Shrewsbury High School - Colonial Yearbook (Shrewsbury, MA)

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SI IRKXVSBURY, M.-XSSACI iUSL'l I'S I -

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NIAJUR HOVVARD VV. IBEAI. MIIMURIAI. HIGH SCHOOL

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Class History If but a slight degree of the startling stories were really to be found in a four- year high school course that are an- nually recited by the historian, there would be cause for both awe and ad- miration. If half of the brilliancy that is claimed by a graduating class was really to be found, the town of Shrewsbury must now be populated with super men and women. Let us not claim such an abundance of praise for our Class of 1947. We merely ask for whatever credit is due us for four years of sacrifice and study. lt does not seem fully four years ago that the present graduating class put our hats and coats in some empty lockers and, then, timidly went to our home-rooms. The new adventure had begun. Woe be unto the freshman! He has no past, the future frightens him and his confidence has taken wings. In the early part of the year, we fresh- men showed our class spirit for the first time by electing Bob Wiles, President, Betty Webb, Vice-president, lane Bath, Secretary, and Nancy Beck, Treasurer. We now felt our class was organized. Within a short time we experienced our first thrill by holding a social. This stimulated our interests in other social activities of the school so that a high percentage tried out for Prize Speaking with the result that we made a good showing with Nancy Beck winning first prize. In September we returned as sopho- mores with a feeling of great import- ance, fully realizing that the bark had been worse than the bite. We had confidence, determination and truly positive plans. We, therefore, pro- 16 ceeded to select class oflicers with D. H. Adams, President, Dick Leonard, Vice- president, Dot Hall, Secretary, and Mimi Wakeman, Treasurer. It was during our sophomore year that pupils from the Coolidge school joined us at Beal. In order to afford an opportunity for us to become acquainted, we wel- comed them with a social which again proved successful. It was at this time that the gremlins had evidently decided to inject their influence in class ventures for reasons not fully under- stood. Our Sophomore Hop was not fully successful, in fact, it has since been called the Sophomore Flop. By this time, since our boys had begun to show marked ability in athletics we were not surprised when we had class representa- tion in D. H. Adams, Bob Wiles, and Bob Dean. The spring weeks soon came to an end, leaving us again looking not surely, with regret at our empty desks. There had been no casualties, and we were pleased. On our return to school in September it became apparent that we knew one another a little better. We were there- fore determined to have a pleasant year and as uniors, we set about elect- ing class o cers. We placed our trust again in Dick Adams as President, Bob Wiles as Vice-president, lean Ryan as Secretary and -lean Collier as Treasurer. The luniors were now beginning to find themselves. Something had happened to the entire class to a degree that the faculty became aware of this change. So we merry juniors hit our stride by holding a record dance which was a means of adding to our treasury and MAJOR HOWARD W. DEAL MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL