Norton High School - Sojourn Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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NORTON HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK CLASS OF 1937 Come, come, don ' t hold me in suspense. Say you don ' t mean it! Charles Bar- rowclough, Captain of the Sink or Swim, a huge ocean liner that carries passengers from New York to Providence. Well, little did I think that Washington trip, would inspire him to become a sailor, pardon me, a captain. I ' ll never guess what Pinky Fales is doing? Well, what is she doing? No, I haven ' t heard her warbling every night over station P-U-N-K? You say she has become quite a glamorous personage? Well, I admit she was the prettiest girl in the class. What!! Dot Ward has become Secretary to Mr. I. Knowitall, Dean of Freshmen at Yale College. Those twinkling blue eyes certainly must of been used to advantage. Oh, so Angie Cabral has become Superintendent of the Live or Die Hospital recently erected in Norton. Angie always said that she would make some kind of a nurse. Do I remember Norma? Let ' s see. Oh sure, I remember Norma Keene. She ' s what? Outdone Mrs. Dionne having created quite a record for herself in the United States! Oh yes, I do recall now reading something about that spectacular affair. Irvin? Oh yes, Irving Fuller. Become Mayor of Norton! Since when has Norton had a population of 10,000. He does? Smokes 50c cigars and drives an Auburn speedster. Well, there ' s no telling what these mayors will do. Sure, I remember Ruth Young. Oh, you don ' t say, abandoned her business career and become a hairdresser. I do recall now of Ruth being very fond of curly hair. Bervinda Fernandes? Oh, they have? How many chain stores does her father and she own? Quite a few? Well, that ' s better than being in the poultry business. Bervinda always was fond of feeding the chickens, milking the cows, you know, regular farm routine. What about Betty Richmond. You say she has earned quite a name for herself abroad and over here in America having just completed a mural of prominent people in Norton. Gee, that ' s one painting I missed seeing. Great! So Jack Schurman has become a professor at Harvard College not to mention his being president of the International Rotarians. He has become an ardent champion for world peace. I remember how he used to hold the floor most of the time in history class when class discussion arrived at such a point. That is unbelievable!! Quinlan Regan, the wealthy manufacturer of ice cream cones. He paints popular movie stars in his leisure time. He always was a good artist, I remember the time he drew a picture of a monkey and then said that it looked like me. You ' re kidding. Don ' t tell me Thelma Smith is the belle of the continent. Well she certainly lived up to her part in the play. You say a young prince is very much interested in her? I hope we don ' t have another Wallie Simpson affair, but then, think of the publicity my newspaper would give them. What about our president, Ivy Henson? Well, well, she certainly went far, famous in literary circles. President of the Child welfare organization and now scheduled to run for Secretary of Labor. Fancy that. You say Ray Simoneau has just been granted a contract for a new Norton High Page Nine

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NORTON HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK CLASS OF 1937 Thus it is that the Class of 1937 shall always be guided by its splendid motto — Work Conquers All. RUTH SIMMONS, ' 37. CLASS PROPHECY I am actually working in a newspaper office, none other than The New York Times. I have been performing minor assignments now for about two whole months. To say I was getting discouraged and desperate would be putting it mildly. Then, this morning, I was summoned into the office of the editor. I entered with a heavy heart, I knew what this interview was going to mean to me. I was going to be told in no delicate way that I was fired. I approached the desk cautionsly and deliberately; the editor looked up hastily as I neared. Bartley, he said, (he certainly was hard-boiled) I ' m going to give you a break. Yeah, I answered breathlessly. Yeah, was the sarcastic reply. I want you to interview Norman Annis, but then, I don ' t suppose you ' d know a famous man. Well, I replied haughtily, (my Irish temper was rising) I happened to be one of that boy ' s high school classmates. He smiled sympathetically, but said that I was not to go into details about Norman as a high school boy but to go out and get that story on his accomplishments now. Just as I was to make my exit, he called back. Make a good job of it, and I might grant you the assignment interviewing the President. Very much elated, and in the most buoyant of moods I left for the magnificent domicile of Norman Annis. It was not