Middleborough High School - Timaron Yearbook (Middleborough, MA)

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19 4 2 Memorial High School 19 4 2 Elizabeth Shaw, who went to Bridgewater Normal, is now on the staff of M. H. S. She is teaching foreign languages — English, etc. We are all very proud of Doris Sturgis, who is starring in the opera Barber of Seville, or A Close Shave in M. H. S. Alice Zakarian has a knitting mill. She also gives knitting instructions. Her motto is A stitch in time saves nine hundred. News has reached us that Arleen Kinsman is the manager of a date bureau out in Cali- fornia, and incidentally, she is doing a thriv- ing business. When the girls become anxious over their suitors, Arleen says, If I can ' t date your man, nobody can. Mamie Mackiewicz is the local Florence Nightingale, doing her bit right at home at St. Luke ' s. Did Florence Nightingale have a way with the soldiers, too? Ruthie Pendleton and her Red have flown the world and have finally landed out of the clouds long enough to set up a school for young aviators here at home. They say she makes a swell co-pilot. Betty LeBlanc and Betty DeMoranville are running rival booking agencies for the Nar- ragansett Race Track. The sign on one door reads, I Bet-ty wins! On the other agency door there is I Bet-ty doesn ' t! Can ' t you get together? We never got to know Richard Hurd very well in school, but we have HEARD that he is a successful farmer. We knew he ' d make good. Anita Young, one of our tiny friends, has used that asset to a great advantage. She models clothes in a local Children ' s Dress Shoppe, which she now owns. Sylvia Perkins is rivaling the famous Duchess of Windsor as the world ' s best dressed wom- an. Is it a coincidence that they each have a Duke? Elaire Alexander — ( this is poetry, if anyone can tell ) — Because her name has world renown. She is now the Queen of Dahliatown. There ' s a lot more in life than just making money; So she ' s added a Gill to make things more sunny. Joan Berry — (more poetry) — The nicest clothes and the nicest way Brought Jo a proposal every day. She shopped around till the right one she found, And now she ' s doing things up Brown. Paul Anderson is doing business on a large scale. He buys everything by the Gross. ' Dick Barnett is making a living with other people ' s feet. He doesn ' t cut them off; he ' s a shoe man. Alvin Bigelow is a tree surgeon. He says he can ' t get Wood off his mind. Alan DeMoranville is testing cars for the government. Al says they have to be good to stand his driving. John Johnson is a noted singer. His theme song is I Dream of Jeannie. Bob Leary is an up-and-coming jeweler. It all started with a Pearl. Harold Card ' s ambition was to be a teacher. He is making good, training seals. Bob Fuller makes his money in chips. No, he ' s not a gambler. They are wood chips, and he is the toothpick king. Jim Francis and Stan Griniewicz work with steel. They pound nails in army shoes. Ken Tribou could make a swell pilot, but he can ' t come out of the tailspin that Millie Cushing put him in. Shirley Westgate is all ready to settle down. She has finally received her Grant. Carl Shaw is a great sportsman. Right now he is at the Sportmen ' s Show, showing his midget tuna. Modest Charlie Varney is taking life easy as a shoe-shine boy. Remember, at M. H. S. he used to practice on his basketball shoes. Wood is attracted better by shining ones. Warren Tharion didn ' t make a hockey star, but he is a hockey coach. How many games did the gals win last season? Wann. Larry Carter has replaced Tommy Dorsey as the country ' s number one virtuoso, swing- ing his way into the hot band world and the girls ' hearts. Is there a doctor in the house? Tom Cleverly traveled the world as captain of the S. S. Bachelor, but had to abandon 29

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19 4 2 lemoriaI High School 19 4 2 The Propliecy of the Class of 1942 MARGARET BEGLEY CAROL GUSHING GORDOX HASKELL LORRAINE LEIGHTON Gordon Hat Haskell went on the stage af- ter leaving high school. He ' s now starring in One Foot in Heaven, — or — A Miss Is as Good as a Mile. Roger Quelle has just completed his latest book Ian autobiographv I . Still Waters Run Deep. Ruthy Bell ahvavs did have a weakness for figures. She ' s married to Freddie now. and latest reports tell us that she is playing the stock market. Elinor McLeod is doing all right for herself. Since the War she has continued driving a Mac and Ken — zie! Dickie Glidden, that super-duper-ice-cream- scuper, is still dishing out the same old ' goo. He has three girls and a boy. Harold Panesis, the now-famous Banana King, has devised a new method of grow- ing bananas without skins. He ' s not slipping! Bill Dooley has just been appointed fore- man of a large munitions factory. ell, he alwavs wanted to get a big bang out of life. Bud Matthews is now employed as chief engineer for Maxim. hat co-operation! Nobody would ever miss Connie Souza ' s Advice to the Love-Lorn ' ' column. She takes care of the hearts and darts while her suitors throw the knives I Virginia Taylor is head dietitian at the Toll House. Guess she ' s already heard that ' the wav to a man ' s heart is through his stomach. Rose Martin opened a dress shop on Fifth Avenue not so long ago. She copies her styles exclusively from Esquire. Lesley Graham is teaching agriculture up at Mass. State. Everybody insists on weeding potatoes for her. — How does she do it? George Raymond went into the belt-making industry after leaving M. H. S. Now we hear he is having a terrible time trying to make both ends meet. Betty Mitchell has become an undertaker. She ho pes we all will come down and spend a quiet evening in her parlor sometime. Eve Fuller runs a beaut parlor. She spec- ializes in pedicures and claims she ' s a foot ahead of e er body else. Mary Mackiewicz runs a watch factory, but says she ' s having difficulty keeping up to the times. Doris Craig took up nursing as a career and is doing exceptionally well. She just pulled her mother-in-law through an almost fatal operation. Virginia Nourse has opened a live-bait stand; but, confidentially, we think she ' d have better luck with Minnows. Ethel Fickert is married, but she is still em- ployed in the Globe Building. She tells us she ' s sitting on top of the world. Gen Kinney married shortly after leaving high school. She changed her name to Gen. Ken-ney Gates. Jim Kendall, our South Seas missionarv, is doing wonderful work on Oily Oily Island, converting the natives. Latest reports are that he is verv much wrap])ed up in his work. To date we read in Believe It or Not that Wendell Holmes has put on another 100 pounds and is one hockey star that swings a mean stick. Catherine Green left last month to become a missionary in Africa. A letter tells us that she has high hopes, but just now things look pretty black. The Alden Twins are starring in that much talked of Broadway show entitled Foot- prints in the Sand. We understand they gained the role through their previous ex- perience in Life. June Morris an artist I Her only complaint is that she has a hard time keeping out of the red. Barbara Roberts is secretary for M. M. H. S.. Men. Mice, and Health Society. 28

