Ralph C Mahar Regional High School - Toga Yearbook (Orange, MA)

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GENE WHITNEY, JR. I like a little corruption myself . . . if it is amusing. Class Committees 1,2,3,45 Min- strel Show 3,45 Cabaret 1,35 Senior Play 1,45 One-act Plays 1,3,4g Band 1,3,45 Soccer 35 Town Government Day 35 As- semblies 3,45 Music Listening Club 3. is is LAURA WILLARD If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her. Class Committees 1,2,3,45 Min- strel Show 2,3,45 Yearbook 45 Basketball 45 Assemblies 3,45 Glee Club 45 Music Listening Club 3. ALLEN WOODS Handsome is that handsome does. Class Committees 1,2,35 Minstrel Show 2,35 Newspaper 35 Foot- ball 1,2,35 Basketball 1,35 As- semblies 1,25 Dramatics Club 45 Glee Club 4. 1Allen left at the mid-year to join the Navy.J S EN IOR CLASS HISTORY We. the Class of 1959, are composed of students from Erving, Petersham. Turners Falls and Orange. We have all worked diligently in our respective schools and in the Ralph C. Mahar Regional School, both scholastically and socially. ORANGE HISTORY As frightened. insecure freshmen, we who entered Orange High School in 1955 comprised a class of 85. After the anticipated horrors of the Freshman Welcome were turned into fun for all concerned. we settled down to the job of establishing ourselves as a hard-working, respected class. Mr. Kalopreros was our faculty advisor. We elected Alfred Letourneau as our first class president and gave him a working committee of Judith Punis, vice- presidentg Clifford Shatos, treasurerg and Linda Dexter, secretary. Representatives to the Student Council were Clifford Shatos, Alfred Letourneau, and Linda Dexter. By the time we entered our second and last year at Orange High School we had lost our self-conscious- ness and had grained a new self-confidence. We elect- ed to office William Amidon, presidentg Carole Small, vice-president5 James Brown, treasurer, and Barbara Tepper, secretary. Our representatives to the Student Council were Clifford Shatos, Linda Dexter, William Amidon, James Brown and Sue Belcher. Determined to make our last year at Orange High School memorable, we entered the one-act play com- petition with a play entitled The Lady Who Ate an Oyster . This was under the direction of Miss Ryan fnow Mrs. Dareyl. Our play won first prize in the competition and Linda Dexter and Charlotte Hall won additional honors for our class by being chosen the best actresses from all the productions. ln May we held our Sophomore Hop. Determined to make it different, and since it was leap year, we made the ruling that a girl could date a boy, if she so desired. In keeping with the idea of being dif- ferent, we made the decorations conform to a Hawaiian luau, with Mr. Hall and his Honoluluites strumming dance music in the background. In the last Minstrel Show at Orange High School, William Amidon and Alfred Letourneau represented our class as end men. All in all it was a good year and we left Orange High School halls with a mixed feeling of sorrow and accomplishment. PETERSHAM HISTORY The present Petersham seniors of Mahar began their freshman year with twelve pupils. Soon after school opened in September we had our first class meeting and elected the following officers: presi- dent, Geraldine Smithg vice-president, Rexyne Law-

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JUDITH WHITE ' 1 oz -'Z 1 K q Q ' V 2 ..,,,3, W., . . - ,, f ,, f- ,f , 1 ss fagpiffgu ,f ,, Jane Twombly A m erry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. Joanne Vaillencourt Shall I compare thee to a sum- mer's day? Sharon Warner Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back. JANE TWOMBLY Cla ss Committees 2,45 Minstrel Show 3,45 Yearbook 45 Field Hock- ey 33 Assemblies 1,2,3,4g Music Listening Club 3,4. LLOYD UPHAM Minstrel Show 3,4g Football 3, Glee Club 3,4, JOANNE VAILLENCOURT Class Committees 2,3,4g Minstrel Show 2,3,4g Cabaret 15 Senior Play 4: One-act Play 43 Band 1,2,3,4g Yearbook 4g Newspaper 15 Town Government Day 2,35 Assemblies 1,2,3,4g Woodwind Club 33 Glee Club 3,43 Photography Club 3. LINDA WAID Yearbook 45 Softball 1,2g National Honor Society 33 Assemblies 1,2g Honorary Member Orange Woman's Club 33 Town Govern- ment Day 2. SHARON WARNER Class Committees 23 Minstrel Show 3,43 Cabaret 1,35 Yearbook 4: Rep- resentative at Greenfield Winter Carnival 4: Glee Club 3,45 Music Listening Club 35 District All State Chorus 4. Class Committees 2,-3,45 Minstrel Show 2,3,4g Twirler 1,2,3,4g Year- book 45 Newspaper 1,41 Assemblies 1,2,3,4g Glee Club 1,2,33 Music Lis- tening Club 33 Town Government Day 3. 27 Lloyd Upham A happy soul. Linda Waid I would rather be right than be president. Judy White Life is a jest .

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song secretary, Doris Russellg treasurer, Ronald Banks. Our class advisor was Mrs. Phillips. Our major activity for was Sport Dance, held on gymnasium. Roberta's this social. Our class gold. school left to at At the end of this year and Sidney tend the Maria Assurnpta Legare left to obtain a Job. We began our sophomore ten students. At our first class meeting we elected our officers as follows Rexyne Lawsong Doris Rus- vice-president, Ronald advisor this sellg treasurer, Helen year was Mrs. Crowson. activity for the the school gvm- The Freshman year, was held on nasium. The theme sequences . Doris ceremonies, with Doris Russell and basketball team this Joyce Lundgren to We finished with WRS Truth 0' Con' For our final class officers we as ,mistress of presidentg Eleanor Paluilis, asslstmg' Shatos, tre s , Our Girls' State representative was Gayle Johnson and our Boys' State representatives were John Ma- gee, William Amidon and Alfred Letourneau. In the first Minstrel Show ever held at Mahar, Al- f e Let urneau, James Hennessy and Allen Woods as end men from our class. rd 0 students were Clif- In February and seniors, took part We received our long-awaited class and on May 2 we held our Junior Arabian Nights theme. In September, 1958, we turned Mahar for the final year. We time to savor the idea of being at last, be- cause we had so much to plan Bundy, Clifford cretary. William secretaryg a rl e n e Rexyne Francis a urer and As We white colors and colors On a warm in 19521 tae from Millers a s School. We ' but we had a the one' desire to take school functions learn as much as this last year, in a and we posed However of the first few consisted, help Slips' The Riilcltegtxeisto raise places of em- gggfuxvhere year wggrthe L, and most. watched our- sieniars, our grow in maturity line- We our Show represented 1112 every hoarse- once as interlocu- tlle end of many tor Driscoll, Dennis rlculal' OH our way to James as senior good solid men. With the year behind . . . . . - looked year with gfggor Vlrgggfia sfgfd tion. Full our first Ta lar ject-the was y ' a great who attended. For Carlene recipient of the time we in commencement D'A-R' Turners Falls toward our brand and then looking in Orange 1957 treasurerg Belcher, Clifford tourneau, William Duval and Sandra Richard represented the Student Council. of the trip to Wash- students and two on the twenty-fifth. April 19 marked ington, which chaperones took of the year has been Thanks to many to Mr. Bagley The biggest the making of members of the this book will be a June 7 was held. On June 9, 11, we of the senior and on the follow- e all our last big school prom. The theme was Dream . Night were w last and most important Ryan. She has worked ourselves.