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

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The date is June 19, 1966, and the aspiring scientist, Mildred Allen, is waiting outside St. Peter ' s Golden Gate. Milly has discovered the formula for reaching infinity, after Mr. Goodnow, her high school principal, had instilled in her scientific mind the desire to find out exactly where parallel lines meet. Here in heaven, we find Milly waiting to be received by Dr. Einstein, who has promised to give her additional information. While waiting, Mildred ' s mind wanders back to a day exactly 20 years before. Class Day at M. E. H. S., the time when her own classmates had told of their aspirations for the future. Won- dering what they could be doing at this time, Milly goes to the edge of heaven and curiously looks over and down to the earth below. As Milly looks down, she beholds the office of a distinguished psycho- logist, and she recognizes David Cheever. She sees David with a young attrac- tive girl, evidently one of his cases — but wait, is that the way he analyzes his patients? Sitting on his knee? Wedge, as he was called by his classmates, has become one of those distinguished wolves in psychologist ' s clothing. Milly remembers that when Mary Roberti left Major Edwards, she made a very efficient secretary for several years. Finally, however, Mary decided that she must never go broke , and consequently, she acquired one big Penny . Milly now sees her devoting her life to raising little pennies . When Milly spies Peggy Teachout, Vice Principal in a large high school, the motto written on an outstanding sign behind Peggy ' s desk chair brings a broad smile to Milly ' s face. It reads, If Ya Gotta Do It, Do It Wit A Smile! At this moment Peggy is telling one of her girls that this is the way she avoided staying after school every afternoon back in her U. S. History days. While Milly is watching Peggy, this question puzzles her, Does Peggy lead her girls into or out of trouble? Milly ' s glance is next caught by a busy hospital. She recognizes the supervisor of the large nursing staff as a classmate of hers, Joan Orciani. Joan in a crisp, neat, white cap and uniform is sitting behind a desk checking over records efficiently. Milly perceives that Joan with her wit and humor makes a wonderful nurse. She notices that some of the convalescing patients are calling her Veronica.

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Seniors”. However, all too soon it was September, and we found ourselves back in M. E. H. S. We returned all peppy, ready for hard work and also some play. We were sorry to lose Mr. Chaf fee, who had taken a position as Superin- tendent of the Middleton, R. I. High School. However, our new friend and prin- cipal, Mr. Goodnow, seemed like a most wonderful fellow and as the year passed on, we found this to be true. The class now numbered ten girls and five boys. Before the year had rolled on too far, we elected our officers and yearbook staff. We decided to have our yearbook printed — an innovation in Major Edwards. In order to accomplish this, everyone had to do his share of the work of soliciting adver- tisements. Let us state here, that we demonstrated that we had unusual sales- manship ability. On February 13th, we had a roller skating party which was held at the Skate Arena. We kept the floor well dusted, but nevertheless, we all enjoyed ourselves. This marked our last class party with our class adviser, Miss Jennings, as in February, she left to take a position in West Bridgewater. We were very sorry to have her go. The following week, we found ourselves under the supervision of the school ' s favorite, Mis. Severance. On March 7, 1946, we Seniors sponsored a basketball game between the Varsity and the Ionic Boys ' Club Whizz Kids. The purpose of this was to raise money to help with our expenses. During our Spring vacation, six of us went to Plymouth to visit Miss Jennings. We toured a great part of the city and near-by country and found everything very amusing and interesting. This year, we discontinued the Newsletter to our boys in the service as most of them had returned home, but soon we had in full swing a new publica- tion entitled The Full Moon . The end of the year was in sight. We looked forward to the pleasures of a Senior reception, a class trip, Class Day, and our Graduation. Roses and diplomas . 1 8 ju-

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Music reaches Milly ' s ear: it isn ' t the music of angels but it doesn t split the eardrums either. As she listens, she realizes it is the music of Bob Klar and his well-known marimba. Bob is the president of Klar’s Kolossal Kollege of Musical Knowledge, and has won world-wide fame. Bob still has the hobby of snapping, developing and printing pictures. Milly wonders what he uses for a model, — his marimba? As Milly ' s eyes wander, they finally focus on a small high school. She notices a dark-haired teacher conducting a fast moving history class. Much to her surprise that teacher graduated with honors from Clark University and is no one else but Mary Giobellina. Mary is questioning one of the alert pupils who is the son of Mr. Namen, Mary ' s old high school teacher. This young Namen seems to be having a hard time holding his own ' in a discussion with this excellent teacher. Milly remembers that when Myra Pfau was in high school, she always threatened to cut out her classmates ' gizzards. As Milly looks down, she spies the little blonde sawbones herself, Doctor Pfau. Her steady knife has hacked out scores and scores of gizzards in the past years. At present, Myra is going over the case histories of 50% of her patients that have not survived her oper- ations. H-m-m-m, could it be a coincidence that Myra married an undertaker?? Again Milly hears music, only this time, it is music like the voice of an angel. Then she notices Evelyn Prinsen. Evie is singing, in that sweet soprano voice of hers, the leading role in the opera. She has composed Love Is Sweep- ing My Life . The charming young Metropolitan singer is kept quite busy singing on the stage, but she manages to find time out for her husband and sweet little twins, Winifred and Barry. Joe Curtin, as Milly finds, is constantly throwing his brain out of joint over his drafting board. Joe has for years been trying to design a machine which will detect in advance what a woman will do or say. Joe is making a careful study of this problem, and has even founded a college for men who want to gain a better understanding of women! But Milly sees that Joe is still in a fog. Poor dear. Milly finds Pauline Comfort, another member of the class of ' 46, daintily sitting on the knee of her fiance, her wealthy boss in the city of Washington. Pauline had just been voted the perfect secretary for the year 1965, and since then she has two secretaries doing all her typing. Three nights a week, Pauline is an instructress at the Arthur Murray, Jr. Dancing School .