North Troy High School - Trojan Yearbook (North Troy, VT)

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CLASS WILL We, the class of 1955 of North Troy High School, located in the Town of Troy, County of Orleans, and State of Vermont, being in poor health and unsound minds, in possession of and willing to dispose of our entire worldly estate. do hereby declare this to be our last Will and Testament. TO THE SCHOOL BOARD AND FACULTY: We leave our sincere appreciation for their splen- did aid in giving us the best education possible. MR. TWISS: We will a memo book which con- tains a littleatribute to him from each of the Se- niors. MR. TITUS: We will a new car so he won't have to walk to school on cold wintry mornings. MR. BRENNAN: We will two more star basket- ball players to take the place of the two who are graduating. MR. HARMON: We leave our promptness and happy faces with hopes that he will distribute them among those he teaches in the future. MR. HAYNES: We leave an extra box of band- aids in case too many of the boys in the shop bang their fingers. MR. ZENO: We will several boxes of cigars in case he needs them to pass out this summer at his wedding. MR. MARINO: We will a magic wand in hopes that the N. T. H. S. Band will sound like the Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra. MRS. HARDING: We will an automatic machine to be used in homemaking classes to tap the heads of those who whisper when they should be deep in thought. MRS. TOOF: We will a more ambitious seventh grade for her to teach next year. TO THE INCOMING SENIORS: We leave our righteousness, our high grades, and all our good times. TO THE RISING JUNIORS: We leave our say- ings and quips and also our good disposition and manners. TO THE SOPHOMORES: We leave our laughs and giggles, unsolved puzzles, tardy and absent marks and all our unchewed gum. TO THE FRESHMEN: We leave vitamin pills to give them pep for the harsh courses in the next three years. TO THE JUNIOR HIGH: We leave our best wishes and wish them success in whatever they decide to do. JEAN ARMSTRONG wills her ability as Art Editor of the Trojan to GABRIELLE GAGNE and her sunny smile to JANICE DUNHAM. BERNICE BERRY wills her special writing pa- per and air mail stamps to SUZANNE LEAVITT to be used only for writing to a certain service guy. BERNICE also wills her sarcastic mood to JOYCE NUTTING. JUNE FIDLER wills her quietness to VIVIAN WESTOVER and her ability to be valedictorian to RODERICK GRIGGS. LORRAINE BEAUDRY wills her title of Queen to JANICE DUNHAM and her peppy marchinrf ability as drum majorette to THERESA SANTAW. DONNA PARMENTER wills her temper to SUE FIDLER and her singing ability to SHIRLEY SMITH. JULIETTE CADIEUX wills her fondness for studying to MAGGIE VINCENT and her dimples to SHIRLEY COTA. LAURA HAMELIN wills her giggle to MARILYN LEAVITT to be used only outside of school. LAURA also wills her ability to go steady to JUDY THOMPSON. YOLANDE ROBERTS wills her flirting tech- nique to JOAN ARMSTRONG and her walk to LUCILLE GENDRON. DONALD AUSTIN wills his slogan, Better Late Than Never, to MARK DELISLE, and also a huge supply of Life Savers to the JUNIOR CLASS so that they will always have a constant supply during the classes next year. COLBY CURRIER wills his hunting license to GILBERT MASON and wishes him better success in catching DEARS. COLBY also wills his good penmanship to MELVIN FLOOD. DURWARD STARR wills his basketball skill and points to EARLE HULBURD, which, when added to his own next year, should make him champion. ARCHIE COTA wills his mischievousness to HAZELTON SARGENT, and his ability to be the first to reach the pool room at noon to BUDDY HORN. RAYMOND GENDRON wills his height to DICKY HISMAN, and his crew cut to FREDDIE MORSE. DONALD DOUGLAS and HENRY PIGEON will their struggling efforts in English IV to PHILIP MANLEY and RICHARD CADIEUX. HENRY PIGEON wills his full-covered insur- ance policy on his cars and passengers to RONALD PAGE. DONALD DOUGLAS wills his curly hair to NORMAN LAMPHER. TO PHILIP MANLEY: We will and bequeath a prescription to buy some tablets to quiet his laugh- ter. How about trying sleeping tablets? TO THE BAND AND ITS MEMBERS: We will ten members to take the place of the ones who are graduating. TO THE HIGH SCHOOL AND ITS STUDENTS: We leave our picture so that future students may gaze upon us and be inspired. We appoint the Junior Class administrators of this will. In Witness thereof, We, the Senior Class of 1955, have set our hands this ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five. Senior Class '55 By: Lorraine Beaudry and June Fidler Page Twenty

