Natick High School - Sassamon Yearbook (Natick, MA)

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The SA N 5 1937 Jean: We can start with you. What do you do and hows business? John: Oh, I've been coaching basketball here in Natick for five years. I like it, but I've killed the game. What do you do? Jean: I'm just touring at the present time but I'm a missionary worker. I like my work too, and that has a great deal to do with one's success. John: Yes, it does. By the way, did you ever hear what happened to Raymond Hoey? Jean: Why, yes. He's right here In Paris. He's a dentist and has just 1n- vented a pair of false teeth that do not click when one whispers. John tl.-aughingl. He always wanted to do something about that. Especially when people with false teeth whispered be- hind him in church. Jean: What about William Jackson, William Wight. and George Trudel? John: William Jackson is busy these days. I-le has invented a new kind of comb to replace the egg-beater style and William Wight is a modern Winchell. He's won- dering though. when lVIariolyn Quast is going to join Marion I,aFrance and Merna Densmore in bowling as a profession and leave her drums. George Trudel hasn't grown very much but GIIOIIEII to reach a sink! He washes dishes on a steamer. Alfred Byrnes is the chef on the same ship. Jean: John, what ever happened to Leonard Hanna and Francis Henry? John: Oh, Lenny teaches Chemistry and Francis teaches Algebra in an academy in Maryland. Jean: Leonard always loved f'hemistry didn't he? Did you know that Thomas Conroy and Leslie Corbett are over here? They opened a store in Berlin. I guess it was a pawn shop in the beginning but now they sell second-hand jewelry. John: What about Ruth Bennett? Isn't she over there? And Natalie Yeager and Florence Elliott? Jean: Oh my, yes, Ruth Bennett is a dietitian in a hospital in Hamburg, Ger- many. Natalie Yeager was here but she left a short time ago to enlarge on a tip about the Mildred Smith and Cab Cal- loway duel. Mildred disliked his music PAGE TEN an admitted it in public. Shes a censor, you know, so she started quite an argu- ment. About Florence Elliott, she's rest- ing now after her recent law suit. Mary McGlone charged Florence with stealing one of her songs. Florence is a blues singer in Poland and Mary heard her over the radio in America. Mary D1'iscoll, Mary McGlone's lawyer, and George Wignot, Florence's lawyer, finally settled the mat- ter. It was only a matter of mistaken titles. Tell me, do you know where Frank Bennett and George Williams are and what they do? John: Frank is getting along very well with a new invention similar to Raymond Hoey's. He's invented a cup that guaran- tees the drinking of coffee, a noiseless process. George Williams and Elmer John- son are public debators. No matter what George says, Elmer disagrees with him, and immediately arranges a debate. We're quietly watching for Elmer to prevent our next depression. He has written a book called Principles ot' Economics , dis- agreeing with every other authority of Economics. Jean: Well. I suppose that's the way things go. I saw an article in the news- paper this morning about Arline Arrington and Alice Adams. John: Oh yes, about their recent victory in a roller skating contest? Jean: Yes, that was it. Isn't Jean Gra- ham th-eir coach? John: Yes. Thelma Blanchard recentty enrolled in her class and is coming along slowly but not so surely. Have you seen Doris Church? Jean: No. I havent seen her but Bar- bara Cummings and Dorothy Randall have. 'I'hey're managers of a shoe store in Bel- gium and said tha.t Doris came in one day to buy a pair and changed her mind when she looked around. She told them sne liked Belgium and had decided to stay ano- ther year in her Stray Dogs and Cats Home. John: I saw Alice Murphy a short while ago. She's a hairdresser. Betty Cowee and Dorothy Stearns assist her, and the weeks before the Coronation. wer-e patron- ized widely because of their new and at- tractive styles of hairdressing. Have you

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IC SAYS!! GN - 1937 I, Richard Hasgill, leave my treasured but very well hidden middle name of Wel- lington totherwise known as Win1py J to my neighbor, Jos-eph Hladick. I, Ruth Jordan, leave my afternoon job in room twenty-five to Rita Marciano with some ability twhich I never hadl to get home before the sophomores. I, Francis Corkery, leav-e my athletic abilities and scholastic disabilities to Wil- liam Hedderig, I, Louis Bradford, leave my ability to ask pointless questions out of an open sky to the perplexity of my teachers to Ches- ter Damon. I, Catherine Souckup, leave to Dorothy Bernstein my scholastic achievements and ability to please the teachers. 1, Mariolyn Quast, leave my ability to play basketball, have fun, and yet be a good student to Helen Shea. I, James Boates, leave my wit and abil- ity to amuse to John Kleinfelder. I, Barbara Hammond, leave my good looks, pleasing disposition, and popularity with the boys to Doris Ryan. I, John J-ennings, leave my height to be divided between Kenneth Ferguson and Laddie Bennett. I, Marion LaFrance, leave my flirtatious ways and means to Anna Dahlgren. I, William Zicko, leave my singing qual- ities to the songbirds of the junior class. I, Ethel Fritz, leave my dancing per- fections to Virginia Waterman. I, Helen Mangle, leave my Sassamon and multiple other duties to my sister Tafta. I, William Daley, leave my title of most popular boy and my ready smile to the most popular boy of the junior class. I, James Killeen, leave lots of affection to a certain little junior. I, Ang-ela Hodgman, leave my magnetic personality to Virginia Abbott. I, Thelma Blanchard, bequeath my abil- ity to imitate Miss Periwinkle , and amuse my classmates to Mildred Beeman. I, Sonia Seaholm, leave my prized po- sition at the lunch counter to my sister, Saga. I, Grace Ward, leave my fiery tempera- ment and ready for anything appearance to Barbara Bean. I, Jean Barber, leave to Jean Charlton my prized title of The gentle1nan's lady. I, Marjorie Fisher, leave my tomboy characteristics to Virginia Cole. I, Lawrence Randall, leave my title of well-liked G-man of the safety commission to Richard Carey with a gold inlaid billy club to enforce the rules. I, Jean Graham, leave my code for being faithful that I have kept these many years to Effie Erikson. We, Anna Flynn and Merrill Bent, leave our artistic and caricature ability to Emma Loring and John VVillard. I, Henry Peterson, leave my dramatic ability to play a Romeo to any lucky young junior. We, Ida Pineo, Mary McGlone, Helen G1-aye, and Dorothy Stearns leave our po- sitions as cheerleaders to those who can make the most noise. I, Robert Stearns, leave my colossal vo- cabulary to the first one who reads the dictionary. I, Joseph Marshall, leave my love of hockey to Dave Moir hoping he will help show Somerville once more how we do it out in the country. Signed, published. and declared this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty seven, as the last and only will, all others being auto- matically void and annulled according to the statutes of our beloved Green Hills of Massachusetts. fSignedl ROBERT BICKFORD Witnessed by: EDITH M. NUTT EMILY L. SHANNON CLASS PROPHECY Operator, will you please get me Natick, Massachusetts, U. S. Af? Thank you. Na- tick 102 Please. You're welcome. Jean: John LeClair? John: Yes. Jean: John, this is Jean Barber. I was in the class of '37 you know and I'm curi- ous to know how everyone is. I've seen several of the class here at various times. John: I've been wanting to talk to some- one about the class myself. PAGE NINE

