Pembroke High School - Mattakeesett Yearbook (Pembroke, MA)

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A Graduate Speaks When to the sessions of I summon up remenzlnr How many times has someone aske peat every instance of your life? Let's take a moments of anxiety, but over-shadowing, if n your goal, throughout the years, and the quiet It was worth it, don't you agree? Even in my few years of experienc mistakes, but have enjoyed every bit of thos the trite expression High school is the best completely agree. So I speak as a graduate pr The aim of all schools, as proposed educational corner stone of youth. If so, Pem direction. Let us lay aside things and their forc the teachings ofmen and their ways. A casual r neighboring town. It went something like th school in which so many varied personalities c such good relationships. You're just one big, in a nut-shell. Pembroke teaches tolerance ah learn in order to have a well-balanced outlooki It teaches also good sportsmanship how important in our world, warshaken becau character is a more desirable trait than sheer p cessful in this quest. Aside from guiding our characters, endeavors to instill in the pupils. But all this Yes, if I had my life to live over, I friends and teachers, because there I found th manship, scholarship, and plain down-to-earth graduate of 1950 speaks to you, the graduates School with pleasant memories and a feeling 0? When in the sessions of sw. You summon up a rememb sweet silent thought ance oftbings past . . Shakespeare you: If you had it all to do over, would you re- inventory of living - the bitterness, hardships, t obliterating all this, a constant striving toward eace of mind resulting from complete happiness. - eighteen, to be exact - I've made numerous years. When turning back the pages of time our years you'll ever spend comes to mind. I oud of Pembroke High School. by leading scholars and professors, is to lay the roke has taken a long, arduous step in the right s - for they really are secondary - and consider mark was made to me by a prominent citizen in a is: Never before have I seen or visited a high Jme in contact with each other, and yet maintain happy family. There you have Pembroke High d consideration, essentials an individual must on life. and fair play - simple-sounding phrases, but oh! se some people failed to learn that strength of hysical power. Pembroke has indeed been suc- ow to study is a vital necessity which Pembroke ut down in black and white is so inadequate. go to the same high school with the same true formula to enjoy life. Add tolerance, sports- un and it equals a happy, wholesome life. So a f 1951. You will look back on Pembroke High accomplishment . . . ee! silent thought ranee oftbings past . . MARY STROUD, '50 i57l

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Gmclueztion 1950 AWARDS GIVEN GRADUATION NIGHT, JUNE 8, 1950 P.T. A. Sflaoln1'5l9ip Mary Stroud Shirley Holt Tenclnerx' Club Selyolnrfbip Marylyn Brennan Alumni Svlyolnriliip Diane Davis Home mul Comznnnity Aufnrel -e Penfbro ke Grunge joan Clarke james Migre Renzlerx' Digest One- Year Sulzfvriptiofz Mary Stroud Soni ofthe Ainerifezn Revolution, U. S. Hixtory Awnrfl Vernon Eldridge, '51 Gurney Goocl Sportmzmzrbip Award Barbara Erikson E. Y. Perry Funzl Aware! Anne Merrigold Marylyn Brennan Barbara Erikson National Honor Soriety Pins Mary Stroud Diane Davis Mildred Pierce Shirley Holt joan Clarke Barbara Erikson Rboelei' Lninoer Company Awnrfl Clayton Merrick, '52 Richard Griffiths Raymond Travers, '53 - Dnnfortly Foundation Awnrel - I Dare Yon Stanley Winchester Emily Poft Aware! Mary Arushan Poetry Aunrzl Book of Complete Poeznf' W Robert Froit Paul Brennan With The Spirit That Is New England as the theme of graduation, we, the Class of impressive graduation exercise lastjune. From the moment Mix conducted us into the auditorium to the moment we , an innumerable mixture of thoughts were in the minds of finished our high school years there were twinges of sadness in our hearts at leaving Pembroke, but the future, with all the promises that it holds beckoned us on for Our Aim, Success, Our Hope, to Win. 1950, received our diplomas in an Marshals Sally Reed and Charles marched out to the Recessional all of us. Now that we had finally JOAN CLARKE, '50

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Alumni Class of '37 Mayre Clemons Ells-Whitman, one daughter, Bonnie Class of '59 Jean Stroud Gorrill-Maine, one son, George, one daughter Elizabeth May Elizabeth Wheeler-Pembroke, one daughter, Patricia Class of '44 Jean Littlefield Nummi-Pembroke, Teaching in Abington, Mass. George Raynor Osborne-Pembroke, Work- ing, Protectowire Co. Margery Anne Stroud-New York, Brooklyn Museum Library Class of '45 Bonnie Dehly-Now Mrs. Allen Sherman, Pembroke Olive Whitmarsh-Now Mrs. Robert Yule, Pembroke Class of '46 J. Walter Erikson, jr.-Pembroke, Working, Electrician Gerald Grant-U.S. Air Force, Ft. Knox, Kentucky Jacqueline Osborne-Pembroke, Secretary, Aetna Engineering Co. Class of '47 John Brennan-Working, First National Store, Whitman Beverly Brooks-Now Mrs. Benjamin Conant, Pembroke Lydia Styron Williams-Colorado, one son, Roland Eugene Class of '48 Gordon Crossley-Cadet Midshipman, U.S.- M.M.A. Nancy Gassett Erikson-Pembroke, Working, Laboratory Technician, Brockton Hospital, Brockton, Mass. jean Hazelton-junior, University of Massa- chusetts Marilyn Davis Sanborn-Whitman, Secretary, Commonwealth Shoe 8: Leather Co. Evelyn Whitaker-Pembroke, Secretary at Pem- broke High School Gordon Smith-Government Employee and Student, 1501 Vinton Ave., Memphis, Tenn. ' Class of '49 Nancy Bishop-Pembroke, Sales, Sally Dress Shoppe, Whitman, Mass. Pat Fiske-Sophomore, Kents Hill junior College, Maine Mark Ford-Freshman, Northeastern College, Boston, Mass. Stuart Hall-Sophomore, New York State Agriculture and Technical Institute, New York Barbara GilletteWStudent Nurse, Faulkner Hospital, Boston, Mass. Paul Moore-Sophomore, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. Winifred WashburneNow Mrs. George Avery, Plymouth, Mass. Richard West-Sophomore, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine Class of '50 Mary ArushanfPembroke, Bryantville Tele- phone Office Marylyn Brennan-Freshman, Fitchburg Teachers College, Fitchburg, Mass. Paul Brennan-Working, First National Store, Whitman joan Clarke-Freshman, P.A.L. of Boston University, Boston, Mass. Diane DavisfFreshman, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio Richard Grilliths-Pembroke, Working Whee- ler Reflector, Hanson, Mass. Shirley HolteFreshman, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania Richard Keen-Pembroke, Franklin Technical Institute, Boston, Mass. james Migre-Pembroke, Wentworth Insti- tute, Boston, Mass. Mildred PiercefPembroke, Working, Betty Blaine Dress, Hanover, Mass. Forrest SaunderseFreshman, Stockbridge at Amherst, Mass. Solon Simpson-U.S. Navy, Stationed at Port Hueneme, Santiago, Calif. Laura Smith4Pembroke, Working, F. W. Woolworth, Quincy, Mass. Mary Stroud-Freshman, Westbrook junior College, Portland, Maine Stanley Winchester-Freshman, General Col- lege of Boston University, Boston, Mass.