Major Edwards High School - Mesa Yearbook (West Boylston, MA)

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Evidently she intends to start her riders off with a good hump for she is going to put her beginners on donkies. If you should hear a woman loudly voicing her opinions, in this vicinity, you will know that the sounds are produced by Margaret Budd, Syd is definitely going to be a well known criminal lawyer and will deal with nothing but petty thieves and divorce cases. Lester Atchuc will write a book of home- made puns. I guess he acquired his talent in English IV. Poor Mrs. Severance suffered immensely while Lcs was In the amateur stage. With that, the gypsy woman told me that she could foresee no more, but I was fully contented for even though I had not learned what my own future might be, learn- ing the futures of my classmates had well rewarded me for my time spent with the fortune teller.

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Richard Fancy is destined to enter a queer sort of pro- fession. He will be the chief doughnut-hole maker in a big doughnut factory. The only reason I could think of for his choosing this unusual profession was that through the entire course of English IV Dick continually did nothing but make holes in paper with an available punch. If Dick had only surmised the outcome, perhaps he would have settled down to work instead. Mary Davis is going to study music and become the er of a huge girl ' s glee club in New York City. I was rather surprised at this because I knew just how much Mary enjoyed glee club in Major Edwards High School. Harry Wilson and Virginia Vesh are going into partnership for a radio pro- gram. Hack, as the practical joker, and Ginny to laugh with that most contagious giggle of hers at his puns. I guess the radio station is very much afraid to depend upon the public for laughs. May Scollen is going to open up a business for consoling heartbroken people. May Is well fitted for this job as she has had considerable experience in that line of work. Doris Gustafson will take an advanced course in Stenography and, in a few years, return to Major Edwards as a Stenography teacher. I don ' t quite know if Gussy is doing this for re- venge, or if she is purely a lover of the subject. Elizabeth Koss is going to attend Worcester State Teacher ' s College, but instead of coming out as a teacher of penmanship she will be a drawing teacher. I ' ll let the future figure that one out because it ' s too much for me, for Betty never had or never wanted an artistic inclination. Evelyn Moore and some- one else are going into partnership in a flower business. What could be a more appropriate future for such a sweet girl as Evie? Murrell Smith, of all people, is going to own a typewriter concern. I just knew Smitty didn ' t despise his typewriter as much as he pretended to in Typing II, or he never would want to sell them. Dorothy Allen, that sweet and demure girl of our class, is going to be a famous dress designer. We always know Dot would do something with that talent of hers. Margaret Denton is going to bo an interior decorator. I often wondered If Margaret would really enter the profession she had always yearned for. H cr specialty is going to be decorating hcartshaped houses for honeymooners , Figure that one out. Carolyn Nutting is going on the stage. Imagine that great lover of sports kicking hcr legs high in a chorus lineup. Look for the Follies of 1950 and you might sec hcr. Jane Cameron is going to write a new version of Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarfs and present the play on a New York stage, but there is to be one decided innovation in her play. Janie will create several new characters such as Smarty, Witty, and Mosey. Could it be that she is going to have members of her own class play those new parts. Robert Slack, the follow in our class who never has much to say. Is going to be a soapbox orator. He will lecture on the follow- ing subject Advice to the young men of the future on how to retain that school boy complexion and well- trained wavy hair. Marion Hynes is going to run a riding school in West Boylston.

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Advice To The Juniors Margaret G, Denton The Seniors realize the tremendous task that you, as Juniors, have before you in rising to the lofty dignity of Senior-hood. 11 We have accordingly assembled the following bits of advice which v;e deem to be helpful and which I, in behalf of the Seniors, will now impart to you. First: be familiar, but never with your lessons. Second, and So On: Write legibly--when you know the an- swers . Do not erase your typographical errors; all commercial teachers are born with eagle eyes. Beware of Physics --When test day comes around, only voids and vacuums abound where laws short days ago were f ound . Don’t look for a dictionary by Americans, for Americans, and of the American language, which keeps pace with the Amer- icans. The wee lil bcastie was one of those plowed under by Robert Burns. As Seniors, keep always a watchful eye for a new recipe for divinity. Those friends you have and their assistance sought grap- ple to your soul with sticks of gum.. But do not dull your pencil helping each new-hatched, unfledged, and muddled com- rado . C-o to bed early- -when there’s no place to stay but home and nothing to do but study. Do not dress quietly, for they in Edwards of Senior rank and station arc of a curious and bizarre complex. Do not go under sixty per, particularly on motor- cyclcs--thc shock is terrific. To live up to Senior tradition, you’ll have to do bet- ter than three stairs at a time, taking. care of course, no teacher, principal, superintendent, or member of the School Committee is standing at the bottom of the stairs just so you’ll bump into him. Ever a borrower, not a lender be; for loan will make thee pen and paperless, but borrowing saves theo dimes for ice cream cones. This above all--in Senior footsteps stride, and it must follow as night the day, thou canst not then disgrace our dear old Edwards,