North Quincy High School - Manet Yearbook (North Quincy, MA)

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virtuous attacks of these blue stockings, and exponents of tl1e jive flourished at the senior class dance. Recollect how any day you went to the studios of the class photographer you were sure to find seniors waiting to display those dazzling tooth-paste ad smiles for the benefit of a sensitized plate? Some day, when you are old and gray, you will meet an old lady who graduated with you who will cackle in senile glee, I have one of your class picturesg you never thought that those would return to haunt you, did you? But never mind, she'll only be revenging herself for the time you ditched her for that dizzy blonde that sat behind you in P. D. How could you forget the furor created by the discussions concerning what the well-dressed senior would wear to make his grand exit from his Alma Hater? The Rightists and Leftists, Blugwumps and Conservatives were all represented in the various contending elements in our previously placid puddle. Some held out for the old reliables, blue coats a.nd white flannels, while others were adamant in their vociferously expressed wish tor something new and different. This subject was of such vast importance that it really didn't matter that governments were being overthrown, that dictators were celebrating half-century birthdays, or that fuel picketers kept hot in the business of keeping Mr. Average Man cold, for what is as important as what one wears on the most important day of one's life? lYhat. revelries Class Day offered when you could revert to your own true nature and express your personality by sucking at lollipop in Physics, rolling your pants to expose a manly shank, wearing a hair ribbon two feet wide, and indulging in other intantile delights-when everyone piled into a procession of gaily streamered cars to spend the afternoon pleasure bent, swimming, dancing, and eating loads of goo! And then with the dawn of Commencement Day do you remember how the unholy glee with which you had looked forward to the time when you would finally quit this vale of tears began to be a bit forced as the actual hour of parting approached? Robert Martell Page Sixteen

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and canary yellow waistcoats but in conventional organdy, white flannels and blue coats. This is the year we chose our respective courses for better or for worse. Some of us had a taste of Latin and the usual dose of Grammar and l,iterature spoon- fed, but all too soon we were to find out how wearing a steady diet of such fare can be in the years to come. Tenth Grade-Now things began to be nasty. There were some who blithely signed awa.y their souls and all their spare time for three years when they decided to study French. Some of us studied for said we didl Plane Geometry although it wasn't at all plain. Those who had wandered into C'aesar's Callie ll'urs strug- gled with sentences which began, lVhen Vaesar had broken up his winter quarters where he had been all summer long, he took unto him all his slaves and their little baggages which they would not leave because they were possessed with a fondness for them in order to ride on his great steed which wore a ribbon in his hair and gold-plated shoes . . . and so on into the wee small hours of the night. Those who thought to become industrial tycoons or marry the office boy began their struggle with that obstinate creature, the typewriter. It was the strangest animal really, for it had ideas all its own on spelling. Remember those peculiar exercises like Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the partyu and other such masterpieces of mystery? Now we could help to carry on the grand old traditions of North as befitted members of the Senior High, among these, the helping to tear down the goal- post after the Quincy game even though that was the year we only tied with them. Eleventh Grade-Remember? That was the year you discovered what it was to take five majors. Although you worked like a horse on a treadmill, you never accomplished anything. lYeren't we relieved to see those one week holidays come around lYe went out every night in the week, and went skating all day long. Finally we had to go back to school to rest from such a round of debauchery. For the first time in North's history the Junior class was organized as a sep- arate unit. lYe elected our own officers and planned our own socials for our own diversion. But, taken on the whole, we were like the filling in the sandwich, just in between, but soon we would attain the dignity of seniors and could lord it over all that we could survey from our lofty pinnacle. Twelvth Grade-Remember the night of the Big lYind? Then we had the best excuse on this green earth for not doing our home work, for who could work without light to read by and a telephone to keep in contact with the wizard who knew all the answers? It really didn't matterthat the lights came on again fiveminutes later in some parts of the city because teachers eouldn't prove anything no matter what they surmised. At the Record Hop, Swing first entered the sacred portals of NQHS. 'l'he old rafters rang to the stomp of' the jitterbugs and hep-cats and the cheep, cheep of the Indian Love fall. Heated discussions were held behind the august portals of the Senior Student Vouncil, ranged in dignified state around their ping-pong table, concerning this menace to civilization. but swing withstood the Poge Fifteen

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EDITII A. ADAMS 303 Billings Street Burdctt College Archcry 3: Badminton 2: Ping Pong l: Bowling 2. 3: Tennis 3: Girls' Cluh 3 PHYLLIS M. ADAMS 43 Holyoke Street Burdctt College Tri-Hi-Y Club 35 Ping Pong l Horseback Riding 1, -2, 3: Bowl- ing l, 2: Girls' Club 3 ANNA A. AJEMIAX 201 Farrington Street Tratlic Squad 3: Jlanel Stall' 31 Glee Club 3: Orchestra I, Q, 3' Operetta 2: Bowling 3: Tennis 3 Girls' Cluh 3 1.y,,kW', JANE A. ALMINUS 247 Wilson Avenue Art School Girls' Basketball 1: Girls' Track 15 Archery 9. Ping Pong 1: Bowling 25 Tennis 3 PRISCILLA ANDERSON r 10 Landers Road Massachusetts State College fl: Photography 3' Girls' Cluh 3 I WI I,l,lA M ID. BALI. 27 Yane Street. l,owell Institute ol' Technology Wrestling il: lli-Y Cluh 21 Traffic Squad 2, 3: tilee Cluh l. Q. 3: Aeapella Choir 33 Operetta l. Q: Student Council Q, 3: Cafeteria Squad 3: Assem- lrly Committee 31 Honor Society Q, 31 llonor Boll l BARBARA A. BARNES 33 Sherman Street Horseback Riding Q, 3g Tennis Q: Girls' Cluh 3 DOROTHY H. BEAM 30 West Elm Avenue Girls' Basketball Q, 31 Tri-Hi-Y Cluh 2, 3: Photography 1: Library Stab 3: Commercial Awards 3: Girls' Club 3 BARBARA L. BEAN 40 Hamilton Street Burdett College 43 G Bowling 33 Girls' Club 3 '-J 'T 4 MARY E. BEGLEY 4-:Z Ilamilton Avenue Pliotography 3: Bowling Q, 3: Commercial Awards Q, 33 Honor Roll lg Girls' Club 3 Page Seventeen