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

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introducing . . . Dur Kbe w faculty ( : i lembers Seated — Miss Mary Shine, Mr Albert Smith, Miss Joan Leadbetter. Standing — Miss Margaret Hogarty, Miss Mary Barre. ( 20 )

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Freshman Fancies Boy Girl Most Argumentative Teddy Clancy Josephine Porazzo Breeziest William Lucia Barbara Crotty Most Serious Alfred Zanelli Shirley Linteri Class Dreamer Paul Duggan Betty Duckworth Best Dancer Teddy Clark Margaret Sweeney Most Loquacious George Shaw Barbara Crotty Most Literary Fred Zanelli Barbara Crotty Most Intellectual Fred Zanelli Virginia Sulkala Most Dignified Bruce Stalker Sandra Stammers Wittiest Gerald Connors Madeline Salamone Class Musician Dominic Barbuto Alice Boeske Best All Around Leonard Massarelli Margaret Sweeney Most Absent Minded Teddy Clancy Betty Duckworth Friendliest Lawrence Tower Mary Cantino Most Ladylike Joanne Sylvia Most Gentlemanly Leonard Masciarelli Most Athletic Leonard Masciarelli Alice Boeske Most Sophisticated Bruce Stalker Sandra Stammers Most Popular Leonard Masciarelli Margaret Sweeney Most Likely to Succeed Fred Zanelli Virginia Sulkala Class Artist Mark Kelly Sandra Stammers Favorite Radio Program .. Million Dollar Ballroom Actor Actress Sport Football and Baseball Dance Waltz Song Crooner Perry Como Orchestra

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INTERVIEWS with New Students of Maynard High The Newcomers to Maynard High were inter- viewed in order to introduce them to the student body and faculty. Norma Jean Puckett of Tennessee was the only addition to the Freshman class. The Johnson City Junior High, which Norma attended previously was considerably larger than Maynard High. Norma likes Maynard High better because the students are friendlier, but she thinks the teachers give too much homework. What she misses most in our school, however, is the five minutes between periods that she was allowed in Johnson City. Verna Mary Dunnigan is one of our new Sopho- mores. Verna went to the Mary E. Curley Junior High School in Jamaica Plain. The school was enormous, as you can judge from the fact that Verna’s class had 300 students. Verna likes Maynard High better for the same reason Norma does, be- cause the students are friendlier. Ray Lyon is the other new Sophomore. Maynard High is quite different from the one room country school he went to in New Canada, Nova Scotia. In spite of the fact that we get more homework, he likes Maynard High a lot better. He likes changing rooms. He thinks our teachers are better prepared and we progress much faster. Bonnie Lee Smith is a new Junior, from not so far away Hudson High. Bonnie Lee liked the Student Faculty Advisory Committee in Hudson. She also thinks the teachers were harder markers and there was more student cooperation. She doesn’t know, yet, whether she likes Maynard High better, but she doesn ' t think we have much school spirit. William Pierce, Jr. is another new Junior. Even though he came from the huge Melrose High School, he likes Maynard High better, mainly because you get to know more of the students. Despite the danger of sounding like a mutual admiration society, we’re glad our five new students like us, because we’re happy to have them in our classes. We know Maynard High has benefited by their enrollment. Janice Morgan and Barbara Mitzcavitch, ’52 SOUTHERN SCHOOLS DIFFER In Tennessee as well as North Carolina the schools are quite different from the northern schools. For instance, the southern scholars are required to buy their own books, paper, and anything else needed. Nothing is furnished. But you may ask — what about the taxpayers? Don’t they pay for the school supplies? No, the southern taxes pay the teachers, but that is as far as they go. Our high school was made up only of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades, the ninth being in the junior high. Our classes lasted until three-thirty! We had a school paper which came out once a month, which carried the news of interest to all the school and to people of the city who took part in the school affairs. Most all the sports are the same except field hockey, which I had never heard of until I came up here. Now you are going to say you wouldn’t like to go to a southern school, but I can assure you southern schools are good ones. Norma Jean Puckett, ’54