Norwood High School - Tiot Yearbook (Norwood, MA)

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venture called for an intrepid instructor in- deed, one ready to sacrifice life and limb for his school. With Mr. Fisher in charge, if not at the wheel, the project got underway. Many a timid Senior encouraged by cries from his classmates to put a nickel in it, and many a jackrabbit jumper among us, who for weeks scattered the pedestrians in all directions, overcame his qualms with the result that we can report innumerable successes in this field. October found Diane Weisul and John Poce on their way toward Northfield and Mt. Herman to represent the school at the New England Student Government Association meeting. An unexpected vacation added to our Thanksgiving pleasure when repair work on the school boilers necessitated closing the school for a week. Short-lived, however, was our joy when we learned that future vacations were to be shortened to make up the time. That sanctum sanctorum known as the Tiot Room hummed with activity throughout the year, long after the building was otherwise deserted and even during vacation days as the indefatigable editors with their adviser, Mrs. Riley, planned and executed layouts to make our 1949 Tiot a thing of beauty and a joy forever. December brought rehearsals for our Senior Play The Fighting Littles, an hilarious comedy, well suited to the histrionic abilities of the cast. It proved to be one of the high spots of the year. The joint efforts of the Student Council and the Senior Class resulted in another winter social event — the Snow-Ball — the feature of which was the choice of Al Butters and Shirley Eklund as king and queen of Norwood High. About this time, too, Miss Jane O ' Sul- livan, our pretty and popular school nurse, resigned to be married, and her duties were taken over by Miss Margaret Ryan. And as another year draws to a close, in retrospect we see how greatly we are indebted to our principal, Mr. Hayden, to our chief class advisers, Miss Gow, Mr. Gormley, and Mr. Learnard, and to Mrs. Riley, who worked un- tiringly to make our Yearbook an outstanding one, and to all our teachers for the part they played in shaping the success of our three happy years at Norwood High. To them goes our sincere and profound appreciation with the assurance that through their help and guidance we, the 49 ' ers, have found the gold we sought in that thar Hill. M. H. BIG CLAIM-STAKERS Fisher (Class President), Poce (Student Council President), Lynch (Editor-in-Chief) {19}

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS (Left to right): Eklund, Gulla, Pierpont, Fisher, Turner, Davis, Ippoliti GOLD PflnnCRS Our return to school in the fall of 1948 for our Senior year began on a note of sadness, for during the summet we had lost, by death, one of our most able and energetic teachers, Miss Margaret Nicholson. Miss Nicholson ' s classes remain in our minds as a bright inter- lude in the daily routine. Hers was the happy faculty of being able to translate study into pleasure, and thus did she build her own memorial in the fact that she lives in the hearts of us all. Several other changes in the faculty of the English Department marked the early part of this year. Miss Elizabeth James, who en- deared herself to all who came into contact with her as head of the English Department, retired after twenty-five years of inestimable service. Miss Elizabeth O ' Sullivan was made head of this department. Miss Catherine Cole- man joined the staff and has proven indispens- able as a dramatic coach. Mr. John J. Flaherty succeeded Miss Nicholson, and also took charge of the Hilltop Highlights. As the fall season got underway, we re- solved to make this a boom year. With this in mind we chose Charlie Fisher as our leader; his assistant, Arthur Turner; our scribe, Betty Pierpont; comptrollers, Anna Ippoliti and Everett Davis; and A. A. representatives, Shir- ley Eklund and Arthur Gulla. Determined to strive for pay dirt in every field of endeavor, we buried ourselves in our books — for all of two weeks. Then began a whirlwind of activity. With Pete Lasinskas and Al Butters as co-captains, the football season got off to a good start, to finish on Thanksgiving with a record number of victories, and a new hero, Arthur Gulla, who made the All- Star team for the year. The yearbook staff published six football program issues which were in reality miniature newspapers and the money earned became the nucleus of the yearbook treasury. During this season, too, two of our brave knights, Paul LeBlanc and Tommy Collins, invaded the cheerleader field which for some years had been a No Man ' s Land. The donation by Sansone Motors of a Plymouth car with dual controls to be used to instruct our youth in the proper manipulation of a motor vehicle on the highway was the most startling innovation of the year. This {18}

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