Middleborough High School - Timaron Yearbook (Middleborough, MA)

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Iemorial High School Class of Forty - Four The Prophecy of the Class of 1944 ELSIE BARTLETT GEORGE McLEOD Ruth Slierman is the owner of several beauty salons which feature the new up- sweep Bob. Stan Alger, who was always our class leader in high school, is vacationing in Florida ; but when he returns, he will be- gin his campaign for governor of the Com- monwealth. Jeanne Carver recently accepted the po- sition of stewardess for International Lim- ited. Many were the school days wlien she wished she were up in the clouds. Lennie Lobl ' s name glitters in the lights of Broadway these days. Her part in the senior play had great influence on Lennie. We hope stardom will bring her happiness. Ali-Rie has advanced since M. H. S. handed her a sheepskin. She went to col- lege for two ' ears ; then she joined the V. A. V. E. S. Now Ensign March is trying to teach some discipline to the new re- cruits with proper exercises for good health. We remember how energetic Ali-Rie was in school ; and if her pupils come out as peppy as she, they ' ll be o. k. According to Delores Giberti, the wide field of designing offers hopes for many. She has just designed a new gown without back, seams, or sleeves. You can see it modeled next Saturday at Macy ' s by IMiss Giberti herself. Beverly Gay is writing a love-lorn col- umn in the New York Times. Remember how she patched up the affairs of dis- puting couples of Fall Brook? Now we know where she got her experience. Madeline Sisson. just to be different from all the other senior girls, always favored the Army more than the Navy. But she still can ' t make up her mind ; so she is running a dating bureau, which dates way back to ' 44. We read in the most fashionable maga- zines that Madame Chartier is making a success of her charm school, the Stevens ' School for Reconstruction of the Face and Figure, featuring the use of whites of eggs, plus exercise, minus sweets. CLAIRE COLEMAN JONATHAN SAYWARD Beverly Shurtleff has surprised us all by becoming a school teacher. Her pupils claim she ' s aging, but she ' s nice. And-er- son is cute, too. We see, ' way in the back of a store, a prim, gray-haired figure selecting draperies, rugs, and color schemes. For her own home? Oh, no! If you will remember. Miss Farley wanted to be a buyer and also an old maid — oh, excuse us ! — a bach- elor girl ! Natalie Guilford has followed in her moth- er ' s footsteps and has become a nurse. That ' s the kind of nurse with the cool hand that you dream about, isn ' t it. boys ' Bob Sullivan is torn between two am- bitions these days. He ' s wondering whether to continue in sports — or has his old age made him decide to go into the diplomatic field? We hope this Waugh in his mind will soon be settled. Dot Caswell is now a theological student ' way out west. She had planned to go into missionary work, but the Army is the cause of her hesitancy. Ruthy Gates owns her own farm, where she has twenty-two cows. 333 hens, and four groves of Almon trees. Ah. at last Eunice and her Stanley have decided to take the fatal step. Wc know the Church-ill be packed with admirers. Dorothy Fowler has become a fashionable soloist at the Metropolitan in New York. Many were the days in glee club when her mellow voice rang glorious over al! others. Jeanne Glover has been teaching steno- graphy at Chandler ' s for the past few years but now she has accepted the position of private secretary to John Ashworth. Profes- sor. Lillian Heleen has been quite Bissey lately, as she is head bookkeeper in the Bissonette Milk Company, Inc. Caroline Johnson and Jeannette Leighton are popular music teachers here in town. Caroline still enjoys the accordion, and Jed gets her exercise and energy from beating out the boogie woogie on the drums.

