Roxbury Memorial High School for Boys - Bostonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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98 astnian Year Ee! Class Will We, the Graduating Class of 1953, being of unsound mind and bruised body, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testimonial, registered at the Greasy Gopple, this fifth day of June, 1953. We do hereby bequeath: TO THE JUNIOR CLASS: Our sympathies and the best seats in the auditorium. TO THE SOPHOMORE CLASS: Three cut slips, eighteen graph sheets, and a book entitled ““The Guiding Hand” (with a lead pipe), by Ever Jolly Reardon. TO THE FRESHMAN CLASS: Mr. Gemmel’s ever watching eye, and one used cigarettte butt. TO MR. MASTERSON: Our sincere and heartfelt thanks for three years of advice and guidance, and the knowledge that in our hearts he will always remain a strong inspiration. TO MRS. McGRATH: Orchids for her constant aid and comfort through the years. TO OUR ESTEEMED FACULTY: Our sympathies for losing the best class they have ever taught. TO MR. SCHROEDER: One Westinghouse Air Conditioning Unit and a book from our library entitled ‘““Crime and Punishment.” TO MR. McCORMACK: Monsieur Perrichon, because nobody else wants him, and three dried Havana cigars. TO MR. REARDON: One life-sized portrait of Becky, and Boston Latin School, because of his deep and affectionate love for the school on Louis Pasteur Avenue. TO MR. BUTTERS: One loaf of stale bread and six key chains. TO MR. LANDRIGAN: | Six hundred volumes of a certain so-called history book. TO MR. CONWAY: Sincere thanks for his advice on the Yearbook, and one class in the theory of the dance. TO MR. COVENEY: The left-over ballots of the senior class elections. TO MR. DONOVAN: A book entitled “The Echo of the Jingling Keys,” and a first in the Hearst History Contest. TO MR. BROWN: One pied type case. TO MR. SHEEHAN: A janitor named Murphy, and one super graph sheet. TO MR. FIRGER: One motion picture entitled ‘The Exploits of Healthy Harry.” TO MR. GEMMEL: Congratulations on becoming the head of the Rox- bury Memorial Secret Service, and a round trip airplane ticket to Alaska. TO MR. EDMONSTONE: Constant janitor service, and a 6 by 4 steel plate to cover his ventilator. TO MR. KEANE: Mr. Gross’s insults and one left over basketball sneaker.

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Chil 1953 Class Will TO MR. DONOGHUE: Two famous volumes: “How to Embezzle,” and “The Correct Way to Teach Typing.” TO MR. GROSS: One book entitled ‘Millie,’ a toupe from Mr. Barnes, and our gratitude for his guiding hand. TO MR. BARNES: A toupe from Mr. Gross and our sincere thanks and appreciation for his helpful advice and guidance. TO MR. CAMPBELL: Ten tons of graph sheets and six intelligent Latin students for a change. TO COLONEL DUNPHY: A new movie for military science entitled “The Eighth Wonder of the World, or Roxbury Memorial Wins the Schoolboy iparage. The following members of the class of 1953, holding the faculty in high esteem, hereby bequeath these valuable tokens. PAUL BARG leaves Mr. Walworth 50 pounds quote, “‘you need it more than I do.” RONNIE BENDER leaves Mr. McCormack a copy of his new book, “Tales of a Defeated Politician.” MIKE CANTOR leaves Mr. Coveney two used prom tickets. JOE COFFEY leaves a cup of tea. SID “the kid’ DOREN leaves Coach Moran a championship football squad. BOB ENTE leaves his golden voice. GERRY FAVERMAN finally got his name in print. TSATZ FISHMAN leaves Mr. Edmonstone his thin lunch. Anyway who likes salmon? JORDAN GOLDINGS, captain of the tennis squad, leaves his new book “My Rackets.” MR. GROSSMAN leaves Lipofsky. IRWIN KABLER leaves campaign buttons with the slogan, “Who can be abler than Kabler?” M. KARASS just leaves. BUZ NEWMAN leaves his 8 spelling trophies to Memorial. GEORGE PEARSON leaves Mr. Campbell one track shoe, lost last year. ARNIE SHER leaves DeLeo’s hockey stick and the puck which scored the 14th goal. V.D. ROSEN, “The laugh-a-minute boy,” leaves his regards to Mr. Coveney and one used lunch. STAN SAMUELS leaves Mr. O’Connor one slightly used flashlight as a token of his esteem. We, the undersigned, having proven our insanity and incompetence, do hereby declare this to be our last will, and order it to be published in the Dor- chester Record. Signed: GERALOSHAV ERMANSED.MsL.L-B,; Vb, D.O-4.,-5.R.0, Ble ieee cOLIEN Pil ena C.C).D. Mar. 99