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

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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 .

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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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Mildred next notices a court room bulging with people and how odd! — they ' re mostly women. There she sees a lawyer delivering a convincing speech to an attentive jury. Is it Harold Gordon? What a cute mustache! It is no wonder tha the jury is attentive, for all the members of if are- women and they don ' t need much convincing with a handsome lawyer like Harold. Milly sees that the defendant is quite nervous, but he shouldn ' t be nervous; he should have confidence with an honest lawyer like Harold defending him. The practice Harold got in making excuses while he was at Major Edwards comes in handy and he should never run into any obstacles in the court room that he can ' t overcome. While Milly is still looking curiously down from heaven, her sensitive ears catch the sound of distant chatter. When she finally detects from whence the sounds come, her glance falls on a small cute girl whom she recognizes as an old school friend, Elizabeth Buck. Bucky is still chattering but not to her class mates; therefore, she doesn ' t have to endure P. M. sessions as a punish- ment. Instead, she is surrounded by three sweet little boys all dressed in sailor suits and they are woefully listening as their mother scolds them about their mischievousness. But Bucky doesn ' t get a chance to talk long this time, for she has met her match; all three of her sons have inherited her talkativeness. There is a great celebration going on in the town of West Boylston and soon Milly finds out that Ruth Goodale is celebrating her tenth wedding anni- versary. Ruth lived up to her promise, however, to build an Old Maids ' Home, but after her marriage her outlook on life changed, and she remodeled, modernized and changed the home into a date bureau. Milly sees that Ruth is now happily married and has six children. Last, but not least, Milly sees Edgar Whitcomb. Because of his great interest in Spanish, he is just returning from a trip to Mexico, where he has become a multi-millionaire by winning the national lottery innumerable times in succession. Edgar is a famous playboy and his effect on women is some- what like that of a combined Frankie, Bing and Van. Ed employs five secreta- ries to answer fan-mail and social calls. ' ' Ay, Oue Hombron . Milly realizes that she has had an interesting glimpse into the lives of all her classmates and as she settles back to enjoy her memories of her high school days and friends, Dr. Einstein ' s secretary motions her into the doctor ' s office. As she v alks in, she is happy; she knows now that she will be able to make a great success of her experiment with parallel lines.