Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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25 A TREASURE HUNT IN 1960 Roger McLean, 8B One time we were asked lo clean our attic as a fire prevention measure. Of course we didn ' t expect to have a fire because we liad automatic fire extinguishers planted all over the house. To get back to the stor . I was going through an old trunk that had been handed down through my family. I came to some letters with a string around them. Among them was a piece of folded parchment on which was a picture of the Solo- mon Islands. 1 had heard of the islands relative to the war which we had won from the Japanese. l ear the middle of the group of islands was a big, black X. I took it upon myself to believe that it indicated buried treasure. I immediately shot up into the air in my heli- copter. In ten hours I had reached my desti- nation as cool and calm as a cucumber. During the big war I remembered reading how the Marines, as the rocket-men were called in those days, had to hack their way through dense tropi- cal jungles and swamps. When I arrived. I saw, instead of jungles, nice, flat pieces of land that looked as though they had been used as air- ports. Then I recalled that there were some brave men in the World Massacre called Seabees. The had used little land-ships called jeeps and bull-dozers to level the land. After a lot of figur- ing on my little instrument called the spot-finder. I found just the place to dig. Incidentally, this little gadget worked by finding the latitude and longitude and then it showed when you were over the exact spot. When I had arrived there, I pulled out my automatic digger, an implement which looked like an automatic drill only it was run by air currents. In short order I reached an iron chest, which I got out quickly enough. Upon opening it. I found it full of jewels, money, and three containers of radium. There was enough there to make me the most talked-about man in the ivorld. Oh, you want to know why I ' m not that today? Well, I ' ll tell you. Everybody agrees that there are and always will be some cruel and wicked people in this world. It was just my luck to strike one of those persons and his gang on the way home. I had been in the atmosphere only two hours when they drifted along. A fierce battle raged. It ended with their having the treasure and I the helicopter. Out of a secret compartment I quickly pulled my faithful exter- minator and shot them. They immediately dis- appeared. Then I realized that the chest went with them. Now you know my whole story. All I ha e left is the memory. LIMERICKS There once was a iTiati bought a tru(;k When speeding along, he got stuck He tried to get out But he was loo stout So he stuck right there in the truck. Brooke Durant, 8 A There was a marine on Tarawa Whose name was Danny O ' Hara Jap bombers he shot Until he was caught In a trap on bloody Tarawa. Manuel Spinola, Jr., 8A There was a )oung lady of Wales Who wore her black hair in two tails, She got into jail And couldn ' t raise bail So now she sits there and wails. Harry Richards 1 here was a fine laddie named Jack Who winked at a cute little WAC He took her to dine At quarter of nine And that ' s the story of Jack. John Savage, 88 There was a young lady of Spain, Who cried out loud when it rained, Oh ain ' t it a shame, But I ' m not to blame. If it does do nothing but rain. Leland Towle, 8B There was a young lad named Benny Who couldn ' t save even a penny To the poorhouse he went On the first day of Lent Oh that foolish young lad named Benny! Nancy Gilley, 7B There was a young lady named Helen, Whose favorite subject was spellin ' , But, spelling her name, Did not win her fame, For she couldn ' t spell the name Helen. Barbara Anne Best, 7 A There was a )oung man named Austin Who went on a trip to Boston When he got there, His gas tank was bare. So he had to slay right in Boston. Jolin Fresina, 8 A

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24 Junior High School News EIGHTH GRADE NOTES }on Flynn, 8A Gabriel Jacobucci, 8B On September 8 an ambitious 8th grade, num- bering 80 pupils, entered Scituate High School. We were glad to welcome David Coombs from Quincy, John Leslie from Norwell, and Lawrence Henderson from Rockland. The WAR BOND and STAMP sales in 8A have set a school record. They have had 100% of pupils buying for 10 weeks in a row, and hope to continue. This year the eighth grade formed a dramatic club, as an extra English activity. They elected the following officers: President — Jon Flynn. ' Vice-President — Barbara Robischeau. Treasurer — Verdella Goddard. Secretary — Jean Prouty. They plan to present two plays in the audi- torium this spring. We regret the loss of Guy and Priscilla Sou- thard to Marshfield High School. Mary Noble, a member of the 8B class, has been in the hospital with an appendix operation. The eighth grade is proud to have among its members one all A student, William Calla- han, 8A. This year the following pupils were on the honor roll: 8A — David Coombs. Shirley Damon. Elizabeth Fleming, Jon Flynn, Laura Cerilli, William Callahan: 8B— Jean Prouty. Mary Noble, Jane Keyes, John Savage, Josephine Miles, Gabriel Jacobucci. Honorable Mention : 8A — Verdella Goddard, Gary Cooper, Paul Avery and Laura Cerilli; 8B — Roger McLean, Eleanor Noble. H arrv Rich- ards, Guy Southard, Priscilla Southard. Jane Keyes, Louise Reddy and Leland Toule. Among the members of the eighth grade who ha e left school are Larry Crowle). Frank Dir- rigo, Lindy Harris and Walter Gannett. LIMERICK There was a young sailor named Eddy, Who wanted a date with Miss Heddy, Though he waited and waited She always was dated. So never a chance had poor Eddy. Laura Cerilli, 8A SEVENTH GRADE NOTES Mary Lou Corrigan, 7 A