Natick High School - Sassamon Yearbook (Natick, MA)

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.IX n n e Bill: ,Xnne Bill: An ne 2 Bill: Anne: Bill: Anne: also help him with the art work. Edna Sargent sews all the cos- tumes bv hand. Before I forget it, I must tell you about Harold Kedian and Leonard Freedman. They are in a partnership. They deal in highly explos- ive gas. Gerry Lever has just patented his latest invention, a Hot .Xir Condenser, which liedian and Freedman are going to market for him. ,Xmong them, they have quite a corner on the hot-air marketg really, almost a monopoly. Un the side, Gerry publishes a magazine, How To lieep Quiet. I don't believe the partnership helps at all with that. Ge1'ry's cartoonists are Roger XVillis and Ed McBride. XYell, who would ever think quiet little Gerald would ever become famous. It's like Kenneth McConnong he is director of a film com- pany. The company recently produced a mystery film, called The Missing Teeth with Herbert Church as the leading man and Pa- tricia I.ittle as the leading lady. It certainly made me think of l938l Have you heard about Mary Massie? She runs a bakery and has devised a Tongue Twister Roll which has made her famous. Evelyn Simonetta is her business manager. That is news. Have you heard about Roland Buell? He tried to become a hermit and started off into the Forests of XVest Natick without a single implement to help him make a livelihood. He was found walking around in a daze, having lost his memory and full of buckshot as a result of George Ulrich's hunting expedition. Dorothy Bernstein, prominent psychiatrist, is examining Buell to see if his mentality has been fatally injured. XiVhy Bill, it's 4:CO P. M. I've been here for nearly an hour. I must be going, but what shall I do for my story? Oh. make it up and I'll sign it. You've had plenty of Sassamoin practice! Come again soon, won't you? Thank you and I certainly will come again. And dont let Dick Taffe in when he comes! Goodbye. Goodbye. ANNE HAMILTON VVILLIAM DAVIS ADDRESS OF WELCOME Parents, teachers, and friends: It is my privilege and honor to extend to you a most cordial welcome to the Commencement Exercises of the Class of 1938. In behalf of my classmates I invite you to participate in the joy and happiness we are showered with today. Today brings about the end of our schooldays together. For the past twelve years we have been preparing ourselves to make our debut in the busy world. The first rung of the ladder has been reached. From this point we will begin to take on our own shoulders the various tasks that are de-A manded of us. Wle are all about to branch out into the winding roads of life. The time has come to answer that important question, What am I going to. be ?'l Our whole life may hinge on the way we turn at this point. Now is the time to prove that we made good use of the valuable time srpent in pur- suing this education. Tl-l If I 938 SASSAMDN

