Somerset High School - Raider / Memoirs Yearbook (Somerset, MA)

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CLASS Our first glimpse of the long-awaited high school life came in Septem¬ ber of 1946 when, as an awe-struck group of inexperienced freshmen, we timidly entered these halls of learning and walked down the seemingly endless corridor to our seats at the front of the assembly hall. Feeling the amused glances of the more blase upperclassmen, we tried to focus our attention on Mr. Kilgrew, the principal. For those of us who had graduated from Pottersville Grammar School, this was easy, since he had directed us through our first eight years of school. One comment he made in his speech still remains firmly implanted in our memories: We are beginning a new page of our education and, as yet, it is blank. The writing on the first part of this page is slightly blurred now, but some things we can never forget: Our class officers, elected under our first advisor, Mr. McHugh, who were. President, John Leonard; Vice-presi¬ dent, Jeanne Bienvenue; Secretary, Madlyn Crawford; Treasurer, Joe Mullen; Boy Councillor, Tony Almeida; Girl Councillor, Mary Travers; and our first dance, the Spring Festival , at which time we were advised by Mr. Chown as Mr. McHugh ' had left. In the line of sports, we were proud to see our basketball team win the Narry League championship and go to Boston Gardens. There, unfortunately, we were defeated by Provincetown, but even this calamity detracted little from our happiness. On Thanksgiving, we bowed to Case in the annual Turkey-Day football game, and, for the first time, felt the incomparable thrill which, as we came to realize, always accompanies such a contest. And so our freshman year flew by, filled with an exciting newness from the moment we entered until the very last day when we visited Fort Phoenix and Lincoln Park with the many friends we had made. We returned the fall of the next year and with much more self-assur¬ ance, elected our class officers with the help of our sophomore advisor, Mr. Johnson: President, Edwin Cadorette; Vice-president, Jeanne Bien¬ venue; Secretary, Theresa Parent; Treasurer, Preston Smith; Boy Council¬ lor, Charlie Carpenter; Girl Councillor, Sylvia Greene. We started our year with a bang by winning the Narry League championship, being espe¬ cially glad to see our arch enemy. Case, go down in defeat. This was a good year for sports, as we also won the Class C championship in basket¬ ball at Boston Gardens, and reorganized a track team which competed at the Narry Track League Meet held in Dighton. In January, we spon¬ sored a Winter Carnival , a very gala affair at which Phyllis Walker was crowned Queen. Our dramatic and musical talents were put to the test in a presentation of the operetta Pinafore , directed by Miss Eddy. We closed our second year feeling much more a part of things than we had the year before. Our junior year, perhaps the most important of all, saw many things accomplished, but not, unfortunately, in relation to sports. We were not champions in either football, basketball, or track this year, but our base¬ ball team led the Narry League and played at Fenway P ark, where it was I