Roxbury Memorial High School for Girls - Laurel Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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THE LAUREL A Badge of Honor to . Sarah Stansil for being a gracious, willing, and excellent pianist for us on all occasions. Jacqueline West for carrying the Hag during patriotic exercises in the hall. Shirley Hamer for her work in the distribution of locker keys. Rita Morgan and Dorothy Vlamos for operating the sound equipment and phonograph system in the gym and hall. songs. Natalie Yavner for her outstanding performance in the Scholarship Play. Marcia Kalus for her ability in meeting all occasions with ingenious little Margaret Akasian for her enthusiasm and help in winning the silver loving cup for II3 by selling the most tickets for the Scholarship Play. Jacqueline Nazarro for her winning speech on Should the Government Sub- sidize College Education delivered in our auditorium at the Junior Town Meeting. Nasha Levitt for winning the Herald-Traveler Book Review Contest in 1943. Emily Bodio for winning the essay contest on racial discrimination in 1944, and graciously donating her prize of a 325 War Bond to the school. Ruth Dorn for winning the History Contest in 1944. Marilyn Harriman and Dorothy Vander Woude for ably representing our school at the Old South Meeting House on Washington's birthday. Helen Wiseman for winning the Herald-Traveler Spelling Bee in 1944 and the essay contest on the improvement of the airport facilities in Boston. Gloria Sturgis for receiving the most A's on her high school record and Ruth Dorn for receiving the next highest number. Mary Ingeneri and Dorothy Amon for having a perfect punctuality and attendance record, during their entire high school course. 'I44 I

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1944 Padooka, Kentucky-The Doris Kendrick Loan Co. has just opened a new branch office here in Padooka which will be managed by Yvonne Greene. This company demands no collateral other than three gold Fillings and two pounds of butter. New York, New YorlZThe'wh5e.aibcTLits of Betty Gaffney has finally been disclosed. She is now working in an OH:lCC on the top floor of the Empire State Building. Miss Gaffney is truly coming up in the world! Roxbury, MassachusegLTo.hit-the igwsstands this month will be the 999th chapter of White Sails, by Phyllis Zipperstein, which is being eagerly awaited by her public. Washington, D. has just announced that her trucking concern will endeavor to accomplish the tremendous project of removing from the White House all of Eleanor Roosevelt's airplane ticket stubs. Broadway, New dgacing team Dorothy Goler and Madeline Holeman are reported to have signed a long term contract with a well-known stage producer. It is your reporter's opinion that he will also sign up the dancer extra- ordinaire-janet Thomas. And now a Final Ladies, do you weigh 200 pounds or over? Are last year's dresses too tight for you now? The Mary Zetes Reducing Salon is the place for you. Her assistants Rosalyn Wodinsky and Janet Malkiel will make you a size twelve again. Remember our theme song: CTO the tune of Reuben and Rachelnj Ladies, Ladies, are you chubby? Do you want to please your hubby? You'll lose weight without a diet, Come to Mary Zetes and try it. We now return you to your reporter-Miss Dotes. This is Maisy Dotes signing oil , sending greetings on the anniversary ofthe historic graduation of R. M. H. S., Class of 1944, to all those who have survived the ordeal. Seniors of Memorial the are no more- f Y Alumnae, now, is the Class of '44. Maisy Dotes, and her Dozey Dopes Dorothy Weisman Shirley Ugintz ' Claire Klueber 443 I .

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1944 Class Will We the underslgned bemg of unsound mmd lazy body and 4F do hereby declare thls to be our last w1ll and testament Any s1m1lar1ty between the provlsxons here and after set forth and common sense, elther null or vold IS by the habeus corpus status quo laws, purely accldental unpremedrtated and undesxrable 'Io Mlss Dlckson we leave our respect love adm1rat1on and a w1sh for good luck from every member of our Semor Class To Mlss Shea we leave our best wishes and the hope that she has en joyed her Fnrst Senlor Class as much as we have enjoyed her We Llso leave her a solld gold File m whxch to keep a l1st ofthe tardy g1rls To Mr O Connor we leave a Semor Class wh1ch after graduatlon class nlght and the class glft stlll IS able to leave a good many dollars for the succeedmg c ass To Mr Malone, we leave a box Ol-VIIZRITIII1 tablets IH case he should ever run out of h1s aboundlng energy To Mlss Torpey we leave a copy of our newly edlted autoblography entltled Why a Glrl Changes When She Becomes a Senlor Thls IS one book we have read To MISS Wllhams we leave a half do7en cha1rs w1th neon slgns readlng To Mlss Nolan we leave a new French telephone wlth a prlvate lme To Mr Dullea we leave a class ln Ancxent Hxstory hat concentrates on Rome and Caesar and not on the teacher To Mlss Palm we leave an Enlerprzse box crammed full of l1'ltCl'CStlI1g materlal We also leave her the Majesty ofMemor1al To Mrs ennlngs we leave a posltlon as personnel manager at the Mem orlal Department Store comprlsed exclus1vely of our grrls To Mlss McMahon we leave a class of glrls who never abuse a pr1v1lege To Mlss Barker we leave ten female robots for her excluslve messengers To Mlss L McCarthy, we leave Eve thousand bracelets on whlch our locker keys are to be placed, so that lf a key IS lost an arm must also be found To Mxss Llttle we leave a pr1or1ty for a new mlmeograph machme that turns out every letter IH a umform shade To MISS Gale, we leave orderly well kept files and eH'lc1ent gllls as a complement to a business llke teacher To M1 Balcomb we leave a one ton safe comblnatlon to be placed on the huge Enzerprzse money box so that he may appear professxonal when removmg three cents for the exchange stamps To Mlss Greany we leave recordlngs of our Five mlnute bxographles of famous people To Mlss Loughran we leave a water tap to be Installed beslde her desk at her dlsposal at all tlmes To Mlss Rlordan we leave a class of glrls who eat wlth the manners of Emlly Post 445 O 1 1 y A 1 ' 7 ' U 2 -J , . . , , . Y Y J 7 1 l ' . z , .. . . ' ' 7 x 7 7 7 3 Y 'W l . 7 ' as - - as ' - , . , , ., . . . . Property of MISS Wllllams-not to be taken from the Receptlon Room. , . . , t , . ' in ' ' In ' J 1 l l ' . . l . H , . . U , . 4 , : . , . 7 n y - . .Q , - x x , I x - P ' 7 7 lf