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

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THE GOBBLER-1946 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL BARBARA J. COCHRANE “An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.” Band 1, 2, 3 Glee Club 3, 4 Girl Reserves 1, 2 Journal 3 Gobbler 4 No matter what is going on, Barb will appear sooner or later. It’s amaz¬ ing how one person can get so much done. MARTHA E. GLIDDEN “Better be small and shine, than be great and cast a shadow .” Girl Reserves 1, 3, 4 Martha is a little lass with blond hair and hazel eyes. Good luck to you, Martha. ANTHONY C. LAURENZA “ Home is the sailor, home from the seas.” Tony is a Naval dischargee who left Johnson in 1943 and now has returned to complete his education. Tony has brown eyes, dark hair, and is a smooth dancer. He likes to get up at dawn and go hunting. While in the Navy he attended Wisconsin Univer¬ sity for a radio course, and he plans to make radio engineering his career. DONALD J. C. PHAIR “. . . and the hunter is home from the hill” Band 1, 2 Orchestra 1, 2 Don has hunter’s blood in him. He says he had rather hunt than eat. A quiet sort, Don will get by in what¬ ever work he chooses. RITA A. MULCHAHEY “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Class Secretary 1 Journal 1, 2, 3, 4 (Editor) Gobbler 4 (Editor) Lunch Room With Rita goes her little black bag. Give her a pen and a few words and you have a budding Shakespeare. Good luck, Rita. You’re sure to make the grade. THOMAS J. GIAQUINTA “ No terms but unconditional sur¬ render ” Football 3, 4 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4 Play 4 Tom was last year’s sharp shooter in Room 6, and also on the basketball floor. His curly hair and smooth dancing put him tops with all the girls. Becoming an aviation mechanic in the Navy is his intention for next year. SHIRLEY M. PENDLEBURY “And happy will my nature be.” Prom Committee 4 Journal 4 Glee Club 3, 4 Shirl has always been the first one to speak up whenever things get out of hand. Her friendly personality will be an asset to her in future years. 18

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THE GOBBLER-1946 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL PALMER J. LONG, Jr. “A good fellow; could more be said!” Band 1, 2, 3 Palmer is quiet, but he can be fun. An active member of our band, he certainly can go to town on the clari¬ net. MARJORIE I. MITCHELL “The world is very beautiful.” Gobbler 4 Girl Reserves 4 Lunch Room 4 Margie loves the out-door life. Just name an animal and she has owned it sometime or other. She’s friendly, cheerful, and lots of fun. MARY G. NESS “She was a phantom of delight.” Journal 1, 2, 3, 4 Prom Committee 3 Gobbler 4 Girl Reserves 1, 2, 3, 4 Glee Club 3, 4 When you’re looking for zip, look for Mary, ’cause she’s just full of it. She plans to be a secretary, and every¬ one who knows her will agree she’ll make a good one. RITA A. NICETTA “A friend in need . . . .” Journal 1, 2, 3, 4 Girl Reserves 2, 4 Gobbler 4 Speaking Contest 3, 4 Rita has brown eyes and light brown hair. She’s a lover of French and Senior Social. Oh, Rita, how could you? Good luck to you in your nursing career. EMILY E. GEORGE “Sweet and lovely” Sugar is sweet, but Emily is sweeter. She has brown hair, brown eyes, and just scads of clothes. Tell us how you got your driver’s license, Emily. ROBERT A. SMITH “Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.” Basketball 2, 3 Gobbler 4 With his blue eyes and blond hair you’d think that Bob would always be after the women, but he’s satisfied to spend his spare time hunting, fishing, or playing his trumpet in a James-like style. Bob is slated for the Navy. WILLIAM E. TORREY, Jr. “My mind to me a kingdom is.” Band 1, 2, 3, 4 Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4 Journal 4 (Assistant Editor) Gobbler 4 (Assistant Editor) Salutatorian Bill is known to everyone by his willingness to help others to solve problems that are easy to him. He has blue eyes and brown hair. He likes music and swimming. He plans to attend college and study chemical engineering. BLANCHE L. TURNER “Thy modesty is a candle to thy merit.” Student Council 2 Glee Club 3 McIntosh Speaking Contest 3 (2d prize) Cheer Leader 2, 3, 4 Blanche may be small, but she gets a lot done. She deserves a prize for being the best woman driver at John¬ son. Seriously interested in music, she plans to continue her studies and B. U. Blanche comes in from Boxford. SHIRLEY M. WENTWORTH “Though learned, well-bred; and though well-bred, sincere” Journal 1 , 2, 3, 4 (Asst. Editor) Gobbler 4 (Asst. Editor) Student Council Curtis Contest Manager Class Essayist An all-’round girl, a pal to every¬ one, and a top honor student, that’s Shirl! CLARENCE W. SPENCER “Eight to the bar” Who can forget the way Spencer tickles the old ivories in some hot boogie number? He’s an industrious fellow with a real zest for airplanes. He hopes to make them his life work. 17

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THE GOBBLER-1946 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL SALUTATORY The Chemist: Molder of a Better Destiny PM HEN we, the American People, on the seventh day of December, 1941, 5 J I found ourselves again at war on a global scale, we were living on a plane that bore but little resemblance to the pre-war period of a quarter-century earlier. Our clothes, our foods, our homes, were different. The character of our work was changed. Our environment and thinking were those of a new age. Millions of dollars had become hundreds of millions in our national planning. Private industry risked tens of millions on ventures that earlier would have commanded hardly a tenth as much. Hosiery and furniture alike were being made from coal, water, and air; dresses from wood; farm fertilizers from the atmosphere; camphor from pine stumps. These and many other achievements of chemical synthesis had altered or made obsolete trade practices and customs as old as the race. Moreover, the scientist was just getting started. Tens of thousands of new chemical compounds and metallic alloys awaited his full exploration. We were speculating on the eventual conquest of disease. The elimination of poverty, at least as a social problem, was considered a goal that well might be realized. And, as organic chemistry was the source spring of a major share of the infini¬ tude of changes that inspired such hopes, the influences of the First World War could be very definitely traced here also. Our organic chemistry industry in the United States grew directly in answer to needs violently made evident by the war. It is unnecessary to detail to chemists what has happened in chemistry since 1914. That year a mere handful of 528 workers made up the nation’s total em¬ ployment in the production of coal-tar chemicals. American-made dyes were not even listed in the official census reports. Our farmers had to buy German potash and Chilean nitrate. Our physicians looked to Europe for important drugs and optical glass. All science looked to Europe for leadership. The bitter lessons of the First World War brought about the establishment of an organic chemical industry in the United States. For this, we have much to be thankful. I am not implying that chemistry provides the one Aladdin’s lamp which all scientists must rub. However, let chemistry be ignored and the other lamps become lifeless ' brass. Perhaps the greatest benefit that has come to America from our chemical awakenings is the renascence of all science that has accom¬ panied it. The chemical synthesis of vitamins, for example, to say nothing of hormones and the sulfa drugs, not only is revolutionizing medicine and diet¬ etics but putting these sciences on incomparably higher planes of performance and future promise. The famous tribute paid Washington—first in peace and first in war—might be paid with equal justice to chemistry. Its record during the First World War is history. Its contribution to the nation’s progress during the peaceful years of the 20’s and 30’s while the organic chemical industry grew to maturity, 19