Reading Memorial High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Reading, MA)

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R. H. S. Class of 1936 Eleanor Agnes Dissel “Eleo”, the tallest girl in the Senior Class, started with the idea of being a teacher, but now she wants to be a secretary. She left our fair school for a year, but got homesick, so back she came, and are we glad! Nathaniel Doane The Reading Curb Club has Nat for its chief in¬ vader into our class’s heart. Yet we’ve utilized that seeming nonchalant attitude on the financial end of the Pioneer board while Nat, as President of the De¬ bating Club, led his colleagues to an unanimous victory over Haverhill this spring. His quick smile has won over everybody. Maybe Nat hears WBZ every morn¬ ing at 7:15 because he plans to study at a Diesel En¬ gineering School. Anyway we join with Nat in groan¬ ing every time we hear the game, Monopoly, mentioned. John Done North Reading’s handsomest delegate is Buddy Done. He lives, eats and thinks baseball to such a de¬ gree that the baseball team made him captain. The Civic Preparatory Course and football squeeze into the remaining space w T hile Buddy claims he has no time for girls. But just why the Sophomore ambition then, Buddy? Frances Agnes Doucette “Frannie”, one of our budding secretaries, is just waiting to invade the business world. She was A. A. representative back in her sophomore days and has been a responsible worker in many ways. She claims a special interest in donkey-riding—don’t we all! Marguerite Frances Doucette “Flip” is one of the girls who go in for everything! Vivacious and good-natured, she helped lead the crowds in the cheers at the football games. Taking a part in the senior play, she played it well—but she intends to be a music supervisor, and it won’t be long before she’ll be swinging a baton over somebody’s head. Incident¬ ally, she throws grand parties. Fouis Doyle If you see a fellow around in the middle of winter in his shirt sleeves, that’s Bob Doyle. The great out- of-doors attracts Bob, and therefore he wants to be a state trooper. He’s apt to be hard boiled with us in the future, but, gee whiz, Bob, we were only doing sixty. Clifton Englund “Swede” Englund has been making way for pigskin drives down the field for two years now and hopes to plunge into business in the same manner. Believe it or call us a fibber, but “Dub” plays the violin . He says it’s easy because the bridge of the violin helps him put the music across. Mary Cameron Estabrook “Pesty’s” nickname is derived from her last name, not her disposition. Even with her red hair, which she wishes were redder, her disposition is surprisingly mild. She is going to attend Simmons College, and her love of books is shown in her choice of a librarian’s career. How are you going to reach the top shelves, “Pesty? With a fireman’s ladder?

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R. H. S. Class of 1936 John Crowley “Truck”, the villain of the Senior Play with the fur coat and derby hat, is also the plump good looking traffic officer on the first floor. They tell us that the reason that all plump people are good natured is that they can’t fight and can’t run, but “Truck” has suc¬ cessfully controverted that explanation by his efficient plugging of the line on the football field. In serious moods, Crowley works for DeMolay and thinks of Diesel machines, while Park Street, North Reading has a peculiar attraction for John. John Cullinane “Shorty” has tooted the tooter—I mean the sax— until we’re almost ready to recall those slams we’ve made about the sax. Any sour music disappears after going through that lengthy frame. That same height has enabled our lackadaisical “King Cull” to become a successful emulator of “Big Bill” Tilden and his fam¬ ous cannon ball serve. Kenneth Cutcliffe The Cutcliffe family seems to go in for nobility names. This one is the “Baron”. For any easy going guy, the “Baron” is the best tennis player we know—- outside of “King Cull,” of course. Ken has the idea that what this country needs is a mixture of Cab Calloway and Ina Ray Hutton’s orchestra. So he’s going “to lead a band” of females exclusively! Barbara Leona Davis “B” is a tall, charming young lady, with a genuine smile and a cheery disposition. These assets will give her a great boost into the world. Burke’s Conciliation Speech may be her pet aversion (and do we wonder!) but she seemed to be the favorite reader in the English class! Edith Goodwin Day Lofty indeed is Edith’s ambition ; it is to make good in this old world ! More power to you, Edith. She bas been a member of the chorus for two years, and she shares the pet aversion of high school students the world over, homework. Never mind, those days are gone forever, after June tenth. Marjorie Elizabeth DePatie “Midgie’s” favorite study, shorthand, is right in line with her ambition—to be a private secretary, and for further training along that line, she is entering Bur- dett. We understand she’s quite a swimmer, but her pet aversion is tobogganing—at the Senior carnival for instance. Ronald DePatie In all probability, those long end runs which you’ve remembered from the football seasons were “Light¬ ning’s”. The basketball floor is also acutely aware of this youth with the appropriate nickname. “Lightning” says he’s a woman hater, but what about the beautiful violinist of the class of ’35? Prep school and then Bow- doin are Ron’s future fields of liveliness. Oh, say, Ron, how are your pigs? Philip Dewhurst No superficial or pedantic knowledge of books for Phil—no sir; he’s one of our outstanding aggie stu¬ dents. In the future Phil plans to be a scientific farmer and raise poultry that will be the pride of this district and especially of “Pop” Wheeler.

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R. H. S. Class of 1936 Harriet Bancroft Esty Yeah team! It’s “Haha”, one of our snappy cheer leaders. What a girl, athletic to the nth degree, quite an actress, and a member of the chorus. Wasn’t she the one we saw blithely skiing down some of those per¬ pendicular hills at Nashua? Catherine Faulkner “Kitty” is another one of our future stenographers, and it certainly goes without saying, that she will be a very good one. She has been active in sports during her high school years, and her special interest is in basketball games. We imagine that the interest does not lie only in playing herself. Marcus Kent Fletcher Known as Kent to contemporaries, he will long be remembered as the man with the moustache and cinerarias in the Senior Play. His appreciation of good humor as well as other arts of writing has made him a very capable “Fourth Estater” in the Exchange De¬ partment. But the school won’t lose him, for he’s to take a P. G. next year and later beetle his brows over the hieroglyphics of his pupils—yes, you guessed it, Kent aims to surpass even Mr. Dixon as a teacher. Alida Fox “Foxy” comes from North Reading, and certainly shows the benefit of country air. Having followed the clerical course, she hopes to secure a position in the drug business. My—can she swing a wicked bat! If there was a girl’s baseball league, “Foxy” certainly would be in demand. Ray Gibbons Quizzical and humorous, Ray has chosen a different field from his namesake, Floyd. Ye executives of to¬ morrow will find Ray to be so capable that he’ll be de¬ manding and getting a high price as C. P. A. (certified public accountant). Wendall Godfrey A Practical Arts student, “Goon” hopes to replace a DuPont though he hasn’t decided which one yet. If you can’t find Godfrey around, then don’t bother look¬ ing for Elbe because she won’t be around either. And does “Goon“ love to be slapped! Richard Gonnam Dick is an enthusiast. What kind of an enthusiast? Well an enthusiast for baseball, hockey, basketball and horseback riding—to say nothing of the fact that he’s always a booster and never a tongue lasher. A bucket of lilies to Dick for his meritorious work for that bene¬ fit basketball game last winter. Unofficial baseball games at Legion Park would never be without Dick’s work at rustling one up, so that he can take a cut at the ol’ pill. George Harris George Wilson Harris is the Gibraltar-like guard, who has played appreciable football all through high school. Everyone who knows Bull, knows his sense of humor and likes him. His corner of the traffic cir¬ cle seems to be in strict law and order. But don’t be afraid of that brusque front—he’s merely trying to browbeat you into joining the DeMolay.