Norton High School - Sojourn Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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Whatta cast! Could you ask for a better break than to have all of them in one colossal extravaganza? Joan ' s mischievous blinkers! Nancy ' s Pepsodent ad! Shirley ' s reserve! Ruthie ' s quiet humor! An- nie ' s perpetual-motion fingers! Geri ' s questioning! Anita ' s laugh! Mary ' s poise! Therese ' s humor! Tillie ' s gaiety! Nat ' s good looks! Ann ' s care- free spirit! Paul ' s willingness! Howard ' s wit! And you get them all at once! There you have the technicalities enumerated. The show is in production. The lights are dimmed. The first curtains slowly part. The camera starts to hum. The lights focus on the class of 1948, so let ' s blitz! The FACTS of a birth are always interesting, so let us look over the ones for Miss Signe Classe . . .

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MARGUERITE WATSON COMMERCIAL Tillie rt I have a good eye, uncle. Vice President, 2; Student Council, 2; Star staff, play cast, 4; Librarian, 3; Minstrel show, 3. NATALIE WOODWARD COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF N. H. Rosebud She is pretty to walk with. Student Council, 2, 3, 4; Latin Club, 1, 2, 3, 4; French Club, Memorial Day Program, 3 ; Minstrel Show, 3 ; Librarian, 3 ; Campaign Manager, 4; Chairman of Student Council Handbook.

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Once upon a time there was a great producer and his name was Norton High. He produced ministers and doctors and dancers and teachers and about everything there was. But he had never produced anything quite as magnanimous as Miss Signe Classe. For four long years she was renovated and re-upholstered and groomed in anticipation of the day when she would blossom forth, a full- fledged star of the three R ' s. Here was the be-all and end-all of all super screeners and she arrived June 24, 1948. She was not extraordinary in appearance. She just kind of slopped along in plaid shirts or dungarees, with a sweater or a blouse (whichever happened to be on the top of the pile). Always it was white sox, but could be loafers or saddles. Her bangs reminded one of Cleopatra. The Union Theater was her hang- out and a good little ' 35 Ford got her there. But that was back in her early days. The renovating was gradually turning her into a new person. Yet through her trials and tribulations of becoming someone which she was just not supposed to be, this starlet often reminisced to the times when everything was overshadowed by those great monsters, the Stars. But always she returned to the time when she was star and master over the others. And so we meet her, just rehearsing the script of ...... .