Plymouth High School - Profile Yearbook (Plymouth, NH)

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After trawersrng the globe fire times wrthout any apparent success Virginia Holub has gnen up her search for a rrch husband and as designated by fate has resrgned herself to playing the part of Lady Macbeth on the Broadway stage Peggy Courtney who was one of the most popular grrls rn hrgh school rs now lrwrng rn Lrncoln rn a lrttle cottage wrth green blinds Follow ing rn the footsteps of hrs predecessors Earl Forbes has had lrttle drfliculty rn obtarnrng thc po srtron of Town Crrer of Bridgewater N H Once harled by an esteemed member of the faculty as the most lrkely to succeed francis Lee rs at present in charge of the Medical Unit at Fort Bragg North Carolina Hrs efficient assistant rs none other than Marjorie Dunbar who rs acting as Army Hostess as well as medical assistant Eserett G Hammond rs now pursuing hrs duties as chref of the I' BI Leon L Dustin who rs head executioner at San uentrn writes articles on How to Axord Shocks rn hrs spare time Marilyn ames after being xery persistent and diligent rn her work has been promoted to the rank of floor walker rn Newberrys Charlotte Macomber who worked 'rt the Pemrgewasset Hotel for several years has given up her dutres rn this lrne and rs rn search of a gun totrng cowboy whom she can persuade to take the fatal plunge wrth her Owrng to her undying affection for a certain flower ean L Woodward rs now lrxrng rn the mountarns of N H dexotrng most of her time to the rarsrng of tulips and to praying contrnually for rainy weather After travelling to Reno five times rn the hope of finding an eligible bachelor Cynthia Phrlbrook has returned to N H and rs now the editor of a notorious and widely read gossip column She rs furnished wrth excellent material by Elizabeth Pattee who rs the busy pro prretor of a popular information booth Lors Yeaton after graduating from Teachers College rs Roger McBride once harled as the future Euclid by hrs associates rn math rs Commander rn Chref of all Unrted States Interceptor Squadrons and rs doing rl remarkable ,ob In Washington D C john Superchr entered Uncle Sams forces as a rookie and by persistent effort has been promoted to the rank of Commander rn Chref of all kitchen patrols rn the Unrted States Army Robert Earl jacques owing to hrs staunch support of the Prohrbrtron Bill has been elected head of the opposing party rn the State Legislature Owrng to a hortrculturrst mrnd ean Dole wrth the less able help of an unknown party after whom the squashes are named rs at present diligently devotrng her time to the raising of Hrbbard Squashes' Srnce she proxed herself to be a master of fine arts rn her school days Dorothy Lrbbcy rs studyrng rn Paris under Lours Prcas 0 Finkelstein Dorcas Smrth that sweet tall atrve lrttle girl of hrgh school days rs now teachrng the Braille System fShe alxx .qs used to be rn the dark too'j Stanley L Archrbald rs the able proprietor of the now well known garage that sells Lrncoln Zephyrs and Cadrllacs He specializes rn the best of cars and has a booming busrness' Verna Mac Lenmn rs teachrng krndergarten at Campton N H Najla Samaha who rn her hrgh school days was always so gentle rn chara ter and always so very thoughtful of others rs conducting a self organized home for prrze fighters Mary Axery regrstered chemrst rs now attemptrng to perfect a new and more compact fire extinguisher She rs ably assisted by Mrnnre Clark her pm ate secretary Owrng to hrs aggresrwe tactics Otto Berg procured a positron wrth a famous crrcus as head lron tsrmer Eleanor Sherburne acclaimed as Plymouth s most promrnent young artist rs far rn adx ance of Petty success rn her chosen field Opal P Burnell one of the most promrnent one armed drrvers durrng her hrgh school days now rs more careful when she drrves her two lowely children to school each mornrng Frances Barley rs secretary to the President of the Crvrl Service Bureau As sad as rt may seem there s lrttle cause for woe For rn closrng I may say change your way of lrfe a brt and these thrngs wrll not be so' The Ghost Writers of P H S JEAN MACNEIL Lno PASTMAN L I 5 I Y - - . s - 5, . yi .L - I Y . T , S s x ' , . . , y 4 'K , 4. f i -. r ' . i . D A ' U '. . . 