Natick High School - Sassamon Yearbook (Natick, MA)

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10 A1554 N g 1937 John: Oh, yes. Dorothy lVIoir and Ethel Fritz are two competent flyers. Carl Gib- son is a priceless mechanic. Ruth Jordan and Marjorie Johnson are training to be air hostesses. Jean: Sonia Seaholm has a dress-shop here in Paris. Helen Graye and Hilda Ghetti are her models and Catherine Souckup tends to financial affairs. Anna Flynn and Angela Hodgman have an all- girl orchestra you know. Ruth Macdonald is a soloist, Margaret Murphy plays a trumpet and Helen Kunz is at the piano. John: Henry Peterson has started some- thing new in refrigeration. Vincent Fa- hey the absent-minded Professor and Henry Scott have gone to Annapolis. Wal- ter McMahon and Willis Martin surprised everyone by joining the Army and have proved themselves capable of responsibili- ties. Jean: Have you heard anything about Leona Culverhouse? What does she do? John: Don't tell me you haven't heard about Leona? Why, she's been known for her theaters in Massachusetts. One, in Framingham, that I recall right now, has some ushers from our class. Genevieve McGrath, Theresa Sulots. Filomena Sav- iano, Harry Palmer, Clifford Pulson. and Merrill Bent. Jean: 'I'here's to be a swimming meet in Shanghai soon. Catherine Scholl and Helen Young are sharing honors in the back-stroke event. Frances Todd and Vir- ginia Williams are to be in the diving ex- hibitions. John: I didn't realize until now, how far our class is separated. We have two representatives in Florida, trying their luck at fruit growing, Frank Johnson and Edmund O'Donnell. Jean: I haven't heard you say anything about Warren Thompson and Donald Mo- ran. John: Warren coaches football out in California. Donald is an assistant coach in Philadelphia. Have you seen Barbara Fenton? Jean: Yes, she's been over here with her Girl Scout troop. I saw Ruth McKechnie not long ago. She's modest about her work, but who's good at fancy work. Cro- PA'G E TWELVE cheting, knitting, etc. Tell me about Helen Mangle. John: We all knew when Helen gradua- ted that she'd be a success. She is the private secretary of an executiv-e in Wash- ington, D. C. Catherine Baker and Mar- jorie Knowlton have a hat store in New York. Barbara Hammond and Bernice Main are clerks there. Jean: Ida Pineo is a dancer over here. She is a stage star. I only saw her once, and I went back-stage to see her. Jennie Pellulo was there. She is the costume manager. James Boates was in charge of the lighting and I learned that John Hesek is the publicity man. John: Speaking of the stage. did you know that Rache Apostal is in Hollywood! Jean: Rachel John: Sure. He's known as 'llust A Joke Apostal! Beatrice Green and Doris Burke are nurses. Lewis Champney drives an ambulance for the same hospital. Jean: Over here, things are done right. David Murphy has invented a new style of diving. He comes down feet first. Edna Mabee and Alice Maba1'dy are in Sweden now. Evelyn Patil is going to meet them and they're going to America to show you how to cook delicious European meals! John: American food suits me. Since you've mentioned food I'll stay on the sub- ject. Armen Kaprielian and Richard Has- gill own a bakery. Joseph Downey and William Duffy drive trucks for them and Dominic Crisafulli and Nelson Marston keep the machinery in good working con- dition. Jean: I saw Evelyn Edwards in Spain when I was down there. She was with Catherine McHale when I saw her. They told me they were looking for inspiration for some new songs. Catherine w1'1tes words and Evelyn creates a tune . John: Good for them! We need some new music over here too. Jolm Jennings and Fred Kadlick own a broadcasting sys- tem in New Jersey. Madeline Murray is to start a series of talks next month on what the well-dressed child will wear in the fall. Jean: Mildred McInt.osh and Anita Grup- poso are working together on a mystery novel. Russia is the background.

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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

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ze - 1937 A John: We've covered the whole class now. Ihlll so glad that I know all about our classmates. Jean: So am I. Well, goodbye John, good luck. John: Same to you, Jean. Bye. CLASS WELCOME Parents, Teachers and Friends: It is with great pleasure that I extend to you a most cordial and friendly welcome to the Commencement Exercises of the class of nineteen hundred and thirty- seven. On behalf of my classmates, I in- vite you to participate in these joyous exercises which will bring to a triumphant close our careers as students of the Natick schools. During our days i11 school we have been taught the ideals of American liberty. Through our student government we feel that we have touched upon the principles of a democratic government, and we sin- cerely feel that in our student government we have learned some of the governmental problems which will send us forth as in- telligent voters, Through our participa- tion in sports we have learned the neces- sity of cooperation and fair play. It is with this solid foundation that we go forth into the world of affairs, not fully realizing what is before us, but hoping for the best in the enthusiasm of young man- hood and young womanhood. Some of us will be engaged in the peaceful pursuits of agriculture and tradeg others will Search further in-to the field of education: set- ting some high ideal and striving to attain it. Later, some will become engaged, per- haps, in the rough sea of political life, and will doubtless reap honor in State and Congressional legislation, bestowing bene- fit upon their fellowmen, while they hold high and responsible positions in official life. But as we go forth, each to fulfill his destiny in the new world into which we are about to emerge, we fully realize the benefits of this excellent education which the tax payers of Natick have so generouly placed before us. We know not what fate has In store for us, but we ask you to fry to understand what our ideals are. We hope that what- ever success we make of life will in some way bring a little satisfaction and pride to our parents and teachers who have en- deavored all these years to give us the means to make our way in this world. Though we are about to graduate from the Public Schools of Natick, I believe many of us will have a feeling of regret when the final moment comes, of leaving the many friends, and pleasant associa- tions we have made in schooi. Also per- haps, we dread the facing of the rough wheel of life. I think if we follow the wonderful fortitude that this country has just shown in overcoming the great handi- cap of the recent depression, no accom- plishment we shall endeavor to gain will be too difficult. If we remember the ancient proverb: A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, we shall face life bravely and make of ourselves honest, upright American citizens. CLASS FAREWELL Today we meet together as a class for the last time. We now face a future which holds for us unknown problems, making life for each one of us far more complex. We have labored for twelve years in preparation to meet this future, twelve years of education which we hope have been well spent. In his essay entitled A Liberal Educa- tion, Thomas Huxley likens man's life to a chess game. The opponent is Nature, who is fair but does not make allowances for ignorance: is just and patient, but never overlooks a mistake. It is, therefore, man's task to learn to play this game of life so that his mistakes, made through ignorance, will be few. Learning the rules and ways of this mighty game constitutes a liberal education. The question which is in the minds of lllally of us this afternoon, parents as well as graduates, is whether or not our twelve years spent in grammar school and high school have prepared us to meet the fu- ture. To those of you who stress only high scholarship I ask the question-has the person been taught the art of self-preser- PAGE THIRTEEN