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

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TIME SCIREECIh OWE PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF MAYNARD HIGH SCHOOL jyp E,, TI944 TABLE OF rmvTFMT ; Page Picture — Screech Owl Staff 2 Editorials 4 Literary 6 Senior Class Roll 16 Athletics 29 Picture — Basket Ball Team 33 Activities 34 Picture — Student Council 38 Alumni News 39 Senior Superlatives 42 Snapshots 43 Jest in Fun 46 SCREECH OWL Editor Roy Helander Assistant Editor Anne Chodnicky Business Manager Albert Sullivan { Albert Rogers Richard White Nancy Whitney Alumni Mary Moynihan Mary Lawler Exchanges Activities . .Helen Girdziewski J Helmi Kulmala Patricia Louka Jest In Fun Hennie Denisewich ] Eleanor Dimery 1 Richard Trench [ Anne White Boys’ Athletics Arthur LeSage Girls’ Athletics Alice Brown Circulation Manager Assistant Circulation Managers Photography James Killoran j Edward Allard I Arthur Carbary S Agnes Finocchi J Joseph Dutkowski Literary { Shirley Bain Alice Brown Joseph Dutkowski Ann Hamlin SiRKKA KoSKINEN Mary Lawler Kaarin Lilja Doris McIntosh Shirley Peterson Doris Seder Albert Sullivan Anne White Secretaries [ Jennie Chernak J Helen D’Amico ] Helen Girdziewski i Natalie Goodwin Kaarin Lilja Doris McIntosh Hazel McIntosh Alice Thane Faculty Adviser .Vena B. Field

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9 THE SCR F. F C H O W 1 SCREECH OWL STAFF

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To the Seniors: The Omega of your school days and the Alpha of your life is at hand. You are to be the men and women of tomorrow. In your hands America lays her stars and stripes. She looks to you for the ultimate issues of all the vital things which are her life. Slight not your birthright, and go forth from the portals of Maynard High School with the resolution to work well and to persevere in spite of all ad- versaries and apparent failure. The world owes you nothing, but you owe much to many in it. Your first great debt is to your parents or guardians. They have ten- derly watched you through infancy, cared for your every want in childhood, and encouraged you in every worthy endeavor. They have been the ones who have made the sacrifices; they are the ones to be your first concern. You are going into a unit of democracy in which you will have duties, privileges, and re- sponsibilities, but where you must learn to share, to help and serve and respect the rights and privileges of others. Never in the history of the world was there a greater need for self-control and discipline. It is crude discipline where might makes right. Too vast an extent of the world is suffering today from the crushing might of the dictators. Be loyal to your country, flag, and the reli- gious belief in which you have been reared and to which your country gives full sanction. Be tolerant of the beliefs of others. The world has turned too long to materialism and for years has been reaping the results of its false doctrines. You cannot all be heroes and thrill a hemis- phere. With some great daring venture, some deed that mocks at fear. But you can fill a lifetime with kindly acts and true. There’s always noble service for noble hearts to do. Mary A. Doyle, Superintendent of Schools. Keep Maynard Clean The natural reaction for anyone when he sees a dirty-looking individual or an untidy house is to try to avoid that person and to keep from going to that house. So it is with a town which has streets littered with paper, yards full of rubbish, and buildings sooty and dirty. Just as a man is judged by his outward ap- pearance, so also is this true of a community. If the town is clean, it gives a visitor the desire to come and pay a visit more often, but if it is filthy, the guest will undoubtedly leave as quickly as possible and never return. Not only is cleanliness beneficial for appear- ance but it is one of the main ways that we have for fighting disease. If streets, alleys, and backyards were kept clean, there would be fewer places for germs to develop. Of course, I do not for one moment mean that the town officials of Maynard are not doing their best, for they undoubtedly are. But I feel that in these times it is impossible for them to scour the town, owing to the lack of man- power. Therefore, it is the duty of every man, woman, and child to do all they can to keep Maynard clean. Not only the streets and back- yards should be kept clear of rubbish, but the empty lots as well. So from now on, let us all try to keep our community clean and thereby make it a more attractive place in which to live. Editor. ❖ ❖ ❖ On Education So you think you’re smart! So your educa- tion is just so much homework and bother. As far as you can see, it’s all useless. There’s big money in defense work and clever you has to quit school to get into the big money.” Someday, perhaps sooner than you expect,