1 . . D , ' I Y , v I . lg' I A . ' . . A Y I . .Pl I L D 7 . s , I 6 . I I I D . l I , S. . . I. 'P ' ' I , 'Q S ' . . . I . , V . 3 7 now following in the footsteps of Miss Riley, being teacher of commercial subjects at P. H. S. 4 K V A . K I . y O Q, - r' , -'- 1 , . , . .. . 1 , J ' 7 Y ' Y- 'R . , . D D I I I S l Y I S I - K . . . , ' I . t y . . X . C W, V 7 ' I 7 I ' K . . U . . . . V, . Y. I . . K Y Y 1. ' , . 1 , . n . V . Q . y ,, Q , y , . ' . . 7 Y ' K , R I

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mnrrhtng 'hruugh In 1952 I suppose you all thrnk that lrfe rs subdued but there wrll be plenty of tears for some of you and still lots wrll say no can do remember I told you so' Yes this rs the ghost wrrter for P H S but though Im a ghost my predrctrons are not foggy and no remarks about them not haxrng a ghost of a chance to come true Im brrrrng no holds and ex erythrng goes good or bad and so here rs my forecast of thrngs to be seen by yours truly If rn ten years you are not satrsfied with thrs guarantee why then fyou can sue me' ohn Henry Hoffman former mathematrcal venrus of P H S rs now teachrng Arrthmetrc at a New ersey grade school Vrrgrnra L Deachman followrng rn the footsteps of Wfalter E Bowlby P H S chemrstry rnstruetor rs now workrng for her Master s Degree at Boston Unrxersrty Genera Mayhew who mayored rn the study of health and nutrrtron at P H S rs now hrlanerng mrnerals and yrtamrns for the four lrttle darlings of her own Arthur McCormack has yust returned from one of hrs most successful expedrtrons through the wrlds of Afrrca After gradu atrng from the rather dull routrne of sehool work Eda M Shortt has taken up the ezscrtrng dutres of a nayy hostess on one of Unele Sam s shrps Mrldred Mclarland always a loxer of the bright w hrte lrghts has beeome one of the most outstandrng night elub srngers on the M anh att In Merry go Round Reeently Bette Volpe has taken up her dutres as ehref adyertrsrng edrtor of the Xen I we Yrmer Watch busrness expand Hrlda Taylor rs eontentedly performing the too numerous tasks as mother of fixe and rs well proyrded for by Earl Loyerrng a regrstered chcmrst whose reputatron as sueh rs spreadrng rapidly Henrrettr I Srmone au an rllustrrous basket ball player rn her hrgh sehool days rs now aetrng as head eoaeh of a famous te rm rn the mrddle west Norma Wrrglat rs happy rn her posrtron as hostess rn the famous 400 eluh rn New York erty th at specralrzes rn eomrng out partres for debs whreh he h rs proxen hrmself an artrst Hrs able stenographer rs Margaret Ayery who graduated rn the same elass Helen Steady and Earl Cayes forming In rnseplrable danerng partnership are at present showrng therr talents on the Hotel Astor Root at a tremendous but unknown salary In Boston Doctor Claude C Cheney rs ably eonductrng a sanrtarrum for the deaf and dumb ames H Brrd and Lourse Ay rs Colburn hase entered busrness together and are at present engaged rn desrf nrrag planes for the surcrde squad Lester Rutherford following rn the footsteps ot hrs brothers rs 1 dryebomber prlot rn the Unrted States Nryy Arnold Wrlkre and Charles Rrehrrds hare yorned the naxy also As rn therr hrgh school days Erleen Hrxon and Alrce Drrscoll were such good frrends they haye teamed up and are now rn a yaudeyrlle Knrfe Throwrng act Edgar Lessard who garned fame practreally oxernrght for hrs daredeyrl deeds rn hrs car has yorned the Unrted States Army and rs showrng the others how a yeep car should be drryen ln the wrndy erty of Chrcago Olryer G Cole onee harled as the future yree presrdent rs at the present trme executrng the numerous dutres of the Presrdent of the Bureau of Vrce Control Irene Moulton owrng to her great eapabrlrtres rn acrobatrcs has yorned