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f emorial High School Class of Forty - Four and X ' ernon Brooks. Basketball brings to mind sucb stars as Chet Smolski, Stan Al- ger, Vernon Brooks, and John Jurgelewicz. Girls ' hockey can lioast many excellent play- ers. Eleanor Doucette, Rose-Anne Savard, Natalie Dewhurst, Ruth Sherman, Beverly Gay, and Marjorie Waugh represent our class adequately. M. H. S. is proud of its cheerleaders, too. Natalie Dewhurst as leader of the Nine Dynamos ' ' has spurred on enthusiasm and school spirit at the games. The class awaited with great expectation the time when the announcement would be made of students who would have graduation parts. Dorothy Wilber is valedictorian and James Kilpatrick salutatorian. Graduation honor parts were also assigned to Edward Devlin, Stanley Alger, and Henry Sullivan. 1944 is well represented by these honor students. The history of our class is certainly not complete without mention of former mem- bers who have .served or are now serving with our armed forces. We are proud of these absent friends, and we want them to know that we think of them at graduation time.

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Memorial Higk School Class of Forty - Four Cliarlt ' S (iuertin, who always was a Moody lad, is sliowing his temperament in the motion picture industry as the Casinova of the Love-Lorn Studio. The memhers of the class of ' 44 will ai)preciate his talents in this field. Kenny Kohertson has become the lead- ing photographer of the Police Gazette. W ' e remember back in school days when he got his start by taking surprise shots of his girl friends. Dorothy Wilber is the prize professor at AL I. T. We see that her high scholastic standing in school has been put to use. Beatrice Standish is the owner of a large farm which supjilies vegetables to the lead- ing stores. This sure is a w ' oman ' s world. Elsie Bart ett is still the belle of the ball. Remember how she used to love to trip the light fantastic at the Grange Hall ? Well, now she ' s Arthur Murray ' s prize teacher. Louise Murphy is the head dictator in her own drug store. She owns the place, but she can ' t get over her school days when she was working part time at Giberti ' s; so she reminisces behind the ice cream counter after closing time. George McLeod is the sole owner of the New York Daily Bugle. His advance is largely due to his start here in Middleboro on the huge staff of the Gazette. ' ' ] lac some day hopes to give up his editorship and become a mere sports writer on his own paper. Career girl Margaret Clark fina ' ly de- cided to go into her father ' s law- office as a junior partner. She is supported very nicel} ' from money she makes defending her former classmates who w ere caught red- handed while fishing and swimming illegally in the lakes. Marjorie W ' augh, the girl who kept pet herrings in her home room desk, has be- come famous as the originator of well- chaperoned Lakeside female stag parties, and occasionally she lectures on the subject. In a recent lecture Miss Waugh pointed out that the parties were nice, but dates with football team captains were better. Being tied down to his job as a shoe clerk and able to go hunting and fishing only during school hours, John Jurgelewicz saved his pennies and bought out the Walk- Over Shoe Stores of America. He now runs his business as a millionaire sports- man. As the yearbook went to press in May, 1944, Art Gorrie, the dashing Rover Boy of the class, was expecting a call to duty with the Fleet. We ' re glad to hear that he is still in the Navy and expects to get ];)romoted to seaman 2 c any day in recog- nition of his fine record of getting a Jerry during the war. There was a tiiue when the Howa ' xl Ath- enaeum attracted men to its creaky doors ; but since Chet Smolski has signed as emcee there, the young women as well as men have been visiting Uncle Howard in the hope of seeing his latest protege. We un- derstand that Chet has had a gawking eye on that position since his hi-school days. The last time we heard from Billy Gau- dette, Bruce Surrey, and Jock Murdoch, they were in Sampson, N. Y. ; but latest re- ports claim that the three of them have taken over complete control of the American Legion of World War H, Post Number 44. By the way, we wonder whether the} ' will enjoy the conventions. They all had a flare for good times in Boston while in hi- school. After Oliver Brett sold his controlling interests in Nagging Stables, Incorporated, he immediately bought out Zimmerman Binocular Concern and distributed many pairs of opera glasses among the theatre- minded population. He did this in recol- lection of the night he took a telescope to the local movie palace to see Bettv Grable do a grass skirt dance in Song of the Islands. Charles Atlas, the ideal of the weaklings (when we were in school), had his beauti- ful ])hysiciue in every comic book we picked up : but today ' s children see an even greater personage when they read Superman. He is Walt Lewoczko, IM. H. S. strong boy, who pulled down the title of tlie best- built man in the class of ' 44.