North Attleboro High School - Northern Light Yearbook (North Attleboro, MA)

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VLe — NORTHERN LIGHT — 1949 O O O O O O O O O O O O O f O o o o o o o o o o o ROBERT THOMAS leaves Nancy Dunham behind him ' hut he wishes he could take her with him. DANA SANFORD leaves with his roller skates slung over his shoulder. BARBARA WALSH bestows her title of “Most Serious Girl” on Pat Feid. NOEL TREMBLAY, we see, is coiling up her line; she must be leaving, too. BOB LEGER leaves, with DINKIE and RALPH, for “The Hollow”. MARY LANGILLE bestows her title of “Best-Looking Girl” on Barbara Hunt. ANITA BURKE bequeaths her title of “Neatest Girl” to Elaine Taylor. JEANINE THERIAULT leaves her title of “Liveliest Girl” to Mary Ellen Rhind. PAUL TAYLOR leaves for Wally ' s, which he will soon take over and change to “Paully ' s”. BARBARA JOHNSON leaves her French ability to some struggling Sophomore who needs it. JOHN BLIEK leaves to pick up Paul at Paully ' s and then to head for the latest show at the Valley. LAURETTE DARGIS, LORRAINE MORRILL, and JOAN BANNON leave to- gether for Attleboro and happiness. JOHN POHOLEK leaves his title of “Cutest Boy” to Charlie Sullivan. JOAN MALINOWSKI leaves for Franklin, humming the tune to “Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny!” DONNA L ROSEE stays - just to keep the kids in the upstairs corridor quiet and in line. BERTHA ASH leaves to join the Metropolitan Opera. Got a couple of extra tickets, Bertha? ELAI NE ARSENAULT and RUTH DARLING leave for Wamsutta Drug to whip up some sodas. WILL CROSSLEY leaves his title of “Most Talkative Boy” to Bruce Jones. DOROTHEA MERCURE leaves for Hollywood to make a sequel to the “Snake-Pit”. Ah - such talent. FAE MILLER leaves to take up voice lessons at the Music Conservatory in Boston. DICKY LEARY leaves his title of “Best Dressed Boy” for his brother Don to pick up. BETTY FISLER leaves her title of “Most Ambitious Girl” to Barbara Totten. EILEEN MALONEY leaves her gift of gab to any poor, shy. Freshman who might need it in an embarrassing moment. 27

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Z Le — NORTHERN LIGHT — 1949 CLASS WILL Sylvia Blanchard Robert Clark W E, the Class of 1949, as members of North Attleboro High School, in the town of North Attleboro, County of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, do make, pub- lish, and declare this as and for our last will and testament - that is to say: We give, devise, and bequeath, to the Class of 1950 the privilege of paying our debts, if any there be. To the Class of 1951, we leave the torch to carry on the fight to have outsiders at their school dances. To the Class of 1952, we bequeath 95 magnifying glasses, so that they may find the new Freshman class more easily than we found them. Personal bequeaths are as follows: GERARD ACHIN bequeaths his popularity to Peter Dean. BEV WHITE leaves her title of “Most Popular Girl” to Pat Welch. ELAINE CORRIGAN leaves her title of “Best All Around Girl” to Pam Straker. BOB L. ROCQUE leaves his title of “Best All Around Boy” to Allan Spencer. GWEN HILLMAN leaves her title of “Smoothest Girl” to Nancy Garland. WINI STRONG bequeaths her strength to her sister, Helen. “Live ' Wire” D. J. POIRIER leaves his title of “Liveliest Boy” to Allan England. ABBIE GIBEAULT leaves her title of “Most Athletic Girl” to Dora Messier. ELSIE GOLDEN leaves for the unknown in her smoke-filled Huddy. MARTIN RYAN bequeaths his seriousness to Howard Mason. ELEANOR CASH, JOAN DALY, and DIANE GIBA.RD leave together, headed for the Sturdy Hospital, but to work, not as patients. ALVIN BATES leaves in his handsome convertible. LAURA BAKER bequeaths her title of “Cutest Girl” to Mary Macentier. HERBIE JOHNSON leaves for Goldbug ' s to look for a new’ car ' or maybe we’d just better say a car. BEN ANDREWS leaves his title of “Most Bashful Boy” to Beryl Knowles. JANET WEYGAND leaves her title of “Most Congenial Girl” to Betty Andrews. BOB OULETTE leaves his ability to dodge work to Joe Levis. 26 O O

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OLe — NORTHERN LIGHT — 1949 JACK McGOWAN leaves his title of “Best Boy Dancer” to that Fred Astaire of the Junior Class, John Bevilaqua. JEANNE LaFRATTA leaves her title of “Most Bashful Girl” to Barbara Shairier. DONNIE CHRISTENSEN leaves to join his brothers. PAUL DION bequeaths his good looks to Owen James. CECILE LANDRY leaves her dark, shining hair to Brenda Campbell. GEORGE JOHNSON leaves, still apologizing to Miss Washburn. NORMA JANES leaves her dancing ability to Barbara Weygand. ALLEN GALLOTTA leaves to work on his Plymouth. VIOLA GANANIAN leaves her title of “Smartest Girl” to Marilyn Asher. NORMAN ACHIN leaves as quietly as he came. LORRAINE WRIGHT leaves - in her Olds convert. ' Nuff said ' that lucky girl. GORDON BIELECKI leaves his brains to Robert Eunke ' boy, Gordon’ll have a tough time without his brains, but that ' s what it says here. LOIS KORMAN leaves for home to write a letter to a certain Bob in the Coast Guard. RONNIE PREGOURT leaves his friendliness to Johnnie Thorpe. SHIRLEY WHITE leaves the cash register ' she can’t take it with her. DAVE BROWN leaves his wit to anybody who might want it. NORMA MAIN leaves to pilot Line Noble through a happy life. LOIS KIRBY leaves for Hollywood to prompt Tyrone Power in his new picture. CHARLIE HEBNER leaves his title of “Boy Most Likely To Succeed” to Jeff McEnroe. HARRIET RUSHLOW leaves to join the Army ' to look for Bob. BILL THORPE leaves to follow his brother into PrO ' Football. JOAN LABRIE leaves her ability to knit those swell argyles to her sister, Ellen. CHARLOTTE BASSETT leaves to make some dough ' in Flagg’s. BEVERLY SEYMOUR leaves for her native land, India - because Mr. Treadwell’s been murdered. ROBERT BOUTIN leaves in a cloud of dust, on his scooterNike. ANN ECCLES, with ELEANOR GRIMALDI, leave for France ' we hear they’ve got some interest over there, but I couldn’t pronounce his name. PAUL CHASE leaves in the Ford convertible ' Marilyn’s right beside him, of course. RIPPY McCRETTON leaves his athletic ability to Gordon Bates.