Merrimac High School - Yearbook (Merrimac, MA)

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Class Will Dr, Page, members of the school committee, teachers, parents, and friends, We, the Senior Class of 1952 of Merrimac High School, County of Essex of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being of sound mind and body, do hereby make and deliver our last will, making other previous wills completely null and void, First, we wish to extend to the faculty our sincerest thanks for giving us guidance and help through four of the best and memorable years of our lives, To Miss Phelan, we leave a brand new battery for her car so that the boys won't have to go out and push her car on the icy roads as they did one cold night after a play rehearsal, To Ngrs, Salerno, we leave a whole roomful of new typewriters so that she won't have to worry about repairing them and can throw the old ones out, To Miss Gullage, we leave a brand new heating system so that she won't shiver in the cold and have to wear one of the students jackets all day, To Mr, Huyck, we leave a large space so he can at least park his car in the schoolyard and not on the street as he is often forced to do, To Mr, Morrow, our class advisor for three years, we leave our sincerest thanks for his invaluable help, We also leave a new Problems of Democracy Class with our hope that it contains as many hot politicians as this year's class did, To Mr, Bernasconi, we leave a whole lab full of equipment so that he can con- duct all the experiments he would like in physics and chemistry, To the juniors, we leave a promise that their Senior year will be the best dur- ing their stay at high school, To the Sophomores, we leave the thought that English is first thing in the morning and that if they want to incur the wrath of their teacher they had better do their homework at home instead of depending on a morning study period, To the Freshmen, we leave the special privilege of having the history room as a home room and a padlock for every desk so that their desks will be closed to the general public, George Larkin leaves to Gary Bertram a can of gas, It seemed as though George ran out of gas every time he went around the corner and we hope Gary will not have to find use for it as much as George did, Margaret Weigel leaves her lovely piano playing to Alfred Sampson, Margie certainly did a wonderful job playing the piano during her four-year stay at high school, Now it is up to Alfred to take up where she left off, To Robert Red Keller, Dave Marshall leaves those long words that Dave liked to use, We hope that Red can use these words as cleverly as he did, 17

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The television switched over to Perley Gym, There I saw a large representation of our class participating in the basketball tournament: five on the boys' team, two on the girls' team, and five cheerleaders, The games were exciting but the most thrilling moment was the acceptance of the boys' championship trophy by Captain Emery and the girls' championship trophy by Captain jorolmon for the fourth time in our class's mem- ory, During our stay at lV1, H, S., the trophy case became more and more crowded, In our Freshman year, two league championships brought glory to the high school, while the girls' team were runners-up in the tournament, As Sophomores both boys' and girls' teams returned victorious to fill the case with league and tournament championship awards, Again in our third year, the gir-ls were leauge and tournament winners, The great twin victory came as our veteran ball players placed their final contributions in the trophy case: boysland girls were both league and tournament champions, Another heart warming sight was the joyful faces of our class as we climbed aboard the bus to leave on our class trip, We had reached one of our goals, Our success in reaching another goal is exemplified by our presence here tonight, We have succeeded in our class projects and have been highly represented in all school activities, studies, sports and musical productions, We have had a profitable past, L.et's hope our future is as bright, Noreen Quimby 16

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Pat joralmon leaves to joan Keller her services to Mrs, Salerno, Pat was an invaluable help in putting out the journal and helping Mrs, Salerno in class but jo has already begun to be a great help in the commercial department, Dave Chase leaves to George Waterhouse a road map of Merrimacport, This map is just in case George doesn't get lost down there, Pat Tilton leaves all her love troubles to Marion Dickey with Pat's sincerest wishes that Marion will not be burdened with such worries, Little Don Dudley leaves to Frank Casazza his knack of acquiring a new female admirer every day, Oh well, Don, I suppose variety is the spice of life, To Dennis Reilly, Francis Boetti leaves his artistic touch, We only wish that we could see more of De-De's fine artistic work around school, john Beauvais leaves to anybody who thinks himself capable, the managerial reigns of the boys' basketball team, john has certainly been faithful on his job dur- ing the four years, To Mildred Schiller, Ann Murphy leaves her very sweet and charming smile, Ann always had a friendly smile for everybody, Richard Noone leaves to Donald Spofford the art of chewing gum during school time and always carrying a full supply in his pocket in case he ever got caught and needed a spare, Gerald Buzzell leaves to Leonard Tilton his knack of getting a red face at the very worst times and embarassing moments, Gary leaves his bashfulness to Shirley Hart, George Nicol wills to Lawrence Hardy his habit of driving a different car to school every other Week, We often wondered if George was running a used car lot on the side, Noreen Quimby leaves her ability to write a thousand word essay on the back of a match cover to Richard Sutherland, Noreen could certainly crowd words so that the teachers couldn't read them, Harold F01'd, 01117 Man About Town'-', who seemed to be in several places at one time, leaves all his affairs to john Woodard, Harold was certainly a busy man and you practically needed an appointment to see him, Peggy Rines leaves her friendly personality to Marie jacques and her cheerful disposition to Elizabeth Weigel, To Joyce Heath she offers a friendly hint to keep well supplied with vitamins for her cheerleading next season, Richard Emery leaves his romantic way of making l'amour the French way to Leonard Bachelder, We often wondered if Dick had some French in him, He 18