Merrimac High School - Yearbook (Merrimac, MA)

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leaves his basketball ability to Peter Donaghue in the hopes that Pete will contribute to future triumphs on the court, Richard Grant leaves to David Scott his ability to make experiments in the lab, Dick was often seen in there setting up contraptions and carrying on experiments, Perhaps there is another Einstein in the making: john O'Brien leaves to William Murphy his precise timing in getting up five minutes before school begins, getting dressed, racing to school and still not being late, l don't know how he does it: Ann Ferguson leaves to Natalie Haskell, her dimples, Ann has such a sweet and charming face and her dimples give it just the right touch: To Bernard Connor, George Heald leaves his role of playing Romeo to all the girls, George certainly had a wonderful time playing this fascinating part and all the girls ate it up, QThe mush, I meanfl Barbara Dudley leaves her petite shape to LeAnn Dressler, l'm sure LeAnn will keep her figure as graceful as the figure Barbara seemed to possess, Tommy Lund leaves his early morning cup of coffee to Richard Kimball, Tommy didn't have any pep until his cup of coffee gave it to him, So, we publish our last will and along with it goes our last farewells and thanks to the people who have helped us so much, Witnessed, this 19th day of june in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred fifty-two, we set our hand and seal, humbly and honorably, unwillingly and sadly, on this, our last will and testament, Witnessed by: Signed: Isabelle IVI. Phelan Thomas P, Lund joan M, Gullage I9

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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

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Class Prophecy With a flash of the hand we turn ahead the clock of time to the year 1962, It is now ten years since we graduated from Merrimac High School, As the class secre- tary I have been corresponding with my classmates, but I think the time has come for a class reunion, I didn't have to wait long for my friends to notify me that they agreed whole-heartily with my plan, Finally the big day arrived but, with uncertainty I wondered how we would appear to each other for it had been a long time since we had seen each other, At first when everybody arrived we greeted each other formally but gradually the years fell away and in its place was the class as it used to be with everybody talking at once, I was very anxious to find out how life had been treating my friends and if they had done as well as I had been doing, The first group I came to were dressed in the Navy blue, and one looking very handsome in his captain's uniform was Dave Marshall, He had always been interested in boats back in school so it was no sur- prise that he had done so well in the Navy, The others with him, and I notice they had high ratings, were Gerald Buzzell, john O'Brien, George Nicol, and Donald Dudley, George Nicol as a Navy lawyer could indulge in one of his favorite pas- time, debatingg he was excellent as an orator in school, Donny, a Navy Athletic Coach at Annapolis, has produced several successful basketball teams, His rep- utation as a fine ball player is well known, too, although he is too modest to admit it, Leaving them I went to see two of my best friends, Ann Ferguson and Barbara Dudley, What happy times we used to have back in school, and always getting into trouble because we couldn't seem to stop talking, Ann and Barb own one of the largest and finest dress shops in Florida, Right after graduation they went to Florida with Barb's folks and they decided to open a small dress shop which kept improving until now it outdoes every other place down there, They always did have a flair for clothes back in their teens, Both of them guaranteed me that during the week of this reunion that we would catch up on the past, present, and future, and I decided when to go down to visit them as I promised I would when we were Seniors, During supper I sat with Patricia Tilton and George Larkin, Pat married a couple of years after we graduated and now she has two of the cutest children I have ever seen, She assured me that it was a big job being a housewife and mother but that she wouldn't trade it for anything in the world, George told me he was captain of the All-Star American Basketball Team and that he enjoyed his job very much, even though the hours are strict and the training is hard, I've seen practically every game of his on the television, with the sports- manship and talent that George displays along with the rest of his team, it isn't any wonder that they are undefeated, After supper I talked with john Beauvais who was none other than the coach of George's team, He's doing a marvelous job with those boys of his, I mused to myself, my mind wandering back through the years, and thought of Johnny running around trying to find bandages, basketballs, scorebooks, sneakers, and uniforms, That night I roomed with Noreen Quimby and Margaret Weigel who are both 20