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

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THE GOBBLER-1946 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL Brooks School used to be. The walls of the main building are domed in beautiful murals painted by June Davis and Herbert Brightman. Shirley Wentworth is the charming receptionist and Joan Pitman and Mary Ness are highly-valued secretaries. Chuck Walsh and Eddie Hamel have taken over the old Kittredge estate and converted it into a rest home. (Eddie and Chuck are their own best clients!) Gardner Cook, Red Chadwick and Arthur Carlson have bought up most of the little town of West Boxford and are raising chickens on a large scale. They specialize in featherless chickens! Ethel Winning and Stewart Wood are married and manage the Town Infirm¬ ary. Norman Campbell is a Baptist minister and has the largest congregation of women of any church around. Francis Shottes teaches ballroom dancing for Arthur Murray. Bill Driscoll (Dric) is a draft clerk (he opens and closes windows) at the nation’s largest bank. Eddie Pevine tailors the clothes for all the distinguished gentlemen of the United Nations. And so our visit comes to an end! It has been wonderful to think what bene¬ fits our little town and our friends could derive from the good fortune of being chosen for such a distinguished honor of being the site for maintaining inter¬ national peace and security. We are “Off to the Races” in a cloud of dust when our futuristic dream is rudely interrupted by Miss Buckley calling the room to order! Respectfully attempted by Bev and Chief CLASS WILL We, the Class of 1946, being of sound mind (it says here in fine print.) do hereby grant to you juveniles a portion of our brains and knowledge. To begin with, our football co-captains, Nick Evangelos and Jackie Wilkin¬ son, leave their team’s victory over Punchard to Bob Mitchell. If Bob runs as fast as he drives, Heaven help Punchard! Bev Howard bequeaths her beauty and athletic ability to Joyce Robinson, but does Joyce really need either of them? Bob Smith grants the melodious music of his Mad Musical Maestros to Don James and his Four Ferocious Fiddlers. Elsie Miller relinquishes her office as president of the Sigma Zeta Sigma to Ruthie Fickenworth and Barbara Gallant. The expansion plans of the club make this twosome necessary. Ed Mooradkanian passes on his violin to Harold Vincent. Chuckie is astounded and wonders what to do with it. Barbara Cochrane leaves her never-ending gift of gab to Margaret Tullis. Midge is speechless. To Paul Adler goes a couple of spare inches of Howie Doherty’s tall stature. Wherfe are you going to put it, Paul? 29

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THE GOBBLER-1946 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL minds and decided it was cheaper for two to live than one. They have a special little ball club of their own, known as the “Long A. C.” Gloria Bottai and Frank, her husband, are improving their time and their minds by studying medicine at Western University. Refreshed by our meal and pleasant conversation, we are now ready to make a tour of this new metropolis with the Mayor. As we go up Main Street we notice a building where the City Newspapers are published, the Gazette, edited by Rita Mulchahey, and the International, edited by Larry Walker. June Ingram is head reporter and Barbara Cochrane writes the T. T. A. column for the Gazette. Vic Brightman is Larry’s photographer and Carol Berry writes the humor column. We see a large sign on a very swanky building, “You Want It—We Got It” and Bill tells us that here Clarence Spencer runs a very modern junk exchange. Next door is the Mangano Plumbing Works and across the street a large truck¬ ing concern headed by Gerry Kent. We call on Blanche Turner, who is hostess and dental assistant to her father, and as we leave her office we meet a distinguished and familiar Merchant Marine officer, Capt. Joseph Rand, Chief of Naval Operations in Washington. We visit the radio studio and we are amused and amazed by Bob Skinner and Lizzie Marland, who are comedians on several of the popular programs. We notice several large lighted signs billing a performance of the Ballet Russe, and read the words “Starring Margaret Ann Holder.” Bill invites us to a performance by the North Andover Symphony Orchestra under the direction of William Torrey. Donald Phair, Pat Chadwick and Arthur Terret are out¬ standing in the clarinet section. As we ride up Main Street we see a large impressive glass building across the street from where old Johnson stands. The grounds are laid out ideally and there is a huge athletic field and stadium. This, we are told, is the new high school. We see a young man coming down the steps staggering under a load of heavy books. We take a second look and discover it is Fred (Horror) White. He says he is taking his P. G. and really having a “peachy” time with all the new teachers. Barbara Lambert is teaching biology there, and Eleanor Finn is principal. Pat Bredbury is coaching girls’ athletics. Her girls have been unde¬ feated for four years. Sally Kane is the music supervisor and Jack Wilkinson is athletic coach for the boys. Fred tells us that Ethel Shapcott has charge of a nursery school for the children of the United Nations delegates established in the Old Johnson High School. Nancy Kinports is a Powers model in New York, and Shirley Pendlebury is owner of a large roller-skating rink at Salisbury Beach where she is teaching fancy skating. Nicky Evangelos is athletic coach at Phillips Exeter, and Helena Saunders is Superintendent at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. There is a beautiful hospital on the hill overlooking the lake where Dr. Oscar Soucy has his practice and Shirley Kelly and Rita Nicetta are his medical assistants. The United Nations Headquarters are situated on the Russell Estate where 28

