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

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The Mailman This fall the exchange editors mailed letters along with copies of our magazine to many of the editors of surrounding high school magazines asking for information about their papers. We hoped to get suggestions that we might use in adding to our own school publication, particularly the yearbook. Al- though we are still waiting for replies from some of the editors, we have received quite a few magazines and have several suggestions to make our yearbook the best yet. The copies of magazines from the schools mentioned below are on file in the Screech Owl office, Room 22l 2 . Look them over and see how favorably our magazine compares with them. What We Think of Others: The Blue and White , Methuen High School — Our compliments for a well planned book. Your idea of Nosey Nook” is good. Attractive set-up of the Athletics. The Argus, Gardner High School — - An interesting and enjoyable book to read and look at. A verv good idea of having the baby pictures. Brompeld Beacon. Harvard High School — We think your School Calendar” is a wonderful idea. It must bring back many fond memories. Spion Kop, British Columbia — We like your arrangement of the Annual Staff. Your idea of assigning the different grades names is good. Congratulations ! The Scientist, St. Joseph’s High School, Manchester, New Hampshire — Your stories and write ups are excellent. Kathy ' s Korner is a grand idea. Murdock Murmurs, Winchendon High School — You seem to have very interesting activities from your descriptions, but how about showing us some pictures of them. Congratulations to Carol I. Bullock, on her poem Success and Failure.” The Salemica, New Salem Academy, Orange, Mass. — Orchids to your cartoonist for her wonderful work. She should go far. Good stories. S. M. S. S., S. Middlesex, Secretarial School, Fram- ingham, Massachusetts — Your Class Will was enjoyable and interesting. Your Remember When” column gave us a good laugh. The Oak, Lily, and Ivy, Milford High School — Con- gratulations on a wonderful year book ! It rates among the top few in every field. The Pine Tree. Bethesda Chevy Chase High School — You have one of the best year books we have ever seen. You should be very proud of it. The Twig, Meridith College — Your Day Doins by Dottie,” is very good. The Voice, Concord High School — We like your idea of Happy Birthday.” Your Senior Spe- cial” was very amusing. What Others Think of Us: The staff of the Spion Kop congratulates you on your very nice annual. Spion Kop Ladysmith High School Ladysmith, B. C. It is hard for us to choose any section of your magazine, The Screech Owl,” as outsanding in as much as we thought the whole magazine excellent. However, we would like to comment on your photo- graphy and very excellent cover. Murdock Murmurs, Murdock High School, Winchendon, Massachusetts Latin Class: Grace Stratford: Give me a double banana split, and put some whipped cream and hot fudge on it, too.” Clerk: And a cherry?” Grace Stratford: No thanks, I’m on a diet.” Thanks to the Salemica, New Salem Academy New Salem, Mass. Warning To Female Admirers Say it with flowers, Say it with sweets Say it with kisses Say it with eats Say it with jewelry Say it with drinks But always be smart, boys, Never say it with ink. Thanks to the Exchange Column of the Blue and White. Beverly Price, ’51 Pat Wehkoja, ’52

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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

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Alumni Former Editors The Screech Owl was first published in 1927 with Harold Glickman as editor. Beginning with Harold the magazine has been entrusted to editors both male and female, Jean Lynch breaking the tradition of male editors in 1942. An editor of any magazine must be person who can assume responsibility, who has imagination and or business sense, who has the ability to organize; therefore we were interested to see how our previous editors have fared after leaving high school. As you read the list of our editors and their accomplishments you will agree that the various Staffs of the Screech Owl throughout the last twenty- three years have used good judgment in electing their editors. 1927 — Harold Glickman was first editor of the Screech Owl. He graduated from Dartmouth Col lege and now owns a chain of furniture stores. He and his family live in Newton. 1928 — Leo Mullin is in the automobile business He graduated from Fordham with an A.B. degree and has Master’s degrees from Boston College and Harvard. He is active in town affairs. 1929 — Waino Sjoblom is employed by Texaco Oil Company, Boston. 1930 — Mark Kelly upon graduation entered a textile school and later an art school. He is now employed as superintendent in a Norwich, Connec- ticut Woolen Mill. His son Mark is a member of the present freshman class. 1931 — Philip Wilson, editor in 1931, entered Dartmouth College and after graduating from Dart- mouth went to Boston University. He is a lawyer and has his own practice in Maynard. He is also affiliated with the Utica Insurance Company of Con- cord. 1932 — William Ledgard entered Harvard Col- lege where he received his A.B. and M.A. degrees. He taught for one year at Mount Hermon School. Then he served in the Navy for six years, later work- ing for the Central Intelligence Agency in Washing- ton. He is now working with his father. 1933 — Paul Wilson, a graduate of the Massa- chusetts School of Art, is the Director of Cambridge School of Design. As a first lieutenant he served in the European Theatre as a bombardier. He was a German prisoner of war for eighteen months. 1934 — Walter Sweeney is the head of a military academy for boys in New Jersey. He is married and has one daughter. He is a graduate of Fordham University, where he belonged to R. O. T. C. He served in Australia and the South Pacific during the war. 1935 — Elmer Salenius entered Boston University College of Liberal Arts where he received his A.B. degree in 1939, later receiving his Master of Arts from Harvard College. He served in the Army from October 1941 until January 1946. He is an instructor of English and liberal arts at Boston Uni- versity. 1936 — Louis Bachrach, a doctor in Brunswick, Maine, is married and has three children. He attended Harvard College and Long Island School of Medicine in New York. He served in Alaska as a lieutenant in the Army. 1937 — In 1937 William F. Palmer became editor of the Screech Owl. After graduating from M. H. S. he entered the Vesper George School of Art, and after graduation from Art school he joined the in- fantry. Billy” was killed in action at Guadalcanal. 1938 — Albert Bachrach is now in business in Maynard with his brother. 1939 - — Daniel O’Leary, a graduate of Tufts Col- lege, served four and a half years in the Army, and is now a salesman in the Cape area. He is married, living in Natick with his wife and twins, a boy and girl. 1940 — Bennie Gudzinowicz graduated from Clark University in Worcester, served in the air force for three years, and has re-enlisted. He is now a first lieutenant in the Air Corps, stationed in Virginia. He is married and has one son. 1941 — William Lesage was employed for six years in the machine shop in the mill. Married, he is now employed at McGillroy Manufacturing Co. in Littleton. 1942 — Jean Lynch graduated from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and attended classes at Boston University and William and Mary in Virginia. She was appointed chemist for E. L. Patch and Co. in Stoneham, and soon became a pharmacist at Massa-