Sharon High School - Marsengold Yearbook (Sharon, MA)

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HENRY GEISSLER leaves his ability to be quiet to Brian Mitchell. PERRY GOLDMAN leaves English IV in order that Mr. Roman can find another quiet student. PAUL GRAHAM leaves his lunch period meat sandwiches to Arthur Schiff. WILLIAM HAWKINS leaves the dark room for the brighter things in life. THEODORE HIXSON leaves with his hot Ford for a trip to Metropolitan Sharon Heights. RALPH HUTCHINS leaves his horse laugh to Carl Webber. RICHARD KERSTEIN leaves his collec- tion of broken pens to next year's yearbook art staff. BERNARD KING leaves his bushelhead to Skippie Dunham. ARTHUR LINDBERG leaves in his Lin- coln for a trip to Walpole. KATHLEEN MacASKILL leaves her driv- ing ability to Alden Davidson. FRANCIS MCCARTHY leaves his Space Ship to Dick Bonz so that he can take pictures of Mars. LOUISE MCCARTHY leaves her job at Cobb's Corner to Barbara York. CHARLES McNAIR leaves his ability to get in and out of scrapes to brother John who, we hope, will do as well. FAYE MITCHELL leaves her foul-shoot- ing ability to Judy Feist. IAN MUELLER leaves his athletic ability to David Stetson. JOHN PATTERSON leaves his perfect attendance record to anyone. NANCY PATTERSON leaves her supply of Wriggly's Spearmint gum to Barbara Caudle. DAVID PHELPS leaves .... he hopes. BRUCE POOR leaves for Indianapolis to build a genuine Super Poor Hot Rod. Goose it, Bruce. ARTHUR REID leaves with his girl, Mabel, to visit Radio City. RICHARD VERZONE leaves with hopes of becoming a teacher. Now class. MARK WOLFF leaves for Roxbury. MARY ZUIS leaves her high marks to Martin Gately. TO MR. DINSMORE we leave a bottle of asprin for all the headaches We have caused him. TO MR. KONSAVAGE we leave a Hocka- mock League championship basketball team. Best of luck from the Class of 1955. TO MR. KOSKELLA we leave the promise to send him a varsity football team in the near future. TO MR. ROMAN we leave the hope that next year's English class will have their term papers done on time. TO MR. CONROY we leave a year's sup- ply of tea bags so that he won't have to carry his thermos bottle to school. TO MR. SCHWAB we leave some south- ern sunshine to drown out the Yankee fog. Save your Confederate money, the South will rise again? TO MR. SCHUMAN we leave a year's supply of formaldehyde. TO MR. COURTEAU we leave the best of luck at coaching the J. V. basketball team in Sharon High School. TO MR. BLAKE we leave 5,000 green arrow stamps for fuel for the Driver Ed. car. Testators Theodore Hixson Ralph Hutchins Charles McNair Witnesses Daisey Mae Lil' Abner Hairless Joe Mam Yokum -17,

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discussion was to charter a plane. Imme- diately the trio set out to rescue the townspeople. It was also decided that Ian Mueller should follow the plane in a row- boat so that he could interview people for data to use in his next novel. As the crystal ball followed him, Ian first met Myron Brown, who was trying to save some of his prize livestock from the flood. Next he came to Mark Wolff, who was using a few choice words due to the loss of his flock of chickens. The words were of no value to lan. As he rowed on, he noticed Bruce Poor, Artie Reid, and Paul Graham trying in vain to haul up their newly built racing car, which they had expected would win on the Indianapolis Speedway. Close to this group, Jim Alexander was desperately trying to save his fleet of trucks from the on-rushing water. In all the turmoil, ex-collegiate Perry Goldman was walking around hoping that the flood would not reach his alma mater. On a height of land above the flood level, Mary Zuis and Dick Kerstein could be seen recording, on canvas, the havoc caused by the flood. Photographer Hawkins was able to take many pictures from his plane. One of particular interest was of Ed Daner's drugstore roof occupied by Pat Carney, Sue Fallon, Phyllis Fleming, and Pam Foster, four registered nurses, who were administering first aid to some surviv- ors. Also taken were pictures of Skip Bailey and Dan Carpeno working fever- ishly in an attempt to repair the electric wires which ran through the town. Work- ing beside them was Ted Hixson repairing the telephone wires. According to the crystal ball, David Deltano and Ralph Hutchins, two well- known engineers, had been hired by the state, many weeks before, to build the dam which had just washed out, and, in answer to the demands of irate citizens, they were being held responsible. Immediately, Bernie King, well-known lawyer, and his bevy of secretaries, Jean Beckwith, Sunny Churnick, Lorraine Corman, and Mary Brunetta, were called in to try to convict the two engineers of neglect. At that point, Mr. Barrows said, the fortune teller, cackling and rubbing her hands together, croaked, 'The crystal ball will reveal no more. The only way to find out how this trial ended is to wait until it takes place.' Mark Wolff I .5 W- f ' QT darn , A ,W swam KGKXKIESY if .1 mgwwfi SS frgm v Q. La l' g ,,, B Q A iii 22 Wg W eg' ' 5 -., , . 5 i w, -,A, A Q' geek? 'aiiif' Jfk 'WN ima 'VSJS I V