Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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FRENCH CLUB Motivated by their genuine and pressing desire to better the welfare of the yet war-torn people of France, the L.H.S. French Club has completed one of its most active and rewarding years. At the start of the school year, an unusually large number of students expressed a desire to attain membership in the club, and thus an extensive, competent staff of sixty-eight enthusiastic participants has served to strengthen the club's prestige. Various projects are annually undertaken. This year in addition to the regular selling of football pencils, Christmas cards, and the sponsoring of a French movie, the club arranged and sold cook books. Persistent, hard work was the formula for the year, and it produced portions of financial and moral success. The boxes which were so faithfully sent to the French war orphan whom the club adopted during the peak of the war's oppression continued, and the warm thankfulness of the young Loy was payment enough for the efforts required to make them up. The meetings were held once a month at the various homes of generous students, and everywhere friendliness was in evidence. A great variety of program presentations, delicious refreshments, and excellent atmosphere was created by the occasion of each gathering. Much credit is due to Mrs. Miriam S. Bucknell, whose considerate and wise counsel has always been the very essence of the club's success. Competent officers have also executed their jobs well. The officers are president, Robert Mercier; vice-president, Sheila St. Cyr; secretary, Joyce Hemenway; treasurer, Anna Carluccio. First Row: Left to Right—George Robbins, John Hager, Chester Cadrette, Roger Sawyer, William Dunn Edward Davis. Second Row: Lett to Right—Gloria Sambito, Lorraine Lemire, Renda Baron, Betty Ann Gilboy, Joyce Hemenway, Sheila St. Cyr, Robert Mercier, Anna Carluccio, Elaine Mainville, Marion Stupak, Rita Lynch, Joan Mazzaferro, Mary Hasenstein, Mrs. Bucknell. : Third Row: Left to Right—Margaret Surrette, Jean Murray, Rita Bartoni, Barbara Gettens, Ann Rioux, Marcia Lowe, Rachel Walton, Anna Stacey, Lorraine Champagne, Lorraine Lyonnais, Edith Ali, Jeanette DiPaoli, Edward Ward, Arthur McEvoy. Fourth Row: Left to Right—John Derby, Patricia Goguen, Altobell Grenfell, Joanne Merriman, Marcia McCready, Rolande Perreault, Andrea Perlstein, Suzanne Langen, Pauline Valley, Barbara Hurley, Margaret Metros. Fifth Row: Left to Right—Grace Gauthier, Patricia Doran, Carol Lynch, Ruth Haenisch, Patricia Donnelly. CAMERA CLUB The L. H. S. Camera Club is composed of an active group of students meeting on Tuesday, during X Period, in Room 3. Mr. John H. Rogers is the faculty advisor to the club. You may see these members at various times during school, taking informal snapshots of the students or of the faculty. Not only do they take these informal poses, but they also take formal groups; such as, class officers, faculty members, club gatherings, plays, and assemblies. This club is working side by side with the Magnet Staff in getting material for the year- book. After February first, when the work of taking pictures for this year’s graduating class is finished, the Camera Club will start taking informal shots of next year’s class. In this way the members will be able to get pictures of activities during the spring and will have a varied assort- ment:for next year’s Magnet. The officers of the Camera Club are president, Malcolm Lillie; vice-president, Russell Lynch; secretary, Eleanor Burke, treasurer, Virginia Nickerson. First Row: Left to Right—Jean Lynch, Barbara Burchstead, Nancy Burke, Eleanor Burke, Carolyn Emond, Marion D’Onfro, Barbara Gettens, Mary Bianchini. Second Row: Left to Right—Virginia Nickerson, Carl Falkenburg, Elliot Wheeler, Russell Lynch, Malcolm Lillie, William Voedisch, Lorraine Gagnon. Third Row: Left to Right—Richard Guy, Wesley Lindburgh, Domenic Lisciotti. PAS

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FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA The James Gordon Carter Chapter of the Future Teachers of America was formed at the Leominster Senior High School this winter. Meeting during Activities period twice a month, this club aimed to introduce prospective teachers to the advantages of careers in education. This chapter has been named in honor of James Gordon Carter, Father of the Massa- chusetts Board of Education and the Teachers College Movement in the United States. Carter, a native of Leominster and Harvard graduate in 1820, taught in our local schools for a number of years. Our small but active local club hopes to secure a charter soon from the national organization sponsored by the National Education Association. Plans were formulated this year to invite teachers and administrators in the local school system to speak before the group. The group planned to take field trips to such educational institutions as the Fitchburg State Teachers College. The officers this year are Francis Caisse, president; and Gloria Sambito, secretary and treasurer. Other members include Rita Bartoni, Christina Calandrino, Betty Ann Gilboy, Margaret Frye, Mary O'Keefe, Ruth Piermarini, and Robert Prince. Robert Laserte was faculty advisor. First Row: Left to Right—Rita Bartoni, Betty Ann Gilboy, Gloria Sambito, Rose Carmadella, Mary O'Keefe. Second Row: Left to Right—Christine Calandrino, Mr. Robert Laserte, Francis Caisse, Ruth Piermarini. Absent: Peggy Frye and Margaret Metros. 3)