Shrewsbury High School - Colonial Yearbook (Shrewsbury, MA)

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therefore stimulated our desire to further social events. We immediately held a movie which again served to build up our low financial standing. junior Prize Speaking was again in order and we successfully met the challenge with Nancy Beck carrying away first honors, Eleanor Wysocki, second, and Rena Kant, third. Let me tell you about the most important event of our junior year-our junior Prom. june found us decorating Nee Hall with Oriental decorations in preparation for what proved to be a very enjoyable event on the evening of june 7. Jane Bath was chosen queen. Our junior year had drawn to a close. Vacation over-Seniors! We did not look taller, older nor more dignified but nevertheless we gladly accepted this imposing title. The Seniors were now determined to reap the full benefits of their last year in high school for they wished to make up for what they had lost in the Freshman and Sophomore years. We immediately set about elect- ing officers for our graduating year. Sumner Loomer was elected President, Dick H. Adams, Vicefpresidentg lean Collier, Secretary, and Joyce Ireland, Treasurer. We put on the annual Senior play under the thoughtful guidance of SHREWSBURY, MASSACHUSET Tb Miss Churchill. The townspeople were liberal in their attendance and ap lause. We were well pleased and our amBitions greatly stimulated. At this point, menf tion must be made of our football team which had now become a precision machine. Four years of training under the guidance of Coach Bergstrom had now produced seniors M. Abasciano, D. H. Adams, D. L. Adams, R. Dean, R. Leonard, E. Rourke, C. Stolaroff, and R. Wiles. We had a victorious season. On April 18 we successfully held the Senior Ball. The hall was decorated in lime, yellow and orchid. A king and queen were chosen. The most unforgettable event of our high school career was our class trip to New York. There were no casualties as a result of this hilarious experience. This day ends the history of our four years at Beal High School. lt is a story of success and happiness. May happif ness continue in our lives and the mirror of our minds always reflect the incidents and happy events of our high school days. May this Class Day of 1947 live in the home of our memory and guide us in the path of happiness and goodness forever. lean Collier, Secretary 27

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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

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he Wil Hg We, the Senior Class of 1947, in the town of Shrewsbury, County of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, of Shrewsbury High School, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking any will or wills heretofore made by us. To MISS GUCCIARDI and MR. JACOBS we leave our sincere gratitude for their guidance as our class advisors, ln leaving MR. COOKE we leave a friendly and understanding principal. To MR. STURTEVANT we leave a lloor that doesn't creak. To MR. BACCARO we leave a firm hand with which to control his pupils. To COACH BERC-STROM we leave a bottle of Sloan's Liniment for his aching athletes. To MR. BOWKER we leave a class of girl artists. To MRS. HAMEL we leave someone with the rare ability to enunciate. To MISS CHURCHILL we leave an un- abridged book of synonyms and antonyms printed in 15o languages. To MISS PARKS and MR. CONNELLY we leave the reputation of being our favorite teachers. To MISS CHASE we leave a nice, dignified group of athletes. To MISS DONELAN we leave such a nice class that she won't want to leave the room. To MRS. DAWSON we leave our thanks for the help she has given us with various activif ties. To MISS C1UIvIIvIER we leave some silver polf ish so that she can brighten up the trophy case. To Miss LOTHROP we leave a bright, airy room in the new school. To Miss MULHOLLAND we leave a season's ticket to all athletic games. To MISS NELSON we leave a supply of staf tionery- To whom it goes no one knows. 28 2 To MRS. MARSHON we leave some gum, gum, gum! To MR. LARRABEE we leave a secret fot- mula to preserve his white hair-as if he needed it. To MISS PROUTY we leave all the cares and worries ofthe junior Class. To MISS SAWIN we leave a class that knows there is Something more in the news- papers than the funnies. To MR. HEIINS we leave a special room near the office, to get rid of his delinquent pupils. To MRS. FIPPHEN we leave a new cookbook. To MISS TYRRELL we leave a loud-speaker. To MISS SHEA we leave a record of The Halls of Montezuma. To MR. LALLI we leave a pair of rollerf skates with which he can zoom through the halls faster. To the JUNIOR CLASS we leave lack Benny's vault-the filthy capitalists. MAURICPI ABASCIANO leaves his brown wavy hair to Zeke, the wigfmaker. RICHARD H. ADAMS leaves his allfround athletic ability to Ted Stimets. RICHARD L. ADAMS leaves his good looks to Hollywood. RICHARD AMAREL leaves his silence to the study halls. WIl.FRlED AULENBACI4 leaves his singing voice to the Met. CrERRY BARTIIOLOMEW leaves his friendly ways to Carlo Alano. NANCY BATH leaves her generosity to the Salvation Army. NANCY BECK leaves a copy of Macbeth, hesitantly, to Miss Churchill's future classes. BARBARA BRYANT leaves her charm to be divided between Bev Gordon and Sally Severance. HELEN CARAKER leaves her zofinch waist- line to Elsa Maxwell. LYDIA CASSANELLI leaves her smile to the Mona Lisa. HELEN CATHLINE leaves her sewing ability to Mrs. Fipphen's future classes. MAJOR IIOVVARD W, BICAL MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL