Sharon High School - Marsengold Yearbook (Sharon, MA)

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items in September, 1940. NVe had then reached the exalted heights of juniors, and did we feel good about it! Our social events were highlights of the year, especially our Junior Prom. We slaved toward the final result, and entering the gym on that fateful night we were conHdent that our under sea fantasy was well worth the effort we had spent. And why not? Where else could one have seen such pink sharks, such purple octopi, and those gorgeous gold and silver bubbles! From all this we had in addition, a very welcome margin of profit to show for our efforts. The Senior Reception was equally as successful. We naturally made it so. And suddenly we were seniors! Most of us never knew how it did happen, but we were not to be caught unprepared, and we have acquitted ourselves of our tremendous responsibilities most admirably. The Hrst of these events designed to bring our talents before the public was the Frost Trot. Those who attended found the gym appropriately decorated with pine branches, icicles, and Herbert Turck. A good time was provided including dancing to the music of recordings, and those ever-welcome refreshments, altogether the affair was entirely successful. In the opinion of all who at- tended, the senior play Young April proved beyond a doubt that the class of ,42 will long be remembered for its outstanding dramatic ability. After a great deal of competition in tryouts, the players were finally chosen, and the long session of arduous and tempestuous rehearsals began. Of course, there were times when everyoneys good temper wore thin, but our triumphant presentation, scenery and acting both, we felt, compensated fully for our production headaches. And so closes the saga of twelve long years spent in gathering wisdom, or so we like to think. At any rate, a word of commend- ation and thanks to our teachers, who have borne with us so long and so cheerfully. Class Favorites First Choice Glenn Miller ....... . Glenn Miller .......... . Dinah Shore .....,....... :'Moonlight Cocktail 920 Club ................... Bob llope ...... . Bette Davis ,..... . Spencer Tracy ..... . Study ......,,....... .... . Globe ............,.............. How Green Vilas My Valleyv .............. . Life ....... .. Basketball ..... Basketball ..... lNlOllll0ll'S .... Senior Play ..... . 'l'otr-in Poli- .....,... page lu'1'nlil-lu'o Swing Band Sweet Band Vocalist Song .. Radio Program .. Radio Star Actress Actor High Sclzool Sulzject Newspapers Nobel Magazine Cirls' Sport Boys, Sport Meeting Place Social Event .. Dancing Place .. Second Clzoice Harry james Jimmy Dorsey Helen O,Connell . String of Pearls Bob Hope Red Skelton Gene Tierney Cary Cooper Gym Herald Kings How Esquire Tennis Baseball Saunders, Junior Prom Uncontestecl

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Class Documents Class History Realizing fully that we are the most unusual class that Sharon High School has produced in countless generations fwell, three or four, anywayj, we have attempted to set forth in a fitting manner the heroic facts of our history in order that the minds of our juniors, especially, shall be duly im- pressed, and that they may learn to follow in our footsteps. Listen, then children .... long ago, when the world was young, we entered upon our academic careers .... that was in September of the year 1930. School was a glorious adventure in those days-we sang and played games, had our milk and crackers, and took our afternoon naps with carefree abandon. From time to time we put on our rubbers and were marshalled into two straight lines for the walk to the high school. Here certain mysterious, oflicious creatures attempted to determine whether we were susceptible to scarlet fever, or could possibly give diphtheria to our friends and relatives. YVe looked with awe on the high school in those days .... only dimly conscious that some day we, too .... little did we know! So we progressed happily enough until our third year. Then, we really became sophisticated' Armed with the knowledge that 4 x 9 equals 36, and some interesting and highly original facts on the home life of the Eskimo, we could afford to laugh at the crop of wide-eyed infants who had appeared in the grade below us. Quite naturally, we spent the next three or four years growing in wisdom, in accordance with our stupendous intellectsg and quite naturally, too, everyone approved of us except our long-suffering teachers, by the sweat of whose brows we acquired the wherewithal to carry ourselves so admirably. C011 second thought, we guess that even they loved us a litttle.j But now we had not time for vain regrets, having arrived at last on the threshold of greatness, we entered the ninth grade. True, we had to overcome the prejudices of the juniors and seniors, who for some unknown reason still imagined that they were of importance to the school. We were an enthusiastic group that year of 1938-39, determined to make good. Our renowned dramatic club presented a short play about the middle of the year. which was very well received. Last, but not least, of our achievements were the selected scenes from julius Caesar, reminiscent of Mr. Alfred B. Lord, our English teacher. Then we became sophomores, bent earnestly upon doing our best to give nervous prostration to Mr. Clarence Pedley, our unsuspecting home room teacher. VVe were the youngest members of Miss Chase's world history class, and we soon took advantage of that situation by cleverly letting the seniors do all the work. Mr. Thomas Brosnan joined us that year, and under his able direction, we presented our program, Schools of Yesteryear. before the Parent-Teacher Association. During the year we also gave a demonstration radio program entitled Interviews with the Past, in which Shakespeare was interviewed to the enjoyment of all, and of course, our Sophomore Trot. an informal afternoon dance, was enjoyed by all who attended. Mr. lVilliam A. Kean was added to the list of why come back to school' page twenty-one

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Last Will and Testament KNOXV ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that on this eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine-hundred and forty-two, we. here- after to be known en masse as the senior class of Sharon High School, in the town of Sharon, the County of Norfolk, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. do herewith sign and deliver up for probate this, our last will and testament. revoking any and all other wills, testaments, and codicils hitherto made by us. Being in full control of our faculties, such as they may be, we do petition that the court name as executor to act without bond Lieutenant Frederick C. Wlard, U. S. Army, quondam Superintendent of the aforesaid school. KNOYV, THEN, ALL MEN THAT- George Henry Allen leaves to the senior-defeated junior boys his garage full of Packards. Happy Motoring! Gwendolyn Elaine Alley leaves her caustic gibes to that small-statured sharpy john Stone. Helen Caryl Andrews leaves her typical stevedore manners and rough- house tactics to stormy Shirley Scott. Ah there, Shirley! Edward Martin Berger leaves his athletic ability to Alvin Nickerson, who, we know. will carry on in the inimitable Berger way. He's taking all the rest of his talents with him. David lVinn Bishop leaves his astonishing versatility lit ranges from blondes to brunettesl to Ceorge Bailey. On your toes, Ieanne! Mary Esther Bremner leaves her inevitable corsages to Frances Hall to whom a rose by any other name would smell as sweetf, lPlug for Shakes- peare.7 Virginia Ann Bremner leaves a myriad of decidedly lonely nights to each and every junior girl. Catch up on your beauty sleep girls -if you can, under the Bremner system. Eleanor Harriet Cox leaves her army of admirers to Agnes Neithold whom, under the circumstances, we would advise to take a course in civilian defense. Eleanor Irene Fishman leaves her fiery outbursts of temperament to Mildred Rose. For your protection, Mildred, they seem to break out like measles during the season when the calla lilies are in bloom. CPaging Katie Hepbum.l Frank Antonine Fitzpatrick leaves a vear of the most exquisite grief to his presidential colleagues of next year. On the theory that no one would find any use for it any way, he's taking his middle name with him. Ruth Anne Flanagan leaves the undergraduates memories of her perfect diction and flawless voice floating through an auditorium of students silenced into breathlessness. Gertrude Eloise French leaves, and gentlemen, like it or not, this is her final word on the subject. Helen Cora Frisbee leaves the vulgar atmosphere of these baser climes for higher education in the college of Hard Knocks. Betty Jeanne Frye leaves Sharon High for Boston University in order to keep posted on the new and improved techniques of advanced educational theory. page twenty-three