Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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29 Class of 1944 Amalia J. Gillespie Damon. Amalia Gillespie, Theodore Holland, l: ' ay Joseph, and June Goddard. Receiving honorable mention were Richard Bresnahan, Theodore Holland. Shirley Huntley, Amalia (jillespie, Mary McCormack, Lyman Preston, Richard Turner, Betty Vickery, Merilyn Damon, Nancy Davis, Fay Jose])h, June Goddard, Catherine Peirce, Marilyn Fisher, Frank Hall, and Roger Zollin. The class officers are president, L iiian Pres- ton; vice-president. Arnold Fuller; secretary, Catherine Peirce; and treasurer, Marilyn Fisher. Many in our class went out for athletics. On the girls ' basketball squad we had Virginia Heffernan, Mary Mahar, Jean Cole, Shirley Huntley, Jan? Evans, Nancy Davis, and Merilvn Damon. On the football squad were Kevin Dw er. Arnold Fuller, and Frank Hall. Girls ' hockey had Mary Mahar. Shirley Huntley. Anne Jarvis. Laura Brown, and Jean Cole. Jean Cole was also secretary of the Athletic Association. Our outstanding social event of the year was the successful Freshman-Sophomore Dance which was held on Friday, March 21. The Fresh- man Class representatives on the committee were Anne Jarvis and Arnold Fuller. (Continued on page 41) j lHE Freshman Class this year welcomed eight new members from other schools only two. Those to join our W M group were Nancy Davis from Salis- bury, Maryland; Robert Cogswell, |l « ' 1 from Albuquerque, New Mexico; Carita Smith, Virginia Hyatt, Ann Lear, and Mary Queeney from Springfield, Cohasset, Nor- well and Weymouth, Massachusetts; Marilyn Fisher from Barnstable High School in Hyannis, Massachusetts; and Mary McCormack who left us in 1940 for Quincy but returned this year. Among the talented members of our class we have several in the orchestra. Virginia Heffer- nan and Catherine Peirce play the violin; Frank Hall, the trumpet; David Quinlan. the clarinet; while Bobby Finnic bangs away at the cymbals. Frank Hall is manager of the orchestra and has Bobby Finnic as his assistant. Another indication of the ability of our class is found in the number of names which have appeared on the honor lists at various times during the year. Attaining highest honors were Anne Lear and Marguerite Bartlett. The names listed in the honor column included Merial Bonney, Lyman Preston, David Quinlan, Rich- ard Bresnahan, Marguerite Bartlett, Merilyn

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28 Class of 1943 Frances Williams AST September our very promising class returned for its second year as students of Scituate High School. Howard Tindall. Richard Willett. Patricia McLean, and Martha Lavoine emerged victorious in the contest for leaders of our worthy class, becoming president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer, res- pectively. Mr. Sandberg was again chosen as our class adviser. After the smoke liad cleared away, we dis- covered some jiew as well as old familiar faces. We welcomed Betty Pulver, C nthia Whiting. John Tinch, Fred Veale, and John Wilder as new students this year. However, shortly after their arrival, Betty Pulver and John Tinch left us. We were glad to see Patricia McLean back from Girls ' Latin School. We consider our- selves lucky to ha e two English boys. John Wilder and Fred Veale, with us this year. They have told us many interesting things about Eng- land, especially about their sports and schools. Shortly after their arrival in this country. October 8 to be exact, John Wilder spoke to his family in England over N. B. C. Our class was well represented in athletic achievement this year. Genevieve Wilder. Pat- ricia Crowley, and Marion Hill received let- ters for their outstanding performance on the hockey field. In girls basketball Geneviexe Wilder. Joan Rouleau. Mariesta LaVange and Patricia Crow- ley received letters. From the boys ' team Richard Willett emerged with a large blue S. With these players it is no wonder our teams are so successful. But to jjrove we can work. too. the following l)eople have been upholding the standards of the Sophomore Class on the honor roll : Lester Chadbourne. Marjorie Hattin. Marvlou Hersey, Martha LaVoine. Maria Mansfield. Patricia McLean. Matthew Miles. Joan Rouleau. Helen Stark, Lillian Santia. and Frances Williams. John Billings. Patricia Crowley. Virginia Du- bois. Jean MacNeill. Gilbert Patterson. Howard Tindall. and Frederick Veale ha e received honorable mention. Our class and the freshman class cooperated on March 14 in staging a successful social. Those serving on the committee from our class were Howard Tindall and Marion Hill. We have found a great variety of talents and interests among the members of our class. (Continued on page 41)

