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

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1945 = Mary Small, the black eyed wit of the class, was a very much valued stenographer at Lord and Taylor ' s in New York City. Joan Shopp, our class president and the most popular girl at S.H.S., was now a very prominent dress designer and business woman. Her ads reading, Shop at Schopp ' s Dress Shoppee brought customers from all parts of the globe to purchase her unique garments, which ranged from bathing suits to evening dresses. The news that John Bonn had wooed and wed a pretty Irish Rose finally persuaded me to believe the rumor that the Navy does make wolves of all kinds of fellows! The Bonns have settled down in Boston, Massachusetts, where John is a mechanic. Johnny must have won her with his quiet ways for he never was noisy, you know. During the school year it was hard to tell what would become of some of us. I never dreamed that June Gonklin would ever be a Navy Nurse because she seemed to be so frail and almost frightened at the sight of her own shadow. Maybe it gave her courage when she discovered that the wounded sailors liked to have someone small and blonde to flirt with. The next person I heard of was Winnie Kirchner. To my amazement she had be- come the private secretary to the President of the United States. Winnie always did get everything she wanted, as probably you had noticed whenever a good looking soldier entered town! When Paul Charbonneau ' s name was mentioned, I plainly recalled how his chief interests had been farms, cows, and Anne. It seems that Paul ' s greatest dreams had been realized, for he now had Anne and a large dairy farm and catt le ranch in Houston, Texas. When I had gone through the many painful operations a woman will endure to obtain beauty — whether she does or not — and was leaving, I suddenly remembered Ruth Stevens. How could I ever forget the Valedictorian of the class, a person with such a pleasant dis- position! She had married a big executive in the meat-packing industry and, believe it or not, she managed the raising of cattle. With Ruth ' s brains and her husband ' s brawn, they really have something. Just think, too, what a comfort it will be when their two boys, Holstein and Guernsey, grow up. Now that I had found out all I wanted to know about my former classmates of good old S.H.S., I decided to seek reservations at the Sheffield Inn for the two weeks ' stay here, where I might bask in the many happy memories of my high school associations. Winifred Kirchner Hazel Markham Frederick Sidelinger C,5 ' . ■ 1 1

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1945 Class Prophecy fter ten long years of work I had finally earned for myself a two weeks ' vacation which I had decided to spend in Sheffield, Massachusetts, in hopes of seeing some of my former high school classmates. Not until I was ready to board the plane in Washington D. C. did I discover that our pilot was none other than Beverly Lander, our movie star in The Nutt Family. I noted that she had her husband well in hand, for he was her co-pilot. After seeing her so far from her abode I wondered if others had also strayed from home. After a brief Hello and a word of greeting, we took off, and in what seemed an incredibly short while, we landed at the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, airport. On the train down from Pittsfield a familiar voice sang out the words, Next stop, Lenox! Yes, it was none other than that of Fred Sidelinger. He was in a uniform now, but it was not the Navy blue he had donned when taken from us by Uncle Sam just a month before graduation. I found that he and his wife were living in Sheffield and now had two little Nats. We talked quite a bit and I managed to learn between stations that Marion Moesley would still say, Number, please, when I rang the operator. She had told us that she would be an old maid, but when Si told how Mrs. Fairbrother was crabbing about her absence from work two or three nights a week — well, what do you think about it? When I stepped from the train in Sheffield, I was amazed to see how the town had grown and there, as big as life, stood Gussie ' s Beauty Salon. A sign in the window read, We manicure Wolves as well as Women. I hurried in, partly because I wanted to see Augusta and also because I was disheveled from my trip. Here is where I found out the history of the rest of the class. Beauty parlors are noted gossip centers and — well, you know Gussie, too. The first person she told of was Julia Delmolino, who had always been her closest friend at school. Petite little Julia was a very successful telephone operator also. I won- dered if everyone who rings wishes to speak to another party. My guess is that they want to speak to J-U-L-I-A. I well remembered how Betty Gordon and Ethel Wanger had worked hard to gain their positions in the Veterans ' Administration Building at Washington, D. C. Gussie said that Ethel was now a private secretary there. But, seeing that the war was over, Betty had settled down with Duke, her soldier, to domestic life on Long Island. Hazel Markham was an admirable character, always following the motto: Silence is Golden. She was living on Brush Hill in Sheffield and still drinking her afternoon tea and feeding Josephine and Jacqueline, her devoted chickens. L ' J f

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1945 Senior Class Celebrities 1. Most Likely to Succeed 2. Class Baby 3. Bossiest 4. Best Dancer (boy) 5. Best Dancer (girl) 6. Most Popular 7. Class Pest 8. Friendliest 9. Teachers ' Pet 10. Done Most for the Class 11. Done the Class for Most 12. Most Versatile 13. Class Optimist 14. Class Pessimist 15. Best All-round 16. Cutest Boy 17. Cutest Girl 18. Most Sincere 19. Class Athlete 20. Quietest 21. Most Sophisticated 22. Best Blusher 23. Class Pride and Joy 24. Prettiest Girl 25. Best Natured (girl) 26. Best Natured (boy) 27. Class Wolf 28. Class Wolfess 29. Brainiest 30. Class Heartbreaker 31. Best Dressed Girl 32. Best Dressed Boy 33. Best looking Bo} r 34. Least Sophisticated 35. Class Wit 36. Best Line (girl) 37. Best Line (boy) 38. Most Ambitious Ruth Stevens Julia Delmolino Mary Small Paul Charbonneau Joan Schopp Joan Schopp John Bonn Winifred Kirchner Betty Gordon Mary Small Betty Gordon Paul Charbonneau June Conklin Fred Sidelinger Paul Charbonneau John Bonn Julia Delmolino Ethel Wanger Winifred Kirchner Hazel Markham Beverly Lander Marion Moesle3 r John Bonn Augusta Cartinelli Augusta Cartinelli Fred Sidelinger John Bonn June Conklin Ruth Stevens John Bonn Joan Schopp John Bonn John Bonn Ethel Wanger Mary Small Beverly Lander John Bonn Ruth Stevens