during this period, stories were assigned to every member of the group. When all this material was gathered, the actual layout of the yearbook was planned. The officers of the Magnet Editorial Staff are: John Paquette and Paul Goodale, co- editors; William Suessbrick, assistant editor; Leonara Del Giudice, secretary. Front: Leonora Del Guidice. Second Row: Jane Tucker, Rita Lynch, Mary Batchelder, Betsy Aston. Third Row: Edward McElligot, William Suessbrick, Donald Cragin, Helen Lane, Marion Sargent. Fourth Row: Joan Paquette, Ken Healy. Fifth Row: Edward Wilson, Marco Landon, David Raher, Richard Lavin, Albert Tardiff. Standing: David Nixon, Paul Goodale, Mr. Peck, Miss Colley, Robert Gettens. Omitted from Picture: Sylvia Lolli, Bernard Shea. THE MAGNET BUSINESS STAFF The Magnet Business Staff of L.H.S. is the group responsible for the finances of the Magnet. This staff sells advertising space in the yearbook and prepares such advertisements for publication. It conducts the sale of the yearbook in the homerooms, and handles all receipts from this source. This staff places all orders for engraving, printing, binding and covers. This year, direct mail solicitation is being employed to reach out-of-town advertisers. All glossies are handled by the business staff, who plan the lay-out of this section of the book. The Magnet Business Staff has been under the able direction of Mrs. Flora Wittman for the past two years. The officers for the current year are Corinne Collette, business manager; Sylvia Cosseboom, assistant business manager; Marilyn Gage, junior assistant business manager; Jeannette Racine, subscription manager; Marie Pitre, assistant subscription manager; Jean Williams, junior assistant subscription manager; Madelyn De Carolis, advertising manager; manager; Dora Consalvo, assistant advertising manager; Ruth Nichols, junior assistant manager; Richard Smith, account manager. Group pictures were scheduled by Theresa Hebert, and Anna DiLibero was in charge of senior glossies. Front Row: Marilyn Gage. First Row: Bette Condon, Corinne Collette. Second Row: Marie Pitre, Jean Williams, Madalyn De Carolis, Jeannette Racine. Third Row: Dora Consalvo, Savina Bracanni, Angelini De Massa. Fourth Row: Sylvia Cossebbom, Eleanor Del Vergo, Mildred Crane, Glorinda Fantozzi, Esther Fantozzi. Standing: Ruth Nichols, Mrs. Wittman. PRESS CLUB During the seventh year of its existence, the L. H. S. Press Club, under the able guidance of John F. Joyce, faculty advisor, has proven to be one of the most active organizations in the school. With a complete coverage of school news appearing in the Leominster Enterprise every Saturday evening, the club has served to interpret school life to the community and the alumni. The thirty-four Staff members have met every Activities Period to ‘‘write-up’’ the week's events; such as, club meetings, assemblies, alumni activites, and special feature stories. An attempt has also been made at the weekly staff meetings to insturct those who have a ‘‘nose for news’ and who intend to make journalism their career, in the fundamentals of good newspaper writing. Various people of the newspaper world, including members of the Leominster Enter- prise Editorial Staff, have been guest speakers at Press Club meetings. “The Training Table,’’ informal sports column originated by Gary Mansur, ‘47, Press Club editor for two years, has continued to be a regular and well-received feature of the Senior High Notes. Press Club’s weekly news section has been presented the C.M.I.P.A. best news award for the past several years. First Row: Faculty Advisor, John F. Joyce, Robert Rockwell, Helen Lancey, Sylvia Gasbarri, Alva Dewhurst, Lola De Amicis, Ann Gallagher, Jean Lynch, Robert Farrell. Second Row: Eleanore Mackey, Gloria Sambito, Gilda Marrama, Vilma Padovano, Sheila St. Cyr, Joyce Hemenway, Ruth Grevelding, Grace Gauthier, Joan Mazzaferro. Third Row: Robert Regan, Constance Bovenzi, Anna Capocciama, Lorraine Lyonnais, Lorraine Lemire, Lucille Castriotta, Jean McCarthy, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Morrill, Faculty Advisor. Back Row: Richard Mullaney, Fred Matthews, Marguerite Roberson, Joan King, Sally Nicholson, Janet Gail- lardet, Richard Kearney. Leh

