Putnam High School - Clipper Yearbook (Putnam, CT)

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Norimm Elliott Whittemore Smiley is one of the quiet members of the class, but he is liked by everyone. Most of his after school time is Pllt into working at home. Ho is another photography bug and likes swimming also, IJancing 11 Highway Safety 23 Prom Committee 33 Final llonors,

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Alfred Bernard Tctrcaull WAI is an active member oi our class although rather lashful. He wants to become a doctor and We Wish you Li lot ol' luck. Al . Glee Club 1, Z5 Dancing 13 Highway Safety 23 Orchestra 2, 33 Forestry 3g Aeronautics -ig lnterclass llaslielball 3. -lt Football 43 Prom Committee 3. Lorella tlalhcrinc 'l't-lrcaull Chick is the snlall vivacious girl who is sure to be found where there is laughter. Tlll'0ll,,ll her helpfulness in school, she has won many lriends. Chick plains to work in an ollice after graduation. We're sure that she'll be a complete success. Her hobbies are swiunuing, dancing. bowling sewing. and reading. Honieinaking' Club 1. 23 lied Cross l. 2: tllee Club 11 Pep Parade 13 Highway Safety 23 Dancing 2g Basketball 13 Dramatics 3. 41 Sports Club 39 Business Club 43 .lunior Proin Ticket Committee Sl. John A. Vadnais l'utnan1's gain was Mariauapolis' loss when .Iohn maine lxerl- in his sophomore year. He is an amiable fellow, anal his gay personality has won him many friends. His hobbies me horsr-back-riding, carpentry, and skating. He hopes to cuter the llartford Institute of Engineering. The best ol' luck to you, John! lfligliway Safety 23 Guidance Z1 Aeronautics 3: lnterclass basketball 243 .luuior Prom llall Committee 3. Clarence Joseph XVl'llllCl1l0I'C Clunky is one of our quiet boys but is neverthelesl xory helpful in school activities. NVhen there is work to be done, he is always willing to lend a hand. He plans to enter College and study dentistry. We all know that he'll be very successful. His hobbies include gardening, fishing, reading. good movies. scientific experimentation. farming, and all sports. Student Council lg Aeronautics 2, 33 Higliway Safety 2: Vice President ol' Class 23 llflonitor 23 Latin Competitive lixani 23 Ways and Means Counnittee 43 Motto Committee 4: Junior Magazine Drive Certificate 33 National Honor Societyg Final Honors.

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Members of the Faculty, beloved Parents, and Friends of Putnam High School: It is my privilege as president of the class of 1948 to welcome you to our Senior Class Day exercises. Our graduation this year is some- thing more than the usual round of Com- mencement activities. This year Putnam High School is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its founding. We of the class of 1948, whose good fortune it is to be the Diamond Jubilee Class, take special pride in the fact that we are an integral part of a tradition that goes back for three quarters of a century, profound- ly affecting the communities among which it was begun. Youthful and inexperienced though we are, we realize that we live in a critical period of our nation's historyg that the future ahead of us lies shrouded in the mists of uncertainty. We are comforted by the thought that today We are the inheritors from self-sacrificing teachers, of seventy-five years of inspiration and scholarshipg that we have behind us a tradition of seventy-five years of hopeful striv- ing on the part of all the graduates who have gone before. The past has been given to us: the present is ours. God grant that it may be our happy lot to build as constructively for the honor of our Alma Mater as did all previous class-es who have graduated at Putnam High School since 1876. PAUL MEDBURY AIJIJHICSS Ol NVlil,CUMli by PAUL R. MEDBURY, 1948 Class President