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19 4 2 Iemorial High School 19 4 2 that ship on a matter of principles. He has just set sail on the sea of matrimony. Dot Cowan was our female Krupa in school. She has drummed her way to fame and the title of Miss North Middleboro. Peg Begley is teaching little ones how to read, write, and catch a man — Teaching from experience? She ' s still up in those well-known clouds. Speaking of Peg. Dick Leggee is running a plane route from Middleboro to Lake iile. so that he can get home in a hurry. The Stone Twins, Louise and Lucy. ha e settled down to teaching girls at M. H. S. how to play basketball. And what able teachers they make! Evelyn Fanjoy was Alice Marble ' s succes- sor, but retired after the championship, to be an army wife. From all reports, it ' s a love match. Art Spurrier was the lad from New Bed- ford who stole the girlish hearts at M. H. S. After making a name for himself as an ath- lete, he returned home to coach our would- be Harmons, and has just ruled girls eligible for football. Jack Dunn, the town s leading undertaker, has a thriving business. His motto: X hen Life is Done, see Jack Dunn. ' Tiny Remillard and Cecilia Travassos, our littlest classmates, are in charge of the Her- ring-Run Cafe. a ritzy joint by the clear Nemasket River. They specialize in Little Alewives — fish to you. ' Bill Washburn and Alton Kramer have gone into business together, taking parties on canoe trips up the river. They say business is good, and they are thinking of expanding their enterprise to fishing trips, too. Eileen Murdock became Lakeville s gift to the world of art. She studies in Paris, ienna. and Italy, but returned to Lakeville to paint the world s prettiest scenery right at home. Vilho Jokinen was one of our quietest class- mates, but after graduation he became a great orator. He now teaches at a large university and lectures extensively throughout the coun- trv. Can you imagine that? Hughie Loheed is one member of the clas of 42 who was going places. es, he join- ed the Navv and saw the world. Now he has a girl in every port, but then didn t he al- wavs? Bev Trites is a new hostess for Pan-Ameri- can Airways. The company already has boosted its passenger list five per cent. ith a fella in everv citv. she still can t make up her mind. Lorraine Leighton. Remember the gal who had more circulation than the Saturday Evening Post? ell. when she grabbed a guy. she got a Buck. Burton Niro, the Electrical W izard. is kill- ing people left and right. Hes no super- man: he pulls the switch at the death house. Joe Moquin is an impersonator. He walks, talks, and looks like one. Joe is also cham- pion hog-caller of Podunk Junction. Franny Murphy has reached the ambition of his school days at M. H. S. He has won the shirt off a certain Harold Panesis. Albert Carr is the proud possessor of a lim- ousine which is sporting tires made from his large collection of girls locks of hair. Madeline Bell is working as private secretarv to a law firm. She wears a thousand-dollar pearl necklace to work every day, trying to prove that there is such a thing as an hon- est lawyer. ' alter Cassidy was undecided about joining up with the Army, the Navy, or Lillian. Now he is a 1st lieutenant in the Arniv. and his wife is very proud of him. Carol Cushing ' s versatilitv is still apparent in 1962. She is the manager of omen s Athletics of the Lnited States, and in her spare time she is teaching the Armv i ? i how to knit their own soc ks. Rose Johnson. Now that the world s larg- est telescope has been completed in Califor- nia, we find Rose star-gazing. Mavbe it ' s the circumstances involved in studving the stars ' that appeal to her. Shirley Keough, one of our fashionable girls, is a model for Hollywood ' s leading clothes designer. She is introducing a new color, Dartmouth Green. Ruth Leonard is still following the same trend as in her high school davs: she is now using her brains as the president of the Girls College in Lakeville. Barbara Shaw has just fulfilled her ambition to visit all the forty-eight states. She is now lecturing in her home town. Carver, on such new inventions and ideas as electricity, run- ning water, radios, and liathtubs. 30