Barnum Ss Barley s crrcus as a trght rope walker and bareback rrder I find that lrttle Daxrd Rodgers rs playing outfield for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the Natronal League at an estrmated salary of S10 O00 a season eremrah O Shea who was an up and eomrng young serentrst at P H S has under taken the complicated scrence of Hog Rarsrng rn West Rumney N H Paulrne Burt rs pursurng the dutres of Laboratory technrcran at N H Unrx ersrty Owrng to her capable assrstance rn the busrness office of P H S ulra Pease has been pro moted to the drstrngurshed posrtron of prry ate secretary to the presrdent of the Bureau of Mrssrng Persons Leo Pastman famous for hrs unique and exqursrte speech rs Presrdent of the A P QThat s Assocrated Press and not the A 8. 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Qalutaturp We the graduatrng class of 1947 welcome you members of the faculty parents frnends and schoolmates to thxs our second graduatron We haye come here today to yutness an ex ent the fulfillment of our scholastxc efforts oxer a perxod of four years We haye completed a certaxn stage ID l1fe s deyelopment and we are now prepared to enter the wrde ustas of another We are about to leave the days of carefree youth behnnd us and to face the future as responsxble young men and women We have come to the same turnmg pomt that so many before us haye already taken What hes ahead7 Some of us may contnnue on to hxgh rnstrtutrons of learning some of us may go mto tramnng some of us may go to work and no doubt many vnll become members of our goy ernment s land axr and sea forces It would seem to us that the importance of thns partrcular graduatlon IS greater today than ex er before We don t hase to ask the reason why It IS eudent to all of us world condmtrons our mode of hfe the uncertalnty of our day to day existence We may not esen be able to determme our futures or the part vue would hke to play rn the mouldrng of our hy es War progress may determme them for us But we as loyal Amerrcans can determme the sp1r1t wxth whlch we accept that vuork gn en us The motto Impossrblc ns Un Amerrcan seems to me to be qulte httmg and approprlate at this tlme The so called rmposslble IS usually the most drfficult but the reward for domg the xmpossxble comes rn much greater returns Today as our hrgh school hfe ns nearmg completnon we face the future with a feehng of prrde We are proud that our four years of work has not been nn yarn We are proud that rt has brought us to thls 1mportant day our graduatron We are proud and also happy to thxnk that you haxe come here to wntness thus graduatlon wrth us and so once agaxn rn behalf of my classmates I welcome you to the commencement exercrses of the class of 1942 of the Plymouth High School DOROTHY LIBBEY Bnnra Let us thlnk of hfe for a moment ln terms of a serres of doors The Roman God Janus rs sometrmes called the God of Doors He has two faces one youth ful and the other old and wrinkled One face xs lookmg forward mto the future and the other back mto the past The month of january recerves lts name from thns two headed Roman God The name IS appropriate for anuary xs the begrnnlng or the openmg of a new year The opening and closing of doors plays a yery slgmficant part ln everyones hfe At the begmnmg of each day we open a new door a door whlch closes behmd us at the end of the day The venl of mystery hes behrnd these doors for hfe rtself IS a mystery to all of us A door creates suspense for when we do not know what IS ahead, a feehng of suspense and antncnpatnon 15 created No one knows what awarts one when one opens a door for even the most famrhar places have mysteries that need only the openmg of a door to chsclose x V '-a 1 x s A v -1 ' ' V V V' - 7 ' v 4 4 . . . . . . V V r V V V , ' . . - - 1 y y 1 v. V ' f r a 1 , . .. V V V V T -- V . V .... Y N ., . V V V V 4 . , , ,. . . . ,, . . . , . . ' , V 1 QV- . ,V - , V - , - s - - u . I L V . y Q y s Y 9 ' s 1 ' s ' 1 Q V . . . . . , . , - . , . v ' 1