Sharon High School - Marsengold Yearbook (Sharon, MA)

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10 1940 YEAR BOOK ROBERT WEST M esty” “Content thyself to be ob- scurely good. ’ Glee Club 9, 10, 11, 12. LESLIE WHITCOAIB Les” “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite va- riety.” Glee Club 9, 12, Operetta 11. BARBARA WHITE Barb” “She was a mighty huntress and her prey was man.” Glee Club 9, 10, 11, 12, Or- chestra 9, 10, 11, Intramural Basketball 9, 10, 11. Manager of Tennis Team 12, Senior Play 12, Operetta 11, French Club 11, Student Council 11, Ping Pong 12, Junior Prom 11, Sophomore Trot 10. JOSEPH YOUNG ff j j Joe “Men of few words are the best men.” Stamp Club 9, S.alesmanship Club 11, 12, Intramural Bas- ketball 11, 12 Intramural Football 11, Glee Club 10. ITn IDemoriam IRobert HDalcolm Davie WARREN WHITING “I hate nobody: I am in char- ity with all the v. ' orld.”

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SHARON HIGH SCHOOL 9 SYLVIA PAUL “Her air, iier nia ners, all who saw admired; Courteous tliou 7 h ccy, gentil though re- tired.’’ Student Council. Sec. 12, Glee Club 9, Latin Club 11, Senior Play 12, Tennis 12. EDWARD ROCKETT “Ted “Hail to the chief who in triumph advances.’’ Baseball 10, 11. Basketball li, 12, Traffc Squad 12, Assistant Baseball Ccach 12, Glee Club 9, 10. WILLIAM ROCKETT “Bill “Zealous yet mcrlest.” Intramural Basketball 10, 11, Stentype Play 11, Book Week Poster Winner 9, 10, Salesmanship Club 11, Pres. 12, Operetta 11, Tennis 12, Senior Play 12. Sten Type Club Pres. 11, Student Coun- cil 9, 10, National Honor So- ciety 12, Library Staff 12, Magazine Drive 10, Sopho- more Trot 10. .Junior Prom 11, Ping Pong 11, 12, Bad- minton 11, 12. MARY SEGRINI “Shorty “Gentle of speech, beneficial of mind.’’ Glee Club 9. 10, Senior Plav 12. Salesmanship Club 11, 12. VIRGINIA SLMONIS “ Ginny “She is just the type to type so well.” Basketball 9. Salesmanship Club 11, 12, Glee Club 9, Sten- tyP ' 9 Club 11, Pres. 12, So- phomore Tret 30. ,Tun:’or Prom 11 , EMILY SNOW “Erne “She has one of t- ose well- ciLd dispositions. Gl.?e Club 9, Student Coun- cil 10, Salesmanship Club 11. Treat. 12, Sophemoro Trot 10, Stentype Club 11, 12, ssistant Girls’ Basketbal? Mgr. 11. Girls I asketball Mgr. 12. F ' ina ' cial Committee for Sen ' er Cass 1 . Librarian 12. RICHARD SPAULDING “Dixie “Thy modesty’s a candle to thy merit.’’ Glee Club 9, 10. 11. 12. Stamp Club 9, Basketball 10, Base- ball 10, 12, Tennis 11, Senior Play 12. National Honor So- cietv 12, Operetta 11, French Club 11 Traffic Squad 11, 12, Roslvn Exe ' -’ange 12. CHESTER STERN “Chet” “Though vanquished, he could still argue.’’ Stamp Club 9, 10, Latin Club 11. French Club 11, Intra- mural Basketball 11, 12, Sen- ior Play 12. JOSEPH STEWART “Joe” “Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.’’ Science Club 9 10, 12. Intra- mural Basketball 9, 10, 11, Football 10. Glee Club 9, 10. TraT ' ' Squad 11. 12, Junior Prom 11. FLORENCE URANN “Flo “As innocent as a new laid egg.” Glee Club 10, 12, Senior Play 12, Tennis 12, Junior Pr m 11, Latin Club 31, French Club 11.

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SHARON HIGH SCHOOL 11 Oisttory of tlie Class of 1940 Florence Urann Leslie Whitcomb Sylvia Paul Virginia Hare Most of the class of 1940, with the exception of a few superior individuals such as H erman AlcGrath, who joined us by double promotion in the fourth grade, en- tered the first grade in 1928. It may be hard to realize that these dignified (?) Seniors once played in the sand box at the School Street School, ran and screamed around the playground, and played peek-a-boo from behind the trees. But thus these Seniors amused themselves when they were in the first grade. On passing to the second grade we graduated from the sandbo.x to the “Houses- on-Rocks” stage. All the girls in the Senior Class must surely remember these “Houses on the Rocks.” For instance, who could forget how every day, at recess, with our two-for-a-penny chocolate cookies clutched tightly in our palms, we used to rush forth to fight over vvdiose house was whose, ownership depending on who got to the rock pile first. The third year also was spent in arguing over the “Houses,” but by the time we reached the fourth grade we had outgrown such childish amusements. This was not our first experience in the Pleasant Street School, as in our second year of progress, due to a fire in February, we had all marched over in single ftle and finished the year in that building. Now, however, we tvere here in our own right. No one will ever know how slowly those clock hands moved in Miss Laf ' ley’s room until she said, “Put your pencils away, it is time for recess.” You must under- stand that recess itself was a secondary matter. What really mattered was the filing up to the teacher with our pennies (or our nickels if we were lucky) and gorging ourselves with the luscious chocolate cookies which they bought. Jackstones and “glassies” now made their appearances in our young lives, and oh! what happy hours were spent haggling over whose “glassy” was closest to the bunny. Sometime during this most enjoyable year, Sylvia Paul joined our class. Time flew by swiftly and before we could say “Jack Robinson” we were safely installed in the fifth grade where many more hours were spent waiting for more of these same cookies. Marn ' of us remember, in connection with that year, the “Indian Cards” (purchased with one cent’s worth of gum) which we used to slave over, waxing them each night so that they would scale perfectly only to take them to school and |lose them the next day to someone whose cards scaled more perfectly. It was in this year that Marjorie Glines moved from Canton and entered our class. When the class of 1940 entered the sixth grade we sighed with relief. At last we were in the big red brick building; we thought we would never get there. And now we would have homework ! .Alas, had we known how we were to suf- fer from it, never, never, never would we have ever wished for it. We used to think how wonderful it would be to carry books home. If we had known that each book represented hours of studying, we would never have envied the upper classmen. Now, we envy the little fourth and fifth graders who do not know