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msioiiy Vehicles staff in Boston presented the town of North Andover with a Pedestrian Safety Award for the second consecutive year. Valuable additions to our class this year were Carolyn Hawkes, who came to us from North Attleboro, Massachusetts, and Ann Farley, an English girl, who had been in the United States only one year when she entered Johnson High. Helen Marie McCarthy won first prize in the annual Annie L. Sargent Memorial Speak¬ ing Contest with her recitation of “Lincoln, the Man of the People.” A wonderful way to end the social activities of our junior year was the Junior-Senior Prom. This year a new system of after-prom entertainment was inaugurated. After the actual prom everyone went to the Andover Country Club where we were served a delicious chicken-pie dinner. Following the dinner we enjoyed a program of professional talent, including Cindy Lord, a vocalist, with dancing afterwards. Senior year marked the beginning of our last year in high school and the beginning of a new era in secondary schooling in North Andover. The Class of 1955 has the honor of being the first class to graduate from the beautiful new North Andover High School. Our choice of class officers has proved to be excellent as evidenced by the fact that we are the wealthiest graduating class in North Andover’s history. Bob Kellan served as president. Chuck Kettinger as vice-president, and Elsie Thomas as secretary-treasurer. Under the able leadership of our officers we sponsored many money-making projects during the year, the most successful of which were the Halloween Dance and bakery safe. This year Mr. Howard Crozier, coach of the football and track teams, and Mr. William Larochelle, coach of the basketball and baseball teams, were added to our faculty. In accordance with the change in the name of our school, the name of our school publi¬ cation was changed from “Johnson Journal” to “North Andover High-Lites.” We have enjoyed many assemblies including a “House of Magic” program presented by General Electric, a talent show in which various students participated, a program broadcast over radio station WCCM in which the chorus sang several of Victor Herbert’s famous songs, and a one- act play called, “Buried Treasure,” presented by Speech 1-1. The dedication of our new school was one of the high lights of our last year. Approxi¬ mately forty senior girls and boys conducted groups of townspeople around the building after the dedication exercises. Helen Marie McCarthy, Dot Hoessler, Maureen Cushing, Margaret Macklin, Bob Kellan, Kenny Bapacz, and Richard Nicosia all contributed to the success of the school play, “The Goose Hangs High,” by performing their parts so well. North Andover High School participated in the school exchange program in conjunction with Salem High, Salem, Massachusetts. Buth Fessenden, Marilyn Smith, Helen Marie Mc¬ Carthy, Richard Nicosia, and Bob Boutilier acted as our representatives. The class elected Gerry Forgetta, Maureen Smith, and Fran Gillick to serve on the prom committee along with the class officers. Later, Joan Valliere, Dot Hoessler, and Jane Sargent were added to the committee. Elsie Thomas, Dot Hoessler, Ann Doherty, Corinne Smith, Kenny Bapacz, and Bob Kellan were chosen to select the class colors and motto. We selected Bob Boutilier to be our Good Government Day Representative, and the class and faculty together chose Elsie Thomas as the recipient of the D.A.R. Good Citizenship Award. Mr. Hayes announced the class honors as follows: Helen Mooradkanian, valedictorian; Helen Marie McCarthy, salutatorian; and Dorothy Weingart, class essayist. We chose Bob Boutilier to be our class orator, and Corinne Smith and Bob Kellan to be the class marshals. We, as a class, have been most fortunate in many ways during the last four years of high school. We should take time here to thank our teachers, for they have prepared us to “Climb though the rocks be rugged.” Jane and Jerry { 27
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CLASS As we, the Class of 1955, look back over the last four years, we realize how significant and eventful they have been. From the time we entered as freshmen up until the present, we have strived to attain the one goal placed above all others: maturity. Our first step in organizing the class was the election of class officers. They were as follows: Michael Drummey, president; Larry Corcoran, vice-president; Roberta Bamford, secretary- treasurer. Our first social event of the year was the annual Freshman-Senior Dance which was held on October 26, 1951. The money obtained from this dance was entered as our first deposit in our newly formed treasury, a treasury which eventually proved to be one of the largest in the history of the school. On November 26, 1951, a very enjoyable assembly was put on by Chief Nee-da-beh. The Chief demonstrated different methods of calling geese, crows, and other animals. He also showed films of himself demonstrating the proper technique of fly-casting. To conclude the pro¬ gram, Chief Nee-da-beh and Viddie Knightly performed a spectacular Indian dance. On December 17, 1951, another interesting and profitable assembly was held. Mr. Bert Hill, a representative of the J. W. Robinson Co., presented Mr. John Donovan, on behalf of the school, the keys to a 1952 Dodge four-door sedan. This assembly marked the beginning of the driver-training program in our school, a course which enabled many to learn the proper way of driving em automobile and the common courtesies of the road so often neglected by the average driver. The annual Brooks-Johnson Scholarship examination was given to enable two qualified freshman boys to transfer to Brooks School at the end of the freshman year. The two winners were Michael Drummey and Leonard Perkins. Thus, we climaxed our freshman year. As sophomores, we elected Larry Corcoran as president, Maureen Smith as vice-president and Barbara Driscoll as secretary-treasurer. That year we added a new member to both the faculty and the class, Reed Kingston Taylor, director of speech and dramatics, and Pat Dineen, a student from Lawrence High School. Having removed the traditional “before” and “after” lunch period, the following new classes were added: music appreciation, speech, consumer education, and art in everyday life. Since this was an election year, the school took part in a mock election. The results proved interesting for our selections coincided with those of the adults. Later on that year we were given the opportunity of watching the President’s inaugural address. Three television sets were installed for this purpose. On February 27, 1953, the annual Sophomore-Junior Dance was held. The proceeds from this affair were equally divided among the two class treasuries. As juniors we re-elected Larry Corcoran as president of our class, Maureen Smith as vice- president, and Elsie Thomas as secretary-treasurer. In a successful attempt to enrich our treasury we sold red and black Johnson pins to our classmates. This year we welcomed two new teachers to our faculty. Miss Harriet Dunham began her stay with us by teaching problems of democracy, physical education and health, and by coaching the girls’ basketball team. Mr. Harwood Steele began by teaching typewriting and junior business training in the commercial field, along with consumer education. The school play, entitled “Curtain Going Up,” featured three junior class members. Helen Marie McCarthy, Rob erta Bamford, and Bob Kellan represented us well. The motion picture, “Lost Boundaries,” was shown to an audience of students in the hall at 2:00 p.m. in February of our junior year. We enjoyed many interesting assemblies during the year. Among them were a polio assembly at which a movie was shown of Camp Sea Haven, Plum Island, Massachusetts, which is used for children stricken with polio, and an assembly at which members of the Registry of Motor I 26
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