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30 Junior High School News The followina; members of Junior Hijih have b- en on the Honor Roll this year: Seventh Grade Hish Honors — Donald Hattin and Robert Holcomb; Honors — Louis Cerilli. John I itchfield. Helen McDonald, Madeline Riani, Ward Swift, Jr., Barbara Tindall, and Bettv Ann Welch; Honorable Mention — Richard FlTh- rty, Charles Fleming, Jean Hersey. Stephen Jenney, Forbes McLean. Stuart MacNeill. Paul Miles, Alice Patterson. Patricia Rouleau, June Seitz. Sarah Whitcomb, Daniel Yuhr. Eishth Gr de Honors — Ora Brown. Pauline Hardwick. Shirley I itchfield. Carmel Manning. Ann Page, Robert Rencurrell. Svlvia Shapiro, William Soule. Charles Stenbeckr Hono ' -able Mention — Kathleen Brown. Anne Butler, Gray Curtis, Richard Jenkins. Thomas Macv. George O ' Neil. Emily Whittaker. Three members of the eighth prade. Jimmie Hiney. Marjorie Whittaker and Dorothy Hod- gins have left school. Bill Connolly, Burton Ainslie, and Gray Cur- tis went out for football this year. Wilson Hollis and Burton Ainslie have re- ceived their driving certificates. The eighth gtrade jjirls ' basketball team, Emily Whittaker, Ann Page, Anne Butler. Fredericka Stuart, Marilyn Ewell, Josephine Arcana, Evelyn Arnold. Ora Brown. Kathleen Brown, and Pauline Hardwick. played Duxbury twice and were the winner on both occasions. The junior high girls are organizing a soft- ball team and they are planning to play Duxbury later in the season. Polly Hardwick. Emily Whittaker. Beverly Newcomb, Shirley Litchfield, and Jackie Cole took part in a Red Cross entertainment in the auditorium a short time ago. Bill Connolly has left school to study the oil burner business. Wanted: By Kathleen Brown — A miniature horse, pig, deer, some chickens and a cat to com- plete her collection of miniature china. Polly Hardwick has already won recognition as an artist. She has competed in two coloring contests conducted by the Daily Record and won prizes both times. Helen McDonald has a collection of dolls given her by her aunt who has traveled all over the world. Helen has dolls from Russia, Switzer- land, Denmark, Estonia. South American coun- tries, Norway and Sweden. Alvin Eaton is a second Tommy Riggs. He recently won a prize for his performance of Betty Lou. Jean Franzen is known for her kindness to animals. She recently rescued two kittens. One she na med Tarz Ann and the other Refugee. Lucille De Costa, who left Scituate in Novem- ber, is attending school in Boston. Ruth Whittaker collects card jokers and saves the pictures on the front of them which she puts in a scrapbook. She now has over one hundred of these pictures. Danny Yuhr was out in a boat one day helping his father haul lobster traps close to shore. He happened to look overboard and saw a fin slic- ing the water. It was a shark! Danny says he ' ll never call his boat a ship when he thinks of that. Ph Ili Cobbett ' s hobby is collecting post- marks which she keeps in a looseleaf notebook. She has postmarks from all the states of the United States and some from the countries of Holland, Germany, England, and Scotland. She has made a map on which she indicates the place from which they came. Paul Miles has a hobby of collecting post cards. To date he has about 800 postcards which have come from about every state in the Union and from other countries. Madeline Riani ' s favorite hobby is collecting pictures and statues of horses. At present she has over 400 pictures and statues. Tom ilbur ' s hobby is fixing watches. He also trades and sells them. He has good luck with his hobby and has had plenty of business. Just before school opened Ann Hefferman took part in several contests in a horseshow. She won six ribbons, of which two were first l)rize ribbons and four were third prize ribbons. Eleanor Bates has a hobby of sending away for things for school purposes. She has received materials from Oregon, New York, Ohio. Illi- nois, Canada and parts of Nova Scotia. One dav Robert Holcomb traded a stamp and in return got an old American. LTpon looking it up in the catalogue he found it was worth $19.50. He is saving it as it will be worth much more in the coming years. Jimmie McCarthy certainly has skill as an animal trainer. He has trained his aoats to the harness and the goats are as good as ponies. We expect to hear Jim has entered a goat race.