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CLASS GIFTS Members of the faculty, undergraduates, class of 1955: We are presenting these gifts to you with the hope that you will receive them in good spirit. MR. BRENNAN: We wish to present to you this 1955 Cadillac so that when you referee at the bas- ketball games in the future you won't have to bother a certain senior girl's heart throb. It isn't very convenient for her. MR. HARMON: Knowing that the incoming senior class is more talkative than we were, we wantgyou to have this whistle. When they become too talkative, you can call them to order. MR. TWISS: We didn't get to know you well but we think you are wonderful and we want you to have this picture of our class so that you will remember us always. MRS. HARDING: We present you this padlock for the refrigerator so that you will be able to keep track of the food which seemed to disappear in thin air through the year. MR. ZENO: We present you this gold ball in hopes that it will bring you better luck than you have been having. Maybe you will become the world champion. MR. MARINO: We present you with this insur- ance policy which will cover the next accident you have. This way it will not cost you anything. Re- member, three times and out. MR. S'I'. MARIE: We hear that you are leaving this year. Here is a rabbit's foot to help bring you luck in whatever you may do. MR. HAYNES: We present you with this all- day sucker. If one of your aggie boys gets to talk- ing too much you can give this to him and he will not talk all day. MRS. TOOF: We present you with this certifl- cate which entitles you to a year's supply of pa- per. We hear you are always running out. LORRAINE BEAUDRY: We know how badly you want to go to Hartford, Conn., to work but you hate to leave a certain person in North Troy. We will help you by giving you this bus ticket which will allow you to come home every weekend for the next year. DURWARD STARR: We present you these box- ing gloves in hopes that they will come in handy if competition over Lorraine gets too rough in the future. COLBY CURRIER: To you, Colby, we give this bottle of wave lotion. When someone musses your beautiful wave, it won't be so hard to put it back ln place. HENRY PIGEON: Since you will graduate and won't be able to see Gall as formerly, we are giv- By Jean Armstrong, Juliette Cadieux, Henry Pigeon ing you this contract as janitor. You and Gail can be with each other most of the time now JUNE FIDLER: Because you have been here only three years and during that time have made a great catch-Raymond, we want to give you this book, How to Catch A Man. We hope you make as fast progress when you enter college. J ULIETTE CADIEUX: We have known for some time that a certain house on Pleasant Street has something of interest and you can't keep track of that something, so we are going to be your helper by giving you this telescope which sees through any obstacle. LAURA HAMELIN: Laura, we know'how much you want to be with your David this summer. Here is a deed to any house in the town where you and David can go and live. After you tie the knot, of course. DONALD AUSTIN: We present you this box of Pep and hope you will be on time for your job more than you have been on time during your four school years. ARCHIE COTA: Although you have made the rounds of quite a few girls, you don't seem to have found the true blue one. We are going to help you by giving you this paper doll. This one will always be true. RAYMOND GENDRON: Everyone who is going steady has a hard job of keeping track of his one and only. We are giving you this spotlight. When you and June go to college, you can always keep her in sight. DONNA PARMENTER: Donna, you go to Can- ada quite often to see an OLD FRIEND and it must be quite a nuisance stopping at the customs. This passport will allow you to go right by without stopping, so make good use of it. DONALD DOUGLAS: Since you are so fond of sleeping in certain classes, we present you with these sleeping pills in hopes that you will get a nice long rest. BERNICE BERRY: We know you have boy friends from North Troy to Mississippi, therefore, we give you this telephone that will allow you to call anywhere with no charge. GABRIELLE GAGNE: Gabrielle, we have noticed that at about every basketball game or dance Ronald seems to wander off. Here is a lassoo. You can bring him back if he strays too far. YOLANDE ROBERTS: It seems that you are trying to give Marilyn Monroe competition, but things aren't working out too well. We are giving you a 20th Century Fox contract to help you. JEAN ARMSTRONG: Here is an application to fill out for a job at Lowry Air Force Base. Now- you can be near that soldier boy. Best of luck to you. Page Nineteen