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THE GOBBLER-1946 JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL Mary Ness, Shirley Wentworth, and Eleanor Marland leave their well-worn typewriters to Aggie Doherty, Bunnie Bashaw and Rosalie Camasso. Do the A’s in type go with this gift, girls? Our handsome boy Frannie Shottes leaves his week-end trips to Hilltop to Bob Blanchette. Bob wonders what Frannie can find interesting there since the place closed down. You’ll learn, Bob! Martha Glidden and Ruby Dill leave their carefully copied D. A. note-books to Mary Curley and Natalie Giglio. Just sit back and take it easy, kids. Tommy Giaquinta leaves his innocent look to Carmen Petteruto and Bob Nicetta. Their verdict is not guilty in both cases. Our atomic blondeshell Maggie Holder willingly bestows upon Joyce Gilman her precious bottle of peroxide. Now they’ll have a good excuse for calling you goldie, Joyce. Our own Mutt and Jeff combination, Vic and Herb Brightman, pass on their prize possessions, one well-strummed guitar and one well-thumbed Senior Social notebook, to Carl Nelson and Dave O’Melia. Your worries are over, boys. Our little personality kid, Alma Sanford, leaves her popularity and all-round good-naturedness to Marie Torpey. Now, Marie, you have twice your share. Bob Hope Skinner hands over his inexhaustible supply of corn and phone numbers to Francis Conners. Won’t Francis be surprised; and what a shock to the girls! Gloria Bottai passes on her one-man complex, plus her well-polished brains to Barbara Stewart. We wonder who the lucky 0. A. 0. is going to be. Bill Wilson bequeathes to Bob Wilson all the many unnecessary trips he has made to the office and all the confusion that goes with having like names. Helena Saunders leaves to Rita Farrell all her instruction books on how to attract the men from St. Johns. Men, that is! Tony Laurenzo solemnly passes on his sailor suit and his sea stories to Steve “Suds” Doherty. Steve can’t be any more salty than he already is. Ethel Shapcott leaves her contagious giggle and her key to a “laugh your way through” life to Mary Frechette. Officer Joe Rand leaves his smash hit performance in this year’s play to George Stewart. Think you can arrest a few laughs, George? Kay Roche passes on her shyness and the mischievous sparkle in her left eye to Franny Narushof. Franny is simply a terror now. To Herbie Wild goes Red Chadwick’s bee-ootiful blush. Is his face red! Barbara Lambert leaves her huge appetite while studying and her before¬ season trips to the beach to Marilyn Kent. Phil Long leaves his “Do not disturb” sign plus two alarm clocks to Don Dearden. Phil is certainly glad to get rid of the alarm clocks and Don has a good idea where he’ll use the “Do not disturb” sign. Mabel Arlit hands over her merry Oldsmobile to Denise Blanchette. Denise can slow down to 85 now. Vincent Ippolito bestows upon William Carter his trusty dictionary. For Bill’s benefit Ippy has added a few helpful hints of his own. 30