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

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THE GOBBLER-1944 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL JOHN R. BURNS Blue eyes . . . blond hair . . . skating . . . boating . . . “Red” . . . dimples . . . goes for Jack London stories . . . likes math .. . shy ... headed for the service PAUL HULUB Class Vice-President 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . Football 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . Baseball 2, 3 . . . salvage drives (chairman) . . . Class Supper 3 ... A. A. member . . . brown eyes and hair .. . six-footer ... physics . . . heartbreaker ... dancing . . . Jack London, of course . . . duck hunting . . . is gracing U. S. Marine Corps GALE H. KLEINER Blue eyes . . . light brown hair . . . tall... quiet. .. hunting . . . fishing ... skating . . . swimming . . . skiing . . . western stories ... Zane Grey... phys¬ ics .. . passed Army A-12 DOROTHY F. ST. LOUIS Transfer student from L. H. S. 2 . . . officer of Girl Reserves . . . hazel eyes, brown hair . . . adventure stories . . . writes him a letter a day . . . Canobie Lake ... ice skating . . . loves long hair . . . movies, dancing . . . Bing Crosby . . . secretary WANDA A. STEFANOWICH Defense chairman . . . brown hair, blue eyes ... sports .. . office machines . . . Florida sunshine STUART R. WOOD 5 ' 7 ... hazel eyes ... skating, base¬ ball, football . . . dancing (good!) . . . bowling ... A. A. member . . . Obser¬ vation Post . . . salvage drive (chair¬ man 3, 4) . . . Victory Corps 3 . . . friendly, quiet . . . headed for farming after the war .. . now sailing the Seven Seas SEVENTY-FIFTH GRADUATION EXERCISES Johnson High School Stevens Hall, North Andover, Mass. June 23, 1944 Processional March . . . Prayer. Response . Class Salutatory with Essay- “Your Land and My Land” Orchestra Mendelssohn .Rev. Clinton W. Carvell .Chorus “The Art of Enjoying Music” Caroline Hayman . Romberg Chorus Class Essay—“Practical Idealism” .Barbara Loyola Dandeneau “Great Is Thy Love”. Bahm Chorus Class Oration—“The More Prepared, the More Powerful” William Norman Wilkinson, Jr. Presentation of Prizes.The Principal North Andover Woman’s Club Scholarship Award . . Mrs. C. Mason Tucker Presentation of Diplomas. Dr. Fred C. Atkinson “Holiday”. Ganne Chorus Essay with Valedictory—“New Horizons” .... Joan Therese Fitzgerald Class Song .Graduates “The Star Spangled Banner”.Audience and Graduates Exit March 18

