North Andover High School - Knight Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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1940 YEAR BOOK Elinor Cole bequeaths one of her better and more emotional poems to Mary Plummer. Rita Camire leaves her quiet friendliness and good fellowship to Barbara Bishop and her French accent to Virginia Gile. Grace Driscoll leaves her ability to get along with her classmates to Made¬ line Cashman, who seems to be doing all right by herself. Bing Miller leaves his voyages to Scollay Square to Ray Broadhead and Arthur Detora with the hope that they enjoy them as much as he has; and his quality of triumphant leadership to Robert Sullivan. Betty May, the girl of a very few thousand words, bequeaths her prodigious vocabulary to Eleanor Barrington and June Barnard, her expeditious talk to Joyce Chadwick, and her variable moods to Barbara Dearden, who always wears a cheery smile. John Cronin Roche leaves the directions on how to obtain a permanent in three easy lessons to Dorothy Harris and Ethel Lewis. Ruth Wheeler wills her brief case to Rita Pickles and Mary Howard, who we know will use it properly. Vito Melnikas wills two pounds of fish, mainly haddock, to anyone who wants them. Dorothy Dainowski bequeaths her acting ability to Helen Lang and Connie Kruschwitz, who are doing very well for themselves, and a mind of penetrat¬ ing keenness to Sarah Jacobs and Virginia Collins. Katherine Wainwright bequeaths a natural sweetness of disposition to Dorothy Nicoll and Elaine Kelly who are worthy successors, and her ability to set people at their ease to Charlotte Kruschwitz and Mary Carroll who also possesses this quality. Ruth Stevenson leaves her fourth dimension jokes to Doris Jackson and her contagious laugh to the Ayer twins. John Casserly leaves his First National Maxwell to Joseph Noone. Lottie Huminick leaves her quiet manner to Irene Taylor. Albert Hebb bequeaths his book “Beautiful Belles from Boxford” to Alex¬ ander Fraser. Robert Cunningham, the boy who is allergic to senior girls, leaves his title of “Freshman Thriller” to Gordon Rokes and his oratorical ability to George Emmons. Betty James leaves her genteel voice to Marion Flanagan. Eva Hoel leaves her indefinable charm to Virginia Miller. George Mattheson leaves his many travels to Methuen to Joseph Saunders. Marcia Barker leaves her cool manner of playing basketball to Ruth Ken¬ nedy and her humor that keeps the vision true and mind sweet to Marion McClung. George Porteck bestows his golden opinions upon George Wilton who will have to use them to the best of his ability. Janet Kershaw leaves her good nature and perpetual smile to Katherine Earl who has plenty to spare. Joe Flanagan leaves an overflowing quantity of broken hearts to Douglas Culpon, and a new hockey stick to William Donahue, who handles one nicely. To Wade Westbrooke, John Ranfone leaves his latest edition of “Art from the Acre.” Louise Detora leaves the perseverence which has made her one of our best girl students to Marguerite Costello. Marguerite Kenyon and Elsie Lundquist leave many charming qualities for Eleanor Lewis to add to those she already possesses. 25

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JOHNSON HIG HSCHOOL Dot Costello leaves her super walk with all its bobbing and weaving to Betty Hopping. Doris Rea leaves her glorious goldy locks and-her beautiful blue eyes to Sylvia Harris who has plenty to spare. Frances Martin wills her skill to argue though vanquished, to the debating team of Thomas Lesure, Joseph Finneran, John Greenler, and Robert Kimel. Doris Gustafson leaves her long list of telephone numbers to Arlene Smith whose supply appears to have run out. Bob Hall leaves the role of class shiek to Ernie Summers. Bill Robinson leaves his ability to trip the light fantastic and his version of the jumping jive to Robert Richard who, we hear, is an ardent devotee of the Terpsichorean art. Doris Robinson bequeaths her studious habit to Doris Goodrich and An¬ toinette Montanaro. Arthur Currier leaves a strong musical inclination aroused by several years of intense study to George Hayes, the Harry James of the junior class, and to Robert Weatherbee the reputation of a physicist-deluxe. Mary Dineen wills her recent trips to Nashua to Frances Lefebvre. She also attributes her ability to bring Barbara home early to Robert Sullivan. Sam Messina leaves his adroit excuses to the faculty, and an avalanche of toys to Philip Donnelly. Thomas Sullivan and Bertram Patterson, those two distinguished scholars, Isabel Rabs endows with a set of “Dolly Dimple Stories” to be read when the teacher gets boring. Agnes McNab and Marguerite McKinnon, being Scotch, merely leave. David