Medfield High School - Peak Yearbook (Medfield, MA)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE SENIOR CLASS, M.H.S. We, the unique Class of 1954, Medfield High School, envisioning the termination of our four (4) year sentence in the contiguous future, and being unsound in mind, limb and intent, do hereby execute this instrument persuant to the provisions prescribed by law for the distri¬ bution of our treasured belongings, borrowed, stolen and imaginary. ARTICLE I: Frank Clewes bequeaths his attendance record to Frank Agnello. ARTICLE 11: Louise Fisher leaves her happy smile to Sad Sandy Pelon. ARTICLE 111: To Al Martino, Renny De Forest leaves his scalp vibrator. ARTICLE IV: The Seniors leave a radar system to Frances Brown so that she can keep tabs on Jimmy C. ARTICLE V: Chuck Munroe bequeaths his title as Rudy ' s best pal to Nancy O Frame. ARTICLE VI: Saggy Maggie Molloy leaves her melodic, well-developed vocal chords to Dottie Aylward. ARTICLE VII: Jack Wilson leaves his Toni Home Permanent Kit to Agnes Waldron. ARTICLE VIII: Patricia Hastings reluctantly leaves Donald Tompkins to Priscilla Ehnes. ARTICLE IX: Jere Hutchins leaves a clutch repair service to the Cause¬ way Street parkers. ARTICLE X: To the Junior Cheerleaders, Barbara Bowker bequeaths her famous Merc with detailed directions to The Venice. ARTICLE XI: Kenneth Getchell leaves Gary Fraser one (1) full book of unused record hop tickets. ARTICLE XII: Sue Kennedy leaves her freckles to Sandra Harmon. ARTICLE XIII: From South America, Russell Suereth leaves Sargent ' s to Norman Rossi. ARTICLE XIV: To Carol and Charlie, Mary Flagg leaves Paris. ARTICLE XV: For Mr. McLin, John O ' Leary leaves. ARTICLE XVI: Thelma Stevens leaves three (3) Marines, a bean, and her bowling ability to Mary Hinkley.

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This year was an exciting one. We had our first chance to raise money. That was our Frolic, the initiation of the Freshman Class on October 30. It was a howling success, most of the howls coming from the Freshmen! It was followed by a dance to the orchestra of Duke Cibotti. The evening was a happy one. After our buddies the Seniors had finished raising money for their trip we ran a scrap drive. We also ran a Record Hop in the spring. Both were successful. One of the most important events of the year was our prom held on May 1. It didn ' t turn out just as we had hoped it would but our decorations, gowns and tuxedos added much attraction to it. With the assistance of the Mothers ' Club we gave the Seniors a banquet on June 3. Everyone enjoyed the home-cooked turkey dinner. The evening finished off with a lively hop. We were sorry to see the class of 1953 say farewell; but they had to graduate to make way for the best bunch of Seniors yet! ... us! The class was proud of Donald Tompkins who won the Harvard Book Award at Graduation. We were all sorry to see Verna Clark leave our class as she had been with us all through school. Verna has promised that she would accom¬ pany us to Washington in 1954. 1953- 1954 The greatest year 1954 approached with new vigor and inspiration, it being our last and most important. In September, we elected our class officers as follows: President lohn O ' Leary Vice President Donald Tompkins Secretary Elaine Rawding Treasurer Margaret Molloy We lost Rosalind Kennedy to Ursuline Academy and John Anderson to Mt. Hermon. We had two newcomers; Nanci Lane from North Quincy and Kenny Getchell from Japan. Kenny was originally a member of our class in Grammar School and Junior High School days. And so our class numbers twenty. Oh, how well we remember those jolly Sunday afternoon scrap drives and those Friday and Saturday night record hops. One particular hop featured Stan Richards, disc jockey from WORL in Boston. The Mothers ' Club held several successful food sales and penny sales throughout the year. What would we do without them? A most important event was our Senior Play held on November 21. We had a fine lively cast which lived up to the play ' s title of Smart Idiot. Everyone enjoyed it and so did we, it being a big success. We have yet to experience our long awaited Washington trip.

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ARTICLE XVII: Nanci Lane leaves her exclusive rights to the brickyard sandpits to Carol Shanks. ARTICLE XVIII: Donald Tompkins leaves his Emily Post book to Gary Fraser. ARTICLE XIX: Marcia Newell leaves her Mercury (without Cliffie) to Jean Sargent, so that Jean can get to Pederzini ' s faster. ARTICLE XX: Minnie Rawding leaves her wagon and a muscular friend from Foxboro to next year ' s ice brigade. ARTICLE XXI: We leave Ann Palumbo and her record collection to the Juniors, who we hope will appreciate them as much as we have. ARTICLE XXII: To Beryl Brown, Renny De Forest leaves his walk. ARTICLE XXIII: To The Most Honorable Mayor of East Medfield, we leave a new fi re engine, with a bell already. ARTICLE XXIV: To The Most Honorable Wife of The Most Honorable Mayor of Most Honorable East Medfield, we leave the pleasant (?) memories of our past three years ' association. ARTICLE XXV: To Mr. McLin, Frank Clewes bequeaths his latest inven¬ tion, The Clewes Jiffy Pipe Cleaner. ARTICLE XXVI: To Mr. Mains, we leave our hopes for another success¬ ful football season. ARTICLE XXVII: To Miss Swartz, we leave a new jokebook that ' s guar¬ anteed to make Seniors laugh. ARTICLE XXVIII: To Mrs. Potter the Senior Boys leave a net for catching the Junior Boys during the second half of lunch period. ARTICLE XXIX To Mrs. Washburn, we leave an Academy Award and a case of aspirin for her work on our play (for which we are ex¬ tremely grateful.) ARTICLE XXX: To Mrs. Warburton, the Senior chem-lab students leave a new formula for rotten-egg gas. ARTICLE XXXI: To Mr. Shaw, we bequeath a bottle of sedative and hope that he doesn ' t get any more students like Nanci Lane. ARTICLE XXXII: To Mr. Hastings, the Seniors leave a white coat and a butterfly net for catching us when the time comes. ARTICLE XXXIII: Renny, Russ and Frank leave the correct time to Mrs. Berringer.