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

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Mop H, oa Y EARFBOOK CLASS PROPHECY by Bertha Gross Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America. This is your Mansfield cor- respondent, Bertha Gross, giving you her version of news through a wo- man’s eyes. Before I go to press, let me state that I am dedicating this program to the Class of 1937 of the Mansfield High School, since tonight is the tenth anniversary of our graduation. It has taken much laborious re- search, but I have succeeded in learning the fate of all my classmates. And now to press. Flash: By way of the high seas: London: Margaret Day, London’s favorite night club entertainer, begins a long term engagement at the Mayfair this evening. Miss Day has just returned from a vacation in her native United States. Paris: Ethel Keating today married Lord Baltimore Maynard. Lady Ethel was a member of Earl Carrol’s Vanities. Berlin: Dr. Tony Farinella and his associate, Dr. Charles Colella, today landed in Berlin. From here they will proceed to Vienna to attend the convention of the International Medical Association. Every nation sends its foremost doctors to this important meeting. (It certainly makes me feel proud to think that Uncle Sam has chosen two of my classmates for such an important mission. ) Paris: The annual Parisian Style Show closed today. Among the designers exhibiting gowns was our own Theodore Wilson. His well- known Gowns by Theo have caused a sensation. Frances Shepard was chosen as the most beautiful manikin at the show. Flash: Boston: The Honorable Joseph Lucy today was elected president of the Massachusetts State Senate. Young Mr. Lucy’s rise to fame has been nothing short of meteoric. He has been president of the Amalgamated ‘Tin Company of America, president of the Newport Yachting Club, and has held the same office in many other associations. And by the way, Mr. and Mrs. America, Joe was our class president for three successive years. Boston: Henry Steele appeared at Symphony Hall last evening and held the audience spellbound for two consecutive hours while he performed upon his Stradivarius. The high-light of the program was Steele’s rendi- tion of Rimsky Korsakov’s immortal composition, The Bee. Boston: At a dinner held last Wednesday evening the Boston Evening Transcript paid homage to Ruth Griswold, who has been working for the paper for the past three years. She writes many of the witty stories which appear in the publication every day. [28 ]

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M. H. S. YEAR BOOK In April Mr. Mattoon satisfied our ever-increasing curiosity by an- nounced that fourteen of us had received the coverted honor of becoming members of the Pro Merito Society. They were Harold Bartlett, Margery Bessom, Charles Colella, Russell Cooper, Tony Farinella, Thomas Gillespie, Bertha Gross, Mary Lane, Joseph Lucy, Austin Smith, Marian St. Cyr, Antoinette Tessier, Ernest White, and Theodore Wilson. It soon became time to discuss graduation plans. Harold Bartlett and Austin Smith had attained the highest scholastic honors, but the titles of valedictorian and salutatorian were abandoned. Marian St. Cyr and Tony Farinella were selected to present essays as part of the graduation exercises. The history was assigned to Margery Bessom, Bertha Gross was chosen prophet, and Thomas Gillespie was entrusted with the drawing up of the class will. The music for the class song was to be written by Ruth Griswold. We chose as our motto, “We Strive to Conquer.” Our class flower was the white rose and our colors were silver and blue. Our last year in high school brought crowning glories to our athletic reputation. [he boys were undefeated on the gridiron. “They won seven- teen out of twenty games during the basketball season, and had a banner baseball year. “The girls won the interclass volleyball tournament and gained second place in the basketball meet. Our star athletes included Al Fer- zoco, Mike Piasecki, Newell Eames, Joe Lucy, Milt Ripley, Bud Bartlett, Tete Gillespie, Joe Stachelek, Chuck Unger, Ernest White, Eddie Corey, Jim Fletcher, Al Delliacano, and Marian St. Cyr, Frances Shepard, Eleanor Williams, Mary Lane, Eleanor Scatolini, Thomasina Flammia, Doris San- tucci, Enis Blandori, Elia Ferri, Margaret Day, Aurora Albertini, Blanche Damato, and Margery Bessom. Had any stranger arrived at school one day in early June, he would have been quite dumbfounded. ‘To the amusement of all, we were observ- ing Tramp Day and the ridiculous garbs we wore will never be forgotten. Our last week together was truly an impressive one. On Sunday we attended Baccalaureate services in the Congregational Church. The solemnity of the occasion made us realize more than ever the step we were about to take. Tuesday evening we were graduated from Mansfield High School. The deep, sincere feelings of mingled gratitude, joy, and sorrow that we experienced that last night together can never be erased from our memories. Five days make a week. Thus ended three years of the happiest weeks in the lives of the sixty-three members of the class of 1937. [274

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M. H. S. YEAR BOOK Mary Pellegrini and Eleanor Scatolini are instructors in their own school, the School of Chatter. They offer many courses, the most popular of which are How to Talk Yourself Out of Difficult Situations, How to Speak Fluently Under any Circumstances, and The Art of Creating a Riot. The graduation exercises of the school are always attended by a large gath- ering from police headquarters, lest the pupils demonstrate their art too successfully. Flash: New York Ernest White has just completed his latest edition of White’s Abridged Dictionary. His dictionaries have become just as widely used as Webster’s. Kid Bowser, America’s lightweight champion, and his manager, New- ell Eames, arrived in New York today just prior to his battle with Tuffy Callahan. During an interview with the reporters Eames said that Bows- er’s only problem was to gain enough weight to contend for the heavyweight crown. Kid Bowser, by the way, is Alexander Ferzoco. Helen Powers is the head athletic coach at Vassar College. She is such a great sport enthusiast and is so well liked that students compete for a place in her class. | Raymond Tillotson, Mansfield’s contribution to the music world, has just finished a long term engagement at the Central Park Casino. He left immediately to start a personal appearance tour. His first stop will be at Mansfield’s La Boheme Night Club. He is to be accompanied by his orch- estra and his featured singer, Bing Giovino. Angie Scialoia and Margaret Deprizio have opened their new Beauty Salon on Fifth Avenue. ‘They are patronized by New York’s Smart Set. Margaret’s prime object is to give all her patrons a beautiful complexion, while Angie’s specialty is giving permanents guaranteed to last an entire week. Flash: Hollywood Ruth Bignell, better known to her cinema fans as Suzy Suzecue, has just completed work on a brilliant comedy, entitled Was It Porkchops? Upon completion of the film she left immediately with her secretary, Mado- lyn Josselyn, for a long rest in Honolulu. Flash: Mansfield Reverend Howard Cook, known to the Class of 1937 as “Dusty,” chooses as his subject for next Sunday morning’s sermon, “Ashes to Ashes and Gold Dust to Dusty”. Joe Stachelek left today to begin his new coaching duties at Notre Dame. Bill Matto, who attends the same university, has gone out for sports. He is water boy and his frequent dashes across the gridiron keep him in practice for the track team. Mary Lane and Antoinette Tessier are instructors at the Mansfield School of Business Administration. Both specialize in shorthand. The dean [29 }