Sheffield High School - Sentinel Pines Yearbook (Sheffield, MA)

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1945 Class Night Program June 18, 1945 Welcome Song: The Merry Heart Class Histor} r Class Will Statistics Song: Medley of Patriotic Air; Class Prophecy Senior Celebrities Class Gifts Song: Sheffield Alma Mater Joan Schopp Senior Class and Glee Club Augusta Cartinelli June Conklin Betty Gordon Beverly Lander Mary Small Julia Delmolino Marion Moesley Senior Class and Glee Club Winifred Kirchner Hazel Markham Fred Sidelinger Mary Small Paul Charbonneau Joan Schopp All •■ LV 5). .(gVis. Address of Welcome ( N behalf of the Senior Class I would like to welcome our parents, faculty and friends to Class Night. On this occasion, we present the Will, History, Prophecy and the non-sensical papers.. We hope that you will get as much enjoyment from the reading of these paper s as we have had in writing them. At this time, we seniors wish to express our appreciation to the faculty for their untiring efforts and sincere friendship ; to the Board of Education and the Parent-Teachers Associa- tion profound thanks for the many facilities which they have provided us. I hope at the end of these exercises you will all join us in round and square dancing in the auditorium. Joan Schopp, Senior Class President

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Mary Ellen Small A dry remark, a hearty laugh, a winning smile Class Vice-President 2 Glee Club 1, 2, 4 Student Council 4 Basketball 2, 3, 4 P.K.R. Staff 2, 3, 4 The Nutt Family 4 Junior Prom Committee 3 Class Will 4 Class Committees 1, 2, 3, 4 Mary ' s wit and nonchalance have always pepped up the more gloomy hours of Sheffield High. Her carefree ways have forever been greatly appreciated and enjoyed by every- one. We feel sure that wherever she may be, there will always be fun and laughter. Good luck, Mary. Ruth Linda Stevens Wit and humor belong to genius alone Class Secretary-Treasurer 2 Junior Prom Committee 3 Secretary Student Council 1, 3 Class Committees 1, 2, 3, 4 P.K.R. Staff 1, 2, 3, 4 The Nutt Family 4 Co-Editor P.K.R. 4 Valedictorian Ruth ' s sweetness and kindness have made her well liked by everyone with whom she comes in contact. Her ability to do her work well in school and out of school has acquired for her the title of the Class Valedictorian. Her presence has been graciously welcomed and we sincerely believe that it will obtain for her a fine place in life. Ethel Wanger ' No endeavor is in vain Its reward is in the doing Softball 1, 2, 3 Salutatorian P.K.R. Staff 2, 4 Class Committees 2, 3, 4 Basketball 2, 3, 4 Ethel, our class brain, may be the quiet type, but she is going far. She has a bright future ahead of her with the Civil Service in Washington, D. C.

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1945 = The Log of the S. S. Education June 17, 1942 On this day our first lap on the long and arduous voyage to the land of Acquired Knowl- edge was completed. Many outstanding events occurred during this time, which may be of quite some consequence — later. Skipper Merritt, a salty and experienced character whose keen mind often kept us from the disaster of brain storms, was in command of the S. S. Education. First Mate Bracy ably assisted the Skipper, with Mates Kellogg, Warren, and Roraback filling in the other positions of authority. The crew was made up of seventy-eight seamen, with nineteen, heretofore landlubbers, on their initiation voyage. These seasick characters were Fred Adams, John Bonn, Augusta Cartinelli, June Conklin, Bruno Delmolino, Julia Del- molino, Russell Dutcher, Charles Goewey, Betty Gordon, Beverly Lander, Agnes Litch- field, Marion Moesley, John Pshenishny, Mary Small, Ruth Stevens, Fred Sidelinger, Roberta Van Duesen, Ethel Wanger, and Evelyn Winters. It was doubtful how these new members of the crew would react, but after the trial run, we shoved off full steam ahead. In the night we were overtaken by a launch which came alongside and deposited two late-comers, Barbara Peasley and Polly anna Coons. The first day out we became acquainted with the passengers, all of them famous per- sonages. Each had his influence on us: for example, those who could not come through an encounter with English with even a glimmer of fight left could expect to be put off at the very first port. Besides English, the passenger list included Algebra, Latin, General Science, World History, and Junior Business. The crew were attracted to many of these personalities and became devoted to them for the rest of the voyage. Skipper Merritt, realizing that a good seaman is one who has had experience and a staunch basic training, gave us our first dose of hard work and deck scrubbing. Being the underdogs of the crew, we did most of the dirty work — our own, and everyone else ' s. Once started on the right path, however, we got along famously. It was mid-April when we looked through our telescope, and what to our wondering eyes should appear, but a speck. We thought it was dirt on the glass and rubbed for days trying to remove it. Then we found that it was a man struggling about in a jet-propelled lifeboat. And so it was that Paul Charbonneau became one of us. No matter what happened the Skipper always had faith in us, and we always kept this faith when, in early June, we collided with the foreign vessel Exams, and came out the victor with only minor damages. Yesterday we chugged into port — the quaint old city of Theoretical Knowledge. We are over the first hurdle on our difficult voyage. The rest of the crew accepts us as one of them now. The right to chastise any newcomers is ours. June 17, 1943 Another few hundred miles have been charted — our ship is now riding at anchor in the port of Informative Knowledge. This part of the trip was more or less uneventful. In fact, it was downright boring. No excitement, no nothing. When we embarked we discovered that minor changes had been made. Mates Warren and Kellogg had left our company to sail on a faster line, and Mates Lesure and Shook had taken their places. Barbara Peasley and Pollyanna Coons missed the boat, and later Fred Adams and Agnes Litchfield decided that terra firma feels much more substantial than the deep blue sea. An entirely new assortment of names appeared on the passenger list. Names like Biology, Shorthand, Typing and Bookkeeping. English and Latin, who most of us hoped would remain behind, were right on hand for Anchors Aweigh.