Lunenburg High School - Echo Yearbook (Lunenburg, MA)

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The followrng rs based upon the assumptron that as we grow older and take our pl tces rn socrety w may feel the sudden urge to look back and remrnrsce about our adolescence On September 4 1946 we made our wondermg ways to the halls of our lrtrle wooden schoolhouse rn antrcrpatron of learnmg great thrngs ust what happened after thrs day rs really hard to explam Wzll we erer forget Mrss Morleys mgenrous dunce caps and stuprd srgns not to mentron the scotch tape Oh yes' I guess she really had us pegged? rrght from the begrnnrng The frrst year of school was qurte an affarr Scotch tape here and a dunce cap there How we remember that baby srgn And the frrends we made at recess tnme A twrst of the ear and a pmch of the cheek soon gave us to know we had lots to regret rf we drdnt get those words arranged on our desks before the mornmg bell rang Remember hangrng up net stock mgs all along the walls lust before Chrrstmas vaca tron and when we came back to school Santa Claus had crawled down the ventrlator shaft and frlled them wrth gOOdlCS7 QMy the second grade was ex rtrng The prnchrng of cheeks and the pulling of harr Soon led us to know our abrlrty was fair In feedrng the goldfrsh we all drd our share Whrle standrng upon a lrttle chart Wasnt rt great gorng upstarrs to the thrrd gra What 15 thrs ohhh rts hrstory' Boy what we drdn t know we were rn for' Into the thrrd grade we dad go Wrth a great antrcrpa ron Of learnrng spellrng and multrplrcatron CAnd some of us drd you knowj One of the most excrtmg thrngs we looked for ward to rn the fourth grade was when some poor soul dropped h1s mrlk bottle or thermos lug What a mess but at least rt was something to squeal about .MEM- f 'X I fo 9 , A lvrx S U1 U65 fW P19 JW C-'P 'tv swf 1 Unrrl the fourth grade US Hrstory Was to us a deep dark my tery Mrss lancy helped us to find the path To the fundamentals of basrc math Well look at thrs our hrgh school and we re only frfth graders A new era rn schoolmg the two platoon system Wasnt rt neat? Only half a day of school all year' CFrom the frfth grade we learned how not to drop our rulers on the floor9J Through the efforts of Mrs Brown We learned our decrmals wrthout a frown Our scrence books told us of stars And of planets such as Mars My drdnt the years fly by At least we re the krngs of thc grammar school No sooner had we got en that kmgly fcelmg when rt was flattened by Mrs Frtzgeralds ruler Heheh grrls Some of these boys are sort of cute no7 How we remember those Lrterature tests Whrch turned out to be Part of a plot To see how easy we forgot 4 , e ' X X 1 1 l -Z1 is . . f X I Y n . ' UW . , , N Q of S f ' , , B2-.fwi K Mo' . ' I , . . . - 0? J . 7 . Q . ' . 32 I ' 4 8 f n -Q . . 'D . Y i - 4 I c . Y 7 , .... de? U . , i 2 , f , . , v 9 'sph'-Y A s . . . E. lgtll l , . U . . ' . , l h S . 1 ' ' 7 -.:-Q-E 1 . . . , A . ' Y -a ' 1 4 . ii ' l l ki . ' '- -. ' 1 , 4 wit' 'Ov 1' 1 I ' . , nf ' sf' ze f ' Y tl I ' D g D

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,jslmlory M 7 T g, ,,, gif Non solem stultus sed etuam unsanus nunth grade and Mrs Fuske She seemed to have taken up where Muss Morley had left off In the nunth grade the boys began to pay more attentuon to Marulyn Monroe and less to Buck Rogers and the gurls de veloped an ardent love for musuc as unterpreted by such people as Elvus Fats etc Remember the laughs the senuors got As we bemoaned our sorry lot XVhcn umoluntaruly we got thrown Into the showers wuth a groan The furst panuc of becomung Sophomores was pub luc speukung Wuth cold feet knockung knees and suddcnly blank brauns we had to force ourselves to face the multutudes The tenth grade also brought the trrux al of .1 new teacher Most teachers you could suzc up un a few days but who could fugure out Mr Leurj' The Sophomore hop turned out to be The buggest flop you ever dud see And all those classes un Buology Were just as buggy as they could be The eleventh grade brought us one step closer to our ultumatc goal Now we were consudered upper classmen bug unuors For most of us the eleventh grade wull brung memorues of lots of homework and low marks For others ut wull brung memorues of lots of horse laughs stocks of practucal jokes heaps of The Junuor Senuor receptuon Was the most fun of all Wuth the help of Muss Fahey ' We all had a ball Well now look at thus we re un unuor Hugh and vuere back un grammar school Lets face ut W just cunt wun Who us goun to make the honor roll and who us thus new boy all the gurls are whusperung about' Well anyway ut was a novelty havung a duf ferent teacher for every subject wasnt ut? Lots of laughter lots of fun Partues hayrudes dates and dances unuor hugh has now begun Also the start of new romances Heads I wun Tauls you lose' At last the eughth grade and we re even old enough to gamble' Ooops Muss Ascu dudnt agree Wasnt Mr Mullugan mee? What do you know we re growung up Into the eughth grade we dud pass Makung fruends wuth each lad and lass Our hardest task we remember to be XVas the notebook work un geography After sufferung the rugors of the long hard voy age of growung up from grammar school through junuor hugh we were funally approachung the doors to hugh school When we stepped through these doors we would be entering the most formatuve years of our luxes and approachmg adulthood We were to use these years to the best of our advantage Well kuds thus us ut The Senuor Prom wull last tull dawn And then we all shall graduate May our path be long and successful In whatever durectuon we contemplate . A H j W . . - . .TX 7 l l . . l 5:5951 ' 'wilt A ' , - ' 63' Q ' ' I I C T U ' A f . ' ' A' i-.Ll A -1 ' 'l .' . . 7 - sl a , r ' ' . A, 3.1 -, g u ! ' f d ' ,lo ut n A ' Q un, an agaun, w mar s. f ' ,- ' . . e J ' l ' A ' A ' . A u X a A f X . , - , I A X V K . Y Q