Northbridge High School - Voyager Yearbook (Northbridge, MA)

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une 1947 Frnally plans were begun for tne largest socral affarr of me trrp me Iunror Prom lt was held aboard the George Marston Whrtm luxury lrner Througn the combrned efforts of the crew 1t was decorated o grve the atmosprere of a garden The muslc of Gene Krng and h1s orchestra helped make rt a gala affarr Thus another year came to an end and we steamed 1nto port and made the most of our annual leave September 1947 Boardxng the shrp once more for the last lap of our Journey we steered her to N rd the Port of Gradt anon Ha Jrng found our offrcers cf the prevlous year satrsfactory we commrssloned them aga1n to lead us through our frnal year Namely Vernon Anmadnan Navrgator Madeleme Belval Flrst Mate Robert Baker Second Mate and Elleen McCann Steward To start off the most memorable of the voyages was the annual Fleld Day S1multaneously We welcomed the 1ncom1ng sophomores November 1947 A successful food sale was planned by Captaln Buker and hrs seamen to rarse money for the semor treasury I . ' V ' 4 . v . I ' . J ' ' ' . I ' , ' L . 2 ' ' February, 1948: Then came the big winter-season affair the Senior Ball. I . : ' ' , ' . , , ' I - I I 4 A 1 . r . A I 11119 Th1s also was held on the Wh1t1n luxury hner The mam deck was beautlfully decorated the orchestra was very melodlous and the crowd was wonderful The result was a Senror Ball surpassrng all other events 1948 Durmg the frnal weeks the crew drd double duty In our honor the new recrurts gave a delrghtful prom and we held our last functron whlch the was Senror Banquet Held rn the large mess hall rt was a huge success wrth plenty to eat of course As we raprdly neared the Port of Graduatron the thr1ll of each 1nd1v1dual begrnnrng hrs own separate voyage rn the near future surged w1th1n us Some of the past voyages had been tlnged wrth hrgh wmds and rough seas but rn every heart was the satrsfactron that he had ac compllshed somethlng The lrnks were slowly formrng rn our chcun of lrfe and the cooperatlon of fellow sarlors and offrcers made them pleas ant ones Now as full fledged sallors we have the responsrbrlrty of steer1ng our separate courses toward the Harbor of Success Wrth only part of our cham forged and the la gest part strll to be forged we have a great task before us but through coordrnatron between sarlors and offrcers these l1nks are sure to make our charn of lrfe happy and suc cessful Florence Cook Vtrgrnla Deome 47

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