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

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Virginia Shaw wills her position as fashion leader in Mansfield High to Priscilla Shepard. George Fasulo leaves Fred Flint this motto: “Ambition was the cause of Caesar’s death; it surely won’t be mine.” Bob Brutcher, the Paine Corner king, leaves the secret of his peaches-and-cream complexion and his bouncing good health, to Betsy Fitzgerald. Eleanor Palladino and Angelina Bern- ardo leave their sparkling eyes and friendly natures to Ruth Barrows and Lydia Kashtan. Because their tastes are so similar, Edward Bessom leaves Grant Wood his role as the Don Juan of Mansfield High. Yolanda Turinese leaves her perpetual smile to Lucrezia Benigni with the advice— “A smile is worth a million dollars and doesn’t cost a cent.” To Mary Munroe, Ruth Goddard relinquishes her job of passing out sand- wiches to hungry students. Bernard Gegenheimer wills his draft number to Fred Brown. Donald Hill leaves Eddie Julian his nine athletic letters, although we are sure that Eddie has his own nine securely packed away in the future. Eda Menga leaves her task of entertaining at club meetings to Ruth Bolton. Helen Shea leaves this advice to Nancy Tuell: ‘Never let your studies interfere with your education.” And Helen has certainly learned a lot. Walther Jellinek wills his ability to speak German, French, Italian, and Spanish to any junior who has the gift of tongues. To Deborah Sullivan, the girl with personality plus, Edgar Vernon leaves his own book, How To Be Friendly with Everyone in Spite of Owning a Candid Camera. Helen Rathbun leaves all her shorthand books to Miriam Muilson. Thelma Thompson and Frances Navitsky leave the Mansfield High, each as an army hostess to join her one and only. errs Sak pane 9 ne pice C Nene tn bee me eS Patricia Sullivan leaves her hopes of becom ing a ballet dancer to Helene Gallipeau and Priscilla Wheeler, who also have ambitions in that direction. Fritz Cipriani leaves his N. Y. A. job to Joe Texiera and counsels him not to work on the night shift if he is in love. Eddie Nielsen—and how he loves Jelly !—leaves a pamphlet entitled ““How ‘To Be Light and Nimble on Your Feet, and Not Too Hard on Your Partner’s.”’ Ruth Sanford leaves her love for tennis to Kay Reilly with the hope that it will do as much for Kay as it has done for her. Ermina Mason leaves the débutantes forever. James Ingram leaves Barbara Dean the responsibility of upholding the rank and dignity of the Senior High School. Margaret Moore, Claudine Scaldini, and Catherine Wondergem, three of our class athletes, leave Mansfield High School at a high rate of speed, guaranteed to win any hundred-yard dash. 21

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L BY MARGUERITE REILLY We, the boys and girls of the Class of 1941, having completed 2,160 happv school days, do hereby bequeath on this seventeenth day of June, our pet virtues and vices to those we deem most worthy. To Mr. Hays we leave our gratitude—and two aspirin. George Bearcovitch bequeaths all his carefully collected information about notorious Mansfield girls to Paul Lane. Shirley Williamson and Helen Manson leave their skill as typists to Cornelia Wondergem and Barbara Devine. Virginia Richardson bestows a bundle of love letters, postmarked Copenhagen, as a source of inspiration to any lovelorn junior. Mary Bowles wills her ever popular jokebook to Charlotte Patriquin. Robert Chambers and Bartlett Bolton leave Mansfield High and pedal merrily away on their bicycles. . To Ralph Cutillo, James Green leaves the secret of asking those complicated questions that have always left the chemistry class gasping. Herbert Rolls gives his resonant voice to Jeanne Fallon. Ruth Brown leaves her job as chairman of statistics for the yearbook, to any conscientious junior. To David Jackson, Richard Phelps reluctantly surrenders a well-worn chair in the Public Library, with instructions for winning the junior assistant. Catherine Faria consoles Martha Hodges with the quotation, “It’s better to be small and shine, than tall and cast a shadow.” Gladys Schofield leaves that budding artist, Bill Cross, broken-hearted. Anna McKee shares her fondness for Maxwells with Jack Benny and Audrey Richards. To Kenneth Keating, Carroll Wright leaves his level business head and sound executive ability. Rose Oliveira bequeaths to Lena Blandori that well-used slogan, ‘Silence is golden, but I’d rather talk.” We'll never forget. those rousing speeches on class spirit, Rose! Stanley Bourne wills those aromatic two-for-a-nickel cigars to any know-nothing sophomore contemplating suicide. To young. Jim Ienello, Patsy Flammia leaves his nickname, Cocky, and his own book entitled, ‘‘How to Weather a Hurricane Successfully.” Helen O'Donnell, Mary Tessier, and Hope Sherman, our class jitterbugs, leave the secret of their contortions to Bobby Patriquin. Earle Horton generously offers Rudy Menga an electric battery guaranteed to stimulate mental activity. Arthur McKay leaves a few inches of his towering height to Stan Allen, so that the latter may gaze over the heads of others and never miss a trick. Gertrude Graham leaves her quiet, unobtrusive ways to Eleanor Chandler. Paul Klenk and Guido Leonelli, our most eligible bachelors, will to Dick Horton and Bob Maurer their blue-printed defense program against the wiles of the Mansfield ‘‘fems.”’ Sir Edward Rockwood wills Alfred Chandler his knowledge of parliamentary procedure in class meetings. Shirley La Har wills her sweet disposition and make-up kit to Gena DiMonte. Jeanne Ehrlich leaves her ability to make quick comebacks to Janet Chase. 20

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To Adrian Ringuette, Betty Cahill leaves her habitual nonchalance and her slogan: “Happy I am; from care I am free. Why can’t the whole world be contented like me?” Ruth Nickerson and Eleanor Agnew leave their perfect attendance records to Etta Wellman. Weldon Britton leaves his reserved seat in Attleboro’s famous Ice Cream Shop, popularly known as Wolf Hollow, to Alfred Peterson. Al Scatolini leaves his “personality” smile to Dunda Vickery. Scat’s philosophy has been, ““A smile for every fellow, and two for every girl.” In witness whereof, we, the Class of 1941 of the Mansfield High School, hereby set our hand and seal to this our will, the seventeenth of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one A. D. Witnesses : Brenda and Corbina Elsie the Cow 22