Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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26 Class of 1945 Kathleen Brown HE Freshman Class started their new ear with two new members, Vaughn Deal from Winchester and James Vaughn from Hingham. Lucille and Barbara De Costa were welcomed back, but Lucille left soon after school started. Shortly after school started. Arthur Eaton moved away. The Freshman Class chose as their class offi- cers at the beginning of the year the following: president, George 0 Neil ; vice president, Robert Rencurrel; secretary, Emily Whittaker; and treasurer, Vaughn Deal. Mr. Samuelson was nominated class adviser. A number of girls went out for the various teams. They were Anne Butler. Evelyn Arnold. Carmel Manning. Anne Page, and Emily Whit- taker. Ann Page and Emily hittaker were the only Freshman girls to make the first basketball team. The boys who went out for sports were Rocco Foniri, William Dacey, Gray Curtis, Rob- ert Clapp and Arthur Eaton. Carmel Manning was elected secretary of the Athletic Association. A number of the Freshman girls attended the Sargent College exhibition March 28 at the Anne Butler Boston Arena. The girls enjoyed themselves immensely. A number of the pupils from the Freshman Class took part in the Christmas assembly. The committee from the Freshman Class chosen to represent them at the Freshman-Sopho- more Social, which was held on March 20, were Anne Butler, Vaughn Deal, and Robert Ren- currel. Those who have been on the Honor Roll are Ora Brown, Elizabeth Butler, Vaughn Deal, Richard Jenkins, Carmel Manning, Ann Page, Robert Rencurrel. Elizabeth Stark. Charles Sten- beck, and Emily Whittaker. Those receiving honorable mention are Kathleen Brown, Mary Fresina, Myron Litchfield. Thomas Macy, Ken- neth Stone and Henry Zollin. Two members of our class show great artistic abilit . Ora Brown won two tickets to the rodeo in November and later on in the year she entered a country-wide contest and received honorable mention and a grade of 85 7. Pauline Hardwick won two tickets to the rodeo also and first prize in a Massachusetts coloring contest. [Continued on Page 36)

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25 Class of 1944 irgiiiia Heffeinan N Se|jleml)er the members of our tal- ented class of ' 44 returned to dear old Scituate High for our second trium- phant year. Louis Bournazos, a new- comer from Western Junior High School. Somerville, Mass., was elected president; Ginny Hyatt, who moved to Shirley in February, treasurer; and Arnold Skip Fuller and Catherine Peirce were re-elected vice- president and secretary, respectively. The Sophomore Class was well re])resented in athletics this year. Skip Fuller, Frank Hall. Kevin Dwyer, and Jimmy Travers did a fine job fighting for the football team. The Senior Class may be able to boast of Evie Dorr, but we point with pride to our football hero, Louis Bournazos. With fellows like these playing we should expect again to win the South Shore Cham|)ionship. Not to be outdone, the girls also did a grand job in field hockey this year. Anne Jarvis. Laura Brown, Shirley Huntley, and Mary Mahar re- ceived hockey pins at a banquet given the hockev team at Hugo ' s. Jean Cole received her letter. Congratulations, Jean, for helping the team on to many victories. Nancy Davis In girls ' basket})all. pla crs like Gimiy Hyatt, Shirley Huntley, Katherine Whittaker, Jean Cole, Jane Evans. Joan Condit, Laura Brown. Marilyn Fisher, Nancy Davis, and Anne Jarvis did their bit in helping the victorious team win the South Sh(jre Championship. Even though we enter into many extra-curricu- lar activities we also have many students on the honor roll. They are Marguerite Bartlett. Meri- lyn Damon. Fay Joseph. Merial Bomiey. David Quinlan. Mary McCorniack. Catherine Peirce. L man Preston. Theodore Holland. Robert Rou- leau. Marilyn Fisher, Mary Queeney. and June Coddard. Shirley Huntley, May Eastman. Louis Bournazos, Nancy Davis, Richard Bresnahan. and Marietta Deragon have received honorable mention. We couldn ' t go any further without mention- ing Joan Condit, who was a hilarious success as the little nuisance in the school play China Boy. ' Joan promises that when she is a great star on Broadway shell give us all free passes to one of her performances. Let ' s take her up on that! Robert Gannett. Amalia Gillespie, and Bett Vickery also did well in the Christmas assembly. {Continued on Page 28)