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NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY The Leominster Chapter of the National Honor Society, which was recently organized at the senior high school, had a very interesting year. The Society gives recognition to the students of any course who have maintained an average of eighty-five percent in every sugject during their three years at senior high school. These’students were elected to the Society at the beginning of their senior year. Membership remained open to any students who were able to meet the requirements during the year. There were twenty-four students enrolled in the eS Chapter. Of these twenty-four, many had an active part in other clubs in high school. By March, 1947, there were 3338 chapters across the nation belonging to the National Honor Society. Sixty-one of these were in Massachusetts. The Leominster Chapter meets at the public library, generally on the third Wednesday of each month, at 7:30 P. M. The first formal meeting was held on October 22, at the library. John Baker and Lola De Amicis were elected to alternate in the office of president. Dora Consalvo was elected secretary and Marion Sargent, treasurer. Principal Dwight 5. Davis was named faculty advisor of the chapter. The following students are members of the Leominster Chapter of the National Honor Society: John Baker, Mary Batchelder, Jeanette Boutin, Emily Bunker, Elizabeth Clark, Corinne Collette, Dora Consalvo, Mildred Crane, Nancy Cutler, Lola De Amicis, Leonora Del Guidice, Anna De Libero, Alva Dewhurst, Ann Gallagher, Sylvia Gasbarri, Paul Goodale, Lois Hanson, Charles Hardy, Helen Lane, Irene Malo, Joyce Munting, Marion Sargent, Richard Smith, and Edward Wilson. Three committees were named: Ways and Means Committee, New Building Com- mittee, and Publicity Committee. The students on the Ways and Means Committee were Chair- man, Helen Lane; Jeanette Boutin, Emily Bunker, Elizabeth Clark, and Nancy Cutler. Those on the New Building Committee were Chairman, Ann Gallagher; Mary Batchelder, Charles Hardy, William Levine, and Edward Wilson. Irene Malo was the publicity committeeman. Front Row: Leonora Del Giudice, Alva Dewhurst, Corinne Collette, Dora Consalvo, Lola De Amicis, Jack Baker, Marion Sargent, Joyce Munting, Lois Hanson. Middle Row: Sylvia Gasbarri, Charles Hardy, Elizabeth Clark, Paul Goodale, Emily Bunker, William Levine, Joan Paquette, Edward Wilson, Principal Davis. Back Row: Ann Gallagher, Irene Malo, Nancy Cutler, Mary Batchelder, Helen Lane. RADIO CLUB Radio Club is a group of boys and girls interested in radio acting. This club is restricted to students of Leominster, Fitchburg, Saint Bernard's, and Lunenburg High Schools. Every Monday night for ten minutes, High School Highlights’’ is presented. At this time, each of the students from the four schools gives a complete summary of his current school activities, curricular and extra-curricular. On Saturday morning, Club members have the ‘Fun with Books” program. If they're telling a cat and dog story, two of the students act as the cat and the dog in the story. When everyone else is swimming, this group is working hard preparing the summer half-hour program ‘‘Stand By.’’ This dramatic program is written and acted by the students themselves. Nearly every week, Radio Club has a lecture by some well known person in the field of radio. In this way the members of Radio Club learn new and different factors of radio. Front Row: Mary Flannagan, Bette Condon. First Row: Miss Lilian Ricker, Jeannette De Sabatino, Lola De Amicis, Robert Farrell, Mary Lou Cohen, Julia Ashe, Patricia Cronin. Back Row: Sylvia Gasbarri, Madalyn De Carolis. LS