Smith Academy - Echo Yearbook (Hatfield, MA)

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SMITH ACADEMY 15 Address of Welcome Parents, teachers, friends and school- mates — it gives me great pride and pleas- ure to extend to you a most hearty wel- come to our class day activities. Tomorrow is the long awaited day when we, the class of 1946, graduate. At this time we have come to the end of our studies and the beginning of our journey through life. Many of us will continue through higher schools, some of us will enter im- mediately on the business of earning a liv- ing. We all feel confident that the training we have received here will enable us to choose with some wisdom our destination. Now that peace one more prevails in the world, we are once again facing a period of changing times. Although we completed our high school course during three years of war we feel that with the training we have received here we will be better able to meet the emergencies that may arise. We realize that through the patience and en- couragement of our parents we have been able to complete the required high school course despite the temptations to leave school and become a part of the war ' s great industrial machine. We also wish to express our sincere gratitude to the faculty who helped us through many trying times during our past four years at Smith Acad- emy. The thoughts and memories of our good times here together will never be for- gotten, and the training we have received here we hope to use well. It is a pleasure to have you all gathered here with us this evening for our class day exercises. Once again, in behalf of my class, I bid you all a most hearty welcome. LAURENCE STODDARD. Class Statistics Babs, the blonde glamour gal of our class, To bookkeeping period she always came last. As one of our prize speakers she did her part, And for the future she has made a great start. For that flirtatious look and Pepsodent smile, Any Casanova would walk a mile. — Barbara Tobacco. We really don ' t know what to say about Shirley, But we all know she loves to be called little girlie. As an actress she appeared in the senior class play, And won much applause for her very studious way. Full of hustle and bustle, she goes from class to class, A girl full of pep and energy is this West Hatfield lass. — Shirlev Betsold. Velma Omasta, our class treasurer, is a cheer leader by trade; As Captain of the Girls ' Basketball team, a speedy forward she made. She can do shorthand extremely well, And we know that in this art Velma will always excel. At night you will see her waiting around For a black Chevie from North Street — to come down .

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14 PURPLE AND WHITE ECHO Class Day Program Wednesday, June 19, 1946 THE NATIONAL ANTHEM ADDRESS OF WELCOME LAURENCE STODDARD CLASS STATISTICS SHIRLEY EBERLEIN, VELMA OMASTA, PAULINE WIDELO CLASS PROPHECY SHIRLEY BETSOLD, CAROLYN KOSIOR, SHIRLEY LABBEE CLASS WILL NELLIE KORZA, ROBERT PELC, VICKY ZAWACKI SELECTION The Swallows Coiven GIRLS ' GLEE CLUB CLASS GIFTS JOSEPH BLYDA, JENNIE CACKOWSKI. BARBARA TOBACCO ADDRESS TO UNDERGRADUATES WILLIAM MULLINS PRESENTATION OF GIFT TO SCHOOL BERNARD KACENSKI ACCEPTANCE OF GIFT STANLEY KIREJCZYK CLASS SONG ' ' Commencement Day Churchill Grindell SENIOR CLASS SCHOOL SONG

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16 PURPLE AND WHITE ECHO On the basketball floor Bernie can ' t be beat. And he has looks and personality, our great athlete. When you hear the freshmen girls all swoon, You will know its Bernie walking in the room. He was always prepared on oral day, And we were always anxious to hear what he had to say. — Bernard Kacinski. Joseph Blyda, our Student Council President, so loyal and true. When Joe has no date he surely is blue. As a basketball guard he was speedy and great, But when he came to school he was always late. He sure gets peeved when his brother takes the car, Because by foot he can ' t get very far. As president of our class he did excel; Those geometry problems he did very well. Was navigator for the Webster convention, Which proved to him that Wiggles wasn ' t a new invention. The colored fountains he ' ll never forget. Over Laurence Stoddard we ' ll never fret. As girls ' basketball manager, she kept the books, And as a girl, she sure has looks. A petite senior girl so sweet Is Shirley Eberlein, she can ' t be beat. The Washington trip was interesting to her. Ask her about Dick and she ' ll begin to stir. If bookkeeping and dancing just don ' t mix, Ask Vicky, for she has all the tricks. A black-haired girl with eyes so brown; When seen with a sailor never has a frown. It ' s Vicky and Bob you see so happy, When Bob ' s not around she just goes wacky. — Vicky Zawicki. Our valedictorian so small Is Joan Bangs, she knows all. Her main topic is square dancing and Kicky; She thinks gobs are just too tricky. Her report card is filled with A ' s. It ' s Joan Bangs you ' ll usually find in a daze. Now Jennie ' s the girl who sure likes Hadley. Could it be Iggie she loves so badly? In bookkeeping class she did well Her uproarious laugh sure does excel. Small, neat and full of pep Was Jennie Cackowski on the Washington trip.