Middleborough High School - Timaron Yearbook (Middleborough, MA)

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History of the Class of 1946 j CLEVELAND E. BURNHAM When John Casey shut the door of his home room, just as the bell rang, he re- presented one hundred and sixty new- comers to M.H.S. It was no uncommon sight to see one of our class wandering around in a daze, or one of the girls looking admiringly at a tall senior. Finally after opening one eye, we elected Donald (I love photography) Atkins as class president, James ( I want to he a band leader) Kenyon vice president, Betty Jane (I don ' t care if I am small) Skahill as sec- retary, and Patricia (I ' ll get that man yet) Waite as treasurer. Miss Ryder, teacher of freshman English, was our class advisor. Because of the war with Japan and Ger- many, the school instituted air raid drills in 1942. Mr. Rayman Hyman, faculty ad- visor to the traffic squad, did a fine job with the drills until October of 1942 when he left to enter the service of his country. During his absence Mr. Edward Whit- more, of the Science Department, took over his duties and ably carried on. During the class ' s four year rise to fame it surrendered four of its boys to Uncle Sam : Robert Dyke, Clarence Millette, Hen- ry Morris, and Robert Lammi. Henry Morris returned to the class in his senior year, disgusted at the Navy ' s refusal to make him admiral of the fleet. In our sophomore year after becoming used to the ways and means of M.H.S., we elected John Rice as president, James Ken- yon as vice president, Margaret Burnett as secretary, and Barbara Jones as treasurer. With the re-election of John Rice as pre- sident, James Kenyon as vice president, Betty Jane Skahill as secretary, and Patri- cia Waite as tresurer, plans for the Junior Prom got under way. The music for the hep-cats was supplied by Gene Marshall ' s orchestra. Caps and horns were given to couples as favors so that the grown-up juniors might act like kids again. We held a second grand march for those stylish folks who arrived late. Coaches Battis, Teeling, and Farley led the squads of M.H.S. on to winning sea- sons in football, basketball, and baseball, while senior cheerleaders, Patricia Waite, Pam Jones, and Betty Skahill, spurred them on. Mr. Farley was mainly respon- sible for a fine job of coaching, which led this year ' s basketball squad almost to the championship. The coming of the senior year saw Ed- gar Gay class president. John Rice vice president, Elaine Doucette secretary, and Margaret Burnett treasurer. One year after our Junior Prom, on Pearl Harbor Day, December seventh, the class of 1946 presented its senior play. With a cast consisting of Donald Mello, David Fish. John Cayton, Mildred Claire Riley, John Casey. Margaret Burnett. Roger Tillson, Jean Maddigan, and Eleanor Derosier, and under the direction of Miss Barbara Stanhope assisted by Alice Colvin, the presentation of Smilin ' Through was a big success. The sale of tickets was handled by Herbert Thompson, costumes by Emma Reed, and publicity by Bessie Reynolds. Under the able direction of Mrs. Sylvia Matheson, Marian Hanson and committee did a fine job with the make-up, and Constance Sparrow and hel- pers designed an unusual setting. Marilyn Shaw, Elaine Wilbur, and Eugene Ken- nedy helped things along with the handling of ushers, sound effects and lighting res- pectively. Miss Flora Porter acted as pia- nist for the evening, and all music was under the supervision of Mr. Luther Churchill. Mr. Ernest Thomas supervised the selling of tickets. Orchids to all who contributed to the success of the play. As well as losing a third of the members of the class in four years, we also gained a few able members. Among them is Gil (that ' s what I like about the South) Camp- bell, who kinda likes the Yankee Girls. Others are Margaret Hartley, Joan Mar- shall, Charlotte Mulley, Constance Purcell, Mary Joy Cosseboom, Dorothy Montgom- ery, Roger Keedwell, and Laurier Wood. The production of the Yearbook saw Henry Johnson as editor-in-chief, and Frank Scholz and Jack Rice as assistant ed- itors. Donald Shaw, James Mahoney. and Richard Chaplain went around begging ev- eryone to please buy a yearbook and be different. We do not know whether we appreciate more Donald Atkin ' s gift of all the group photography work for the year- book, or the gift of suspended classes for three periods during the taking of the pic- tures. School honors were bestowed upon Roger Tillson valedictorian, Betty Jane Skahill and Marian Hanson as joint salutatorians. Honor essays were written by Henry John- son, Alice Colvin, and Frank Scholz. Thus with the passing of time another class has passed through the portals of M. H. S. Though we leave the school, no one among us will ever forget it or its faculty. From This Day Forth we begin another phase of history, not a students but as citizens, and good citizens.