Punchard High School - Prism Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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euu Will Be it rememljered that we, the Class of 1943. of Punchard High School, Town of Andover, in the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, being of generous mind and dis- posing memory, do make this our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. We bequeath and devise the following: To the Class of ' 44 we leave Room 7, with its countless gum wads; Room 5, with its hand-carved desks; and Room 6, with its antiques of highly polished maple — to love, honor, and deface as we have done. We bequeath Tec Eschholz ' s habit of strolling to second period class to ]ohn Nicoll, who also has the tendency to poke along with no obvious destination in view. Our class bull thrower. Earl Maddox, leaves his abilities to Phil Crowley, who. we believe, needs no help. The quiz-kids — une Bell, Nancy Ga- han, and Mary Ellison, leave their com- bined brain work to Victor Shorten. With this help he should be one of the honor students next year. We leave Mina Manthorne ' s silvery vo- cal chords to Marilou Lindsay. With these and the musical laugh she now possesses, we predict for Marilou a brilliant operatic career. Roger Collins has the distinguished honor of receiving Jack Henderson s world- beloved Hook. Now that Virginia Smillie is departing from Punchard, we bequeath her wonder- ful complexion to Joan Hartigan, whom we advise to guard it against moon burns. We bequeath Louise McDonald ' s corny jokes and bewildering remarks to Ger- maine Verrette, who can always brighten up the party with one of her embarrassing comments. Red O ' Connor ' s love for school we be- stow on George Craig, who confesses that he really wouldn ' t mind going to school one day a week if he could have that day off now and then. We leave SmoAey Moore ' s size llj to Anthony Babicki. We also leave Moore ' s Fog Horn laugh, that has echoed for three years throughout the corridors, to anyone who wants it. To the chemistry class of 1944, we leave Mr. Hart, and the caution to beware of high explosives and rare gases. The combined eff orts of Eschholz and Scho field to fill the second floor rooms and corridors with strong chemical odors we leave to any worthy Junior who takes Chemistry next year. We leave one ounce of Edie Ander- son ' s modesty to ' Mike Matthews, trust- ing that Mike will learn that silence is golden. We bequeath a few inches of Gib Hamlin ' s height and size to the tiniest of the sophomores, Muscles Dole. A portion of Isabelle Deyermond ' s self- control is left to Mike Brennan and Sandy Gordon. We leave Ered Eurnari ' s dislike for girls to Squeak Monroe, to enable him to resist the weaker sex. We leave Jean Gilfoy ' s Band leadership to Barbara Hill. Jean served well and we know Barbara will, too. To Charley Davidson and James Pap- erella we leave a small portion of Frank Bun tin ' s Pep, and his regard for other people ' s rights. With these additions, we are looking forward to a peaceful year dur- ing 1944. 24

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Ladies and Gentlemen — and that dear little girl in the balcony — I am about to disclose to you the results of many years of arduous labor and research. When I finish this speech, it is predicted that Bob Ripley ' s Believe It Or Not column will be stricken from all newspapers and that my column — Facts About the Amazing Animals will be in its place. There are forty-eight girls in this class, twenty-two boys, and Bozo Beer! The Amazing Animal or in other words, the average student of this GREAT class of ' 43 — would be approximately 541,296,000 seconds old at this very second. His hair would be brown and his eyes either blue or green. However, 1 made the amazing discovery that one of my colleagues has one brown eye and one green one. Can you top that, Mr. Ripley? Study period again has won first place on the list for our favorite subjects, with English coming up close behind. It might interest a certain teacher to know that one person cast a vote for Sociology. Our favorite movie actor is that killer- diller Allan Lado and we still haven ' t de- cided whether Greer Garson or Gypsy Rose Lee is our favorite movie actress. Harry James leads our list of favorite bands, but it was very close between him and Spike Jones and His City Slickers! Bob Hope again rates favorite radio enter- tainer. Jack Benny might like to know that Rochester received twice as many votes as he did!! Thought and Expression and See Here, Private Hargrove battled for the rating of top book and much to every- one ' s amazement See Here, Private Har- grove won. David Copperfield was also among the list of the better books. The boys seem to have gone air-minded and have chosen the Air for their favorite branch of the service. They will certainly be backed, for the girls also prefer Air Corps men. Don ' t be a bit surprised if all the girls appear in the WAVES uniform next fall, for they definitely prefer this branch of the service for themselves. Now we touch on that very sensitive subject of shoe sizes. Without mentioning any names, we have one Amazing Ani- mal who wears a size 12 shoe. It is ru- mored that he can trample out forest fires in a few seconds with his feet and that he soon will be wearing the boxes. After sampling all the favorite foods listed by my colleagues, I found it neces- sary to take four of the Class of ' 41 ' fe fa- mous Pep-Up Pills. Remember those great P-E-P-U-P-PI-L-L-S!!!! Among the things I had to eat were French fries, steak smothered with onions, ice cream, pickles, horsemeat, spaghetti, lobster, and those ever-precious bananas. To wash all this hodge-podge down I had two glasses of milk, four cokes, and a zombie. Yes, you ' re right, those are the Amazing Animals ' favorite drinks. The favorite animal of the Amazing Animals ranged anywhere from a wolf to Mr. Hart. I suppose many of you are very eager to hear whether these Amazing Animals mind gas rationing and if so — WHY. Be- lieve it or not, the majority do not mind. One person ' s reason for not minding was — and I quote — There ' s alw ays the sofa!!! In answer to why he did mind it, one boy said,, Are you kidding? An- other person said it would prevent her from going to Glennie ' s for ice cream this summer. That, Ladies and Gentlemen — is the sum and substance of the statistics for this class. After reading it through, I, myself wonder — are we really humans or Amaz- ing Animals ? I leave that up to you to decide — but have mercy on us, please. Jean Gilfoy 23

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To next year ' s football team we leave Coach Riel. He really knows his football; and with the combined efforts of both coach and squad. Punchard will have a winning team that will plow Methuen and Johnson under just as we did this year. To the Class of 1945 (the present soph- omores) we bequeath the honorable home rooms 9, 12, 14 and 17, for them to play in. We also very generously add the Lec- ture Room for a game of tag. To Esther Hibbert and Patricia Holt we leave the second floor corridor in which to stroll and wolf. To the new sophomores we leave Mr. SpeedbaW McKiniry, our gymnastic contortionist, who will leave them with many an aching muscle, we are sure. To the Faculty and the School we leave our expressions of good will; also our text books, which, whether studied or not, are well worn and torn. To all the teachers we leave our de- votion and sincere appreciation for the help and understanding they have given us. Lastly, to Mr. Lovely we give our sin- cerest thanks for three happy years at Punchard and also for his friendly in- terest in each and every one of us. In testimony whereof we hereunto set our hands, and in the presence of three witnesses declare this our Last Will and Testament, this seventh day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hun- dred and forty-three. For the Class of ' 43 John Henderson. For the Class of ' 44 William Munroe. For the Class of ' 45 Warren Knipe. 25