Patricia Goddard, 7B On Wednesday, September 8, a group of stu- dents from the two sixth grades entered the first year of junior high school. It was a little hard at first and made everyone feel empty inside, but we soon got used to it here and found it a lot of fun. During the year so far, pupils who have had high honors are Barbara Best, Mary Lou Cor- rigan and John Stewart. Those who have made the honor roll are Ralph Brown, Francis Dyer, Mary Lou Corrigan, Frank Anderson, Marjorie Gannett, Donald Hey wood. Dolores Parker, Alan Piser, James Robinson. David Conway. Barbara Best. Anne Marie Ara- poff, Nancy Gilley, Patricia R. Goddard, Dorothy McPherson, John Stewart. Jean Tobin, Edwin Veiga and Russell Hattin. Those who were on the honorable mention list are Nancy Dwight, Anne Dwyer, Anne Marie ArapofF. Russell Hat- tin, Jean Tobin, Virginia Day, David Conway. Ralph Brown, James Robinson, Alan Piser, Dolores Parker and Leo Gowin. We have had seven new pupils during the ear: John Cook and Jack Fenton. who left before the term was over; Alan Piser. Nancv Gilley, Howard Mann; and the twins, Dottv Lou and Judith Ann Merrifield who came from Vir- ginia. Leo Gowin, Frank Anderson and Tony Dias are the only pupils who have left. The total enrollment for the seventh grade was 66. The English classes organized an English club called The Story Hour Club. Two classes have been competing with each other to see who could get the highest per cent ill the sale of defense stamps and bonds — 7B and 8A. 7B has had one hundred per cent for ever} week except one which made oA one more 100% than 7B. The per cent for 17 weeks for these two classes are: 7B — 85 ' r . and 8A — 679 . Miss Maxim has planned to ha e some sound movies for the geography classes. Gale Lcmoine. a |)upil in the seventh grade, went to (.anada just recentl) to see his father who is in the ainn. He also went to tiie launch- ing of a sliip with his mother, Mrs. Lemoine, who sponsored it,

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26 FIRST LOVE Mary Noble, 8B JOHNNY JONES was just an ordinary boy who loved the sea. He lived in a sleepy little New England coastal town which had a small harbor into which fishing and lobster boats came each day. Every day Johnny used to go down to the pier and watch these boats come in. He took every opportunity to go on these boats and learn all he could about them. He thought that maybe some day he would own one of his own. When he was still quite young, his father gave him a skiff and then when he was older, a dory. Still Johnny dreamed of having a big boat of his own some day. One day when he was thirteen years old, he told his father he wanted to save his money so that when he was older he could get a boat. His father said that when he Avas eighteen years old he could have one. The years went by and he saved his money, always dreaming of and hoping for the boat. It was the year 1941 and Johnny was just seventeen, but would be eighteen the beginning of the next year. He was all set to get the long- hoped-for boat when December 7. 1941 and war with Japan burst upon the United States. Johnny put all the money he had been saving into war bonds, and as soon as he was eighteen he joined the navy. He got along extremely well in the navy because of his knowledge of ships and ships ' engines. When he had finished his training, he was put on a destroyer and sent to the South Pacific to fight the Japs. He saw a lot of action and was wounded. As the battle was raging. Johnny learned that the captain and another man were trapped below decks in a burning room. He dashed into the smoke-filled room and rescued the captain. Then he went back down again after the other man. By this time the smoke was very thick and it was extremely hard for him to breathe. When he reached the deck, he collapsed. As two men were carrying him to a doctor, another shell struck and he was hit in the back by shrapnel. The navy doctors fixed him up and sent him home. He was given a medal for the rescue. The doctors told him he would never be able to go to sea again because the smoke from the fire had injured his lungs and the shrapnel wound had left its mark on his physical condition. Sad and bitter, Johnny returned home. As soon as he reached home, he went down to the pier where he saw Coast Guard ships as they went in and out. That made him feel all the worse because he wanted to go back to sea with the navy and he knew he couldn ' t. When the war was over, he took his money out of war bonds and went on a long vacation to California where he went to the beach every day and spent long hours lying in the sun. He ran up and down as much as he could and soon he was well enough to go in the water for a swim. For two )ears he took body-building and health courses. At the end of the training period he went to a navy recruiting office to join the navy. He had done what the doctors said couldn ' t be done. He had built himself up so that he passed the navy physical. He went back to his first and only love, the sea, on a brand new destroyer, a far cry from the boat for which he had always longed. MORE LIMERICKS There was a young lady of Wales And how she loved all the males! Every boy was her beau Her own Romeo So thought the young lady of Wales. Ralph Brown, 7 A There was a young man named Fitts, Who was caught in a London blitz, When up a bomb blew, His nose went off too, And that was the fate of young Fitts. Paul Avery, 8 A There was a young lady of Wales, Who wore her black hair in two tails, She went out in boats To sing Mairzy Doats And was finally caught in the gales. Roger McLean, SB There lived an old frog in the river In his foot he had a big sliver He jumped at a flea But got stung by a bee So now he stays right in the river. William Callahan, 8A