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ze 1937 seen or heard anything about Evelyn Bayer and Ruth Alexande1'? Jean: Oh yes. They have a candy store in Holland. Not ordinary candy! Some- thing that will be gone by the end of a short lunch period-thirty minutes long for example. John: I remember hearing about that. now that I think of it. Aren't the Morris sisters, Helen and Mary, in the concern? Jean: Yes. They manage a branch store. Marjorie Tho1nas helps them by canvassing from door to door. The candy is so gooey by the time she gets to the houses from the store, and resembles so much that it sells like wild-fire. Say, what about James Killeen? John: Don't tell me you haven't heard about James Killeen? He has quite an or- chestra! Bing Zicko and Arvin Mathews are his popular tenors. He plays on George Bennett's Salad Dressing Hour. David Dunn is the master of ce1'emonies. Jean: Do you remember hearing any- thing about Ruth Rogers or Muriel Rich- ardson John: I've heard about both of them. Ruth, with Margaret Wrenn and Phyllis Mills started a chain of over-night camps across the continent. Muriel Richardson spends her time making up lullabyes. Betsy Adams has begun a culture class on art and music appreciation. Jean: When you told me about Ruth Rogers, I thought about Elizabeth Duff from South Natick. John: NVhy? What has she to do with over-night camps? Jean: She spends most of her life in them. She's known over here as the platinum hitch-hiker. She came to Swe- den on a tramp steamer and has started hiking clubs all over Europe. That is, hik- ing from country to country. Mary Scha- vone, Aurelia Martinelli and Lillian How- ard recently accompanied her. John: I hadn't heard about that. Did you know that Joseph Marshall and Myril O'Leary coach hockey? That Silvano Mar- chioni and Ralph Manson run a Music Shop in Baltimore: that Robert Bickford has a huge farm in North Dakota, and that Rich- ard Lincoln and Samuel Agostinelli have made big names for themselves fishing? Jean: Why, no, and I'm glad to hear it all. Now, I'll give you some news! You You can't get ahead of me like that! You haven't read a good novel until you've read Helen Buell's Come With The Sun. War- ren Winner cross-stitched illustrations tor it. James Spiller and Harold Weatherby published the book. I've seen a lot of Wendell Bishop over here. He's studying to be a surgeon. Mary Keating was over here sight-seeing a few months ago. I ask- ed about some of the girls from the class. She told me that Shirley Hopf was a Gym Teacher of no small degree, that Marion Whittier was going in for tennis profes- sionally with Grace Ward. Mary herself. teaches Math in a girl's preparatory school in West Virginia. She said that Esther Steeves was teaching a new method of shorthand there-her own. I can remem- ber how she struggled with Gregg. She just could not write it! John: You've talked Iong enough. 1 cau't get a word in edgewise! I just re- membered that I had a letter a short while ago from Robert Col-e. He is in business with Thomas Klein and Francis Corkery. They are building contractors. They re- cently built a museum in New York for Robert Wright and Robert Stearns, famous artists. Goodwin Raider and William Daley run dude ranches in Texas. Goodie struck oil some time ago and sold Lawrence Randall half of the prop- erty. The Hall Brothers. Edwin and Henry have an institution in the west named for them. Jean: I can guess what it is too! Jo- seph Doucette has been successful with his Railroad, hasn't he? John: Yes, he has been and I think he owes some of his success to Chester Ryan. his partner. Kenneth Malpus hires em- ployees a11d Kenneth Thorpe is an engi- neer on the line. Walter Hilt is a fireman. The railroad is a modern one. Edith Welch, Priscilla VVade, Alda Balboni, and Josephine Arena are waitresses and Ethel Parmenter takes care of the children. Norman Boucher and Joseph Ramuno are baggage-masters. Jean: Robert Bell's Transcontinental Airway Line is successful in every way, isn't it? PAGE ELEVEN