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.CLASS PRQPHECY By M... The sign reads, Sees All, Knows All, Madame Zodiac. Colby and I decided to go in. The room was dimly lighted and very gloomy. In one corner was a table with the so-called Madame Zodiac seated behind it. We were both debating whether or not to stay when we noticed the crystal ball, which was like a magnet drawing us over to the table. I finally spoke. Do-o-o-o- Yo-u-u-u think you could tell the future for Colby, for me and the rest of our NTHS classmates? Just then the crys- tal ball began to get hazy. Then clearer. Yes, clearer. We can now see twelve men. Look, a woman, still clearer. Why Colby, that is Jean Armstrong and the twelve men are the jury. My, my, what do you suppose Jean is doing in a court room? Now we can hear the stern voice of the judge saying, Jean, did you or did you not sell OLIVES without a license? Now the ball is getting foggy. The ball has cleared up again, and we can see a road sign. It reads, Welcome to Peanutville, West Virginia. We can now see a house and there are two children playing outside. Look, Colby, doesn't that woman look like our old classmate, Yolande Roberts? It is Yolande. She must have married Don and they are living on a peanut plantation. Her dreams have come true. I'm so happy for her. From West Virginia we go to New York and are walking down Fifth Avenue, the fashion center of the world. Entering an exclusive dress shop, we begin watching a fashion show. Why isn't that Bernice Berry parading down the aisle like a slim siren modeling Pierre's latest and probably last creation, a white net gownless evening strap? From New York, we travel back to our home town, North Troy. In the foreground is a huge Pink Mansion with a beautiful lawn. As we ap- proach the house we hear a voice ring out, I wish I were back in school again. Why, isn't that Juliette Cadieux? Can't be. Just then the door opened and out come two, four, six, seven, eight children. Why there's Juliette. We stopped and talked with her and she told us she had married after graduation, and her husband had stopped working at the mill and now owned his own busi- ness, a filling station. Juliette looked so happy. As this scene fades out the crystal ball becomes terribly cloudy. Then it starts getting clearer. Why, lt's the familiar face of Archie Cota presenting a striking appearance on a television show. He looks as though he were about to sing and we listen. Suddenly his voice rings out. Spic and Span, once over and it's new. Buy Spic and Span. The crystal ball is now cloudy. It looks like a storm. It is snowing and blowing. Why, we are on top of Jay Peak. Look, there's a house. No, it's a store. There is a sign above the door, CURRIER'S TRADING POST. As we approach it, we find that Colby graduated and has a business of his own on top of Jay Peak. From Jay Peak we travel back to New York City. On the corner of 5th and 6th Avenues we see a garage and our old friend and classmate, Donald Austin. We stopped and talked and he told us that after graduation he had bought his own business and was very happy. But poor Don, he was trying to put a tube in a tubeless tire. The crystal ball began getting cloudy again. What! Is this another snow storm? Yes, and we can see someone walking. Yes, it is Durward Starr. We stopped and talked and he told us he was now a veterinarian and was on his way to save Henry Pigeon's only cow. It seems Henry had graduated and bought a farm. He only has one cow now but plans to buy ,another in the near future. The ball is getting cloudy again. We can hear organ music. That song is familiar. Yes, it is MULE TRAIN. The ball is clearing up and we see that we are in a church. Why, it is a wedding. There are Laura Hamelin and David Leavitt standing at the altar. They both look very happy. The crystal ball is getting cloudy again. The c1'ystal ball is very cloudy now. Isn't that dust we see? Yes, it is. We are at a Hot Rod race. Car No. 13 has won. Here comes the driver. Why, it's our old school chum, Lorraine Beaudry. She is doing the work she has always wanted to do. The ball is clear now. We are back in Northern Vermont. Why, here are a lot of ditches, dug for a pipe line. Who's that man resting on a shovel? Why, it's Raymond Gendron. He has just dug a ditch, one-foot square and is all tired out. Here comes a young lady with some lemonade for the men. Why, isn't that June Fidler? Yes, it is. She has become a lawyer and married Raymond and now she is the main bread-winner. He does not make much money digging ditches. The crystal ball is getting cloudy and we can hear the sound of cans. Now the ball is clearing. Yes, the cans we could hear were milk cans, and there is Don Douglas. He said that he had bought H. P. Hood and Sons out. He has a good business. Now the crystal ball becomes very clear and Madame Zodiac says the class seems to have all passed through the crystal ball as it shows no more signs. All of a sudden the crystal ball began to get black. In a very dim outline we can see two people. Why, that is you, Donna, with Chic. You are living in a house where the town sheds once stood. They had been seen there so often before they were married that they decided to build a house there because they were so familiar with the environment. They both seemed very happy. Now the crystal ball becomes cloudy again. Then, gradually it becomes clear again. There is Mr. Brennan, our former advisor. He is on the Harlem Globetrotter bench in Madison Square Garden. He said that he is now coaching the Trotters and is having a very successful year. Page Twenty-one