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27 Junior High School News EIGHTH GRADE NEWS NOTES SEVENTH GRADE NEWS NOTES Slephen Jeiuiey Sally Whitcombe There have been sixty-six students enrolled in the eighth grade this year. Marjorie Whittaker left for Florida during the year, but has recently returned. 8-B contributed the most money for the ship Massachusetts. In science, Miss Walker gave us a list of sub- jects to write about. The class chose different ones and made slides, colored or plain. When they were finished we went into the laborator) ' and they were shown to us on the screen. In science, we are studying water. Some of the boys demonstrated experiments in the labora- tory. Three boys, while experimenting with sul- phur, almost gassed themselves and have been coughing ever since. In the gym exhibition the girls had a ski race against the seventh grade. They went down the floor, turned around, and came back and helped the next girl put the skiis on. Mrs. Wilder, who has charge of our cafeteria, gave us a helpful talk on how the cafeteria is kept clean and sanitary. In doing indirect measuring in math, we went outside in groups of four and measured articles. Afterwards we drew diagrams and wrote up the measurements. Charles Vickery has won two medals for good horsemanship, one at Cohasset Horse Show and another at the Hanover Show. The Boy Scouts are taking an active part in Civilian Defense. Joseph Fitzpatrick won the Caddy Champion- ship cup at the Scituate Golf Club this summer with a score of 77. His brother Robert came in second with a score of 80. Joseph hopes to try for the State Caddy Golf Championship this summer. Charles Fleming, Donald Hattin, Robert Hol- comb, Stephen Jenney, John Litchfield. Helen McDonald, Madeline Riani, Barbara Tindall, Forbes McLean, Donald McPherson, Sally Whit- combe and Ruth Whittaker have been on the honor roll this year. Jean Hersey, Patricia Rou- leau, Jean Franzen, Betty Ann Welch, and Ray- mond Barrows have received honorable mention. Terry Butler Annette Milliken There has been an enrollment of seventy- seven in the seventh grade this year. The football season for the seventh grade was very successful. There are many good football players in the seventh grade that may be valu- able in the future on the high school team. Basketball was a new experience for many of the seventh graders and everybody thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of the girls in our class were included in the Junior High School basketball team. Only one game was played away. The score was in favor of Duxbury, our opponents. Probably Duxbury will be invited to Scituate for a game next year. After our first game with Duxbury, a league was formed consisting of all the seventh and eighth grade girls who wished to join. During gym periods in January the first ten minutes were devoted to First Aid. The seventh grade with the Senior High Glee Club will have an opportunity to appear in public before the year is over. We have been studying mathematical geog- raphy, which is about the Solar System. We also have studied weather, fishing, hunting do- mestic animals, mining of mineral, etc. In mathematics we have studied circles, areas of geometric figures, fractions, graphs, and per- centage. History, this year, explained the beginning of early Americans in Europe, the exploration, and finally the settling of America and later histori- cal events to the present day. In art the seventh grade has made posters on the progress and defense of our country and on being kind to animals. On December 8, 1941, the President ' s speech was heard on the radio in Miss Giles ' room. A gym exhibition was held before the Parent- Teacher Association in which quite a number of our class took part. The seventh grade has organized a Better Speech Club in English. We have made several booklets that have been based on our English work. The most recent was an illustrated patriotic scrap book. Th ree people in our class received high honors ibis year. They are Terrence Butler, Patricia Cahir, and Donald Kennedy. Robert Devine,