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

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Class Prophecy How ' re you coming with that hole, Tots? It ' s coming. This knife Somes gave to me for a graduation present never would cut anything and twenty years hasn ' t helped it. The only reason the Warden let me keep it was that it wouldn ' t cut butter. Here, Adams, you work on this hole. Me? Yes, you! After all you got us into this jail by fastening Mr. Friis to the flagpole the night before graduation. I thought it was a dummy and pulled it up to the top. But they never would have thought anything about that if you hadn ' t pushed Mr. Thiel off the top of The Empire State Building during our class trip. Listen, you thought of the idea. Turn on the radio. Okay! (Click) (Hummmmmmmmmmmmm)( The last few notes of a high screechy voice roar into the cell. ) That, audience, was that GREAT soprano Carol Bennett. Hers was a long, hard struggle, but she made it. From street corners to that famous voice school, Sing Sing, to the movies, to television and the final step— to radio. Last on our show is that famous hill billy singer, Nita Jackson, with her guitar player, Barby Rice. They ' ll play that popular favorite, THREE BLIND MICE. (A noise that sounds almost like a song then issues from the radio). And with that lovely song we close the curtain on our show today. Re- member our motto:- ' The Sweetest Music the Other Side of— - ' .Good night, everyone. And now, ladies and gentlemen, we hear from the distinguished President of this radio station, Col. William Preston. He has another important speech for us, --Colonel Preston. Ladies and Gentlemen, what I am about to tell you is extremely im- portant. --This state is rotten; this city is rotten; this country is rotten; this world is rotten. I end with an important message -this speech is rotten! And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have heard from that great Ameri- can, Col. William Preston. Now. The news I Good evening. The news tonight is sad, -very sad. Presi- dent Larkin made a very important speech today. It called for-but here, in his own words, is the speech. Friends, citizens, countrymen, -lend me your money! I come to beg for it, not to borrow it. I ' m broke, PLEASE pay your taxes. A-up! That was the President at his news conference today. From Hollywood comes the news that the star of Gone With the Breeze , Bernice Taylor Penzi- ner, is about to marry for the fifth time. This time it will be the popular crooner, Terry Hobo. The news behind the news tonight is from Skunk Hollow, The Kentucky Hills. Seems a lady by the name of Mrs. Priscilla Hewins just had her sixth set of quadruplets. By golly, it ' ll take plenty of Good Old Mountain Dew to keep that family goin . Now for happenings in the world of sports. Don Hart sped around the track at the Indianapolis speedway today at a record speed of 413. 3 miles per hour in his atom-powered racer. Climbing from the car, his first vords were, I ' m car sick. Slugger Johnny Coon of the Denver Dumb-Bells was named to the

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Article 9. Sid Eichstedt wills to Joey Macchi his constant teasing of the girls. Stop putting her pigtails in the ink, Joey ! ! Article 10. Priscilla He wins wills her baton to anyone who wants to be a future majorette. You ' ll be sorry! Article 11. Francis Bernoi leaves his shyness towards girls to Tommy Kradel. Girls beware! Article 12. Juanita Jackson leaves her athletic ability to her brother Bobby. Article 13. John Coon relinguishes his supply of gum and candy to any boy who can chew and eat at the same time and get away with it. Article 14. Donny Hart bestows his right to throw everything fr om chalk to shoes to Jack Wells. Watch out, Jack F-R-I-I-S! ! ! Article 15. Timothy Somes leaves his ability to argue to his brother Teddy who already has had a few lessons. Article 16. Carol Bennett leaves her love for good music to Helen Woodbeck, Be sure you can read notes, Helen — believe me, it helps! and We, being underage, do hereby sign this unlawful will, in this year of 1955, and do declare all previous wills void. Rebekah Oh My Goodness Somes Jim What are you doing, you guys? Larkin Barbara Oh, that ' s right Rice Ruth Well, after all Clark Bill Well, now Preston Leno Who said so? Bernoi Bernice Where ' s my pocketbook? Penziner John Ugh, let me see Adams Sid I don ' t think so Eichstedt Priscilla That ' s real cool Hewins Francis Quiet down Bernoi John Got some gum? Coon Donny When do we eat? Hart Timothy What of it? Somes Carol Are you kidding? Benne

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Hall of Fame today for his record batting average of . 739 last season. He re- marked upon hearing of it, What ' s their hurry? I ' m not through yet, And with that we sign off for tonight. This is your friend and mine, Tim Somes. ' Good evening, ladies, this is the LADIES GOSSIP HOUR on the air again. We have more famous guests, more recipes and more rotten commercials. Now from our sponsor, Life Saver Soap, (Life Saver Soap is the greatest soap made. It cleans, it brightens, it scours and it stops B. O. It is the ONLY soap that stops B. O. ) That ' s right, ladies. Life Saver Soap is the only soap that stops B. O. (It ' s the only soap that smells worse than B. O. ) Now our guest, that famous artist, Madame Ruth Clark. Tonight, ladies, I ' m going to tell you how you, too, can be a famous artist. First, you need paints. Then you need canvas. Then you need inspiration. To have inspiration, you must travel. To travel you must have a million dollars. Ladles, unless you have a million dollars, you can ' t paint. Thank you and good- evening. Oh, before I leave, If anyone In the audience has a million dollars, just come to my studio. I will get the other things for you. Please bringthe money with you. My studio address Is 119 Skid Row. With the departure of our guest, I leave you until next week, when we will have on our show, that famous Inventor and farmer, Mr. Leno Beraoi, who will talk on How to Keep Your Floors Clean When Your Husband Comes In From the Bam. And so, until next week this is your hostess and chief gossip, Rebekah Somes, (Ladies, do you cook all day? Do you clean all day? Do you wash all day? Then what you need isa,,....) (Click) What did you turn It off for, Tots? I ' m sick of listening to It, and besides Pm almost through the hole. There 1 I broke through 1 Then let ' s gol Walt! Here comes the warden, Sid Elchstedt. Coverup the hole. (Rattle of keys In lock. ) Okay, you two, let ' s go. Go where? Why you ' re free, you Idiot. Your twenty years just expired. (Flop! Flop) Why, they fainted. You ' d think they didn ' t know they were supposed to get out for the past six months. A«n