Maynard High School - Screech Owl Yearbook (Maynard, MA)

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THE SCREECH OWL 27 John Staszewski “Will you not speak to save a lady’s blush?” The famous Mohawk Treasurer is known throughout town as Koogie. One year of commercial work was enough to get him the job. He has great interests on Sudbury Street. Lillian Sullivan “Look for goodness, look for gladness You will meet them all awhile, If you bring a smiling visage In the glass you’ll meet a smile.” Screech Owl (3), (4); Hockey (4). Lillian is the Irish Colleen of our class. Her big smile is one of the few cheerful things in the prosiac dullness of classes. May nothing ever happen that will cause her to stop smiling! Annie Swanson “If to her share some female errors fall Look on her face, and you’ll forgive them all.” Ring Committee (4); “Breezing Along” (3); Junior Prom Committee (3); Glee Club (2), (3); Hockey (1) , (2), (3), (4); Basketball (2); Class Play (2); Operetta (2). Pretty? Look at her and judge for yourself. Popular? Just ask her for a dance. Independent? I’ll say! Success? With those qualities how could it be otherwise? Walter Sweeney “Inflamed with the study of learning and the admira- tion of virtue.” Competition Play (1); Vice-President (1); President (2) ; Treasurer (3), (4) ; Screech Owl (3), Editor (4); Picture Committee (4); Ring Committee (3); Junior Prom Committee (3), Graduation speech (4). Through the four years of high school Walter has been one of the leaders in class activities as well as in studies. What a figure he’ll cut later on in life! As professor perhaps, or as editor even, or maybe a mayor. Ernest Tannuzzo “The sky’s the limit.” Here is a boy we feel sure will succeed in whatever field he may enter. Ernest has high hopes and ambi- tions but he also has the ability and perseverence necessary for their fulfillment. His great executive talents have been amply displayed in his duties as A1 Lerer’s “right hand man.”

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26 THE SCREECH OWL Bertha Sneck “Great thoughts, great feelings come to her, Like instincts, unawares.” President (1); Screech Owl (1); Field Hockey (1), (2), (3), (4); Vice-President of class (3), (4); Prom Committee (3) ; Picture Committee (4) ; Baske tball (1), (2), (3); Ring Committee (3); Honor Essay, Graduation Night (4). “Britt” is one of those rare persons who has been endowed with the gift of high intelligence and pop- ularity at the same time. Benny Sofka “A moral, sensible, and well-bred man.” Football Manager (4). Benny is a walking advertisement for People’s Theatre. If he talks to you for more than two minutes, invariably within two days you will see a movie — good, bad, or indifferent! But apart from that he’s harmless. Mary Sokolowsky “Do not wait for an opportunity, but work for it.” “Soko” with her quiet manner and pleasing personal- ity is well liked by all the Commercial Students. We feel that she will be a success as “somebody’s stenog.” George Stansfield “His bearing is most dignified.” From all accounts, George is a popular person in the Commercial Room. We wonder if he’s as dignified as he looks? Waino Stapell “Be a friend; the rest will follow.” Waino, although seemingly quiet, often sets the class laughing with some witty remark. There is a rumor in the Commercial Room that as a pastime Waino likes to pick apples. Lots of luck, kid!

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28 THE SCREECH OWL Philip Taylor “There’s good fellowship in thee.” Competition Play (1), (2); Baseball (1); Breezing Along” (3); “Riding Down the Sky”; Junior Prom Committee (3). “Phil” in an interview, modestly admits that he hopes to become a second Halliburton. “I like traveling,” he explains. We know that he sends post cards, any- way, when he only goes to Niagara Falls. Wait until he gets as far as Siam or Timbuctoo! Kalevi Tofteri “Office boys flirt with girls, not shun them.” Why do some people always act so shy at times? One day three cars stopped at a cross-road. TofTeri had just met a girl who spoke to him and he blushed so that the drivers thought he was a signal light. He is well liked, and is sure to be a success. Hilja Tuikka “But calm, most calm, was all her face.” Glee Club (2), (3); Riding Down the Sky (2). Hilja will always be remembered as the painist who kept her teun when the Senior boys lost theirs. Hilja, we hear, wants to be a nurse. Lucky patients. Sarah Wasiuk “I am as I am and so will I be.” Prom Committee (3); Social Committee (3); Recep- tion Committee (4). We would not want Sarah to be other than she is for if she were we would be lacking in one of the best social committee members we have ever had. Sarah has always worked not only diligently, but also willingly for the class. William Wasiuk “Far may we search before we find A heart so manly and so kind.” Picture Committee (4) ; Speaker, Graduation. Beneath Billie’s business-like exterior lies a friendli- ness that is genuine. We notice that this year Billie has taken time enough from his commercial studies to give the fair sex a long-waited-for break.