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

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Class Will . . . We the class of 1956 of North Troy High School, in the Town of Troy, County of Orleans, and State of Vermont, being mentally unbalanced and physically defective, deem this document our last Will and Testament and as we depart from this institution, we make the following bequests: THE SCHOOL BOARD AND FACULTY: We leave our heartfelt thanks for the education they have helped to provide for us. MR. TWISS: We will a private telephone operator and bookkeeper to help you in the oflice. MR. TITUS: We bequeath a better under- standing of the high school girls so he'll know why they just have to gossip. MISS HAPGOOD: We leave a dumb waiter to deliver her daily pint of milk and an auto- matic chiller to keep it cool during English class. MR. BRENNAN: We will the right to wear Judge Pepin's cap and gown when determining whether a student is guilty. or innocent on the charge of Talking During the Last Five Minutes. MR. ZENO: We will an absolutely free tive- day course on The Most Efiicient Way to Wash Diapers, as we understand you will soon be needing this information. MR. HAYNES: We will a fully developed scenic sky resort on Jay Peak to fulfill your cher- ished dreams. MRS. GILLILAN: We leave our c1ass's promptness and extraordinary musical ability to your future band. MRS. BUTTERFIELD: We will a law against the local merchants selling chewing gum to the incoming seventh graders. TO THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: We leave our beloved memory so that you may be inspired to follow in our footprints. TO THE HIGH SCHOOL: We leave our pic- ture of seven lovely girls and nine handsome boys as a decorative memorial in the green room iStudy Halll. INCOMING SENIORS: We leave the back of our gum wrappers to figure on in bookkeeping class. INCOMING JUNIORS: We leave the elabo- rate typewriters, modern desks and typing stands of which we have taken such good care. FORTHCOMING SOPHOMORES: We leave our academic abilities, cool tempers, and truthful- ness to help guide you through the trying, hard, three years to follow. GIRLS AND BOYS' BASKETBALL TEAMS: We leave an anti-collision bus and an enclosed smoking compartment for Mr. Brennan and Mr. Zeno. Two of those three-cent cigars were really too much. We also leave many triumphant games in the years to follow. JANICE DENTON wills her dignified, quiet manner to Gerard Beaudry. ' THERESA SANTAW wills her furious temper and the right to always have her own way to Rachel Ramsdell. MELVIN FLOOD wills his bashfulness around the fairer sex to Winfield Cole. GABRIELLE GAGNE bequeaths her long, black, curly pony tail to Virginia Hart and her friendly nature to Janice Dunham. LUCILLE GENDRON wills her many lucky breaks to Rene Bouchard and her outspoken man- ner to David Hamelin. LEARLE HULBURD wills his slogan, Better late than never, to Albert Baraw and his height and broad shoulders to Duane Sargent. FIDLER wills her scholastic abilities to Linda Thompson and the privilege to use Pop's car for Saturday night dates, to Sandra. RONALD PAGE-leaves the run of the house- hold to his sister, Marilyn, and his leadership abilities to Paul Laitres. JOSEPH MONTEITH bequeaths his ability to go to sleep in upright position with his eyes open in class to Terry Hitchcock so he too may get his beauty sleep. RICHARD CADIEUX wills his title of over- seer of the South Troy girls to Freddy Morse. HAZELTON SARGENT wills his giggles to Norman Lampher, and his ability to do five les- sons in advance in bookkeeping only to find he has incorrect answers, to David Hamelin. MARILYN LEAVITT wills her ability to chew gum all day and not get caught to Gene Dionne, and musical talent to Jerry Firkey. WENDELL GEORGE bequeaths his interests in the girls who travel on the East Hill bus to Melvin Monteith and his little red Chevy to Everett Hisman so he won't have to ride to South Troy on the bread truck. GILBERT MASON wills his habit of a daily after-breakfast refresher, a coke at Hulburd's market, to Norman Lampher, and his long walk along the beaten path to school to Bobby Gendron. MARK DELISLE wills his luck in auto ac- cidents to Roddy Griggs and his citizenship papers to Canada to Bud Horn. ' SHIRLEY COTA wills her ability to capture all the Mansonville boys' hearts to Linda Thomp- son and her special way with Mr. Titus to Judy Thompson. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hand and seal to this, our last Will and Testa- ment, at North Troy, Vermont, on the 13th day of June, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-six. The Class of 1956 Witnesses: By: Marilyn Leavitt, Winfield Cole, Earle Hulburd, Jr. Roland Horn, : Joan Armstrong, Suzanne Leavitt Page Twenty-two

