Merrimac High School - Yearbook (Merrimac, MA)

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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

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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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successful schoolteachers, Margaret Weigel is the principal of the new high school in Merrimac. Margie worked very hard for this position, She is also teaching a course in public speaking, Noreen is a first grade teacher and under her splendid guidance the children are happy and content, Her hobby, as she calls it, is the management of an animal hospital, I remember back in our school years she always had a special way with children and animals, Noreen's native talents have made her life successful and happy. The next morning I talked with Richard Every who owns one of the largest poul- try farms in the eastern part of our country, His birds have been graded first class, time and time again, Dick also gives young fellows an opportunity to learn the busi- ness and then helps them to start on their own, We were all quiet for a moment when we heard music that could have been made only by the magic fingers of David Chase who was now with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Dave told me he continued studying his music after school and recently has been on a tour in the European countries, finishing his trip with a command perform- ance for Queen Elizabeth II of England, Italked with Harold Ford next and it seems he has made quite an improvement in the television field, I hear that his next project will be to produce an outstanding play, Then maybe he said he would go in for acting, After seeing the job he did in our Senior Play I would certainly qualify him for acting, While walking around the city with Tommy Lund, he told me that he is very pleased that his series of books sold so well, I've read a few of his books which are full of Tom's witty humor and it is no wonder that they are so popular, Tommy said his next book was going to be on our school days written in both English and French, French was Tom's favorite language, as we all know, During lunch, Ann Murphy and I reminisced about this and that and she told me how well her job as private secretary was coming along, She expected at any time to be made head secretary of the office, She said that she had been down to Florida to see Ann and Barb for a month and bought so many nice things at their dress shop, We both agreed to go down together next time so that we could have. another reunion, George Heald and Margaret Rines were talking very earnestly about their jobs so I decided to find out how they were both coming along in the fields that they had chosen, It wasn't too hard to guess what George had taken upg I remember that he always used to write speeches about aviation, Sure enough, he now owned a large airport and held the world's record for safety, Peggy had become a nurse and re- cently was appointed Supervisor of Nurses at a new Army Hospital in Newburyport, I would say that they both have very important jobs and are doing them successfully, Z1