so much the fame that had accompanied him that made me pleased with this assignment but the fact that I had been one of his classmates. I was nervous and shaking, sort of apprehensive, as I approached the door of his elegant apartment. I was comforted somewhat, when a man, tall and stately, admitted me. I wondered if I had entered the governor ' s apartment by mistake. But lo! an unforgettable smile, and I instantly recognized the dazzling teeth of Norman. I wondered why he did not become an advertisement for some toothpaste company. Soon, however, we were chat- ting and talking about our school days and the good times we had had. He informed me that he had just returned from India. He was going to the tenth anniversary of our class, to be held in the Copley Plaza. He tried to persuade me to go along, but I informed him, in a dignified manner, (the best I could muster) that I was a newspaper reporter with quite a future ahead of me, and that my big chance was coming that evening, when I was to interview Myron T. Briggs, President of the United States. He promised to relate his experiences of the evening and to tell me in what occupations my classmates were now engaged. You may be sure that I ventured not far from the telephone all the next day. Waiting in breathless anticipation for a happening almost as great as the World War, to me (or should I say the memorial day parades in Norton) . At last, the ' phone rang shrilly. I ran with the grace of a Jessie Owens, slipped on the carpet, and almost broke my neck in my haste. What did it matter if I did break a neck as long as I found out the information I had been anxiously awaiting. It was Norman. I shall try to repeat to the best of my ability our telephone conversation. Page Eight

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NORTON HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK CLASS OF 1937 School building. My, it has taken an age to put that through. I ' m glad Ray was the one to get the contract. Is he still pursuing that certain commercial student? He is, huh. Amelia Crowshaw is a what? Well, who would have believed that Amelia would become an author. You say she ' s written three pamphlets that are in their third edition. One on, How to Deliver Milk to Customers With a Smile, and two, How to Be Modern on a Farm, and three, How to Drive a Truck in One Lesson. Ah, so Frances Miller has opened up a little tea-room where one may purchase all sorts of sea food. She should be good at that. You say Hazel Harden assists in the kitchen. I always wondered what she would do. So Ruth Simmons is secretary to one of the senators in Washington. Ruth never told me that she met a senator on her Washington trip. Say that again? Fred Lemaire has ventured out to Kentucky, and owns about a hundred valuable horses, one which won the Kentucky Darby. I ' ll have to look him up, maybe he ' ll be able to give me a good tip on a horse some time. Now Norman I have some information to give you. My interview with the President was a huge success owing to the fact that Celia Van Hoesen was his secretary and gave me all the details I desired. Furthermore, Celia told me that Irene Laplante and she correspond at regular intervals, and that Irene is now a teacher in a kindergarten school right there in Norton. Her patience in showing students how to do a difficult French lesson certainly avails her now. Oh yes, Celia told me that she visits Evelyn Brasier ' s Beauty Salon every week. It seems that Celia is an ardent follower of Evelyn ' s Chewing Gum method, as it consists of putting in the mouth at one instant, five sticks of gum (Double Bubble preferred) and chewing vigorously to the right and left for about ten minutes. It guarantees to reduce a double chin or dislocate the jaw. She also told me that she met Elliot McMurrough the other day. It seems that his Connecticut correspondence got too heavy for him. He now resides in Connecticut and is engaged in the occupation of running a farm employment agency. Thanks Norman for calling me, I certainly have learned a great deal about the occupations of my classmates. It is my sincere wish that each and every one may succeed in his or her separate task. May God guide their footsteps, and grant that the path be not too stony. Good Luck and Good-by. CLASS WILL We the members of the Senior Class of Norton High School, being of unsound minds and indisposing memories, do hereby make and declare this our last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills, bequeaths and devises of whatever nature by us made. First, we give, devise and bequeath to: MR. NOURSE — An elevator so that he may get up and down stairs more quickly. Now we may be pleasantly surprised with his more frequent visits. MR. RANDALL — A carton of unbreakable test tubes for his chemistry department. These to be used by the girls. Page Ten