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THE GOBBLER-1944 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL WILLIAM N. WILKINSON, JR. Class Orator ... football 4 ... Block Captain . .. room agent 2 . .. Andover Harvard Club Award 3 . . . basketball (manager) 4 . . . baseball (manager) 4 . . . blond, blue eyes . . . sailing, foot¬ ball . . . Ellery Queen . . . divided be¬ tween German and math . . . Miss Cook’s joy in S. S. S. GLORIA M. WILSON Journal contributor . . . shiny black hair . . . mischievous . . . brown eyes . . . loves dancing . . . German . . . sophisticated . . . Kathleen Norris’ books . . . skirts galore . . . nurse LILLIAN H. WINNING Blue eyes . . . blond hair . . . petite . . . friendly personality . . . Girl Re¬ serves . . . salvage drive . . . dancing . . . Erie Stanley Gardner . . . Senior Business Training . . . piano . . . child nurse GEORGE A. CASALE Football 2, 3, 4 . . . Gobbler 4 . . . handsome . . . aviation books . . . Bunny’s . . . Air Corps . . . physics . .. sports . . . quiet . . . movies once in a while . . . Jack London JOHN J. CYR, JR. Football 2, 3, 4 ... A. A. play 2, stage manager 3, 4 . . . Gobbler 4 . . . Prom Committee 4 . . . Scrap Drive Chair¬ man 3, 4 . . . black hair, blue eyes . . . sports . . . Senior Social Science . . . Navy JOANNE FENTON A. A. member . . . Journal contribu¬ tor . . . salvage drives . . . observation tower ... Miss Kelly’s secretary . . . gray eyes, brown hair . . . straight out of Mademoiselle ... walking ... Booth Tarkington . . . dancing . . . English ... knitting ... Mary Washington Col¬ lege DORIS C. KASHETA Leading drum majorette. . . brown eyes, wavy brown hair . . . fancy ear¬ rings . . . fried clams . . . dancing Sat¬ urday nights . . . movies . . . typewrit¬ ing . . . tap and toe dancer JOHN C. POH Football 2, 3, 4 . . . baseball 4 . . . Student Council—Room 8 (chairman) 4 . . . red hair . . . freckles (who’ll vol¬ unteer to count ’em?) ... a vote for Jack London . . . one of our bootball heroes . . . likes math ... on to college DONALD A. RENNIE Football 1, 2, 3, 4, co-captain 4 . . . baseball 2, 3, 4 . . .Class Supper Com¬ mittee 3 . . . basketball 4 . . . Class Marshal . . . brown eyes . . . curly hair . . . Claire . . . reads Jack London . . . likes science . . . Army AUDREY W. STEWART Journal 2, 3, 4 . . . Gobbler 4 . . . sal¬ vage drive . . . Girl Reserves . . . Civil¬ ian Defense . . . swimming, bike riding . . . curdling murder stories . . . book¬ keeping . . . last row in S. S. S. . . . writing letters . . . hazel eyes, brown hair . . . nursing 17

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THE GOBBLER-1944 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL SALUTATORY Mr. Hayes, distinguished guests, faculty, parents and friends: It gives me great pleasure to welcome you in behalf of the Class of 1944 to this, the seventy- fifth graduation exercise of Johnson High School. The Art of Enjoying Music IS impossible to develop the art of enjoying music simply by reading books about it. The one absolute necessity is to hear plenty of music of all kinds, and thus get the habit of forming one’s own opinions. If these opinions keep changing, so much the better. It probably means that a definite development of taste is taking place. If a piece of music sounds dull and uninteresting at a first hearing, don’t give it up on that account. The fact that its beauties are not obvious is quite likely to be in its favor. On the other hand, do not be carried away by first impressions. Music that follows the line of least resistance may be temporarily popular, but is not necessarily good on that account. In listening to music of any kind, try to listen from the standpoint of the five organizing factors: rhythm, melody, harmony, tone color and form. They will appear in varying degrees of importance, but they will inevitably be present in every significant composition. The “foot-listener,” who merely responds to rhythm, is decidedly limited in his enjoyment of music, but the “head-listener,” who approaches the art with his intellect alone, is perhaps just as limited. Between the two are the “heart- listeners,” the emotionalists, to whom music is just a romantic stimulant. The great majority of haphazard listeners respond to music in this way. But anyone who makes an art of enjoying music approaches music from all three angles: physically, by way of the feet; emotionally, by way of the heart; and intellect¬ ually, by way of the head. All really great music of the world is written with this triple appeal. The direct pleasure that comes from the recognition of inspiration in a piece of music is something impossible to describe. Fritz Kreisler has given it the physical sensation of that tingling, shivering ecstasy commonly known as “goose flesh,” and he may be right when he says that only the music that produces that particular sensation is really worth while. Beyond this direct enjoyment and analysis of music there are unlimited possibilities of associating it with other interests, as well as with other studies. If your mind is a mathematical one, you can find all sorts of opportunities to work out the mathematics of music. The relationship of vibrations to pitch is a mathematical one. The 440 A is considered Standard Pitch, meaning that the sound A above middle C represents 440 vibrations per second. Each interval of the scale has a mathematical relationship to the adjoining tones and all the others. All the details of time and rhythm are naturally mathematical in a very special sense, and the term “measure” really differentiates the modern, well- 19