Ritchie leaves the song, “I Can’t Give You Anything But LOVE Baby,” to Louise Page. Jack Lanni bequeaths his bewildered facial expressions seen frequently in physics to Robert Wainwright and Daniel Valpey, and his quiet, demure ways to Hele n Polichnowski. John Lamprey leaves a voice delightfully musical to Ernest Lickenworth and his innocence to Oliver Kirk. Eugene Ruess wills his successful method of passing notes under the very noses of the sharpshooters of the faculty, to Irene Oates. Mary Carey, the blushing violet of the senior class, leaves her preference for out-of-town boys to Bernie Brierley, Dolly Phair, and Josephine Tardiff, and her ultra soprano voice to Lena Ranfone ; also her ability to talk herself out of study periods to Evelyn Dawson and Pauline Frost. Virginia Wentworth bestows upon Mary Giarusso and Frances McCallion her ability to wield a crayon and paint brush. Harriet McQuesten leaves her multi-colored jacket to Wilma Haddow— take care of it, Wilma. Mary DeNault and June Crossman leave their intimate friendship to Elaine Farnham and Muriel Chadwick, also to Ethel Lawton and Bea Murray. Phil Kelley, the atom of the senior class, bequeaths the excess weight that kept him on earth during the windy season to Thomas Howard and Thomas Casale, and his own top-notch hair tonic to James Dewhirst and Kenneth Robinson. Lillian Polichnowski endows George Massey with the ability to whip the tune from a violin. Robert Chandler Miller leaves his collection of neckties, shirts and sport coats, the loudest we have ever gaped and gasped at, to Carleton Lacaillade. Joe Jacobs leaves Johnson sighing, with relief. 24

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JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL Ed Doherty leaves on the back of an Army mule. Dot Kreusel wills her map of Lawrence’s night spots to Shirley Harrison. Mildred Margerison bequeaths her devotion for a sophomore boy and Florence Petteruto her love for a certain red-haired senior, to any girl de¬ siring them. Red Greenwood leaves an amazing ability to score baskets for his opponents to Scarecrow Willis who should prove adept. He also leaves us seasick with the waves from his hair. Eleanor Valpey bestows her business ability upon Ruth Atkinson. James Flanagan leaves to Charles Welch his indefatigable wind and spirit in cheering Johnson’s athletic teams to victory. Hazel Morse leaves her soundproof slippers, used for coming home in the early hours of the morning, to Marguerite Soucy. Thus, we, the Class of 1940, having bestowed upon our worthy successors what little we had in our possession, do affix our signatures to this worthy and legal document, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and forty. Signed, WILLIAM F. MACKIE In behalf of the Class of 1940 CLASS PROPHECY EING thoroughly fed up with the big city, and with nothing to do, and all summer to do it in, I decided to take a trip up through New Eng¬ land. I wanted to do something different from the usual thing, so I decided to go by way of the fifth finger or the horizontal thumb or anything else that you want to call it. I mean bumming. I had hardly left New York, when I was nearly run down by a mammoth van, that, though called a truck, resembled a streamlined train more than anything else. The driver had stopped a little farther along and was waiting for me. What a break! As I climbed up into the cab, I saw a familiar face grinning down at me from behind a long dead and cold cigar butt. It was my old classmate, Jack Lanni. But what a difference! As I remembered Jack, he was the he- man athletic type, but now his fine big athletic chest had slipped down to a position half way between his shoulders and his knees. I noticed that he was driving a truck labeled Robinson’s Rapid Transit. — Nothing goes Rancid with Robinson. I could well believe that, as I remember how William Edward used to breeze around town during our high school days, but Jack informed me that this was only a side line with Bill, as he and that other Casanova of the senior class, Bob Hall, were the proprietors of the Enchanting Escort Enterprise. And I could see why this was so, for I vividly remembered the lists of names and telephone numbers that these two had. He said that their most popular escorts were Harry Bunker, Albert Hebb, and John Lamprey among the boys. I was surprised, for they were never exponents of the Terpsichorean art while in school, but Jack explained that that was all changed now, and also that Agnes McNab, Lillian Polichnowski, and Dot Costello, were by far the most overworked members of the fair sex employed by our auspicious business men. But this came as no surprise, for I remembered they were very pop- 20