Mansfield High School - Hornet / Green Years Yearbook (Mansfield, MA)

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M. H. 8. YEAR BOOK During the year we established an enviable reputation in the field of sports. In fact these months marked the discovery of many famous athletes who were testing their skill in football, basketball, and baseball. Newell Eames, Tete Gillespie, Joe Stachelek, Bud Bartlett, Milt Ripley, Joe Lucy, Tony Farinella, Al Ferzoco, George Santucci, and Eddie Foy upheld the honor of the boys, while Eleanor Williams, Doris Santucci, Eleanor Scato- lini, Frances Shepard, Margaret Day, Elia Ferri, and Margery Bessom worked admirably for the girls. Five days make a week! “A week of pleasure?” you ask. Ah, no! Marjorie Woodbury and Joe Stachelek were awarded prizes for excellence in typewriting. Clayton Cate and Henry Steele distinguished themselves in the art contest sponsored by the New Century Club. Even in these anti- classical days, Edward Corey gained fame as a Latin student; and Angie Scialoia, Alberta Salls, and Margery Bessom won honors in domestic science. Two of our members, Raymond Tillotson and Celenie Caron, found time to participate in the annual prize speaking contest. In reviewing this first year in Mansfield High School, one can truth- fully say that the goal sought in September had been justly attained by June. And one would, no doubt, add that it was well worth a two months’ vaca- tion with a transition from the five-day plan of those engrossed in the prob- lems and techniques of schooling to the common seven-day week. The next fall, impatient and eager, we began our junior year with five fewer members than at the beginning of our sophomore year. Under the able leadership of Mr. Green, our principal, and Miss Pope and Miss Henchel, our new class advisers, we anticipated, with no little excitement, a busy and happy ten months. The boys ran away with the honors in our class election. Joe Lucy became president, Tony Farinella, vice-president, Thomas Gillespie, secre- tary, and Edward Corey, treasurer. With true intentions of adding spice and variety to the Green Parrot, Marjorie Woodbury Bertha Gross, Milton Ripley, and Alfred Carbonetti pledged their allegiance to its staff. For a second time we had two entrants in the speaking contest, Alberta Salls and Al Ferzoco. Despite the short five-day week, we still had time for invention. To our class goes the honor (we hope) of origina ting the Junior Social. During October and November we fairly bubbled over with suppressed excite- ment—we were about to stage our first dance! The affair was a huge success socially, if not financially. It did not create a deficit, as many projects are apt to do, but netted us two dollars plus for the treasury ! What junior ever forgets when he received his class ring or pin? Ours came in January and for many days were the subject of interest to envious sophomores, polite seniors, and proud juniors. P2534)

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Nii oY EARSBOOK FIVE DAYS MAKE A WEEK by Margery Louise Bessom “What?” you ask dubiously. “Five days make a week?” and then you inquire, ““How come?” Let me explain. Way back in the dark and dismal past, thousands of years ago, there arose among the Jews the momentous question of choosing a Sabbath Day. They, the predominant race on the earth at that time, chose Saturday as their day of rest; later, with due respect to the Hebrew dis- pensation, the Christians adopted Sunday as theirs. Centuries afterwards, there came into existance another group of people, a group who were interested in the educational welfare of the younger generation. It was they who founded the public school system, and consequently, were also confronted with the necessity of adopting a calendar. After much consideration, and perhaps inspired by the ideas of past generations, they established, to the sheer delight of all scholarly aspirants, a five-day week with both Saturday and Sunday as days of re- laxation. Many years passed, and then came into prominence still another group, an aggregation commonly known as the Class of 1937. Others may claim the credit for instituting the five-day week, but these young people were unusually quick to grasp its opportunities and use them to the utmost advantage. On September 5, 1934, Mother Nature sent forth a glorious dawn. That day, too, marked the dawn of an unforgettable era in the lives of eighty-three wordly-wise ninth-graders, for it was then that they took the tremendous step that made them lowly sophomores in Mansfield High School. During the first few months of our sojourn, under the comforting guid- ance of Mr. Green, our principal, and Mr. Carnie, our class adviser, we courageously endured the haughty glances and amused expressions of the upper classmen. We would show those gloating superiors that we weren't there just to ornament the corridors or to conceal ourselves meekly in remote corners! In union there is strength so late in the fall we took the first step toward organizing our forces and elected Joseph Lucy president, Tony Farinella vice-president, Eric Grundy treasurer, and Margery Bessom secretary. “Then we proceeded toward our goal. Our journal istically-inclined members were kept extremely busy. Freddie Carbonetti, Clayton Cate, Milton Ripley, Eddie Foy, Alberta Salls, and Margery Bessom secured positions on the Green Parrot staft and endeavored to write their way to fame. [24 ]

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Me He SY HARS BOOK The reception we tendered the senior class in June will long be remembered as an outstanding social event of Mansfield High School. For weeks we labored in preparation, many times running over the five- day limit, but in the end we were fully rewarded. The transformation of the drab interior of the Town Hall into the delightful atmosphere of a for- all de- mal garden, the enchanting music, the lights, the general spirit served the praise they received. Once more we won laurals in athletics. Joe Stachelek, Milt Ripley, ‘Tete Gillespie, Bud Bartlett, George Santucci, Newell Eames, Joe Lucy, Tony Farinella, Al Ferzoco, Mike Piasecki, and John Unger represented the boys. The girls’ teams remained unchanged. Several scholastic honors also were awarded. Margaret DePrizio and Marjorie Woodbury won prizes in shorthand, Margery Bessom in Latin, Veronica Smith and Margery Bessom in homemaking, and many received pins for typewriting. Thus ended our second year, another stepping-stone in the path to graduation. The following September, assuming the cherished title of seniors, we entered Mansfield High School for the last term. Regretting the resigna- tion of Mr. Green as principal, but glad to learn that Mr. Mattoon was to succeed him, we began the busiest year of our school life. Miss Shepard and Miss Jones became our advisers. True to tradition, we got under way early in the fall by holding our class election. So successful had Joe Lucy been in superintending our five- day plan in previous years, that we chose him as our president for the third time. Thomas Gillespie was elected vice-president, Edward Corey sec- retary, and Marjorie Woodbury treasurer. Acquiring a business-like spirit, immediately eight of our members— Edward Corey, Milton Ripley, Henry Steele, Tony Farinella, James Fletcher, Ruth Griswold, Mary Pellegrini, and Margaret DePrizio—joined the Green Parrot staff and proceeded to issue eagerly-anticipated publica- tions. Meanwhile rehearsals were well in progress for Junior, our class play. On Thanksgiving night, because of the fidelity and diligence of its entire cast, the comedy was a “smash hit.’ Who can forget Celenie’s winsome blushes, Charlie’s fatherly sterness, or Ernest’s captivating flattery? Quite appropriately, after such conscientious work on everyone’s part, we broke our tradition and had a three-day week with a real Thanksgiving. As spring approached, we modestly displayed our class pictures to our friends. Sentimental exchanges ensued. In March we decided to follow a newly-begun precedent by voting to wear caps and gowns at our baccalaureate and graduation exercises. We also chose to publish a yearbook. [ 26 ]