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Whom do you suppose I received a letter from? As I was coming home from work one night, I stopped to pick up my mail and while looking through lt, I realized that the handwriting on one letter looked familiar, so I glanced at the return address and it brought back thoughts of old times. The letter was from my classmate Lucille Gendron. She said that she had received the letter I had written and decided to write back and tell me about the trips she had taken while on her vaca- tion. The letter went something like this. Dear Theresa: I was glad to hear that our clessmatcs whom you saw were doing so well in their jobs. I'm sure they are enjoying them. Oh! by the way, as I was looking through the Sports Magazine I saw your picture and you looked bewitching in that space suit. I had real- ized while in high school that you loved your chemistry classes, but I never thought you would invent something like the Super Duper Atomic Rocket. It must be thrilling to be famous. One day while taking a camel ride in the Ne- vada desert I came upon an army camp where thousands of men were going through strenuous exercises. Going through drills with packs three times their own size, and who do you think was in command of such an outfit. It was Gilbert Mason, better known to his outfit as Old George. He was bellowing orders at the top of his lungs. Gilbert was the first man in the history of the United States to become an eight-star general. He cer- tainly is a career man. While on the Nevada desert, who do you think I also ran into almost covered up with sand? It was Marilyn Leavitt. After taking what looked like buckets of sand from her mouth she told me that she was selling the food she had learned to make while getting experience as a Home Econom- ics Teacher in the Arabian desert. better know now-a-days as the 4th and 5th Mus- keteers. On my way home I stopped in Cleveland, Ohio. I saw a huge factory and my guide said that I should visit it. Once inside I almost jumped out of my shoes. There seated at a desk in a little oilice was a man screaming, Pickles, we've got to produce more pickles, I'm losing money. When I dared to take a closer look I realized it was Haz- elton Sargent. Do you know that he has become the sole owner of the largest pickle factory ln the world? The weather was so fine while I was in Cleve- land that I decided to take a walk. I finally came to a small park surrounded by houses on all sides. As I sat on a bench to catch my breath for a min- ute I saw a young man running from house to house. It looked as though he was selling some- thing. Finally as he came close enough I recog- nized our old classmate, Mark Dehsle, and as he rapped on a door I could hear him say: Buy a hatpin, madamf' Yes, Mark has become a hat- pin salesman and is doing very well. The last place I visited before going home was Buffalo, and you'll never guess whom I saw in n large ofllce building on Niagara Boulevard. No one else but Mr. Titus, who is now a certiiied public accountant. He was trying to explain to our class- mate, Ronald Page. how he could fllc bankruptcy on his goat farm and still end up with a million dollar debit. Ronald looked so confused, you know he never could get bookkeeping. But he said that with Mr. Titus figuring up the debits and credits of his business he wasn't going to worry because after the Internal Revenue Agent got through checking the books, Mr. Titus and he would have nothing to worry about, because neither would be in business very long. Well, I'm afraid that's all the news'I know at this time. Write real soon and good luck on your next trip to the moon. Your Classmate, It was from Wendell George and he told me that . he and Melvin had joined up in the French For- eign Legion and are stationed in Algeria and are Lucille Gendron g xi Stix rank Page Twenty-one

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T JUNIORS First Row: Mr. Brennan, Joan Armstrong, David Hainelin, Winfield Cole, Terry Hitchcock. Second Row: Melvin Monteith. Norman Lampher, Judy Thompson, Shirley Smith, Suzanne Leavitt. Third Row: Everett Hisman, Rodrick Dunham, Fred Morse, Roland Horn. Absent: Joyce Nuttinp: The class elected the following ofhcers: President, David Hameling Vice President, Winfield Cole: Secretary, Joan Armstrong, Treasurer, Terry Hitchcock: and Suzanne Leavitt as epresentative io the Student Council, During' the year we sponsored a food sale, and we entered a float in the F.F'.A.- Kiwanis Fair. wvinniiig 'third prize. Judy Thompson and Suzanne Leavitt played on the girls' basketball team, David Hamclin and Roland Horn, played on the boys' b2iCk8tb.ll1 team. Joyce Nutting was a cheerleader. We had a Christmas party which everyone enjoyed. Our band members from the class are: Winfield Cole, Roland Horn, Judy Thomp- son, Joan Arlnstrong, Suzanne Leavitt, Terry Hitchcock, and Everett Hisman. Our candidates for King and Queen of the Harvest Ball were David Hamelin, and Joai. Armstrong. We participated in the play contest sponsored by the Student Council, and won second place. Page Tllvrzfy-Ihrcc'