Murdock High School - Tower Yearbook (Winchendon, MA)

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457 Haacqfdctaw Thus us ut We ve funally made ut These are the thoughts that are goung through all senuors heads at the present tume How many years we ve looked forward to and planned for these very days lt doesnt seem possuble that we are senuors and wull graduate un one day As we prepare for graduatuon we cant help but remember the truals and trubulatuons we all went through to attaun our goal It was not all hardshup though Some of the best days of our luves have been spent workung together to achueve our goal whuch IS very umportant to each and every one of us We cant help feelung penslve when we recall our years at Murdock If we may we would luke to take you for a short uourney wuth us through four years at Murdock so that you may understand our sentu ments lt was un the fall of T953 when we started back to school as freshmen all We were bug wheels now or so we thought But also we found that we were only a munute partucle un a huge dust storm Nevertheless we luved and learned Thus was our furst experuence un electung class offucers We elected Wayne Maluska as Presudent Steve Olechnucku as Vuce Presudent Ardythe Ruce as Treasurer and Lulluan Brow as Secretary Thus year we had a Student Councul for the furst tume also Does any one remember how many cases were brought before the councul'-' An unfamous wruter appeared durung thus year Hus name? Walter LaPounte wuth hus controversual sublect Why I Dusluke Gurls' No com ment The cats were the rage wuth theur flashy suuts and straw hats Thus year passed all too quuckly and ut was summer vacatuon tume In September T954 we were off to school agaun and thus year brought wuth ut not only the tutle of sophomore but the newness of beung per manent resudents of Murdock We were durected to our home rooms whuch turned out to be M 6 and M 8 Beung sophomores we now started the task of earnung the money that would pay our way to Washungton and New York But that was only a vague dream at the tume We held our furst class meetung of the year un the study hall M 3 and elected offucers Those elected were Wayne Maluska as Presudent Steve Olechnucku as Vuce Presudent Lulluan Brow as Secretary and Ardythe Ruce as Treasurer Also we had to elect a class advusor and thus we dud Mr Carlton Cormuer gracuously consented to accept thus posutuon and there upon he began to guude the class of 57 Our furst money makung prouect was a food sale Next on the lust was a spaghettu supper both of whuch brought us good profuts The senuors were sellung cards that year and of course we had to get unto the act We made S32 70 helpung them Not much you may say but every luttle but helps Came Aprul and the Sophomore Hop The assembly hall was decorated un a sprung motuf Alumunum stars wuth the names of all the sophomores unscrubed on them were attached to the stage curtauns On March 31 of that year the annual one act play tournament was held The play chosen was The House Next Door The cast uncluded Nancy LaBarge Emulue Bourgault Maryaluce Shaughnessy Arlune Dun . . . , . . . . . , I . , . . . 1 , . . I . , . - 1 1 1 - . . . . . ,, . . . ,, 1 ' ' , . I I - 1 - - 1 . . . . . . 1 1 . , . . I - I , . 1 1 . . . , 1 ll Il ' N 1 1 1 '