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Anne: Bill: Anne: Bill: Anne Bill: ,Xnne Bill: TH If I Q38 SASSAMDN on the nursing staff are Marion Casey. Shirley Hicks. May Mac- Donald and Beatrice Bennett. That is great news. But l've some even more startling! Ray Gar- vey designed the New Natick High School., which has just been com- pleted by George Barr and Billie Martin. jimmy O'Regan is Prin- cipal. Ruth Barnicle teaches English: Ann Davis, modern lan- guages: Mary Mctirath, Lating Raymond Bayer, Economicsg Marie Ahern, Mathematics: l'aul Hastings, Historyg Marjorie XVinn, Home Economics: Esther Trulli, Transcriptiong Louise Brovelli, Type- writing. Gloria Goodwin and Iflorrie Iivans coach the girls and Ed Lindqust coaches the boys. Leonard Lawson teaches life saving. The swimming pool is under the direction of Claire Doherty.. who is assisted by Sadie Scarano. Dorothy Hitchcock is the first woman to become Superintendent of Schools and she is doing a fine job of it. She has a large staff of secretaries to keep her enormous files straightened out. Virginia Rice, Katherine Sununu, Lucille Moffat. Margaret Lynch and Mary Foley. Frances lilezzza is her Book- keeper. I think that is wonderful. I feel quite proud of the success of the Class of l938. I heard the other day that Francis Antalek holds the world championship in typewriting. He can type no less than 300 words a minute. .-Xncl did you hear that VX'innie Lang just attained the shorthand speed of 350-F I can't imagine it. I remember back in school I would gasp in amazement when girls in my class would take dicta- tion at IZO words a minute. Do you remember our shorthand teach- er, Miss Church? XYell. if it hadn't been for her encouragement I think I would still be taking dictation at 5 words a minute, and then, of course.. I never could have become a newspaper correspondent. I suppose you have heard of the new Y. XY. C. K. agency here to- improve living conditions in the slums of Istanbul? Helen Kelley started it. Rita jordan is Iixecutive Secretary. Margaret Palmer. Lena Digeronimo, Pearl Lincoln and Marguerite Gilsenan are some of the workers. By the way, what ever became of Rita Marciano? You used to be great pals. Uh, Rita has just married a Count, don't ask me to pronounce his name: I can't even spell it. But he's very nice and is extremely wealthy. I saw Mary Wiignot take the world championship for Vyfomen Skat- ers last week. I was talking to her afterwards and she told me that Virginia lYebster's business forecasting service is giving Babson's quite a bit of competition. Mary also told me that Barbara Arnold has married a trombone player. That was to complete her one- woman orchestra. XYell, Barbara always did like musicians. Did you know that Iivelyn Leavitt runs a night-club, and her specialty features are the singing cowgirl. Celia Cooper. Hill Billy harmonica solos by Irving Morris, the Bluey Blues Singer, Lena Pepe, and Rose Traniello, aerial acro- bat. I forgot to tell you that I hear from X'X'alter Hopkins now and again. He has become famous for his costume-designing. His models are Margaret Zanchi, jean Charlton and 'l'afta Mangle. Jean and 'liafta

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TI-1 If I 938 SASSAMDN XYe have been taught the true meaning of true democracy. Vile have been taught through sports, how much more successful we might be if we worked together. XYe realize that we are about to enter a world filledrwith uncertainty, a world that is suffering from the assurance of peace. We real- ize that we will soon be called upon to take over the operations of our govern- ment. Now that we have been shown the importance of all this., we resolve that we will go to any extreme to preserve our liberty. Though we have spent the last few years in bettering ourselves, it does not mean that our education has ended. Undoubtedly some are pian- ning to attend some university or college. These students are bound to be- come advanced.. But those who may not have the opportunity to follow in this line will not be restricted. They, too, can advance themselves by educa- ting themselves through actual experience. XYe leave behind us only memories. A feeling of sorrow overcomes us as we are about to leave our classmates and teachers. But despite this, the happiness and joy which comes from our first triumph, relieves us some- what of this feeling. And so la-dies and gentlemen, as this class is about to disband, I wish again to welcome you here to witness the graduating exercises of the class of nineteen hundred and thirty-eight. ALFRED GRASSEY FAREWELL The ideals of a nation are the ideals of the men who form that na- tion, and the men who can best serve that nation's interests are and must be the men whose spirit of loyalty and cooperation is most sincere and intense. Vvith this philosophy as a basis of good citizenship we have set our course in a direction that will help us make our community, state.. and nation a better place in which to live. Everyone realizes the existing political and economic situation. Vve know that the world is not waiting with open arms to welcome us to success, as it was fifty years ago. More than ever are the problems of unemployment, under consumption, and over-production crowding out the un- fortunate and the weak. W'e realize that hard work is the only means byf which we may succeed. A knowledge of history teaches us that every generation has imagin- ed tltat its problems were the greatest, and while we believe that we are entering a world which is more unsettled than ever before, we hope that we are better equipped to combat our problems. During the past three years we have earnestly studied the arts and sciences, or the fundamentals of a business career, in order that we may con- fidently face the world when we leave Natick High School. VVhether we further our education in college or enter directly into the business world., the background which these years has provided will do much to give us confi- dence and courage when the trials of life seem the hardest. And so today, as we say a lingering farewell to our Alma Mater, it is with mixed emotion that we realize that we will no longer be able to listen to the exhortations concerning life, the counseling about the golden oppor- tunities that lie before, and the warnings of the hazards which lie ready to trip us. T believe that everybody in this class has the same logical optimism and faith that we will succeed. For this feeling of preparedness we thank